SMOKE SIGNALS The Official Publication of the ANKOKAS, NJ Region AACA Sept./Oct.Volume Halloween In This Issue: g Local Halloween Events g Werewolf Movies g Frankenstein Movies g Origins of Superstitions g Face Your Fears Puzzle g Halloween for Younger Viewers g Story of the Jack O’ Lantern g Pumpkin Carving Tips g History of Trick or Treat g Halloween Word Search g Horror Movie Quote Puzzle g The Sound of Terror g Best of Black & White Horror g Roadside Ramblings In This Month’s Issue: Local Halloween Events...................... 1 What is This? Werewolf Movies...... 3 Frankenstein Movies..................... 4 A lot of you might be wondering what Origins of is this new piece of newsletter you’re Superstitions............ 5 getting. The truth is, your editor, in her Face Your Halloween excitement, went a little off the Fears Puzzle............. 6 rails. Maybe a lot. Anyway, due to some Halloween For size constraints, I had to pull almost all of Younger Viewers...... 6 the Halloween content out of the regular Story of the newsletter and put it here, in your Smoke Jack O’ Lantern....... 7 Signals Halloween Supplement. Inside Pumpkin Carving these pages you will find everything you Tips.......................... 7 need to make your Halloween a howling History of good time, including some articles rerun Trick or Treat............ 8 from previous issues (just in case you Halloween Word Search............ 8 forgot them). Horror Movie For me, Halloween has always been a Quote Puzzle............ 9 time when I wasn’t the only weird one. The Sound For at least one day, everyone else was of Terror.................... 9 watching horror movies, reading scary Best of Black & books and telling ghost stories. For one White Horror............. 10 day, I get to share a lot of the things Roadside that excite me year round. So, happy Ramblings................ 11 Your editor at a trunk or treat on Halloween in 2014. Halloween everyone! Photo by S. Soppe. This newsletter is a publication of the Ankokas Region of the Antique Automobile Club of America, located in southern New Jersey. Material may be reproduced only if credit is given to the source and we are asked for permission to reproduce the material. If you have material that you would like to contribute or you have comments or ideas about the newsletter, please contact the editor, Diana, at [email protected]. Cover: Your webmaster has escaped from the pumpkin patch! Photo by D. Antinucci. Your editor at a trunk or treat on Halloween in 2016. Photo by S. Soppe. SMOKE SIGNALS Page 2 ghghgh Local Halloween Events ghghgh Terror Behind the Walls, Eastern State Haunted Attractions Penitentiary, 2027 Fairmount Ave., Philadelphia, Bates Motel and Hayride, 1835 Middleton Rd., PA. 215-236-3300. www.easternstate.org. Event Glen Mills, PA. 610-459-0647. Event begins Sept. begins Sept. 21. 22. Visit www.thebatesmotel.com for dates, times and pricing. Skip the motel, go for the esxcellent Kid-Friendly hayride. 15th Annual South Jersey Pumpkin Show, Miller Farms Haunted Hayride and Maze, 134 N. Salem County Fairgrounds, 735 Harding Grove St., Berlin, NJ. 856-728-3500. Event begins Hwy., Woodstown, NJ. 856-769-3494. www. Oct. 1st. Call for Dates and times or visit https:// sjpumpkinshow.com. Oct. 12 from 5-10PM, Oct. www.millerfarmsllc.com. Hayrides $11.00, Maze 13 from 10AM-6PM and Oct. 14 from 10AM-6PM. $6.00, Combo ticket $15.00. Giant pumpkin pyramid, pumpkin dessert contest Night of Terror, Creamy Acres, 448 Lincoln Mill and amusement rides. Rd., Mullica Hill, NJ. 856-233-1669. Event begins Boo at the Zoo, Cohanzick Zoo, 45 Mayor Aitken Sept. 23rd. Not for young children or the faint of Dr., Bridgeton, NJ. 856-453-1658. Event is on heart. Visit http://www.nightofterror.com. October 20th from 11AM to 2PM and there is a Bamboo Gardens Walk of Fear, 134 Landing St., $1.00 admission.Visit http://cohanzickzoo.org. Southampton, NJ. 609-859-2842. Event begins Boo at the Boardwalk, Jenkinson’s Boardwalk, early October. Admission is $25 per person. Call 300 Ocean Ave., Point Pleaseant, NJ. 732-892- 609-859-2842 or visit www.walkoffear.com. 0600. jenkins.com/event/boo-at-the-boardwalk/all. C. Casola Farms Haunted Attractions, 131 S. Oct. 20, 21, 27 and 28 from 12-4PM. Main Str., Marlboro, NJ. 732-946-8885. Event 47th Annual Halloween Parade of Boredntown begins late September with five attractions and City, Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown, NJ. Oct. 28 at variable pricing. Visit www.hauntedcasola.com/ 2PM. index.html. Bloodshed Farms Fear Fest, 2919 Route 206, Haunted History Tours Columbus, NJ. 609-267-0400. Event begins early Enchanted Evening Tours at Ringwood Manor, October. There are four attractions and There is 1304 Sloatsburg Rd., Ringwood, NJ. 