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~Page A-26 Shelton-Mason County Journal Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020 Kids can earn a FREE Kids Meal for participating. (Call or see store for details.) Weekly Specials Monday 25% off your meal with a purchase of a beverage or dessert. “lesday All you can eat Coconut Prawns served with your choice of any side, Side Salad and Jalepeno Cheddar Corn Bread $18.99 Wednesday Senior Burger day , Original Burger Claim Burger and Frys for $6.99 with purchase of a beverage. Thursday Steak night — 10 oz Top Sirloin served with a Loaded Baked potato, Garlic bread and Side Salad for 18.99 Friday 8: Saturday night Prime Rib served with Side Salad, Jalepeno Cheddar Corn Bread, Loaded Baked Potato and Sauteed Vegetables. All You Can Eat Pancakes on Saturday & Sunday mornings. 7am to 2 pm Sunday'Thursday 7:00 am-9:00 pm Friday Saturday 7:00 am-10:00 pm 24171 WA 3 in Belfair 0 360-277-5141. burgerclaimandmoremm Kitten Rescue of Mason County Right now we have young and adult cats available for adoption. Indoor only and a warm lap to sit on are ours and the kitties request. Healthy and well adjusted, our kitties want their own home and family to love. For more information please go to our website kittenresq.net or call us at (360)- 427—3167. 'varg Fricvwls Looking for a Home 1 Sponsored by: We have created a I low-stress, healthy , environment ’V with soft lighting, music, a regular exercise program, , and frequent, individualized attention. We treat ' every pet with affection, respect, and kindness. A‘ P an 9‘ I. 1v, edge 9 (360) 426-3052 270 SE Spring Place Shelton, Washington 98584 E-mail: sylvan@hctc.com Outings: Activities abound for a distanced Halloween continued from page A—25 On Saturday, a trifecta of Hallow— een events will be open to the public, starting with the “Halloween Spook- tacular” in Kneeland Park from 2 to 6 p.m., sponsored by the Shelton-Mason County Chamber of Commerce and the Shelton Downtown Merchants, featuring a “Pumpkin Walk” through jack-o’-lanterns and trick-or—treating with local businesses. The fun continues with a “Trunk— R-Treat” at The Pig Pen BBQ at 2333 Olympic Highway N. at 4 p.m., offering candy and costume contests, followed by a “Zombie Apocalypse Drive-Thru” at The HUB for Seniors in Belfair from 5 to 8 p.m., featuring a free “spooky drive-thru” and “family fun packs.” Bela Lugosi’s vampiric pimp hand remains strong in Tod Browning’s "1931 “Dracula.” Courtesy photo Movies: Predators exhibit inhumanity in classic horror continued from page A-25 Fleming, was Lee’s step-cousin). And Frank Langella’s Tony Award- nominated performance as Dracula, in a Broadway revival of the stage play, not only qualified him to star in John Badham’s 1979 film version of “Dracula,” but also likely paved the way for his show-stopping performance as Skeletor in Golan-Globus’ 1987 live- action “Masters of the Universe” film’. But without Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula, I submit that moviegoers nev— er would have had Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in Jonathan Demme’s 1991 “The Silence of the Lambs,” nor Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in John McTiernan’s 1988 “Die Hard.” Lugosi’s Dracula not only ushered in the era of the “Universal Classic Monsters,” along with James Whale’s "‘Franken-' stein” later in 1931, but he also defined the apex predator as an affable gentle- man. Also? Whether you’re watching Lu- gosi or Langella as Dracula, pay close attention; neither one ever wore fangs. Which makes fictional mass-mur- derer Michael Myers such a fascinating contrast. , Director John Carpenter and Debra Hill, his girlfriend at the time, cowrote a screenplay originally titled “The Bab- ysitter Murders,” when independent film producer Irwin Yablanssuggested setting the film during Halloween night and renaming it “Halloween.” While this simple concept was revo- lutionary enough, since Halloween itself had never been the theme of a horror film before, it could not have hoped for a more pitch-perfect execu- tion, from Carpenter and Hill’s ef- fortlessly naturalistic screenplay and the eerie atmosphere evoked by Car- penter’s minimalist musical score, to some career-best (and genre—defining) performances by Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence. But what made “Halloween” so fran- chisable was precisely what almost all its sequels, reboots and remakes got wrong, which is'the' harrowing enigma of Michael Myers himself. ' “Halloween II,” “Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers” and even “Halloween H20: 20 Years Later” as- cribed his killing sprees to familial connections with his primary intended targets, while “Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers” attempted to retro— actively establish him as the product of a modern Druidic cult. As for the Rob Zombie remake, it reductively blames Michael Myers’ homicidal tendencies on a stereotypically abusive childhood. All of these are incorrect approach— es. Like so many of his generational contemporaries, John Carpenter was a student of Alfred Hitchcock, and the two biggest lessons from Hitchcock that Carpenter demonstrates in the first “Halloween” film are the value of slowly ramping up suspense, and how much more haunting it is when you don’t know the reasons behind a freak phenomenon, such as Hitchcock’s 1963 “The Birds.” Michael Myers was an utterly unremarkable 6-year-old boy, grow— ing up as part of a perfectly ordinary family living in a white bread picket- fence Midwestern small-town suburb 'in 1963, the month before President Kennedy was shot (and the same year Hitchcock released “The Birds”), when, for no reason anyone could figure out, he randomly stabbed his older sister Judith to death with a kitchen knife in their home. It’s what makes Pleasence’s role as Myers’ psychiatrist, Dr. Loomis, so essential to the story, because as an audience, we keep grasping for some driving motivation behind Myers’ seemingly senseless attacks, but Dr. Loomis is there to tell us that there isn’t any, other than Michael Myers being a bottomless, impenetrably black abyss of pure evil. One of the many happy accidents behind the production of “Halloween” was that the film didn’t have the bud- get for anything more than a repainted William Shatner mask and a boiler suit to define Michael Myers’ now-icon- ic look, because the white plastic face’s placid expression and émpty eyeholes serve to reinforce the idea of Myers as a human blank, to the point that the actor who plays him in costume as an ' adult is credited as “The Shape.” ' And as Dr. Loomis warned, and all the “Halloween” films made since have , proven, you can’t stop The Shape.