I do not observe "halloween" . . . BUT-- (nostalgia)

Self | 10/30/'16 | Zionist Conspirator

[Nifster]

I don’t know for me the thirties version of Dracula with Bela was really scary and still is. Nosteraufu is also

[Hot Tabasco]

Halloween is nothing but an end of the season fun fest where kids dress up in costumes, people carve pumpkins and set out bales of hay in their front yards.

Any attempt to portray it more than that is pathological...........

Kudos to your fun fest vanity tho.................

[SoCal Pubbie]

I still have all my old copies of Famous Monsters of Filmland.

[OttawaFreeper]

You can talk about how scary movies like “The Exorcist” or “Carrie” or “Halloween” or even “The Changeling” are. But I can remember the “Happy Days” episode “Haunted”, featuring the old Simpson house. Even on into my teens (after seeing it numerous times) I found it just that bit difficult to go to bed afterwards as it still scared me a little.

[Artemis Webb]

When I was a kid there was a movie theater on the public square that, for their Saturday matinee, would show either Japanese Monster movies (Godzilla, Rodan, King Kong) or Hammer vampire films. I LOVED Hammer!

[OttawaFreeper]

You can talk about how scary movies like “The Exorcist” or “Carrie” or “Halloween” or even “The Changeling” are. But I can remember the “Happy Days” episode “Haunted”, featuring the old Simpson house. Even on into my teens (after seeing it numerous times) I found it just that bit difficult to go to bed afterwards as it still scared me a little.

[Snickering Hound]

‘Fright Night’ (the 80’s original, not the lousy recent remake) and ‘Salems Lot’ with David Soul.

That rocking chair scene in ‘Salems Lot’ is still gold.

[OttawaFreeper]

I have the Dan Curtis DVD box set with his version of Dracula as well as “The Turn of the Screw” and “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde” (done in 1968 on videotape). All very well done productions. Has anyone here seen the Dan Curtis production of “Frankenstein”? I would like to see that one sometime.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I remember a “Happy Days” episode where the whole gang was going to a costume party.

Joannie Cunningham comes down the stairs of the Cunningham household dressed like a sexy pirate. She’s waving a sword around and says, “I’m looking for a treasure trunk, but I’d settle for a pirate hunk!” More innocent times.....

[real saxophonist]

In college, four of us went as ‘The Young Ones’. I was VyVyan. Wish I had a picture.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Halloween is nothing but an end of the season fun fest where kids dress up in costumes, people carve pumpkins and set out bales of hay in their front yards.

Any attempt to portray it more than that is pathological...........

I wasn't trying to make that point (in fact, I believe "halloween" is forbidden as chuqqat hagoyim); I was merely reliving some childhood memories.

Hope you aren't too disappointed.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I still have all my old copies of Famous Monsters of Filmland.

I'm so jealous!

[Zionist Conspirator]

I have the Dan Curtis DVD box set with his version of Dracula as well as “The Turn of the Screw” and “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde” (done in 1968 on videotape).

I remember that show vividly! Jack Palance played the title role(s); it was my introduction to him.

[OttawaFreeper]

I have the 1953 “House of Wax” on DVD. I know that it was originally released in 3-D and I would not mind seeing it in that original way sometime. Has anyone here seen it that way?

[miss marmelstein]

Did everyone miss the post from Jim??

[Zionist Conspirator]

In college, four of us went as ‘The Young Ones’. I was VyVyan. Wish I had a picture.

I've never really celebrated "halloween" even as a kid, and I think you misunderstood my nostalgia. But I must say I've never heard of 'The Young Ones.'

[SoCal Pubbie]

I never had that many mind you!

[OttawaFreeper]

It was Palance both in the 1973 version of Dracula and the 1968 Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. That version of Dracula is a very well done movie (particularly Palance’s performance) but seemingly very underrated as well.

[Sans-Culotte]

I love the Universal horror films of the 30’s and 40’s as well as Hammer’s 60’s versions. I also fondly remember Forrest Ackerman’s Famous Monsters magazine.