UPDATE: There’s now a second collection of Snakes on a Plane Halloween costumes.

From blogs, myspace (blech), flickr and emails, here’s a fairly comprehensive collection of Snakes on a Plane Halloween costume pictures (as usual, click to make them larger):

Of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out a Halloween costume youtube video:

Snakes on a Halloween Costume

And finally, what’s Halloween without a few carved pumpkins?

Was your Halloween as good as these people’s?

Halloween costumes:

The first two images are from Christine:

Last night I attended my college’s massive costume competition and won first prize with my homemade costume. “Snakes on a Stewardess”. I stitched 25 small rubber snakes to a stewardess uniform, applied zombie makeup, and wore a 5 foot long, plastic cobra named Samuel L. Jackson. Thought that you might enjoy the photos.

Yeah! The third costume was courtesy of Max. Any others out there?

Previous Snakes on a Plane costumes here and here.

Nasa has gotten all sorts of weird in anticipation of Halloween and has provided us with images of Snakes on a Galactic Plane:

Something scary appears to be slithering across the plane of our Milky Way galaxy in this new Halloween image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The snake-like object is actually the core of a thick, sooty cloud large enough to swallow dozens of solar systems. In fact, astronomers say its “belly” may be harboring beastly stars in the process of forming.

“The snake is an ideal place to hunt for massive forming stars as they have not had time to heat up and destroy the cloud they are born in,” said Dr. Sean Carey, also known as “Dr. Scarey,” of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center. Dr

And here are the animated images:

Spooky.

I once thanked New Line for not being Paramount. Apparently I needed to expand that to thanking New Line for also not being Universal or Fox. What is WRONG with these companies?

The Internet has let me down.  Why did I need to find out from some newspaper article that Rev. Dr. Jon Dale Hevelone of the First Baptist Church of Arlington posted a 600 word rumination on Snakes on a Plane back in August?!  This is important stuff here people!

Just like the movie Snakes on a Plane provides a perfect release for our biggest fears when air travel and terrorism make us feel that things are out of control, sometimes Snakes on a Faith can be useful.

I wish Pastor Jon’s quasi-blog allowed for comments.

More Halloween preparation:

Kevin knows what he’s doing… have started to make your Snakes on a Plane costume yet?

DVDActive has a few more tidbits for us today. They snagged images of a few of the DVD’s menus:

As well as big versions of images of the box artwork for widescreen and boringscreen:

And some old advertising materials that we’ve posted before:

Ok, well, not really.  There’s no direct connection between Borat and Snakes on a Plane.  Borat is made by Fox, not New Line.  Borat is about a foreigner, not snakes.  Borat stars a British comedian, not Samuel L. Jackson.

What they do have in common, however, is underground appeal.  And Fox seems as though they’re trying to rectify some of the perceived problems with New Line’s handling of Snakes on a Plane:

Fox had hoped to open “Borat” in more than 2,000 theaters. Instead, the film will start in about 800 locations, then expand to 2,200 the following weekend when Fox hopes the movie will have gained traction. “The movie plays like a concert,” Snyder said. “It’s great in a theater.”

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The movie also could be suffering from what one executive called “Snakes on a Plane” syndrome — buzz that peaks too early. After a year of Internet hype, “Snakes” had a disappointing opening this summer for New Line Cinema. Still, that movie was being hyped sight unseen, whereas critics have raved about “Borat.”

“It’s gotten a lot of publicity, but publicity does not necessarily equal an audience,” said analyst Brandon Gray, head of BoxOfficeMojo.com.

BoingBoing thinks so too:

But all that’s changed now. And between Borat’s MySpace hijinks, the tons and tons of looks-like-homemade promo videos… this is the first big-studio movie to really nail online viral promotion perfectly. How smart was Fox? MySpace, which Fox bought for $580 million, doing online street promotion for Borat, a Fox property… this is no “Snakes on a Plane” accident.

Will Borat succeed beyond the financial success of Snakes on a Plane?   (Ha, even BoxOfficeMojo thinks SoaP is like Borat.)

My video capturing/editing abilties are weak, but if someone has the technology and the know-how, I’d appreciate it if you could grab the first two minutes or so of last night’s Gilmore Girls. I have the whole episode on my computer, but I’m having a tough time cropping out all the non Snakes on a Plane stuff. Any help would be appreciated. Here’s my bad, bad effort. It’s got an annoying text message in the middle of the screen AND you’ll have to skip past the first minute (”last time on Gilmore Girls”) which isn’t relevant:

Snakes on the Gilmore Girls

In the interim, here’s a transcript:

Girl: Let me bottom line it for you, snakes are gross, snakes are scary and slithery, and do you know where snakes do not belong?

Boy: On a plane?

Girl: They do not belong on a plane.

Boy: It’s not an ideal situation

Girl: They do not belong anywhere except in cages stuck in safes buried deep deep underground. I hate snakes!

Boy: So I’m gathering.

Girl: With their gross no-legged bodies and their scaly scaly skin and their wiggling and their hissing.

Boy: Ok, Laura, I respect your very valid feelings about snakes…

Girl: Thank you.

