The photo at left is from Truck-or-Treat, an event that was held earlier this month. Griffin is Venom and Bela is SpiderGirl. The only other kid dressed as Venom happened to be Griffin's best friend, Quinn, from nursery school.
Griffin told me yesterday that he would prefer to be Dracula for Halloween this year. Perhaps this is the downfall of allowing him to wear the costume for a month. Ah well, we've already been out to trick-or-treat twice.
To celebrate our seventh anniversary over the weekend, Brett and I went to see the vampire film 30 Days of Night.
The premise of the film is that vampires descend upon the town of Barrow, Alaska during the town's month-long darkness. The sheriff and a small crew of survivors hole up in different places, trying to outlast the truly creepy looking vampires.
Thankfully the actor who plays Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies was one of the survivors. During the scary parts I was calmed by repeating "Rubeus Hagrid" over and over again.
The importance of family seems to be a theme in vampire films. It was reiterated throughout 30 Days of Night and is again seen in the 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake. Another film I was only able to watch because of the involvement of a well-known actor, Mekhi Pheiffer, whose poor zombie baby ruined his desired chance for redemption.
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I just finished reading a book about the Italian resistance movement leading up to WWII -- The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst. Great novel! And it made me realize that there are some parallels between this genre of literature and monster/vampire movies.
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