Halloween Horrors Three: SPIDER BABY

                              Spider Baby 1964

How can you not like a film that features Lon Chaney Jr and Sid Haig? Lon even sings Ronald Stein's theme song, which is pretty cool in its own right. I discovered this one years ago on a cheapie VHS tape introduced by Grandpa Munster and watched it every year on Halloween. The film was shot in 1964, but wasn't released until 1968, and then only briefly.

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Halloween Horrors Two: 13 Ghosts

13 GHOSTS 1960

While most of William Castle's films are fun, I think 13 Ghosts best captures that Halloween vibe (though House on Haunted Hill is a close second). The gimmick this time around, a pair of glasses that allows the viewer to see the ghosts, was better than usual, and actually made the viewer feel he or she was a player in Castle's macabre world. I got to see this film on the big screen, but it wasn't until the DVD release years later that I was able to experience the GHOST VIEWER.
The 2001 remake is almost as fun, but may be a tad too gruesome for the younger trick or treaters.

               

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