Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror (2001) 7

Garth Ennis takes the wheel for the opening of 2001’s terror tales with In Springfield No One Can Hear Your Scream.

Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror (2001) 7

His Itchy and Scratchy short, Facehuggin’ Frolics, is more appropriate than most. Known for his penchant for violence and offal in abundance, Ennis takes the Simpsons into the deepest reaches Bart’s nightmares.

The send up of Aliens reaches conclusion with more questions than answers.

Aliens was the second installment of the Alien franchise. James Cameron directed the sci-fi thriller, long before Titanic. The film earned $180 million worldwide as well as seven Academy Award nominations including Best Actress for Sigourney Weaver. It won for Sound Effects Editing and Visual Effects.

Stan Saki takes readers down the yellow brick road in I’m Not in Springfield Anymore. The Wizard of Oz spoof substitutes the citizens of Springfield for the normal cast as Lisa looks for the Wizard.

While not a traditional horror film, The Wizard of Oz is not without its scares. L. Frank Baum’s creation was first translated to the silver screen in 1939. Due to it’s annual airing on television, generations have grown up with the classic.

Kodos and Kang have a little fun with the Simpsons patriarch in Homerectus.

The aliens first appeared in the televised Treehouse of Horror in 1990, voiced by Harry Shearer and Dan Castellaneta.

Fanboy extraordinaire, Mark “Luke Skywalker” Hamill takes a turn with the final tale, Catastrophe in Substitute Springfields!

The nebbish farm boy from Tatooine calls on his love of Silver Age Superman stories. What could pass for an Eisenhower-era Bizarro tale done four decades after the fact, Montgomery Burns plays the villain. Using his commissioned “redundo ray” to develop a mindless workforce, the experiment goes away, as they always do, and the creation becomes the creator.