Friday the 13th Party Ideas

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:

• Sticky Glow Eyes
• Fake Blood
• Glow Sticks        

 

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:

1. 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.
2. Mark the joint right below the nail as well as the knuckle joint by carving out tiny horizontal wedges of cheese, as pictured.
3. 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.