0 Days Till...HEY!! It's Halloween!!!

It's here! It's finally here!!

All Hallow's Eve! Night of ghouls and goblins and witches! Candy Night Supreme! Halloween, baby! Whoo!!

And as I promised, I have documented every day till now with at least one halloween-based (or at least creepy or scary) video, picture or such. Didn't think I could do it, didya?

(actually, neither did I.)

But now, here is the grand finale; the culmination of our frightful advent, our creepy countdown, our macabre month....

Ladies and germs, boils and ghouls, may I present to you a video that, while creepy and frightful, is also the basis of many an urban legend, story and such. But in all actuality, it's just a music video for Aphex Twin.

Oh well, "enjoy" Rubber Johnny.



Gee, after all of this, November's gonna be something of a letdown, huh?

Oh well, Happy Halloween, all.

Dope out.

-TGWD

1 Day Till Halloween...

This is it; last day till the big 3-1!

Whoo! Ghouls! Candy! Goblins! Chocolate! Costumes! Treats!

And I step one step closer to the end of our eerie advent calendar posting with the following addition: MORE scary TV production logos! (Man, these things just don;t know a season, do they?)

Make sure and tturn up the volume and turn out the lights. It helps with the...mood.

First we have the classic Rankin-Bass logo, like at the end of "Frosty The Snowman". It's nto so much the logo but the MUSIC that accompanies it. Brrrr....



Next is the old Sid and Marty Krofft logo. This is the old-school one with the digital, gurgling, creeped-out music.



This Desilu logo is one like what appeared at the end of shows like "Star Trek" (the original one). It freaked me out royally, especially when "Trek"'s end credits froze with that huge freaky bluish-green alien head glaring out at you with those unholy, unblinking eyes that stared deep into your soul and froze you solid from the core...Huh? Oh sorry; the logo:



I don't know what it is about this particular MCA-TV logo that creeps me out. It just does.



And to wrap it up, here's a compliation of those creepy Viacom logos.



Now, what could possibly be scarier than all of that? Tune in tomorrow...if you dare!

Dope out.

-TGWD

2 Days Till Halloween...

Well, it's not too long now, so I thought I'd give you a treat by presenting a TV show clip that was in turns monstrous, chiiling and horrifying.

So imagine my delight and surprise when I found a clip that was all three in one, and with the perfect host:

Count Floyd.



Ooh mama - get them Snickers bars ready!

Dope out.

-TGWD

3 Days Till Halloween...

Ever closer...ever so much closer...

Let's kick it old school today, shall we? Some old stuff, which has a scary charm all its own.

A trailer for The Terror, featuring Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson's first major role in a movie...



Gamera Vs. Zigra...



Plan 9 From Outer Space (whee!)...



The Curse of Frankenstein...



...and, to wrap it up, the original 13 Ghosts.



Now that was scary AND educational. Well, maybe just educational but still....

Ah, to heck with it. Dope out.

-TGWD

4 Days Till Halloween...

This one, this next post...it's just too horrifying.

I'm not kidding one little bit, either.

This one WILL, I guarantee, give you nightmare after nightmare. I've seen it and it still does it for me.

And it isn't even a movie - not even a small clip.

It's a picture.

Just one picture. But it's enough to do it. Trust me.

And I'm too much of a chicken to even post the picture here, that's how terrifying it is.

Again, I'm not kidding one little bit about it. And since you, no doubt, think I am kidding, go ahead and check the link below and see for yourself. You sad, sick little puppy, you.

CLICK THIS LINK IF YOU HAVE NO REGARD FOR YOUR WEAK HEART CONDITION.

And there's stil three days to go; keep that in mind, sucka.

Dope out.

-TGWD

5 Days Till Halloween...

Closer and closer still, the days dwindle down to a precious few. Ah, precious Candy Day.

In today's installment of the ol' countdown, I thought we'd go a little old school and visit with my main man - the tower of power, too sweet to be sour...

MISTAH BELA LUGOSI, ladies and germs!

Of course, we remember him as Dracula...



But then there was his heroic turn in Glen or Glenda...



Next is his, what I think, touching performance from Bride of the Monster...



And a little trailer featuring Bela and a monkey...er, gorilla....



Okay, so this installment wasn't all that scary...or even creepy...but hey; I liked it.

Dope out.

-TGWD

6 Days Till Halloween...

A while back I posted the scene from Halloween III where the kid's head melts and spits out bugs and snakes. Remember?

Well, here's the commercial he was watching - put on your Silver Shamrock masks, kids!



Ahh...Silver Shamrock ROCKS!

Dope out.

-TGWD

7 Days Till Halloween...

Anyone out there ever hear of the movie Eraserhead?

An interesting little flick this is; being directed by David Lynch as it is, it already has uniqueness on its side, but there are various interesting bits o'trivia behind this classic piece of art/horror/unclassifiable dream-like sequences.

