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  1. Also, when they made Beetlejuice, they really borrowed some bits from Time Bandits.

    #Beetlejuice #Timebandits

  2. Happy Halloween! While I’m not dressing up in costume for an office party, I do feel the mood for spooky fun. I’ve got the house to myself while I work, so it’s time to crank some tunes!

    First off is Skatune Network‘s Skalloween album, released in 2021. For those of you who don’t know who Skatune Network is, they are an incredible one person Ska band who arranges and performs Ska covers of our favorite video game, cartoon, and pop music. This 8 track album features music from Beetlejuice, appropriate with the sequel that just came out, to Scooby Doo, a cartoon which pretty much celebrated Halloween all the time. Skatune does an amazing job with all of their tracks, and they collaborate with other great artists on this album as well. I’ve made a YouTube playlist of the album below, but you can also find the album on Bandcamp (link) and on other streaming media platforms.

    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP4XUsocAKg-JEzqfmqKn2t1FEMaDWXyx&si=fPt5sAOZ5qWTr6-j

    It’s a Halloween movie! It’s a Christmas movie!! IT’S BOTH!!! The Nightmare Before Christmas, released over 30 years ago, has one of the most iconic movie soundtracks which Danny Elfman ever wrote. As I observed when I wrote about this soundtrack for it’s 30th anniversary, it was the combination of Elfman’s amazing score with the voices of the actors which makes this soundtrack so successful. Elfman even provides the singing voice of Jack Skellington (speaking voice provided by Chris Sarandon, who also played Prince Humperdink in The Princess Bride)! I’ll admit, I’ll stop and listen to any song from this soundtrack whenever it comes up in my Plex, but I’ll always try to watch this movie on Halloween. This year, with the recent passing of Ken Page, the voice of Oogie Boogie, I’ll also be sure to raise a glass when his song comes up.

    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n3P6QbzwRveRljRWtG8nzdhLwKw0XfxEs&si=9pwBnL1iD1PClrae

    Of course, we can’t have a Halloween playlist without some drum corps, so here’s the 1994 Bushwackers performing music from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

    https://youtu.be/yEUOxjbGEzs?si=VAbxc1nDLd5PutGQ

    On the twenty-third day of the month of September
    In an early year of a decade not too long before our own
    The human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence
    And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do
    In the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places

    So began Alan Menken‘s and Howard Ashman‘s musical adaptation of the Roger Corman B movie classic, Little Shop of Horrors. The stage version made its way to the silver screen in 1986, and the gems from this soundtrack are plentiful. Steve Martin absolutely drills “You’ll Be A Dentist”, while Ellen Greene goes from tender wistfulness in “Somewhere That’s Green” to full out Broadway belting in the show stopping “Suddenly Semour”. Levi Stubbs of The Four Tops sets the standard as Audrey II, while Rick Moranis cemented his status as a comedy horror schlep as Seymour after his turn in Ghostbusters as Louis Tully. The movie is a joy to watch and the soundtrack is a joy to listen to.

    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6zRCxFyiWGRQH-F5wvejJx9wgc6kWtBa&si=xG9IWRjCaAuvrOTL

    There’s one musical which has a special place in my heart that also fits with the season. That is The Phantom of the Opera, a mystery never quite fully explained. This was a musical I remember listening to multiple times while in high school along with all the theater kids I shared classes with. It was also one of the first drum corps shows I remember seeing live as the Santa Clara Vanguard performed it in 1988 at the Parma, Ohio, show. I would eventually go on to perform music from Phantom with the Empire Statesmen in 2000. This was also the first musical I would see performed live at the Palace Theater in Playhouse Square. It’s the 25th anniversary concert performance of Phantom which I listen to more than the original cast soundtrack, though, as I find the audio mix is much clearer and the performances of Sierra Boggess as Christine Daaé and Ramin Karimloo as, in my opinion, The Phantom are as powerful, if not more so, than Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford, plus there’s less of the campiness that the original version of Phantom had.

