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Spencer Kelly | Monday, October 31, 2022
With this week’s edition falling on October 31, we felt obligated to write about Halloween. For those currently imbued with the holiday spirit, the following stories about campus ghosts, ouija sessions and seances will not disappoint. But we also wanted to look beyond “spooky season” stereotypes. The blurbs below consider the transformation of Halloween from
Rose Androwich, Gracie Eppler, Maggie Eastland, Abigail Keaney, Andy Ottone, Gabriel Zarazua and Annie Brown | Friday, October 28, 2022
Halloween is just around the corner, and Scene has chosen its favorite songs, films and haunting reflections to celebrate! “Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge” Rose Androwich, Scene Writer The sequel to “Halloweentown” is better than the original. The first film relies too heavily on sheer shock factor. “Halloweentown II” broaches the idea of good versus evil.
Cathy Doherty | Wednesday, October 26, 2022
With Halloween approaching, the Class Gift Campaign and Office of Residence Life sponsored the annual Saint Mary’s Ghost Stories event Wednesday night. Students gathered at the Riedinger House, a house on campus originally designed for home economics courses that are no longer offered. The scarcely used Riedinger House is rarely made available to students. As
The Observer | Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Halloween is upon us! While there are plenty of great animated Halloween movies like “Monster House” and “ A Nightmare before Christmas,” I wanted to find one that wasn’t entirely meant for kids. I wanted to try something new and see if there were any adult animated horror movies. However, it’s surprising to see that
Caitlin Brannigan | Wednesday, October 12, 2022
To set the mood for Halloween, I read Patti Wigington’s “Witchcraft for Healing: Radical Self-care for your Mind, Body, and Spirit.” I have no experience with witchcraft and didn’t know what to expect. I failed to connect well with the spookier aspects of the book, but its emphasis on self-care resonated with me. Its focus
Justin George | Friday, November 5, 2021
Do you ever feel like you’ve been cheated? As the crowd streamed out of my local cinema after the 6 p.m. showing of “Halloween Kills,” I began to ponder where David Gordon Green and company went wrong. Green seemed to have the “Halloween” franchise under control with the release of 2018’s “Halloween,” which was by
Mannion McGinley | Friday, November 5, 2021
It’s Halloween night in my junior year of high school. My sister gets home from trick or treating, drops her bag full of candy on the counter and sprints up the stairs to her room. About an hour later, I get a call from her to come upstairs. I open the door and the entire
Justin George | Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Halloween Essentials is a weekly column in the month of October by Scene Writer (and Resident Spooky Boi) Justin George. Celebrate the season with his horror movie recs. As if my movie recommendations weren’t strange enough, here are a handful of the strangest horror movies that I’ve seen. They’re completely insane, so take this as your
Maggie Klaers | Monday, November 1, 2021
Last year, I could not believe how big of a deal Halloween was in college, but there was something so fun about watching a bunch of 20ish year olds running around playing make-believe for the night. Growing up, I had a closet of costumes in my basement with a bin full of different identities I
Justin George | Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Halloween Essentials is a weekly column in the month of October by Scene Writer (and Resident Spooky Boi) Justin George. Celebrate the season with his horror movie recs. It’s cold outside, the leaves are changing and Halloween is in a few days! This time of year, nothing hits quite as nice as a good supernatural horror