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X-E Visits Halloween Playland!


Dead leaf on the windshield, dead leaf on the windshield, I so need to write a song, about the dead leaf on the windshield.

It's starting to get nice and pretty and orange and yellow outside, but probably not as much as I'd like it to be, because we keep having weather that could fly in July if it tried hard enough.

Speaking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has anyone seen the new movie? I've already read all the spoilers like a big brat, but I'm just curious if it's any good, since reviews have seemed so "absolutely yes" or "absolutely not." I do know that, whether brilliant or banal, New Line is treating it like a real horror movie, and that alone might be enough to get me to yay out loud. I wouldn't say that the 2003 remake grew on me upon subsequent viewings, but I'm at least able to appreciate it for what it is instead of worrying about what it could've been. Hopefully, with less of a reason to compare it to anything, the new film manages to be entertaining without a "but."


Joining the Halloween Countdown for Monday is something quite very lots much really cool. A local lawn/flower/plant/fertlizer store transforms into the wondrous Halloween Playland in October, consisting of a pumpkin patch, inflatable funhouses, grim reapers and a portapotty full of fake shit. This entry deals with the ambiance; tomorrow's entry will cover all the fun stuff I bought there.

Posted by Matt on 10/08/2006. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 68 comments

Great Post Matt. Just wanted to wish all of my fellow Canadian XErs a Happy Thanksgiving. Once im done stuffing my gullet with Turkey it will be time to decorate for Halloween.

Chestnuts roasted by Greg @ 10/09/2006 6:26 AM

You know, that stuff may be homemade, but it was homemade by someone who could actually DRAW! :D

Definately looked like a fun place to visit…is the gargoyle for sale?

Chestnuts roasted by Moony @ 10/09/2006 6:47 AM

Why didn’t anyone tell me it was Thanksgiving in Canada? Well, I mean Greg did but why didn’t someone tell me last week so I could’ve had something ready ahead of time. This is going to be the worst Canadian Thanksgiving I’ve ever decided to celebrate.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 10/09/2006 7:32 AM

Well i ultimately enjoyed that, although i’m sure i would have just a bit more in person.

The best thing we have near my neck of the woods is Abma’s farm, which is apparantly quite famous, for something or other. Typical farm store/petting zoo during Nov-Sep and then Halloween shabam in October.

If i was in my neck of the woods this year i’d wouldn’t mind driving to that Halloween Playland. Maybe next year.

By the way anyone interested in Saw III. Comes out the 27th, figured i’d go see it then, it’s not exactly Halloweeny but the producers seem to want to make it Halloweeny since the first one so i figured it could only boost the mood on Halloween weekend.

Hope you don’t mind the link either, i ain’t getting paid to promote Abma’s farm, just thought people might like a read lol.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 10/09/2006 8:40 AM

Wow, sorry for the double post but this is too freaky.

So i JUST posted my comment as above, turned on the tv, Scrub’s Halloween Episode. Freaky, i like it.

I don’t even like Scrubs, but i’ll have to watch it now.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 10/09/2006 8:42 AM

I can’t wait for the gift shop; the whole thing reminds me of growing up in central PA and being surrounded by farms that pulled out the stops for the pumpkin-patch time o’ year.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 10/09/2006 9:19 AM

That inflatable hauted house/giant thing was in my town a couple weeks ago. I didn’t ever get to go in it, but it was awesome just to look at the outside. It was huge!

Chestnuts roasted by Deuce @ 10/09/2006 9:59 AM

I agree with your summation drbong. The trailers for Texas Chainsaw make it look insanely good, but watching The Beginning, it’s deja vu deja vu-ing itself all over again. You go in thinking you’re going to get all this backstory on Leatherface himself, but all that is, really, is a two minute opening montage of stillshots of newspapers.

You do find out exactly WHY he’s nicknamed Leatherface, though. And you don’t care.

