Monday 31 October 2011

HAPPY HALLOWE'EN 2011

Yay!
Despite the warm Autumn we are having it's always a milestone to get to Hallowe'en... my favourite mini-holiday! Of course I loooove Christmas but Hallowe'en is such fun and it brings back some great memories (except the year we couldn't go trick or treating due to torrential rain but I got dressed up anyway hoping when my parents saw me they'd relent. They did not thus I sat behind the dining room door in the dark and sobbed for hours.... No fun that year)
Not this year though! It's been a splendid year!
Last weekend was Celluloid Screams ( http://www.celluloidscreams.co.uk/ ) and the husband and I went to see INBRED ( http://inbredmovie.com/ ) which I would highly recommend to anyone interested in horror. A mix of black-comedy and gore... with a great cast who did a Q&A... perfect!
The next night was Tomie:Unlimited... Trippy! Followed by Re-Animator at the midnight showing, then up early to go see my favourite horror film, Hallowe'en, for and strangely scheduled 11.30 am showing. It was great to see it on original film on a big screen and I'm glad I roused myself.
What a great way to start the Hallowe'en season!
This weekend (The Real Deal) was spent pumpkin carving ( left; mine. right; Rachel's) with my oldest friend Rachel ( 24 years of friendship!) then settling down to watch Scared Shrekless and eat hallowe'en treats.
I used all my pumpkin-inners to make a pumpkin, raisin and orange loaf and a potato and pumpkin homity pie for my husband.
Saturday night was time for pizza, a bottle of red wine, The House By The Cememtery and a visit (again!) from Rachel and Kit.
Sunday, I managed to cram ANOTHER horror film in... The Woman. Interesting... Slow to start, bizarre indie soundtrack but ended on a bad-people-killing-high. Just the way I like it!
Tonight... Hallowe'en night... We've had our mini orange cream Oreo stash swiped by trick or treaters (resulting in us locking the gate . BOOOOOOO!) but are preparing home made pizzas and picking out some more films......
Goodbye Hallowe'en.... roll on Christmas!
Bring on the snow!