My Halloween Factoids...

Tis the season and I thought I'd put down a few of my personal Halloween factoids. Read and Enjoy:

1-Number of times I've went Trick or Treating? TWICE. Why? Well, when I was very young, we lived out in the country, no neighborhood to go door to door on. My parents weren't into driving me to a town to do it in. So I was out. The first time I trick or treated, I dressed up as RAMBO and went door to door on Halloween Eve. Dec. 30th. Yeah for some reason, my aunt Kay made me and my cousins go out on this night instead of the 31st. We got tons of puzzled looks from people and some didn't even have candy yet. It was embarrassing. The second time was the following year. I had an ALF mask and went door to door in our new town of Shepherd, MI. It was a crappy costume. My dad took me trick or treating and I could tell he wasn't into it at all. In fact, I think he hated taking me. The following year, my family joined this cult religion known as "Jehovah's Witness" and I wasn't allowed to celebrate any holidays anymore. Thus ended my trick or treating days. I was nine years old.

2-Favorite Halloween Candy? Kitkats.

3-Things I've dressed up as for company work days: Dante from CLERKS, Kevin Smith, a CLERK from Moobys, a Preacher. Its been a while since I've dressed up beyond that. Last time was 2008.

4-Top ten VAMPIRE movies for me:

10-From Dusk til Dawn
9-The Satanic Rites of Dracula (Hammer Horror)
8-Love at First Bite (yeah, I said it)
7-Vampire Hunter D (Anime)
6-Nosferatu (1922)
5-Dracula (1979 Frank Langella)
4-Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
3-Fright Night (best 80's flick ever)
2-Horror of Dracula (Hammer Horror)
1-Dracula (1931 Universal)

5-My top 10 favorite horror flicks:
10-Fall of the House of Usher (The TV movie version with Robert Hayes... creepy!)
9-Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors
8-Sorority House Massacre 2
7-Plan 9 from Outer Space
6-Friday the 13th part 6: Jason Lives
5-Psycho
4-Jaws
3-The Legend of Hell House
2-Dawn of the Dead (1978 version)
1-Evil Dead 2

6-I absoluetly DESPISE being scared. Like those fake youtube videos where you see a screaming face come out at you, or going to a novelty haunted house where people are hiding to jump out at you. I cannot take it. I'm afraid I'll get a heart attack anyway. I love horror movies for their filmmaking aspects and themes and all that. But not to be scared. Not at all. So if you ever get the chance to scare me, don't. You'll lose a friend. I get that pissed.

7-Scariest flick I ever saw? The Blair Witch Project. I saw it in the employee screening at the movie theater I worked at. At the time, we bought into the hype that it was a real found footage thing. I was freaked out beyond belief. And that night I had to drive home, where I lived... in the woods! And a cat ran out and hit me in the legs as I climbed up my porch stairs, freaking me the fuck out. I still have a hard time thinking about what the Blair Witch looks like in my mind. The fake doc that goes with it, where you see the child drawings of it? FUCK!!!!! The movie itself obviously doesn't hold up and we know the tricks now. But still, at the time, I was pissing myself. 

8-Despite my upbringing, I have a real affection for classic and slasher horror icons and would love to do a straight on horror book someday. I've done EC comic horror tribute anthologies and am working on another one. But, I would love to do a one shot horror book. I started one a couple years ago and plan to finish it someday. I've also wrote a bunch of horror short stories which will be released next year in a short story book I am planning. 

9-I've never handed out Halloween Candy. I want to. Can't this year because its going to rain.

10-I've never been to a Halloween costume party. I want to. I want to put on one. Someday.

11-I've never carved a pumpkin. Yeah. Never. 

12-I used to take only baths. Then I saw JAWS when I was about 5 or 6. Then I started taking showers only. I never wanted to sit in a body of water again.  
13-My favorite Halloween special: The GARFIELD HALLOWEEN SPECIAL. Man the cartoon ghosts in that were scary.

Hope you enjoyed these true (and at times, soul crushingly sad) factoids about me and Halloween. I hope you enjoy yours today. Tonight we plan on taking the kids to get candy and I get to relive all I missed out on through them. It will be fun. 

T