Halloween Horror

Ahhh, October. The month of Halloween.

I love Halloween. It’s the one time of the year where people freely talk about monsters, ghosts, and various other supernatural entities. (Well, that and Christmas) As somebody who frequently thinks about monsters, ghosts, and various other supernatural entities in every month of the year, it is a refreshing change of atmosphere.

One thing I especially love about Halloween is the mass release of various thrillers and slashers in the cheap isles of the DVD section. Horror movies are a passion of mine. My favorite being, of course, John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween’. (Nothing against Rob Zombie’s remake of the film, which I also really enjoyed.)

Horror movies have always been near and dear to my heart and recently I’ve noticed some insight as to why. Michael Myers massacres the residents of Haddonfield, Illinois. Freddy Krueger terrorizes the dreams of children in Springwood, Ohio. And Jason Voorhees stalks campers around Crystal Lake.

For the big city dwellers, these locations are just quaint little towns. Specs on the map, far away from mass civilization.

For people like me, these places are home. The small town where everybody’s been possessed by demons could be the next town over. The spooky house with the serial killer stitching parts of people together could be along my drive to work. The most common local for horror is that small rural town out in the middle of nowhere where anything could happen and there’s nobody around to help you.

That or New England. All the fog I guess.