Halloween Horror Montage

Every year, I see those Chuck Workman clip compilations on the Oscars broadcast and I think, "Gee, that looks like a fun job." Also every year, I wish I had started thinking about Halloween early enough to do something special for my Web site. Here's the result of those twin impulses: a short montage of clips culled from my collection of horror movies from 1960 and later, cued up and intertwined in a sequence dictated by my memories of watching them over the decades -- and some ascertainment of their meanings in relation to one another -- and set to a fairly arbitrary choice of music. Accordingly, and as HBO and/or the MPAA might note, it contains graphic violence, brief nudity, strong language, strong sexual content, and some disturbing images. It also may contain sidelong SPOILERS for a number of terrific horror movies (they're listed at the bottom of this entry), so proceed at your own risk.