Does the thought of spending an evening with Freddie, Jason and 5 of your best friends give you goose bumps (the good kind)? Then why not plan a Horror Movie Night this Friday the 13th? Rent a few of your favorite horror flicks and impress your friends with your spookiest party throwing skills…here’s how:
Ideas:
- Have guests come in their favorite horror film costume
- Have guests bring their favorite horror film
- Have guests bring their favorite scary appetizer
Snacks:
- “Finger” foods (see recipe below)
- Popcorn (a must for movies)
- Drinks…anything blood red will do…just give them a creative name like: Devil’s Blood, Bloody Mary, or Brain Hemorrhage
Décor:
- Start at the front door with a red carpet welcome mat...
- Have the party in your creepy spider web filled basement…maybe even turn on the fog machine for the full spooky effect. Break out of some your tombstones from Halloween and a few strategically placed limbs around the room wouldn’t hurt either!
Ambience:
- Dim the lights, light some candles, and close the curtains! Oh…and you might want to warn the neighbors about the blood curdling screams they’re about to hear!
Favors:
What to rent?
Here’s a list of the top 13 horror movies of all time:
- Friday the 13th (of course you have to have this one!)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
- Halloween (1978)
- The Exorcist (1973)
- Nightmare on Elm Street series (original 1984)
- The Saw series
- Psycho (1960)
- Carrie (1976)
- The Evil Dead (1981)
- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
- The Shining (1980)
- Poltergeist (1982)
- The Omen (1976)
Recipes:
Cheese-Finger Food
Ingredients:
- Mozzarella string cheese
- Green bell pepper
- Cream cheese
Instructions:
- Wearing plastic gloves or sandwich bags over your hands to keep the cheese as smudge-free as possible, use a paring knife (parents only) to cut each string in half and then carve a shallow area for a fingernail just below the rounded end of each half.
- Mark the joint right below the nail as well as the knuckle joint by carving out tiny horizontal wedges of cheese, as pictured.
- For the fingernails, slice a green bell pepper into 3/8-inch-wide strips. Set the strips skin side down on your work surface and trim the pulp so that it's about half as thick. Then cut the strips into ragged-topped nail shapes and stick them in place at the ends of the fingers with dabs of cream cheese.
