{"id":26699,"date":"2017-10-22T08:35:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T12:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=26699"},"modified":"2017-10-22T08:35:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T12:35:12","slug":"the-halloween-tree-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/22\/the-halloween-tree-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"The Halloween Tree (1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ray Bradbury\u2019s \u201cThe Halloween Tree\u201d is easily one of the greatest Halloween movies ever made. It\u2019s not just a movie about the holiday, but it\u2019s a celebration of what the holiday stands for. For years Halloween has been incorrectly identified as a holiday that celebrates Satanism and evil, when in reality, Halloween is about observing death and celebrating life. Even the famous colors black and orange represent the ideas of death and life. The fantastic adventure we witness in \u201cThe Halloween Tree\u201d is absolutely compelling while also helping to destroy the stigmas that often come with the ancient holiday. Mostly though, Bradbury\u2019s story is about how we should learn to accept that there is a certain beauty in the concept of death as well as the concept of life.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Halloween Tree\u201d is teeming with the love and essence of Halloween and Ray Bradbury celebrates this holiday and everything wondrous about it by helping to contribute to what is an excellent production. \u201cThe Halloween Tree\u201d garners a healthy bit of menace and eeriness to it, but it\u2019s also a personal journey that author Ray Bradbury guides us on. \u201cThe Halloween Tree\u201d is set on Halloween night where four friends are preparing to go trick or treating. Deciding to go out that night at the behest of their friend Pip who is sick from appendicitis, they venture out in to the night after seeing him carrying a jack o lantern in to a deserted mansion. There they meet the mysterious Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud (Leonard Nimoy) who is chasing after the ghost of Pip to bring his pumpkin back to the Halloween Tree.<\/p>\n

The mythical tree is filled with the pumpkins of many other souls that Carapace tends to every single year. Bargaining with Carapace, the foursome decides to go on a chase through time and various other places with Carapace to learn about the significance of Halloween and their various costumes. If they can keep up with him, they can probably catch his pumpkin and save Pip. \u201cThe Halloween Tree\u201d is narrated by author Ray Bradbury who enthusiastically helps build on the energy of the journey the four kids go on, as they also try to outwit Carapace who is very committed to bringing Pip\u2019s jack o lantern back to the Halloween Tree. We manage to gain some interesting facts about how various other countries celebrate the concept of new life and death, especially with Mexico.<\/p>\n

The film takes a considerably extended tour through Dia De Los Muertos, and how the Mexican culture uses candy and costumes to pay respect to the dead and souls of their loved ones. Death isn\u2019t as scary in other places as it is in Western culture, and Bradbury\u2019s story depicts the fragility of life, and how the four friends are willing to do whatever it takes to grant Pip more time on Earth. As with most Bradbury tales the world he builds is vivid and enchanting, with the personal mission the kids take ending on a very good surprise twist. \u201cThe Halloween Tree\u201d has barely aged at all and is still an essential for Halloween, bar none. It might even give already obsessive Halloween observers something new to take away in the end.<\/p>\n