It is finally here!  After months of blogging about everything Halloween, the holiday is finally within days of coming to life (or death, if you like the creepy side of Halloween)!  Only four more days until trick-or-treaters will be knocking on your door, costume parties will be in full swing and jack-o-lanterns will illuminate front porches everywhere!

You’d think with time running out, you wouldn’t be able to get your Halloween costume in time even if you ordered now, but not at HalloweenExpress.com!   With words like, “guaranteed delivery” and “same day shipping” it’s no problem getting your order to you in time for all the fun and excitement of Halloween.  They have the largest selection of Halloween costumes online and with great prices to boot!

Simply find the costume you want and place your order.  It’s that simple!  Kids costumes, adult costumes, sexy costumes, tween and teen costumes, group and couple costumes and every possible accessory you’ve ever dreamed of is right here at your fingertips!

So what are you waiting for?  You don’t even have to leave your house.  It’s one stop Halloween shopping for everything you’ll need to make this Halloween the best one yet!

Vampire mania is back and bigger than ever!  With big screen movies like the Twilight Saga’s and HBO’s miniseries True Blood, vampires have been thrust into the limelight, or should I say the darkness.

Vampire costumes have always been popular during the Halloween holiday.   Who hasn’t at one time or another either been a vampire or had a friend that was one.  When it comes to vampire costumes you see them in every shape, size and for every age group.  Young and old alike love to portray the evil vampire or vampiress that lives off the blood of others.  Ok, so maybe that’s getting a little creepy but hey, that’s what vampires do!  However, people dressed as vampires for Halloween don’t – they’re just out to have a gruesomely good time!

Movies like Twilight have turned those old ugly vampires from the past into good looking high school aged boys and girls and the kids love it.  All my nieces have seen the series of Twilight films and have read all the books.   It’s funny because even adults love the Twilight saga’s!

This Halloween the trend will definitely lean toward the blood thirsty vampires.   HalloweenExpress.com has all your vampire accessories!  What’s a vampire without his/her fangs, cape, nails, goth makeup and of course blood.  Whether you’re looking for an adult vampire costume or kids vampire costumes, you’ll find it here!

October isn’t just a month for Halloween costumes, but Halloween decorations as well.  It used to be you would carve a pumpkin and put it out on your porch for Halloween night, but not anymore! 

Decorating your yard for Halloween has become hugely popular over the years.  Yard haunts, haunted driveways, creepy culdesacs – no matter what you call it decorating your yard for this holiday is the way to go! 

You can make your yard into a spooky graveyard or evil cemetary in a matter of hours and it’s so much fun to do.  We do it every year and the neighbors have now got into the Halloween spirit and have begun to spook their yards up as well. 

Two of the most important things you’ll need to put the finishing special effects on any yard haunt is a fog machine and good scary Halloween music.  Nothing says bloodcurdling, spine-chilling and frightening more than a haze of fog floating along the ground over your makeshift front yard cemetary all the while eerie music playing in the background. 

So this year, don’t just decorate the inside of your house for Halloween, decorate the outside as well! 

Movies make up a large part of Halloween costumes.  There are so many great movie characters from the past and present that it’s hard to choose just one.  From adult costumes to kids costumes, HalloweenExpress.com has them all!

Superheroes are always at the top of the charts when it comes to costumes.  Batman, Spiderman and Superman are the three most popular superhero costumes.  They’re the classic tried-and-true of the crime fighting, save the world superheroes.

Of course you can’t have Halloween without Jason, Michael and Freddie!  Friday the 13th, Halloween and Nightmare of Elm Street are old school Halloween and everyone loves them! 

Star Wars, Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribbean are just a few movies that have stood the test of time when it comes to great Halloween costumes. 

This year with big blockbuster hits like Transformers, Wolverine and Star Trek making appearances on the big screen there’s no doubt that the Halloween movie costumes of 2009 will be spectacular!

The costumes aren’t the only great things happening at HalloweenExpress.com!  Check out their new and improved website!  It’s amazing and so easy to navigate through.  It makes you wish for Halloween to be sooner than October!  However it’s never too early to start shopping for that perfect Halloween costume.  Remember, the early bird gets the worm (or costume in this case)!

With today’s economic crisis, more and more people will be looking for discounted Halloween costumes for themselves and their children this year.  Well, look no further!  Even with the great low prices at HalloweenExpress.com on their costumes you’ll still find even lower deep-discounted priced costumes, masks, props and accessories in a special section on their website called “Super Saver Costumes.”  There you’ll find amazing costumes for both men and women for just $19.99.  Plus a “Closeout” section with a little bit of everything in it for a fun-filled low-priced Halloween!

Super Saver costumes for men include a Valiant Knight costume, a Vampire costume or a Scally Wag Pirate costume. 

Women can dress in an Egyptian Princess costume, a Belly Dancer costume or a French Maid costume. 

The possibilities are endless and the prices low at HalloweenExpress.com! 

Surprise, surprise, surprise it’s Friday 13, 2009 and I’ll give you two guesses at what remake slasher film is being released today – and the first one doesn’t count!  Does Camp Crystal Lake and a hockey mask give you any ideas?  You guessed it – Friday the 13th, and if you didn’t guess it then you must have been living under a rock for the last 29 years.  This popular film franchise has lasted almost three decades and is still going strong.

Once again Jason Vorhees is evil reborn and is back on his old stomping ground in this grisly campsite killing spree.  As usual the movie will be a big hit with the young audience that has followed the Friday the 13th series.  Did you know that the original movie Friday the 13th was released in May 1980 and since then 12 sequels (including today’s) have followed.  My nephew went to the movie theater at midnight last night to catch the first showing and said the theater was packed!  So, no matter what the reviews say by the professional movie buffs, people are going to flock to this slasher film just because…..Jason’s back!

