Llewellyn's Little Book of Halloween by Mickie Mueller

Author:Mickie Mueller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: CVR08312017;llewellyn's little book;little book series;llewellyn's little book series;little book of halloween;llewellyns little book of halloween;halloween;samhain;sabbats;CVR05292018
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2018-08-20T15:21:03+00:00

Halloween Movie Night

A popular way to spend Halloween is by having a movie night. Early paranormal and horror films helped to influence how we celebrate Halloween. Universal Pictures and Hammer Studios created some of the classic horror movies that inspired tons of Halloween costumes in the 1950s and ’60s. These two studios are to horror films what Marvel and DC are to comic books. Many people prefer one or the other and some appreciate both, but either one would be fun to watch on Halloween movie night.

Universal monsters include Boris Karloff’s square- headed Frankenstein’s monster and his bride, Bela Lugosi as Dracula, and Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man; these films were heavy on budget and scares for the time, but they’re not gory. Many Halloween costumes and decorations during the time when trick-or-treating entered its heyday were based on these characters, and we still see them today.

Enter Hammer Studios, who came on the scene a bit later and reintroduced these movie monsters in full color, taking full advantage of color film with bright red blood and guts. Hammer horror films were provocative, gory, and often included themes of the supernatural, including dark cults and Satanism.

Over the years we witches have taken some flack due to our portrayal in film. Many movies enforce negative stereotypes that basically paint all witches and magic users as evil cultists, but people should always remember the difference between reality and movies, and these movies are meant to be all in good fun. The Hammer films cast greats like Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.Hammer forged a new generation of horror movies to emulate in costume, sexier and bloodier than ever before. Whether you prefer Universal’s lavish black-and-white classics like Frankenstein, Wolf Man, and Dracula or Hammer’s blood-soaked, scantily clad versions of these monster movies, the classics are always fun for Halloween movie night films.

In the late 1950s through early ’70s we saw many other studios producing horror. William Castle directed and produced many classic horror films, including the Vincent Price classic House on Haunted Hill. Castle was the producer of Rosemary’s Baby, which was a great example of a successful film in the genre during that time, as was Hitchcock’s psychological thriller Psycho.

Indie films like George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead breathed new life—as well as more social commentary—into horror. Romero is the father of modern zombie culture, including film, TV, and comics. A zombie costume is probably one of the easiest go-to last-minute Halloween costumes of all time. These old horror classics usually air on television and are featured on streaming services in the month of October.

Many people also love watching parodies of these classic horror films on Halloween, taking the opportunity to laugh at fear with films such as Young Frankenstein or Dracula: Dead and Loving It or Sean of the Dead. Back in the 1950s through the ’80s there were local weekly TV shows presented by comedic gothically styled hosts who introduced these classic films, the most famous being Vampira and later Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, who has become a Halloween icon in her own right.

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