Just see for yourself - and make sure to have all the lights out in the room ahead of time...adds to the atmosphere.

Here's the dinner scene. Mmm, chicken....



And here's an interesting scene with The Lady In The Radiator. Yep, that's what she's called.



And I'm sure if you watch around, you're bound to catch it on TV too; especially around this time of year.

Maybe not all that scary, but...freaky, maybe?

Dope out.

-TGWD

8 Days Till Halloween....

Oooh boy! A week and a day!!

Well, this time out I'd like to present a little something special to you. Something that, I'm certain, you'll never forget once you've seen it.

And it's embodied in three simple words:

CARRIE: THE MUSICAL

Yes, that's right. You heard me.

Here's a few parts. I shant describe them; they speak volumes on their own.

SCENE I



SCENE II



SCENE III



Myself, I think that's scarier than the movie. But oh well....

Dope out.

-TGWD

9 Days Till Halloween...

Moving on with our scary movie advent, ladies and germs, I give you a quick clip.

Well, relatively quick.

Jaws in three minutes.



Now let's see them do that for Jaws: The Revenge - bet it'll be more entertaining.

Dope out.

-TGWD

10 Days Till Halloween...

Sorry; a tad late since the blog was down yesterday, but I still made it under the wire. Anyway....

What is more Halloween-y than scary aliens? And what is more scary than the movie Alien?



My favorite part: when the egg opens. Mmm....alien omelets.

Dope out.

-TGWD

11 Days Till Halloween (PLEASE check out this one!!)...

Today I have a double-threat for you. First of all, something I never thought I'd see again: the full video of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" (directed by John Landis).



And to rub salt in an already open wound, here's something even scarier - the TURKISH version of the same video.



That should terrorize y'all's neighborhood. Word.

Dope out.

-TGWD

12 Days Till Halloween...

You know, even with Halloween coming as it is, that's no excuse for us to be lax in our knowledge of and resistance to any and all mind-altering drugs. You know, how to avoid them, keep them out of the reach of small impressionable children and the like....

So, in the interest of the children, here is a public service announcement.



And, as they say, knowing is half the battle.

Dope out.

-TGWD

13 Days Till Halloween...

Nowadays it takes a lot to scare people. You know it's true; what scared your great-grandpa would seem weak to your grandpa, which would seem lame to your dad and would be totally stupid to you.

Is it a matter of civilization getting more and more jaded with each passing generation? Or does it have more to do with our general concept of "getting scared" - is it outward stimuli (scary images, loud noises, the dark, etc.) or more our inner psyche and what you, personally, feel when seeing these images and how they are interpreted by the individual?

Meh, who cares? Here's the dinner scene from Beetlejuice.



Geez, still 13 days to go...is this a slow month or something?

Dope out.

-TGWD

14 Days Till Halloween...

I hear the Saw movies are scary.

I saw most of the first one; it was good (i.e.: scary).

I haven't seen the second one yet but I hear it's also scary.

I have seen the trailer for Saw III. The trailer looks scary.

I don't know about how good it will be yet. It isn't out yet, y'know. When I see it, it'll probably be as scary as the first two.

At least from what I hear, it should be.

Here, make up your own mind:



Was that scary for you? Me too.

Dope out.

-TGWD

15 Days Till Halloween....

Every once in awhile, you come across a video that makes you just stare in dumbfounded silence, stare at the screen and go over in your brain what you're thinking about what you just witnessed.

THIS, my friends, is that video.



Hey, even Jason Voorhees has to promote himself once in awhile.

Dope out.

-TGWD

16 Days Till Halloween...

A little bit of parental guidance is in order here....

One of my favorite latter-day fright flicks is John Carpenter's 1982 remake of The Thing, which, aside from being incredibly gory, is chock-full of astounding shock scenes. I love it - even as I'm being grossed out by it.

Here, then, are a couple of classic scenes in one from the above-mentioned flick. Be warned: there is liberal swearing in what you're about to see.

(Isn't that amazing? Nowadays you have to warn people about bad language and the like while you can turn on the evening news and watch people get blown away left and right...heck, even prime-time TV has liberal scenes of death, violence, drug use and the like....)

Okay, enough moral-posturing. Here's the clip.



See there? I warned you - bad language.

Dope out.

-TGWD

17 Days Till Halloween...

This time out I found the funniest video. Kinda arty, I guess. Just finished watching it and thought I'd share it with y'all now. Enjoy.



Gotta go; my phone's ringing.

Dope out.

-TGWD

18 Days Till Halloween...

Today, I debated between showing a reallty scary animated cartoon, a clip featuring horror movie great Vincent Price or something by modern-day fave Tim Burton, whose work with Beetlejuice and Sleepy Hollow is so good it's almost...scary.

