This morning’s playlist started including my Halloween playlist. 343 Songs clocking in at just under 19 hours. It’ll take the whole month to hear them all. Tubular Bells was this morning’s drive time treat.

And now the movie list. If you’ve been here before you know the methodology: Flickchart.com and a little witches brew. Changing up the lists this year. We watch a LOT of horror movies. Most of them these days just aren’t very good. So rather than using horror movies to generate the list – an overly broad subject on the best of days – I’m using a few specific categories this season: haunted houses, witches and ghosts. The first and third have a lot of overlap. Throw in a few “seasonal” movies and perennial faves and we have a full month of viewing.

Here’s what we get the first few days: in the “might as well get them out of the way” category we have Earnest: Scared Stupid, Garfield in Disguise and Scooby Doo and the Witches Ghost. Throw in a couple animated shorts (Who Killed Who from Tex Avery ’43 and Lonesome Ghosts from Burt Gillette ’37.) and Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters and we have a light opening weekend.

Garfield wasn’t as bad as his Christmas special, but was still drek. Couldn’t be saved by a Lou Rawls title number. Give it a 1. Out of 10. Although for SOME reason IMDB scores it an 8.3. No. Just no.

Ernest fared slightly better. Was a shame to see Ertha Kitt stoop to this. The opening sequence with spliced in classic horror scenes wass\ fun but not enough to raise this. I’ll give it a 2 out of 10. IMDB gives it 5.8. Just sayin’.

And finally Quackbusters. Actually not bad. Some classic WB ghost/haunted house/monster cartoons stitched together to make a fun hour plus. Worth it for the Mr. Hyde Tweety Bird and Gossimer appearences alone. And …. Mel Torme! 4.7/10