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Turn your lawn into a party guest cemetery. Cut headstones out of Styrofoam, cardboard or construction paper, and paint them a gloomy gray. Write each guest's name on each one, along with a clever cause of death. (Need inspiration? Use their personal quirks or interests, or watch some Six Feet Under reruns.) Glue a stick to the back of each one to affix to your lawn or line the walkway up to your home.

Since you'll want to keep lights spookily low for your Halloween party, dress up plain plastic cups with glow-in-the-dark stickers of moons and ghosts. And to add drama to a sit-down dinner, use the mini-murder-weapon game pieces from Clue to decorate each guest's place setting.

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This Halloween, don a Jigsaw mask and throw a SAW costume party!
Set the tone for the evening by welcoming guests with the question, "Do you want to play a game?"
Decorate each room with a SAW setting and fill it with fun surprises
Encourage guests to dress up as their favorite victim from past SAW films
Choose specific friends to dress up as nurses and hand out blood-red drinks

SAW VI — in theaters October 23rd.
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This Halloween, throw a SAW costume party your friends will never forget!
Set the tone for the evening by welcoming guests with the question, "Do you want to play a game?"
Play trivia games to determine the biggest SAW fan — and hand out fun prizes
Hold a SAW movie marathon or screen your favorite scenes from the past five films
Let the guests vote on the best SAW costume — and award the winner with free tickets to SAW VI

SAW VI — in theaters October 23rd.
Pump up your holiday with pumpkin bread pudding, butternut squash risotto served in a pumpkin bowl or a pumpkin-shaped cheeseball.

Counteract all that candy you’re going to eat with this hearty yet spooky Black Cauldron Stew.

Add a devilish twist to your meal with deviled eggs, devil’s food cake, even deviled fried chicken.

Remember, Halloween is the only holiday where it’s okay to serve scary-looking desserts.

Featured Halloween Party Recipes from Epicurious.com


Caviar Moons

Louisiana Deviled Crab Cakes

Eyeball Cupcakes
A holiday-appropriate house drink will get your guests into the right spirits. Here are our picks for Halloween cocktails:

Slime Punch — This spooky punch looks the part and tastes fizzy and lime-licious.

Sangria — Vamp up your cocktails with this sweet sip, a drink that takes its name from the Spanish word for blood.

Bloody Mary — Thanks to its macabre name and blood-red color, this spicy cocktail is dripping with Halloween flavor.

Zombie — Afraid your party might be kind of dead? These strong, rum-tastic cocktails are guaranteed to liven things up.

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A Halloween party must have ghoulish tricks and goblin' good treats. For your Halloween party to be nothing short of a hair-raising hit, be sure to send guests home with a spook-tastic party favor. Yummy candies in personalized candy tins make memorable keepsakes while custom-baked Halloween themed sugar cookies and pumpkin brownie-pops are so good, they're to die for! Stuff all your favorite loot into a personalized goodie bag. And happy haunting!


Personalized M&M Candy Tins

Personalized Caramel Popcorn

Custom Halloween Cookies
1. Werewolves of London / Warren Zevon
2. Living Dead Girl / Rob Zombie
3. Somebody's Watching Me / Rockwell
4. Spellbound / Siouxsie and the Banshees
5. Don't Fear the Reaper / Blue Öyster Cult
6. Tubular Bells / Mike Oldfield
7. Devil Inside / INXS
8. People Are Strange / The Doors
9. Possum Kingdom / The Toadies
10. Bela Lugosi’s Dead / Bauhaus
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