Contests are subjective. I like to take some of that out of the equation with an equalizer like a free pass! It lets someone who might not make the finals go before agents and get help from mentors. And can you believe it? The runner up from Query Combat this year was my FREE PASS! Leslie had a super query and a stand out plot. I think she would have been picked anyway, but you never know. :-)
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I want you to name your favorite Halloween book or movie. It can be scary or not. I myself don't care much for scary. I like a funny Halloween entertainment like Hocus Pocus or those Scooby Doo movies, where the whole family can watch. Poltergeist is the limit of my horror movie tolerance, but I know many people love to scare themselves. So here's your chance to share what scares you. Or maybe you have a family tradition you watch every year.
This will run from today until October 14 when the rafflecopter will pick one winner. The Free Pass winner will bypass the slush and become one of Michelle's Minions for Nightmare on Query Street. They will work with a mentor to polish and then be entered in the agent round, where 25 agents will read their work.
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My favorite Halloween movie has to be Hocus Pocus. I live near Salem and love the witch culture over there.
ReplyDeleteOh I adore Hocus Pocus! I had the VHS tape and would watch it on repeat, even when it wasn't even close to Halloween!
ReplyDeleteThe Rocky Horror Picture Show. Nothing else compares to a midnight showing of that on Halloween night!
ReplyDeleteSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury...both the book and the movie!
ReplyDeleteI love Edward Scissorhands.....Johnny Depp at his quirky-adorable-slightly-freakish-best. As a kid, I thought it was horror, then I watched it as a grown-up and it made me laugh and cry. ~Lindsay Bandy
ReplyDeleteOk...idk if this counts as a Halloween movie, but I love watching The Craft while sipping a pumpkin spice latte on Halloween night.
ReplyDeleteOur recent tradition has been a BtVS marathon followed by Episode 4.02 of The X-Files - "Home" - which is particularly disturbing and creeptastic.
ReplyDeleteOf all the phenomenal scary movies and stories, nothing captures a holiday like a 1980's television special, and Garfield's Halloween Adventure owns Halloween. It's on Youtube if you need a nostalgia trip!
ReplyDeleteis it too wimpy of me to say that most scary movies make me hide? my favorite "halloween" movie is "young frankenstein." it's scary enough because it's black and white -- and, well, MARTY FELDMAN'S EYES! ;) seriously, i would rather laugh my way out of scary stuff. but that's just me :)
ReplyDeleteI don't like scary movies, but I love Hocus Pocus. DD3 is now 11 and she loves it too. We watch it every year. Fingers crossed my 4yo is now old enough to enjoy it. It was too scary for her last year. :(
ReplyDeleteThe Nightmare Before Christmas! Or Corpse Bride if that counts :)
ReplyDeleteRecently, it's got to be The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier! Fabulous, macabre spooky MG novel about a crumbling Victorian manor and an evil tree. :)
ReplyDeleteI can't watch scary movies, but give me a scary book and I'm hooked. My favorite is The Shining by Stephen King. It still scares me more than any other book.
ReplyDeleteI can't really watch scary movies either, but I love reading a good Stephen King book. If I had to choose one, though, I'd go with the original SCREAM movie.
ReplyDeleteThe Nightmare Before Christmas is always a family favorite :)
ReplyDeleteI like watching the Charlie Brown special for Halloween with my kids.
ReplyDeleteMe too!!! :)
DeleteMy favourite scary movie is Event Horizon. The loathing that comes across that ship....
ReplyDeleteI like the classics, The Shining--both the book and the movie.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Halloween book is Halloween by Jerry Seinfeld. He turns one of his stand-up routines into a children's picture book. The illustrations are great. I think the book is hilarious--and so do my kids.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite horror movie is The Ring. Not only is it creepy, but it's a very well constructed story, which I've spoken about in my own blog in the past.
ReplyDeleteI'm not much on scary, either! My all time fave is It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. :)
ReplyDeleteSo many favorite horror movies, but it's so difficult to pick just one since I found that, within horror, there are different genres (gore, ghosts, zombies, fun, etc.)
ReplyDeleteI guess, for me, the one that scared the pants off me was "The Ring" - I had to sleep with my younger sister for about three months, with a nightlight, and a cover over the TV in my room.....did I mention I was 15 years old and my sister was 13? Oh yeah...to this day, the phone rings and I still jump, and I won't go near wells even if you paid me (though, for a free pass into NOQS, point in my the direction of a well! lol)
Favorite scary book: Intensity by Dean Koontz. Favorite scary movie: nuh-uh, don't have one - hate to be scared.
ReplyDeleteFavorite Halloween movie is: The Nightmare before Christmas.
ReplyDeletePractical Magic. Sandra Bullock AND Nicole Kidman...Yes Please! So fun to watch and my kinda scary :)
ReplyDeleteI'm really into Vampire Diaries right now!
ReplyDeleteSo many...I'll have to go with The Sixth Sense.
ReplyDeleteSomething Wicked This Way Comes scared the pants off me when I was a kid. It's my favorite scary movie from that time because I do not do horror - at all. Bf took me to one of the Friday the 13th movies and I viewed the whole thing through my fingers.
ReplyDeleteI'm going with Beetlejuice. :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite horror movie is Scream, which gave me nightmares for a whole week.
ReplyDeleteI'm right with you Michelle, I love Hocus Pocus....oh and Gayle right above me, I second Beetlejuice!
ReplyDeleteAll the movies mentioned are great and special in their own way. I feel like Gremlins belongs in this amazing movie marathon we're planning. But I have to agree with Shari, The Great Pumpkin rules! Anyone know when it's on this year? Lol
ReplyDeleteSorry, sorry everyone but I lean toward the classics. My all-time favorite (aside from Ed Woods' classics) is the original Dracula with Bela Lugosi. He may not have been classically handsome, but I love his sardonic elegance and grace as well as the beautiful soundtrack especially his entrance. Then there are the gorgeous sets and my favorite character Renfield with the great line: "A fly? Who wants a fly when there are nice, juicy spiders?"
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ReplyDeleteMy kids are 8,5, and 2. We've had the same Halloween tradition since my oldest was 3. The night before Halloween we make spooky snacks like caramel apples, candy corn rice crispy treats, ect. and we watch The Nightmare Before Christmas, Hocus Pocus, and the old Goosebumps show that I have downloaded. Then we paint or carve pumpkins and make Halloween crafts like hand puppets and stuff. On Halloween we watch the same movies (because they're the best) and drink hot cocoa and hot apple cider after trick or treating.
ReplyDeleteJunie B. Jones: Boo . . . And I Mean It! by Barbara Parks. Best read aloud.
ReplyDeleteThe Shining all the way, book and movie both. I'm all about the classics!
ReplyDeleteCasper! The 1995 Christina Ricci version. I grew up watching it.
ReplyDeleteHands down, Nightmare Before Christmas. It's one of my favorite movies in general (can I have Zero for a pet? Please?).
ReplyDeleteOther than that, Hocus Pocus, Holloweentown, basically anything light and Disney (I'm a wimp).
I have to agree with so many others. Hocus Pocus is my favorite Halloween movie. I watch it every year.
ReplyDeleteI love watching It, based on the Stephen King novel. It scared the crap out of me as a kid and made me afraid of bathtub drains (true story), but it also has a solid storyline and some great acting by Tim Curry.
ReplyDeleteI loved the Witch of Blackbird Pond. Anyone else?
ReplyDeleteIt's not a movie, but the only Halloween show I watch is It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Classic.
ReplyDelete-Leslie
My favorite Halloween movie is Ghostbusters!
ReplyDelete-Ann
While I like some scary movies, if I had to pick a favorite Halloween one, it'd be Corpse Bride. It has a fun Halloween-y feel to it. Nightmare Before Christmas is a close second.
ReplyDeleteBeing in Australia, we really don't do much for Halloween... generally even the free-to-air stations aren't in on it. But I do love the Witches of Eastwick...
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the full spectrum of Halloween movies - funny, silly, scary, horrifying, even the silent version of Nosferatu. My all-time favorite is Donnie Darko. Remarkably confusing, equally scary and touching, it's one that keeps you thinking long after the credits have rolled.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely Nightmare before Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI can't choose. My favorites are Zombieland, BeetleJuice, and Ghostbusters.
ReplyDeleteNeil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book. Halloween is about the end of the harvest, the end of the light... facing possible death in the coming year and being OK with it. Having faith that there is rebirth at the end of the darkness.
ReplyDeleteShaun of the Dead!!
ReplyDeleteHocus Pocus and Scooby-Doo, the live action ones. I make my kids watch them with me if I can find them on TV.
ReplyDeleteI am Legend, Dawn of the Dead, or any zombie movie.
ReplyDeleteI'm posting for Patti S. Flood that Corpse Bride is her favorite!
ReplyDeleteShaun of the Dead
ReplyDeleteI don't really like scary movies, but I'll watch comedy ones, like Shaun of the Dead or the Scary Movie series
ReplyDeleteEasy answer. I love The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury. By far my favorite adult style read at Halloween time, for when I'm feeling young it is hard to beat Goosebumps Attack of the Jack-O-Lanterns.
