Thread: Hollywood Gore/Horror

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I need some help! I know the basic concept I want to pursue but am having a hard time developing specifics.
I want to do a party themed with old-school (1920-1960) horror films.
I know that part of the decor will include old movie posters. Last year we used a scene setter kit and it was great, and I'd love to find one I could incorporate this year to hide the walls (we party in a big barn).
I'm struggling to spark the creativity here so I'm hoping someone can get the ball rolling!

I would try to go for a Hammer films or Herschell Gordon Lewis (the godfather of gore) feel and of course a universal monster feel would be great. I would watch as many of those movies as possible and take notes. You'll come up with some great stuff.
A wizard of gore show would be cool.

For some reason I'm thinking of surf boards and the B-52's playing Rock Lobster. LOL

Find a photo sharing web site like Flicker and start typing in the names of horror movies from the eras your talking about. Such as "Frankenstein movie poster". You'll get a crap load of results. As a mater of fact when I tested it, I got 7 pages of results.

You can print these out on card stock and use these for place cards, invitations, frame a few and give them out as door prizes etc.

If you have a few TV's around, get a few dvd players or vcrs going and play the classics your talking about while the party is going on and use it as ambiance. It may help and its inevitable sombody will say "Hey! this is my favorite part". Discusion of old horror movies will insue and spark great conversation about the genre.

Marc V.

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're going for, but you could set up a fake skeleton and make it 'fly' around the room (maybe on a ceiling fan?) like William Castle did for 'House on Haunted Hill. You could adapt another one of his gimmicks and put 'joy buzzers' around your house for people to grab, so they get a shock, like in 'The Tingler'? Like these, http://www.gagworks.com/category.aspx?catid=28. I think in one he might have given out lottery tickets, but I'm not sure. If so, you could give them out as prizes. I'm not sure if this helps, but I hope it at least gives you some ideas.