"Spooky Season"

[yourfriendclaire]

When did the term "spooky season" emerge? I feel like I'd never heard it before in my life, and now it's the only way we're describing October?

Anyway, spooky thread:

- H'ween costumes—you dressing up this year to sit in your house?
- Scary movie tips—I want to watch some (non-rapey, non-gory) scares this year!

[meadows]

It must have been in the last few years, right? And it must be the internet?

I'm not dressing up this year... it would probably feel great, but it sounds hard/I don't have much extra energy. A costume I've been meaning to do for years is the Childlike Empress from The Neverending Story! She's so sad... it would be appropriate for 2020.

I also want scary movie tips!

[marijke]

Things are getting spooky over here.



We're going to hand paint some skeleton suits (I have a lot of leftover "discharge paste" from scarf making years ago), put some Clara Rockmore on the record player and sit on the porch with candles and beverages. I thought about setting up the projector in the yard for a movie, weather depending, but I'm not into scary movies!

[alexshred420]

I've never heard "Spooky Season" before!

I do love dressing up though.

My costumes for the last decade or so:
2010 - Bono
2011 - ???
2012 - Sexy Banksy
2013 - Sexy Mark Zuckerberg
2014 - "Raver"
2015 - Sexy Scully
2016 - Sexy Shrek
2017 - Sexy Baby
2018 - Sexy Shrimp
2019 - Sexy Riker

Might just sit around the house naked with the Shrek mask on this year

[yourfriendclaire]

Wow Sexy Shrimp, I missed that one!

[meadows]

Your costume history is really incredible. Most of those years I've had the pleasure of running into you at a party and being dazzled by the splendor of a Mahan in fishnets and whatever else. Sexy baby is absolutely the most upsetting!!!

[yourfriendclaire]

I was sexy Freddy Krueger once

[alexshred420]

I wanna see Sexy Freddy!

[m o l l y]

I remember sexy Freddy (I think)! I am rarely sexy and remember no costumes.

[RCH]

I'm pretty sure "Spooky Season" is an AAVE phrase, like most pop culture!

My blessed friends. I spend many hours watching scary movies year round and I feel an actual duty to sharesome good, non-disturbing-in-a-bad-way recs.

What do We think about the Ghoulies franchise? The monsters are gross but also super cute, you might like it. I would start with GHOULIES II, which takes place in a carnival!

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

[RCH]

PHANTASM is a superb October classic. It has a mysterious Tall Man, a suspicious mortuary, trees blowing in the wind, and a leather jacket guy and his kid brother. I think it is visually beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQFn0e5d00Q

[yourfriendclaire]

Thank you Bocko!

Phantasm is definitely on my list.

I've missed most of the big 'Ween scaries: in the year of our lord 2020, I've still never seen The Exorcist, Omen, Poltergeist, or Halloween. Except we watched Poltergeist last night and I was pleasantly surprised. It wasn't a scary movie (to me) as much as a movie ABOUT something scary?

Any Freddy-heads on the board? The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise remains my favorite horror pleasure.

[alexshred420]

This looks absolutely atrocious but I want to watch it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by-KVHh1srw

[alexshred420]

It took me years to watch The Exorcist and when I finally did I was totally underwhelmed and not scared, not sure why? Maybe cause I find priests ridiculous?

I've never watched Freddy cause one time as a kid (11 or so?) I peeped at one and I was VERY scared.

[RCH]

I think my friends might like THE BOY (2016)!

It is a good old haunted doll movie about a child's nursemaid who is hired to live full-time in a mansion and look after... a porcelain doll who is treated as a live child by the family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGbB9UQ6r1g

Spooky, not too visceral or real, scary but not aggressively so,

THE CONJURING (2013)!

This is a good old haunted house movie (a la Amityville Horror, the grande dame of the found footage genre), updated with great actors and a contemporary style of tension. If you like Vera Farmiga's sophisticated drama chops, you will be most rewarded. Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man" is in the soundtrack, and I have been thinking about Donovan today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k10ETZ41q5o

(For those with stronger stomachs and deviant curiosities...)

TOURIST TRAP (1979)

This movie is super special IMO. The story is a horror classic... a car full of coeds gets lost in the boonies on their way to spring break. Themes include: old-timey tourist traps, mannequins, stunt casting (Chuck Connors, former 50's-cowboy-star-turned-yesterday's-paper, delivers a truly beautiful and transcendent performance), dolls that move of their own volition, groups of nervous people splitting up when they shouldn't (that's the TCSM influence), and telekenesis. ([mention]alexshred420[/mention] please please you and Sash have to watch this and report back.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDpxEdIxxg4

[alexshred420]

I want to watch Phantasm tonight! It looks very good.

The Conjuring was way scarier than it really had any right to be, tbh. I thought it was going to be cheesy but I was legit freaked out during some scenes.

[HarryPrade]

Lots of happy positive energy is comin Im doin my Sarah Palin imitation as I write this, ya know your way, spooky Im sure everything will go well and look forward to hearing from you really soon.

An English-dubbed Dutch horror film about Sinterklaas being a serial killer.

[yourfriendclaire]

Hi Harry Prade! You must be Cheryl Weems’ friend

[m o l l y]

Now this is more what I'd expect from a spammer. I like that the last line made a call back.