Archive for April, 2011

• I Love the 80′s: Thriller Music Video

  Friday, April 29th, 2011

  

  This epic tale is often referred to as the greatest music video ever and was also voted the most influential pop music video of all time. Michael Jackson’s Thriller proved to have a profound effect on popular culture, and was called “a watershed moment for the music industry” for its unprecedented merging of film making and music, Thriller inspired Scary Costumes for years to come. Thriller was Jackson’s SEVENTH top ten single FROM THE SAME ALBUM! Other singles you may remember from the Thriller Album: Beat It, P.Y.T, and Billie Jean. The fourteen minute video is significantly longer than the song (Song starts at 4:40), which ties together a story featuring Jackson and actress Ola Ray in a setting heavily inspired by horror films of the 1950s.

  In this 50′s setting, Michael and an unnamed girl wearing an iconic 50′s school girl costume run out of gas in a dark wooded area. They walk off into the night and Michael asks her to be his girlfriend. After she accepts he warns her that he’s “different” than other guys. Shifting clouds reveal a full moon and Michael begins transforming into a horrifying werewolf. She screams and runs away and Michael pursues her. Then it cuts to a movie theater with Michael and his date watching the fore-mentioned scene unfold amongst an enthralled audience. Micheal’s date gets scared  and leaves the theater, he catches up with her and tells her “it’s only a movie”. She denies being scared and they take a walk down a foggy road as Michael teases her by singing the verses of Thriller. They pass a nearby graveyard, in which the undead begin to rise out of their graves. The zombies corner the two threateningly, and suddenly, Michael becomes a zombie himself. In the video’s most iconic scene, Jackson leads other actors in zombie costumes in a choreographed dance routine, and the rest is history.

  Thriller did garner some criticism for its occult theme and violent imagery, but it was immediately popular and received high critical acclaim. It was nominated for six MTV Video Music Awards in 1984 and won three. In 2009 it became the first Music Video ever to be added to the Library of Congress National Film Register. Below are some of the new Halloween costumes 2012 has to offer for Micheal Jackson and zombie costumes. They are sure to be something to munch on.

  

  

• Coulrophobia – Lady Freaks Out at Clown

  Thursday, April 28th, 2011

  

  Coulrophobia (n) – an abnormal, irrational fear of clowns.

  Coulrophobia’s wiki says the term was likely coined in the internet age and does not appear in printed form in any previously published psychiatric, unabridged, or abridged dictionary. That doesn’t mean the condition doesn’t exist (clearly it does), and it is explained as a specific phobia. Do you have any phobias? Find out by your reaction to these Scary Costumes.

  The Video get’s interesting at the 2:40 mark when the woman afflicted with Coulrophobia enters the same room as a clown to confront her fears. It looks like the phsyc students who volunteered to watch the clown’s performance with her can’t seem to keep a straight face when confronted with this woman’s hysterical reaction to Mr. Giggles. The funniest part about this vid is how everyone else in the room is totally calm and this woman is FREAKING OUT at the site of the clown, it makes you wonder who the clown really is. Clown Costumes are always a fun and apparently also frightening choice of costumes, do your worst Mr. Giggles!

  

  

• Chad Vader Goes To Dragon*Con

  Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

  

  For four days every year the the movie, comic book and costumes lovers of the world congregate in one place to share in their love of all things awesome. Dragon*Con is a ginormous anime/scifi/comic/fantasy genre convention that calls Atlanta, Georgia home. This is the place you will find armies of people in Star Wars Costumes, more slave lea’s than any fanboy would know what to do with, and loads of superheroes and Supermen by the dozen.

  Dragon*Con has a whole host of costume contests. There is the Masquerade Costume Contest, with contestants given the chance to perform a short skit. For adults, there is an adults only contest, the Dragon After Dark Contest. The Friday Night Costume Contest focuses solely on craftsmanship of the costume, if you aren’t too handy with a needle you might just go with an authentic Star Wars Collectors Edition Costume. Too shy to enter a costume contest? Well there’s one for you too, called the Hallway Costume Contest, where staff go out in the halls and snap pictures of costumes they haven’t seen entered in other contests!

  This Year a new film Four Days at Dragon*Con will go behind the scenes of the largest fan-run convention in the world, capturing the costumes, panels, and events of the 2010 Dragon*Con experience. Four Days at Dragon*Con will be distributed by American Public Television (APT) in April. If you’re interested in seeing this backstage view of conventional life you’ll need to check your local listings for more information. You may also check the digital feed for PBS and APT WORLD where it began streaming in March.

  Dargon*Con also gives back to the community. Dragon*Con in 2010 raised $40,000 for the Lupus foundation!!

  Dragon*Con will be held in Atlanta September 2nd – 5th 2011

  If you would like some more information about Dragon*Con please check out their website: http://www.dragoncon.org/

  

• Weird Al does Gaga: Perform This Way

  Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

  

  Queen of strange yet still queen of sexy costumes Lady Gaga, always ready for those flashing lights, is (surprise) in the news again! Last week news that Lady Gaga’s camp had refused to give the go ahead for  Weird Al’s parody of Born This Way hit the internet. Soon after Weird Al released the above video on Youtube explaining the situation, there was a torrent of disappointment from netizens of all creeds and colors.

  Weird Al presented the song to Gaga’s camp for approval, and they told him she needed to hear the song. Weird Al recorded it and submitted it and got a big N-O. Judging by the overwhelming groundswell of disappointment, Gaga’s peeps need to take a chill pill and keep it cool with some glitzy clubwear. But everything is not as it seems.

  There’s no need to get worked up little monsters, apparently Gaga never heard a thing. Weird Al was told the Lady reviewed it personally, but Gaga’s manager has fessed up to never actually forwarding the parody to her. Gaga has since reviewed it and apparently she LOVES the song! Who knows if Gaga actually enjoyed the song, but this savvy business woman knows the publicity that a Weird Al parody brings don’t have a price. Checkout Weird Al’s hilarious parody of Michael Jackson’s I’m Bad – I’m Fat while you get ready for your close up with Lady Gaga Costumes and Accessories. We’ll keep you posted on any fresh Perform This Way music video news so stay tuned!

  

  

• I Love the 90′s: Bumble Bee Music Video

  Friday, April 22nd, 2011

  

  Blind Melon’s No Rain is an absolute must have on any classic 90′s playlist. This is one video that really takes the hopeful easy going lyrics of the song and beautifully illustrates the story of a little tap dancing bumble bee in a cute bumble bee costume, who’s searching for greener pastures. Don’t get her confused with the Transformer’s Bumble Bee costumes. No Rain made it to number one on the classic rock charts when it was released in 1993, and was #22 on MTV’s Greatest Video Ever Made countdown at the end of 1999.

  The girl in the bumble bee costume’s name is Heather DeLoach, she also makes an appearance in a video with someone who’s life isn’t pretty plain: Weird Al Yankovic in Bedrock Anthem (a delightful parody of Give it Away by the Red Hot Chili Peppers) reprising her role as the bee girl. If you have a desire to tap into your inner optimist, buzz over to our Animal & Bug costumes, and take a look at the Buggin Out Costume, you can choose between a very cute ladybug costume, or the extra sunny bumble bee costume. Either way you will be saving some green for that next rainy day, because both of these sexy Halloween costumes are on sale!

  Check out some of the really cute bee and lady bug costumes that we have to offer: