RSVP for Halloween Movie Party at Sandy Petersen’s

Updated on September 30, 2010 By Ken Begg 22 Comments

With the divine Ms. Wendy P. apparently out of town for All Hallow’s Eve, Sandy has nothing to do but mope and shake his fist at the Fools of the Scientific Community Who Called Him Mad.  Therefore he’s going to throw open him home to anyone who wants to spend Halloween watching horror movies on his giant TV from the vantage of what I can honestly describe as very comfortable furniture indeed.  Following in the footsteps of his b-movie mentors, Sandy promises attendees will

SEE … Sandy’s original painting of Great Cthulhu!
SEE … the Great Wall of Horror DVDs.
SEE … Sandy’s spare bedrooms.
FEAST … on Sandy’s brick barbecue. Bring the right ingrediments and we can hold a Feast of Ishtar, such as has not been held in 5000 years.

If anything, the promise of manhandling the grill might be more likely to bring Kirk Draut into town than the movies.

I wish I could attend, but sadly, no.  However, have fun everyone.  Sandy can be contacted here via the message thread below, or at spetersen@mail.smu.edu.

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  • BeckoningChasm

    I would LOVE to go, but cannot. I must, yet I cannot. Where in the graph do “must” and “cannot” meet? Why, it’s right here in my finances. Such as they are.

    I’d bring my own paintings and we could compare.

  • I have other paintings. But only one original oil portrait of Cthulhu, done from life by Tom Sullivan.

  • My current thought for Halloween is to watch ONLY movies with titles that we must obey. Such as FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED or SURF NAZIS MUST DIE or TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA.

  • Also, DJANGO KILL! But definitely not STOP OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT.

  • Chad R.

    Since you’ve opened it up to spaghetti westerns I suggest DUCK, YOU SUCKER!

    What time will the magic happen?

  • fish eye no miko

    DON’T GO INTO THE BASEMENT
    SCREAM
    MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY
    DON’T LOOK NOW
    DIE, DIE MY DARLING
    EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN

  • And the most terrifying of all: EAT PRAY LOVE

    And really, no one’s suggested FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL!? I must have just missed that.

  • Well Halloween is on Sunday, and I don’t have to teach the next morning, so we can start as early and finish as late as we want. How about if we start the films right at sundown which will be approximately 6:30. So if people show up at 5-ish we can eat and chat and pick out movies until 6:30, when we get down to business.

  • Not-So-Great Cthulhu

    There’s also:

    DIE, MONSTER, DIE! (Karloff!)
    SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN (Price, Lee and Cushing!)
    DESTROY ALL MONSTERS
    BEWARE, THE BLOB
    FERTILIZE THE BLASPHEMING BOMBSHELL

    … okay, maybe you could skip that last one.

  • Gamera

    I hope ‘Pickman’s Model’ isn’t the slightly altered story of how Sandy’s Cthulhu painting was done.

    I’d suggest the party game ‘Bowling for Penguins’. Simply paint the pins to resemble penguins and the ball to look like a shoggoth. As you roll the ball you must shout ‘Tekili!’ (or whatever it was, been awhile since I read AtMoM)

  • Reed

    I must discuss this possibility with my own lovely spouse, as this sounds like a wonderful evening. Who knows, she may even want to come.

  • fish eye no miko

    @Ken: Dammit… I’m not sure why I didn’t put FPKK. I even thought of it… d-:

    I kept thinking of “Don’t!” titles. But I didn’t want to put too many, or it would’ve made EDMW stand out too much. In fact, if I had to to do again, I wouldn’t’ve put it last, either…

    Speaking of “Don’t!” movies:
    DON’T TALK TO STRANGERS
    DON’T GO IN THE WOODS
    DON’T TURN AROUND
    DON’T GO IN THE HOUSE
    DON’T ANSWER THE PHONE
    DON’T OPEN THE DOOR
    DON’T SAY A WORD
    DON’T TORTURE A DUCKLING (yes, really)

  • …DON’T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT…

    And did we say THE BEAST MUST DIE!

  • I now have to be REALLY careful not to put STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER into the player when Ken is visiting. You all know how impressionable he is.

  • I own DON’T TORTURE A DUCKLING so we can totally watch it. Though the original Italian title of DON’T TORTURE DONALD DUCK is obviously far superior. Evil Disney for making them change it.

  • “I now have to be REALLY careful not to put STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER into the player when Ken is visiting. You all know how impressionable he is.”

    Ah, but in my case that would be an effective defense mechanism; I could hoof it when he or she was busy being epically nauseous.

  • fish eye no miko

    Oops, I put Don’t Go In the Basement… Of course I meant Don’t Look In the Basement.

  • My mistake. I should have noticed that for what it was.

  • The Rev.

    I should be able to make the soiree, Sandy. No prior plans have been made, and it’s Sunday so no work. I am looking forward to it. I’m going to see if I can convince the lady of the house to come as well.

    If we don’t have this commanding theme going on, I can bring the Paul Lynde Hallowe’en Special for everyone’s lasting torme…er…SUPER HAPPY FUN.

    (Whew! That was close!)

  • fish eye no miko

    No, my mistake entirely, Ken. I’ve watched it two or three times, and it shows up in TV listings every two weeks or so, so really I should be able to get the dang thing right…

    A few more recent ones:
    DRAG ME TO HELL
    LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

  • Sadly Ken Begg gave me a copy of the Paul Lynde Halloween Special a year or two ago. I have never watched it.

  • Lawyer Chris

    Rats. Definitely can’t make a Sunday gig being from Houston.