60 days of halloween

tonight nicholas and i have eaten the first pumpkin pie of the season. here at chez really bad movies we take the scaring season pretty seriously silly. fall is my favorite time of year and even tho the temperature today was in the triple digits i can detect a change in light and a certain ambiance of halloween.

at least in my mind at any rate. today marks 59 days to halloween, not 60. but yesterday i began my countdown to my favorite holiday and 60 is a good round number to start with. so beginning tonight i'll begin posting reviews of horror movies, some good, some so-bad-they're-good, a few truly awful and a couple of surprises. i'll not write about halloween all the time but for most of the time i'll dedicate my thoughts on halloween and halloween related items, such as collectibles, toys, games, and even a music review or two.

tonight i'll start with a trailer for a hotly anticipated flick, at least for horror movie geeks like me, that was made last year and was not given a theatrical release. rather, the movie, trick 'r treat, is being dumped onto dvd on 10/6/09. no matter, i've been reading raves about this film for some time now. even if it sucks the movie, at least in the trailer, looks cool with saturated browns, oranges and blacks occasionally punctuated by a blast of color creating a smokiness that lends a spectral beauty to the images of jack o'lanterns, costumes and candy thru out. the movie, directed by michael dougherty, who cut his teeth penning horror movies, is an anthology of 4 distinct stories happening simultaneously. it is clear that dougherty is nuts for the spooky holiday too.

i'll review the film when it comes out on dvd. until then, feast on this: