As Halloween Night winds down, I leave you with a tale of a Halloween night at the home of a family who treat every day as if it's Halloween. They're the Addams Family, and the episode is Halloween, Addams Style.
I hope you've enjoyed C2's Halloween Liberty Pubs and After-Pubs, and thank you for watching and posting!
Tomorrow is Halloween! C2 has been celebrating all this week, by introducing after-pub posts with a fun, scary Halloween classic!
And now, let's turn to some classical music by Modest Mussorgsky and Franz Schubert. What does this have to do with Halloween? Very little, unless you turn to Disney's original 1940 film Fantasia, which combined Ave Maria and Night on Bald Mountain in a piece title after the latter work.
It begins with the demon Chernabog, who summons restless souls from their graves on Walpurgis night...
Tomorrow is Halloween! C2 has been celebrating all this week, by introducing liberty pub posts with a fun, scary Halloween classic!
This video is a black-and-white student film from 1982, based on an original poem by the student. Since the poem mentioned Vincent Price, and the student was working for Disney at the time, some connections and arrangements were made to get Vincent Price himself to do the narration.
Whatever happened to that film student? He's doing quite well - his name is Tim Burton. The film is called Vincent.
Tomorrow is Halloween! C2 has been celebrating all this week, by introducing liberty pub posts with a fun, scary Halloween classic!
Besides being the night before Halloween, it's also the 71st anniversary of the classic 1938 Mercury Theatre on the Air presentation of War of the Worlds that caused panic among thousands of Americans.
Since we're presenting scary and fun Halloween classics, here's the full original radio broadcast, as it was heard on October 30, 1938. Being a radio broadcast, the video track consists of just stationary pictures, so start this up in another browser tab or window (so you can hear it while posting and reloading without interruption), and get a feel for what it must've been like 71 years ago today.
This coming Saturday is Halloween! C2 is celebrating all this week, by introducing liberty pub posts with a fun, scary Halloween classic!
Tonight's feature, released in 1953, is the first film ever to be rated X in Great Britain, yet it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in the US. I give you Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart.
Tonight's ingredients for horror and fun: A nightmarish traveling carnival, the offer to live out your secret fantasies, and two innocent 13-year-old boys. From the combined efforts of Walt Disney Studios and Ray Bradbury, I give you Something Wicked This Way Comes.
This coming Saturday is Halloween! C2 is celebrating all this week, by introducing after-pub posts with a fun, scary Halloween classic!
Every year, the Simpsons do a special Halloween episode known as the “Treehouse of Horror”. Most are classics, but one of the best is Treehouse of Horror V, where they parodied The Shining, Crime and Punishment and Soylent Green.
This coming Saturday is Halloween! C2 is celebrating all this week, by introducing liberty pub posts with a fun, scary Halloween classic!
Back in 1976, ABC thought it would be a good idea to produce and broadcast The Paul Lynde Halloween Special. It's scary, but in a far different way than most of these other Halloween videos.
The video features Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch of the West from the classic 1939 Wizard of Oz film), "Witchiepoo" (Billie Hayes), Tim Conway, Roz Kelly (Best known as "Pinky" Tuscadero on Happy Days), Florence Henderson, Billy Barty, Betty White, Donny & Marie Osmond and KISS.
Below it's shown as the full special, but it's one of those programs that you can jump around, and it still remains just as coherent.
