{"id":8924,"date":"2017-10-30T16:09:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T21:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=8924"},"modified":"2017-10-30T16:09:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T21:09:53","slug":"professors-recommend-favorite-halloween-flicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/8924","title":{"rendered":"Professors recommend favorite halloween flicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"theshape\"by Sara Alexander–<\/strong>As cooler weather rolls in, students and professors can both agree that few activities are more appealing on a fall night than getting cozy and watching a spooky movie.<\/p>\n

Morningside professors from various departments across campus were eager to share their favorite Halloween movies, both fun and scary, and even make some recommendations for students to watch.<\/p>\n

Aaron Bunker, a Biology\/Chemistry Department Professor, recommends all students watch the original Halloween<\/em>. He loves it because \u201cit has everything that the season and holiday represent: fall, costumes, trick or treating, and the original boogey man. Plus, the music is so iconic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bunker also appreciates how the movie doesn\u2019t show \u201ca lot of gore, and the \u2018monster\u2019 is also only really partially seen. A lot is left to the imagination, which is very powerful.\u201d Bunker also recommends The Grudge <\/em>and The <\/em>Ring.<\/p>\n

Leslie Werden, Department of English\/Modern Languages Chair and Professor shares that her favorite Horror film is The Shining<\/em>, based on the novel by Stephen King. She recalls going to see the movie at around age 12 with her parents.<\/p>\n

She explains, \u201cThe story is of a struggling writer, Jack, who takes a job as the custodian of a hotel, The Overlook, that shuts down for the winter. He brings his wife and son, thinking it will be a great opportunity for him to focus and get some writing done. The trouble is that his son Danny has a gift of sight (the \u2018shining\u2019) that brings him visions of the murderous\/deathly past of the hotel. Jack eventually allows the ghosts of the hotel to drive him nuts and he tries to kill Danny and his wife.\u201d Werden also comments that some of the music is \u201ccreepy, seriously creepy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another Biology\/Chemistry Department Professor, Brian McFarland, is a self-proclaimed \u201cbig Halloween fan.\u201d He recommends all students watch his favorite horror movie, Scream<\/em>. It\u2019s his favorite because \u201cat the time, it was a fresh take on the slasher genre that was popular in the 1980’s, which had grown really stale and dated.<\/p>\n

Scream<\/em> offered a new outlook, which included parody of several common slasher movie tropes. It was a great blend of horror and dark comedy.\u201d He is also fond of the Scream<\/em> sequels.<\/p>\n

Some Professors, on the other hand, aren\u2019t as fond of the horror movie genre. Spanish Professor, Gail Ament, says, \u201cI have zero tolerance for being scared, and I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve ever seen a horror movie!\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor of Marketing, Marilyn Eastman, is also not a fan of scary movies. She said, \u201cI have to leave the room when anything scary comes on.\u201d Instead, she prefers a more fun classic: \u201cMy very favorite Halloween movie is Peanut\u2019s \u2018Great Pumpkin\u2019 show.\u00a0The best part is when Linus waits all night for the Great Pumpkin in the pumpkin patch and he doesn\u2019t come.\u00a0He is so disappointed, but his friends make him feel better.\u00a0The music is also great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Overall, Morningside professors have some great recommendations of scary movies for students to watch. Just be sure to do do your homework first\u2026 there\u2019s nothing scarier than a failing grade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Sara Alexander–As cooler weather rolls in, students and professors can both agree that few activities are more appealing on a fall night than getting cozy and watching a spooky movie. Morningside professors from various departments across campus were eager to share their favorite Halloween movies, both fun and scary, and even make some recommendations…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":8925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4287],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8926,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924\/revisions\/8926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}