![]() ![]() 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. “The Halloween Tree” is set on Halloween night where four friends are preparing to go trick or treating. ![]() “The Halloween Tree” garners a healthy bit of menace and eeriness to it, but it’s also a personal journey that author Ray Bradbury guides us on. “The Halloween Tree” 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. Mostly though, Bradbury’s 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. ![]() The fantastic adventure we witness in “The Halloween Tree” is absolutely compelling while also helping to destroy the stigmas that often come with the ancient holiday. Even the famous colors black and orange represent the ideas of death and life. 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. It’s not just a movie about the holiday, but it’s a celebration of what the holiday stands for. Ray Bradbury’s “The Halloween Tree” is easily one of the greatest Halloween movies ever made. ![]()
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