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10 Vintage Halloween Cartoons
With Halloween creeping up upon us, there is nothing that used to get me into the Halloween spirit more than watching the vintage cartoons that used to play on Saturday morning Tv. One of my favorite things from Halloween time was waking up early on Saturday mornings sitting on the couch as a child, and watching all the vintage cartoons that used to play. The cartoons from the 20s and 30s were in my opinion so much more creepier than the cartoons of today. Along with some other monster related cartoons that were just in my opinion much more spiffier for their time. In no particular order, these are some of my favorite vintage cartoons that I enjoyed watching and still enjoy to this day.
1) The skeleton dance
A Silly Symphonies 1929 animated short produced and directed by Walt Disney. As the clock strikes midnight, a howl in the background, a hiss from a cat and 4 skeletons emerge from their graves to dance and use each other as musical instruments.
https://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h03QBNVwX8Q
2) Disney Mickey Mouse – Haunted House
Here is another 1929 animated short produced by Walt Disney. Mickey seeks refuge in a haunted house and is forced to play music for dancing skeletons.
https://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8LiPoIpxnk
3) Betty Boop’s Halloween party
In this classic cartoon from 1933 Betty Boop hosts a Halloween party but an uninvited gorilla crashes the party. At the time Betty Boop was very controversial and this cartoon was banned a few times due to Betty’s provocative ways.
https://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX8puuirg9E
4) Casper the Friendly Ghost
We all know Casper, the fun loving, caring ghost. Who didn’t love Casper as a child. All the Casper cartoons were also controversial as no one knew if Casper was really supposed to be a dead child. There was never really any episodes saying what happened to him and how he became a ghost. But either way we all still love him.
https://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB2cJDq9rOY
5) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Another Disney released vintage cartoon from 1949. The story follows a school teacher named Icabod Crane, who moves to Sleepy Hollow. He hears the story of the Headless Horseman. As Icabod Crane rides alone through town he appears to be chased by the Headless Horseman. The Headless Horseman seems to taunt Icabod throught out the town.
https://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IDqoRTtdno
6) The Headless Horseman
This story follows The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in 1949. The story is based on a Headless Horseman who lost his head during the Revolutionary War, who rides through town looking for a new head.
https://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysNSKrH8hHo
7) Jeepers Creepers
This is a Looney Tunes cartoon from 1939 starring Porky Pig. Porky plays a police officer and is told to go investigate a haunted house. As Porky is going through the house, the ghosts play pranks on the unsuspecting Porky.
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8) Groovy Goolies
This is a network Tv show that ran between 1970 and 1972. This show was a band with Dracula, the Wolfman, and Frankenstein who would scare people for their own amusement.
9) Shiver me Timbers
Popeye along with Olive Oyle and Wimpy stumble upon a beached ghost ship. Popeye decides to investigate the ship to prove he is tough. And since he doesn’t believe in ghosts, what could go wrong? The trio steps foot onto the ship, and then the ghosts start to torment and play pranks on them. Not so tough now, huh Popeye.
https://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrxVJdpDMP8
10) Transylvania 6500
Here is a Warner Bros film from 1963 where bugs Bunny finds himself lost in Pittsburgh Pensylvania. He stops and asks a two-headed vulture for directions. The vulture was a little to busy arguing with its two heads about eating Bugs, that he walks and sees a sign nailed to a tree, that reads Pittsburgh, Transylvania. As he walks along he comes across an old castle. Bugs battles against the Bloodcount as Bugs learns a new phrase that turns the Count into a bat.
https://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsNZMby7CmQ
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Thrills and Chills: Ranking ‘Radio Silence’ Films from Bloody Brilliant to Just Bloody
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, and Chad Villella are all filmmakers under the collective label called Radio Silence. Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett are the primary directors under that moniker while Villella produces.
They have gained popularity over the past 13 years and their films have become known as having a certain Radio Silence “signature.” They are bloody, usually contain monsters, and have breakneck action sequences. Their recent film Abigail exemplifies that signature and is perhaps their best film yet. They are currently working on a reboot of John Carpenter’s Escape From New York.
We thought we would go through the list of projects they have directed and rank them from high to low. None of the movies and shorts on this list are bad, they all have their merits. These rankings from top to bottom are just ones we felt showcased their talents the best.
We didn’t include movies they produced but didn’t direct.
#1. Abigail
An update to the second film on this list, Abagail is the natural progression of Radio Silence’s love of lockdown horror. It follows in pretty much the same footsteps of Ready or Not, but manages to go one better — make it about vampires.
#2. Ready or Not
This film put Radio Silence on the map. While not as successful at the box office as some of their other films, Ready or Not proved that the team could step outside their limited anthology space and create a fun, thrilling, and bloody adventure-length film.
#3. Scream (2022)
While Scream will always be a polarizing franchise, this prequel, sequel, reboot — however you want to label it showed just how much Radio Silence knew the source material. It wasn’t lazy or cash-grabby, just a good time with legendary characters we love and new ones who grew on us.
#4 Southbound (The Way Out)
Radio Silence tosses their found footage modus operandi for this anthology film. Responsible for the bookend stories, they create a terrifying world in their segment titled The Way Out, which involves strange floating beings and some sort of time loop. It’s kind of the first time we see their work without a shaky cam. If we were to rank this entire film, it would remain at this position on the list.
