Tim Burton Review: The Nightmare Before Christmas

Halloween is long overdue, but Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas still reigns throughout the holidays. This stop motion film tells about the Pumpkin King, famously known as Jack Skellington, in Halloween Town who finds something more to life than just ghouls, vampires, monsters, and scaring people. Upon discovering Christmas Town, Jack dedicates his time [...]

The Halloween AfterMath

The Truth of the 2011 BBN Haunt

The annual Halloween Haunt, produced by BBN is a highly anticipated clip that students enjoy watching in their English classrooms. Although this year\’s Haunt featured new ideas and stood out from the attempts in previous years, the product fell short in terms of creativity. The introduction opens with a light car ride down various roads [...]

BBN’s Haunt Reviewed

Last Monday, BBN presented their annual Halloween Haunt episode, “A Nightmare on Bushard Street”. Normally, we would expect a frightening plot, usually consisting of gory scenes and foreboding mystery. The use of a frightening concept was done over the last few years. However, this year, BBN decided to do something different, something better. Instead of [...]

A Strong Spooky Start

This year the first Halloween Carnival took place at Fountain Valley High School. As a member of Habitat for Humanity, I attended to help out my club. And it seemed that so did a lot of other people. True there were a lot of people, but were there really 682 attending as it states on [...]

Trick-or-Treating: How Old is Too Old?

Fat orange pumpkins outside grocery stores. Fake cobwebs instead of real ones in your neighbor’s front yard. The appearance of dangling Halloween cut-outs at Target. It\’s Halloween again, and for some students, this year presents a new dilemma: am I too old to go trick-or-treating this year? If you\’re a freshman or a sophomore, you [...]

Halloween Club Carnival

Fountain Valley High School\’s first Halloween Club Carnival was held on October 29, 2011 from 6-11 PM on the school campus. Rather than having the clubs circle their booths around the bowl as during International Week, many booths lined up along the walkway between one side of the bowl and the cafeteria, along the walkway [...]

Knott’s Scary Farm Review

Still looking for a spooky thrill before Halloween begins? Knott\’s Scary Farm is the place to go if you get frightened easily and want to pay fewer bucks than other amusement parks. With plenty of monsters, clowns, werewolves, etc, the trip seems to promise plenty of horror. You can challenge yourself by entering some of [...]

Affordable Halloween Costumes

As teenagers, Halloween costumes can be tricky to deal with. It\’s hard to decide whether you want a funny, creative, or easy costume, or whether or not you want to dress up at all. There\’s also the factor of spending money on a second rate costume from a store. There\’s definitely a better use to [...]

Barons Get Booed by Choir Maze

By Patricia Le Trick-or-treating wasn\’t the only highlight of Halloween for the Barons this year.  Our choir hosted the first haunted maze and dance party from Thursday, October 28th through Saturday, the 30th.  The event raised money for Fountain Valley Troubadours to participate in an exciting competition in Chicago. The transformed choir room became the [...]

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