ReplyDeleteSalem's Lot scared the hell out of me as a kid
ReplyDeleteThe Nightmare Before Christmas (I still think it's a Halloween movie!) is my favorite movie. In books, the Goosebumps series has always stuck with me.
ReplyDeleteNightmare before Christmas, always! Although Halloweentown is a classic. =)
ReplyDeleteNot much of a scary movie fan, so for Halloween I stick with ET or Hocus Pocus.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite movie is Hocus Pocus
ReplyDeleteI really like Hocus Pocus, but for favorite books, literally all the Stephen King novels.
ReplyDeleteMy whole crew loves Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin for Halloween. =)
ReplyDeleteHalloween movies: slasher flicks like Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th. Me and my family would watch those every Halloween.
ReplyDeleteBooks: Pet Sematary :) that is the scariest book I have ever read.
It's a tie for me between every Scooby Doo ever, and The Conjuring.
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ReplyDeleteEither Nightmare Before Christmas or Edward Scissorhands!
ReplyDeleteI don't do a lot of horror, but there's this book called The House with the Clock in its Walls that gave me a life-long aversion to ticking clocks, so... I'd have to go with that one.
ReplyDeleteThe Night Country by Stewart O'Nan.
ReplyDeleteFavorite Halloween movies--It's the Great Pumpkin-Charlie Brown and ET.
ReplyDeleteWhat can I say? I don't do scary--obviously. My kids are much braver than me.
Nightmare before Christmas! One of my favorite movies ever. :)
ReplyDeleteSigns with Joaquin Phoenix
ReplyDeleteI'm not much into horror, kind of creeps me out. I love Practical Magic any time of year!
ReplyDeleteWe don't really do Halloween here in oz, and I for one am a big fraidy cat, so I'd go Practical Magic too! Aiden Quinn. Yum.
ReplyDeleteFavorite movie: Quarantine!
ReplyDeleteIt's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
ReplyDeleteStephen King's The Stand, tv series was good, but doesn't hold a candle to the book. It's a horror story, a love story, a redemption story, an uplifting story, a tragedy, the apocalypse, good vs evil... it's got everything. The ultimate epic horror novel.
ReplyDeleteSo many amazing movies to choose from! I have to pick "Nightmare Before Christmas" with "Hocus Pocus" in close second!
ReplyDeleteThe Sixth Sense is my favorite. I love the performances and the surprise twist at the end. I never saw it coming, by the way!!
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ReplyDeleteSweeney Todd or The Shining for me
ReplyDeleteMy fav is Nightmare Before Christmas. I saw it when I was a kid and thought it was the most creative thing I'd seen! I still watch it every year.
ReplyDeleteI love Halloween and all the things associated with it, from costumes to scary, horror to funny, all of it. If I have to pick just one movie it would have to be The Nightmare Before Christmas.
ReplyDeleteAs a fantasy buff - It will always be Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I like to watch resident evil around this time of year. It scares me to death every time...
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Halloween movie is The Nightmare Before Christmas (:
ReplyDeleteNot really a Halloween movie, but What Lies Beneath gives me the chills. Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer are fantastic.
ReplyDeleteOkay, so it's a Christmas movie, but I have to say Gremlins. I really just adore that movie. It has all the starting points of a hero's journey with the mysterious man and the magical item, but then it rips the rug out from under you and goes into horror territory. And I love it when the mom is about to die, but nope! She turns on the blender and you get a gremlin smoothie.
ReplyDeleteI think Beetlejuice for funny and for scary maybe Insidious or the original Paranormal Activity...there are so many good ones!!
ReplyDeleteI love The Omen and Hocus Pocus!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Halloween book is Sky Raiders by Brandon Mull. The fact that going into an ordinary haunted house sends one to a faraway and unfriendly land is horribly creepy.
ReplyDeleteRocky Horrow Picture Show is a must every Halloween. -Elvin
ReplyDeleteMy first experience watching horror was a really old movie (don't remember the name). I found it disturbingly funny. I'm sure it wasn't the intended effect but the deed was done. Horror? Nope, not for me.
ReplyDeleteThe Disney movies are fun to watch though. I loved Casper.
I'm not much into scary, but I loved the Nightmare Before Christmas. Does that count?
ReplyDeleteWait Until Dark with Aubrey Hepburn. It's my favorite to watch it with someone who's never seen it before.
ReplyDeleteI like the old school scary movies: Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Chainsaw Massacre, Children of the Corn, Friday the 13th.
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