Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments
For the last 31 days, the Pepper Bough staff has been celebrating the coming of Halloween by featuring articles about a variety of scary moments in film, books, comics, and music. If you missed any of them, they are now all collected here in this easy-to-access goodie bag.
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 m...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 2
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. Grady Hendrix is one of the most prolific and prolifically entertaining horror novelists working today. Every one of his novel's is a delightfully creepy read, however the one that...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 3
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. In James Wan's "Saw," Tobin Bell's performance as Jigsaw is one of the most overlooked parts of the movie. It is simply terrifying. Few moments are as chilling as this one, whe...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 4
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. "It," based on the novel by Stephen King, is one of the most popular horror movies of all-time. Bill Skarsgård delivers an iconic performance as Pennywise the Clown, who abdu...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 5
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. In 1992's "Candyman," Tony Todd stars as the sinister, yet tragic, villain. Todd's performance is as heartbreaking as it is horrifying. The film was based on a short story by...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 6
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. Every generation has its boogeyman, and for the Baby Boomers in the 1950s it was . . . comic books. Specifically horror comic books. Due to the popularity of E.C. Comics ti...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 7
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. Freddy? Jason? Michael? Leatherface? Posers. You know who's really scary? Sam in 2007's "Trick 'r Treat." This pumpkin-headed little guy who skulks about in an orange burlap s...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 8
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. In "The Ring" (2002) we are confronted with the deadly idea that the images we put in our heads may actually kill us. In the film, there's an urban legend about a videotape that whe...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 9
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. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is one of the towering movies in horror film history. It was only a matter of time that one of its series of sequels and/or reboots would win some...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 10
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. "Hocus Pocus" is easily one of the most delightful Halloween movies. Starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, it is about three witches who were executed during t...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 11
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. Before Stephen King became a household name, he was a struggling prep school teacher in Vermont writing stories for men's magazines to barely pay the monthly bills. Every night he...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 12
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. In "Ready or Not," Australian actress Samara Weaving plays Grace, a young woman on the verge of marrying into a rich family with some very curious marriage night rituals. Grace's fiance i...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 13
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. "Sandman," written by Neil Gaiman and a number of artists, was a comic book published by DC Comics that ran for 75 issues from 1989 to 1996. The series, despite its age, has been...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 14
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. Michael Keaton's performance in "Beetlejuice" is super popular, yet overlooked when Halloween comes around. Everyone wants to talk about Jack Nicholson in "The Shining," or Rober...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 15
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. Just like Christmas, what makes Halloween so special are all the songs. Nothing gets you feeling creepy faster than a few minor notes played at just the right tempo, or with ...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 16
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. "Do ghosts like toast?" This is one of the deep questions childrens' performers Andrew & Polly ask in "Ghostbusters," their cover of Ray Parker Jr.'s classic theme song fro...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 17
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. "The Addams Family" never fails to remind us that death is a comfort. Charles Addams’ comically ghoulish characters are ideal emcees for a movie delighting in electrocution, poisonin...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 18
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. The origin of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is itself a classic horror myth. It was a dark and stormy afternoon in 1816. The setting: Geneva. She sat around a fire beside he...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 19
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. Telling the truth is one of the scariest things a person can do. In Ari Aster's feature film debut, "Hereditary," the death of her mother has Annie (Toni Collette) struggli...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 20
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. John Carpenter's "Halloween" in 1978 was never intended to become a series about Michael Myers, the masked bogeyman who returns to Haddonfield on the anniversary of the night he...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 21
October officials 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. Screenwriter Bragi F. Schut's “Escape Room” in 2019 became a box office success based on its simple, yet alluring premise: what if you entered an escape room you were never me...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 22
October officials 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. Have you ever looked into a mirror and became afraid your reflection might act on its own? Jordan Peele, fresh off his Oscar-winning success with "Get Out," asked just that question...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 24
October officials 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. Shirley Jackson' s "The Haunting of Hill House" is arguably the greatest horror novel of all-time. You will be hard-pressed to find a writer or critic who won't praise the novel fo...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 25
October officials 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. Does it get scarier than the chest-bursting scene in “Alien”? A group of blue-collar working stiffs on a commercial intergalactic flight headed home intercept a mysterious distress...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 26
October officials 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. Depending on your feelings about the upcoming holiday season, "Gremlins" may or may not be a Christmas movie. After all, it is about a Christmas gift gone awry. Billy (Zach Ga...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 27
October officials 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. "The great gray beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive." This begins Clive Barker's 1992 young adult horror novel "The Thief of Always," which tells the story of a bored ...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 28
October officials 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. In the early 1980s, as home video became more accessible to people in England, the UK government began to censor films being produced and distributed in the country. Some believed...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 29
October officials 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. In honor of Homecoming, let's talk about "Scream" (1996). After the 1980s introduced a popular canon of marketable monsters, like Jason Vorhees, Michael Myers, Freddie Krueger,...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 30
October officials 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. Ray Bradbury was a masterful writer in the mid-20th century. His short stories, like "A Distant Sound of Thunder," "I Sing the Body Electric," and "The Veldt" made him a household name for fans of horror, dark fantasy, and speculative fiction...
Halloween Countdown – 31 Scary Moments – Oct. 31
October officials 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. There are few horror films as talked about as Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" (1980). In fact, people talk so much about "The Shining" that a documentary movie called "Room 23...
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