2012 Halloween Offerings From Morbid Enterprises!

Last year, a new company called Morbid Enterprises spit pea soup all over my Halloween radar, when they unveiled a pretty badass line of 2011 holiday wares that included all sorts of Exorcist themed goodies, including a Regan mask as well as a life size animated prop, of course featuring 360 degree head spinning action.  Morbid Enterprises is one of those companies that makes Halloween decorations to be sold to the masses at the online & brick and mortar Halloween shops that sprout up all over the country during the fall season, and their focus on officially licensed merchandise based on horror flicks has made them a must watch company for folks like us.

Well, their 2012 catalog is now available for browsing on their website, so tonight I wanted to take a look at just a few choice offerings that they've got for the upcoming haunting season.  Come along with me, won't you?!

The folks who run Morbid are clearly Rob Zombie fans, as evidenced by last year's Captain Spaulding costume and even Rob Zombie mask.  This year they've got this 6 foot hanging Spaulding prop, which features light up eyes, poseable arms and a moving mouth that spouts movie dialogue.  As a dude who's always dreamed of having Sid Haig hanging around in his bedroom, I cannot thank Morbid enough for fulfilling such desires.

This 6 foot tall inflatable Slimer joins Morbid's offering from last year, an 8.5 foot tall inflatable Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.  I would like to say I'll be purchasing this but honestly, I've kinda given up on decorating the outside of my house.  Putting something this awesome on your lawn is essentially asking little shit kids to come slash it up or walk off with it, and that's a risk I'm just not willing to take.  I have giant inflatable Freddy and Jason decorations and I really don't even bother putting them out anymore.  It's a shame they make so much noise when plugged in, from a constantly pumping fan that keeps them inflatable, otherwise I'd just use them as indoor decorations.  But nope, there they sit, deflated and sad on my cricket ridden basement floor. Damn you, asshole kids.  Damn you all to hell.

How 'bout an inflatable firehouse or Ecto mobile next year, Morbid?!

 

I'm a big fan of the life sized animated decorations but if I'm being honest, I never really have the money laying around to afford them.  Everyone from Regan to Myers, Freddy to Voorhees has been given the life size decoration treatment over the years, and due to my lack of funds, none of them currently reside in my household.  It's one of the great sadnesses of my life.   Someday, I will own them all, and baggy pants Nosferatu will most certainly be a part of my animated monster squad.  Just gotta keep playing that lotto...

Though the mask is pretty lame, this is clearly a knockoff Silent Hill nurse costume.  You see this kind of stuff all the time around the Halloween season, where companies either don't want to pay for property rights or simply can't get a hold of them, so they just make costumes in the likenesses of movie villains that don't exactly make direct reference to the movie they're clearly cashing in on.  Thus, 'Hockey Masked Killer' and 'Burnt Christmas Sweater Dude' costumes creep onto the market, familiar enough to sell but obtuse enough to avoid legal troubles.  If you want to be a sexy Silent Hill nurse for Halloween, I'd recommend making your own costume, as Jen did last year.  Or at least, find a better mask than this one.

Officially licensed Trick 'r Treat Halloween decorations ... now this is more like it!  I have such an obsession with Trick 'r Treat and its loveable little protector of Halloween that I pretty much cannot stop myself from buying absolutely anything Sam related, whether it's official merch or handmade swag.  Sam is one of the most marketable horror villains (if we can even call him that..) of all time, and I think it's so awesome that he's gonna be stocking the shelves of Halloween shops the world over.  The cool thing about this is that I can totally see people who don't even know what the hell Trick 'r Treat is embracing Sam, which makes me incredibly happy.  He's more than just a horror villain, he's a symbol of Halloween itself, which is why I love him so damn much.

This looks to essentially be a Trick 'r Treat poster that lights up like a pumpkin with a candle shoved inside it.  Seems only fitting for such a movie.  Consider this one already bought by me too!  They've also got a lenticular Sam poster, which you can see in the online catalog.

And finally, there's just something about these bottle cover monsters that I dig.  Really takes the whole decorating liquor bottles thing to a whole new level, far cooler than those lame 'Zombie Virus' and 'Liquid Poison' bottle stickers you normally see.  Granted, Morbid makes those too, but I must give them serious props (no pun intended) for coming up with the idea of pouring booze out of the mouth of a vicious killer animal beast.  Now that's my kinda party!

This is only the tip of the iceberg that is Morbid Enterprises' 2012 line, so head over to their website to browse the full catalog of twisted treats!