Jimmy Kimmel's prank for parents: Tell your kids you ate all their Halloween candy

The kids at 2:45 are so adorable!

Halloween corgis

Corgis have to be the cutest dogs to dress up in costume. Thank you Hallie for sending this to me!

You can see all 100 pictures here but these are my favorite:

Mickey Mouse

Snow White

Outlaw and a cop

Lobster

Harry Paw-ter

 Yoda

Banana Split

Hollywood's Creepiest Rumors, Myths, and Legends

Halloween may be over but that doesn't mean we can't talk scary stories and legends within the Hollywood community.

Serial Killer Ed Gein

Not everything in horror movies is 100 percent fiction. Take killer Ed Gein. He was a serial killer who murdered at least two women in Plainfield, Wisc., in the 1950s. Police discovered Gein when he was caught exhuming bodies from local graveyards, fashioning trophies and keepsakes from the corpses' bodies and skin. Police also found several body parts in his home, including nine masks made of human skin, heads with the tops sawn off, and a lampshade made from the skin of a human face. Gein served as the influence for a number of characters in horror movies, including Norman Bates in Psycho, Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs.

The Poltergeist Curse

The Poltergeist Curse is one of Hollywood's better known legends. The curse derived from the fact that four cast members died in the six years between the releases of the first and third movies. Dominique Dunne, who played the oldest daughter in the first movie was strangled to death by her boyfriend in 1982. Julian Beck, who played Henry Krane in Poltergeist II: The Other Side died of stomach cancer. Will Sampson, who played the medicine man in Poltergeist II died of kidney failure.

But no death is more haunting than that of 12-year-old Heather O'Rourke, who played Carol Anne in all three movies. She died in 1988 of septic shock.

Also haunting is the fact that real human skeletons were used in the swimming pool scene in the first movie. It's rumored that many on set blame the curse for this. Special effects artist Craig Reardon said it was cheaper to purchase real skeletons than plastic ones. Though a lot of this can be shrugged off as coincidence, even more than 20 years after the movies, the Poltergeist Curse still lurks.

Stanley Kubrick torturing Shelley Duvall during The Shining

Throughout The Shining, Shelley Duvall's character looks distraught, stressed, and nearly scared to death (of course, being married to Jack Nicholson's Jack Torrance would make most wives a little on edge), it reportedly wasn't all an act.

Director Stanley Kubrick, known for demanding movie sets, reportedly tormented Duvall and encouraged other crew members to do so as well, all so she would feel off balanced and give a better performance. Well, it worked. Duvall became so stressed during the shooting of the movie that she lost a lot of her hair and fell ill.

Other Hollywood horror tidbits

One of the investors in George Romero's Night of the Living Dead was a butcher who paid Romero in blood and guts.

The Exorcist director William Friedkin would fire an air gun before shooting to "scare" his actors into character. Also the scream of the demon being exorcised was a recording of pigs being driven to slaughter.

The mask worn by Michael in Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask that was painted white. Director John Carpenter composed the movie's eerie film score.

The famous shower scene in Psycho took seven days to shoot and involved 77 different shots. Not one shot shows Janet Leigh's character actually being stabbed. Chocolate syrup was used as blood.

Before the movie premiered, the cast of The Blair Witch Project were listed as missing on IMDB.com.

Happy Halloween everyone!!!

Gawker: What your Halloween candy says about you

When the hordes of little tykes dolled up like Dora the Explorer and Spider-Man and whatever other licensed character costumes their parents bought for them at Target show up at your door this Halloween, know that you are being judged. No, it's not on your costume or your synced light show on your house. They're judging you on the treats you put in their bags.

What sort of impression do you want to make on the kids of the neighborhood and—more importantly, their parents—when they ring your bell and jut their grabby fat hands out at you for some overly-processed high fructose corn syrup delivery system? Here are some common solutions to America's trick-or-treating epidemic. Before you head down to the CVS to pick out your candy, think about the message you're giving out to the world.

Tiny Candy Bars
This is now the standard ration for people who show up at the door: one "party sized" treat. This is fair and just. It says that you care about Halloween and traditions and children and family values and all that great American bullshit, but you don't care too much. You're doing your duty and, while you're happy to do it, you're not going to go over the top or anything. What kind of candy you give out doesn't really matter, because kids will be happy with any sugary bribe. But if you give out single Reece's Peanut Butter Cups you are clearly the awesomest.