973-962- a combo pass for $30.00 and a VIP combo for 2240. www.ringwoodmanor.org/enchanted- $45.00. Visit www.bloodshedfarms.com. evening-tours.html. Oct. 20, 26, 27 and 31st. Schaefers Farm Frightfest, 1051 Flemington Elaine’s Walking Ghost Tours of Cape May, Whitehouse Rd., Flemington, NJ. 908-782- departs from 513 Lafayette St., Cape May, NJ. 2705. Event begins late September and has four MUST HAVE RESERVATIONS. Call 609-884-1199. attractions. Visit farmofhorrors.com. Tours start at 9PM. $10 adults, $5 children. Brighton Asylum, 2 Brighton Ave., Passaic, NJ. Princeton Halloween Cemetery Visits & Ghost 201-716-2827. www.brightonasylum.com. Event Hunts, departs from inside the U-Store, 116 begins Sept. 21. Nassau St., Princeton, NJ. 855-743-1415. https:// V&V Adventure Farm, 1339 Old Indian Mills princetontourcompany.com/activities/halloween- Rd., Shamong, NJ. 609-801-2495. www. cemetery-visits-ghost-hunts. Oct. 13, 19, 20, 26 & vvadventurefarm.com. Attractions include Jersey 27. Devil Haunt, Flashlight Corn Maze and Zombie Expos Invasion Shootout Hayride. Chiller Theatre Expo, Hilton Parsippany, 199 Penn Hurst Asylum, Bridge St. & Church St., Smith Rd., Parsippany, NJ. 888-627-8148. www. Spring City, PA. 304-261-2744. pennhurstasylum. chillertheatre.com. Oct. 26-28. Guests include com. Event begins Sept. 21. Four attractions: Robert Wagner, Jill St. John, Loretta Swit, Barbara Pennhurst Asylum, The Morgue, Mayflower After Eden, Caroline Munro and Martine Beswick. Dark and Containment. Image created by Kjpargeter-Freepik.com. SMOKE SIGNALS Page 3 ghgh Werewolf Movies ghgh In celebration of Howl at the Moon Night on October 26th! Werewolf of London (1935) (NR) (US) A horticulturist is attacked The Company of Wolves (1984) (R) (UK) This is an anthology movie in Tibet and only a rare flower from that country will keep him from with a wraparound story about a girl that dreams of werewolves. turning into a murdering beast. Stars Henry Hull and Valerie Hobson. Directed by Neil Jordan and starring Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury An interesting twist on the tale before the more famous Lon Chaney, and David Warner. An odd entry in the werewolf film category, it has Jr. movie was released. This movie invented the notion that a bite one of the most unique transformations put on film. infected the victim with the werewolf curse and that the werewolf Silver Bullet (1985) (R) (US) A werewolf terrorizes a small town and only a paralyzed boy and his sister know who it is. Written by Stephen transformed during a full moon. King and starring Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Corey Haim with an The Wolf Man (1941) (NR) (US) A man returns to his ancestral home appearance by Terry O’Quinn. Rated R mostly for frightening scenes where he is attacked by a wolf and is told that he is now cursed to and violence, it’s a touching story about a boy, his sister and their change into a wolf. Written by Curt Siodmak, stars Claude Rains, Lon uncle. You don’t see much of the werewolf until the end, which is good, Chaney, Jr., Ralph Bellamy, Bela Lugosi and Maria Ouspenskaya. This because the full view of the werewolf kind of looks like a guy in a bear is probably the most famous of werewolf films, with good reason. This suit. movie invented the lore of silver being the only thing that could kill a Teen Wolf (1985) (PG) (US) A teenager discovers he has a family werewolf and that they were repelled by wolfsbane. legacy of lycanthropy. Stars Michael J. Fox. A fun family movie that I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) (Approved, today probably spawned a sequel with Jason Bateman and a popular TV series. PG) (US) A hypnotist uses an experimental serum on a teenager, Bad Moon (1996) (R) (US) A mother and son living in a secluded transforming him into a werewolf. Stars wooded area take in a family member Michael Landon, Whit Bissell and an with a secret. Stars Mariel Hemingway appearance by Guy Williams. This might and Michael Paré. This is one of the few movies on this list that I haven’t seen, not be a great movie, but it is a horror but from the trailer and the YouTube classic. Unfortunately, the rights issues clips, I can say that the werewolf looks for the film are a mess (AIP made the pretty good, but the transformation itself picture, later merged with Filmways, looks like some really dated computer Filmways was bought by Orion, Orion graphic work. This movie always turns had distribution deals with Warner and up in the lists of best werewolf movies. MGM before it went bankrupt) and while Ginger Snaps (2000) (NR) (CAN/US) you can get a VHS for almost $100, the This is a tale of two sisters as one of best way to get a hold of the film is to go them goes through a change.