Say it’s four days before Halloween, and you want to cue up some Halloween happiness, kind of sample across the subgenres, try out two or three different tones. Here’s what I rec:

Murder Party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI_DqgxNR7U

My favorite horror is always closed-door horror, And Then There Were None style. This isn’t quite as twisty as Agatha Christie, but it’s eighty minutes of hilarious gore, set on Halloween night.

Ginger Snaps

I never even reviewed the first season, did I, from when this was a Chiller show? It was fun. It was kind of a ‘grown-up’ slasher. Well, it wasn’t teens-at-camp, anyway. The victim pool’s problems weren’t “what about curfew?” or “where’s the party,” but real, mortgage-paying actual-life kind of problems. There was a wicked knife, a wicked mask, some solid gore (well, runny, chunky gore), and an opening sc…

That one from a few days ago was a spotlight/author kind of thing. This is a conversation about horror, with other hosts, other horror writers:

338. Indigenous Representation in Horror — A Discussion w/ Darcie Little Badger, Nathan Adler, and Stephen Graham Jones

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Nightmare On Elm Street TV ad with spoilers! @ShockWavesPod @LangenkampH #horror #FreddyKrueger pic.twitter.com/1B7P9rsrrB

— Scott Plissken (@scottplissken) October 21, 2017

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whipped up special for Another Hole in the Head film fest:

The Elvis Room | official trailer from Andrew Schwarz on Vimeo.…

And this time, CU put together the coolest little trailer ever:

Click here for more info.

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Cannot cannot cannot WAIT for these two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPh0ZM4_eOc

[ here‘s Adam Cesare talking about Tragedy Girls ]

As for stuff I’ll likely rewatch this month, just because they’re great and I’m in the mood:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmHSbUMVDE0

But there’ll be a lot more midst and among these, of course. Which very likely includes It again.…