Oct 312013
Do you know what tonight is? What’s that? Halloween? No, I mean what else is it? Mike Collins‘s birthday? Well, yes, but besides those two things, what else?
You don’t know? Don’t you smell the Sour-Sweet Wind coming? It’s Grinch Night!
Grinch Night is a short animated movie, also known as Halloween is Grinch Night. Whenever the Sour-Sweet Wind blows, it sets off a chain of events that gets the Grinch’s attention, and he goes on a rampage to destroy everything in his path and wreak general mayhem. Everyone in Whoville knows that they need to stay inside and lock their doors to be safe, but young Euchariah Who needs to “go to the euphemism” and ventures out on Grinch Night.
Euchariah gets horribly lost and runs into the Grinch, and then he decides that it’s up to him to protect Whoville by delaying the Grinch until the Sour-Sweet Wind stops and Grinch Night is over.
This might be my favorite Dr. Seuss movie. It’s filled with general wackiness, memorable lines, and a particularly creepy climax when Euchariah stalls the Grinch by facing the horrors of the Paraphernalia Wagon, which shows what happens when Dr. Seuss tackles Halloween.
The whole movie is just about a half an hour long, and it’s available on DVD now in a set with other Dr. Seuss stories, so check it out!