Spooktober 2020 - This Halloween will be the spookiest yet!

[Syaoran Li]

So, what are your picks for Halloween movies and TV shows this year?

For me, these are some of my favorite picks, divided by subgenre or theme.

Zombies
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead (1978 version)
Zombie Flesh Eaters/Zombi 2
Hell of the Living Dead
Day of the Dead (1985 version)
Return of the Living Dead

Vampires
The Lost Boys
Dracula (1979 version)
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
Near Dark
Vampire Hunter D

Werewolves
The Howling
An American Werewolf in London
Dog Soldiers

Slashers
Halloween (1978 version)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 version)
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Scream

Witches, Cultists, and Demons
Sleepy Hollow
The Wicker Man (1973 version)
Midsommar
Rosemary's Baby
The Evil Dead
Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend
Hellraiser

Extreme Horror
Cannibal Holocaust
Hostel
August Underground
Men Behind The Sun
Tumbling Doll of Flesh

Comedy and Parody
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn
Army of Darkness
Slither
Young Frankenstein
The Addams Family
Addams Family Values
Troll 2
Shaun of the Dead
What We Do In Shadows

 

[thick internet digit web]

why would i ever watch mainstream shit when i can just browse hoodsite all day and watch niggers getting their heads blown open

 

[Takodachi]

 

[Pixy]

Cats (2019).

 

[SSF2T Old User]

All the Homestar Runner halloween toons.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

This is the thread this year, then?

I do plan to watch a lot of the old favorites - and stuff I recorded off of TCM. Freaks, Suspiria (which I hadn't seen before this year - and now I wonder how I ever lived without it), Bride of Frankenstein, the silent Faust... I only saw a few minutes of the 1934 Black Cat, with Lugosi and Karloff together, and now I want to see the whole thing.

I'm also trying to seek out Eastern Bloc-made horror as well this year. I posted Viy elsewhere, but I wish I could find a copy of, say, Karel Zeman's The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

 

[XYZpdq]

movie out of Taiwan about what all goes on in Hell

 

[Baby Sister]

I am currently watching every episode of are you afraid of the dark! I just started season 4. (The best episode so far is Crimson Clown imo.)
Every year, my boyfriend and I make a list of horror movies we haven’t seen/ our favorite horror movies, put the list in a randomizer and see what happens. so far we have watched
It (2019) 4/10— way too long
Squirm (1976): really great! Pretty slow at first but the ending makes it worth it. It’s not very gory but it has a certain charm to it for sure 6.5/10
Thirteen Ghosts: 1/10 WOW. Has anyone watched this recently? I remember seeing it on Scifi as a kid and kind of liking it. It’s pretty bad. Kind of a shame because I like the effects they use on the ghosts.

Favorite movie from last year was The Stuff (1985) or The Blob (1988 )!

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

So I'm gonna assume this is the new thread for Halloween stuff.

I'd recommend:

Spoiler: WNUF Halloween Special

A movie made to look like a cheesy local Halloween special from the 1980's. Even comes with fake commercials. They get the look of a VHS tape from that era dead on, even down to the natural tape degradation and tracking artifacts. It's not a perfect film by any means - the ending's a bit eye-rolling and not as menacing as you'd hope, and some of the acting is fakey. It still has a lot of good moments, including the Dad Humor and dead-eyed smiles coming from the newscasters (which is probably the most accurate part of the film.)

Spoiler: Dr. Seuss - Halloween is Grinch Night

An adaptation of the Dr. Seuss story that's pretty close to the original book. Not for everyone, but I find the Halloween holiday and the natural surreal horror from Dr. Seuss' artwork to be a good match. The sequence inside the "Paraphenalia Wagon" is pretty trippy to say the least.

Spoiler: Witches Night Out

(Yeah yeah, a lot of these are cartoons, I know...) 70's Cartoon Special from Canada which shows you why it's not a good idea to let the neighborhood Hippie Stoner watch your kids.

