It may be winter holiday season, but we are still firmly in Halloween mode! Coming a mere month and a half late, it’s our spooky season round-up of all the bloody, bone-chilling, or unnerving books and movies we immersed ourselves in for the month of October. Topics of discussion include how to put a fresh spin on classic horror tropes, the overwhelming number of Stephen King adaptations out this year, and, of course, the perils of evil basements.
Media Mentioned
- Peter Hujar’s Day dir. Ira Sachs
- Predator: Badlands dir. Dan Trachtenberg
- Prey dir. Dan Trachtenberg
- When Among Crows & To Clutch a Razor by Veronica Roth
- On Swift Horses by Shannon Pufahl
- On Swift Horses dir. Daniel Minahan
- Down Cemetery Road (TV show)
- The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
- Near Dark dir. Kathryn Bigelow
- Raging Grace dir. Paris Zarcilla
- Caveat dir. Damian McCarthy
- Oddity dir. Damian McCarthy
- The Long Walk dir. Francis Lawrence
- The Hunger Games dir. Francis Lawrence
- On Writing by Stephen King
- Rye Lane dir. Raine Allen-Miller
- Alien: Romulus dir. Fede Álvarez
- Late Night With the Devil Colin and Cameron Cairnes
- Murderbot (TV show)
- Fréwaka dir. Aislinn Clarke
- The Witch dir. Robert Eggers
- Ready or Not dir. Matt Bettinelli and Tyler Gillett
- Ready or Not: Here I Come dir. Matt Bettinelli and Tyler Gillett
- Enola Holmes & Enola Holmes 2 dir. Harry Bradbeer
- Now You See Me: Now You Don’t dir. Ruben Fleischer
- The Monkey dir. Osgood Perkins
- Life of Chuck dir. Mike Flanagan
- It: Welcome to Derry (TV show)
- The Running Man dir. Edgar Wright
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Black Phone 2 dir. Scott Derrickson
- Abraham’s Boys dir. Natasha Kermani
- Longlegs dir. Osgood Perkins
- The Silence of the Lambs dir. Jonathan Demme
- Keeper dir. Osgood Perkins
- Nope dir. Jordan Peele
- Get Out dir. Jordan Peele
- Us dir. Jordan Peele
- Hustlers dir. Lorene Scafaria
- His House dir. Remi Weekes
- Frankenstein dir. Guillermo del Toro
- Pan’s Labyrinth dir. Guillermo del Toro
- Crimson Peak dir. Guillermo del Toro
- Pacific Rim dir. Guillermo del Toro
- Hellboy dir. Guillermo del Toro
- Wuthering Heights dir. Emerald Fennell
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- Boys, Beasts, and Men by Sam J. Miller
- Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
- If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
- Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio
- Hot Wax by M.L. Rio
- Hazelthorn by C.G. Drews
- The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum
- The Outside by Ada Hoffmann
- Knock Knock Open Wide by Neil Sharpson
- Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella
- Moth Dark by Kika Hatzopoulou
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army dir. Guillermo del Toro
- Motheater by Linda Codega
- Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
- My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen
- Drowned Maiden’s Hair by Laura Amy Schlitz
- Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti
- Halifax Hellions by Alexandra Vasti
- Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
Content warnings: discussions of murder, death, COVID-19, anti-Asian hate crimes