Sweet Tarts
Well, it's not just Sweet Tarts but anything non-chocolate based like Skittles or Starburst or Lifesavers or something like that. Like the person who gives out the little "party sized" treat, you're into Halloween and doing your duty, but you want everyone to think that you're a little bit wacky and crazy. You don't like chocolate. No, that's too cliche! You're bright and sunny and fun and probably learned what PLUR meant at a rave in the late '90s.

Candy Corn
Who the hell gives out candy corn to trick or treaters? Yes, it is the traditional seasonal treat, but you don't give it out to kids so it gets all clumpy and gross at the bottom of their trick or treat bags. That's nasty. Just put it in a dish on your desk or your coffee table or something. This just means that you're way too into Halloween and not very smart. Also, you don't know what kids like. I sure hope you don't have any.

Carob
You are a stupid vegan jerkface who wants to ruin one of the best days of the year for everyone around you. You think that pushing your "doesn't cast a shadow" agenda is more important that children's joy. Asshole.

Tootsie Rolls
Tootsie Rolls are totally the little black dress of Halloween candy. No one goes out and buys Tootsie Rolls normally, but then when you get them at someone's house and you get home and eat them, you're so happy that someone gave them to you. They're simple and different and classic and always great. Who doesn't love a Tootsie Roll? You're probably a very cool and stylish person who has a great wardrobe and a very well-appointed house. People don't think to ask you for advice, but when you give it, it's always spot on. Some people might think you're plain, but, to me, you're just plain great.

Lollipops
Lollipops are always the only thing left at the store on the afternoon before Halloween, because they're sort of lame and kind of an afterthought. You are the kind of person who really feels like he has to give out Halloween candy but you're either too busy or lazy to get to the store before the last possible second, so you have to buy the only thing left, so you get two bags of Dum Dums and hope that the kids will like the mystery flavor because, you're sorry, but this is all you had left and it's going to have to do. Everything in your life is just like those damn Dum Dums.

Full Candy Bars
You're just an annoying show off. You want to impress all the parents in the hood that you make so much money or you're so cool that you are splurging on giant sized candy bars. When handing these out to kids, whose eyes light up when they see you pull them out of the box from Costco, you're looking in the eyes of their parents thinking, "Yeah, I'm giving your kid an entire fucking Snickers. What?" as you puff up your chest in front of them. Either that or you're so emotionally scarred from childhood that you need everyone's approval, including a bunch of kids you're never going to see again—until next year, when they'll be demanding the good stuff all over again.

Anything Other than Candy
If you pull out some pennies or pencils or McDonald's gift certificates or that fudge you make that everyone in the office says is really amazing or, god forbid, apples, then you are an awful killjoy sadist who should just shut off your light, shun the world, and enjoy your reruns of Castle on DVR. Jerk.

Hersey Kisses
You're really more of a Christmas person, aren't you?

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Why wait till Christmas to annoy your neighbors with lights?

I don't think my kitten likes his cow Halloween costume

Little kids in adorable costumes on the Ellen Show

Mario corgi

Horror movies based on true stories

Since Halloween is one week away, I figured it would be a great time to talk about some classic horror movies and the real life stories that inspired them.

The Exorcist 

The Movie Story: A pair of priests attempt to exorcise a demon that has possessed a 12-year-old girl living in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC.
The Real Story: William Peter Blatty, screenwriter and author of the novel The Exorcist, was inspired by an article he read in college at Georgetown University about an exorcism performed on a 13-year-old boy in Mount Rainier, Maryland in 1949. The story's details have been muddled through the years -- perhaps intentionally so, in order to protect the family -- but the boy's actual home lay in Cottage City, Maryland, and the exorcism was performed in St. Louis. Evidence points to the boy's behavior not being nearly as outrageous or supernatural as was portrayed in the film.

Psycho

The Movie Story: Norman Bates is a psychologically disturbed hotel owner who has delusions this his dead mother, whose body he keeps in the cellar, wants to kill hotel guests. He develops a dual personality and dresses like her when he commits his murders.

