Spooky Survey Night!
I think we’re long overdue for a survey, huh? I’m gonna go ahead and drop it on a dead Wednesday night, and just hope for the best. Hoping it pulls some of you lurkers out of the woodwork. You know who you are!
Picture it. Halloween, 2019. Or really the Saturday before, because it falls on a Thursday this year, and that blows.
You’re SICK. Not too sick to eat, not too sick to watch a movie, but definitely too sick to go anywhere, and too sick to sit on a computer all night.
Basically, you’re in your bed or on your couch, and that’s how you’re gonna spend Halloween.
Name ONE movie, ONE dinner, ONE candy, and ONE surprise element to make this terrible Halloween feel a little less terrible.
Make the most of this wretched imaginary Halloween. The “surprise element” can be whatever you want.
Here are my own answers:
MOVIE: I want something interesting, but also something I haven’t seen ten trillion times. I’d also like to avoid anything too gross, because I’m sick and stuffing my face while watching this. Let’s go with Sleepy Hollow.
DINNER: Oh wait, I’m sick AND it’s Halloween? That means all bets are off. Pizza it is. And not “chain” pizza, either. I mean the place around the corner — the one with the red-and-white checkered tablecloths. They make great pizza. Let’s put pepperoni and black olives on that shit, too.
CANDY: My brain says “pick something chocolate,” but if I’m sick, I think I’d want something sweet. Like the Halloween version of a cough drop. Let’s go with Starburst. An endless supply of Starburst.
SURPRISE ELEMENT: Reading isn’t much fun when you’re sick, but I think I’ll risk it. Get me one of those Time-Life Enchanted World books from the old Vincent Price commercials. Perfect for Halloween!
YOUR TURN! Let’s hear from you in the comments. Don’t be afraid. Nobody here bites. (That’s probably untrue, but they don’t bite here, at least.)
Spookies! (Again!)
Since it came up on the podcast we dropped today, I thought I’d seize the opportunity to gush about SPOOKIES.
I’ve run this one before, but it’s so worth an extra dip. Spookies was released in 1986, and it’s just the freakin’ best. Monsters everywhere. The film is famously flawed in a hundred ways, but it’s like one of those Halloween “background videos” that just happens to be an actual movie.
If you’ve been having trouble getting into the Halloween spirit, please watch this movie. It has everything.
Scary Reebok Commercial!
This is a short video, but whatever, it’s cool, and it’s not like you have a surplus of time on a Monday night:
Suggested by Sebastian N., I’ll just use the title presented by the YouTube uploader: “Reebok Murder Commercial!”
Sebastian adds: “I don’t specifically remember this Reebok chainsaw murder TV commercial from my childhood, but I did have a pair of these exact shoes. I’m sure commercials similar to this inspired me to beg my parents for them. Of course, the expected social currency I hoped to earn at school failed to materialize. As a chubby kid, the common question from my peers/bullies was why I needed such shoes in the first place since I was so un-athletic.”
I’m shocked that I’ve never seen this one floating around. I’m guessing most of you haven’t, either, since it has like 13 views. I actually watched it a few times to make sure it wasn’t a fake commercial, but it looks pretty legit. I’m a big sucker for companies “borrowing” slashers for ad campaigns, and here we have Almost Leatherface chasing a bunch of kids around the woods. The video has iffy quality, but this was so worth sharing.
The Devil’s Gift!
I found this one hiding on YouTube, and though I’d never heard of the film, the video’s description was an immediate grabber: “Toy monkey terrorizes family.”
Get set for The Devil’s Gift, from 1984. According to Wikipedia, the plot is thought to have been aped (Ha!) from Stephen King’s short story, The Monkey.
I have no idea if it’s any good, but it seemed like a nice spooky movie for a lazy Sunday night. Enjoy the whole thing, or skip around to the good parts!