Ok I have been waiting a month to do this post, and I feel like 13 days before Halloween is as good a day as any. Now, obviously I love Love Actually and Home Alone and movies related to other holidays, but I was thinking about all of the movies involving Halloween that I love and the list just goes ON and ON. These are just the four I would pick if I were really forced to choose.
BEETLEJUICE (1988)
Beetlejuice came out before I was even born but that doesn't matter because I saw it for the first time on cable tv around the age of 6 or 7 and it totally scared the shit out of me. Even whilst searching for screencaps I was reminded of how terrifying those monsters in the sand dunes were, or how terrifying the waiting room in the other world is, or how terrifying Beetlejuice played by Michael Keaton is (no surprise that Keaton as Jack Frost also kind of freaked me out).
HOCUS POCUS (1993)
I first saw Hocus Pocus on a field trip in elementary school when we were going to Gettysburg or Harrisburg or New York or somewhere on a coach bus. The best thing about coach buses back then was when it rained and you could watch the rain roll down the window while simultaneously watching an awesome movie like Hocus Pocus and the atmosphere of it all just makes me want to return to that time.
Omri Katz is the guy who played Max and I really want to resist google-imaging him because I just have a feeling that it is not going to turn out well. Besides, Binx the cat was really my cup of tea anyways...I suppose teenage boys who once wore billowy white tops but who are now in altered states of being are the way I swing. See Casper below.
Didn't you love it when SJP sang that creepy song and her cleavage was out of control? I truly believe this was her best role and not Carrie or that girl from Square Pegs.
CASPER (1995)
I remember one of the first Christmas presents from my parents when I moved to the states was a puffy VHS of Casper. My mom had wrapped it and put it under the Christmas tree, but when I asked her what it was she told me it was a book for my dad. On Christmas day my dad unwrapped it and feigned surprise, saying "Santa must've switched it!" Of course I was delighted, but it was also the first and only year that my parents would play the Santa card. For better or worse, it just never worked again.
Right around graduating from college I started thinking about Casper all the time and decided I had to watch it again over the summer. That still hasn't happened yet, but it hasn't prevented me from trolling youtube and watching that magical last scene with boy-Casper (Devon Sawa) and Christina Ricci slow dance as he whispers, "Can I keep you?" in her ear. Also, the secret basement chamber room is AMAZING. A+ on the set design.
THE CRAFT (1996)
My love for The Craft did not reach fever-pitch until this past year when I re-watched it and a flood of 90s nostalgia hit me like a bullet train. Seriously, not a minute would go by when I didn't squeal with delight and blurt out "mini backpacks!" or "those round sunglasses!" or "those ankle boots!" or "that maxi dress!" If you don't want to be annoyed you probably shouldn't watch The Craft with me.
(all screencaps were found on the internet and do not belong to me)
It's actually not surprising that the movies that seemed to matter the most all came from the first half of my life, back when things were magical! Life was an adventure! JK, I was never that kind of kid, but I guess Halloween really isn't the same as it once was.
Others on my list: Twin Peaks, most X-Files episodes, most Twilight Zone episodes, the Twilight saga (duh), Roald Dahl's The Witches, the Scream trilogy, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? and other movies of the psycho-biddy genre (yes that is a real thing, also known as hagsploitation), The Shining (I love you Shelley Duvall, may you RIP), the random episodes of The Addams Family that were always on tv, Edward Scissorhands (another winner for Winona), Ghostbusters (Bill Murray, the one true shared love between my mother and I), Audition (kiri kiri kiri), The Host (highly entertaining and 100% worth seeing), and of course, Are You Afraid of the Dark? I am still waiting to see Sorority Row after an unhealthy obsession with the movie's trailer. OHHH and Goosebumps #24: Phantom of the Auditorium, mostly because in my elementary school girl days I had a mega-crush on said phantom, in between obsessing over Edgar Allan Poe's short stories. Let's also not forgot that I went through a serious Stephen King phase when I got to middle school and basically read everything that he ever wrote.
