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Pictured Above: The winners of Cinematical's Third Annual Costume Contest in the adult category
Pictured Below: The winners of Cinematical's Second Annual Costume Contest

We host a lot of contests throughout the year, but it is now my pleasure to announce the official launching of my absolute favorite: Cinematical's Fourth Annual Halloween Costume Contest is on! Now you have more than one use for that awesome movie-related Halloween costume, right? Once again, we have all sorts of nifty prize packages for the best adult costume and best youth costume, and unlike previous years, this time we're giving away more than just DVDs. Hellz yes, I'm talking some sweet movie gear too!

So, again, that's two prize packages this year: One for adults over 18 and one for kids under 18. Like in previous contests (check out last year's winners), your costumes MUST be movie-related. We're taking submissions starting now and all the way up until November 6th. Once our spook-tacular judges here at Cinematical narrow the field down to 10 finalists in each category, we'll then let you vote (via poll) for the winner. And speaking of winners, here's what you'll receive:

Grand Prize Package: Adult Winner

Saw 1-4 DVDs (keep in mind Saw V hits theaters this Friday, October 24)
Saw t-shirt,
Jigsaw doll and Saw poster
Unrated The Strangers DVD and scary masks
Rest Stop 2 Blu-Ray DVD
Otis Blu-Ray DVD
Zombie Strippers magic 8 balls
Jack Brooks Monster Slayer DVD
1 Uninvited poster
1 Strangers poster
1 signed Let the Right One In poster

Grand Prize Package: Youth Winner (entrants under the age of 18)

1 Hand-Painted Nightmare Before Christmas Collector's Bust.
Beetlejuice 20th Anniversary Blu-Ray DVD
Peanuts It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown DVD and t-shirt
R.L. Stine's Mostly Ghostly DVD

To Enter: Fill out the attached release (doc format or txt format) and email digital photos (along with aforementioned release) in .JPG, .PNG, .GIF, or .PSP format to the following email address: contests AT cinematical DOT com, with the subject line "HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST." Please tell us who you are dressed as, in case we can't figure it out. Oh, and good luck!

For more complete details, please click on rules links below ....

READ THE OFFICIAL RULES FOR THIS CONTEST

I can't wait for Halloween, when I'm going to be dressing up as Batman, courtesy of Dominos. Among the pizza chain's many tie-ins with this summer's The Dark Knight are these cool pizza boxes, which include separate parts to a cardboard-costume whole. Yes, you'll have to order a number of pizzas to complete your outfit, and there will likely be grease stains all over your utility belt, but your other option is to actually buy a costume ... and go hungry.

Actually, I just remembered that I'm going to be out of the country on Halloween. But when I return, I want to see lots of you Cinematical readers fashioned in Dominos-catered Batman costumes and taking part in our annual costume contest. In the meantime, be sure to check out the Dominos Dark Knight vault, which features details on everything from a special Gotham City meal deal to multiple sweepstakes. And apparently if you order a pizza through the website, you'll gain access to other goodies, like clips, wallpapers, artwork and an exclusive new trailer ... which you may or may not be able to watch after the jump.

After much vote counting and recounting, we can finally announce that the winners of our Third Annual Costume Contest are Shrek and Fiona in the Adult category, and the Tim Burton Group in the Kids category. Runners-up in the Adult category were the Gargoyle and Alien and Ripley; runners-up in the Kids category were Snoopy and the Toy Soldiers. Thanks very much to all our entrants and finalists for making this a great contest. We had some impressive entries this year, and we can't wait to see what you come up with for next year! Here are pics of the winners and the runners-up (if you want to see all the entrants again, the complete gallery is after the jump):

ADULT WINNER: SHREK AND FIONA



ADULT RUNNER-UP: GARGOYLE



ADULT RUNNER-UP: ALIEN AND RIPLEY



KIDS WINNER: TIM BURTON GROUP:



KIDS RUNNER-UP: SNOOPY



KIDS RUNNER-UP: TOY SOLDIERS



A quick aside: Erik and I would like to request that, even if you don't agree with the results, you please refrain from attacking the winners in the comments. The folks who submitted the Shrek and Fiona entry followed the rules as we set them up; I personally emailed the adult finalists letting them know they'd been selected, so that everyone could have a chance to let their friends and family come and vote for them. We've done it this way the past two years and it's not been an issue; this year there were some hard feelings and ugly comments tossed around in what was intended to just be a fun contest, and so we're going to revisit how we run the contest for next year. We'd like your feedback as to how YOU think the contest should be run, so we can take that into account next year. Please take a moment to respond to the poll questions and let us know your thoughts, and thank you so much for participating and for reading Cinematical.

