Retro-Musings for Halloween: “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken” (1966)…

******SPECTRAL SPOILERS!****** And now for something completely different… As a kid, options for ‘family-safe’ Halloween entertainment in our primitive, pre-streaming era were a bit limited, with some exceptions, such as CBS’ annual broadcast of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” (1966), Halloween variety specials, and Halloween-themed episodes of TV shows. “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken”…

Rob Zombie’s “The Munsters” (2022) fails to reanimate…

*****SPOOKY SPOILERS!!***** The Munsters (1964-1966) The original TV series of “The Munsters” was a childhood staple of mine. I was a huge fan of the Universal Monsters (Wolf-man, Frankenstein’s monster, Mummy, Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon) as a kid; I had the glow in the dark Aurora model kits, and Forry Ackerman’s “Famous Monsters…