Smore sweet treats

Classic.
George A. Romero made this grandaddy of flesh eating shamblin' goodness.
Tasty.

Delicious AV sweets...

What sweet little ghouls and goblins.
Here are some public domain goodies to put in your bags.
Vincent Price in an Italian adaptation of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend.
Mind the fish hooks and razor blades...

Spook Country...

I'll do myself a favor by poking some holes in my high-falutin' Halloween rant.
I also like dressing up like a fool, scaring the crap out of the neighborhood kids, and eating candy till I'm sick.
So there.
Boo!!!

Ghost pic courtesy of Salendron under a CC license.

All hail the Great Pumpkin!

Why is Halloween is such a psychic touchstone for me?
At least for me, this holiday seems to be the most genuine expression of the human condition.

While other holidays try to gloss over the horror that most people deal with on a daily basis, Halloween seems to be a slight tip of the hat to the universal equalizer.

In a world filled with genocide, cancer, environmental meltdown, etc., it's nice to have one day where we can publicly acknowledge the one thing that all humans share. For a day we can give in to the deeper/darker side of ourselves. For a day we can surrender to our existential "war on terror".

Pumpkin pic courtesy of Fabbio under a Creative Commons license.