Originally posted October 08, 2007 @ 7:40 PM MST (Arizona)

Here’s a new feature I’ll have periodically for the month, where I look at some of the best (and worst) costumes that are out on the market now. As a Garden Cashier at Wal-Mart, I get to help straighten out the costumes, and I get a good look at some of them, and let’s just say, it amazes me what they think some people will buy (and, believe it or not, what they DO buy). So, without further ado, let’s get this started with some of the worst costumes I’ve seen!

Woopie Cushion: Ai-yi-yi. This is what, in my opinion, gets kids beat up at school. I mean, what kid comes up to his mom and says, "Hey, Mom, you know what would be a cool costume? A woopie cushion!" What’s worse, when looking for the picture of this, I saw adult versions of it, too.

I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing that, I’m sorry. But, hey, if you have a daughter and want to match your son up, here you go:

Donkey: This costume gets my award for Most Unfortunate Head Hole Placement. Available from Spirit Halloween, if you really want to get it, again, I just can’t picture someone wanting to have their head coming out of a donkey’s rear end.

Fat Drac: We had these costumes last year… there were three of them, Fat Dracula, Fat Superman and Fat Batman. These costumes actually make me laugh quite a bit… but they’re still not that good.

I want to close with a costume that I like a lot. I bought it last year, and it worked out really well, I really enjoyed the wings on it. I even walked over to another friend’s house to show it at night (which was an experience in itself, what with the black mesh over the eyeholes).

I hope that everyone enjoyed the costume closet. Look for another, regular article coming tomorrow from Happy Horror. In the meantime, take care, and as always, until next time, this is Red Hawk signing out!

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When I’m trying to distract myself in the midst of writing a review I like to cruise the web. Sometimes I find good stuff, other times I find great stuff. This video is one of those great finds!

If you love horror enough to wear it, Fright Rags has precisely what you’re looking for. While I’m currently a bit too poor to order one (my next paycheck’s dedicated solely to promoting Happy Horror - and maybe scoring some blow picking up a couple DVDs), I think they’ve got some wickedly epic designs. Once I get my greedy lil paws on one, I do promise to pose in pictorial form and post it up right here on the site. I say that because I really would like to see more fan pics *wearing* the Fright Rags product!

Anyways, the deal is this: Ben, the Fright Rags go-to-guy decided to test pilot a video blog where he not only offers a hell of a sale, but offers to take fan questions and answer them in the next video! I’m behind that 100% and I’ll be sending in a question of my own, but I wanted to post his video to not only encourage more of this kind of interaction in the horror fan community, but to encourage our loyal Happy Horror visitors to maybe shoot him a question, too!

Enough of my babbling, though, let’s let Ben do some talkin’!

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