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Halloween CostumesHalloween costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as vampires, ghosts, skeletons, witches, and devils. Costumes are also based on themes other than traditional horror, such as those of characters from television shows, movies and other pop culture icons.
According to The National Retail Federation’s (NRF) 2007 Halloween
Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey , the top Halloween costumes for
children in the United States are:
All About VampiresVampires are mythological or folkloric revenants who subsist by feeding on the blood of the living. In folkloric tales, the undead Vampires often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited when they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early Nineteenth Century. Although vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures, the term vampire was not popularised until the early 18th century, after an influx of vampire superstition into Western Europe from areas where vampire legends were frequent, such as the ...
Supernatural Horror MoviesSupernatural Horror films are movies that strive to elicit fear, horror and terror responses from viewers. In supernatural horror film plots, evil forces, events, or characters, sometimes of supernatural origin, intrude into the everyday world. Supernatural Horror movies usually include a central villain. Early supernatural horror films often drew inspiration from characters and stories from classic literature, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, Phantom of the Opera and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Later supernatural horror films, in contrast, often drew inspiration from the insecurities of life after World War II, giving rise to the three distinct, but related, sub-genres: ... |
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