• early 2000’s Halloween nostalgia. Halloween was so exciting when I was a little girl. My friends and I would spend all October planning costumes to wear trick or treating. We would all walk around the neighborhood together hoping to score a great deal of candy. There were always two maybe three houses in the neighborhood that would go all out on Halloween decorations. The house furthest from me always had a skeleton/zombie/pumpkin graveyard theme in the front of their house with the animatronic decor they reused each year. I specifically remember one animatronic they had was a skeleton band that would sing a song. The other house was much closer to me, like right up the street and they were always creative with their Halloween decorations. The father that lived their would build a lot of it himself. I remember one time he made their garage door into an interactive horror short film showing. Walking up the door it looked like a woman was trapped inside trying to get to you. She would end up screaming, throwing axes and punching at the door which would cause it to dent out and have the fake glass shatter. As a kid this house always terrified me but I loved it! I loved the creativity, I thought it was so neat that they made all the stuff themselves! After perusing around the neighborhood for a few hours with my friends, we would go home, share candy and put on scary movies to watch all night. We’d watch things like the Salem witch trials, the exorcist, and the conjuring. I hope one day Halloween can feel this exciting again.