Happy Halloween 2024!

Tonight at The Ranch we will be gathering around the

movie screen to eat hot dogs, beans and potato chips

while we watch Spirit Halloween: The Movie.

Gonna be a blast! Hope you all will be having

a great time as well. Haunt safe you guys.

Tomorrow is the big day!

A new sign (to me) at Spirit Halloween.

The Overlook Hotel. I like this one.

And a BLAST from the PAST. I never posted

this video of a body bag animatronic at

Halloween Express from October of 2014.

Man, Halloween is real close.

A lovely Frankenstein's Monster

wreath at Spirit Halloween.

I watched "The Mist" (2007) at Borden Cinema.

If you know, you know.

9/10

And of course it wouldn't be Halloween without a little

Texas Chainsaw Massacre and good ol' Leatherface.

Quoting Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates from the

movie PSYCHO, Skeet Ulrich as SCREAM's
Billy Loomis says, "We all go a little mad sometimes."
(Spirit Halloween graphic tee)

SPOILER ALERT: He does.
(Spirit Halloween graphic tee)

SCREAM's Ghostface animatronic
at Spirit Halloween, 2024.

Butcher knife.

SCREAM knife.

Glen.

Those poor people. I feel so BAD for them.
Their entire home has been taken over by
GIANT KILLER SPIDERS!!

...anyway, back on Saturday, October 29, 2011 I posted a picture

of this Días de Los Muertos artwork that I bought in Arizona way

many years ago, but I always wanted to post a little better photo

of it. And here it is. That devil is behind a little glass door.

This is one of my favorite things.

I love baby costumes. This one is so

cute. Look at those little toes!
(Walmart)

Pals.

Nice lamp.

It was KILLIN' me that I could not justify

buying this Friday the 13th Jason Voorhees

hockey mask light.

Art the Clown

at Spirit Halloween 2024.

We at The Ranch STILL cannot figure out
how this guy worked himself up through
the Slasher Superstar ranks so fast.

In our eyes he has yet
to earn his spurs.

I will be watching "Abigail" tonight

at Borden Cinema.

All HORROR all MONTH.

I didn't know what these alien "leaners" were.

They have skeletons too.

Then I saw the picture.
I likes 'em.

Not really feelin' this one.

It is Spooktober's Annual Witch Day again!
Awesome.

This year's witch looks almost like she is sleeping and ready

to catch flies. It's as though you could tiptoe right past her

and not be in any danger. But don't let that fool you. These

witches are a tricky lot, they are.

Witch Day... over again so soon. Dang it.

See you next year!

Instead of teaching him to tap, his demented after hours

dance instructor turned the little boy into his
"obedient pain-ridden wooden puppet".

Bobby Strings at Spirit Halloween, 2024.

Michael?

Who is this? Yeah, afraid so.

Coming soon.

These are two really great signs at Spirit Halloween
for 2024. SCREAM's Ghostface on the left and

Big Top Burger from the movie Killer Klowns from

Outer Space on the right. The SCREAM sign is what

I wanted to buy this year, but both were damaged and

when I saw how easily damaged they were, I decided

against them. Too bad as they are really cool.

I ultimately went with my favorite slasher movie anyway.
The vertical Camp Crystal Lake sign that is on the far left.
I am happy with my Spooktober souvenir for 2024!

This is  6 Ft Wanda Webworth. She is an animatronic

and she is usually ANGRY. Unfortunately she was not

angry enough to move when we were at Spirit.
(Extra added attraction: a random seagull.)

And tonight is a special night. My 1960's

LATE NIGHT Pizza and a Movie Night!
YES!

Pepperoni pizza, garlic bread AND Little Shop of

Horrors (NOT in color). I've been looking forward to this!

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Later that night...
MUCH later that night...

I started watching Little Shop of Horrors at about

10:45 PM. It didn't end until 12:00 AM. I am

SOOOOO full... and sleepy.

Little Shop of Horrors: 6/10

Red Baron Pizza: 4.6/10

New York Bread Sticks: 4/10

Spooktober Movie and a Pizza Night: 10/10

"We don't letting you spend so much."
- Sign in Mushnik's Flower Shop

Hillarious.

His name HAS to be Butch.

Beetlejuice!

If I were a HUGE Beetlejuice fan, I would

for shore try to fit one of these into my life.

The RINGMASTER at Spirit Halloween, 2024.

Seven feet of evil terror.

A Meet and Greet with The Nun
over at Spirit Halloween.

But word to the wise - do not ask
for an autograph.

Momo never fails to give me the creeps.

Spirit Halloween knows that you cannot cast

spells without the right accoutrements.

So here ya go.

Well, we went on our Halloween 2024 Mini-Crawl which

consisted of... one store. But I did pick something up, we

had a lot of fun and now we are...

...going to be looking for all of this stuff!

I bought this skeleton at the Spirit Halloween

store back in September of 2013 but I only today

took the zip ties off of him. Tonight I am going
to go ahead and hang him up on the stairway
or something... after everybody is asleep.

This skull makes his annual SPOOKTOBER
appearance at the top of the ranch stairs. My
mom bought this for me years ago.

Our Halloween Mini-Crawl fast approaches.

"Ze arms of Pepe are upon you."

Skunk ducks under our car.

I still have this skull that I bought over 11 years

ago. It is motion activated and plays the theme song

from the movie Halloween.

I bought these two little trick-or-treating bears
at Walmart in 2007. They have lived in my

curio cabinet since then.

Hoo-RAH for Spirit Halloween Store coupons!

Due to circumstances this year, we have not gone on our
Annual Halloween Store Crawl for 2024 yet. We will most
likely be making a mini-crawl sometime in the next
two weeks. Even though we are going mini
this year, we are still excited.

This coupon will come in handy for something
 I know I would like to buy. I just hope they still
have the item when we go.

Some of us enjoy having these guys hanging around all

year long. They are always in season at The Ranch.

Start your October days with
a bowl of Wednesday.

Happy SPOOKTOBER 2024!