Halloween Movies!!
My family and I have been watching our usual slew of “Halloween” movies this week. We have a variety of these on DVD/VHS, most of which I have literally watched every single year of my life since I was like 4. My dad taped them off TV back in the mid-80’s and they’ve been a part of our Halloween tradition ever since!
Most of them are Disney - Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman, all the old Halloween Donald Duck cartoons, etc. And then there’s this one really cool special that was only on one year, in like ‘87 or something, and it’s a mix of all these clips from the old Disney cartoons and animated movies spliced together with rock and roll “Halloween-themed” music, like “Bad Moon Rising” by CCR, “The Monster Mash,” etc. It’s WAY cool and we love it to death.
And then there’s “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” and an old Halloween Garfield cartoon.
And of course all the classic full-length movies like “Arsenic and Old Lace” with Cary Grant, “Blackbeard’s Ghost” with Peter Ustinov and Dean Jones, and “The Ghost and Mr Chicken” with Don Knotts.
And it goes without saying that none of the above can be properly watched without a mug of hot spiced cider and plenty of roasted pumpkin seeds, popcorn, and candy corn to go around!
~sigh~ I love fall…..