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Here's my highly embellished, ironic burlesque of Jack Chick's notorious anti-Halloween tract. This final version combines Parts 1 and 2 which I had uploaded earlier and have since deleted. The first half of Chick's publication is a swift parody of 1980s slasher films, and I thoroughly enjoyed giving it the expanded cinematic treatment. However, the publication's second half was problematic as it consisted mainly of the minister in his study just talking on and on and on. Knowing that viewers were likely to click-off at that point, I inserted my own original material that played for laughs without straying much from the Chick universe. One line I wish I'd included came right after the Druids agreed to round up 100 Irish maidens for sacrifice: "Would you like 'em with or without freckles?" I just couldn't get it to sound right, and feared that it would fall flat. Now, lest you think that my satirizing was a bit broad, let me assure you that Mr. Chick, in a different tract, really did declare that a certain activist symbol was Satanic in origin, and though he never assumed that potatoes were native to Ireland, he did so with pumpkins. (Later editions of "Boo!" acknowledged the error by replacing the word "pumpkin" with "squash"). The God puppet with its light bulb head looks ridiculous, but that's how he appears in Mr. Chick's own illustrations. Technically speaking, the most challenging sequence for me to animate was the Lake of Fire seen at the end. Each one of those tortured souls is a silhouette of me writhing in front of a back-lit bed sheet, and it took numerous weeks after several false starts for me to properly lay out and synchronize those separately drawn figures into one coherent scene. "Boo! The Animated Movie" is far from perfect. The volume level is inconsistent, and when the characters talk their mouths move like the wooden jaws of ventriloquist dummies. Nonetheless, I've reached the point where I must declare "Better Done Than Perfect" and move on. Thank you for watching.