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Top 5 Halloween Pranks
We take a moment to conjure up 5 of the most evil, ghastly and downright nasty scare pranks for the Halloween period - remember, it's all in your mind! Read more...
Glasgow turns into Philadelphia for Brad Pitt's zombie flick
Read lifestyle news as you browse for Halloween fancy dress with Escapade Anyone walking around Glasgow in the coming weeks should not be alarmed if they see American street signs rather than the British ones they are used to. This is because the Scottish city is temporarily being turned into Philadelphia so it can be used as the location for World War Z, the new zombie movie starring Brad Pitt. Stars and stripes flags are being raised above buildings and fake store fronts are being brought in to turn Glasgow... Read more...
Restored Hitchcock films to add to Olympic celebrations
Read lifestyle news as you browse for scary fancy dress with Escapade Silent films made by Alfred Hitchcock during the early part of his career are being restored so they can be shown off to the public during the build-up to the 2012 Olympics. It was revealed yesterday (July 4th 2011) by the British Film Institute that a series of classics made in the 1920s are being worked on by cinema experts to get them back to their former glory. Once they have been cleaned up and <span Read more...
Furniture shop owner fears store is haunted
Read lifestyle news as you browse for scary fancy dress with Escapade The owner of a furniture shop has said he fears his store is haunted because of a series of unexplained events that have happened recently. Andy Rees told the Wirral News he thinks that Raspy's in Birkenhead has a spirit among all the tables and wardrobes, even though he's not sure he believes in them fully. "You get a feeling that somebody is watching you and you can hear footsteps late at night, even though you know nobody... Read more...
Zombies invade Leicester (don't worry, not really)
Read lifestyle news as you browse for Halloween fancy dress with Escapade Anyone heading in to Leicester on Saturday (June 18th 2011) may have been forgiven for thinking they were on the set of an apocalypse movie. It all started when a 'concerned citizen' - who had obviously been watching The Walking Dead and thinking it was a documentary - wrote to the council to ask if the city would be prepared for an attack by the undead. Leicester City Council's Lynn Wyeth kindly wrote back to the unnamed person... Read more...
The Human Centipede 2 is completely banned in Britain
Read entertainment news as you browse for Halloween fancy dress with Escapade If you watched The Human Centipede last year and were looking forward to what they would do in the sequel, then you might be a bit disappointed. That's because the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has banned The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence from Britain entirely, failing to even grant it an 18 certificate because it "poses a real risk to cinemagoers". Only 11 films have ever received such a blanket ban and this means the horror... Read more...
Lindsay Lohan dresses as a scary vampire
Read celebrity news as you browse for Halloween fancy dress with Escapade Lindsay Lohan seems to have noticed that everything vampire-related is big news at the moment - so she decided to dress as one herself for a new photoshoot. The actress teamed up with celebrity photographer Tyler Shields and Vampire Diaries star Michael Trevino to create the shots, which will form part of a Life Is Not a Fairytale exhibition in Los Angeles. She can be seen looking sultry and brandishing a stake in some of the snaps, while... Read more...
Wales - A hotspot for supernatural activity?
Read lifestyle news as you browse for scary fancy dress with Escapade Data released by Powys Police has suggested Wales could be a hotbed of supernatural activity. According to a Freedom of Information request, officers have been called out to investigate 20 UFO sightings, 11 witches, two vampires and 26 ghosts in recent years. There were even a couple of zombie sightings and several calls concerning rampant big cats in the countryside. None of the alleged sightings was followed up - but they haven't been explained either. Except for one, Read more...
Robert Pattinson: Filming end of Twilight was an anticlimax
Read entertainment news as you browse for Halloween fancy dress with Escapade Teen favourite Robert Pattinson has revealed that the last ever scenes for the movie versions of Twilight are over and done with - and that he found it a bit of an anticlimax. The actor told US chat show Live With Regis and Kelly that he is actually relieved it is all finished as it was a little like school. "It was a very long shoot - eight months - and it was hard by the end of... Read more...
Scream 4 'is taking the series back to its roots'
Read entertainment news as you browse for Halloween fancy dress with Escapade David Arquette, one of the stars of Scream 4, has said the new sequel is taking the series back to its original roots. In an interview with the Times Union, the actor revealed it was quite strange to go back to the franchise after so many years, but explained the fact that Scream 4 takes a similar tone to the first movie from 1996 actually made it feel like coming home. "We have this new cast of kids... Read more...
Woman has horns implanted to add to vampire mother look
Read lifestyle news as you browse for Halloween fancy dress with Escapade A woman has had titanium horns implants into her head to add to the gothic look that has seen her nicknamed 'vampire mother'. Maria Hose Cristerna, who lives in Mexico and has four children, already had tattoos to cover most of her body, teeth shaped to look like fangs and huge holes in her earlobes, but this was apparently not enough. So, she decided to have metal placed under the skin at the front of her head to... Read more...
Woman pleads to be relocated after 'poltergeist' haunts her home
Read lifestyle news as you browse for Halloween fancy dress with Escapade A woman is hoping to have her family relocated after claiming that she and her two children are being terrorised by a poltergeist. Lisa Manning, 34, insists that there have been a series of strange goings-on at her property in Coventry, with the living room door slamming shut and chairs being pulled across the room. One of her dogs also fell down the stairs while she was out, suffering fatal injuries that the vet later said looked as... Read more...