If you really want to get into the Jason theme of the movie get a Friday the 13th hockey mask or really go all out with the whole Friday the 13th Jason costume from HalloweenExpress.com.  The Jason trademark hockey mask is always a big hit on Halloween too!

Bram Stroker’s Dracula, Blade, Fright Night, The Forsaken and who could forget, the teenage cheerleader Buffy the Vampire Slayer!  These are just a few of the moives that portray the darker side of vampires and the crusaders that slay them.  I love most vampire movies because the “slayer” always wins in the end plunging a wood stake into the heart of the vampire (or something like that).  

How many times have you heard “I want to suck your blood” on Halloween night with all the black caped vampires running around trick-or-treating?  From ages 2 – 22 you’ll find these dark forbidden souls out for blood as darkness falls on Halloween night (or maybe it’s just the candy they’re after)…

The vampire has been a staple of Halloween costumes forever.  I remember running around in my little princess costume when I was about seven years old and my older brother Brian dressed as Dracula with his long black plastic cape, white make up on his face and the scariest set of fangs I had ever seen.  Actually they were only the white plastic fangs that came with the costume that were way too big for his mouth, but for a girl at seven it was pretty scary.  Today the vampire has transpired into Dracula, King of Darkness waiting for nightfall to quench his bloodlust by preying on the living.  Ok, so it might not be that grim but you get my point.  The vampire costume has come a long way from the plastic cape and big white fangs of yesterday.

Today on Halloween night, it’s not only the “king” of darkness that walks upon the earth at nightfall, but the queen and lots of little vampires running around as well.  With just the right touch of Halloween makeup and a perfect fitting set of fangs these vampires are amazingly frightening (and not only to seven year olds)!

HalloweenExpress.com has the largest selection of vampire costumes anywhere!  From the traditional evil vampire to a more sexy take on the vampiress.  With our great costumes, anyone at any age can become the next Dracula!

He’s back!  It’s that time of year again when the trademark Hockey Mask’s go flying off the shelves!  Friday the 13th, Camp Crystal Lake and Jason are as much a part of Halloween as candy!

It’s one of the most recognizable costumes and probably the simplest to put together. 

• hockey mask – check
• worn jeans – check
• t-shirt – check
• machete – check

That’s all you need and you’re costume is complete!  Jason Voorhees is the machete-wielding virtually indestructible killing machine with a vendetta against teenage campers at Camp Crystal Lake in the series of slasher films, Friday the 13th.  Since the original film “Friday the 13th” was released in 1980 there have been ten more films in the series with the latest being Freddy vs. Jason in 2003.  So to say the least, the Jason Voorhees costume has been a symbolic figure at Halloween for the past 28 years and the trademark hockey mask that he’s worn since “Friday the 13th Part 3″ is still going strong!

For Halloween most people are looking for a costume that will turn them into something or someone else.  If that’s the case then there is nothing else that can change how you look completely like a latex mask. 

I remember when I was young we always wore the plastic mask with the elastic band that went around your head.  Remember those?  I hated those things!  Even before we headed out to trick-or-treat in the neighborhood my mask would be filled with moisture just from me trying to breathe out that little tiny hole they cut out for the mouth.  My dad would always have to cut the hole bigger for the mouth and eyes just so I could see and breathe properly.  Three doors down from my house and I would already have the mask pulled up and sitting on top of my head instead of down on my face. 

Thankfully the mask design has come a long way since then!  Today, latex masks are so unbelievably real looking and are much more comfortable to wear.  What I like about a mask is that really with a lot of them that’s all you need as far as the whole costume goes.  For instance with a lot of the famous faces Halloween masks all you need is the mask and people will automatically know who you’re portraying without really giving a thought to the rest of your clothing.  If  you’re going with a person in politics whether it be a President, Governor, or any other political figure, just put on a suit and tie and you’re ready to go.  Unless of course your political figure is a female, then a dress suit would be fine (anyway you get the picture).   By the way, with the Presidential race in full swing now is a great time to become your favorite Republican or Democratic nominee by wearing one of our Barack Obama or John McCain Halloween masks. 

On Halloween if you see someone trick-or-treating with a hockey mask on you automatically know it’s Jason from Friday the 13th movies without even looking to see what clothes he’s wearing.   

So this year try one of our amazing life-like Halloween masks with your costume.  We have so many great masks to choose from at HalloweenExpress.com the hardest thing you’ll have to do is decide which one you want!

Costume shopping isn’t easy if you have no clue what you want to be for Halloween.  You could spend hours in the stores or online just looking from one costume to the next.  Also there are Halloween masks, Halloween accessories and makeup to consider too.   One way to make your costume shopping experience a lot more fun is to come up with an idea of what “type” of costume you’re looking for before you begin your search. 

It’s simple once you narrow it down.  Let’s take for example the letter “S”.  Maybe you want your costume to be scary, sinister or spooky?   Maybe you want your costume to be sexy or seductive?  Or maybe you’re looking for something more along the lines of silly?  All of these “S” words describe costumes you’ll find at HalloweenExpress.com. 

Let me give you some costume ideas you may find interesting:

Scary – Sinister – Spooky

Sexy – Seductive

Silly

So before you spend hours ”just looking” at costumes trying to give yourself some idea of what you want to be this year, think of the “S” words – Spooky, Sexy, Silly!  Which category does your costume fall under?  Remember you can always go to www.HalloweenExpress.com and let us help you find that perfect costume!