Shockotober! My Favorite Halloween Episodes!

Over the next month, I will be writing about my favorite Halloween episodes. There's so many to choose from! Obviously, The Simpsons Halloween episodes will get a whole post of its own. And Roseanne always had great episodes too.  And of course, Buffy the Vampire Slayer had some classic episodes! Some of them are scary, some of them are funny, most of them are both.

Netflix release Stranger Things Season 2 teaser trailer!

It's true! Here is Netflix have released a trailer announcing that Stranger Things season two will be happening in 2017! Hopefully, we won't have wait too long into 2017 to watch it! And I'm sure there will be plenty of actual trailers to keep us going until then!

Here's some info about the new season I got from the Mary Sue website...

• Season two will take place over 9 episodes (compared to the first season’s 8) set in the fall of 1984, only a short while after season one, and series creators/writers Matt and Ross Duffer will return.
• None of the cast has been announced as returning, but many of them have expressed interest in keeping the story going.
• The Duffers told Entertainment Weekly that they’re going to continue the same story, so all the major players should be back.
• There will also be four new characters!
• The nine episode titles are: “Madmax,” “The Boy Who Came Back to Life,” “The Pumpkin Patch,” “The Palace,” “The Storm,” “The Pollywog,” “The Secret Cabin,” “The Brain,” and “The Lost Brother”.

I will keep ya'all updated as soon as I found out any info!

Stranger Things - Dream 80's Cast

I love Stranger Things, you love Stranger Things...we all love Stranger Things...especially Barb.
I've been thinking about who would play the different characters if it had actually been made in the 80's. It's set in 1983 but I will be using people from the whole decade.

Chief Hooper

The first person I thought of was Clancy Brown as Chief Hooper.

And speaking of Winona's role as Joyce the mom...it would be so easy to choose Dee Wallace from E.T. or JoBeth Williams from Poltergeist. I'm gonna keep thinking about this and hopefully I'll have a good choice by the end of the article.

Nancy

Phoebe Cates would be Nancy, she's had experience kicking ass in Gremlins.

Barb

 Of course Martha Plimpton is Barb!

Steve

I thought about Steve a lot...
he's would need to be a charming
jerk with good hair...
so Robert Downey Jr.!

Dustin

Now for the boys...I feel like their should be at least one Corey.

I know a lot of people are comparing Dustin 

to Chunk but I see him as more of a Corey Feldman.

Mike

And that would mean Mike 

would have to be Corey Haim.

Lucas

Lucas would be played by Stefen DeSalle, 

which according to IMDB only acted in two movies...

but I think he was the inspiration for Lucas

wearing a bandana in Stranger Things.

Dustin

I changed my mind! Dustin should be Jason Presson!

Will

Lucas Haas would be Will.

Dr. Brenner

Evil Doctor Brenner has to be David Cronenberg...yes, the director, he's done some acting too.

And now for Joyce...since she was the inspiration for Joyce's hair and is a good crier and is a tough woman too...I have finally decided on Meryl Streep.

Joyce

If you disagree and/or have your own suggestions please leave them in the comments.

Friday the 13th: The Series - A Cup of Time

This is one of my favorite episodes!

A homeless kid asleep on a bench in a park is given some tea by a 'nice' old lady in a black cloak...and faster then they can say 'thanks for the cuppa' the leaves on the tea cup sprout and wind their way up the kid's arm and strangles them. (cool special effects by the way. no cgi here)
Cut to a recording studio and the most 80's singer ever! Lady Die! Huge crimped hair! Latex outfit! Synths on the backing track...which she hates by the way. She's a nightmare, of course, total rock bitch. She storms off to her dressing room and can't stop checking for wrinkles in the mirror. She wants to do a benefit concert for the homeless...coincidence? Probably not.
Back at 'Curious Goods...a little old lady neighbor, Bertie, drops by with their curtains. She's got a crush on Jack...who is developing a protein drink that's 'healthy and organic'...way ahead of his time there Jack. Bertie is a social worker and had to identify the body of the homeless teen that died in the opening scene. They also mention an old homeless woman had disappeared earlier that year...coincidence? Probably not.
Ryan and Micki head off to the morturary to talk to the police about the homeless deaths...and they totally just walk in on the autopsy, Ryan looks a bit peaky. The pathologist discovers some 'greenish' paint on the dead girls neck, as him and the detective go in for a better look an ivy leaf falls on the floor, which Ryan quickly picks up for a clue. Sneaky.
Apparently, it's 'swapper's' ivy, which in Ireland was considered to be evil...and of course there's a cursed tea cup in the book! Ryan and Micki go to see the guy who bought it, 'Fat' Eddie Burell. Whose skeleton they find in his creepy apartment...Ryan makes a joke about not calling him 'Fat' Eddie anymore.
Sound check at the homeless charity concert. Lady Die is freaking out again over looking old. A homeless girl is partaking of the craft services table and even pick pokets Lady Die's agent's wallet. She runs off and hides in a bush.

