It's like a comic book that you watch....

 Tales of Halloween

     Despite all our annual visit from the usual Halloween baddies like Pinhead, Mr. Kruger, and Mr. Voorhees, we sometimes overlook one of the progenitors of the season: Anthologies. Truly, it started with comic books from Gold Key and E.C.  A natural evolution would be the move to movies and for the most part, I've always enjoyed them. Some great, some boring, but all were short stories so they didn't pound on you for 90 minutes. The biggest hindrance to this mini-regurgitation is...well...FFS, there's 10 stories! 10!!! There's no way I'm going through every one of them but here's a taste:

     This is a violet movie and clearly not meant for kids. I worried that it was a bit like R. L. Stine but the first story was bloody as hell and that was a great relief. A lot of the characters make cameos throughout the movie, dipping into other stories. I'm not sure if there was supposed to be an end result or if that was just a bunch of Easter eggs for our enjoyment. There's a lot of dark humor and spoiler: The killer pumpkin was the best! Please observe:

Nom. Nom. Nom.

Money shot. Giggity.

     The cast is also surprising:

Adrienne Barbeau

Barry Bostwick

John Landis...

.....OK, maybe not THAT impressive, but still a lot of very familiar faces and reeks of an attempt of a big big budget box office take on a Kia budget. I would not be annoyed with a sequel...

Wed-nes-day: DIE, HIPPY, DIIIIIIIIIIEEE!!!!!