It’s that time of year again! Strange Kid has stuffed all the Halloween goody bags full of candy, roadkill and low caliber explosives…DANG he knows how to party! We’ve invited some of our friends over to the clubhouse to share their Halloween memories, so pull up a beanbag chair and listen to today’s horrific tales from…Rondal Scott III.
If there’s anyone that knows just how cray-cray Strange Kid can really get, it’s this guy. Rondal and the Kid built this Clubhouse from scratch, using nothing but the shoddiest of lumber, old sardine cans, and boogers…god, just…so many boogers! But they have rallied us together, all of geek-kind—the weird, the pasty-skinned, the ones who may very well cosplay as Bruce Campbell’s bellybutton lint—and given us a home Huzzah! We thank Rondal for giving us this playground, and now…let’s talk Halloween:
What’s your best (or worst) Halloween memory?
RONDAL SCOTT III: Man…the best Halloweens are the ones you can’t remember! *wink-wink* I guess if I had to pick one it would be a Halloween from a few years back. One of my college buddies and I were set for a 13 hour horror movie marathon with a bottle of J&B—because we had never tried it and that’s what R.J. MacReady (Kurt Russell) drank in The Thing—and a ton of junk food. Turns out, J&B tastes like gasoline so the drinking ended pretty quick and somewhere around the 7 hour mark we got bored and decided to just drive around at 1 AM. Somehow we stumbled across an abandoned hospital…we’re talking Grade A creepy here, like something out of a movie!
We managed to gather enough courage to go inside—that place was spooky as heck!—and there were all sorts of mysterious jars and leftover medical equipment everywhere. I think we lasted 15 minutes before we starting hearing noises (probably just wind) and ran screaming back to the car like a pair of 12 year olds. At the time it was pants-pissingly terrifying, but looking back it’s definitely one of my favorite Halloween memories.
What are your top 5 movies (or TV episodes) to watch leading up to Halloween?
RS: 1. The Halloween Tree — A classic tale based on Ray Bradbury’s original short story.
2. Ernest Scared Stupid — Hands down BEST opening to a Halloween-themed movie ever…not to mention the best Ernest film of all time.
3. Hocus Pocus — I’m a sucker for this Disney movie because it really captures that old school Halloween in a small town kind of feel.
4. Night of the Demons (1988) — Second best opening to a Halloween-themed movie ever…plus, you get to see Linnea Quigley’s boobs.
5. The Wolfman (1941) — The Wolfman is my favorite of all the Universal Monsters and this is probably one of the best films in the series.
The dead have returned from the grave, and most of the living are zombified—including all the A-through-C-list celebrities, of course—who would you pick to eat your delicious brain?
RS: This is really a…”no-brainer” right? *laughs* It’d have to be Vincent Price. He could probably lure me in just by talking in that distinctively sinister-yet-friendly voice of his…plus Price was a big foodie so I could probably rely on him to cook my brains up real nice. You know, like sauté them with caramelized onions and a nice creamy mushroom sauce.
What are 5 songs that need to be on your Halloween playlist?
RS: This is a tough one because my musical tastes are always changing…I guess I’d have to at least include:
1. “Thriller” by Michael Jackson
2. “Shocker” by The Dudes of Wrath (Shocker soundtrack)
3. “The Beast Inside” by Dennis Michael Tenney (Night of the Demons soundtrack
4. “Dream Warriors” by Dokken (Nightmare of Elm Street 3 soundtrack)
5. “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” by Blue Öyster Cult
You cross an old gypsy woman (why would you do that?!) and she curses you to turn into _________ every night. What monster/beastie/other would you choose to spend your nights as?
RS: A “were-Predator.” Think about it…spend your days as a mild-mannered human, but at night by the light of the full moon you’re THE baddest alien beastie (yeah, I said it Alien fans) ever imagined. Besides, I’ve just always wanted a freaky mouth like that—truly a dentist’s worst nightmare!
Our resident troublemaker, Strange Kid, wants to take you out on the town on Halloween—what kind of mischief would you kids get into? (Hint: bring bail money, whatever your response may be…)
RS: Oh, that kid’s trouble…knowing him, whatever I’d have planned would instantly be thrown out the window. It’d probably involve terrorizing squirrels, running around with underwear on our heads and/or flaming bags of poo. Best case scenario, we’re able to get a few treats from unsuspecting neighbors before being arrested for indecent exposure while chanting naked in a corn field to see if the candy we planeted turns into “candy corn.” I think that’s, like, a code 311H or something in police terminology, right?
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Our friends at 411 Underground Radio are celebrating THEIR big Halloweek 2015 extravaganza this week! We cover the geek side of the holiday, while they focus on the music community and supply some extra tunes for your party. So visit their site or join the Facebook event page, where you can find links to both our event and theirs!
