Your Halloween Movie List

[Scipio]

The Exorcist
The Exorcist III
Halloween
Scream
The Devil's Backbone
Pan's Labyrinth
A Better Tomorrow II
Death Becomes Her

[Savonarola]

P.S. What's everyone's actual opinion of the '31 Dracula?  I'M VERY CURIOUS.

Get the version with the Philip Glass score if you can find it.  The first fifteen minutes are some of the best in 1931 film, the rest feels hopelessly stage bound.  Tod Browning really wasn't much of a sound director.

Spanish Dracula (¡El Blah!) is in most respects a better film.  It's shot on the same set, but George Melford put a lot more into generating atmosphere.  The principle problem with the film is that Conde Drácula is played by the completely forgettable Carlos Villarias.  Bela Lugosi may have been the person who could over-act with just his eyebrows, but he makes English Language Dracula.

[Ideologue]

The Exorcist
The Exorcist III
Halloween
Scream
The Devil's Backbone
Pan's Labyrinth
A Better Tomorrow II
Dtheath Becomes Her

Yeah!

Sav, will advise, concur in substance.

[mongers]

When and how did Halloween become such a big event in North America vs some other parts of the world, for instance over here ? 

[sbr]

When and how did Halloween become such a big event in North America vs some other parts of the world, for instance over here ?

About the same tine every female costumed turned into a Slutty version of anything.

[mongers]

When and how did Halloween become such a big event in North America vs some other parts of the world, for instance over here ?

About the same tine every female costumed turned into a Slutty version of anything.

[Savonarola]

When and how did Halloween become such a big event in North America vs some other parts of the world, for instance over here ?

I believe Halloween came to North America with the Great Famine in Ireland; Maurice O'Sullivan (who lived on Blasket Island in the far west of Ireland) makes reference to Halloween parties in "Twenty Years a Growing."

[Admiral Yi]

When and how did Halloween become such a big event in North America vs some other parts of the world, for instance over here ?

I assume it has to do with the marketing efforts of candy manufacters.

[Sheilbh]

When and how did Halloween become such a big event in North America vs some other parts of the world, for instance over here ?

Define here. Halloween's always been huge in Scotland and I'd guess trick-or-treating originated from guising. Characteristically in Scotland the children, traditionally, have to perform to get a reward - normally a poem, song, joke, dance or whatever - and they don't necessarily get anything.

I think it's also stronger in Catholic countries - dia de los muertos is a version of that - and All Hallows Eve and All Souls Day were major feast days in pre-Reformation England. I think a lot of the ceremony and tradition that went with that eventually slid into bonfire night.

America's Halloween is different, but I think England's an outlier, even in the UK, in not having a traditional Halloween celebration.

[CountDeMoney]

When and how did Halloween become such a big event in North America vs some other parts of the world, for instance over here ?

I assume it has to do with the marketing efforts of candy manufacters.

That, and I believe the first Halloween movie really cemented the commercialization of Halloween in the early 80's. It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown just wasnt cutting it on its own.

Edit:
Goddamned iHipster

[Darth Wagtaros]

Disney Halloween Treat
The Worst Witch
Mister Boogety
Not really much for horror.

[Barrister]

Any love for Young Frankenstein and Ghostbusters as Halloween movies?

And Dracula '31 is awesome.

[11B4V]

Dracula
House of Wax
Salem's Lot ('79)
Excorcist

[Savonarola]

Any love for Young Frankenstein and Ghostbusters as Halloween movies?

And Dracula '31 is awesome.

For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you're a wise man, Barrister Boy.

I've added Son of Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein, Ghostbusters and Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein to my queue.

[Savonarola]

House of Wax

If you haven't already seen it, check out the original "Mystery of the Wax Museum."