Call me cynical but I cannot get excited about Halloween anymore. Don't get me wrong, I love a bit of horror, spine chillers, spookiness and carved pumpkins look great (the boyfriend says my laughing is like a witch cackling sometimes but I think he's joking...) but Halloween these days for me means hiding in my house with the curtains drawn, the lights turned off, with the doorbell disconnected. That's right, anyone who comes trick or treating gets ignored.
I sound like a right killjoy but I refuse to open the door to "children" (aren't 18 year old boys legally classed as 'men' ?), wearing crappy costumes, demanding money, not treats.
A couple of years ago, I opened the door to such a motley group - "Trick or Treat" they mumbled in deep voices, as I peered from behind the front door. As I could see one of them trying with difficulty to hide a large water pistol behind his back, so I said "Treat" and handed them a handful of wrapped chocolates. They looked at each other and one of them said "We've got loads of sweets now, too many. Can we have some cash?" I told them I had no change and closed the doors to the beggars - I'm not paying for them to go to the off licence to get cigarettes and beer.
Tonight, me and bf celebrated Halloween in a way, by watching Freddy vs Jason on DVD - the hockey-masked killer Jason Voorhees from the Friday 13th films and the razor-gloved Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street squaring off against each other. Plenty of gushing blood, gore and usual mayhem, not very scary, just some slasher fun.
The trailer on the DVD for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre lloked far scarier. Might search for that on eBay.
Oh no, NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow! :O
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