Well look what we have here — you’re back again, asking me to feed your caption contest addictions. I’ll do it. Someone has to do it. Just remember, the first one’s free. Wait. Scratch that. They’re all free! Yes, welcome back to another installment of our universe famous caption contest. While you’re probably all dying to find out who won the Vespa we gave away last week (thanks to Penelope and her freaky pig nose), you’re gonna have to wait a little while longer. Sorry folks. In the meantime, how about you give us your best captions for the photo below from Roland Emmerich’s 10,000 B.C. The top three captions from this week will walk away with (deep breath) one 10,000 B.C. The Legend tee, one 10,000 B.C. beanie, one 10,000 B.C. weathered baseball cap, one saber tooth necklace, one set of 10,000 B.C. photo postcards in a notebook, one set of lenticular buttons and one wooden pyramid puzzle. If all that stuff isn’t enough to create your very own prehistoric beast (like the one featured below), then I don’t know what is. Sound off folks!

Read the official rules for this contest

We got such a great response from our readers to our Halloween Costume Contest that we’ve decided to give those of you who missed the deadline to enter your awesome movie-themed costumes a last-chance deadline — midnight PST on Wednesday, November 7 — to get your entries in. You can find all the rules and details here on the official contest announcement page (please don’t forget to send the release form with your entry!) You’ll be competing for a spooktacular prize package in either the adult or kid category:

GRAND PRIZE PACKAGE: ADULT WINNER

When a Stranger Calls (1979)
Nightmare on Elm Street Box Set
Dawn of the Dead — Ultimate Edition (1979)
Scream — Dimension Collectors Series
From Dusk til Dawn — Dimension Collectors Series
The Thing — Collectors Edition (1982)
The Exorcist — The Complete Anthology
Alien Quadrilogy
The Wicker Man — Two Disc Special Edition(1975)

GRAND PRIZE PACKAGE: YOUTH WINNER (entrants under 18 years of age)

Gremlins
Monster House Widescreen Edition
The Monster Squad Two Disc 20th Anniversary Special Edition
Corpse Bride Widescreen Edition
Peanuts Holiday Collection
Halloweentown/Halloweentown II

In the meantime, we know you wanna see how the competition is shaping up. We’re seeing lots of creativity with the costume creations; the big movie sources this year are Transformers, 300, and Batman (well, the Joker anyhow) with several entries each! Slasher and Horror genres are, not surprisingly, well-represented as well.

Below you’ll find four galleries full of costume entries to peruse, one for the kids and three for the adults. PLEASE DO NOT VOTE YET! This represents all of the complete entries we have received. If you know you entered and you do not see your entry here, please email me at kim (at) cinematical (dot) com to let me know so we can get you in there. Our staff will whittle these entries down to a slate of finalists for you to vote on. Of course, feel free to give a shout out in the comments to let us know which entrants you like and to give all of them a big round of virtual applause and group hugging.

If you’re entering the contest in our last-minute chance to enter, you’ll want to read all these important rules (after the jump) before you do so … seriously, read them. And don’t forget to send your release form with your entry!

Continue reading Halloween Costume Contest — We’re Giving You One More Chance to Enter

I’ve spent the last few days combing through all the photo submissions we’re getting for this year’s Halloween Costume Contest, and let me just say that these people are nutty. We’re getting tons and tons of costume pics, from folks who’ve taken great care in putting together outfits that are just — I don’t even know what to say — interesting, I suppose. Verrry interesting. For those interested in participating, check out the post, as well as all the rules (note: please read the rules!), and get your photo in by November 4. That’s this Sunday, and it also happens to be my wedding anniversary — which, I think, means I’ll be broke come the end of this weekend.

Anyway, looking at all these costumes reminded me of my most successful Halloween costume over the years. Back in 2003, I dressed up as Krusty the Clown and participated in New York City’s annual Halloween Parade in the West Village. If you’re in NYC, and have never been to the parade, you need to get over there … it’s a blast. And while I couldn’t see a damn thing out of my Krusty mask, a good 150 people stopped me to take a picture, kids were shouting “Krusty! Krusty!,” and even NYC police officers were pulling me aside to snap a pic. I felt like a celebrity for the night, and it was definitely second on my list of most memorable Halloweens (read about my most memorable Halloween over here). I haven’t dressed up and gone out (to a party, parade, whatever) since dressing up as Krusty, because it would be way too tough to top that night. What about you? What was your most successful Halloween costume?

(Note: I spent two hours searching for a pic of me as Krusty, but for some reason it has been erased from my computer. So, please enjoy that pic above of some dude sporting the same costume I wore on that particular night.)

Do you live in the Los Angeles area? Are you interested in seeing a free movie and hobnobbing with celebrities at a reception afterwards? Plus with the added benefit of it all being for a good cause? Well, then you’ve come to the right place.

Cinematical, along with Warner Independent Pictures, is giving away ten pairs of tickets to the World Premiere of Darfur Now, starring and co-produced by Don Cheadle, this coming Tuesday, October 30th at the Directors Guild of America. The film starts at 7:30pm, and you’ll be able to watch the arrivals on the red carpet, and attend the exclusive reception afterwards. We’ll be giving these tickets away to ten random commenters, but please be aware that you need to live near enough to Los Angeles to get there on your own nickel by Tuesday.

Check out the details about the film (including the trailer) and the giveaway after the break.