Katie Pumpkinhead’s Pumpkin Patch

 As I’ve mentioned before, I often spend significant amounts of time browsing through Halloween-themed movies on streaming services, hoping to find something that truly speaks to me. There’s a certain something that I look for in Halloween movies that I can’t quite explain, and I usually know, fairly quickly, when I’ve found it, or, also, when I haven’t. Not that certain movies aren’t fun watches even if they don’t have that something, and I’ll talk more about those types of movies in the future, but today, I stumbled upon a movie that will surely be added to my list of go-tos and really want to share it. This is a little movie that came out last September, called Bad Candy. A few people I know within the Halloween community have watched this movie, but I never hear anyone talk much about it. I won’t lie, I put it on today as background noise while doing some cleaning, fully expecting it to not hold my interest enough to want to actually sit still and watch it. I tend to get cranky...

 It’s that time again, boils and ghouls. Time to talk about the wild ride that is American Horror Stories. I don’t know if I’ve ever felt so conflicted going into anything relating to AHS as I did toward this week’s episode, The Naughty List. I generally don’t like watching Christmas episodes of anything if it’s not actually the Christmas season. I’ve been this way since I was a kid. I’ll watch Halloween-themed anything, any time, but a Christmas episode comes on in the middle of the summer and I’m not going to be into it. And it’s not even about the fact that I don’t really enjoy Christmas anymore. It just feels wrong to me somehow. Christmas just seems like something that should be contained to its particular time of year, to me anyway.  But, this episode also promised me Danny Trejo as Santa Claus, and while Leigh Emerson will always be the Santa of the AHS universe, I have to admit, this was intriguing to me.  This episode starts off in a very crazy way, introducing u...

 As someone who enjoys lost episode/cursed video types of “creepypasta” stories, I was beyond excited for the third episode of American Horror Stories, entitled “Drive-In”, promising us a tale centered around a cursed film. This is the type of thing I’ve always wanted to see portrayed in the AHS universe. It has so much potential, and I knew AHS could take the concept in some crazy directions. So, it saddens me greatly to say, this episode is probably my least favorite thing to come out of the AHS universe to date. Our story starts with teenage couple Chad and Kelley, making out to an old Bob Ross episode, and Kelley walking out after Chad gets pissed that she still won’t have sex with him after six months of dating. It’s typical teen drama and sadly, not especially well-acted.  The next morning at school, Chad is complaining to his friends that he’s going to die a virgin, (and also explaining why he chose a Bob Ross episode, to try and induce ASMR, and, as someone who experie...

 Is there anything truly like the feeling of it finally being October, officially? My whole life, I have spent the other eleven months of the year longing for and trying to recapture the feeling that October brings. One way I’ve always done this, is by watching Halloween themed movies and TV shows. Over the years, I’ve added several “go-tos” to my watch list. It’s hard to explain what makes something a Halloween go-to for me...The only thing I can really say for sure is that it’s just a feeling that a particular piece of media gives me; an atmosphere it creates. Sometime last year, after Halloween had already passed, I stumbled upon an Instagram account called  Witching Season Films . I was immediately impressed with the content I found there, particularly a series of photos posted with the hashtag #31ShotsOfHalloween. Upon further observation, I found that this was a yearly photo challenge that any Halloween lover could participate in, and these pictures seemed to fit my pers...

It came to my attention that today is a very important day in spooky, horror history. It is perhaps an even more important day in my own personal spooky history. Thirty-one years ago today, Tales From The Crypt premiered. And if I had to make a list of the horror that has impacted me the most, Tales From The Crypt would likely be at the very top. I was two years old at the time it premiered. You’re probably wondering how a two-year-old could possibly have had any interest in a horror anthology series, but I was already a huge Beetlejuice fan, for what it’s worth. I don’t remember how, exactly, I even learned about the existence of Tales From The Crypt, but once I got a glimpse of it, I was hooked. The  opening sequence  still gives me goosebumps. My parents, of course, didn’t allow me to watch the full episodes until I was much older, but I lived for the Crypt Keeper’s introductions. He may have actually been the first fictional character that I developed a deep a...