Halloween should be a fun time

We are over three weeks into the month of October now and finally the temperature feels more like fall. The warm weather stayed with us too long.

When we look around we see that the leaves have displayed their bright colors and many have already fallen from the trees on our roof tops and in our yards.

Next Tuesday many people will be celebrating the much looked forward to day of “Halloween,” especially our younger folks. This time of the year is perfect for late nights, thrills and scares.

Some of you probably remember Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic “Psycho,” which was an original that was one of the best of horrors.

Also Tobe Hooper’s 1974 film “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” whose title alone could keep many people from even watching it, was actually very low on gore, relying more on the effective method of suspense and letting your mind imagine what was actually taking place.

One of the scariest scenes in the film was a frame of the isolated farm house the killer family lived in which was powered by a generator. That sound alone echoed off of a desolate country back road, was very scary and did not include an ounce of blood or gore.

Like any movie that was filled with horror the vintage vampire and werewolf movies could be enjoyable for most people. Another fiction movie that some of you remember is the “Creature from the Black Lagoon.” It was a movie that was filmed in black and white.

Many of you will remember the ending of the Vincent Price classic, “The Fly” which can stay with you for days after seeing it for the first time.

Then there are the two classic horror movies “Friday the 13th” with its multitude of sequels as well as older movies starring Bela Lugosi and the ones directed by Hitchcock and Carpenter.

Some titles like the newer “Saw” movies are too gory to be shown on television but they do feature known actors such as Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter and Donnie Wahlberg of New Kids on the Block fame.

Similar to the “Scream” movies made by “Nightmare on Elm Street” creator Wes Cravey’s “Saw” helped to rekindle new interest in horror in the 2000’s just as “Scream” did in the 1990’s.

Regardless of your taste in movies when it comes to being scared and how graphic you like your films, October is the perfect month for it.

May you all have a wonderful “Halloween” and be sure to see that the young children in your family really enjoy the day as well. Let them visit your neighbors during the day and hopefully your neighbors will be ready for their visit.

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