Shocktober with Beer Guy Jim

What ever happend to candy corn with razor blades?

There are many things I appreciate about living in California, the sun, the warm weather, never being more than an hour from the ocean but every fall I grow nostalgic for the the charms of the North East.  The smell of decaying leaves, the crisp blow of an Autumn breeze, and of course that end of October ritual Halloween.  Thats not to say we don't have Halloween in Cali, we do, its just not the same ruckus holiday that defined so many mischief filled moments of this man's misspent youth.

Though the one thing I miss most of all is Shocktober.  It was a B horror movie ritual every year on channel 11, WPIX which later became the defunct WB now the CW.  Where does that leave me and a generation of young people who grew up on a steady diet of edited for television versions of the scariest movies 1982 had to offer?  Classics like "Carrie" where a possessed car kills people who have done her wrong, or "The Kiss" a movie about a ghost that lurks in the body of a teenage girl, or my personal favorite "The Gate"  this honest to goodness piece of B movie fodder used to scare the piss out of me as a kid.

What's the point to all of this?  This country, Nay this world has grown soft.  Where are our children expected to see poorly edited versions of classic horror films now?  Surely not on deep cable as they leave those classics as is and if you can get TNT to stop running the "Lord of the Rings" long enough perhaps.  No I feel this generation will grow up never hearing Chucky utter the phrase  "Ill Fricken Cut your throat coot",  or Freddy Krueger say "Show me your tot's butch." 

I guess I'm an idealist, I'm better off just excepting things as they are.
Beer Guy Jim