Season of Shadows Blog

I came across this great Halloween jack-o-lantern photo on a fellow Albuquerque blogger’s site. He apparently found it here, with the caption: 30,128 lit pumpkins in Boston Common. The photo was taken in 2006. And, I thought I was going to have my hands full carving eight to ten pumpkins this year. Imagine carving more than thirty thousand! Now, that would make an awesome Halloween Haunter’s Reality video!

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For today’s entry, I’m once again reaching into my bag of nostalgic memories from Halloween past. It was Halloween 1985, and I had just returned to my grandparents’ house with my loot for the night. On the dining room table sat a plastic VHS cassette case from the local video store. My dad had rented the tape and dropped it off for me. I popped it open and inside found the words CreepShow scrawled across the label in spooky font. At the time, I wasn’t aware of the film, but apparently my dad thought it looked like something I’d enjoy.

Looking back, however, I’m not sure what I liked more, the creepy movie, or my grandfather’s sarcastically, dirty analysis of each and every story in the film! Imagine Mystery Science Theater with Red Foxx guest starring! Let’s just say the majority of entertainment that Halloween night may not have been completely age appropriate for me (I was ten), but I loved it!

CreepShow, by Stephen King and George Romero, was my first experience with campy, “cool” horror- probably an inspirational film to a young Rob Zombie as well. It provided my initial introduction to onscreen zombie action and I was hooked. From that point forward, Halloween, undead corpses and Red Foxx all had a strange tie in with one another! Just kidding, but CreepShow definitely awoke my inner-zombie, and it’s yet to be re-buried.

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