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A Trick and A Treat
It was Halloween sometime in the 1970s. I was elementary school aged. All of the kids on my street where I grew up knew that it was one of the greatest nights of the year. We all went around together, shouting “trick or treat” and came home with oodles of candy. It was perfect. There was enough candy to keep me sick for weeks. I’ll never forget the one particular house where the husband was dressed as Dracula and the wife was dressed as some kind of vampire too. His cape flowed and his fangs were monstrous. He came out of the coffin and delivered us our candy in the…
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Countdown to Halloween: Three Films That Haunted Me
*** Can you remember the very first film you saw that scared you? I mean really scared you? For example, perhaps after you saw it you had to sleep with the lights on or keep a baseball bat next to your bed? I’ll tell you mine if you tell me yours… The first one for me was “Dracula” with Bela Lugosi. I was probably about eight and my elementary school would show Saturday morning movies in our school’s cafeteria on a screen with a projector. Anyone was welcome to come, and I remember walking up to the school, sitting on the floor cross-legged, and watching the film. “Dracula” was made…
