Halloween Every Night

Nov 5: Paranormal premieres on Netflix in 2020. The Egyptian supernatural horror limited series based on Ahmed Khaled Tawfik’s novel about a hematologist investigating urban legends is a big hit. The series remains one of the most watched Netflix shows in Egypt and around the world.

Nov 4: Tarantula! premieres in Philadelphia in 1955. The giant monster movie features cutting edge special effects for its time and is a critical and box office hit.
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Nov 3: Betty Boop’s Hallowe’en Party opens as an animated short in 1933. The black-and-white musical cartoon by the Fleischer brothers features the song “Let’s All Sing Like the Birdies Sing.”
#BettyBoop #BettyBoopCartoon

Nov 2: Jacob’s Ladder, 1990, psychological horror movie about PTSD-filtered disillusionment. Starred Tim Robbins, struggled at the box office; later a cult hit. Screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin penned other movies Ghost, Brainstorm and Deadly Friend.
#HalloweenEveryNight #Jacob'sLadder #TimRobbins

Nov 1: Michelle Remembers, the controversial book by a psychiatrist makes unsubstantiated claims about Satanic ritual abuse based on discredited recovered-memory therapy. The book’s success helped lead to the so-called “Satanic panic” of the 1980s.
#MichelleRemembers #SatanicPanic

Charlton Heston is born in Wilmette, Ill. in 1923. The distinctive Oscar-winning actor’s work on stage, TV and film stretches over seven decades and includes the films Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Omega Man, Soylent Green, The Awakening and TV’s The Outer Limits.

Neve Campbell is born in Guelph, Canada in 1973. The actress is mostly known as a Scream Queen for her work in horror and slasher films including the Scream franchise and The Craft, as well as TV roles in The Canterville Ghost, and Are You Afraid of the Dark? #thisdayinhalloween #halloweeneverynight

Zombieland opens across the U.S. in 2009. The zombie apocalypse horror comedy stars Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Jessie Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin and Bill Murray. The film is a critical and box-office hit and is followed by a sequel. #thisdayinhalloween #thisdayinhalloweenhistory #zombieland

Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS opens across the U.S. in 1975. The controversial grindhouse Nazisploitation movie pushes sex, violence, blood, and unintentional humor to new limits in a S&M-disguised-as-women’s-empowerment storyline. #thisdayinhalloween #thisdayinhalloweenhistory #halloweeneverynight

The Munsters premieres on CBS in 1964. The sitcom about a family of classic-horror monsters stars Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Butch Patrick and Al Lewis. Its satire of suburban American family norms reflects the civil rights movement of the 1960s. #thisdayinhalloween #themunsters

Pieces opens across the U.S. in 1983. The controversial American-Spanish slasher film about a killer on a college campus is notable for its gruesomeness, and despite mostly scathing reviews and its seizure in Britain as a “video nasty,” it becomes a cult hit. #thisdayinhalloween

Seven opens across the U.S. in 1995. David Fincher’s groundbreaking and bleak crime thriller stars Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt and Kevin Spacey and follows two detectives trying to stop a series of murders based on the seven deadly sins. #thisdayinhalloween #se7enmovie #halloweeneverynight

Bill Murray is born in Evanston Ill. in 1950. The Oscar-nominated actor and Mark Twain Prize-winner’s long career includes radio, stage, TV and film. #thisdayinhalloween #thisdayinhalloweenhistory #billmurray #halloweeneverynight

James Bernard is born in England in 1925. The British composer is known mostly for his many scores for Hammer Films including The Horror of Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Plague of the Zombies, The Devil Rides Out, and Frankenstein Created Woman. He died in 2001. #thisdayinhalloween

Bubba Ho-Tep opens in limited release in the U.S. in 2002. The horror comedy starring Bruce Campbell becomes a cult success through the film festival circuit and roadshow release. #thisdayinhalloween #thisdayinhalloweenhistory #bubbahotep #brucecampbell #halloweeneverynight

Screaming Yellow Theater with host Svengoolie — later known simply as Svengoolie — premieres on WFLD in Chicago in 1970. Since 2011 the show has run on MeTV and is still portrayed by Koz. #thisdayinhalloween #thisdayinhalloweenhistory#svengoolie

Before I Hang opens across the U.S. in 1940. A resurrection revenge tale stars Boris Karloff in one of his “Mad Doctor” films for Columbia. The feature is just an hour long. #thisdayinhalloween #thisdayinhalloweenhistory #boriskarloff

Jennifer Tilly is born Jennifer Chan in Los Angeles in 1958. She is best known for her recurring role in the Child’s Play franchise and voicing a character in Family Guy. #thisdayinhalloween #jennifertilly #thisdayinhalloweenhistory

Agatha Christie is born in Devon, England in 1890. The best-selling fiction author in history as well as the most translated, Christie is nicknamed “The Queen of Crime” and wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, mostly involving detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Sam Neill — is born in Omagh, Northern Ireland in 1947. The actor’s long career includes multiple genres in TV and film, but features notable work in Omen III, Possession, In the Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon, and most notably the Jurassic Park franchise. #thisdayinhalloween

- The Queen of The Damned is published in 1988. Anne Rice’s third novel in what comes to be known as The Vampire Chronicles, the novel follows Interview with a Vampire and The Vampire LeStat and is the second of the series to also become a film. #thisdayonhalloween #vampirechronicles #annrice

Ted Cassidy introduces and performs “The Lurch” on Shivaree in 1965. The actor, who plays Lurch on The Addams Family TV show releases the Gary Paxton-written song as a single for Halloween to capitalize on the success of the show. #thisdayinhalloween #tedcassidy #thelurch #addamsfamily #haloween

The X-Files debuts on Fox in 1993. The iconic horror/sci-fi/thriller series about FBI agents investigating the supernatural — and a government conspiracy — was an instant hit and ran for 11 seasons and led to two feature films, a revival and spin-off TV show. #thisdayonhalloween #halloweenhistory

Contagion opens across the U.S. in 2011. Director Steven Soderbergh’s star-studded multi-narrative and hyper realistic virus thriller is a box office and critical success, but receives a second life on streaming services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. #thisdayinhalloween #halloweenhistory

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho opens across the U.S. in 1960. In 1992, the film was preserved in the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry and is currently 18th on the American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest American Movies list. #thisdayinhalloween #psychomovie #alfredhitchcock

Dario Argento is born in Rome, Italy in 1940. The Italian filmmaker known as one of the pioneers of giallo horror-thrillers.
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The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case opens across the U.S. in 1930. The parody of silent horror films The Cat and the Canary and The Bat is a hit and later copied by animation director Tex Avery as well as the Three Stooges. #thisdayinhalloween #laurelandhardymurdercase #halloweenhistory

One of the dates often considered by historians as the beginning of France’s Reign of Terror in 1793. More than 16,000 people put to death by guillotine between the summer of 1793. The Reign of Terror and the guillotine would soon become staple settings and props of literature, theater and film.

“Dead of Night” premieres in London in 1945. The British anthology horror movie includes five different tales and a framing story, and becomes a highly influential film to multiple filmmakers and inspires several episodes of The Twilight Zone.

“Cat-Women Of The Moon” opens across the U.S. in 1953. One of the string of 3-D films made during the “Golden Age” of 3-D in 1952-1955, this movie also serves as the inspiration for a slew of other women’s planet films of the 1950s and 1960s.