Cynthia Kinnunen blogs about sharing stuff from your childhood with your kids
As Halloween draws close, we’ve been pulling out lots of spooky things in the house: the window decorations, the gauzy spiderweb stuff, pieces of old costumes that are difficult to distinguish…
We also find ourselves getting in the mood by watching old creepy videos, like Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”, which is one of the kids’ favourites. But we stumbled upon a show that I used to be “glued to the tube” to and that very few of my friends really “got”: The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. Remember it?
The kids are enamoured. They make me crank it up to the Wolfman’s psychedelic dance routines. They giggle hysterically at Grizelda, The Ghastly Gourmet. They recognize (from “Thriller”, of course) – and are totally freaked out by – Vincent Price and his spoooooooky tales.
