Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 1

October officially marks the beginning of Scary Season. With this in mind, the Pepper Bough is celebrating with a daily dose of creepy moments sure to make your hairs stand on end. Come celebrate with us . . . if you dare.

So much has been said about John Carpenter’s “Halloween” that you could fill books. In fact, some have. However, despite the sinister point-of-view opening, the iconic Michael Myers mask, or Jamie Lee Curtis’ tribute to her mother, Janet’s performance in “Psycho,” one of the most overlooked parts of this movie is the simple terror of its script. Few moments are as chilling as this one, when Dr. Loomis (another reference to “Psycho”) describes Michael Myers to Sheriff Brackett.

“I met him, 15 years ago; I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding in even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this… six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and… the blackest eyes – the Devil’s eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up, because I realized that what was living behind that boy’s eyes was purely and simply… evil.”