The Children

Today on her Huffington Post Blog, Jamie Lee Curtis (best known to horror fans as the original Lori Strode in John Carpenter's Halloween, as well as the star of thr original The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train), shows us she's actually very anti-horror on Halloween.

Her desire to 'tone down' the gore on halloween, especially when it comes to kids, just really gets my panties in a twisted, bleeding bunch.

"Halloween, the holiday, is a breeding ground for a seemingly unending gruesome gore fest," says Curtis. "Has it always been this way? I don't think so. I remember Halloween as a time to dress up in a costume other than myself. That was what was fun..."

It's rare that a film features children behaving as they are actually inclined to behave. Too often screenwriters, directors, and others in responsible chairs simply forget how children act; they forget that children are, at some fundamental level, retarded and sniveling little disease carriers. They are, one in all, boogery little pockets of petulant pestilence inclined to suck all joy from an otherwise happy life. Given their propensity for expense and woe, it should be no small step for children to rise up and attempt to slaughter all of the adults around them in a blind and raging orgy of blood.

Don’t laugh. It just might happen, folks. It just might happen!