-Danny Lloyd, who played the young boy in The Shining, is currently a biology teacher in Louisville. He didn’t know he was acting in a horror movie until years later.
-Do yourself a favor and a story by the greatest horror writer ever today, Edgar Allen Poe.
-Harry Houdini died on Halloween, 1926, after some dude at McGill University punched him in the stomach. Perhaps not coincidentally, my ex-girlfriend (named, appropriately enough, Elvira) went to McGill University. The lesson: If you are a quizmaster, magician, or some other novelty profession, steer clear of McGill students and alumni.
-The jack o’lantern originated in Ireland. But they carved their jack’s outta turnips. Here’s some more Halloween fun facts.
-Ladies are dressing quite revealingly at Halloween these days. Are these outfits perpetuating stereotypes about certain professions (naughty nurse, tough cop, etc.)? And here’s an article in last years NY Times about the current trend of, ahem, revealing outfits. What do you guys think? Slutty outfits: harmless fun or a sign of the decay of the Western World?