Day 15, Treehouse of Horror

Every year Fox television blesses us and curses us at the same time with a new installment of The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror. Some years the tree is solid and sturdy, other years the tree is flimsy and rotten to the core. Over the years we’ve seen parodies of The Shinning, Nightmare on Elm Street, and even Harry Potter.

While the movies that they mock aren’t for kids, the Simpsons are chock full of monstrous mirth and merriment. If you consider that most frightful productions aimed at kids involve the words Goosebumps, haunted acre wood, and Wishbone this DVD series is a bright ray of horrific amusement in an otherwise bleak and bland wasteland of childish Halloween amusement.