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Saturday movie brief: Boogie men

Halloween puts me, like many folks, in the mood for scary movies. With Tuesday being Halloween, this weekend is the perfect time for feasting on frightful flicks.

Thing is, it's so horrifically hard to find scary movies that don't make me want to puke because of the gore or hide away in a country compound built just for my family and me because the sickos on screen are too close to some real-life psychos — or the possibility of such — in our current society.

I've yet to come up with a horror flick to enjoy with my husband this Halloween weekend, one with a fair share of scare but not so much I have to flick on every light in the house as I head to bed — or dive onto the bed when I reach it so a boogey man doesn't grab me from beneath. (I'm not the only who still does that, am I?)

I did, though, find this fun montage of old-time boogey men, from back when horror flicks were scary not sickening and tempered with smidgens of silliness (or bad special effects). The toe-tapping tune accompanying this collection — who among us didn't once crush on K.C. and the Sunshine Band? — converts the boogey into boogie, resulting in a fun creature feature for the holiday. Enjoy... the video and the earworm!

P.S.: I'm seriously seeking a monster movie of sorts for the weekend (or Halloween itself). If you have suggestions for scary ones that don't shock or sicken, please share in the comments.