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What is this?

  • I select a thematically appropriate horror movie for each day of the year and tell you about it.

Why?

  • It seemed like a good idea at the time.

How do you get to decide what qualifies as a horror movie and where each one goes on the calendar?

  • I am the Mayor of Horror Movies.

Are all these movies good?

  • Oh gosh no.  But I recommend all of them to  the adventurous viewer.

What’s with the CWs?

  • In horror movies, disturbing material is part of the entertainment package. But for some viewers, elements like sexual violence or bigotry ruin the fun.  For those folks, I include content warnings.  That said, the warnings are based on my personal reactions and should not be expected to cover all potential cinematic skeeviness, so proceed with caution.

Who are you, aside from the mayor?

  • I’m Shaenon K. Garrity.  I’m mostly a cartoonist.  I watch a lot of scary movies while I draw cartoons.

Links

Shaenon.com

My home site.

Skin Horse

My daily comic strip.

Monster of the Week

The strip where I recap X-Files episodes.

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October 15

by shaenon on October 15, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: October
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  1. Jim Phillips
    October 15, 2018, 10:11 pm | # | Reply

    One of my favorite scary moments from the VHS movies is when spectral hands reach out of the walls, trying to grab the fleeing protagonists. I plan to find out how similar the original is – I will be getting REPULSION out of the library this week.

    • Shaenon
      October 16, 2018, 1:59 am | # | Reply

      The absolute original (as far as I know) is Cocteau’s “Beauty and the Beast”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4sUnglqVdY

      • Jim Phillips
        October 16, 2018, 2:28 am | # | Reply

        Neat, thanks! And thanks again for doing this – I am recovering from hip surgery (outpatient, fortunately), so I have been doing a lot of sitting around and watching whatever I can. This list has given me a LOT of ideas. 🙂

  2. Jim Phillips
    October 16, 2018, 9:01 pm | # | Reply

    I think I now understand the difference between being scared and being horrified, although it might seem unexpected: I was horrified to see how badly women were treated in the 1960’s (assuming this movie is in any way an accurate portrayal). Her descent into madness is a lot more understandable with that in mind. I was startled by the soundtrack at the beginning, which made me flash back, in a really bad way, to MANOS THE HANDS OF FATE (which was made about the same time as this one). I’m glad I grew up in an era after all of that “soft jazz” (or whatever it is called) left the airwaves.

  3. Hielario
    October 17, 2018, 9:02 am | # | Reply

    Hmmmm I have a weird childhood memory about something like that. I wonder if it was this one?

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