Rant number 305
I really like halloween me. I like the idea of the festival - the history, the hype, the commercialisation, the plastic crap - the lot. The problem is though, that I live in the wrong country!
England has a really quite half-hearted attitude to halloween. The reason for this I am more than sure - is because retailers are so fucking obsessed with Christmas that they are already peddling stuff in September.
We also have got fireworks night - which I really rather like also (there are explosives and hot-dogs. What's not to love?) The thing is though - that its close proximity (a mere 5 days) to halloween is prone to removing some of the shine.
All this aside - its no excuse. People should embrace halloween and bloody well enjoy it.
Look at the USA in comparison. They have parties and decorations and kids running riot. We have fancy dress down the pubs or (as I overheard someone say) at bingo. Trick or treating seems to be done under parental supervision only to avoid the dangers of strangers - or by chavs who want special brew - not lolly pops.
The halloween stuff is only found in pound shops and is of questionable quality.
You can pop the TV on and watch a horror though can't you?
No.
Year after year, bafflingly - the TV schedulers seem determined to avoid showing anything horror themed on halloween. I mean - on a day called halloween, I thought that maybe they'd like to show a movie - which fitted the theme. A movie called - just throwing a thought in here: Halloween for instance!
The only film that has anything approaching a horrific theme this evening is - The Sixth Sense.
Now, I know that some of you may not have seen it yet - so here is a spoiler alert before I talk about it:
Its shit, and about scary as a puppy wrapped in cotton wool.
It's really bloody disappointing that people show so little initiative!
Rant over.
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