This scene is from It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! It’s a crime that this wonderful and sweet animated special is no longer aired during the holidays. No wonder the Great Pumpkin hasn’t been seen this year!
What I love about this scene is that you can actually see the rock getting tossed into Charlie Brown’s bag while all of the other trick-or-treaters got candy. Everyone in the neighborhood knows which ghost is Charlie Brown and they’ve all decided to give him rocks!
Poor Charlie Brown!
From 1993’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, here’s the anthem of the day!
From the original and still the best Halloween.
“Was that the Boogeyman?”
For your Halloween listening pleasure, here is the great Christopher Lee, interpreting Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart!
(By the way, this video has a somewhat lengthy intro. The Christopher Lee audio starts at 1:08.)
Continuing our series of posts of famous people with great voices reading the works of Edgar Allan Poe, here is the Raven, interpreted by the brilliant and much-missed Alan Rickman!
For you Halloween listening pleasure, here is Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, interpreted by the great Christopher Lee!
Enjoy!
For your Halloween pleasure, here is Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, as read by the great Basil Rathbone:
4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films is all about letting the visuals do the talking.
Today’s director is the man who put Halloween on the map and a personal favorite of everyone here at TSL, John Carpenter!
4 Shots From 4 John Carpenter Films
Halloween (1977, dir by John Carpenter, DP: Dean Cundey)
They Live (1988, dir by John Carpenter, DP: Gary B. Kibbe)
In The Mouth of Madness (1994, dir by John Carpenter, DP: Gary B. Kibbe)
The Ward (2010, dir by John Carpenter, DP: Yaron Orbach)
Have you ever wanted to hear Christopher Walken read The Raven? Of course you have! Who hasn’t?
Well, today is your lucky day! Here is Christopher Walken, reciting Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven. This was apparently recorded for a CD entitled Closed For Rabies, which featured several celebrities reading stories and poems by Mr. Poe.
Happy Halloween!
The afternoon hours are approaching and soon, the sun will go down and the trick or treaters will be demanding candy. If you’re still having a hard time reaching the status of being fully alert on this all-important day, why not have some coffee with Boris Karloff? From 1966, here is Boris Karloff for Butternut coffee:
Through the Shattered Lens 