While we're on the subject:

[b]Do you have any particular opinions or "hot takes" on Halloween, famous movie monsters, spookums, etc?[/b]

'cause I've got a few:
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[*]I have yet to see a version of a vampire that has actually scared me.  I've seen them for every other classic movie monster, from werewolves to Frankensteins to mummies, there's at least one version of them somewhere that's actually scared me.  But even the most gritty and explicit takes on them (like [i]30 Days of Night[/i]) just kinda make me roll my eyes, because I can never see them as anything other than drama queens in puffy shirts.  Despite this, I still love Dracula himself, just not any other vampire.
[*]I'm still holding out hope for a genuinely good Frankenstein movie that isn't a parody.
[*]Cthulhu is basically the Metallica of the horror genre: everybody knows him and rips off his stuff, but you feel like a basic bitch if you say he's your favorite.
[*]I fucking hate it when people refer to the monsters from the [i]Alien[/i] movies as "xenomorphs."  At no point in any of the movies are they called that; one guy in [i]Aliens[/i] says the word as a catch-all for any sort of unidentified extraterrestrial, and everyone just assumed that's their name.  If you absolutely have to call them something other than Alien (because God forbid our horror franchise have some element of the unknown), both the old Dark Horse comics and the Alien Legacy DVDs have way better species names for them.  The Legacy DVDs gave them the name [i]Internecivus Raptus[/i] (meaning "murderous thief"), and the Dark Horse comics called them [i]Lingua Foeda Acheronus[/i] ("the Foul Tongue of Acheron"), both of which are substantially cooler than "xenomorph," which just means "different shape."
[*]I refuse to acknowledge any iteration of Scooby-Doo where the monsters are real.  The thing that makes that series interesting to me is it's the only children's show that teaches kids that skepticism and critical thinking are good things, that people can be easily led to believing false narratives, and that so many of our fears and fables are spread by greedy people who want to capitalize on everyone being confused and scared.  In fact, one of my all-time pie-in-the-sky projects would be to lean hard into that and go full subversive with it, making Scooby-Doo a cross between [i]The Venture Bros.[/i] and Penn and Teller's [i]Bullshit![/i]
[*]I want more goofy Halloween novelty songs.  There's only so many times you can do the Monster Mash.[/list]