Another Sightings Halloween Episode!
Remember last week when we ran that Sightings Halloween episode from ’93? Well, Goat Royale actually supplied a second Halloween episode, too!
Enjoy the Halloween ’94 episode of Sightings, which looks to be loaded with ghost stories.
I wouldn’t normally go back to the same well this soon, but it just felt like the right thing to watch tonight.
The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t!
Here’s another pick from our pal Jugendsehnsucht. (And I can’t believe that I didn’t run this one during last year’s Countdown!)
Get a load of The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t, a spooky TV special from 1979. It’s amazingly cheesy and absolutely worth seeing. Really, if you would willingly turn down the chance to see Judd Hirsch as Dracula, I don’t know what you’re doing on Dino Drac.
This isn’t the kind of special you’d build a party around, but it’s good for a lazy watch over a bag of fun-sized Snickers. Sometimes, that’s enough. Most of the time, actually.
Vincent Price’s Creepy Classics!
Here’s a solid slice of background noise suggested by collectionofcreaks. You can’t go wrong with Vincent Price!
Enjoy this encode of Creepy Classics, a collection of old horror clips narrated cheekily by Mr. Price.
From collectionofcreaks: “In 1987, Hallmark had these videos for sale around Halloween. Vincent Price, clips from classic horror… I watched mine until it no longer played.”
Now that I think about it, I’m certain that I own this on VHS, too. It was kinda like the video version of those “spooky sounds” audio cassettes.
In a world that hadn’t yet developed constant access to this sort of media, tapes like this were a ghoulish godsend.
1985 Halloween Safety Film!
Okay, tonight’s pick is pretty famous and was suggested by a whole bunch of people, but it looks like the incomparable Brew Berry sent it in first. Congrats, Brew!
Get a load of Halloween Safety, an educational video from 1985. It’s cheesy and weird but also wholesome and charming, and as Brew Berry said in his email, there’s even a great “floating mask rave” at the beginning.
(Pretty sure this one came up on an ancient episode of the podcast, too!)
