What’s your favorite Halloweenish movie?

This is such a tough question, I know. We grew up with so many amazing Halloween movies. Some whimsical and silly like Halloweentown and Ghostbusters, and others terrifying and gruesome like Halloween and Psycho. I'd argue that much of the magic of halloween for our generation comes from the stories and images portrayed in these movies.

According to my very scientific survey, in which I asked what is everyone's favorite halloweenish movie, I discovered there was a 3 way tie between Halloweentown, Hocus Pocus, and Nightmare Before Christmas. All fabulous movies!!! They all make my top 10. Actually, because this is my blog, here are my top ten favorite Halloweenish movies and how they add to the magic of halloween!!!

10) Little Shop of Horrors

Ok, I saw this for the first time a few days ago and I felt deprived that I neither grew up knowing the play or movie. It put me in such a great mood! One could argue that this is not a halloween movie, but I said HalloweenISH, and it has "Horror" in the title!

9) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

"These are my friends, see how they glisten..." Now if this were a lit of my favorite plays, this one be in the number one slot, but as a Halloween movie its at number 9. The music is so great in this! Thank you Sondheim! Even now just thinking about it "A Little Priest" is stuck in my head... now "Pirelli's Miracle Elixer"... now "Nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around"... now "By the Sea", now "We all deserve to die! Tell you why Mrs. Lovett, tell you why!" Ok I'll stop. But it's fabulous.

8) Nightmare before Christmas

Jack Skellington is such an iconic character... of Halloween in general, of Tim Burton, of various subcultures, etc. I have to say, I really miss claymation. There's something about it's choppiness or tangibility.... or maybe just the nostalgia of childhood it brings.

7) Halloween

The music to this movie is just absolutely haunting. I love it! Michael Myers and his knife... another iconic Halloween image!

6) Interview with the Vampire

This is one of my favorite books/movies.... and Claudia is the best character hands down! This is the movie where I got the term "vampire vision" for those who know what that references... haha. Not going to lie, there are some pretty attractive men in this movie, even if they are dead.

5) Ghostbusters

"When there's something strange... in the neighborhood... who ya gonna call?" I also rewatched these movies for the first time since childhood recently. Damn... they are so great. Giant Marshmellow man, making the statue of liberty walk around new york, pink jizzy slime in the subway system, it's pretty great stuff. I think people don't appreciate corniness and ridiculousness anymore, I feel if they were to make ghostbusters today with modern effects people would find it too ridiculous and cheezy. Wow, I sound old, "back in my day, when I was about your age little girl, stamps cost 32 cents," "what are stamps?"

4) Halloweentown

These are some other movies I should try to rewatch. Oh disney channel original movies...

3) Hocus Pocus

So, who else had a crush on the guy from the 1600's who got turned into an immortal cat? He's not as cute now... now that I'm older than him. I've been accused of being a cradle robber but I'm not that bad! I think the picture above are of Danielle, Jaymie, and I if we decide to deny all men and turn evil.

2) Sleepy Hollow

Ah yes, another Tim Burton/Johnny Depp collaboration. This movie is frightening, funny at parts, and has a good storyline. Even if all the blood looks slightly orange in this movie, who wouldn't be afraid of Christopher Walken as a Headless Hessian Horseman riding after who to claim your head?

1) Psycho

What death in a horror movie can be more iconic than when Janet Leigh is killed in the Bates Motel shower? Hitchcock mastered how to create horror without gore for during the whole scene, you never see the knife actually pierce flesh. Love this movie!

But yeah, those are my top 10, here is what everyone else said!!!

1. 30 days of night~ Alonso

2. One of those random Disney ones- Halloweentown I think?~ Andy D.

3. Hocus Locus (yes she had a typo bwahaha laugh at her!)~ Danielly sa

4. Halloweentowns~ Anders

5. Hellraiser Series~ Darren

6. Halloweentown!~ Meghan M.

7. Trick r Treat. Awesome movie~ Levi Boyd

8. Ghostbusters~ Matt D.

9. Hmmm I’d say nightmare before Christmas or The Exorcist~ Rich Lemay

10. Halloween~ Kike

11. Umm I guess the original dracula~ Happy Patt

12. Nightmare b4 xmas~ Jaymie sa

13. Hmmm not my fav but one at the top of my head is Trick or Treat~ Jon B.

14. Hocus Pocus~ Christine Duff

15. Nightmare before Christmas!~ Sean

16. Hocus Pocus… if anyone says anything different they are stupid~ Jennie

How would Superman solve the oil leak crisis in the Gulf of Mexico?

