by shezcrafti | Oct 22, 2012 | Stuff I Watch |
A good rule of thumb for movies and TV specials seems to be: if it was traumatizing to watch as a child, it makes for great Halloween viewing. Jim Henson’s The Witches is a prime example. (See also: The Worst Witch, Witch’s Night Out, and Lady in White.)...
by shezcrafti | Oct 21, 2012 | Stuff I Watch |
Today’s DVD pick shouldn’t really be surprising to anyone. If you’ve been following along with the countdown, you know I’ve teased it several times already. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is the definitive animated Halloween...
by shezcrafti | Oct 20, 2012 | Stuff I Watch |
Okay, I promise this time; Beetlejuice will be the last Tim Burton movie on my countdown. That makes four altogether. I could have kept going as there’s still a wealth of Halloween-appropriate Tim Burton movies to draw from, but I gotta end the madness somewhere...
by shezcrafti | Oct 19, 2012 | Stuff I Watch |
I take it back. Earlier I said Lady in White was the most underrated film on this countdown. That was before I decided to include Rob Zombie’s 2007 reboot of Halloween. 21% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. 6 out of 10 according to 56,000 people on IMDB. According to...
by shezcrafti | Oct 19, 2012 | Stuff I Watch |
I discovered this brilliant little gem of a short film this morning, which tells a Halloween fairy tale of sorts called “The Green Ruby Pumpkin.” It was created by visual effects artists Miguel Ortega and Tran Ma who say this film was their passion...
by shezcrafti | Oct 18, 2012 | Stuff I Watch, The Time Warp |
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is one those movies you either love or hate. There is no in between. (Kind of like candy corn.) I’ve chosen to feature it on my countdown, so it should be fairly obvious which category I fall into. In my defense (because for some...