So basically this post sums up everything you need to know about me and my tastes as a person. You see why Halloween is the best? I think I have enough here to re-write that song from Sound of Music.
BEETLEJUICE (1988)
Beetlejuice came out before I was even born but that doesn't matter because I saw it for the first time on cable tv around the age of 6 or 7 and it totally scared the shit out of me. Even whilst searching for screencaps I was reminded of how terrifying those monsters in the sand dunes were, or how terrifying the waiting room in the other world is, or how terrifying Beetlejuice played by Michael Keaton is (no surprise that Keaton as Jack Frost also kind of freaked me out).
HOCUS POCUS (1993)
I first saw Hocus Pocus on a field trip in elementary school when we were going to Gettysburg or Harrisburg or New York or somewhere on a coach bus. The best thing about coach buses back then was when it rained and you could watch the rain roll down the window while simultaneously watching an awesome movie like Hocus Pocus and the atmosphere of it all just makes me want to return to that time.
Omri Katz is the guy who played Max and I really want to resist google-imaging him because I just have a feeling that it is not going to turn out well. Besides, Binx the cat was really my cup of tea anyways...I suppose teenage boys who once wore billowy white tops but who are now in altered states of being are the way I swing. See Casper below.
CASPER (1995)
I remember one of the first Christmas presents from my parents when I moved to the states was a puffy VHS of Casper. My mom had wrapped it and put it under the Christmas tree, but when I asked her what it was she told me it was a book for my dad. On Christmas day my dad unwrapped it and feigned surprise, saying "Santa must've switched it!" Of course I was delighted, but it was also the first and only year that my parents would play the Santa card. For better or worse, it just never worked again.
Right around graduating from college I started thinking about Casper all the time and decided I had to watch it again over the summer. That still hasn't happened yet, but it hasn't prevented me from trolling youtube and watching that magical last scene with boy-Casper (Devon Sawa) and Christina Ricci slow dance as he whispers, "Can I keep you?" in her ear. Also, the secret basement chamber room is AMAZING. A+ on the set design.
THE CRAFT (1996)
My love for The Craft did not reach fever-pitch until this past year when I re-watched it and a flood of 90s nostalgia hit me like a bullet train. Seriously, not a minute would go by when I didn't squeal with delight and blurt out "mini backpacks!" or "those round sunglasses!" or "those ankle boots!" or "that maxi dress!" If you don't want to be annoyed you probably shouldn't watch The Craft with me.
It's actually not surprising that the movies that seemed to matter the most all came from the first half of my life, back when things were magical! Life was an adventure! JK, I was never that kind of kid, but I guess Halloween really isn't the same as it once was.
Others on my list: Twin Peaks, most X-Files episodes, most Twilight Zone episodes, the Twilight saga (duh), Roald Dahl's The Witches, the Scream trilogy, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? and other movies of the psycho-biddy genre (yes that is a real thing, also known as hagsploitation), The Shining (I love you Shelley Duvall, may you RIP), the random episodes of The Addams Family that were always on tv, Edward Scissorhands (another winner for Winona), Ghostbusters (Bill Murray, the one true shared love between my mother and I), Audition (kiri kiri kiri), The Host (highly entertaining and 100% worth seeing), and of course, Are You Afraid of the Dark? I am still waiting to see Sorority Row after an unhealthy obsession with the movie's trailer. OHHH and Goosebumps #24: Phantom of the Auditorium, mostly because in my elementary school girl days I had a mega-crush on said phantom, in between obsessing over Edgar Allan Poe's short stories. Let's also not forgot that I went through a serious Stephen King phase when I got to middle school and basically read everything that he ever wrote.
So basically this post sums up everything you need to know about me and my tastes as a person. You see why Halloween is the best? I think I have enough here to re-write that song from Sound of Music.
I love the Craft soooooo much! i was making all these bad quality photos of it last time i watched it! i love the clothes, the sets, everything! did you ever did a close look at rochelle's earrings! perfect!
ReplyDeletei was obsessed with Poe since primary school. when i first read the black cat, i thought it was a true story!
the addams family are the best! always wished they were my family!
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