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Bars: All Dressed up and Nowhere to Go Halloween Issue 2012 Friday, October 26, 2012 Bars: All dressed up and nowhere to go BY ALLIE CONNELL head over to Stacker’s for yet another oppor- completely convey your character choice. Collegian Correspondent tunity to strut your stuff for potential prizes. Remember that if you are from out of state, Which weekend are we celebrating Again, you’re competing for bar gift cards and you will need approximately 79 – but actu- Halloween? bragging rights. ally two – forms of photo ID to get into these It’s simple: both. Monkey Bar “Monkey Themed” establishments. No one wants you to have to Why limit this excuse to wear those old stand outside in your slutty Elizabeth Warren Costume Contest, Wednesday costume with nowhere to go. high-waisted leather pants your mom wore at 10 p.m. in the 80’s or your tie-dyed onesie? We don’t Apparently everyone is already aware that need a Florida recount backing our decision to Allie Connell can be reached at [email protected]. the Monkey Bar is the place to be on Halloween. celebrate Halloween from one Thursday to the There will be a variety of costume contests next. including: best costume, best couples costume If you’re 21 or older, and looking for some- and best monkey themed costume. The prizes thing to do on Halloween itself or those pesky are cash and a bottle of some kind of expensive weekdays around it, here’s a short itinerary for alcohol. what the downtown Amherst bars are up to: The following bars aren’t doing anything The Pub’s HBO Halloween Party, in particular for Halloween – or they haven’t Tuesday at 10 p.m. figured out a costume theme related to their This Eve of Halloween event has no cover bar name – but are included on this list in case charge, a DJ and dance floor and an opportu- there is a lull in your Halloween week festivi- nity to win a $150 American Express gift card, ties: awarded to the individual with the best HBO High Horse themed costume. They will also be raffling Grab your oversized glasses with non-pre- off DVD box sets of the networks best series, scription lenses, tuck an T-shirts and other knick-knacks sport- American Spirit cigarette ing the HBO label. behind your ear and join Since many of us are poor college the constant hipster cos- students and can’t afford the luxury of an HBO subscription, some cos- tume ideas for the more popular characters on the network include dressing as a quirky twenty-some- thing metropolitan-chic girl with a notebook for jotting down your memoirs (“Girls”), or find some cheap vampire fangs, smear red lip- stick all over your mouth area and mutter in the Vampire language – it’s Swedish, in case you were curi- ous (“True Blood”). The Harp’s Pub Trivia, Tuesday at 9 p.m. A weekly staple on the Amherst bar scene, tume contest at the High Horse. Pub Trivia at The Harp is educational, enter- This week, the High Horse will taining and makes you wish you could remem- be classy as always, sporting ber all those things you learned in high school. delicious craft beers on tap and Bring a team of five or less with a variety of instructing you not to be a “booze- interests, a pitcher or three of Narragansett hound” and order a Long Island and settle in for a stimulating evening of ques- Iced Tea. tions you’re sure you knew once. Panda East McMurphy’s Guitar Dudes and Panda East will still be serving Costume Contest, Wednesday its famous Scorpion Bowls this at 10 p.m. week as always. Bring a friend but make sure that you get the shot of How excited are we that Halloween is on a 151 off the top before they do. This Wednesday this year and the Guitar Dudes will should give you enough libation be rocking McMurphy’s Pub? inspiration to figure out another Quite. costume for the week’s festivities. Plus, McMurphy’s will be having a costume contest that night with bar gift certificates The Spoke for the best costumes, which is basically like Costume options for a night a cash prize because what were you going to at The Spoke involve, but are not spend your winnings on anyway? Textbooks? limited to: Bruins jersey, Patriots Stacker’s Costume Contest, Wednesday at 10 jersey, Sox shirt, Celtics t-shirt or p.m. UMass sports attire. So, your “True Blood” costume didn’t go Complete your outfit with a over great at The Pub on Tuesday and your pitcher of Bud Light or Rolling Honey Boo Boo wasn’t a hit at McMurphy’s, Rock and play a round of pool to 2 Friday, October 26, 2012 THE MASSACHUSEttS DAILY COLLEGIAN DailyCollegian.com MUSIC Terror from afar: The appeal