You'll find the poll questions, and a gallery of all the contest entrants, after the jump. Thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Cinematical!

Okay, Cinematical readers, our crack staff has the field narrowed down to 15 finalists in the Adult Category of our Halloween Costume Contest, and now it's time for you to get to work and vote for your favorite Adult and Kid entries. You can only vote ONE time for each category, no duplicate votes will be counted.

Yes, you can vote for yourself, and you finalists are free to go and round up everyone in your little black books, your email and cell phone contact lists, and your MySpace friend lists to come and vote for you. As a reminder, here's what the winning entries will get:

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

Here are the Adult and Kid Finalists you are voting on. Please leave your vote in the comments, using the costume name as your vote. Please note that we have TWO separate Transformers in the finals, so if you are voting for one of them, make sure to specify "Transformer #1" or "Transformers #3." Please enter just one pick in each of the two categories in your comment, and thanks for participating. Voting will be open until 11:59PM EST on Saturday, November 17. We'll announce our winner on Monday, November 19. Thanks very much to everyone who entered for making this a really tough competition!

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!

Hey there movie fans, we know you had lots of cool and creative costumes for your Halloween parties (or just for slouching around your neighborhood trick-or-treating, pretending to be a surly teenager so you could score a bag of free candy). Just a reminder that you have until tomorrow at midnight to get your entries in to our fabulous Halloween Costume Contest. I have to tell you, though ... we are seeing some amazingly impressive entries. Some of you folks really went all out this year. The competition is going to be tough.

The prize packages for the Adult and Child Winners are pretty amazing, check it out:

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

This contest has some important rules. PLEASE pop over to official contest announcement page and READ THEM carefully:

It's October, Cinematical readers, and that means it's once again time for our ever-popular Halloween Costume Contest! Last year we had some truly impressive entries (that's last year's winner in the "Adult" category at the right!) from some very dedicated movie fans and fanatics.The attention to detail in some of the costumes was pretty remarkable.

Now that we're getting into our Halloween coverage, it's time for you to kick your creativity into high gear and start thinking about your own costume. Here's the scoop:

1. The contest officially begins on October 20. Starting that day (and no sooner) you will be able to submit your contest entries. Be sure to look for the post a day or so before that, announcing HOW to enter, and our fun-filled, official, legal rules.

2. Your contest entry must in some way be related to movies. It can be a character, a play on a movie title, a famous actor or director -- whatever. So long as it relates to film, and you're not nude (sorry, kids) you're good.

3. You will email your contest submission to the address we announce in the official kick-off post.

4. We'll post the finalist's pictures, and you -- yes, you! -- will vote in the comments for who you think should win. One vote per person/email address. And yes, if you enter, your friends and family can vote for you, and you can vote for yourself. But each vote will be counted ONCE and only once. Dupe votes will be tossed in the virtual shredder.

5. The winners in the kid and adult categories will each receive a Fabulous Cinematical Halloween Prize Package, which will consist of a groovy collection of horror DVDs selected by Cinematical staff. Each of us is choosing our personal favorite horror flicks for the adult prize package, and we'll have a nice prize for the kid winner, too.

That's it for now ... start thinking of those costumes, you only have 16 18 days* until the contest kicks off!

**Thanks for catching that, Tidmore. This post wasn't going to go out until the 4th, but we decided to bump it out early -- but we didn't catch changing that!

Alright, Cinematical readers. Last year, you blew us away with the amazingly creative movie-themed Halloween costumes you submitted to our first Halloween Costume Contest (that's last year's winner at the right!) We had some truly impressive entries from a lot of dedicated movie fans. In fact, it was such a hit that we've decided to do it again this year, so it's time to put down that bag of Cheetohs and get those brain cells into high gear. Here's the scoop: