👻 SHUDDER Blues 🎃

I would have liked to see more of the Russian stuff, because the idea of her getting these creepy instructional videos is pretty compelling on its own, but I think if we saw much more it would probably end up making the movie worse.

Of course when you search for a how to video it was filmed on a potato.

Let's have some fun! Returning home for a good time!

Enjoying some delicious melon!

Going for a swim!

15. Bring Her Back (2025) - After watching Talk to Me, this was my #1 draft pick for this Halloween season and it did not disappoint. Sally Hawkins and the child actors are incredible in this tale of loss, foster parents, and watching DIY youtubes. There are some real gruesome scenes in this.

Best use of an ice cream truck since Assault on Precinct 13?

Happy birthday!

Did Fruitopia really have vending machines this dope?

WE LIVE INSIDE A DREAM

14. I Saw the TV Glow (2024) - Synthwave horror of outcast teens smothered by the life-draining normality of the world struggling to escape their lives with a TV show called Pink Opaque. Reminded me of the Matrix by way of Channel Zero. Great appearance by Connor O'Malley. The end is devastating.

The lead couple desperately needed to become blob chow.

No joke this guy died from sitting on the blob.

Looks thrilling, right?

Not even the lord can save us from this movie.

13. Beware! The Blob (1972) - An insane sequel to The Blob directed by Larry Hagman. Parts feel improvised, other parts feel like terrible ideas. Bonkers score. Not the slightest bit scary but also not intentionally funny. You'll know if this is worth watching from the first two minutes or so.

A guy that looks like a witch sits in a tree waiting for cars to approach so he can lower a mirror into their pass and scare them into wrecking.

Lon Chaney's latest experiment involves mind transference.

Our intrepid hero very much looks and acts like a cut rate Buster Keaton.

Lon and his posse confront the hero.

12. The Monster (1925) - More like "the guy" but the guy is Lon Chaney so it's still pretty good. He's a mad scientist waylaying travelers in the most Looney Tunes way imaginable (scaring them in their cars by lowering a mirror onto the road) and then taking them for his weird experiments.

The funniest thing about this is how legit terrified ICE looks.

MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN TODAY

and that guy who murdered two girls with his car because they didn't care Kirk died

Apologies Sensei

I have taken
the beers
that were in
the backseat

and which
you were probably
saving
for driving

Forgive me
they were Modelo
so small
and so few

Thanks!

Woah they made the polish poster for alien real

Good eye! I bet that was the inspiration!

The killer in this gets like two clean kills and the rest he really has to work for.

Apparently the stunt coordinator stole this van for the shot.

Even Jamie Lee's dance moves can't make up for the sheer amount of disco dancing we have to watch.

Leslie Nielsen is in this too. Not really an exciting role for him.

11. Prom Night (1980) - A solid but not great DISCO prom night revenge slasher. Jamie Lee Curtis is there even though she isn't one of the people targeted for vengeance. I appreciated the killer struggling to kill people and there is one pretty decent decapitation in front of the whole dance.

This is one of the bright and cheery scenes from the movie.

Our two stranded girls waiting to see the priest in charge.

Obey the boiler.

Somebody slumps in a dark hallway next to a standing figure. Probably a slip and fall accident.

10. The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015) - Osgood's Satanic "The Holdovers" with two girls alone with a couple nuns at girls' school during winter break as dread and evil worms its way among them. This is intercut with a girl escaping from an insane asylum and hitchhiking. A few grisly moments.

Your people are getting their asses kicked. DO SOMETHING. And by "something" I don't mean call in the Illinois State Police to help ICE bust heads.

Damn it. I knew it was a long shot but I liked what you were saying and hoped you had the guts for this. It seems like I was wrong.

Some really great blood spraying when the hand EXPLODES off his wrist when it hits a truck.

Is the hand killing people or is it all in his head? WAIT AND SEE!

Mandro. Mandro! MANDRO!!

The moment before the accident.

