Ghostface once asked, “What’s your favorite scary movie?”
Today, we ask the same thing for a far less nefarious reason: so we can tell you which cocktail to sip as you watch your favorite horror movie this Halloween.
Keep reading for 8 spine-chilling cocktail and horror movie pairings.
Freddy Krueger may be everyone’s favorite nightmare-haunter, but this cocktail is nothing but a dream come true.
The Recipe
1 ginger slice
2 ounces cranberry juice
2 ounces ginger beer
Lime wheel
In a shaker, add ginger and lime and muddle. Add Scotch, cranberry juice and ice. Shake and strain into a glass. Top with ginger beer and garnish with lime wheel.
This gin cocktail is so good, it might have you crab-walking for joy. Feel its dry, citrusy flavor possess you. We suggest enjoying this one before you get to *that* scene. You know what we’re talking about.
The Recipe
2 1⁄4 ounces Plymouth Gin
1⁄2 ounce Martini Dry Vermouth
1⁄4 ounce Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur
4 dashes orange bitters
Place a glass in the freezer to chill. In a mixing glass with ice, add gin, vermouth, liqueur and bitters. Mix and strain into chilled glass. Garnish with an orange wedge and cherries.
Hiya, Georgie! Whether you’re watching the OG It with Tim Curry or the newer movies with Bill Skarsgard, you’re still in for one scary Derry night. Gather your Loser’s Club and make these spiked root beer floats. Once you take a sip, you'll float, too.
The Recipe
2 scoops vanilla bean ice cream
1½ ounces Palms Spiced Rum
In a mason jar, pour in spiced rum and add ice cream. Top off with root beer and enjoy with a spoon and a straw.
We finally have a Beetlejuice sequel, so it’s time to shake, shake, shake up a celebratory cocktail, senora. This sweet melon cocktail has the ghost with the most’s signature green hue with an eye-poppingly easy to assemble lychee eyeball garnish.
The Recipe
2 ounces Charles Regnier Sweet Melon Liqueur
½ ounce lime juice
½ ounce lemon juice
Egg white
Blueberries
Canned lychees, peeled and pitted
For the lychee eyeballs: Add a blueberry to the inside of a peeled and pitted lychee to create an eyeball. Add two to a skewer to look like a pair of eyes. Use for cocktail garnish.
For the cocktail: In a shaker, add melon liqueur, lime juice, lemon juice and egg white. Dry shake. Add ice and shake again until chilled. Strain into a glass. Garnish with lychee eyeballs.
Ring, ring...the call for a zesty mezcal cocktail is coming from inside the house, and you’d better pick up. Move over, Neve Campbell; this delicious twist on a mezcal margarita will have you feeling like 100% that (final) girl.
The Recipe
Smoked sea salt
1 ounce fresh lime juice
½ ounce agave syrup
2 dashes aromatic bitters
Lime wheel
Rim a glass with smoked sea salt and set aside. In a shaker with ice, add mezcal, lime juice, agave syrup and bitters. Shake and strain into prepared glass. Garnish with a lime wheel.
When someone says “Michael Myers,” do you think Saturday Night Live or do you think late ‘70s epic slasher movie? If your answer is the latter, you will want a big pitcher of Blood Orange Margaritas, but let’s avoid calling a babysitter. That didn’t work out so well for Jamie Lee Curtis.
The Recipe
Rim side of glass with chamoy and dip in Tajin. In a shaker with ice, add premixed cocktail. Shake and strain into prepared glass over fresh ice. Garnish with a dried blood orange wheel.
Would you like to play a game? This one won’t lead to the loss of limbs (or life), just a deliciously fruity cocktail. This vodka-based, raspberry-flavored drink is a cut above the rest.
The Recipe
1 ½ ounces Column 5 Texas Vodka
½ ounce Martini Dry Vermouth
½ ounce raspberry syrup
½ ounce fresh lemon juice
1 egg white
Raspberry syrup spiral
In a shaker, add vodka, dry vermouth, raspberry syrup, lemon juice and egg white. Dry shake for 10-15 seconds, add ice and shake again. Strain into a glass and top with raspberry syrup spiral.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. So, play hard this Halloween with a cocktail and a viewing of Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece. Bourbon may be Jack Torrance’s drink of choice, but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to include Johnnie Walker. Pour yourself a glass and enjoy your stay at the Overlook Hotel.
The Recipe
3 ounces ginger ale
Add Scotch and ginger ale to a glass filled with ice. Stir to combine. Garnish with a lime wedge.