This was the question I asked the other day during my daily question of the day text. There already are many delicious conspiracy theories out there about the oil spill, some involving the media, others BP, and even some claiming Obama fabricated the whole thing; and amongst all these theories the one I find most plausible is Lex Luthor's involvement. Yes, clearly a man with a history of altering the geology of the planet in attempts at supreme wealth and world domination should be a prime suspect in the pointing fingers game!

If you delve into the mind of the very same evil genius who bought all the cheap realestate of the California desert just so he could trigger the San Andreas Fault with a nuclear missle sending the prime coastline into the Pacific, therefore making his cheap desert land expensive beachfront property, the oil leak crisis makes sense! Think of all the world dominating things that one can achieve from leaking tons of oil into the Gulf!

1) Luthor could come in with a cure to soak up the oil and stop the leak, but only release the cure to the public with the promise of owning the entire Caribbean. Thus beginning Luthorian Empire.

2) He could strategically manipulate the oil to herd all the dolphins and sharks of the Gulf together to breed them and create super powerful shark-dolphin hybrids with the intelligence of the dolphin with the teeth and cold malice of the shark. With them he could create an army and conquer the world.

3) Luthor could also use the oil leak to sway all the tourists who originally wanted to hang out in Cancun or Key West to his beachfront desert property in California.

4) OR while people are distracted with cleaning the surface of the Gulf, and while the air remains a no-fly-zone, he is in the works of creating his underwater super lair. He already has a newly refurbished volcano lair in Iceland.

The possibilities are endless! But now the REAL question is: Where is Superman? Has he given up his superpowers to become human so he can make love to Lois Lane again? Or is he just weeping in the Fortress of Solitude because his new movie was such a flop, and Smallville just keeps on making more and more outrageous seasons without Rosenbaum or Kruek even when the show should have ended about 6 or 7 seasons on a high note.

Don't get me wrong, I happen to like Superman even though most people I talk to think he's a pansy in comparison to Batman and Spiderman who have to work harder to save the world instead of having 50 + powers including the ability to shoot rainbows out of his eyes. I like him for the same reason Bill parallel's Beatix Kiddo's existance to his: That Superman is the reality, and Clark Kent is the disguise.

But yes, it is clear that Superman has gone AWOL for some reason, but if he happens to reappear, how would he solve the oil spill crisis? When I posed the question to my peers, I recieved these answers:

* Drink it ~Alison L.

* He'd cheat like he always does and just conveniently find some gay way to get the ob done... fuck superman batman FTW ~Alonso L.

* Giant box of super absorbent tampons lol ~Andrew W.

* He wudn't ~Cody V.

* Just the doctor ~Dave L.

* He'd use rainbow eye vision. Because that solves everything. ~Jess C.

* By being superman... Flying under water and fixing it... ~Darren Z

* Nothing because he cannot swim ~Giblin

* Drop loads of tampons and put a giant in the source of the leak. ~Matt M.

* He'd ask crude oil man to clean it up for him. ~Sean C.

* Duh he would go underwater and clog it up then drink all the oil up and regurgitate it to my car for fuel since I paid off my car this month! ~Matt D.

* He would drink it all up then piss out a new fresh Gulf ~Craig D.

* Can't. Oil spill is supermans kryptonite. ~Jon R.

He would use his heat vision to craft a giant scoop from used plastic shopping bags which he would thenuse to gather the oil and fly it to space and burn it ~Jake R.

* He'd dive down and fix it and then drink the oil out of the water without asking the government for permission. ~Meghan H.

* Trick question because it never would happen ~Sebastian W.

* Well if this were superman the movie, superman would spin around the world to make it go back in time. But I think in this case superman would drink all of the water from the gulf and then pee it out clean. What a guy. ~Levi B.

* With his cock. ~Kike L.

So as you can see, there are a variety of eco-friendly ways to solve the crisis if only Superman would come back from visiting the ruins of Krypton, or doing Lois Lane, or tending the farm, etc. So come back Superman! Lex Luthor must be stopped!