Our Halloween movie recommendation today is Beetlejuice, an ‘80s classic directed by Tim Burton, and submitted by Sarah Corapi, one of our Library Assistants at F.H.G. Library. Full disclosure: this movie creeped me out as a kid so I’ve never seen it all the way through. If you have watched it, you may have noticed Calypso music scattered throughout this movie, but do you know who performed it? If so, comment on our Instagram post, or tweet us @fhglibrary and let us know.
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To continue our Halloween movie recommendations, our staff pick today comes from Gary Childs, our STEM-H/Engineering Librarian. He recommended the movie Evil Dead 2. This film continues with the same protagonist as Evil Dead, Ash Williams, and tells a story where he and his girlfriend are vacationing in a remote cabin and discover an audio tape with terrible results. In the movie, Ash places his hand on top of a book to help keep demons ensnared—do you know what book this was? If so, comment on our Instagram post, or tweet us @fhglibrary!
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Today’s Halloween staff pick comes from Cristin Ehrgott, one of our Administrative Assistants here at F.H.G. Library. Her favorite Halloween movie is Suspiria, directed by Dario Argento in 1977. If you’ve never watched this movie, you can now watch it for free online through TubiTV, or rent it from us!
Suspiria tells the story of a ballet school where mysterious things start happening after a girl is murdered. An Italian progressive rock band wrote and performed the iconic music found throughout the movie—do you know the name of this band? Comment on our Instagram post, or tweet us @fhglibrary to share your answer!
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This week we’re featuring our favorite Family-friendly Halloween movies! Jenna Bossart, our Special Collections Technician, recommended Coraline, Corpse Bride, Practical Magic, and Hocus Pocus (already checked out!). Hunter King and Kelly Shea, our two Presser Music Library Technicians both recommended It’s a Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
Corpse Bride, directed by Tim Burton, is based on a 19th century Russian folktale, where a man accidentally marries a corpse on a journey to the village of his true future bride. Coraline, directed by Henry Selick, is based on the 2002 novella by Neil Gaiman and is one of the highest grossing stop-motion films of all time. You’ll get witches a-plenty with Practical Magic and Hocus Pocus (my personal favorite family Halloween movie). And you can’t possible go wrong with the Charlie Brown-themed Halloween classic.
Request your new and favorite Halloween movies through the library catalog in order to get them in time for Halloween!
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In collaborating with the Literacy Department, University Libraries is participating in events to celebrate National Day on Writing (October 20). These events will take place during the course of the week of October 19-23. Some of the activities will include writing marathons, as well as the chance to share your work with the WCU community. Festivities for National Day on Writing begin at 8am on October 20th Join the conversation on social media by using the hastags #WhyIWrite #WriteOut #WhyIWriteWCU
Student Success Librarian Amy Pajewski and Special Collections Librarian Ron McColl are representing University Libraries in these celebrations. They will also be facilitating sections of the writing marathons.
Use These Writing Prompts to inspire you for National Day On Writing:
- Why do you write?
- What have you written that has made a difference in the world?
- Use sidewalk chalk to spread positivity around your community and take a picture of your art!
- What are you doing to take care of yourself right now?
- What is something thoughtful you’ve done for someone else?
- Share your favorite quote.
- Describe an experience that forever changed your life.
- Describe an experience that changed your outlook on life.
- Describe an experience where you were unsuccessful in achieving your goal. What lessons did you learn from this experience?
- Write about your most cherished memory of all time.
- What do you consider to be the best advice you ever received? Who gave you that advice and did you follow that advice or not?
- What advice would you offer to a student just beginning his/her college career?
- What advice would you offer your elementary-school self?
- What is your greatest dream in life?
- Who is your hero? What do you admire about him or her?
- What is the greatest gift you could ever receive? What would make it so special?
- What is your greatest fear? Do you think it is realistic or not? Why?
- Think back to a situation in your life where you had to decide between taking a risk and playing it safe. Which choice did you make? What was the outcome of your choice?
- If you had the ability to read other people's minds (a.k.a. telepathy), would you use this ability or not? Why?
- If you were given the capability to travel back in time to any period in history, where would you head to and why?
- Would you quit social media? Why or why not?
- Are you the same person on social media as you are in real life? How are you the same/different?
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Since Halloween is (one of our) favorite seasons for movies, we decided to share our favorites with you. All of these movies, plus more, are available for checkout through the library, and you can request to either pick them up or have them shipped. To see what other Halloween movies we might own, search here.
This week’s movie selections come from our Serials Technician, Doug Fraidenburgh, and his partner. They recommended the silent film Nosferatu, directed by F.W. Murnau, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, directed by Tobe Hooper, and The Worst Witch, directed by Robert Young. I loved the range of movies here—you’ll be sure to find something you like.
Next week we’ll be featuring some more staff Halloween picks, so check back then—you might find your new family favorite!
The final Halloween movie pick of the week comes from Walt Cressler, our Science Librarian. He recommended Pan’s Labyrinth as one of his favorite Halloween movie, and it is indeed a creepy one. Guillermo del Toro creates a dark fairy tale reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland, taking place 5 years after the end of the Spanish Civil war in 1944. This film ended up winning multiple Oscars in 2007—can you name any of them? If so, comment on our Instagram post, or tweet us @fhglibrary.
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