It’s our last Trick or Treat Tuesday in October with another candy guessing game.
There are between 1 and 75 chocolate candies in this jar. Guess how many and win a prize!
Rules: First person to post the correct number or closest to the exact number of chocolate candies in this pictured small square 16 oz. jar, here on WordPress or Instagram, wins their pick of one prize from the Halloween prize bag (see pics below) and some Halloween stickers.
Today’s Trick or Treat Tuesday is Halloween Trivia.
Be the first to answer all five questions correctly and win a prize.
Halloween originated from which anicent Celtic festival?
2. The Bogie Book was created to promote what company’s paper products and decorations?
3. The writer of what Universal monster movie was present during the opening of King Tut’s tomb?
4. Disney and Warner Bros. both had an animated character sharing the same name, occupation, and even the same voice actor at one point. Who was it?
5. Ben Cooper was a part of “big three” Halloween costume companies during 60s and 70s. Who were the other two?
Rules: First person answer ALL five questions correctly, either here on WordPress, wins the prize of Disney’s Haunted Mansion pin from 2023 Halloween season.
Full-length, remastered HD version of Night of the Living Dead, directed by George A. Romero, brought to us by Public Domain Films
Ever wonder how the most popular zombie film of all time, Night of the Living Dead ended up in U.S. public domain? Well, it happened after the original theatrical distributor, Walter Reade Organization, failed to replace a necessary copyight notice on the title card of the print of the film, after changing the movie’s title from Night of the Flesh Eaters to Night of the Living Dead.(1)
As a result of the distribution company’s error, George A. Romero immediately lost the rights to his film, and subsequently, millions of dollars in lost revenue, advertising and merchandising. In fact, up until Night of the Living Dead, zombie movies were about mind-controlled humans through manipulation, sorcery or voodoo. Romero was actually the first to create an undead flesh-eating creature that preys on the living. So, we can pretty much speculate that if Romero had retained the rights to Night of the Living Dead, every zombie book, film, TV and video game would have been controlled by George A. Romero.
Romero often expressed that losing the rights to his first feature film was one of his biggest regrets. The famed horror director passed away in 2017, after watching his creation grow into a monsterous sub-genre of horror. Strangely enough, Night of the Living Dead falling into public domain helped make zombies more popular, inspired creativity across the globe, helped spawn several horror franchises, and even launched the careers of some of today’s best horror directors. The entire zombie industry owes a debt of gratitude for its existence to this man. Maybe the universe knew the power to control zombies was too big a task for one human being.
It all worked out for George A. Romero too. As zombie popularity grew, Romero earned more opportunities to make movies, created projects, wrote books and comics, and even capitalized on his own notoriety as the “king of the zombie films.” In 1999, Night of the Living Dead was added to the U.S. National Film Registry for its historical and cultural significance.
Halloween Horror Haiku 
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