Chestnuts roasted by ColonelCatsup @ 10/09/2006 11:07 AM

I finally got on some decorating this weekend, it’s fun to have my daughter excited about carrying around a plastic skull bucket full of plastic pumpkins and ghosts she stripped from the halloween light strings. Even if she doesn’t quite get why there is a black cat silouete in the window, she digs it. Click my name to see why you suck compared to my awesome display.

Chestnuts roasted by klatubaradanikto @ 10/09/2006 11:15 AM

Nothing But Trouble is on!!!

Why do I not own this?

Chestnuts roasted by ColonelCatsup @ 10/09/2006 11:51 AM

re: campfear.net/giant.html

Someone murdered a Macy’s balloon.

Chestnuts roasted by jrh @ 10/09/2006 11:52 AM

After reading what [b]ColonelCatsup[/b] and [b]drbong[/b] said i stand by my notion of not going to watch this piece of shit. They’ve released one too fucking many of these, and they get worse each time.

I understand it, they wanna cash in on the halloween-season. But doesn’t one of them in the producer’s office have the idea to say “HEY!, maybe if we re-release the original, people would dig that, you guys, the older crowd, who our movies are supposed to be aimed at, the ones who legally buy the tickets!!”

I’ll root for Saw III this year.

Yeah it’s being done every year too, but at least they’re not re-telling the same old story in a different way, we’re just seeing people get royally fucked up in different ways, and that’s worth 9 clams.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 10/09/2006 12:00 PM

I managed to get out to the Haunted Cornfield this weekend. It really was spectacular. Last time I went to a haunted anything was probably three, four years ago. It was a Haunted Hospital with 3-D effects, so you had to wear the glasses, which completely cut off your peripheral vision, which made things that much scarier. I ended up grabbing onto this kid who I did not know and basically using him as a human shield to get me through the scares.

This year was much better. The cornfield was insane scary. The highlight was at the end with a chainsaw toting Jason (not sure why it wasn’t Leatherface – there were two Jasons though – one at the beginning and one at the end). We’d caught up with the group that went in before us and saw Jason go chasing them off down one path in the cornfield, so I said to my friends, “Let’s make a run for it.” We’d almost made it when Jason saw us and started running at us full speed, revving that goddamn chainsaw. Scary stuff.

Also, from the previous thread, caught Galactica on Friday. I liked it. I think it’s up to their usual standards. It’s kind of depressing right now, but it looks like they’ve got a definite plan for the season. Best show on tv.

Check out the link for that Haunted Woods. Pics and all that. It’s cool. And scary.

Chestnuts roasted by Chris Martin @ 10/09/2006 12:01 PM

Man, I am LOVING all these Halloween articles! I hadn’t given this much thought to Halloween since I was much younger. Awesome! I need to hack me up a pumpkin or two.

Side question: Does anybody have the link or know where I can find the article about the creepy house that Matt and his friends go/went to on ocassion? That was one of the first articles I read on here way back when, and just happened to think about it the other day. I wanted to read it again, but can’t seem to find it.

Chestnuts roasted by Justin @ 10/09/2006 12:35 PM

Hey, Matt, looks like we both had very Halloweeny weekends: I ventured out with my parents and sister to Hicks’ Nursery out here on Long Island famous home of Otto the Ghost, and if you have other Long Islanders reading this site, they’ll know what I’m talking about :) Spent the whole day getting pumpkins, gourds, ghost shaped peeps and other crap we surely didn’t need but couldn’t resist. A great day all around: and probably the WARMEST day I’ve ever gone pumpkin picking in my life!!

Chestnuts roasted by Melissa Y @ 10/09/2006 12:38 PM

Norbert,
Schmidt’s farm or as I call it Shit’s farm yeah real mature, I know. I actually think they had the best cornfield. Was there many years ago but a fun place!!

Chestnuts roasted by Melissa Y. @ 10/09/2006 12:40 PM

OOH! Fallen Giant! Now we get to find out if the way to a man’s heart really is through the stomach! (then take a right at the liver.)