Not to be confused with Princess Diana

The not so nice lady in a black cloak with the tea cup is trying to give it to a homeless guy when the little girl runs up. She gives the girl a bracelet to split...the 'swapper's' ivy kills the guy and we see the lady in the cloak is Lady Die...OMG! Yeah, we kinda guessed that.
It turns out that the old lady that's missing, Sarah, is 'Fat' Eddie's sister...coincidence? Probably not.
The Scooby gang figure out that Sarah Burell and Lady Die are the same person after hearing one of her songs on the radio which is about 'I'm a little tea pot..." Subtle.
Ryan and Micki confront her at the local radio station and she runs off but not before getting pick pocketed by the little homeless girl and running into Bertie, her old social worker. Aging quite quickly Lady Die/Sarah tries to swap lives with a homeless person but discovers that the tea cup is missing.

Ryan and Micki go looking for her in the park where all the murders have happened, Bertie is following them for some reason. They find the homeless girl's camp in the park...they get it back from her by promising her a hot meal and a warm bed. As per usual, they take the homeless girl, Kristen, back to 'Curious Goods'. As they look for potato chips for young Kristen, someone break into the shop and steals the tea cup. Turns out the thief is Bertie, no Bertie no, what are you doing!?! She goes to the park to use the tea cup on someone...it's very sad cuz Bertie is kinda awesome. Yay, she can't go through with it and gets comforted by a homeless guy.
Ryan, Micki and Jack think it was Lady Die/Sarah not Bertie who stole the tea cup. We see Bertie in the park with the tea cup...and so does Lady Die/Sarah! Oh No! The Scooby gang rush to the park as Bertie gets chased by Lady Die/Sarah and falls down a hill and then killed by her. The police, for some reason, think Ryan and Micki have tried to kill Bertie, she's actually alive after all.
Lady Die/Sarah is on the look out for another victim...psych! It's Jack in a wig! He grabs the tea from her and runs off. Weirdly, Lady Die turns up for her benefit concert and dies as she falls out of her dressing room/RV.
Kristen ends up going to live with Bertie in the end and everyone lives happily ever after.
Note: Jakc's protein drink is made from bugs...gross.
Cursed Object: Tea Cup decorated with 'Swapper's' Ivy
Number of Deaths: 7?

Friday the 13th: The Series - Episode 3 Cupid's Quiver

This episode of Friday the 13th: The Series was directed by award winning and Oscar nominated Canadian Atom Egoyan, though it is not listed on his Wikipedia page.
It's about a 'Nice Guy'...one of those men who expect women to date them because they aren't assholes but get pissed off when they get turned down...and on this show that means people die.
A creepy 'Nice Guy' asks a woman, who is sitting and chatting with another guy to dance...she turns him down and he goes back to the bar where he has a Cupid's statue in a burlap bag, because of course you do. The Cupid 'shoots' the girl who turned him down and now she can't get enough of 'Nice Guy'. It's like a supernatural roofie. They go to a motel and get it on whilst the Cupid watches...gross. The 'Nice Guy' starts tho strangle the girl but the police bust in and stop him.

You can tell it's evil just looking at it.

