We’re back! Another year, another October, another Octoberween. Everybody has their own way of getting in the mood for Halloween (everybody who does get in the mood, anyway), and my personal preference is with spooky movies. Of varying spook factor. Sure, I love me something genuinely scary, like John Carpenter’s Halloween, and I love kid-friendly…
It certainly has been a year. Full of ups and downs. Maybe too many downs, but some absolutely stellar ups: Weddings, engagements, scented candles, reasonably priced fancy cheeses…an immeasurable wealth of riches amidst a real doozy of a time to be living through history*. I know what you’re asking yourself: “How, in these certainly uncertain…
“Those who hunt by night will tell you that the wildest and most vicious of all animals is the tiny shrew. The shrew feeds only by the dark of the moon. He must eat his own body weight every few hours or starve. And the shrew devours everything: bones, flesh, marrow… everything. In March, first…
Welp, I definitely intended to review something before October twentieth, but here we are. 2020, etc. My theme last year, if there was one (a theme, not a year, 2019 definitely happened, I think), was Godzilla + The Simpsons. This year, you get witches. Why? Why does anyone do anything? I was in the mood…
Back in 2013—seven years ago—in what I believe was my first Octoberween with Rooster Illusion, I wrote two articles recommending Halloween viewing for all different viewing tastes. I enjoyed the model, but some reason never went back to it…until now! Octoberween Recommendations, Part 3! For Johnny-Come-Latelies: Horror of Dracula (1958) If you’ve never really watched…
I’ll cut right to the chase. 1932. I’ve taken a decent survey of history to back up this claim. Please feel free to disagree with me and offer whatever evidence you can, but I don’t believe 1960, or ’87, or 2015, or even 1922 could hold a candle to 1932, undoubtedly the best year in…
It’s Halloween month! A time to celebrate all things spooky, frightening, and ghastly. I thought a nice, fitting way to ease into the haunting mood this year would be with a healthy dose of America’s favorite talking dog and meddling kids. In Octoberweens past, I’ve delved deep into what I (perhaps overconfidently) called a “Comprehensive…