Then I realized, hey, I can split the difference - three ways!



Is it really only 18 days now to go? A-yep.

Dope out.

-TGWD

19 Days Till Halloween...

Real quick here, this is in honor of horror movie maestro Dario Argento, who is, in and of himself, a master of the art.

And out of respect to him and this holiday we're preparing to celebrate - may I freak you out of your wits with his trailer for his classic film Suspiria....

No? Well, watch it anyways!



Think about that tonight as you drift off to sleep. :D

Dope out.

-TGWD

20 Days Till Halloween...

Ahh, Elvira. Mistress of the Dark. She had big...talents and a really huge...following.

I used to love her show "Movie Macabre", a syndicated version of the old-time movie host shows made popular by "Mystery Science Theater 3000". I'm glad to see they had the sense to start releasing episodes on DVD now (right here, in fact). And so, in honor of her gigantic...cult status, here are a couple'a clips.

(NOTE - turn up your volume on these, they're not the most audible out there.)

One with her talking to her biggest fan (AKA - Breather)...



And another with her getting some "Sack Time"...



See? Big talents, there.

Dope out.

-TGWD

21 Days Till Halloween...

Remember that great movie from '87 called Monster Squad? Of course you do; everybody remembers that one. A modern-day classic, and a fun movie overall.

But there's this one scene, as there is in all movies of this type, that everyone remembers, talks about, looks back on with fondness and talks about with a hint of nostalgia and a tear in their eye.

And in the case of Monster Squad, it's this scene:



Ah, the days dwindle further away....

Dope out.

-TGWD

22 Days Till Halloween....

Got a real treat this time; I have clips from the movie of The Exorcist (in parts, natch). That would be special enough, but this is a special case:

This is the TURKISH version of The Exorcist. It's called Seytan.

Just watch them...all of them. They're scary...but ten times as funny as that Young Frankenstein clip from yesterday.

CLIP I



CLIP II



CLIP III



CLIP IV



CLIP V



CLIP VI



CLIP VII



CLIP VIII



CLIP IX



CLIP X



Now, that wasn't so good, was it?

Dope out.

-TGWD

23 Days Till Halloween....

This time out we pay our respects to that classic monster - the creation of Doctor Frankenstein!

(...see, the creature himself isn't named Frankenstein; that's the doctor's name, not the monster's. I don't know what the monster's name is. But I do know how to over-explain things....)

But don't worry; this is a funny version. And don't go in expecting Boris Karloff, either.



Well, one week's cleared away now....

Dope out.

-TGWD

24 Days Till Halloween...

You can't have Halloween without watching "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown".

It's a federal law. Really.



Closer all the time...candycandycandycandy....

Dope out.

-TGWD

25 Days Till Halloween...

Keeping this train going, I submit to you something that is, indeed, Halloween-based, but yet isn't.

Well, maybe it is, but there is more Halloween to this clip than there is not Halloween but there's still something about it that is more one holiday than another. Of course, if one were to argue the point, I guess it would be safer to assume that this is more of a conglomeration of hoildays than one in particular....

Oh...HERE:



And the count goes on...

Dope out.

-TGWD

26 Days Till Halloween...

Today, allow me to continue our video advent to All Hallows Eve to continue with just three simple words:

Hey, hey, hey.

PART I



PART II



PART III



Hey hey hey; that candy's comin' closer my way every day!

Dope out.

-TGWD

27 Days Till Halloween...

Ooh! Remember Halloween III: Season Of The Witch?

It wasn't as good as the first, I know, but wait....

There's this cool scene with the mask, you know, where the kid's watching the commercial with his pumpkin head mask on...you know the scene, right?

Well, watch it again, then:



Now, if THAT doesn't make you hungry for candy, I don't know what to tell you.

Dope out.

-TGWD

28 Days Till Halloween...

Today, I pay homage to "The Simpsons" and their many Halloween specials.

This particular one is a fave, since it concerns everyone's favorite yellow dad...in 3-D.



Scary and funny - always a good combo!

Dope out.

-TGWD

29 Days Till Halloween...

Today I have a treat - something a tad surreal, I grant you, but it definitely is Halloween.

And what says Halloween more than the combination of rock group KISS, The Wizard Of Oz's Margaret Hamilton (AKA, The Wicked Witch Of The West) and...Paul Lynde!

...

Yes, THAT Paul Lynde. See for yourself.



Ooohh...one day closer to CANDY DAY...I mean...Halloween.

Hee.

Dope out.

-TGWD

30 Days Till Halloween...

I've decided to post one Halloween-based video a day until Halloween itself then I'll do...something, I dunno.

So let's continue with the very end of the 1978 movie Halloween itself.



They don't make 'em like that anymore, eh?

Dope out.

-TGWD