WATCHER IN THE WOODS (1980)

DAY 6 England becomes home for an American family whose beautiful forested manor is haunted by the ghost of a missing young woman. During the 70s and 80s, Disney released a collection of live action films that targeted young adult audiences with darker, more daring storytelling. New leadership meant they could cash in on the […]

Stopmotion (2024)

DAY 5 Life imitates art when an obsessed stop motion animator fears she is being stalked by her grotesque sculptures.  I’ll always enjoy a movie involving the worlds of art and industry. Art about art and its obsessive practitioners. Art that comes to life and destroys its creator.  Ella is an aspiring artist and apprentice […]

WARNING SIGN (1985)

DAY 4 An accident at a secretive biotech laboratory creates a spread of bacteria that incites a violent rage in those it infects. No horror watchlist is complete without Zombies in the mix. The walking dead are rooted in Haitian folklore and voodoo, which inspired generations of authors and filmmakers to incorporate them into our […]

CLIMAX (2018)

DAY 3 Dancers rehearsing in an abandoned school are plunged into violent mayhem when the sangria they’re drinking is spiked with excessive amounts of LSD. Sometimes I crave absurdly spicy food that provides a little endorphin rush alongside the suffering, which is the only reasonable comparison to my impulses to watch intense horror movies. Every […]

LET’S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH (1971)

DAY 2 Fresh out of the psychiatric ward, Jessica moves to a peaceful lake house but finds a mysterious young woman already living there who she begins to believe is a vampire. My October marathon picks are predominantly movies I haven’t seen. My relied upon sources (cooler people with better taste) often come through with […]