Early Spook-day plans?

[GiveMeGore]

One of all of our favorite days is almost upon us. What's everyone got lined up?
I took Tues off of work. Obviously beer will be a part of the equasion. Alot of it. GMG actually got himself a hot date with a smokeshow of a young lady, I might add....  probably do dinner/drinks and hopefully she'll be down to watch a horror movie or two. I'm watching the original Halloween either way. If she don't wanna join she can kick rocks      

Splatt..... you win the location battle for a good chunk of the year.....but I gotta say, man.... I find it hard to envision Halloween down in Florida when it's still 85 out. Just don't seem right.
The foliage right now is incredible......  it's starting to get chilly, but nothing wrong with sweatshirt and beanie weather right now. Halloween time is awesome here in New England.

[Marshal Earp]

GMG actually got himself a hot date with a freakshow of a young lady

Fixed that for you.


Anyway you're right. This season isn't right in hot climates, it just isn't. When I lived in Cali, this time of year always depressed me. Without that smell in the air, that fall smell, it aint right. In PA though this time of year is rocking. I'm pretty sure PA is the unofficial horror state. There's a dozen high tech haunted houses within a 30 mile radius atm.

My plans really only involve Friday. The local megaplex here is doing an all night horror moviethon. Halloween, Exorcist, NoES, and Friday the 13th. The originals not the remakes. Obviously I'll be sneaking in some booze, since I'm a borderline alcoholic and all.

As for the actual day, tuesday I guess it is,  I think ima watch Trick R Treat followed by whatever is on AMC with lots of cheap beer. I like cheap beer, I'm not ashamed to admit it.

I'm too old to go out for a party or something like that.

[GeneralCinema]

I'm working.  Halloween sucks.  Every year that I've worked on Halloween, it's been a bad day.  Fortunately, I'm off during the week and Halloween falls on my Friday.  Three days off isn't a bad trade-off for working a suck day.

[GiveMeGore]

GMG actually got himself a hot date with a freakshow of a young lady

Fixed that for you.

Anyway you're right. This season isn't right in hot climates, it just isn't. When I lived in Cali, this time of year always depressed me. Without that smell in the air, that fall smell, it aint right. In PA though this time of year is rocking. I'm pretty sure PA is the unofficial horror state. There's a dozen high tech haunted houses within a 30 mile radius atm.

My plans really only involve Friday. The local megaplex here is doing an all night horror moviethon. Halloween, Exorcist, NoES, and Friday the 13th. The originals not the remakes. Obviously I'll be sneaking in some booze, since I'm a borderline alcoholic and all.

As for the actual day, tuesday I guess it is,  I think ima watch Trick R Treat followed by whatever is on AMC with lots of cheap beer. I like cheap beer, I'm not ashamed to admit it.

Hopefully you're right.....   she's already a 24 yr old blond bombshell with a beautiful face....if she's a freak ONTOP of that.....   shit, might have to go ring shopping next week.

That's freaking sweet that you have a theater doing that this week. I never understood why theaters don't do that. There's one near me that plays the Rocky Horror Picture show like 2 times a month. You know how cheap and profitable a horror night would be, showing stuff like Friday the 13th and the Exorcist?

[Splatterscribe]

 

Splatt..... you win the location battle for a good chunk of the year.....but I gotta say, man.... I find it hard to envision Halloween down in Florida when it's still 85 out. Just don't seem right.
The foliage right now is incredible......  it's starting to get chilly, but nothing wrong with sweatshirt and beanie weather right now. Halloween time is awesome here in New England.

Actually for the last week or two its been in the upper sixties at night..very nice and the skies have been surprisingly clear, considering we just had a hurricane below us. That may change Monday night, but I'm working All Hallows as of 11pm anyway, so who gives a crap, right?
My early plans are Friday based as well- heading over to my friend John's house to engage in the annual viewing of the 1978 Halloween. He's an old friend from my high school days who I reconnected with late last year and this is the first time we've actually watched Halloween together (despite both being life long horror fans - in fact, it was our mutual love of the genre that began our friendship in the first place). That actually promises to be quite a bit of fun.

