Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.
The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.
That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was seven, I loved those old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. The Scarlet Claw was one of my faves. And I loved all the Halloween's and that film about the haunted house. . . Burnt Offerings, with Oliver Reed. Every birthday party was a slumber party and we'd watch horror films.
Apparently, this really was Kill Charley Davidson Week. Or at least Horribly Maim Her. . . . It would probably never get government recognition, though, destined to be underappreciated like Halloween or Thesaurus Day.
Candy corn. For Halloween that is my favorite candy, but it doesn't come around that often and I like that.
O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll. "
Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed.
The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.
I want to be Michael Clifford for Halloween.
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
If you let fear take hold, if you let it own you, your life ceases to be your own.
I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.
I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'
There is something haunting in the light of the moon.
First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.
Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.
It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?" "Why bother with that? Let's find incubi. " "Incubi?" "Demons. Plural. Like octopi. And we're much more likely to find them"--her voice dropped conspiratorially--"while swimming naked in the Atlantic a week before Halloween than practically anywhere else I can think of.
On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people's houses. That used to be such a tease.
So when it came to making the movie I guess I had a really good sense innately of what it was that makes Halloween really great. In that it is a holiday for everybody now. When I was a kid I felt like it was mostly for kids, maybe that's just the way it always is when you're a kid, but I think now more than ever it's for grown ups too. When I was a kid I don't think there were quite as many sexy adult costumes and we definitely didn't have all these Spirit Halloween stores that pop up every October.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.