Frankenweenie Opening

For the past few years, we've made a tradition of seeing the opening night showing of The Nightmare Before Christmas at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. This year, the festivities started at 7 pm instead of midnight, so we couldn't make it, but we did something even better to make up for it... we saw the midnight opening of Frankenweenie earlier this month! On the way to Hollywood, we stopped in Beverly Hills to see A Fine Frenzy play at Anthropologie (a separate post is coming for that, it was one of my favorite experiences ever!). So my usual plans of dressing up in a spooky way had to be altered a bit so I could attend the concert without looking quite out of place, and also so I could change in the car. As a result, the last minute Weird Girl costume I threw together left much to be desired, but I tried! Before the movie began, there was a trivia competition, a costume contest, and producer Don Hahn had a chat with Tom Kenny, who voiced characters in the movie, but is best known as the voice of Spongebob. We also got to watch a special creepy video Tim Burton made for the audience. After the viewing, we looked at props, sets, and other things used in the movie.

I wore a blonde wig for the first part of the night (see here & here), but then took it off once I realized there were some seriously amazing Weird Girl costumes that put mine to absolute shame. Plus it made for a more comfortable movie-viewing experience. If you haven't seen Frankenweenie, you just have to! It's beautifully made and it's a very lovely adaptation of the original short, so whether you've seen the original or not, you'll love it!

As for Halloween plans around here, with all that's been going on this month, I actually don't know how I'll be dressing up tonight. I'm trying to throw something together with what I already have. I didn't even get around to decorating the house this year! Though I do have a costume in the works for a party Saturday night. I hope you all have a wonderful and spooky night! If you're interested in taking a trip down Halloween Memory Lane with this blog, the Halloween tag is quite packed from years past. You can even see most of my costumes from every Halloween I've celebrated here.