Lyrics by: Kelly Dipucchio & Pictures by: Gris Grimly
The title gotcha didn't it? It did me too when I was walking through the grocery store aisle with all the paper and office supplies, the books and magazine section and there in the bin, was this book. I had to pick it up and look thru it and I found myself just laughing as I sang along to the funny lyrics of famous campfire songs, changed to be more icky, creepy and oh yes, just fun, fun, fun!
I had to buy two of these in fact so I could send one off to friends. :) I added it to my collection of books that I would like to one day read/sing along with elementary kids when I am settled and can volunteer at the local school to come in and read for them during story time. Some of the titles include: Do Your Guts Hang Low? Take Me Out To The Graveyard Creepy, Creepy, Little Jar and well, you get the picture! ;) They are just wickedly great for Halloween and I just had to share! ~*~Bugs n Hisses~*~ GP
Been a while since I've posted but I've not been idle by a long shot! I moved from Texas to Delaware no less and on top of that, the area that I am using is a lot smaller. I went from a 2 car garage to barely a one car and my yard is smaller and I really don't have a backyard to use either! So wow, talk about a challenge and having to downsize! The smaller garage also means that the gazebo won't fit in there so I will be framing out the garage using the pvc pipe I picked up from Spirit's display in their store. I didn't realize they sold those and at a discount price too after Halloween is over! This is something to definitely keep in mind after this year's Halloween is over! I picked up a hospital background that looked 3D! And I picked up all the pvc pipe and some plastic chainlink fencing they had as well as all the connectors for the pvc. Speaking of Spirit, I received an email from them, prompting me to go to their site for a huge big sale. Remember me saying how all the Halloween stores tend to have these sales in the summer, in July especially, to get rid of old stock to make room for the new stuff! Well I went over to Spirit and I have to say I was disappointed after filling up my cart to see what the shipping costs were! Nearly as much as what the items were selling for! YIKES! So I emptied the cart after that and thought nope, I don't need it that much. Silly to pay for that expensive shipping. Once you start to make your own stuff, you realize there is a lot you can make that is better than the store bought. And don't get me wrong, I do like Spirit and they do have some really cool items but I was never impressed with the animated stuff, not by anyone really. I am pretty picky at this point and we are just learning to make our own things which last longer and you know how it was done so if something does go wrong with it, you can fix it easily. And speaking of fixing, our poor Cauldron Creep got battered during the move and he will definitely need some TLC as will the Time piece from the famed Davis Family tho' that fared better as we strapped the torso to the inside of the truck so it did not get bopped about. A few digs in the styrofoam but eh, nothing we can't fix with a little touch up paint and it will just add to the character of it. Maybe do some aging on those spots too. That is what is nice about some of the things you put outside like the tombstones, if they get dinged up, it's not a big deal. Nothing is meant to be perfect and you can easily use that ding for an enhancement instead of a detriment or flaw. Ok, I am also on Lloyd's behind to get that how-to on the Cauldron Creep written up so I can post it here for you all. I have picked up some more props and other assorted items and will be posting those here as well as talking about Transworld and Hauntcon! Now that I am settled a bit more here in the house, I will be working on the garage and redoing things in there and I am just full of great ideas to start to build and implement to prepare for this Halloween! I can't wait! We had to get a second truck to move up the Halloween boxes from Texas, believe it or not! The boxes were put into the garage but we are going to move them all out to storage so we can build and not be having to move the boxes constantly. Just leave the pvc pipe and large items in there as well as the sheets for we'll need those and some of the black lighting. This garage has this small room off to the side, with bookshelves on the wall, so it looks like a nice workshop area so I am going to make that part the cave itself lit in blacklight and I will be framing it and making it look like a cave. :) Busy, busy in the coming weekends! I will miss Moxley Manor Haunted House down there in Texas and all the great people who work there! I had a great time in volunteering and learned a lot and enjoyed making cupcakes each night for them! :) I hope to see them all at the conventions! I have joined several Halloween Facebook groups and let me tell you, if you have Facebook, look up Halloween and you will find a lot of groups that show you how to make things yourself! Amazing, talented people who are so creative and it can spur you on and give you a lot of your own great ideas too! Well lightning and thunder here pretty close so going to shut down and quick grab some dinner! Be looking for more from me soon!
I had not heard of this 1967 Halloween movie before until I went looking for Disney's DTV with all the 80's rock music videos on YouTube:
You can imagine my delighted surprise to find this and so I ordered it from Amazon right off! Seeing as how it had Boris Karloff in it, I could not resist! He plays Baron Frankenstein. To note, it also has Phyllis Diller in it!! BONUS! She is the Frankenstein's monster's wife!
What is funny is the nephew of Baron Frankenstein, Felix's voice sounds like Jimmy Stewart! Some of it reminds me of when Jimmy played in Harvey. I just had to laugh! Yetch's voice is an imitation of Peter Lorre's! But, the voices of Felix Flankin, Yetch, Dracula, Invisible Man, Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde, Chef Machiavelli, Captain, First Mate, Mr. Kronkite, Mail Man, and The Monster, are all the talents of Allen Swift. This movie is another Rankin/Bass production, the same who had brought us Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, The Year Without a Santa Claus, and many others! It is the stop motion animation that was just pure magic back in the day! Brilliant work! There are a couple things in the movie I didn't care for personally, but I won ruin it if you have not seen it. If you are a fan of these kinds of movies, you will most likely enjoy it!
I just finished rewatching this 1981 horror flick this morning. For some reason, scarecrows, creepy ones in horror movies, always seem to get me most weirded out! I am not sure why except perhaps to say that everyone has their thing that creeps them out. I can handle blood, guts, bugs, chainsaws, knives, creepy kids....blah blah...none of that seems to bother me at all. I can take a scarecrow too, cause who doesn't love the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz movie?! But perhaps this was the movie that made me feel like the creepy scarecrow masks and costumes, were the more scariest! The rotting pumpkin heads or maybe even taking me back to the old classic Headless Horseman? So I watched Dark Night of the Scarecrow, starring Charles Durning. It's about a mentally handicapped man who is killed cause some of the towns people, this group of men, decide to go vigilante as they think he killed this little girl he was innocently playing with. Of course after they kill him, they find out that no, he didn't harm the girl at all and she isn't dead and in fact, the handicapped man had saved her life! Uh oh....
Well, of course the tables get turned and "Bubba" gets revenge and you are just not sure if it is him or the lawyer or the little girl or dead Bubba's mom that is going after the men who murdered Bubba.
It's a bit of a "B" movie and it struck me as being sad watching it this time around. Sad that people are too quick to blame a mentally handicapped person for something bad happening instead of waiting for the facts to be revealed, jumping the gun and in fact committing murder themselves based on those assumptions. Reminds me of the whole mob mentality. Of course you begin to see what a horrid man Charles Durning plays as one of the men who killed Bubba and in fact had led the others to do so along with him.
The little girl is kinda creepy herself tho' with the little song she keeps singing everywhere. I can see where they could have jumped on that and played her singing it more often and how that would have really made the whole movie alot more eerie! But the scarecrow showing up in places was good too!
It's not too bad of a movie, it was touched up in 2010, tho' I don't remember how the quality was back in '81. It's worth watching at least once tho'.
You can still get it for $12.
Take note of the pitchfork tho' in the beginning....heh heh...it comes back to haunt one of the men...
