Remember back in the day before Cable television, when you still had "rabbit
ears" on your television, and Saturday night would creep around to about
midnight?  (Maybe this didn't happen in the UK, sorry!)

We called them 'Creature Features'.  And they'd replay older, mostly black &
white scary movies (well, back in the late 1960's, early 70's they were
scary... notice they'd only play them at midnight).  They'd play them on
Saturday night on television.  And if you were young enough you had to ask
your Mom, can I stay up and watch?  LOL

If yes, you got to see Vincent Price and some of the older film classics,
aka Edgar Allen Poe - The Pit and the Pendulum, Masque of the Red Death,
like that.  If things went further back, some of the old Dracula films, The
Wolfman, The Mummy, The Invisible Man.  (I do love black & white films!)

In years after this gave way to films such as 'Halloween', 'Nightmare on Elm
Street' (I have to admit the idea for this one was pretty darned creative)
and so on.  Unfortunately they got more and more gruesome and the Creature
Features went the way of the Black Lagoon after the creature with the zipper
up his back gave way to better makeup and more gruesome special effects.

I don't celebrate Halloween (per se) but I sure did enjoy a good Creature
Feature on Saturday nights back in the day.  I still enjoy a good spooky
movie, (but not a blood and guts movie which is what the genre has evolved
into).

'Poltergeist' is still on my list of great creepy films.  "They're heeeere!"
Steven Spielburg once told how he did some of the effects in that and other
films; he is a film genious.  I still get the creeps when I see some parts
of that movie.  I just wish the "TV People" would put together my dining
nook set.  And they can have my television, but they can't have Persia or
Peaches :)

The most romantic ghost film: 'The Ghost & Mrs. Muir', starring Rex Harrison
and Gene Tierney.  Pass the popcorn and a handkerchief, please. :)

Jill