A spooky image from a Halloween episode of The Real Ghostbusters that introduces the ghastly villain Samhain.

A spooky image from a Halloween episode of The Real Ghostbusters that introduces the ghastly villain Samhain.

After a test screening, The Witches author Roald Dahl angrily expressed to the producers how “appalled” he was at “the vulgarity, the bad taste” and “actual terror” in certain parts of the movie. He demanded that his name and his book’s title be removed from the film prior to release, but after receiving an apologetic, complimentary letter from Jim Henson, he grudgingly withdrew his threat.

Learn more behind-the-scenes trivia about this horror junior classic at IMDb: The Witches (1990) Trivia.
As a kid, I always loved the look of the Halloween trick-or-treat buckets you could get at McDonald’s, but I was disappointed in their small size. It was probably less than a quarter of what I could get into an empty pillow case. What was the point? lol



A wonderful mix of some of my favorite things: ghosts, Muppets and Vincent Price.