We've been doing our usual Hallowe'en horror film festival at our house all month. I get to introduce my kids to classics of the genre.
So far we've seen INVADERS FROM MARS, HORROR OF DRACULA, ALIEN, THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES, THE HAUNTING, IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE, PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES (the last two were probably influences on ALIEN), THE MASQUE OF RED DEATH, HELLBOY and THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.
Tomorrow night, my kids are inviting some friends over for Hallowe'en movies under the stars in the backyard. I rigged up a giant screen and have a projector I bought on sale cheap at WalMart that hooks up to a DVD player and shows REALLY HUGE screen images. We're going lie on the grass or in lawn chairs and watch a bunch of Hallowe'en -themed Bugs Bunny cartoons (HYDE AND HARE where Bugs is taken in by Dr. Jekyll, the one where Bug fights Gossamer the giant red hairy monster, the one where Bugs goes trick-or-treating and meets the June Foray-voiced witch, and the one where Porky Pig and Sylvester spend the night in a haunted house full of homicidal mice - that one is really scary!), along with a DVD of classic horror movie trailers, Disney's LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW (great animation on the chase sequence), and IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE. We will have a firepit going and roast marshmallows and make chocolate bombs (stick a chunk of chocolate in a marshmallow before toasting it), eat popcorn, candy corn and pumpkin peeps, and the grown-ups will drink Blue Moon Ale and Fat Tire.
"Flow with the Go."
- Rickson Gracie