Library Halloween Day II 10/31/11

It is Halloween day! I'm at work and playing lots of scary movies. We also had a big Halloween party and many staff wore costumes. More candy and favors than anyone could eat.

For lobby movies we played:
1) Horror of Dracula 1957
2) Nightmare on Elm Street
3) Halloween II
4) Sleepy Hallow
5) The Sixth Sense

10/29/11 Downtown Orlando Halloween Festival

     In  a last minute change of plans after work I went downtown Orlando to see the mass of Halloween celebrators. Man! What a crazy croud. There was a couple thousand people. The police closed off the central part of downtown. I carried around my fake Rotwieller Dog, which scared one person after another. Even a cop came over to me, I quess to tell me to put my dog on a leash, then he realized it was a stuffed animal. I saw people dressed a Terrorists, Angry Birds computer game characters, Tetris Game Peices, Vampires, Bees, Sexy Girls, Waldo (from Where's Waldo), Frankenstein's Monstor, Bruce Lee and many more. There were a lot of unidentifiable monstor costumes.
     I'm so glad my friend Dan invited me out to do this. This event made my whole Halloween season official.

Library Halloween Day 10/29/11

     I work in the Media section of a huge university library. To get ready for Halloween we played scary movies all day today in our lobby. I didn't bring any of my movies from home. This is because I need the movies playing on the TV to be available to our patrons to check out. So I only used in house movies.

1) The Craft
2) The Exorcist
3) 1931 Dracula
4) Frankenthumb
5) The Others

"The Evil Dead" (Movie)

          It is just six days until Halloween! Really I celebrate the weirdness all year long. But it's nice to see the world get into it too for a week. Today I have some hours to "kill" before I go teach a Tai Chi Class, so I'm watching"Evil Dead". I haven't seen many zombie movies, so I'm catching up on them.

      This movie starts off with an odd scene where a woman is raped by some branches. If this kind of sexual scene bothers you, try to skip ahead. The plot is more about possesions than zombies. What I mean is, the possesions make people into zombies.

     I've got a lot to learn about zombies. I guess they can be made in all sorts of ways. When I started studing vampires I was suprised how each writer would alter their reality. I guess watching zombie movies will be like that too.



Goodwill (Stores)

     Want a good costume or Halloween decorations but short on cash? Goodwill stores around the country are putting out their selection. They have an especailly good selection in kid's costumes.

"Halloween: Resurrection" (Movie)

     Michael Myers lives on! This movie was very on the unbelievable side. The characters just didn't seem real enough for me to care about or even like. It was kind of a relief to see Michael take them out.



"Willard" (Movie)

     None of my pet Black rat babies are still alive. My pet Florida Snapping Turtle ate them all. This remake or the original "Willard" movie has lots of drama and lots of rats. I'm told the original never came out on DVD so I'll have to search for a VHS. There is a sequal called "Ben" out there too.

"The Nightmare Before Christmas" (Movie)

     This is one of my favorite movies of all time. It is as creepy as it is fun. I highly recommend checking it out. You would have to watch it over and over to see all the little crazy details.

"The League of Extrodinary Gentlemen" (Movie)

     I wouldn't really call this a Halloween movie, but...
It has Vampires, Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde, an Invisible Man and other characters. Over all this is an excelent movie, better than most movies that are just taking advantage of Halloween's popularity.

Halloween Comic Strips

     This comic appeared in my university newspaper "Central Florida Future". They are making fun of the job prospects of recent graduates. This cartoon is by Nicole Lulinski

The 13 Days of Halloween (Children's Book)

     A great spin in the Christmas song/poem. Lots of scary things like skeletons, ghouls, ghosts and vampires building up to one little girl's Halloween night. A fun quick read. This would be a good book for a read-a-long as a kid's Halloween party.

Touch the Dark (10 CD Audio Book)

     It took me two weeks to listen to this long vampire book. I got lost in the story and multiple characters, it was both entertaining and an education in all things paranormal.

Van Helsing (Movie)

     I've been watching a lot of old and not so professionally done horror movies. But Van Helsing is not one of those. This was a well done Halloween thrill ride.

Little Owl (Small Children's Book)

     This is a cute little book was a fun quick read. You put your finger in the owl's head and it moves around like its alive as you read the story. I love the idea and think it had many applications, some not as cute as this series.

The Hollow (Movie)

     I got this picture from another Halloween Blogger Blog "Dead End Drive In". I'm from New England so I've been brought up on all the Legend of Sleepy Hollow stories. This movie is about the decendents of the first legend. There are good twists and turns, even though the filming is kind of TV looking.