10-22-2009, 05:19 AM
I got the opposite problem Ryan, I'm jacked and ready to go this year, planned out the yard haunt months ago, have 4 or 5 different costumes I could pick, a couple new masks, and even extra people who want to help me out. I'm gonna be stuck on the couch this year though with a bunch of pain killers thanks to my back. I'm really really disapointed. I know what you mean though, just kind of losing intrest, and drive to get into the spirit, I find the best stuff that works for me is to save a few things for this time of year. Being so emersed in horror, masks and props, and what most consider 'halloweenie' it can dull the excitement a lot, so you have to have something a little different to push you into feeling it. A few good movies that really remind you of halloween are great, I like Pumpkinhead, I only watch it once a year, and it always get's me goin. Hit a couple haunts in your area, a good corn or hay maze does a hell of a job. The decorating is a big part too, hard to halloween up a room of monster masks, but a few things here and there you only take out this time of year helps. The best thing though, get involved in a yard haunt, do one yourself with a buddy, or see if you can join one in your neighborhood. The people who don't wanna sit and geek out with horror movies the rest of the year LOVE to put a mask on and scare kids that one night of the year 
Start early too, get a costume thought up and planned over the summer, figure out a layout for the yard, props you wanna use and make, like styrofoam tomb stones, coffins, gallows etc. And you really find as it gets closer, you don't have to do anything to psych yourself up, you end up getting over excited, like when you were a kid waiting to trick or treat. Everyone remembers 'those houses' the ones that gave the best treats, and the best scares, guys who go all out to really make a fun night, we ARE those guys now! We live in THOSE houses! It`s another way to think of it is keeping the tradition alive, makin the best night of the year that much scarier and funner, so the kids we terrify will one day grow up and scare the crap out of the next generation
Start early too, get a costume thought up and planned over the summer, figure out a layout for the yard, props you wanna use and make, like styrofoam tomb stones, coffins, gallows etc. And you really find as it gets closer, you don't have to do anything to psych yourself up, you end up getting over excited, like when you were a kid waiting to trick or treat. Everyone remembers 'those houses' the ones that gave the best treats, and the best scares, guys who go all out to really make a fun night, we ARE those guys now! We live in THOSE houses! It`s another way to think of it is keeping the tradition alive, makin the best night of the year that much scarier and funner, so the kids we terrify will one day grow up and scare the crap out of the next generation