How many of you luv Halloween...Man, I do...I used to love to dress up and get the candy...Now, I love to see the younger kids getting together and searching after their own treasure house. You know the one that has the best of the best candy and they don't care how much you take. I love that stuff. One of my other loves is the movie of the same name...a certifiable classic. It is the ultimate spookshow. I was never a big fan of those horror movies that had all of that bloody gore in them. It always seemed like it was too easy to resort to that. Ahhhh but Halloween was different. Sure it had a spooky killer but what made him so spooky was that he was just a human. On top of that he had no emotions and no features to speak of. I loved the way that John Carpenter made the buildup of the scare more important than the scare itself. I loved the use of lighting to dramatize an entrance or the way the lighting creates a scary silouhette of the shape. I also love the fact that the movie was an homage to the films that preceded it. Psycho, Nite of the Living Dead. I know that most people see these things as just dumb spook flicks but just remember there would be no Scream or The Blair Witch Project without it. So when next Tuesday rolls around I suggest when all of the kids go to bed that you dim all of the lites and put on an original version of John Carpenter's masterpiece and allow yourself to be scared out of your wit without being grossed out. It will scare the enjoyment out of you....Happy Halloween!!!!
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