Halloween is almost here and it’s time to bust out your spooky adult costume. What’s it going to be this year? Vampire? Zombie? Maybe you’ll go really crazy and dress as a werewolf, right? Wrong. Zombies, werewolves, vampires, ghosts, they’re boring, plain, lackluster. Sure, they’re traditional monsters and everyone loves them, but that’s the problem: [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Top 5 Mismatched Adult Costume Themes
Posted: 28th July 2011 by Dale Rappaneau in CostumesTags: adult costume, Top 5 Mismatched Adult Costume Themes
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Dipygus: Multi-Legged Humans and Animals
Posted: 25th July 2011 by Dale Rappaneau in CostumesTags: dipygus
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In a world where plagues and tsunamis have wiped away whole civilizations, I find it no surprise to learn of a birth deformation known as dipygus. Essentially, dipygus is a congenital deformity where the body splits left-and-right partway along the torso, forming a duplicated pelvis and pair of legs. If you are having trouble forming [...]
Cyclopia
Posted: 19th July 2011 by Dale Rappaneau in Halloween UnexplainedTags: cyclopia, fetal pig in a candy jar
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If you are anything like me, you are absolutely fascinated by things in jars of blue-green liquid. It could be a grapefruit, a fish skeleton, or, in this case of the image below, an infant born with cyclopia. Sure, it should be grotesque – it’s a dead baby in a vat of liquid – but [...]
Juan of the Dead
Posted: 14th July 2011 by Dale Rappaneau in Halloween FunTags: juan of the dead, zombie costumes
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Some 50 years after the Cuban Revolution, Cuba comes under a whole new kind of revolution: an undead apocalypse. Welcome to the basic premise of an upcoming zombie comedy, Juan of the Dead. Juan, a 40-year-old nobody that has led a life of doing nothing, sees a way to make money out of this newfound [...]
Sam Alexander: A Man of Many Faces
Posted: 7th July 2011 by Dale Rappaneau in Halloween FunTags: donnie darko mask, sam alexander
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Born an average looking man, Sam Alexander was living proof of the phrase “When it rains, it pours.†Sometime during his 20s, Sam Alexander got a job at the Shubert Theater in Chicago. It was during his work at the Shubert Theater that he was involved in a massive gasoline explosion. He was able to [...]
The Dybbuk Box: From ebay Auction to Sam Raimi Movie
Posted: 5th July 2011 by Dale Rappaneau in PropsTags: dybbuk box, sam raimi
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In 2004, there was an eBay auction for a Dybbuk Haunted Jewish Wine Cabinet Box, which ended up selling for $280. While the box itself looks rather normal, the accompanying story as to why the box is haunted is far from normal. According to the history of the Dybbuk Box, also known as the Dibbuk [...]