There are many ways to celebrate Halloween. Most civilians dress up and go to parties. Cinephiles binge on classic horror movies. Journalists write endless lists. But Marilyn Manson has always stood out from the pack. And that’s why he’s now selling dildos with his face on them, for anyone still participating in the dildo bump brought on by Best Picture Oscar-winner The Shape of Water.
This one was caught by Pitchfork, who saw that Manson — the ’90s goth shock metal god who briefly became a pretty good glam rocker in the early aughts and who doled some of the most trenchant observations in Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine — was posting the merch section of his personal website on Instagram.
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Look and you shall find a Marilyn Manson-themed stencil etching you can put on your pumpkin, if that’s your bag. But casually sitting right below it is an 8-inch dildo with Manson’s head on the, well, head, plus a complimentary dildo bag for your new Marilyn Manson dildo.
“I guess this is…Halloween,” the caption reads, with the hashtag “#dickortreat,” which is reasonably clever.
Manson, aka Brian Hugh Warner, hasn’t been the cultural boogeyman he was two decades back, but we’re glad the guy — who’s pushing 50 — is at least trying. His last record, Heaven Upside Down, came out last year, though instead of shocking conservatives, as he once did, his antics have largely been confusing or just ill-advised. These include pretending to carry out a mass shooting at a concert a week after the San Bernardino massacre, casting alleged domestic abuser Johnny Depp in a video, or suffering a breakdown on stage and ending the concert early.
Still, if you still listen to his cover of “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” more than you do the Eurythmics original, but you don’t want a dildo featuring his likeness anywhere near your lovemaking, may we instead suggest trying his absinthe, entitled Mansinthe?
