Even though my birthday is the day before Halloween, I don't really care about Halloween that much anymore. I would like Halloween a lot more if I could go trick or treating as an adult. Trick or treating is really superior, because it's a mixed bag of candy - you can get good candy, you can wind up with some bad candy, some house might "forget" it was Halloween and you could wind up with a Pop-Tart or a Little Debbie Cake. You get to wear a costume and show it off to a multitude of people who oooh and aaah over you and reward you with mystery candy. However, for some dumb reason it's socially unacceptable to trick or treat if you're older than a teenager; I just think that if you are putting in the effort to have a cool costume and walk around then you should get candy like everyone else. (Effort! Not a dumb t-shirt that says 'This IS my costume', you shoulda just stayed home.) Although this is an unpopular opinion among my peers, I have in me about two weeks of 'spooky season' that occur somewhere around September, and then it's gone and I am Ready For Christmas. My personal schedule in terms of Holidays That Matter are: - Christmas - New Year's Eve - Valentine's Day - Nowruz - Summer - Hurricane Season - Back to Christmas and so on. Halloween is for children, as my mother would say. Anyway, in the two weeks worth of Ooky Spooky vibes I have, I'll watch some spooky movies. It is not Halloween without Ernest Scared Stupid, imo. I made a spreadsheet of old spooky movies - black and white preferred - and I recently watched Santo vs. The Vampire Women from 1962. Santo vs. The Vampire Women was an absolute delight and it only would have been more delightful if Santo had lost and the vampire women had continued as planned. This is 1962 so all the vampire women are gorgeous and their waists are snatched. The vampire Queen looks like Cher and Kim Kardashian and I would absolutely let her murder me so I don't see why everyone else has a problem. This movie was a terrific time and I really enjoyed the occult aspects of the vampire women - they're covered in cake makeup and have ratty wigs until they drink blood that has been blessed under the full moon, and the vampire queen's consort only appears as a devilish shadow on the wall. It's just these little fun details that aren't really explained, but that are so atmospheric and leave a bit to the viewer's imagination.
There are some wrestling scenes with Santo but they go on for a long time and are not very well shot. If I were to remake this movie, I would just have some very good wrestling scenes but then have Santo immediately decimated by vampires. Then we could have vampire Santo. Why didn't anyone think this through?
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