Gruesome Ghouls And Grizzly Ghosts

THE HALLOWEEN WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

…Streaming from the Castle East! This fan-made 1973 video for “The Monster Mash” is today’s must-see clip (natch. The covers by Bootsy Collins and Buckethead, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and The Misfits are pretty good also — the latter uses clips from the Rankin-Bass animated classic, Mad Monster Party. And here’s the story behind the perennial graveyard smash.

The Shaggs: It’s Halloween!

Jim Carroll (deceased) sings about “People Who Died.”

KISS got their first television exposure in 1976 on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.

Halloween A/V: The Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer,” Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising,” Echo & the Bunnymen’s “The Killing Moon,” Santana’s “Black Magic Woman“, The Ramones’ “Pet Sematary,” Alice Cooper’s “Welcome to My Nightmare,” Siouxsie & the Banshees’ “Halloween,” Cat Power’s “Werewolf,” Guided by Voices’ “Cut-Out Witch,” Classics IV’s “Spooky,” Tegan & Sara’s “Walking With a Ghost,” Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition,” Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ “Red Right Hand,” AC/DC’s “Hell’s Bells,” The Cramps’ “Goo Goo Muck,” Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear The Reaper (More Cowbell),” Tom Waits’ “Cemetery Polka,” The Edgar Winter Group’s “Frankenstein,” and Oingo Boingo’s “Dead Man’s Party.” And, of course… Screamin’ Jay Hawkins.

The Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy For The Devil“ from the David Frost Show just plain amuses me. Monty Python makes much more sense when you know most of them once wrote for Frost.

Warren Zevon: A live trifecta of “Werewolves of London,” “Excitable Boy“ and “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner.” Bonus: “Werewolves of London,” by James Joyce.

Thomas Dolby: How about the mad vibe of “She Blinded Me With Science“?

Henry Mancini: “Experiment in Terror.” A sentimental favorite to those who grew up watching “Creature Features” on WGN before it went superstation.

The 40 Best Halloween Songs?

The Time Warp: Let’s do it again.

And Now: A Sophisticated Man About Town. Super-duper.

Grim Grinning Ghosts, from the Haunted Mansion.

“Thriller”: The original 13-minute Jacko classic, plus the filipino prisoners.

It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The WaPo has 7 Things You Don’t Know about the perennial Peanuts classic. Vox thinks it’s a Christmas special.

The Top 10 Sci-Fi Horror Flicks, according to Forbes.

The 25 Scariest Opening Scenes in horror-movie history, according to The A/V Club.

Documenting Madness: The Making of The Shining. Directed by Vivian Kubrick.

Is Frozen Disney’s version of The Shining?

War of The Worlds: All these decades years later, you can stream the infamous Orson Welles.

The Wilhelm Scream: The repeatedly used film and television stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums, now appearing as an in-joke in many films, is the subject of a Masters of Horror segment.

A Pro Pumpkin Carver Spills His Guts.

How To Carve Your Pumpkin Using Power Tools.

The Horror Movie Draft, at The Ringer.

Ten Killer Tracks associated with horror movies, courtesy of NME.

The 100 Best Horror Films, compiled by TimeOut with assistance from filmmakers like Guillermo del Toro, Clive Barker and Roger Corman to actors, academics and fans of scary movies including Simon Pegg, Kim Newman and Alice Cooper.

The 45 Best Horror Films, also from TimeOut.

The 100 Top Horror Films, according to Variety.

The 100 Greatest Horror Films, according to IndieWire.

The 200 Best Horror Movies, according to Rotten Tomatoes.

The Top 25 Horror Films of the 80s, according to Entertainment Weekly.

The 25 Best Horror Films Since 2000, according to The A.V. Club.

The Best Horror Films of the Past 20 Years, according to Variety.

The 15 Scariest Films You’ve Never Seen, according to Variety, though I’ve seen Alice Sweet Alice.

Scream: How Wes Craven permanently changed horror movies.

Backrooms and Obsession: How two low-budget horror films caused a Hollywood earthquake.

Stephen King, on his favorite horror film.

24 Hours of Horror with Robert Eggers.