Halloween

As beloved as the first movie is and remains after over 40 years, the Halloween franchise is not exactly one with a stellar track record. So it seems like both an artistically…

People nowadays tend to focus on scary movies for Halloween, and even though I love scary movies as much as the next ghoul, but let’s remember to give it up…

Scary clowns are, as they say, having a moment. There was a rash of real-life creepy clown sightings last year, Pennywise is the hottest movie star of this year, and…

In North America we have the Zombie Frappuccino coming to celebrate the Halloween season. In Japan, Starbucks is opting for a more mysterious approach – literally in this case, as…

It feels like it was approximately 14 years ago, but actually the Snapchat Dancing Hot Dog character came into our lives a matter of months ago, to the delight and…

Michael Jackson and Halloween seem to go together more and more these days. First we had the spooky MJ compilation Scream, which collects every even vaguely Halloween-adjacent Jackson song, and…

We all remember the Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino, which for me anyway seemed to be tapping into some widespread cultural joke that couldn’t be completely understood or grasped. I do understand…

It’s Friday the 13th, in October no less, so I’d be remiss if I didn’t leave you with something spooky this afternoon. Luckily, I have just such a something, albeit…

I always kind of associate Michael Jackson with October, since his masterpiece Thriller is one of my favorite Halloween records – even if the title track is the only one…

SpongeBob SquarePants has been on the air since (slight exaggeration to follow) 1958, and yet somehow they’ve never thought to do a stop-motion animated episode until now. This Halloween will…