#5. V/H/S (10/31/98)
The film that started it all for Radio Silence. Or should we say the segment that started it all. Even though this isn’t feature-length what they managed to do with the time they had was very good. Their chapter was titled 10/31/98, a found-footage short involving a group of friends who crash what they think is a staged exorcism only to learn not to assume things on Halloween night.
#6. Scream VI
Cranking up the action, moving to the big city and letting Ghostface use a shotgun, Scream VI turned the franchise on its head. Like their first one, this film played with canon and managed to win over a lot of fans in its direction, but alienated others for coloring too far outside the lines of Wes Craven’s beloved series. If any sequel was showing how the trope was going stale it was Scream VI, but it managed to squeeze some fresh blood out of this nearly three-decade mainstay.
#7. Devil’s Due
Fairly underrated, this, Radio Silence’s first feature-length film, is a sampler of things they took from V/H/S. It was filmed in an omnipresent found footage style, showcasing a form of possession, and features clueless men. Since this was their first bonafide major studio job it’s a wonderful touchstone to see how far they have come with their storytelling.
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Perhaps the Scariest, Most Disturbing Series of The Year
You may have never heard of Richard Gadd, but that will probably change after this month. His mini-series Baby Reindeer just hit Netflix and it’s a terrifying deep dive into abuse, addiction, and mental illness. What is even scarier is that it’s based on Gadd’s real-life hardships.
The crux of the story is about a man named Donny Dunn played by Gadd who wants to be a stand-up comedian, but it’s not working out so well thanks to stage fright stemming from his insecurity.
One day at his day job he meets a woman named Martha, played to unhinged perfection by Jessica Gunning, who is instantly charmed by Donny’s kindness and good looks. It doesn’t take long before she nicknames him “Baby Reindeer” and begins to relentlessly stalk him. But that is just the apex of Donny’s problems, he has his own incredibly disturbing issues.
This mini-series should come with a lot of triggers, so just be warned it is not for the faint of heart. The horrors here don’t come from blood and gore, but from physical and mental abuse that go beyond any physiological thriller you may have ever seen.
“It’s very emotionally true, obviously: I was severely stalked and severely abused,” Gadd said to People, explaining why he changed some aspects of the story. “But we wanted it to exist in the sphere of art, as well as protect the people it’s based on.”
The series has gained momentum thanks to positive word-of-mouth, and Gadd is getting used to the notoriety.
“It’s clearly struck a chord,” he told The Guardian. “I really did believe in it, but it’s taken off so quickly that I do feel a bit windswept.”
You can stream Baby Reindeer on Netflix right now.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.
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The Original ‘Beetlejuice’ Sequel Had an Interesting Location
Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s sequels to hit movies weren’t as linear as they are today. It was more like “let’s re-do the situation but in a different location.” Remember Speed 2, or National Lampoon’s European Vacation? Even Aliens, as good as it is, follows a lot of the plot points of the original; people stuck on a ship, an android, a little girl in peril instead of a cat. So it makes sense that one of the most popular supernatural comedies of all time, Beetlejuice would follow the same pattern.
In 1991 Tim Burton was interested in doing a sequel to his 1988 original, it was called Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian:
“The Deetz family moves to Hawaii to develop a resort. Construction begins, and it’s quickly discovered that the hotel will be sitting on top of an ancient burial ground. Beetlejuice comes in to save the day.”
Burton liked the script but wanted some re-writes so he asked then-hot screenwriter Daniel Waters who had just got done contributing to Heathers. He passed on the opportunity so producer David Geffen offered it to Troop Beverly Hills scribe Pamela Norris to no avail.
Eventually, Warner Bros. asked Kevin Smith to punch up Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, he scoffed at the idea, saying, “Didn’t we say all we needed to say in the first Beetlejuice? Must we go tropical?”
Nine years later the sequel was killed. The studio said Winona Ryder was now too old for the part and an entire re-cast needed to happen. But Burton never gave up, there were a lot of directions he wanted to take his characters, including a Disney crossover.
“We talked about lots of different things,” the director said in Entertainment Weekly. “That was early on when we were going, Beetlejuice and the Haunted Mansion, Beetlejuice Goes West, whatever. Lots of things came up.”
Fast-forward to 2011 when another script was pitched for a sequel. This time the writer of Burton’s Dark Shadows, Seth Grahame-Smith was hired and he wanted to make sure the story wasn’t a cash-grabbing remake or reboot. Four years later, in 2015, a script was approved with both Ryder and Keaton saying they would return to their respective roles. In 2017 that script was revamped and then eventually shelved in 2019.
During the time the sequel script was being tossed around in Hollywood, in 2016 an artist named Alex Murillo posted what looked like one-sheets for a Beetlejuice sequel. Although they were fabricated and had no affiliation with Warner Bros. people thought they were real.
Perhaps the virality of the artwork sparked interest in a Beetlejuice sequel once again, and finally, it was confirmed in 2022 Beetlejuice 2 had a green light from a script written by Wednesday writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. The star of that series Jenna Ortega signed on to the new movie with filming starting in 2023. It was also confirmed that Danny Elfman would return to do the score.
Burton and Keaton agreed that the new film titled Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice wouldn’t rely on CGI or other other forms of technology. They wanted the film to feel “handmade.” The film wrapped in November 2023.
It’s been over three decades to come up with a sequel to Beetlejuice. Hopefully, since they said aloha to Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian there has been enough time and creativity to ensure Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice will not only honor the characters, but fans of the original.
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice will open theatrically on September 6.
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