The Real Story: The character Norman Bates was inspired by Ed Gein, a Wisconsin man who was arrested in 1957 for committing two murders and digging up the corpses of countless other women who reminded him of his dead mother. He skinned the bodies to make lamp shades, socks and a "woman suit" in hopes of becoming a woman. He was found to be insane and spent the rest of his life in a mental institution.

The Amityville Horror

The Movie Story: The Lutz family moves into a riverside house, the site of a mass murder the year before. They encounter a series of malevolent paranormal events that drive them out of the house after only 28 days.

The Real Story: Perhaps the most notorious horror movie "based on a true story," the film is based on a self-proclaimed nonfiction book describing what George and Kathy Lutz experienced during their four weeks in the house, including disembodied voices, cold spots, demonic imagery, inverted crucifixes and walls "bleeding" green slime. Most, if not all, of the events portrayed in both the book and the movie have been called into question by investigators, and it is widely believed that the entire incident was a hoax.

The Mothman Prophecies

The Movie Story: Reporter John Klein gets lost while driving and ends up in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where he encounters the so-called Mothman, a winged creature whose appearance seems to foretell disastrous events -- notably, the collapse of a bridge over the Ohio River leading to Point Pleasant.

The Real Story: Reports of sightings of a large, unidentified winged creature -- dubbed the Mothman -- occurred in Point Pleasant, West Virginia for 13 months between 1966 and 1967. Then, on December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge, connecting Point Pleasant to Ohio over the Ohio River, collapsed, killing 46 people.

Open Water

The Movie Story: When unmarried couple Daniel and Susan take a group scuba diving trip, a mistake by the crew while taking a head count of the divers who return to the boat leaves the couple floating alone in the ocean, surrounded by sharks.

The Real Story: In January 1998, married couple Tom and Eileen Lonergan disappeared off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef after a diving company accidentally left them behind in the water. It took two days -- when a bag containing a wallet and passports was found -- for the crew to realize that they'd left the couple behind. A search was conducted, but their bodies were never found. Belongings discovered weeks later showed no signs of the violent shark attack that the film suggests.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Movie Story: A priest is on trial for the death of a young woman named Emily Rose, upon whom he had performed an exorcism. Through flashbacks, we see the tribulations that she suffered while possessed.

The Real Story: The film was inspired by Anneliese Michel, a 16-year-old German girl who, in 1968, began displaying symptoms of demonic possession. For years, she suffered paralysis, self-abuse, starvation and demonic visions until 1975, when two priests performed exorcisms of what was believed to be several demons over 10 months. During that time, Anneliese barely ate, and she died of starvation in July 1976. Her parents and the priests were tried and found guilty of manslaughter. They were sentenced to six months in jail.

The Haunting in Connecticut

The Movie Story: The Campbell family moves to Connecticut to be near the doctor caring for their ill son, Matt. They soon realize that their new home is a former mortuary haunted by a malevolent force.

The Real Story: The film's inspiration was the Parker family, who moved to Connecticut in 1986 to be close to the specialists treating their 14-year-old son, Paul, for cancer. In the basement, where Paul slept, they discovered embalming equipment that implied that the house had been a funeral home. They reported encountering unexplained phenomena, like bloody floors, disembodied voices and shadowy figures. Paul became possessed by a force that caused him to attack his family. Eventually, an exorcism was performed to cleanse the house.

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10 Things You Didn't Know About The Movie "Hocus Pocus"

This was the first movie I remember seeing in theaters. I guess I would have been 5 years old at the time. I feel like during the month of October this movie is shown on repeat and it still never gets old. Here are some trivia facts about the movie:

1. The role of Max Dennison was originally offered to Leonardo DiCaprio, but was given to Omri Katz when DiCaprio turned it down to appear in What's Eating Gilbert Grape.

2. After having locked the Sanderson sisters in the school kiln, the three kids celebrate as they walk to the park. The house shown directly behind Max and Thackery while they talk is the residential edifice used as Thora Birch's home in 1999's American Beauty.

3. During a February 10, 2008 interview on the BBC show "Breakfast", Bette Midler stated that out of all of her films, this was her favorite.

4. The three little girls who steal the witches' brooms from in front of the house are dressed as the sisters themselves: Winifred with red hair and green cape, Mary with black hair and red cape, and Sarah with blond hair and purple cape.

