Halloween at Branded in the 80s!

Welcome to the creepy, spooky, ghoul-y section of Branded in the 80s, the home of my yearly Halloween Countdown blog-a-thons.   I've had a lifelong obsession with the All Hallows Eve holiday and all of the various permutations thereof, be it monsters or horror films, candy or old Halloween records.  For the past three years I've set aside my typical Branded postings (stickers, cartoon commentary, etc.) and tried to concentrate on the holiday for the entire month of October (and sometimes September and a bit of November as well).  Below are the various countdowns I've done to date (just click on the banner to be whisked away to a spookier array of content.)  Enjoy!


2009 happens to be the 25th anniversary for the seminal 80s flick Ghostbusters, the 20th anniversary of it's sequel Ghostbusters II, and over the course of this last year Time Life released the complete Real Ghostbusters cartoon on DVD for the first time.  In honor of all this ghost busting, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to share 31 of my favorite monster animation cels from my collection, one for each day of the month.



2008 saw mostly weekday posting as I didn’t want to lose my mind mid-countdown.  I tried to keep to the 80s theme of the site, but like every year there is a bit of the present thrown in as well.  The biggest surprise this year was the explosion of blogs that took part in their own 31-day countdowns, a veritable cornucopia of treats.



2007 was my first official countdown, and it's all over the map in terms of content.  No real theme besides Halloween-y fun, but I had a blast keeping to the schedule that year.



2006 was my first year with the site, and I didn't realize I was doing a countdown until about halfway through when I realized that I wasn't thinking or writing about much else.