In this episode of the podcast, Ron with special guest, Jay of the Dead, celebrate Halloween by going all the way back to the 80s to celebrate Halloween 80s style discussing the events, school, the Halloween specials and costumes of a 1980s Halloween!

You can find Jay of the Dead at Jay of the Dead's New Horror Movies: https://www.newhorrormovies.com/

And at Horror Movie Weekly: https://horrormovieweekly.com/

In the lates 70s and through the 80s into the 90s, educational film companies were contracted to teach kids how to survive Halloween. Latchkey Gen Xers would often roam the streets barely being able to see what where they were going spilling their bag of peanuts all over the sidewalk!

A moral panic rose up surrounding the poisoning of candy making it important for adults to check the stash before kids ate.

Most importantly drivers were out gaining points for every kid they ran over on Halloween. Over 50% of cheesy Halloween PSAs are about kids trying not to get hit by cars.

Our first ever co-ed sleepover takes place with Channy Dreadful dropping by to give us a 90s kid perspective and catch some bonus coverage of a Disney Haunted Halloween and DTV: Monster Hits.

LINKS

1977 Halloween PSA: https://youtu.be/whc7IS94s1k?si=CPh4DDSDeiGgsFSG

1985 Halloween PSA: https://youtu.be/ZCi3zb8QFhE?si=_RsZuWQvEtUDLjCI

Disney's Haunted Halloween: https://youtu.be/V24qg3DdM-U?si=I5RD-DEiL2icLPzu

DTV: Monster Hits: https://youtu.be/WGV0Khe9Mjg?si=AI-iBiEr739iP2iS

In the years 1999 - 2001, pop culture was trying to find itself. Escaping the realism of the 90s into what would be fake reality of the 00s, a lot of projects were thrown at the wall to see what would stick. Freakylinks was one of those projects. The story of a paranormal invetigative team with a an accompanying website using the found footage genre as part of its draw was a new concept in 2000 (it would still be new today) - maybe too new. FOX executives sabotaged their X-Files replacement to the point where Freakylinks would become a freakylink in and of itself.

Join Ron Martin as he discusses the origins, the show, the interference, the downfall and what could have been on Freakylinks. He even discusses the show with fellow Freakylinks watcher, Gillman Joel.

Catch Ron and Gillman Joel over at Jay of the Dead's New Horror Movies: https://www.newhorrormovies.com/

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