Happy Halloween!

It's that time of year again. Pumpkins, caramel apples, candy corn, horror movies and scary costumes. I have decided to dedicate this post to Halloween movies and DVDs for those who have kids or who just aren't into the usual Halloween "I Know You Did Last Summer When You Screamed on Elm Street" type fare.

Roseanne: Halloween Edition
I picked this DVD up at Walmart last Halloween for roughly 13 bucks. If you ever watched the series Roseanne, you'd remember how nuts the Connor family is about Halloween. This DVD features 9 classic Halloween episodes from the show. Great for the sitcom lover and suitable for the whole family.

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Another Halloween classic from way back. The Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween and Linus convinces Sally that the Great Pumpkin will make an appearance if they just wait in the pumpkin patch long enough. A little bit dated, but still enjoyable.

Ghost Busters
This is a great Halloween movie for the comedy lover that's okay for the whole family, too. Starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson as a team of ghost busters acting as ghost exterminators. Also starring Sigourney Weaver as Murray's love interest, Rick Moranis as Weaver's neighbour who becomes possessed and Annie Potts as the Ghost Busters overworked and underpaid secretary. Very funny and okay for the older kids.

Scooby Doo
This Hanna Barbera cartoon about a great Dane and his crime solving friends is a classic. I think it's Teletoon that has a Scooby Doo marathon on a Saturday every year around Halloween time. It's a perfect way to kill a rainy afternoon and appropriate for Halloween because they're always chasing ghosts or monsters at some spooky abandoned amusement park or abandoned gold mine or museum. You can find Scooby Doo tv series DVDs in the Walmart bargain bin for cheap or the two live action Scooby Doo films are a good bet, too, with my preference being for the sequel Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. Fun for the whole family.

Scary Movie
This is the DVD I always pop in Halloween night after the kids are in bed. Great Halloween movie for the low brow, parody lover who isn't into scary, gory flicks. Essentially, the film is a parody of Scream, which is a satire of teen slasher flicks. Written by and starring the Wayans brothers, the film lampoons other slasher flicks like I Know What You Did Last Summer with humour, some of it more juvenile and gross out, but some of it really funny. This one is just for the adults.

Stay safe on Halloween night and indulge in some halloweenie chocolate bars.....enjoy!

More ramblings to come......