of foreign horror movies have, but does so in a way that Catholic Church and remained of the Wolf” – starring Max not just to see the difference in Worth a watch for any fan of Horror knows is considerably more subtle unreleased in the U.S. until von Sydow who later went on film making between cultures the zombie genre, particularly than hard-hitting American 1999. Though Fulci is often to co-star as father Merrin in but to get a good jolt of fear those with a twisted sense of no boundaries horror. Argento’s films deal mistakenly credited for the “The Exorcist” – is as visu- that the American version of humor. heavily with psychological film “Zombi” – the Italian title ally stunning as it is terrify- the film failed to provide. Japanese Horror horror and the terror that the given to Romero’s “Dawn of ing, laden with heavy shadows Norwegian director Tommy BY EMILY A. BRIGHTMAN human brain can construct the Dead” – he had no part of that morph into frightening Wirkola made a name for him- Many horror films released Collegian Correspondent rather than the blood-and-guts its production. Fulci’s disturb- vistas of the supernatural. self in America with the 2009 in America over the last decade The horror genre tran- formula used by so many of ing 1981 film “The Beyond” He has directed more than 60 release of “Dead Snow,” a have been based on titles from scends cultural norms and his contemporaries. earned him the nickname of theatrical films and is widely delightfully macabre zombie Japan, most notably the 2002 international borders, and No discussion of Italian Godfather of Gore and contin- considered to be one of the comedy that sent shock waves thriller “The Ring” based on the last few decades have her- horror is complete without ues to be a staple in the collec- most influential film makers of joy through the community the 1998 Japanese film “Ringu” alded a rise in the popularity mentioning Lucio Fulci, a mas- tion of any B-movie fanatic. of all time. of zombie enthusiasts. The that caused quite a stir in the ter of the macabre in his own Also out of Sweden came most notable aspect of this horror community. of foreign horror movies in Scandinavian horror America. low-budget right. Most famous the 2008 vampire thriller “Let movie, aside from the theme Though there are many simi- Along with the increase of for- for his 1979 flick “Zombi 2” – Master Swedish film maker the Right One In,” released in of Nazi zombies, is the clev- larities between the horror eign films being released in which has inspired many zom- Ingmar Bergman, who utilized the U.S. in 2010 as “Let Me In.” er use of special effects. Any films of American and Japan, the United States there has bie-related films in America the power of a spooky atmo- The original Swedish version zombie movie is obviously Japanese films as a whole tend also been a significant rise in – Fulci created horrific mas- sphere and dramatic light- is by far more disturbing than going to be laden with gore, to be more violent and unset- the number of American hor- terpieces that were intention- ing to augment the nature of the American version primar- but “Dead Snow” employs tling than most American ror flicks based on the work of ally gore-ridden and meant to his films, has been frequent- ily because the original relies its gore factor in a way that movies. One of Japan’s foreign directors, particularly incite disgust from the audi- ly called one of the greatest much more heavily on atmo- doesn’t overwhelm the overall most controversial directors from the turn of the century to ence. directors of the last century. spheric thrills rather than context of the film. Even die Takashi Miike, responsible present day. American horror The 1972 film “Don’t Torture a Bergman’s films are typically up front violence, as so many hard blood-and-guts fans will for such blood-drenched gems snags many of its influences Duckling” has received wide- dark and dramatic, his major American movies tend to do. be impressed at the innova- as “Ichi the Killer” and “One from foreign films, particu- spread criticism for its graph- subjects consisting of death, Fans of “Let Me In” owe it to tive death scenes in this movie, Missed Call” – also remade larly Japanese and European ic representations of murder illness, insanity and betrayal. themselves to watch “Let the if not just for the expertly and released in the U.S. – has movies from the early ‘70s and criticism of the Roman His seminal horror flick “Hour Right One In” at least once, if wrought blood splattering.
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