Quinnival of Souls 🏳️‍⚧️🎠

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Overlooked TV Movie ‘The Halloween Tree’ is One of the Great Animated Halloween Specials “All dressed up for All Hallows Eve. But you don’t know why, or what or even from where.” In the midst of discussing the quintessential Halloween specials that aren’t It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie B...

Happy Halloween, everyone! Now that it’s starting to get dark out, you would be doing yourself a favor to settle in with the gorgeous animated adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s THE HALLOWEEN TREE.

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THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US - Transforming the Gill Man into a tragic land-breathing figure with the build of Tor Johnson would be more effective if it were the central thrust of the movie instead of being relegated to the last 19 minutes.

Counting this among my efforts to see every Clint Eastwood movie. I can’t believe he had that sick head of hair ready to go in his first feature appearance.

REVENGE OF THE CREATURE - Gill Man did nothing wrong! I watched this alone in my apartment and cheered when he threw a guy against a palm tree. What murdah?!

The world is a better place with horror movies starring the great Barbara Crampton.

RE-ANIMATOR (35MM) - I love me some good splatstick. I’m always so drawn in by how confidently Jeffrey Combs enters the movie with that determined gaze. No mad scientist list would be complete without Herbert West.

“This man has no dick” always gets the laugh but I was dying at that confident smirk on Bill Murray’s face that keeps growing as he delivers “Lenny, you will have saved the lives…of millions of registered voters” to David Marguiles. That effortless smile back sells it so well.

GHOSTBUSTERS (70MM) - We’ve gotten so hung up on this movie’s place as a pop culture fixture that we underplay how much it’s all about sex. The supernatural opens a libidinous gateway of dripping ectoplasm, rapturous summoning rituals and SNL funny people shooting their streams.

Just to keep the fun going, the @somervilletheatre.bsky.social is having a GODZILLA marathon in a couple of weeks. I can’t wait to do this all again.

EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS (35MM) - An early 2000s creature feature oddity whose GREMLINS-esque spin on the big spider movie would work significantly better with a livelier ensemble. Trailing TREMORS didn’t help its case. But it does have a BMX biker kicking a spider in the face though.

C.H.U.D. (35MM) - I was so bored by this the first time I saw it and while the film still feels like a very long 88 minutes, it won me over in the back half. There’s a furious anger using the homeless as expendable lab rats that triumphs through.

ALIENS (35MM) - Discovering you’re about to watch THE James Cameron action-horror blockbuster at 9am after 9 hrs of monster movies is what life is all about. The Queen is still one of the coolest looking creature designs ever.

TREMORS (35MM) - I will never not love this movie. It’s the perfect creature feature. I felt such a rejuvenated energy with everyone rightfully cheering when Burt and Reba waste a Graboid for breaking into the wrong goddamn Rec room.

GODZILLA 1985 (35MM) - Raymond Burr is BACK, folks, and he’s still not doing a whole lot but this time it’s in the one-room Pentagon sponsored by Dr. Pepper. It gave me a greater incentive to finally see Toho’s THE RETURN OF GODZILLA.

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (35MM) - I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder at the prelude to the Rick Baker transformation. The way Landis makes fun of the audience’s anticipation with the perfect song, yet stays on David Naughton walking back and forth is unbelievably funny.

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON 3D (35MM) - There’s a reason why Gill-man is THE aquatic movie monster. Milicent Patrick’s magnificent creature design looks compelling from just about every angle. It’s no wonder Guillermo del Toro saw the romanticism within him.

COOLIDGE HALLOWEEN HORROR MARATHON 2025 (35MM) - I’m so very exhausted and loving it. 14 hours of trailers and creature features, most of which went unknown until the title card appeared onscreen. This was exactly what my horror heart needed. THREAD/

One Of The Weirdest And Creepiest Kids Horror Movies Ever Is Streaming For Free - SlashFilm This horror-comedy movie (which is streaming for free) is both a perfect gateway horror film for kids and a truly strange time capsule of a different era.

I saw ERNEST SCARED STUPID the best way you could see it at @thecoolidge.bsky.social last week, but you can stream the ‘90s oddity this Halloween season for free on YouTube!

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BUGONIA (35MM) - Laughed a whole bunch during Yorgos Lanthimos’ sick little dark comedy about the desperate conspiracy psychosis we’re just stuck with now and the cruelty it breeds. A certified hate letter to humanity. Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone are equally excellent here.

I think I got the wrong BUGONIA.

John Lafia does great work presenting this warped world through a child’s perspective. There’s this pan through the hallways of the Simpson household where Gerrit Graham’s “he’s not OUR child” effectively punctuates on a defeated Alex Vincent just slumping over on the bed.

CHILD’S PLAY 2 (35MM) - I’ve seen this movie so many times now but it was a treat to finally experience it on the big screen, especially with Kyle herself, Christine Elise, in attendance. The escalating Good Guy Factory chase is so much fun and an all-timer horror climax.

It's almost time, kids. The clock is ticking. Be in front of your TV sets for the Horrorthon, followed by the big giveaway. Don't miss it. And don't forget to wear your masks ☘️

It's almost time, kids. The clock is ticking. Be in front of your TV sets for the Horrorthon, followed by the big giveaway. Don't miss it. And don't forget to wear your masks ☘️

Making the first 8 FRIDAY THE 13TH movies for free on YouTube would a nice Halloween treat if not for the fact that every one of them are heavily censored TV edits that cut out the language/gore. FINAL CHAPTER Jason just falls on the floor after Tommy whacks him in the face 🖕

Roy Neary’s neglectfulness is much more understandable when viewed through the film’s dark fairy tale subtext, especially in the garden freak out. It’s a compellingly prickly scene, as the unknowable manifests through erratic impulse and fear.

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (70MM) - You really can’t underestimate how majestic those last 30 minutes are. Mystery persists within the awe of first contact. The easiest answers Spielberg allows are emotional ones, and even those are complicated at their core.

The post credits bit is such a mean little epilogue and I love it.