Boy: But I have to say, we were fairly warned.

Girl: No, no, a movie should not just be its title. Driving Miss Daisy ddin’t all take place in a car, Dancing with Wolves wasn’t one long wolf dance. This was nothing but snakes snakes relentless snakes snakes on a plane snake snakes snakes on a plane!

Boy: This was our fifth bad movie in a row, it’s got to be some kind of record.

Girl: We’ve got to face facts, movies have gotten bad.

Boy: Unless it’s our fault…

Are their names Laura and Chris? I don’t watch Gilmore Girls.

Halloween is fast approaching and Jakob was kind enough to get us in the mood with these pumpkin carvings:

Now I know a lot of you are considering tasteless sting-ray or Cory Lidle costumes for this Halloween, but might I suggest a wholesome, family-friendly, homemade snakes on a plane costume? I’ve posted this image before, but it seems like a good thing to consider:

You’ve got two weeks left until Halloween, get cracking.

All previous Fan Graphics.

More comics from around the web:

The first comic is from Sunday’s Shoe, the second is from PvPonline’s guest blogger Chris Giarrusso.

I recently posted two updates (first and second) about the upcoming DVD release of Snakes on a Plane. Well, Amazon has started taking pre-orders on both Widescreen and Fullscreen versions. They’re both retailing for $16.98, considerably lower than New Line’s suggested price of $28.98.

Amazon has the official cover art as well:

They also include this ratings tidbit:

MPAA: for language, a scene of sexuality and drug use, and intense sequences of terror and violence.

I always love when the rating is for ‘A‘ scene of sexuality and ‘A‘ scene of drug use.   Can you imagine what the rating might have been if there were multiple scenes?  Anyway, the official release date is January 2nd, so you’ll still have some time to save up the $17 before it ships.

Snakes on a Courtroom? No, wait… that’s not right. Snakes on Toronto? No, that can’t be it. Snakes on a New Home? Not quite. Hamsters on a Plane?!?!? No, that’s definitely wrong. Snakes on a Plane! You knew it was coming, didn’t you?

It’s actually a shame that the Snakes on a New Home article is the most interesting (and SnakesonaPlaneesque) one:

Snakes fell on Lyman Hepworth’s head when he opened the door to a pump house near the small house the couple planned to buy.

“When it warmed up, we walked onto the yard and the whole yard moved,” Jeanine Hepworth told the Rexburg Standard Journal.

One day, Lyman Hepworth reached to turn on a light and discovered the pull cord was actually a snake.

Yegads.

Ok, one has to wonder: when’s my movie?

Me and the One Red Paperclip guy are in a deep, DEEP competition, only he doesn’t know who I am or care about me in any way. So I guess he wins. He got a house in Canada, all I got was a trip to a movie premiere.

Who wants to live in Canada, anyway?

I know you thought the whole Snakes on a Plane thing had peaked, but, well, this one’s new. “The Snake has entered the Colliseum”:

USC Marching band covers Snakes on a Plane

AOL Sports Blog was kind enough to point to the above video and add the following commentary:

Proving that no cultural phenomenon is too overdone for the University of Southern California’s Trojan Marching Band to exploit, this year’s pop-culture song added to the Spirit of Troy repertoire is Cobra Starship’s “Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)”.

I like the big snake walking around the field, but it would have been nice to have some sort of plane, or, of course, Samuel L. Jackson in lieu of the Trojan mascot.

Back in my day we used a TI-81 without all these fancy-pants features like the ability to run software downloaded from the internet. When I was in high school we had to write our own stupid BASIC choose-your-own-adventure programs. I don’t know if I can take much stock in this new, downloadable bunko. I tend to think it’s going to lead to the pornographication of the calculator.

Anyway, an officemate of my old roommate wrote in to point out this:

Snakes on an XY Plane

It, cleverly:

“Draws random snakes on the xy-plane. This program takes one argument, n, to indicate how many snakes to draw.“

You can download the .zip file from the linked site, or mirrored locally.

Burger King is getting in on the whole snake phenomenon:

Snakes on a Triple Whopper

All previous Fan Videos.

A surprising twist opening from Lost’s season three premiere episode was caught in this stunning freeze frame (you’ll need to click to see the subtle details):

More fan art and photos from around the web:

We’ve got a viewing party with Jakob at the top, and we’ve got Snakes on a Lane at the bottom.

All previous Fan Art.

The Japanese trailer for Snakes on a Plane (or, as they seem to call it, Snake-u Flight-u) is fantastic! Just fantastic. Go check it out at the official Japanese site (local mirror, youtube mirror). The trailer includes classic moments from the film, uses Flight of the Valkyries in a way that the American trailer should have, includes swearing AND has wonderful cross-cultural production values.

Gaijin Biker points out that they translate THE LINE in an odd, yet endearing, manner:

The Japanese subtitles at the bottom correspond to Samuel’s most famous line from the movie. It’s been rendered as:

俺様はヘビも飛行機も大嫌いだ！
Oresama wa hebi mo hikoki mo daikirai da!

Which translates to, “I really hate snakes and planes!”

Anybody feel like going through the rest of the trailer and pulling out some choice translation choices?