The Halloween Thread

[Typhon]

[AnnoMundi]

I first encountered Peter Cushing in the Hammer House films, superb actor. He and Christopher Lee both turned down the role of Dr. Loomis, Donald Pleasence another superb English actor took up the role, to which later Christopher Lee regretted.

[discman69]

Last night watched The Exorcist. This movie IMO still holds a punch. One of the best horror films of all time.

[Typhon]

Last night watched The Exorcist. This movie IMO still holds a punch. One of the best horror films of all time.

I was a teenager in 1973 when this film was released, and I remember the huge headlines it made because of the "gore and horror" it brought to the screen.   In fact, people were warned that the film may be too upsetting for some adults.  Times were different then.

[Typhon]

[Typhon]

(1958) The second in the Frankenstein series of films from Hammer.  It maintains the high quality of the first film.  Cushing fits this character so well that sometimes when I see a picture of him, I think he is Victor Frankenstein. 7.5/10

[Typhon]

[Typhon]

(1972) From Amicus Studios (Hammer's biggest rival) comes a fine little film about a doctor who visits an asylum for the insane, to apply for the job as headmaster.  However, the previous headmaster is himself now a patient, and the doctor must talk with each to determine who he is.  Each talk is a flashback of a short story showing how and why the patient is there.  This is a typical style of an Amicus film.  Having 3 or 4 short stories within one movie.  Some generally good scares. 8/10

[Zzzptm]

"Only pop music can save us now!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPrwTsjwOxE

[discman69]

Pretty sure I am going to see the new Halloween movie tonight

[AnnoMundi]

Pretty sure I am going to see the new Halloween movie tonight

I’m going to watch it as well, maybe not this weekend though, I’ll wait for the crowds to die down.

[Typhon]

[Zzzptm]

When I was a teacher, this would happen every late October...

STUDENT: Hey Mister, you got any Halloween music?

ME: Sure. Just a sec.

Student expects "The Monster Mash" or some other novelty song, or cheesy sound effects...

I, however, open with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHOWKavdGRA

I rise from my chair, stare at the student. My face is expressionless. I point at the student with my right hand and make odd gestures in time with the bass chords with my left hand.

STUDENT: The fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...? Mister, you're really trippin'.

The student laughs, but the laughter becomes more nervous as I continue to gesture and stare. Then this track plays next:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvyhxY54M3I

STUDENT: Holy crap, that's really freaking me out, Mister.

STUDENT #2: I am literally scared about what happens next.

STUDENT #3: Is this what Hell sounds like?

STUDENT #4: (To Student) Oh my God, you know he's insane! *WHY* did you ask him to play Halloween music?

STUDENT: Jeez, I'm sorry! Please stop, Mister!

I keep staring at Student, but sit in my chair and fade out the volume on the Buddhist monks' throat singing... the room has a nervous silence about it...

ME: There are two things you fear most. Yourself, and the unknown. I will always have access to the unknown, do you understand?

STUDENT: Um... yeah?

ME: Then let that knowledge guide your judgment. Will you ever choose me as an enemy?

STUDENT: Good God, no.

ME: Remain faithful to your oath, or the unknown will destroy you.

I then play this song, at low volume, for its full duration and teach Economics over it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzyOi5XRu_g

And any time a student isn't paying attention, I become silent, expressionless, and point my right index finger at that student while I gesture in the air with my left hand. It's a total trip and, eventually, we laugh together...

... until I start that throat singing stuff up again as the class makes ready to leave. More than one student has a panicked expression.

[Charger]

Man...you sound a bit like my old religion teacher...he was a metal head too but he also had his stranger side in music!

[Zzzptm]

Man...you sound a bit like my old religion teacher...he was a metal head too but he also had his stranger side in music!

Oh yeah, I got esoteric covered.

If I need music for little kids, I'll go with the cheery little novelty tunes and cheesy sound effects. If I did something like play "Voodoo" or "Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh" at full volume as I handed out candy, I'd terrify the little ones beyond their ability to withstand.

Teenagers, however, are ready to be terrified. That's why we teach them economics and government.