Purple Stuff: Halloween Movie Review!
I saw the new Halloween movie on Thursday night, with Jay from The Sexy Armpit. We hadn’t planned on doing a podcast about it, but why not?
We spent an hour aimlessly running through the stuff we loved, the stuff we liked and the stuff we were maybe not totally sure about, but the non-spoiler summary is that we both really dug it.
Warning: This episode is LOADED with spoilers. We didn’t even go through the motions of avoiding them. If you haven’t seen the movie, please don’t listen to this show until you have!
But if you have seen the film and wanna compare notes…
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The more I think about it, the more I realize how hard it must be to “pull off” a movie like this, where so many people have so many opinions about what it “should” be. With that in mind, they did a great job of delivering on what a Halloween film “needs” to be, while still executing a fresh story that we hadn’t seen before.
The film had a LOT to live up to — so much buzz, so much hype. All in, I’d say that it delivered. It “felt” like a Halloween movie, if that makes sense. I’ll definitely be seeing it in theaters again, hopefully with an audience that’s a little less obsessed with their phones. Thumbs up to all involved — this couldn’t have been a cakewalk.
PS: I’ve been mostly-absent from the site as of late, as I’m sure you’ve noticed. Yes, it’s been that kind of month. I wish “that kind of month” didn’t also happen to be October, but, yeah. There’s still over a week left before October 31st, so I’ll do my best to make the Countdown’s finale stronger than its middle.
Dino Drac’s Halloween 2018 Funpack!
I’m finally ready to unveil Dino Drac’s 2018 Halloween Funpack! Sadly, there’s a catch!
UNITED STATES ONLY!
This one is already sold out! At least, it will be by the time most of you see this! (Sorry, but I warned ya… the best way to guarantee yourself a Halloween Funpack was to make sure you subscribed to a previous one!)
If you’re already on the list, I think you’re gonna be happy about that. The 2018 Halloween Funpack is an international affair, with spooky collectibles from all across the globe!
There are 10+ items in every box, from toys to snacks to trading cards. If you’re hoping to get one of the last boxes available, scroll to the bottom to see if any are left. Otherwise, keep reading to learn about everything you’ll receive in this month’s Funpack — it’s a Halloween party in a box! Read More…
Horror Toys from Old Cereal Boxes!
I’ll be honest: I wrote the rest of this article first, and saved the intro for last. Then I forgot to write it. Now I’m five minutes away from my arbitrary publishing deadline, and I have no intro. Words. Aalsalslals. Aososdoso. There, now this looks like a paragraph.
Below: Three cereals from three decades that each came with a horror-themed freebie. I like my article themes to be abstruse.
Boglins Mask!
Kellogg’s Rice Krispies (1988)
I’m generally not fond of “cutout” premiums, but if you don’t think that I’d make an exception for Boglins masks, you don’t know me at all.
This was just one of three different Boglins-themed giveaways from Kellogg’s — an amazing volume for such a modest toy line. Previous prizes included Boglins stampers (complete with ink pads) and sheets of like 60000 Boglins character stamps.
It’s too bad that they couldn’t figure out a way to tie these masks in with stamps, just so I could spend the rest of my life wondering what the fuck was going on with Kellogg’s, Boglins and stamps. Even 2 out of 3 warrants sleepless nights.
Anyway, I’m always down to ruin collectibles if it gets me a few easy paragraphs, so yeah, I cut out the mask. Below are the results:
(Note: To pick up the slack for all of the jerks who go #nofilter, I used every filter.)
That the mask didn’t fit me was no surprise, but I have a hard time believing that it’d even fit over a typical eight-year-old’s face. What’s bigger than a grapefruit but smaller than a cantaloupe? Whatever it is, this mask is that big.
It’s almost exactly as wide as one of the actual puppets. Like, to the point where it could stand in for one during some tropey sitcom segment between a complaining Boglin and his “good friend” who is totally there listening and not at all watching a Boglins baseball game back home.
There were three masks available, each representing a different Boglin. I got Vlobb, who according to the box was the smartest Boglin. I bet that’s why his brow looks like pages. Read More…
Classic Creepy Commercials, Volume 21!
I’m halfway back from an unexpected break, because October likes to hand me more tricks than treats. Here’s the latest edition of Classic Creepy Commercials.
Garfield’s Halloween Adventure! (1998)
This CBS promo from 1998 celebrated the first airing of Garfield’s Halloween Adventure in NINE years, which means that the special was completely absent throughout most of the 1990s. (It premiered in October of ‘85 and ran consistently through ‘89.)
I knew that the special ceased its annual airings prematurely, but I didn’t remember it being that severe.
Weirder still, Garfield and Friends (the Saturday morning cartoon) was in production until 1994, and still on air until late ‘95! It’s hard to argue that this was a simple matter of Garfield losing his shine. Maybe the special was locked away over some annoying rights issue?
From what I can tell, Garfield’s Halloween Adventure aired in ‘98 and then again in ‘99, and then had a couple of shots in the early 2000s. (And maybe a few more if you count oddball airings on cable networks. I don’t.)
I still think there’s money in a network running a “retro special night” during the Halloween season, with Charlie Brown and Garfield leading the charge. ABC already has the rights to It’s The Great Pumpkin, so imagine if they grabbed Garfield and then had the cast of The Goldbergs do the bumpers. SO good! Read More…