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Top Five Spooky Childhood Movies
My nostalgic Halloween must-haves
I have always been a lover of all things spooky and off-beat, so naturally Halloween has been my favourite holiday since I was a child. It was the one day a year that my love for the strange was shared by others, and I relished it every year. Halloween is different now, without the thrilling bustle of trick-or-treating – but new traditions had sprung up. Haunted houses for a thrill, and cosy candlelit nights with a good book or movie.
There are a few movies with heavy rotation in my yearly Halloween watches, mixing gory fare like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with the nostalgic classics of my childhood. This is what I want to focus on here: the films that charmed and thrilled me a young child, and still hold a delight for me. They are what got me into horror as I am now and as such they remain important to my story.
The Halloween Tree
Sad was the Halloween I sat in front of the TV eagerly awaiting the yearly broadcast of The Halloween Tree, something I never missed, only to find that it wasn’t being shown. This animated special was traditional (almost ritualistic) viewing during…
