Halloween (1931)
Toby the Pup organises a Halloween celebration. Some witches and elves join the party.
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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Blistering performances.
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Originally written 6/3/07-Halloween is a weird Toby the Pup cartoon from the Charles Mintz studio. Unfortunately, what I saw on YouTube was a technical mess. First off, the soundtrack somehow went ahead of some of the frames. Then for the last 3 or so minutes, there is no sound. So it's hard for me to be real objective in this review of the cartoon. There are certainly many wonderfully weird scenes that would be typical of such cartoons from the '30s such the cow peeling a candle like a banana, or his eating an apple with a worm in it while the worm's taking a bath and pulls down an asbestos curtain! Or three bird skeletons drinking with the largest one taking a first try at the punch as the liquid falls outside his neck letting the second middle sized one drink from that with the same thing happening to him as the smallest one drinks from that...There's also some piano playing by Toby and a little girl scolding singing, "Smarty, Smarty, Smarty". Largely based on what I've seen from the imperfect YouTube linkage, I give this one a 2. Maybe I'll up it if I ever see a better transfer. Update 10/30/08-I've just seen the complete version (Thanks, Thadblog!), it's even more weirder with the "smarty" girl getting spanked by a man dressed in a toga, and Toby scaring all the ghosts by simply saying "cock-a-doodle-doo" like a rooster! Then there's a little ghost calling him "Daddy"! Okay, since I've now seen the whole thing clearly, I'm now giving this a 5.