Books We Love Insider Blog: #It's The Great Pumpkin

Friday, October 28, 2016

Halloween for Skittish People by Connie Vines

We all know my Zombies (Here Today, Zombie Tomorrow) are not The Walking Death type of Zombies. Everyone who has attended my yearly Spooktacular Dinner, know it’s not at guts-and-gore type affair. I’m not a scared cat, exactly. I simply have the gift of a very vivid imagination. The type of imagination that produces a nightmare when I watch “Meerkat Manor”, “Fantasia”, or any war movie.

Connie's gone blonde!

So what movies are recommended for skittish people?

1. Hocus Pocus
2. The Addams Family
3. It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
4. Ghostbusters
5. Frankenweenie
6. Halloweentown
7. The Nightmare Before Christmas
8. Little Shop of Horrors

What move do I always watch? It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. I love, love this movie. Snoopy in the pumpkin patch always makes me smile.

What Halloween movie is your favorite? What movie frightens you out of your wits? What movie give you nightmares?

Well, Frankenweenie did it for me. With The Nightmare Before Christmas came in a close second in the ‘giving Connie a nightmare’ category.

The crazy thing is, I can read and re-read the novel Dracula by Braun Stoker and watch the 1990’s movie version of Dracula and I am fine. (Dracula, like The Phantom of the Opera, falls under the umbrella of tortured hero and love story –in my mind anyway).

I’ve posted pictures of a few party ideas and treats I’d like to share. (visit my Pinterest page).