When I was a kid, I used to love Halloween. It used to be one of my absolute favorite holidays, and I'll tell you why: For a week at least before the actual day, TV stations would play loads of classic '80s horror movies like Friday 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Jason, and so forth. We would all tell each other scary stories during camp-outs at night, and put on spectacular Halloween celebrations at school.
We would turn the stage in our elementary school cafeteria into a mini-haunted house, the "rooms" separated by curtains. Kids were invited to stick their hands into boxes with labels like "eyeballs" that were really just a