| Staying in for Halloween but don't want to | | | | the movie more enjoyable. |
| waste it away? Well, if there aren't any | | | | |
| parties to go to, trick-or-treaters to treat | | | | The point of Halloween to exist in the modern |
| (or scare), or if you just plain don't want | | | | world is to provide faux scares. That and, |
| to get up off that couch, then you may as | | | | well, at the opinion of this writer, |
| well make it into a Halloween-themed evening. | | | | Halloween is a solid gold harvest for the |
| No trouble there. Just rent the right movies | | | | corporations. Staying home without any |
| and invite the right people. Costumes | | | | legitimate fears, or even a sense of greater |
| optional. And for those still dissuaded to | | | | wonder, is the ultimate crime on Halloween |
| participate in this supernatural time of the | | | | night; the one and only legitimate and |
| year (or for those who don't believe in the | | | | legally organized night to instill fear in |
| supernatural), read onward for several | | | | others' hearts. The best thing to do, inside |
| suggestions and insight. | | | | the confines of your own home is to dress up |
| | | | as a creature, lie in wait behind a door, and |
| Halloween bears its origin from the Irish and | | | | scare family members. |
| Scottish countries. Since then varieties of | | | | |
| it have cropped up, nonetheless all of them | | | | Okay. Fine. So I'm all out of ideas to |
| with similar components: masks, costumes, | | | | convince you to revel in Halloween night. |
| parties, and the presence of mortality and | | | | You're right then, it really isn't worth it |
| death. The latter quality is what makes | | | | to go out and stay out on Halloween. They say |
| Halloween stand out from the other national | | | | the candied apples strangers throw into the |
| American holidays: death. It is only | | | | kids' bags are booby trapped with razors and |
| appropriate, then, to disseminate it into all | | | | pins. They say that vandalism goes up for one |
| the qualities that make up our notions of | | | | night; drunkenness, disorderliness, and |
| Halloween. In other words, scare the living | | | | delinquency…it all goes up. Most |
| daylights out of anyone; but don't forget to | | | | importantly, they say that ghosts and evil |
| scare yourself. That's the real treat of | | | | spirits rise from their graves and enter the |
| Halloween. | | | | physical world of the living, and that they |
| | | | torment any soul who doesn't wear a mask (a |
| Of course, most movies can only go so far in | | | | ward to keep spirits at bay, just so you |
| scaring a person. (And in all honesty, the | | | | know). |
| majority of movies can only manage to startle | | | | |
| a person; all while instilling very little | | | | And so, for those of you who do not intend to |
| actual fear). As any person would know by | | | | celebrate Halloween at all, who plan to stay |
| know, the joy of watching a horror movie is | | | | inside on the one night evil spirits arise to |
| to watch it with others. Doing so might pad | | | | wreck havoc, please, at my own superstitious |
| out the scare-factor, but boy does it make | | | | beliefs…at least wear a mask. |