    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUXfCGfEFi5PfZCNOG13HTJObGIXgYXVQ&si=kNY07qsCCCSdk0Xi

    Here is the 1988 Santa Clara Vanguard performance of Phantom of the Opera:

    https://youtu.be/RV6AaSqUXiQ?si=fKwxrGLQJF7gOEGV

    And here is me with the 2000 Empire Statesmen performing Phantom:

    https://youtu.be/dc8yZ_5yRzw?si=BFT-0kqcbPxhZBOc

    https://medi-nerd.com/2024/10/31/2024-halloween-playlist/

    #AlanMenken #Bandcamp #Beetlejuice #Bushwackers #ChrisSarandon #DannyElfman #EllenGreene #EmpireStatesmen #Ghostbusters #Halloween #HowardAshman #JackSkellington #KenPage #Kevin #LeviStubbs #LittleShopOfHorrors #Music #OogieBoogie #PalaceTheater #PlayhouseSquare #Plex #PrinceHumperdink #RickMoranis #RogerCorman #SantaClaraVanguard #ScoobyDoo #SierraBoggess #Skallowen #SkatuneNetwork #SteveMartin #TheFourTops #TheNightmareBeforeChristmas #ThePhantomOfTheOpera #ThePrincessBride #YouTube

  3. New BloodSplatteredVlog!

    This week The Horror Guru & Count Jackula review Beetlejuice Beetlejuice!

    A chaotic legacy sequel to Tim Burton's 1988 horror comedy classic Beetlejuice that's way better than it has any right to be!

    youtu.be/Me2LXYSGSJc

    #Beetlejuice #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice #TimBurton #MovieReview #Movie #Review #Vlog #HorrorGuru #CountJackula

  4. Projector Room Podcast – Episode 163 – Furiosa Fall Guy

    Allan, Gareth and Ted are back again with another chinwag on film, cinema and TV. In the lens this time is Abigail's Atlas in the After Life, Wicked Little Letters from The Innocen

    garethmyles.com/projector-room

    #Podcast #ProjectorRoom #Abigail #AfterLife #Atlas #Beetlejuice #Bodkin #BoyKillsWorld #CivilWar #DabneyColeman #EmilyWatson #Furiosa #TheFallGuy #TheInnocents #WickedLittleLetters

  5. Projector Room 160 “Pearl’s Road House”

    Allan, Ted and I are here again with another roundup of all things film, cinema and TV. This time we gorge on Gary Oldman's opulence, try to solve the 3 Body Problem, flip and flop on The Wag

    garethmyles.com/projector-room

    #Podcast #ProjectorRoom #3BodyProblem #AmericanGangster #BadBoys #Beetlejuice #GalaxyQuest #GaryOldman #Ghostbusters #Longlegs #Pearl #RoadHouse #TheDeadDontHurt #Triple9 #WagesOfFear #X

  6. Scott Campbell shares the creative process behind his newest watercolor piece, a big tribute to #Beetlejuice. I love his style and it's cool to get a behind-the-scenes look at how it's made. #ScottCampbell #ScottC #Watercolor youtu.be/aZYCLApDQLw?si=29ODdd

  7. Beetlebert Apology: “I simply fell short of my values”
    Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert issued an apology Friday evening for her behavior that got her removed from the musical "Beetlejuice" in Denver on Sunday.

    Boebert called the attention she has received over the past few days "difficult and humbling," and blamed her vaping and boorish beha
    newsviews.online/2023/09/16/be
    #YourBrainOnMAGAt #apology #Beetlejuice #LaurenBoebert

  8. #RIP #HarryBelafonte (1927–2023)

    Actor, singer & political activist popularized #calypso #music.

    Seen in 14 #films, notably in 2 #boxoffice hits of the '50s:

    #OttoPreminger's CARMEN JONES (1954), in which he loves/murders #Oscar nominee #DorothyDandridge.

    #RobertRossen's Caribbean-set ISLAND IN THE SUN (1957), in which he romances #JoanFontaine. (There's no on-screen kissing, though.)

    Singing voice heard in #Beetlejuice.

    #actor #singer #movies #ClassicMovies #film #cinema #Cinemastodon