When Micki and Ryan interview the motel manager it turns out some Frat-bros helped break down the door to the room when the police raided it...one of them must have taken it! Off to the university!
Ryan, Micki and Jack want to search the Frat for the Cupid, so they end up at a Frat party. Somehow Jack bartends and makes a 'Scottish truth potion' cocktail to try and get the where abouts of the Cupid out of the Frat-bros. The frat had it but new creepy 'Nice Guy' Eddie, Frat-bro wannabe, gets a hold of the Cupid of Malek. He's in love with some girl, Laurie, that tutored him once and thinks it was a date...uh-oh. He uses it on one of the girls at the party and they end up 'parking' in the woods...and then she dies of bee stings. WTH?
Eddie returns to the party and tries to give Laurie the Cupid. They try and explain to Laurie that Eddie is obsessed with her and that she's in danger. Ryan gets the Cupid back from Eddie but it gets taken by Uni security because the Frat-bros have said it was stolen. Eddie gets it back from the security guard, cuz they're buddies. Laurie ends up going back to the antique shop for her safety. Unforunately, it turns out Laurie was 'stung' by the Cupid and is now in love with Eddie. She sneaks out and goes to Eddie in his creepy basement home...no wait...it's Micki in a bad wig! They know everything! Dammit! Micki gets shot bu the Cupid. Eddie grabs Micki and threatens her and Ryan with a fire axe. Ryan chases him through the creepy basement and then Eddie falls to his death.
In the end Jack lectures Ryan about not taking what they're doing seriously enough.

Cursed Object: Cupid of Malek
Number of Deaths: 3

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Friday the 13th: The Series - The Poisoned Pen

Yeah, that's not very convincing,

Episode two takes place inside a monastery where people keep dying after a monk 'predicts' their deaths. Jack realises that it is actually a 'poisoned' pen that makes whatever is written come true. But the only way for them to get the 'poisoned' pen back is for Ryan and Micki to disguise themselves as monks to enter the monastery. Jack forges the paperwork that allows them to join the monastery. The monks must all be blind because there's no way that Micki looks like a man in anyway whatsoever!
So it turns out that the 'psychic' monk is a puppet for an evil monk who just wants to sell the monastery for millions of dollars to a property developer, who will turn it into luxury flats...somethings never change. Ryan and Micki are a bit out of their depth and Jack turns up as an Irish monk to help them out. He also made a copy of the poison pen so they can switch it out with the real one.

The Poisoned Pen

The evil monk kills the 'psychic' monk and also tries to kill Ryan and Micki but as they are not actually brothers the real ones in England die instead.
They finally confront the evil monk and defeat him with his own poison pen...he gets killed by an axe.
Cursed Object: A Quill
Number of Deaths: 7?

Friday The 13th: The Series - Episode 1: The Inheritance

One of my favorite 80's TV shows was the the American/Canadian horror classic 'Friday the 13th: The Series'. It has no real connection the movie series, though producer Frank Mancuso Jr. also produced a seven of the films from number two to number eight.

Evil Doll. Perfect Eyebrows.

I originally watched it when it was first on between 1987 to 1990, I mostly watched it when I was babysitting, I was a bad babysitter. I've rewatched it a couple times since then and have recently started to watch it again, as it's geting close to Halloween. After watching the first episode again I realized I had to blog about this awesomely cheesy show, and I mean that in all the best ways!
The first episode does not pull any punches...creepy old man - check, Satan - check, evil doll - check, evil child - check.
Uncle Lewis has made a deal with the Devil but gets dragged into hell by him for breaking the deal. Cousins Micki, (Robey) and Ryan end up inheriting his antique shop, not knowing that all the items are cursed, they sell some off so they can sell the shop and part ways. They accidently sell an evil doll to a father, don't know how they could accidently sell it as it's creepy as hell.

Very young Sarah Polley.
She was also Ramona Quimby.

The evil child is Sarah Polley, who has gone on to be a successful actress and director. She is a unhappy, spoiled daughter of a hen pecked man and his second wife. The evil doll basically seduces Mary telling her they can get rid of her 'evil step-mother'. The doll pushes the stepmother down the stairs when she tries to take her away from Mary...luckily(?) she doesn't die but ends up in hospital where the evil doll finishes the job.
Mary is left at home with a babysitter, whom she tries to kill with her evil animated toys. Ryan and

Give me that doll!

Micki rush to the house to retrieve the doll and end up fighting them on one of those playground merry-go-round things...yes, two adults fight a child for a doll.
Micki and Ryan realize that they need to search for and retrieve all the cursed items...with the help of Jack Marshak, who was a friend of Lewis, a world traveller and an occultist, he collected many of the antiques for Lewis before they were cursed.
Mode of death: Doll
Death count: 4?

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