Spoiler: Halloween Commercial Compilations

You can find tons of these on Youtube. For the nostalgic among us, mostly. A lot of these are more creative than today's TV shows. It gives me a nostalgiaboner for Halloween as a kid during the 80's, when parents just let their children run wild around the neighborhood. It was a night of unstructured fun and potential danger. Then you got to go home and watch an uncut version of Night of the Living Dead on the old vacuum-tube black and white TV while you sorted through your candy. Good times.

 

[XYZpdq]

Pyasa Shaitan (Thirsty Devil)

https://archive.org/details/PyasaShaitan

big ol' pile of cat drugs apparently out of India in 1984

 

[make_it_so]

It's a yearly tradition for me to watch John Carpenter's Halloween on Halloween. Such a perfect movie with a perfect ending, frankly it didn't need and shouldn't have had any sequels.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

It's a yearly tradition for me to watch John Carpenter's Halloween on Halloween. Such a perfect movie with a perfect ending, frankly it didn't need and shouldn't have had any sequels.

True. Mike Myers was both a mythological figure and real at the same time. He was the literal boogeyman, an embodiment of all of societies' fears. That's why he vanishes at the end (or does he?) Continuing his story is pointless. Of course, being a movie monster, it was inevitable that sequels would be made so he becomes just another slasher villain who comes back again and again.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Cats (2019).

with or without buttholes?

also ROCKY HORROR PLEASE

 

[XYZpdq]

Halloween 3 was cool fite me irl

 

[XYZpdq]

also ROCKY HORROR PLEASE

Anyab (Fangs) (Egyptian Rocky Horror) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Anyab (Fangs) (Egyptian Rocky Horror) is a 1981 musical film from Egypt. It is in Arabic with English subtitles.

archive.org

(it's not doubleposting it's like when you think the monster is dead but OH SHIT HE'S STILL NOT DEAD)

 

[make_it_so]

True. Mike Myers was both a mythological figure and real at the same time. He was the literal boogeyman, an embodiment of all of societies' fears. That's why he vanishes at the end (or does he?) Continuing his story is pointless. Of course, being a movie monster, it was inevitable that sequels would be made so he becomes just another slasher villain who comes back again and again.

What I love about the film is that up to the final scene, it's kept ambiguous as to whether Michael Myers is just a homicidal lunatic, or if as Loomis suspects there's something genuinely unnatural and "evil" about him.

For the final scene when Loomis looks over the balcony and finds Michael's body missing, Donald Pleasance had asked Carpenter if he should react with shock or if he should react with the expression of "I always knew this would happen." Carpenter said "do whatever feels natural." So Pleasance went with the grim expression that indicated "he knew this would happen" and that his suspicions about Michael's true nature were correct. Capping it off with a quick succession of location shots where Michael had killed people overlayed with Michael's heavy breathing and Carpenter's score made it perfect.

Of course that was all tossed out in Halloween II when we see the previously calm but grim Loomis running about screaming how he couldn't believe Michael was alive, completely undercutting this awesome ending.

 

[FatalTater]

Thirteen Ghosts: 1/10 WOW. Has anyone watched this recently? I remember seeing it on Scifi as a kid and kind of liking it. It’s pretty bad. Kind of a shame because I like the effects they use on the ghosts.

Try watching it with 3D glasses on.
Also find and watch the 1960 version. It's bad and wonderful and has Margaret Hamilton.

 

[XYZpdq]

Scream Blacula, Scream!
the sequel to Blacula
it's like Blacula but now with more Pam Grier

 

[XYZpdq]

https://archive.org/details/SantoYBlueDemonContraLosMonstruos

Santo and Blue Demon vs The Monsters
there's other lucha contra spoopy movies worth watching for sure, but if you want a giant pile of low budget shit where Santo y Blue Demon fight monsters and crap this is probably your best one-stop shop

 

[White Devil]

I've traditionally started my Halloween every year since fucking 1993 with a viewing of The Halloween Tree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mInv6t35GM4