LOVE it or hate it, Halloween is back.
The annual festivity is happening today (October 31) and many local organisations have already gotten themselves into the spooky spirit – as has the Gippsland Times.
Register your place for Trick or Treating
TRICK or Treat 3850 is assisting residents and families who wish to partake in the Halloween ritual.
The community group has created a website where households can register their home as an ‘official’ location to visit on October 31.
Properties can also participate in the Best Dressed House competition.
Other contests that can be entered include a Colouring Competition, Spooky Snack Contest and Pet Parade.
Additionally, Trick or Treat 3850 has a range of free resources which locals are welcome to utilise for the occasion.
More information can be found by visiting trickortreat3850.com.au or the official Facebook page: facebook.com/TrickorTreat3850
Kitten season at Animal Aid
Photo: Stefan Bradley.
IT’S spooky season and kitten season at Animal Aid Gippsland, with hundreds of kittens expected to come into the shelter during the next five months.
The ultimate treat for a cat is to be adopted by a loving family, and anyone who has seen a cat video on the internet knows that the felines have dozens of tricks to share.
Fright Night
NO Halloween would be complete without watching a scary movie after dark.
Our resident film buffs have provided their picks for their favourite films in the horror genre.
Tom Parry: “It’s hard to go past Wake in Fright. Rather than rely on supernatural scares or blood-letting, this classic Australian feature frightens viewers by playing upon fears much closer to home. The inhospitable, remote and lonely environment of the outback – a terrifying place on its own – becomes an environment laden with grog, machismo and senseless violence, enough to really make people squirm.”
Stefan Bradley: “A zombie comedy I’ve watched so many times is Zombieland. There’s hilarious one-liners, an unforgettable cast of characters, thrilling film score and absolutely killer zombie deaths – what more could you want? It’s under 90 minutes too.”
Should you watch Halloween Ends?
STEFAN watched the latest instalment in the Halloween saga and reviewed it in the October 18 issue of the Gippsland Times. Here’s a snippet from that review:
Fans will fill the cinemas for the kills and while there’s some decent ones, like most horror sequels there’s a sense of diminishing returns.
The film did something very different and interesting with the Corey character, but other than that, I think most people will see what’s coming a mile away, including the ending, which isn’t groundbreaking, but is a nice send-off for the characters.
Ends may be the weakest in the sequel trilogy, and probably the least scariest, but is still a fun time in the cinema for fans.
Halloween Ends is rated MA15+ for strong horror violence, blood and gore, and is currently screening at Sale Cinema.
Face the music
FATHER-daughter business owners David and Candice Stothers have created a new experience for window shoppers at Stothers Music & Hi-Fi in Sale, decking their store in Halloween props and decorations.
Asked for her favourite Halloween films, Candice nominated Hocus Pocus and The Nightmare Before Christmas. She’s looking for “a fun time, not a gory time”.
“I love Halloween, but I’m too much of a scaredy-cat,” she said with a smile.
UFO sighting in Sale 50 years ago
PICTURED above is an article from the Gippsland Times, dated October 2, 1972.
Halloween may be a new concept in Australia, but UFOs have spooked the region for generations.
The story reads:
A SALE woman saw an unidentified flying object on Saturday night. Mrs Val Bland of Picton Crt, saw an illuminated object in the north-west sky at 7pm. She described the object as “a bunch of lights in a dome shape moving at a fast speed from west to east”.
Mrs Bland said the lights were vivid blue-green, a colour usually associated with an electrical flash. The UFO was visible for only a few seconds. Mrs Bland’s sighting follows others by Sale and Traralgon policemen and RAAF members in the Sale and Rosedale areas in the past fortnight.
