Finally finished putting Margeret together and got her put up out front this evening. For the past few years, I've been trying to make my own bespoke Halloween decorations. I've been trying to put together pumpkin headed scarecrows on a T-bar but just couldn't find the right pieces to use. But then I ran into a black skeleton at Michael's the other day and thought that this would work.
However, I've also been stuck on what to use for my witch decoration. I was stumped trying to make an upper torso witch and hang her from a 6- or 7-foot wooden stake. It was just a struggle. So I put my old Grim Reaper costume robe from the 1980s on the skeleton, along with a witch mask I had and I found a witch hat at Spirit Halloween. And she was done. Quick and easy.
Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge was my first real introduction to Freddy Krueger. At that point in time it was only the three movies. After we watched the sequel one dark and stormy night, my friend (Mike Shupe) and I quickly rented the first movie and Dream Warriors and watched them over his place.
We both lived in the same apartment complex in Dundalk, called Hidden Cove at the time. He was over on Paulette side, and I lived on Bear Ridge. We spent a lot of time at his mother's apartment. He had an NES before me, and we spent many nights playing Friday the 13th, Jaws, or Karate Kid together. But our biggest hobby was watching movies that were considered mature. He introduced me to Friday the 13th, the Nightmare movies, Halloween. The horror trinity in American horror.
But for me the sequel was always a favorite. It didn't hurt that the Fresh Prince of Bel Air himself, Will Smith came out with a song around this time, I guess it was 1987, about Freddy, and my lovely mother quickly picked up the cassette He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper for me, and I listened to this song over and over again. For a little while there Freddy was the biggest thing in my short life.
For years I've neglected this franchise. To be fair, Freddy is the first monster that really affected me and my imagination. I guess there's Dracula, and I have to give the lord of vampires props for introducing me to horror. But Freddy exploded onto the scene in the '80s and who was I to go against the popular culture?
As an aside, I'm not gay. I don't say that to deride those who are. But the sequel gets lumped into gay cinema quite often, and then I have sometimes felt embarrassed to say that this is my favorite of the films. But the gay context is there, it most definitely is. I failed to see it then at 10 years old. As an adult, it's impossible to miss. I still can ignore it and enjoy the movie for the entertainment it is. Let people take from it what they will.
I think I'll take this Halloweentober to go through the Nightmare films again. It's been years... And I've been so alone without you, Fred.
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