Will the next parts be confession?
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https://tubitv.com/movies/575211/shopping-for-fangs
A young housewife being sexted by a waitress loses her cell phone and her husbandās co-worker thinks heās a werewolf ā welcome to Los Angeles!
Only marginally Halloweeny, but hey itās got dressing up, bloodshed, and a werewolf! Early work from co-directors Quentin Lee and Justin Lin and an early performance from John Cho. Basically the kind of indie film that became trendy in the ā90s, but with a cast made up almost exclusively of twenty something Asian-Americans. The contemporary reviewers, who were immersed in this sort of thing, didnāt seem too keen, but I liked it a lot. Not a lot of depth, Iāll admit, but plenty of charm (and nostalgia).
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Happy Halloween!
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Why we like scary things: The science of recreational fear
From peek-a-boo to Halloween haunted houses, research shows that recreational fear can teach us to face scary situations
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Addendum
As a bit of a Halloween greeting I sent the complete shadow person tome to a few friends. One of them replied:
Very good read. My youngest has seen hat man crossing my hallway towards the wall and out the apt. She told me a few times and was scared. She also gets sleep paralysis til this day. A shadow man has sat on her chest and she would wake up screaming and gasping for air.
I wish I hadnāt read her email before I went to bed last night.
Her āyoungest,ā by the way, is an adult. In her mid-20s, I think.
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I had sleep paralysis once. Thought I saw a hooded creature of some kind. It was awful.
Iāve also had the reverse, where while dreaming Iāve thrashed about. That one is called REM sleep behavior disorder.
They are opposites ā normally there is a paralysis while dreaming. The first one is when the paralysis continues after waking. The other is where the paralysis fails while dreaming.
Reading your messages about this, I wonder if pareidolia plays into it? Iāve noticed that a lot, e.g., looking for faces in faux marble linoleum for fun. But it also scared me once when I woke up and sneezed, and thought Iād sneezed out a spider. But it was just a pattern on the kleenex. 
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Halloween turned out a little sad this year. Weāre in a new place thatās a nice walkable neighborhood where tons of kids walk by every day on their way to/from school. So my wife and daughter decided to break out the yard decorations and put a lot of work into setting up, including fog machine, lights, speakers, and a new projector, got dressed up, bought tons of candy to give out.
We got a grand total of 5 trick-or-treaters.
None of our neighbors decorated or anything. From what I hear, the kids all went to ātrunk-or-treatā in a parking lot somewhere, a downtown thing, and/or had their parents drive them to a richer neighborhood a few blocks away. I guess if theyāre doing that, it kinda makes sense that the neighbors didnāt bother.
But we decided weāre going to keep doing it anyway, and maybe if they see us doing it, some of the neighbors will too, and the kids will know to come by and itāll catch on in a few years.
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pareidolia would be more fun if it didnāt come with anxiety and paranoia 
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Saw these outside my local grocery store at the end of July!
And picked up a pumpkin spice creamer on Friday!
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It takes time and a careful amount of consideration to prep for the objectively best holiday.
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