Mood:  chillin'

In our attempts to have something Halloween-like to watch every night of October, we turned to Netflix and sundry online recommendations and lists.  Witches in Stitches was the first previously un-experienced cinematic experiences to come of this.  

Even though this animated flick was made in 1997 (by an animation studio in Indianapolis) it has flavors of the 60s, 70s, and 80s.  The trick-o-treating scene took place on a street that had to have been inspired by Charlie Brown.  The witches and some of the character interaction reminded me of The Point.  

Oh, it was bad.  But it was bad in the way all those Halloween specials were bad when they used to take over all access TV between 6 and 7p.m.  I miss those days.  Now, even with cable, Halloween specials are few and far between.  Gone are the hour long tributes to trick-o-treating by every popular cartoon on the air.  In their place stand Horror movie marathons on the SciFi and FX channels.  And in a house that has horror movies all the time, Halloween needs more special programing than that.  Any way, Witches in Stitches, buy it here.

A look at the special Halloween programing in my house so far:

Transylvania 6-5000 - totally saturated with classic monsters, although not really.

Hellboy - because the first half of the movie takes place during a Halloween party.

Hocus Pocus - self explanatory

Bewitched - awesome Halloween scene with trick-o-treating witches

Corpse Bride - because Nightmare Before Christmas is a Christmas movie damnit!

Once Bitten - Halloween ball and dance off!

It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown - again self explanatory

And that's all you get right now, just know this:  we are saving a lot of really awesome stuff for closer to the day itself, and I'll probably watch Charlie Brown again.