Happy Halloween

Cover Song for the Week of Halloween: Ben Gibbard - "Thriller"

MP3 via Stereogum

DVD Trailer for the Week of Halloween - Event Horizon

Event Horizon is one of the most frightening films I've ever seen. It's almost always miscategorized as sci-fi, but this film is horror in the vein of the Alien movies. Before Laurence Fishburne was the captain of The Nebuchadnezzar in The Matrix trilogy, he piloted the The Lewis & Clark on an expedition to find lost ship The Event Horizon. Turns out The Event Horizon is haunted and all they want to do is get off.

If you're looking for a truly scary psychological thriller for the week of Halloween, Event Horizon (also starring Sam Neill, Joely Richardson, and Richard T. Jones) truly delivers.

Buy it at Amazon
Rent it at Netflix

Headphones inspired by the "Thriller" video

The Ultimate Halloween Songs Mix

So you're putting together a mix tape for your Halloween party? Here is where to start.

Ever since my teen years I have created a mix of Halloween songs and stuck a speaker out my window to delight/torment the neighbors. It was probably odd hearing some of these songs coming from the church parsonage in the early nineties. Through the years I've added on to my list. I try to keep it clean and un-demonic so to speak. So you won't see any spooooky songs from Marilyn Manson, Ministry or the like. Some of these are just plain obvious but you'll possibly see some you hadn't thought of.

• Michael Jackson - "Thriller"
  
  
• Ray Parker Jr. - "Ghostbusters"
  
  
• Theme - "Halloween"
  
  
• Boris Pickett - "Monster Mash"
  
  
• Rockwell feat Michael Jackson - "Somebody's Watchin' Me"
  
  
• Whodini - "Haunted House of Rock"
  
  
• Warren Zevon - "Werewolves of London"
  
  
• Theme - "The Addams Family"
  
  
• MC Hammer - "Addams Family Groove"
  
  
• Theme - "Jaws"
  
  
• Theme - "Psycho"
  
  
• Concrete Blonde - "Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)"
  
  
• DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - "Nightmare On My Street"
  
  
• Theme - "The Munsters"
  
  
• Theme - "Twilight Zone"
  
  
• Theme - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
  
  
• Gnarls Barkley - "The Boogie Monster"
  
  
• Rocky Horror Picture Show - "Timewarp"
  
  
• Carl Orff - "Carmina Burana"
  
  
• Sha Na Na - "The Witch Doctor" (the Alvin & The Chipmunks version is cool too)
  
  
• The Who - "Boris The Spider"
  
  
• mewithoutYou - "Yellow Spider"
  
• mewithoutYou - "Orange Spider"
  
• mewithoutYou - "Brownish Spider"
  
  
• The Cure - "Lullaby" (another spider song)
  
  
• The Animals - "I Put A Spell On You" (there are other versions: CCR's is great and the Screamin' Jay Hawkins version is the creepiest--much creepier than Manson's)
  
  
• The Doors - "People Are Strange"
  
  
• Whodini "The Freaks Come Out At Night"
  
  
• Siouxie & The Banshees - "Halloween"
• Siouxie & The Banshees - "Peek A Boo"
  
  
• Paul Whiteman & His Swing Wing - "Jeepers Creepers" (this is the version used so effectively in the crappy horror movie of the same name)
  
  
• Alice Cooper - "Welcome to My Nightmare"
  
  
• Oingo Boingo - "Dead Man's Party"
  
  
• Flyleaf - "What's This"
• Panic At The Disco - "This is Halloween" (these two are from "Nightmare Revisted" - a really cool compilation where various artists reimagine the music from the film A Nightmare Before Christmas)
  
  
• Stevie Wonder - "Superstitious"
  
  
• McFly - "Transylvania" (see post below for MP3)
  

Comment at let me know what I am leaving out.

Free Legal MP3 for Halloween - McFly - "Transylvania"

Get the download here.

Too soon?

Why in the world is 94 FM The Fish already playing Christmas music? As I scanned the dial in my car last night longing for a little "Thriller", "Ghostbusters" by the late great Ray Parker Jr. (wait, he's not dead), "Monster Mash", or anything else to make me feel all Halloweeny, I couldn't find anything. But The Fish was playing "Joy To The World, The Lord Has Come" and followed it with "Merry Christmas from 94 FM The Fish, Safe for the whole family."