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash and his barking pumpkin @ 10/09/2006 1:00 PM

That toilet wasn’t good for me. Not sure why. But the place looked pretty good. Reminds me that I still need to buy pumpkins.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 10/09/2006 1:23 PM

Matt,
I was wondering, what did you think of Monster House? I thought it was suprisingly good, way better than it needed to be. I can’t wait to watch it now that it’s the right season (why’d it come out in July?). Oh well, just wanted to see what you thought of it.

Chestnuts roasted by Tommy @ 10/09/2006 1:53 PM

Oh, and since I live in the midwest, there’s awesome farms all around that transform into Halloween paradises every year, and the girlfriend and I are taking my sister’s kids next weekend. You haven’t lived until you’ve made it though a corn maze!

Chestnuts roasted by Tommy @ 10/09/2006 1:56 PM

My son and I went to a cornfield maze this weekend that was quite fun. After dusk, they open up a few other haunted attractions. The first is a haunted barn that was pretty good but I hate it when they resort to the Freddy and Jason rooms. Gimme some ol’ fashioned ghouls, ghosts and monsters. They supposedly used real rats and snakes but we didn’t see them (we were informed that spiders were also supposed to be included but they didn’t arrive in time). Next up was the haunted cornfield maze (a different one from the daytime maze, altogether). My son met some of his friends that happened to be in line with us for those 2 attractions. He’s 11 years old and he had a 12 and 13 year old girl on each arm because they were scared, he was loving it. The last attraction was a “3D maze” that was basically a chain-link fence maze with heavy metal music playing and strobes flashing. That one kinda sucked but the others were great. We’re going to another cornfield maze in a couple weeks that becomes “haunted” after dark and they also supposedly have a haunted hayride. I love that stuff, I went on a haunted hayride years ago and it was the most fun that I had had in a while (not to mention that the “scariness” of it was an aphrodisiac to this girl I was dating at the time).

On a less Halloweeny note, we went to the Land of Oz weekend (link on my name below) and the flying monkeys scared the shit out of my daughter. They had pre-teen boys dress up as the monkeys and they were freakin’ evil, the little bastards. If it was just me, I would have loved it but watch that shit around a 2 year old (not just mine, a bunch of others were there as well).

Chestnuts roasted by freudguy @ 10/09/2006 2:17 PM

Happy Thanksgiving fellow Canadians! I am disgustingly full of turkey, stuffing, squash and pumpkin pie. Excellent. Plus, I just spent an hour in the car looking at all the pretty trees along the river, AND it is 24 degrees out! What a perfect, perfect day.

This Halloween excursion reminds me of the haunted house I went to in Old Town, in Kissimmee Florida- it was actually kind of creepy, since spiders periodically fell on our heads as we were walking through, and there were REAL PEOPLE standing in the dark corners, ready to grab you as you walked by. Yup, I was sufficiently scared, all right. Good stuff. :)

Think I might buy my pumpkin tonight, and pop in “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” on VHS. Seems like a good way to end the afternoon- after a bike ride along the river of course. Man, Thanksgiving puts me in a good mood! Shit, maybe I should watch “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” instead! Decisions, decisions….

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 10/09/2006 2:25 PM

I really wish it was socially acceptable for 22 year olds to jump on bounce houses and play in ball pits.

Chestnuts roasted by Ariel @ 10/09/2006 3:00 PM

Yes Happy Thanksgiving to Greg, Muppet Baby, and any other Canadians out there! (oh and doho too!) After my turkey dinner I’m off too see Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles on the big screen! I can’t get anymore Cacadian than that, well I guess maybe it could stand to be colder. But I hate winter so I can handle a 24 degrees Thanksgiving day.

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 10/09/2006 3:14 PM

I used to like bounce houses myself, and we still have a trampoline (but hardly ever use it!). I would’ve at least liked those attractions at this li’l punkin’ patch.

One of the freakiest attractions in a haunted house I’ve ever seen was this animatronic monster that lunged at you with strobe lights going off, so it looked like a stop-motion movie beast. Not for the faint of heart.

Chestnuts roasted by Andrew @ 10/09/2006 3:49 PM

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