Summer is here and with it Halloween sneaking onto your store shelves. It's an exciting time. Me? I'm looking mostly forward to the coming days when At Home will start stocking the spooky stuff little by little. Some of you may have already hit up your local craft stores for material and other materials to make pumpkin spiced DIY. Either way, hit the alarm, it's Code Orange time!
If you're an Instagram user like me, then you've already started following the tags. Various combinations of Halloween, 2022, Code Orange, and whatever stores you plan on targeting in this exciting time are sure to soon bring news of creepy things creeping onto shelves. Make sure to look at plan-o-grams. The shelves won't be fully stocked at first. It's going to take a while, and during that while, they'll be those handy stocking plans taped to the shelves. It's good way to get a hint of what's coming.
Spring is in the air and Halloween is around the corner. While little peaks and glimpses start in January, it really starts leaking out right now before stuff starts showing up in summer. Just this past weekend while at the Dollar Tree, there was already Halloween flavored glow sticks being stocked. The Mrs. got some Halloween nail things from there a few weeks ago. It's coming! Kicking off the spookiness is Walpurgis Night. Walpurgis Night takes place April 1st and runs through May 1st. It's something I've been wanting to incorporate here on Zone Base and this year is the year! Next week will be extra spooky in observance of Walpurgis Night as we hit the halfway mark to our favorite holiday! Boo!
It's Friday the 13th! If you're superstitious, this is a very unlucky day! If you're at summer camp, you're probably gonna get murdered. Though for the rest of the world, it's a little mini-Halloween that randomly pops up during the year! There's probably a horror marathon or two on TV tonight. A bunch of Jason Vorhees memes getting shared on Facebook. Just a little spooky fun inserted into your routine. Did I say a mini-Halloween? You're damn right I'm running with it.
Friday the 13th part 2 is probably one of the better entries in the series. As a direct sequel to the original movie, it continues the story and keeps the same general vibe. It takes what made the original good and adds to it. One of the more cool aspects of this part is... several counselors live. I know, I know, but here me out. Jason (whom is somehow alive now because I guess) is killing attendees of a counselor training camp being held across the lake from the now closed Camp Blood Crystal Lake.
The camp has quite a few attendees as during the time summer camps were big business. So, the head honcho takes the group out for a night of fun before the hard work begins. Well, he takes out those who want to go out that is. The rest stay at camp and that's where the bulk of the murder happens. Aside from said head honcho and main girl who return to face Jason, the rest just stay and don't get killed horribly. One survivor is camp prankster Ted... who you pretty much wanted to see die.
Now, what happened to the survivors after? Well, they got off pretty lucky. Not only did they survive, but they didn't have the ordeal whatsoever. They just found out what happened the next day. Horrible sure, but you don't go Laurie Strode crazy after finding out some people you just met died while you were at Applebee's. Wait... Laurie Strode... mini-Halloween?
What we have here is a Halmark Halloween commercial from the late 80's. I'd give an exact year, but they reused it for awhile. This version with an added spooky sounds tape bit added on is from 1989, which is like eight years after the movie took place. I chose the picture above of Ted to help you all out, but if you didn't notice at around :25 there he is rocking a 'this is my costume' shirt. Not only did Ted survive getting killed in a slasher movie, but he chose to wear one of those shirts on Halloween. Because, he's funny, get it?