6. The Hand (1981) - Early Oliver Stone horror. Michael Caine is a cartoonist who gets his hand knocked off because of his BITCH WIFE. The severed hand kills people. Or does it?? Loved the comic "Mandro" which looks like Conan but I pictured Dilbert every time they argued about Mandro's masculinity.

The Halloween news broadcast hooked me from the first minutes.

The haunted house/seance stuff sacrifices any possible tension or creepiness to an endless cavalcade of commercial breaks.

And the commercial breaks are usually worth it, even when they repeat commercials a couple times.

About a third of the commercials are Halloween themed and about two-thirds are just random and totally spot on late night local TV commercials.

9. WNUF Halloween Special (2013) - A perfect recreation of a VHS tape of a 1980s Halloween local news broadcast and haunted house special complete with SO MANY commercials. Barely tries for horror, but perfectly recreates the TV stuff. Sort of the opposite of Late Night with the Devil.

The giant alien mothership hovers over rural Illinois.

An alien removes his fake human face.

Imagine a kid deflating to this while screaming in agony.

Nancy Allen UwU

8. Strange Invaders (1983) - A riff on 1950s alien invasion films featuring Paul Le Mat and Nancy Allen. Some great New York stuff in this, great supporting cast including Wallace Shawn, and lots of good goopy alien mask ripping, and a "monster kills a kid" scene only topped by 1988's Blob remake.

lol

I'll admit, I do like the idea of Warriors-style British gangs all themed around a certain person or group.

I watched Caveat a couple years back and liked it, a couple of those are on my list, but I'll look into Oddity and The Advent Calendar! Thanks!

It was an insane choice and a wild tonal shift that bordered on self-parody and undermines the memento mori stuff. On the other hand, almost everyone comes out of this one talking about that ending so I guess that's successful. If I was doing that a similar joke I would've gone with the Young Ones.

Erik the Swedish commando prepares to board a train where no problems will occur for him.

Our child protagonist Spike and his dad flee from some rage zombies.

Ralph Fiennes shows up to take over the movie and hands out skulls as gifts.

Lots of little details like this mask show the culture that has formed over the 28 years of a Very British Apocalypse.

7. 28 Years Later (2025) - Boyle returns to his zombies, using iPhones and making an EXTREMELY British version of a zombie movie all about islands and isolation. Beautiful, cheeky, but it never forgets it's a gory horror movie. In an overcrowded subgenre, it brings some new things. Great head rips.

Skeleton Man swords his way through a tunnel. He is later blown up in a nuclear reactor. Or is he???

Undercover rescue team operations with Casper Van Dien and Michael Rooker.

Skeleton Man pulls a skull out of someone's stomach.

A skeleton on a horse riding through a giant explosion sums up this movie.

5. Skeleton Man (2004) - A robed teleporting skeleton with a sword who also rides a horse lays waste to commandos and helicopters and a nuclear power plant. An undercover rescue team (??) led by Michael Rooker is dispatched to find out what is going on. They mostly die. Directed by a stuntman.

A suave vampire reclines at a booth in a bar

A vampire pours himself a blood cocktail

a vampire lady screams as she regrets the lifestyle

Lots of daylight vampiring in this movie

4. Ganja & Hess (1973) - A dark and dreamy Black gothic vampire film. Way ahead of its time. The vampires are immortal and they drink blood and that's about all of the mythology that applies to them. Its themes of cultural assimilation have parallels with the musical appropriation in Sinners.

Some really great blood spraying when the hand EXPLODES off his wrist when it hits a truck.

Is the hand killing people or is it all in his head? WAIT AND SEE!

Mandro. Mandro! MANDRO!!

The moment before the accident.

6. The Hand (1981) - Early Oliver Stone horror. Michael Caine is a cartoonist who gets his hand knocked off because of his BITCH WIFE. The severed hand kills people. Or does it?? Loved the comic "Mandro" which looks like Conan but I pictured Dilbert every time they argued about Mandro's masculinity.

when they give him the beans he does not heat them and instead bites open the can and eats them one at a time with his fingers

which is incredible

can't argue with any of that