Madness? …This Is Sparta!

Posted in Men's Halloween Costumes, Movies, Sexy Halloween Costumes, Women's Halloween Costumes on February 15th, 2010 by Helfyre

Show off your powerful fighting skills and ability to overcome insane odds in this highly detailed look. Relive your favorite movie moments and bring a little bit of history to your celebration.

You do not have to be a history buff to love this Spartan costume. Fans of film will really get into this one! Practice your finest fighting skills and warm up your best battle calls because this look is guaranteed to impress. Not only will you look like you just stepped off the big screen, but you will feel comfortable while doing so!

This adult Spartan costume includes everything you need to let your masculine side show in authentic detail. The center of this history themed costume is a dark maroon toga in faux suede. The costume toga extends to just above each ankle in the back, with an angled front that runs over the knees. The top secures with a single strap that secures over one shoulder and across the neck. A tarnished look gold buckle made of PVC holds it all together. This holiday outfit also comes with authentic looking shin guards that work well with your favorite leather sandals. Each shin guard extends to the knee and covers the front of the leg in an intricate, tarnished gold design. Matching bracers are included as well as a gold helmet.

Find the perfect sword prop to compliment the look, don’t forget to bring your lady and you are ready for the next battle to the death, or your friends Halloween party!

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We Can’t Bury Shelly; S-She’s A Friend Of Ours.

Posted in Halloween, Men's Halloween Costumes, Movies, Women's Halloween Costumes on January 25th, 2010 by Helfyre

Director Sam Raimi and good friend Bruce Campbell set out to make a real scary movie…although filmed on 16mm, The evildeadEvil Dead is good enough to be your next nightmare and a hell of a lot better than your run of the mill slice and dice. Campbell plays Ash Williams, one of five college friends set out to have a wild weekend in the woods. Two guys…three girls journey to a remote cabin, of course in the middle of the woods. And the woods whisper “Join Us”. The group stumbles upon a book and a tape recorder belonging to the previous inhabitants, warning of evil spirits lurking in the woods. When the dead come out to play, the newest victims turn into horrid ghouls. Ash, who at heart is a cowardly pansy, turns out to be the macho, macho man to the rescue. It takes courage, a shotgun and a chainsaw.

When the flesh-eating demons start their attack, the blood doesn’t just ooze; it splatters, gushes and flows by the bucketful. And there is the scene where one of the girls is beckoned into the woods only to be attacked and raped by a…tree?! Cheap special effects galore decorate this vacation to a little north of Hell. The comedy was unintentional. It is a product of bad acting by actors with little or no experience. But still, Raimi as writer and director has stumbled upon something here. The Evil Dead more than deserves its youth restricted rating.

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Snakes; Why did it have to be snakes?

Posted in Children's Halloween Costumes, Halloween, Men's Halloween Costumes, Sexy Halloween Costumes, Women's Halloween Costumes on January 4th, 2010 by Helfyre

Born in 1899, Henry Jones Jr. is scholarly and learned in a tweed suit, lecturing on ancient civilizations. But at the opportunity to recover important artifacts, he transforms into “Indiana,” a near superhero image he has concocted for himself. Indiana is well known for his Brown Fedora and Bullwhip, which play small but important parts in his travels toIndianaJones recover lost artifacts. In this first adventure, he is pitted against the Nazis, traveling the world to prevent them from recovering the Ark of the Covenant. He is aided by Marion Ravenwood and Sallah. The Nazis are led by Jones’s archrival, a Nazi-sympathizing French archaeologist named René Belloq, and Arnold Toht, a sinister Gestapo agent.

His second adventure took the character into a more horror-oriented story, skipping his legitimate teaching job and globe trotting, and taking place almost entirely in India. This time, Jones attempts to recover children and the Sankara Stones from the bloodthirsty Thuggee cult.

In his Third adventure and last for almost 19 years, he is shown teaching  at Barnett College, the globe trotting element of multiple locations, and the return of the infamous Nazi mystics, this time trying to find the Holy Grail. The film’s introduction, set in 1912, provided some back story to the character, specifically the origin of his fear of snakes, his use of a bullwhip, the scar on his chin, and his hat; the film’s epilogue also reveals that “Indiana” is not Jones’s first name, but a nickname he took from the family dog.

We were finally given his Fourth and long awaited adventure, set in 1957, it pits an older, wiser Indiana Jones against Soviet agents bent on harnessing the power of a crystal skull discovered in South America by his former colleague Harold Oxle. He is aided in his adventure by an old lover, Marion Ravenwood, and her son—a young greaser named Mutt Williams, later revealed to be his biological child Henry Jones III. It is also revealed that Jones was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (a predecessor department to the CIA) during World War II, attaining the rank of Colonel and running covert operations with MI6 agent George McHale on the “Reds”, which could mean the Soviet Union.

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