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October 2022 "Scary Movie Challenge" Viewing list (New titles in BOLD) 1) Nightwing (1979) 💀💀💀 2) Zombies of Mora Tau (1967) 💀💀 3) Warning Sign (1985) 💀💀💀 4) Idle Roomers (1944 short) 💀💀💀 ½ 5) Prophecy (1979) 💀💀 ½ 6) The Werewolf (1956) 💀💀💀 7) Shivering Sherlocks (1948 short) 💀💀 ½ 8) A Ghost...

A last couple to wrap things up for this year, as it's Halloween night here in Japan: 25. Sleepy Hollow (1999) At the turn of the 18th century, young constable Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp), an early proponent of deductive reasoning and forensic science, is dispatched to the remote burg of...

24. The Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022) Watched this one myself last night, Neil. I was tired after a long day and wanted something light but appropriately seasonal. I enjoyed it, silly but imaginative and fun, with some cool creature effects. Marlon Wayans and Priah Ferguson (who plays Lucas'...

20. The Funhouse (1981) Four teens attempt to stay the night inside a carnival funhouse and come to regret it as they are hunted by a mutated killer. Director Tobe Hooper piles on the sleazy carnival atmosphere and the movie positively drips with dread from its opening riff on the original...

17. The Twilight Zone – 5. 14 “You Drive” Nervous jerkwad of a business manager (Edward Andrews) does a hit-and-run on a 12-year-old paper boy, leaving the kid to die on a rainy street. His selfish actions take him on a one-way drive into hell, a.k.a. the Twilight Zone, as he is subsequently...

I always enjoy it when a regular genre TV show, like a police procedural or action-adventure, veers off into the uncanny, the unexplained or the straight-up supernatural. Nothing like a little spookiness to spice up a show and add an imaginative flourish to the usual goings-on. The following two...

A bit late to the comment party, but I agree with the above. I like The Beast Must Die overall, an interesting concept and it's got a very good cast...but one can't help be a little let down when the "werewolf" turns out to just be a big hairy dog. The original James Blish short story the...

Been more or less AWOL for a week, as I have been going through my own version of body horror. ;) Threw my back out last Friday night, leading to a recurrence of a nasty pinched nerve in my right hip. Needless to say, I've not been in the mood to watch much, nor write about some of the things I...

11. The X-Files 8.7 "Via Negativa" 8.11 "The Gift" I must have missed a lot of S8 when it was first aired, because most of these episodes are new to me. I'm finding Robert Patrick's committed performance as the no-nonsense Agent John Dogget, pulled into the crazy, topsy-turvy world of the...

Good stuff, Maurice! I'll be watching some Kolchak: The Night Stalker myself later this month.

10. Werewolf by Night (2022) Michael Giacchino, for my money one of the best film composers working today, directed this Marvel special presentation for Disney+, based on a lesser-known horror comic, which began back in the early '70s. Giacchino's direction is nicely stylized, paying homage to...

8. A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint (2021) Mark Gatiss wrote and directed this very eerie 30 minute adaptation of the classic M.R. James ghost story for the BBC. Williams (Rory Kinnear), an unmarried Cambridge scholar who curates a small museum, comes into possession of an engraved...

6. The Werewolf (1956) Another Sam Katzman-produced potboiler, this one's pretty effective, giving a vaguely science fiction rationale to the lycanthropy. A stranger (Steven Ritch) arrives in the alpine hunting community of Mountaincrest, seemingly unaware of who he is or how he got there. When...

5. Prophecy (1979) A crusading doctor, Robert Verne (Robert Foxworth), is hired by the E.P.A. and sent to a remote wilderness in Maine to file a report on whether chemical run-off from a paper mill there is causing any environmental problems. Verne is accompanied by his (unbeknownst to him)...

4. Idle Roomers (1944 Three Stooges short) In this typically madcap and very funny short, the Stooges play bellboys in a hotel who are terrorized by Lupe the Wolf Man (Duke York), who escapes from his cage and goes on a rampage whenever he hears music being played. The wolf man make-up looks...

3. Warning Sign (1985) Don't let the bland title fool you...this is a little gem of '80s sci-fi/horror, confidently directed (by Hal Barwood) and nicely shot (by ace cinematographer Dean Cundey). Pandemonium breaks out in a rural farming community in Utah, when an experimental and deadly virus...

2. Zombies of Mora Tau (1957) Decent Sam Katzman-produced B-movie schlock follows a group of Americans out to salvage a chest of diamonds from a sunken wreck off the African coast. They soon discover that the diamonds are protected by the titular walking dead. These are pre-George Romero...

1. Nightwing (1979) A Native American deputy (Nick Mancuso) and an obsessed scientist (David Warner) take on vicious rampaging vampire bats in the American Southwest. Sort of a weird but interesting melange of social commentary, inter-tribal politics, mysticism and animal attack exploitation...

Thanks for starting the new thread, John! I'll be joining in the fun once again. Can already feel the Halloween-y vibes kicking in.