Hi all. I hope you're off to a good start on your weekend. I've been a little distracted this week and continue to be pretty uninspired when it comes to posting. So, this may or may not be the only post for this week, depending on how the mood strikes me (or doesn't) tomorrow.
In the meantime, I did want to do at least a small post to celebrate my second favorite holiday. (The first being Christmas.) I'll bookend some old and new favorites with a couple of inspirational ones. For me, it's been the kind of year that could use more inspirational and aspirational thoughts.
I came across this one very recently, and it is so me. I would never actually challenge a teenaged trick-or-treater, but it doesn't stop me from thinking, "What the hell is wrong with these kids? In my day, this was a night for sex, drugs and 80s rock! Don't they have anything better along those lines to do?)
A couple of classics for this spanko audience.
One of the funniest pumpkin carvings ever.
Gotta have a couple of sexy witches.
That's probably enough for this year. Have a great Halloween!
(Al here)
ReplyDeleteHappy Halloween, Dan! (Even if a day late!). I enjoy the holiday as well - especially the scantily clad sexy witches.
We rewatched the Sixth Sense last night for the first time in decades in honor of the holiday. I've always thought that it had the best twist ending of any movie that I've ever watched of any genre. While my wife and I knew what was coming, we had a couple of younger guests watch it with us who had never seen it - enjoyed watching their reactions at the end of the show. Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment (the kid) both do a great job acting in the film.
My tastes run to intelligent paranormal files - and definitely not gore for the sake of gore (chainsaws and such).
In the absence of any spanking related comments, anyone care to share what horror / scary movies they have enjoyed?
--al
I haven't watched that one in a number of years either, but I was shocked at the ending the first time I saw it. It's a true classic! FYI, Haley Joel Osment had a cameo on the Netflix series Wednesday. I didn't recognize him at first.
DeleteI'm definitely not into gory horror. I watched Widow's Bay on Apple TV a few months ago -- that's about as gory as I get, which is to say not much at all.
The Exorcist and The Omen both scared the hell out of me when I watched them as an impressionable kid. I don't know whether Gremlins really qualifies as horror/scary, but I liked it. Same with the original King Kong. I really liked Francis Ford Coppola's version of Dracula. Sinners was a more recent vampire film I really liked. From Dusk Til Dawn is a guilty pleasure.
When I was a child, the two scariest movies I remember:
ReplyDelete(1) "The Blob" (1958), with Steve McQueen (first leading role). Movie scared me so much: I was scared of toilets and sink drains for months -- never new when/what might crawl up from the sewers and grab me.
(2) "Five Million Years to Earth" (UK: "Quatermass and the Pit") (1967), with Andrew "Buggy" Keir. I don't know what it was, but there was this tremendous, foreboding "tension" throughout the film, even though nothing much ("evil") occurred until the last 1/4 of the movie. The "devil - alien - martian" spirit was truly scary. Had nightmares for weeks!
Belated Happy Halloween. I have fun dressing up in my Tigger outfit, and sitting at the end of the driveway giving out treats. We have very few kids here (18 in total last night) so I have adopted one bag of chips, and an envelop with $5 in it. The kids are thrilled.
ReplyDeleteThe scariest I ever reead was a book of shor tstories from Alfred Hitchcocl, where int eh middle (or somewhere), is a story that talks to you. The author says that this has been included nly in this book, that the author watched who bought it, and now has followed them home and know where they live. Soon a most terrfiyng death wil happen to the reader. It was well written and the print was different than the rest of the book. Very effective aas a young teenager. Not really into horror films
Red
We probably had about 20x your 18. We live in one of those suburban neighborhoods, though it's been aging to such an extent that I was pretty surprised at how many younger kids we got last night.
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