Disney’s Halloween Treat

Disney’s Halloween Treat is what made Halloween great when I was a kid.  The trick-or-treating too of course, but this old collection of the scarier moments of Disney is something that I have always remembered and wanted to share with my kids, when I have them.  I don’t think Disney has released this program in DVD format because all I can find on Amazon is a VHS copy that somebody is trying to sell for $145.  I guess they know they can get that price for a movie so loved by previous generations.

Luckily enough, even though not on DVD, somebody has posted the whole show on YouTube in nine parts.  I’m reposting it here for everyones viewing pleasure.  Enjoy.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Part Six

Part Seven

Part Eight

Part Nine

Tags: Disney, Halloween, Disney’s Halloween Treat

Halloween

Getting in the Halloween spirit is great fun.  Up until this year, I would make it a point to read some Halloweenish book to get me in the spirit.  Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein are particularly effective for this purpose.  But this year I am in school so I’ve tried to do what I can since reading leisure books is out of the question.

So this year I’ve stumbled across some amazing pumpkin carvings that deserve to be recognized.  I thought it was hard enough last year to do one of those pumpkin designs with the skinny carvers that allow you to get more detail – that now seems like kid stuff.  Look at this site, and you’ll see some really amazing carvings.  Chances are you won’t be seeing any pumpkins that look like these as you take the kids our trick or treating.
Here is another site that offers some nice Halloween artwork.  It’s really too bad I didn’t find it a month earlier so I could have enjoyed it for longer than a day.  Smashing Magazine is one of my favorite sites for cool artwork, and this Halloween post doesn’t disappoint.

And of course I’ll have to watch Van Helsing some time.  No Halloween season would be complete without this classic according to Nathan.  If you haven’t seen this movie, you should watch it just for the good classic villains.  It’s no award winner, but I think it’s a lot of fun.

Happy Halloween!

Tags: Halloween, pumpkin carving, Van Helsing, Dracula, Frankenstein