A snippet of my John Carpenter's Halloween collection. Inspired by the many recent discussions and essays floating around the inter-webs about John Carpenter's Halloween + the upcoming David Gordon Green sequel of the same name, and with one week to go before the official opening, I decided to take a look at the roots of my own Halloween fandom. Back on October 25, 1978, I was nearly three and a half years old, and not at all aware of the soon to be phenomena that was John Carpenter’s Halloween released in theaters on that date. Three years later, when the movie aired on NBC TV for the first time on October 30 th , I didn’t realize that the opening music and flickering jack-o-lantern would be stored away in my memory for a much later time. My mother quickly got up, switched the channel, and Halloween was forgotten. Growing up, my mother wouldn’t allow me to watch horror movies on TV (not that many of those movies were on regular TV – no, we didn’t have cab
•Lover of words, yarn, fall, snow & blooms •Fiction reader •Scribbler •Marine Veteran's Wife •RA Disabled Life •Midlife •ESA doggo mama •Jersey Girl •Click on post titles to view in entirety. (Note: Posts from 2019 through 2021 originally appeared on my current blog, The Eclectic Spoonie, at https://tinyurl.com/mpr2n6jd)