by Chamberlain Zulauf<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m on spooky vibes all year, really. It\u2019s just in October I can let it shine,\u201d said Juliet Marvelli\u2014 the Halloween issues Folk of \u2018Noke.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI love all things scary. Scary movies, scary vibes, scary decorations, all of it. I\u2019m into scary books too, like Stephen King and Edgar Allen Poe. I started decorating the house more than a month ago,\u201d continued Juliet.<\/span><\/p>\n Her love of spooky szn shows. Driving down Craig Avenue it\u2019s easy to take a guess which house Juliet lives in. She has the deck fully adorned with bones hanging from the ceiling with complimentary spider webs on the railing, orange decoration lights, a half-buried zombie carcass in the yard (cleverly named Marcus), and a headless door attendant.<\/span><\/p>\n The crown jewel of Juliet\u2019s spooky ensemble is a giant clown keeping watch over passersby, which she brought from home.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c[the clown] doesn\u2019t have a name. I\u2019m not good at clown names which is weird because I love clowns,\u201d said Juliet.<\/span><\/p>\n The show continues inside too. Other than the life size cutout of Shaq in the main hallway an additional roommate of Juliet\u2019s is Billy the Skeleton: pictured drinking \u2018spooky borg.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n Going hard for Halloween is a tradition Juliet started at home in Quakertown PA.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBack home we do a haunted house in our garage. We’ve been doing that since fifth grade. Trick or treaters go through, and parents love to send their kids in because they know they\u2019re going to get really scared\u2026 and hopefully cry, the parents just laugh. It’s really funny. The parents will be like \u2018you did great this year!\u2019 as their kids are bawling their eyes out.<\/span><\/p>\n We have a fog machine and strobe lights. Everything. My favorite one was a few years ago. We did a horror movie theme, and I was Hannibal Lecter. The kids had to reach into a cage to get their candy and I would scare them by making that sound he makes from that one scene\u2026 <\/span>I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti FTFTFTFTFT!<\/span><\/i>\u201d said Juliet. \u201cI\u2019ve been Hannibal Lector a few times actually. I have a strait jacket and everything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n This year Juliet has a few costumes ready for action. She\u2019s most excited to dress up as Homer Simpson though, complete with makeup and a bald cap.<\/span><\/p>\n Given one choice for Best Halloween Candy, Juliet says her favorite are the mini boxes of nerds.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe pink one\u2019s are my favorite. I guess they\u2019re strawberries?\u201d said Juliet.<\/span><\/p>\n Over fall break Juliet took some time to relax and to help plan for her haunted house. Although she hasn\u2019t been home for Halloween in a few years she still likes to be involved. This year\u2019s theme is haunted asylum, which will take the better part of an entire weekend to set up.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n Moving away from Halloween, Juliet is an inspired maroon. With a major in creative writing and a concentration in screen studies a dream job for her would be movie production. Readers might expect her to want to work in the horror genre, but she has a vision beyond that.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI like how certain production companies have niches, like A24 has their niche. I really like gangster movies, so it\u2019d be awesome to make a home for those kinds of movies. It\u2019s a big dream but you know!\u201d said Juliet.<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to her studies Juliet is also a member of the Roanoke Review and president of Hillel where she helps plan Shabbat and works to spread awareness about antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAntisemitism has always been a constant news piece, especially recently because of a Ye (womp womp), so I feel like it\u2019s important to keep people woke on campus. So that\u2019s to come, it was a big conversation topic with us this week,\u201d said Juliet.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n Juliet\u2019s favorite college memory is all the times she\u2019s played board and card games with her friends. Finally, a piece of advice she has for fellow Maroons is to,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHave fun but not too much fun. Make sure you go to your classes!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Chamberlain Zulauf \u201cI\u2019m on spooky vibes all year, really. It\u2019s just in October I can let it shine,\u201d said Juliet Marvelli\u2014 the Halloween issues Folk of \u2018Noke. \u201cI love all things scary. Scary movies, scary vibes, scary decorations, all of it. I\u2019m into scary books too, like Stephen King and Edgar Allen Poe. 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