Of course it tastes a little off, its flavoured with boo!

Tomorrow is the day the giant display of Frankenberry and Boo-Berry at the grocery goes on sale and I plan to clean up! If you've never mixed them together, you owe yourself this pagan delight. Count Chocula, however, they can discount to FREE and I still won't get it because Count Chocula is rabbit droppings.

Diskwiss, as always, here is a rock for your Halloween treat bag.

Hi Claudia!! Thank you for posting before heading back to Japan so I can wish you a happy flight! I can hardly wait to hear about the Halloween Hop and more about your wedding and New York and your flights and everything else! I hope they have some kind of Halloween treat on your flight, like lots of scary movies…

Are the techniques in these early movies disorienting because they are inherently disorienting or because film language settled on other techniques that we are now used to?

The Haunting used to scare me to death. We are talking about the original, right? I recently rewatched it expecting once again to die from fear but it didn't happen! Mostly I just thought about what a beautiful house it was and how I'd redecorate were it mine.

Diskwiss, have you been frying sardines in the internet again?

Your hair and dress and shoes and your whole wedding look sounds so amazing! I knew your look would be amazing, but I'm amazed anyway! Every colour is invited to Claudia's wedding! And you went to MOMA! Was it very crowded? I hope you didn't have to rush. And I hope EB wasn't too bored! Have you been looking…

The problem with these things is they are almost always used ironically! And even when I do suspect they hide actual spoilers, they're like popping bubble wrap, its impossible to not reveal each and every one of them!

That is absolutely the case in both the movies I mentioned. Even though the second movie is not as derisive of the wife as the first and the husband does have his confidence shaken, it is inconceivable that the retold story would have reversed the roles.

Two more witch movies that tell a lot about the times they were made in are Weird Woman and Night of the Eagle. They were made roughly twenty years apart and both are based on the same story. The witch in each case (at least at the outset) represents hysteria and her husband in each case represents reason. In both…

Diskwiss, how about a new Halloween tradition where you leave our posts alone?

I'm so glad your wedding turned out so perfectly! Except for getting so little sleep and for EB nearly fainting. Why did he nearly faint? Was he tired or nervous or were his allergies a problem? Thank goodness you had a NYC honeymoon, I was worried after the wedding you weren't going to see each other again until…

Hi Sheltie!

Diskwiss, go eat posts from some Superhero movie thread instead of from here.

CLAUDIA!!! Mrs. Claudia I mean! I am so happy for you!! Thank you so much for dropping in to tell me! I have been thinking of your wedding all day so I knew by now you had to be married but still its not the same thing until hearing it from you!!

Ask someone bemoaning the lost film X whether they have watched film Y or Z of the same era by the same filmmaker and the answer is usually no! In my experience, even among those who claim to love cinema, very early films are loved mostly in theory. So an early film that is lost is for them ideal: it can be mused…

Diskwiss, here's a handful of sunflower seeds. Eat them instead of these posts.

I'm so glad to hear you had a restful flight! I guess its too early for flight attendants to be in costumes. I was kind of hoping the pilot would be dressed as Dracula or something.

Diskwiss, no post eating until Halloween, to save your appetite.