{"id":98,"date":"2014-10-06T18:27:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T01:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/a-spooktacular-time-for-scary-movies-by-raven-devanney\/"},"modified":"2014-10-06T18:27:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T01:27:03","slug":"a-spooktacular-time-for-scary-movies-by-raven-devanney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/2014\/a-spooktacular-time-for-scary-movies-by-raven-devanney\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spooktacular Time for Scary Movies by Raven Devanney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onfocus=\"this.blur()\" onclick=\"ps_imagemanager_popup(this.href,'RavenHeadshotLR.jpg','641','960');return false\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/RavenHeadshotLR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"167\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"6\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"RavenHeadshotLR.jpg\" title=\"RavenHeadshotLR.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/.thumbs\/.RavenHeadshotLR.jpg\" \/><\/a>As the weather begins to chill and the leaves turn marvelous oranges, reds, and yellows, we all prepare for a slew of holidays. October is my favorite month because it\u2019s packed full of pumpkin carving, apple cider, chilly nights, big sweaters, corn mazes and of course, Halloween. But with that package comes the best of all, scary movies! There\u2019s no time like October to curl up with a bowl of popcorn and feast your eyes on a Scary-Movie-Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>Recently Annabell, the prequel to 2013\u2019s The Conjuring, was released to the big screen, and it is absolutely terrifying (especially due to the fact that it\u2019s based on true events!) Now I\u2019m all for recent horror\/thriller films, but old school scary will forever have my heart. I could watch Carrie (1979), Jaws (1975), Psycho (1960), The Shining (1980), and Silence of the Lambs (1991) hundreds of times and never get bored.<\/p>\n<p>Although, I do know that most kids and some teens aren\u2019t the biggest fans of truly terrifying films, go for some classic \u201cfamily horror\u201d that will get your blood pumping and also put a smile on your face. I recommend Gremlins (PG, 1984), Beetlejuice (PG, 1988) and my absolute favorite, Hocus Pocus (PG, 1993).<\/p>\n<p>So grab some blankets, grab some popcorn, turn out the lights and get your scream on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the weather begins to chill and the leaves turn marvelous oranges, reds, and yellows, we all prepare for a slew of holidays. October is my favorite month because it\u2019s packed full of pumpkin carving, apple cider, chilly nights, big sweaters, corn mazes and of course, Halloween. But with that package comes the best of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-critics-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}