On the subject of theaters showing all night horror movie marathons on Halloween.. I have to agree with you completely GMG. A decade or so back the Trail Drive In (which is still in full operation to this day) down the street from where I currently live had a Halloween night when they managed to screen original prints (ie actual celluloid reels, not that DVD projector thing)  of the classic Universal black and white horror films.. it was something else seeing Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, Dracula and The Wolf Man as part of  the same bill in glorious black and white on the silver screen at a freakin' drive in. I wish they'd bring that back.

[GiveMeGore]

On the subject of theaters showing all night horror movie marathons on Halloween.. I have to agree with you completely GMG. A decade or so back the Trail Drive In (which is still in full operation to this day) down the street from where I currently live had a Halloween night when they managed to screen original prints (ie actual celluloid reels, not that DVD projector thing)  of the classic Universal black and white horror films.. it was something else seeing Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, Dracula and The Wolf Man as part of  the same bill in glorious black and white on the silver screen at a freakin' drive in. I wish they'd bring that back.

They were doing something similar to this at a local multiplex.....but it was all really old stuff from the 50s and shit. Double feature actually for 5 bucks. But the films were boring as fuck. Funny at times but still.....    give me Friday the 13th part 5, Halloween 2 (Jamie Lee version), Texas Chainsaw Masacre, etc....     You know, they have no problem playing a simalcast Rolling Stones concert, or Bette Midler "ballards about pussyfarts" on a Thursday evening, but they can't toss in a DVD of Night of the Creeps once and a while? Wackness.

[BadKitty]

They were doing something similar to this at a local multiplex.....but it was all really old stuff from the 50s and shit. Double feature actually for 5 bucks. But the films were boring as fuck. Funny at times but still..... 

I've been DVR-ing the hell out of the Halloween lineups, and I've been thinking exactly the opposite. The vast majority of what is coming out recently is sort of ... eh.  On the other hand, my sister is having a Halloween party tonight and "borrowed" the projector from work to, as she put it, "have monsters walking along on  her walls" during the party.  So she enlisted me to come up with stuff that will project well, be consistently interesting to look at without sound, and not be totally inappropriate for the half-dozen or so kids of various ages who will be wandering through (meaning basically, no sex, significant violence or gore).  This prompted me to review my collection of pre-slasher horror, and I realized I had a TON of really awesome interesting stuff. 

So far, I've given her Caligari and Carnival of Souls (the original - did anyone else see the steaming pile of horsepucky that passed for a remake?), and realized I didn't have Lugosi's Dracula or either of the Karloff Frankensteins on DVD (??!?).  So I also gave her Dr Phibes (which will project AWESOMELY).  She ardently requested the original NotLD, and looked at me like I was nuts when I said I wasn't sure it was appropriate for the kids under about 10 ... it's B&W, right?  Doesn't that eliminate even the possibility of gore?  Um, no, I said, but I realized I just couldn't really explain how deeply gory and wrong and disturbing the film was to someone who had never seen it.  (Yes, I admit a blood tie to someone who has never seen NotLD).  So I told her to save that one for last when the kids will probably be watching monsters Inc or somesuch upstairs.  I also gave her a 3-pack of Little Shop, House on Haunted Hill and Horror Hotel, none of which I think will stay visually interesting consistently enough (I cant remember how frequently the 'skeleton jump" thing is used in House on Haunted Hill) but might do later once everyone is wasted and not paying attention at least. 

I suppose the majority of horror out there is doodoo whenever you are looking.  But with older stuff, you get some benefit of hind-sight to help you edit, and it seems to me more like winning a treasure hunt when you find something you've never heard of that totally rocks.  Still, I feel you if your local cineplex thinks a "classic horror" lineup is best represented by that "aaargh!  I have a pimple! I must be turning into a Monster" stuff from the 50s.  You could try to find (or maybe create, if no one around you is doing it) a live Halloween showing of old silent horror classics.  When I was in NY there were a number of churches that brought in their organists to accompany Nosferatu, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Phantom of the Opera.  Those things probably paid for their Christmas season budgets, because they were justifiably really popular.