Thread: What happened to cause you to love Halloween?

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Growing up, my family was not big into Halloween. Just the tradiitonal few items that everyond did. I started thinking about my youth and what might have steered me to enjoy it as much as I did. Not really a single happenstance for me. As a small lad I watched Monster Movie Matinee every Saturday morning. I received some of the old Aurora Monster Model Kits, read a few "Witching Hour" comics and had the ubiquitous felt black light poster (mine was of a haunted house). My interest just seem to grow. Anyway, what about some of you, what led to your interest????

In the 70's as a kid....Don Post masks, The cover art of "Creepy", Strange tales comics, yep ^^Aurora Kits.. The Munsters, Twilight Zone, Trading candy...I met Elvira mistress of the dark in the 80's....It was kind of like a never ending interest as a kid.Christmas always came and went, but Halloween stayed around all year with the comics, movies, mask collecting, ect..

Originally Posted by chop shop

In the 70's as a kid....Don Post masks, The cover art of "Creepy", Strange tales comics, yep ^^Aurora Kits.. The Munsters, Twilight Zone, Trading candy...I met Elvira mistress of the dark in the 80's....It was kind of like a never ending interest as a kid.Christmas always came and went, but Halloween stayed around all year with the comics, movies, mask collecting, ect..

Thats great. Meeting Elvira had to be quite a thrill at that age. I remember watching her and she was pretty funny.

Originally Posted by Gatordave

Thats great. Meeting Elvira had to be quite a thrill at that age. I remember watching her and she was pretty funny.

Yeah, my friend and I had to be like Beavis and Butthead at the time. We met her while she was in full costume, so we experienced the full mistress clevage.

I promised myself to apoligize for pre-teen drooling if I ever run into her again.

Originally Posted by chop shop

Yeah, my friend and I had to be like Beavis and Butthead at the time. We met her while she was in full costume, so we experienced the full mistress clevage.

I promised myself to apoligize for pre-teen drooling if I ever run into her again.

Are you kidding??, I'm sure she loved the attention. Hey that outfit she wore was not accident.

Originally Posted by Gatordave

Are you kidding??, I'm sure she loved the attention. Hey that outfit she wore was not accident.

Yeah, It was no accident. She was super fun to meet and kidded around with us. Its just my "opener" if I see her, gotta have an ice breaker...Shes still a good lookin lady!..I'm married but the wife knows i'm a flirt.

Originally Posted by chop shop

Yeah, It was no accident. She was super fun to meet and kidded around with us. Its just my "opener" if I see her, gotta have an ice breaker...Shes still a good lookin lady!..I'm married but the wife knows i'm a flirt.

I wonder what ever happended to her?? I remember the late nite show but that was in the 80s. She did some later commercials and openings, but it has been a long time since I heard anything about her.

Originally Posted by Gatordave

I wonder what ever happended to her?? I remember the late nite show but that was in the 80s. She did some later commercials and openings, but it has been a long time since I heard anything about her.

Shes still hangin around here in L.A. She actually had a yard sale in July i heard about( after the fact) ..lol. darn. (Yep, even the celebs have yard sales!)
Her show, Movie Macbre, is back on TV here in syndication.

Growing up in the 80's, horror was on television every Saturday (both shows and movies), so I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. I'd watch The Gate, Trilogy of Terror, or whatever movie was on during the day, then catch the late-night block of Monsters, Tales from the Darkside, and Friday the 13th: The Series; despite (or perhaps because of) their cheesiness, I still like those shows. Most of my toys were creepy, too, like Boglins, Mad Scientist, and the like, so...

I lived in a rural area, and could never get my parents to take me Trick or Treating. One year I bugged so much that my mom promised she would just go to the store and buy me candy if I stayed home and stopped bugging her.

But she never bought the candy, and I have been trying to fill that empty, sugar hungry void ever since. Broken promises made me as hollow as a carved out jack o'lantern.