But really isn't it ALWAYS Halloween, Halloween, Halloween! 👻

DaakSyde · October 29, 2018, 9:33am

ChuckV · October 29, 2018, 2:00pm

Looking for something to watch this Halloween?

Why not peruse this volume:

An excellent guide to the Horror genre. This is the first, 1985, edition, so it’s not exactly up to date, but still makes great browsing. Back before the internet, this contained so many films that you just couldn’t easily read about anywhere else. Even now some of the critical insights in the reviews are worth attending to. (Aurum is the original British publisher. It has also been published in the US by Overlook Press.)

teknocholer · October 29, 2018, 2:22pm

More recent, but genuinely chilling:

TobinL · October 29, 2018, 7:02pm

For lighthearted horror fun…
A weekend of pubcrawling to come up with an idea,
3 days of shooting.

Crashproof · October 29, 2018, 10:45pm

Ruth Vader Ginsburg.

RAvery · October 30, 2018, 2:41am

If you’re looking for a more non-standard Halloween movie, I recommend the 1959 version of Suddenly Last Summer.

I wouldn’t call it horrific, but it’s disturbing.

ChuckV · October 30, 2018, 3:36am

It’s a minor point, but Elizabeth Taylor’s monologue about her swimsuit becoming transparent in water, when we can clearly see on the screen that it doesn’t, always bugs me. I’m sure it could have been filmed in such a way as to not put a lie to her claim.

ETA: Stephen King also classifies this as horror, having put SLS on his recommended horror movie list in the back of Danse Macabre.

RAvery · October 30, 2018, 3:50am

Interesting. Thanks for letting me know.

Nightflyer · October 30, 2018, 4:21am

Dad and I saw all but the first 20 minutes of the new Ghostbusters movie on FX tonight, and I liked it. Sure, it could have used a little polishing in terms of character development (did Kevin really need to be that dumb?) but it was a fun romp, and a good addition to the franchise.

jerwin · October 30, 2018, 4:54am

The first twenty minutes of any film are critical for character development.

I liked the film, though I’m given to understand that it’s at least as controversial as Star Wars VIII (among a certain kind of critic)

DaakSyde · October 30, 2018, 5:06am

I think so. Given the controversy, it was meta and it was hilarious.

jerwin · October 30, 2018, 5:23am

I thought Kate McKinnon was the best part of the movie.

ChickieD · October 30, 2018, 1:41pm

He was so funny; love seeing handsome men do goofy humor.

teknocholer · October 30, 2018, 11:09pm

I thought I remembered posting this recently, but I couldn’t find it until I did a search and found that It was in last year’s Halloween thread. Where does the time go?

Anyway, it’s still a good choice.

gadgetgirl · October 30, 2018, 11:59pm

I’ve found a collection on YouTube which seem all right. Thank you for recommending them!

jerwin · October 31, 2018, 12:02am

Twas not to be:

from the home counties episode

RAvery · October 31, 2018, 2:14am

Has anyone out there seen Wake in Fright?

It’s about an ordinary teacher traveling back to his girlfriend in Sydney who passes through an isolated Outback town, and ends up trapped there due to local bullies and his own weaknesses.

Directed by Ted Kotcheff.

ChuckV · October 31, 2018, 2:18am

Not yet, but I know of it. One of many I’ve been meaning to get around to.

kxkvi · October 31, 2018, 2:25am

Well, I’m a wimp, so I usually think of pretty tame movies for Halloween.

gadgetgirl · October 31, 2018, 2:37am

Ah okay. I just shrugged that off as some wacky psychedelic solarisation, given it only happens when Gatiss is discussing the importance of dream sequences in horror films.