5. Rosie O'Donnell was originally offered the role of Mary Sanderson, but it was ultimately given to Kathy Najimy. O'Donnell claims on her blog that she turned down the offer to work with the Divine Miss M because she didn't want to be a "scary witch".

6. In this film, Sarah Jessica Parker plays a witch who was executed during the Salem Witch Trials in the late 1600s. While researching her family history for the show Who Do You Think You Are?, Parker was shocked to discover that her 10th great-grandmother Esther Elwell was arrested in Salem in the late 1600s for committing "sundry acts of witchcraft" and choking a neighbour to death. Esther's case never went to court, she escaped with her life and the accusation ended the Salem Witch Trials. Parker said: "It has changed everything about who I thought I was."

7. Strangely, the film was released in the Summer of 1993, rather then in the Fall.

8. Despite popular belief, Sara's song "Come Little Children" is actually a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, word for word. It was not an original song written for the film.

9. In the final scene, when Dani is crying over Binx's cat body, you can see that he happened to die right on his sister's grave.

10. The script was written as a Disney Channel Original Movie; however, it caught the eyes of a few bigger studio heads at Disney, and they felt it was strong enough to carry a good theatrical performance.

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Eight brilliant Halloween costumes

From the folks of Mental Floss:

1. Sputnik 2

Last year, Flickr user vietnamted put together a costume that recreated Sputnik 2, the Soviet spaceship that took the dog Laika into space. As you can see, Laika is aboard and ready for liftoff. However, this Laika survived the mission. See the costume at a different angle at Flickr.

2. AT-ST

Sam Morningstar was eight years old when he went trick-or-treating in this AT-ST costume from the Star Wars universe two years ago. He and his father built it with moving legs and a working “concussion launcher” that shot foam darts. See it in action at his family’s website! Two of his siblings were Ewoks that year.

3. Port-A-Potty

Sam’s brother had a homemade illusion costume that set him in a Port-a-Potty last year. Seven-year-old Ben could walk around and “sit” at the same time! The brand name in their area is Honey Bucket, so Ben’s door was labeled the same. What costumes will the Morningstar family come up with this year? Follow their blog to find out!

4. Chomping Pac-Man

Matthew Varas built a Pacman costume a few years ago, and this decided to improve upon the idea by building a Pacman with a Chomping Mouth! The project took six weeks, but as you can see, the results are awesome. See the building process at Make.

5. Robot Couple

Instructables member onebrokenneck made a robot couple for a costume competition, but didn’t mention whether they won. These classic Hollywood-style robots are made of aluminum, but according to the build process at Instructables, you can probably use cardboard instead if you don’t have a metal shop. The arms and legs are dryer ducts, and various LED gizmos were used to give them an electric

6. Halo

Shawn Thorsson has made a bunch of fantastic costumes. He planned a Halo-themed build for Halloween 2008, but then was deployed to Afghanistan. The project was finally completed last year. Thorsson fabricated armor from the video game world of Halo, painted them in different colors, and dressed his friends as the characters from the Red vs. Blue series. He posted lots of pictures to show you the process.

7. The Birds

Last year redditor CampingIsInTents posted a picture of her Tippi Hedren costume and got a rousing response. The idea references a popular movie, but you won’t see other people wearing it at the same party. It’s sexy without being slutty, scary without being (too) gory, and it’s homemade! She bought the birds, but had to alter the wings to make them just right. The idea has been used by creative costume-makers a couple of times before, even on TV.

8. Krang

Melissa Dunphy made her husband a Krang costume for Halloween 2010. Krang is a cartoon villain who vexes the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The costume required a lot of foam rubber, repurposed electronics, and duct tape.

Cat tuxedo

Thinking about getting this tuxedo for my cat Winston's Halloween costume. And I can choose any color bow tie I want.

Celeb-inspired Halloween costumes

If you're still trying to decide what to be for Halloween, consider these celeb-inspired getups from BuyCostumes.com.

Lady Gaga

Rihanna

Charlie Sheen

Katy Perry

Prince William

Kate Middleton

Kim Kardashian

This one is pretty awful.

The Situation

Snooki

Pauly D

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Angry birds halloween costumes

The makers of the hit game released a collection of Halloween costumes for adults, children and infants. You can see the entire line here.

This is the cutest thing I have ever seen.