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Nostro inciderint vix eu. But o ada s o o e reall ares. This horror anthology unusually focuses on, and celebrates, the mythology and popular beliefs surrounding the holiday of Halloween.

Although there is an existing tradition of making and screening horror films and television shows to coincide with the popular holiday on the 31st of October, very few of these films actually engage with Halloween, despite its historical association with death, sacrifice and disguise. Ward, 4 Human sacrifices were made to Samhain, Lord of the Dead, by Celtic druids, people later being substituted for black cats, who were burnt in wicker cages.

Linton and Linton, 4 In Irela d, the good people , or the fairies, ere elie ed to e out in force on this night, intent on wreaking mischief or malevolence on any mortal foolish enough to be outside. Yeats, 2 The pranks of the fairies may be one of the origins of modern trick-or- treating. The tradition of the jack-o-lantern also originates from Celtic Ireland, where potatoes and turnips were hollowed out, and lit with candles.

Belk, Fires were lit, banquets held and disguises worn to confuse the ghosts, hobgoblins and witches who emerged on Samhain night, when it was believed that the veil between the human world and the world of the dead was at its thinnest. The transformation of Halloween from the Celtic harvest festival of Samhain to a night primarily associated with consumerism, pranks and trashy films is a path contested over and traced repeatedly by various scholars.

The reaso for Hallo ee s urre t status as a fa et of trash culture may lie in the inability to ascribe a particular meaning or value to the holiday. Belk rites that, The historical precedents of Halloween explain some icons and historical vestiges of the holiday, but they do not explain why it continues to be a popular American and North American holiday, despite its lack of clear meanings to participants. Surprisingly little is known of them since they kept no written records.

Our knowledge of Irela d s Celts is based largel o orall tra s itted lore … and scattered archaeological evidence. It s o o der that riters … dreamt of a race of savages who offered up human sacrifices to demonic gods and spent the autumn warding off evil spirits by constructing huge, roaring bonfires.

Unlike other holidays of pagan origin, such as Easter or Christmas, it is also unclear to which members of society Halloween is directed at. Samhain would have been a communal celebration, involving the entire family; the modern Halloween became popular with children, with the introduction of the ritual of trick-or-treating, dressing up and walking arou d the eigh ourhood i groups to olle t offeri gs of food a d candy.

Morto , ,. Whether these urban legends contributed in Halloween becoming an activity primarily for adults from the s onward, particularly in America, is unclear. Huge gatherings and parties with sexually promiscuous costumes were introduced on Halloween, es apist e tra aga zas that ore rese led Mardi Gras than the candy-and-apple surfeits of ester ear … e lipsi g the hild-centred rituals of trick-or-treati g. The relationship between Halloween and trashy horror films is best signified in John Carpe ter s Halloween franchise, which comprises of ten films along with associated novels and comic books.

The first five of the Halloween films were released only days before the holiday itself, thus adding the consuming of horror films to the traditions of Halloween. Despite the fil s title, o l the third Halloween film, Halloween III: Season of the Witch , made any attempt to engage with Halloween as a night of supernatural occurrences; the other films being concerned with the serial killer Michael Myers who happened to murder his sister on Halloween night.

Of course horror is not restricted to the medium of film; the Halloween Special is a fixture of many television channels and shows, being either an episode of a particular show concerned with Halloween, or a show created especially for the holiday for viewers. Some of the most famous and long running Halloween Specials, usually directed at a younger audience, include It s the Great Pu pki , Charlie Brown , based on the Peanuts comic strip, Halloweentown and The Halloween Tree The film was based on an animated short created by Dougherty in called Seaso s Greetings, which introduced the character of Sam presumably short for Samhain , who has the appearance of a small boy dressed in orange pyjamas with a burlap sack resembling a jack-o-lantern on his head.

In Seaso s Greeti gs, Sam is stalked by a dark figure who has been stealing children, late on Halloween night while he is trick-or-treating. The figure corners him in an alley, and in the ensuing struggle it is assumed by the audience that Sam has been killed. Instead, he emerges from the alleyway dragging his attacker in his trick-or- treat bag, and the eerie glow emitting from the eye holes of the sack suggests that Sam is something supernatural.

When a woman extinguishes the flame of a jack-o la ter , which is against tradition, he immediately attacks and stabs her to death with the serrated edge of a pumpkin-headed lollipop.