Pick of the Week: La Creeperie Bookshop

Not only am I sucker for horror movies, but I also have a sweet spot for anything spooky in written form.  I have quite the little collection of books ranging from the occult and true crime to books on the paranormal and movie novelizations.  If you're like me, you'll appreciate the gem I found a few months back in the form of online bookshop, La Creeperie.

As you can see from the screenshot above, their shop has quite an array of "genres" to choose from, with the majority related to all things spine-chilling.

These are just a few of the titles I've acquired from the shop.  Clearly I have a thing for horror movie novelizations. Woops!

What I also love about the shop is the awesome prices.  You'll find some awesome titles that are super affordable (of course the real special books are higher in price, but well worth it).  While checking the site today, I noticed they're currently having a Halloween sale with all items being 15% off, so don't sleep on La Creeperie and go snag some kickass reads!

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Pick of The Week: ROSEANNE: TRICKS & TREATS

Release Date: 2011

Running Time: 3hrs 6min

Roseanne will always be one of my favorite tv shows of all time (and I don't think I'm the only one).  The humor was always on point and surprisingly still relevant, but what I loved the most was the family dynamic.  They didn't give us a cookie cutter, tv sitcom family; they were real just like the rest of us, they had fights and financial troubles.  And they LOVED Halloween!

It's safe to say that the Roseanne Halloween episodes are the best of any sitcom (fight me on this).  That's why my "Pick of the Week" goes to Roseanne: Tricks & Treats dvd released by Mill Creek Entertainment in 2011.  Running at 3hrs and 6min, it features all 8 Halloween-themed episodes (season 1 didn't have one): BOO!, Trick or Treat, Trick Me Up, Trick Me Down, Halloween IV, Halloween V, Skeleton in the Closet, Halloween- The Final Chapter, Satan, Darling.

Now I'm going to be honest here, not every Halloween episode is AMAZING.  They really started to lose their spark towards the end of the series, like the rest of the episodes in those seasons, but those first few were classics!  BOO! was the first and probably the best- Roseanne and Dan spend the episode trying to one up each other with spooky pranks to determine who really is "the master!"  And Roseanne dressed as a male lumberjack in the second episode, Trick or Treat is absolutely hilarious.

I have to say, though, that the icing on the cake of these episodes were the costumes, by far.  But it wasn't Roseanne and Dan that were best dressed, it was the kids!  Darlene and Becky always had the coolest costumes that I'm still jealous of to this day.  Becky dressed as a mutilated prom queen, Darlene as Tippi Hedren in The Birds, or little DJ as Hannibal Lector complete with straightjacket- they were definitely winning best costume somewhere in Lanford.

That said, Roseanne: Tricks & Treats is a must-own for any fan of the sitcom and the Halloween season.  And you can't beat that price tag of $5.49 over at Amazon!  So go and buy it and stick around for our episode of Horror Huddle on Halloween when we talk in-depth about the episodes!

Pick of the Week: WHO TOOK JOHNNY (2014)

I first heard about the disappearance of Johnny Gosch on a podcast a couple of years ago.  What caught me about it was that it was relatively unknown for me, so I didn't feel like I was hearing about something that had been rehashed over and over on other platforms, and because this case is like a cornucopia of conspiracy, police ineptitude, multiple missing children, and just general mystery.

Currently on Netflix, Who Took Johnny (2014) delves into the (now) 34 year old missing persons case of 12 year old Johnny Gosch .  The documentary's focus is Johnny's mother, Noreen, who has spent the last three decades trying to uncover what happened to her son.

I don't want to give a whole lot about the film away for you readers who haven't heard anything about the case, but I highly recommend this one.  Especially if you have an affinity for conspiracies and true crime.  It's equal parts crazy and heartbreaking because at the end of the day, a boy went missing and no one knows who is at fault.  Families were destroyed and to make it worse, Johnny's disappearance wasn't the only one that occurred in that area around that time (which is briefly covered during the documentary).  That's where the film starts to take a turn into sketch-land.

Disappearance and conspiracies aside, the film reveals how poorly the police handled the disappearance.  Whether it was unwillingness or inexperience, the Des Moines PD dropped the ball in the first hours of Johnny's disappearance (and for a long time afterwards), and it's very evident.  It's not hard to become a little mad and ultra-suspicious of what exactly happened in this whole tale.

Johnny Gosch Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Gosch

There it is.  My pick of the week!  Give it a watch and come back and let me now your thoughts in the comments.  Or find me on Twitter: @TheStaceyBeth

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