61 Nights of Halloween (2025 Edition)

[DarthSkywalker]

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I actually would welcome a Spidey movie during Christmas.

Lily...

 

[Lily Adler]

Down Under by Men at Work and In Too Deep by Sum41 are Halloween songs.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Kane52630]

 

[DarthSkywalker]

One of my favorite film scores of the decade:

 

[Lily Adler]

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[Kane52630]

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The first one always feels like an Are You Afraid of the Dark monster.


Meanwhile the second one I was in the theater like

 

[Lily Adler]

Remember the 2 best Halloween Superhero films:

 

[Luigi]

 

[Lily Adler]

The first one always feels like an Are You Afraid of the Dark monster.


Meanwhile the second one I was in the theater like

Those Isabela Merced genes are wild.

 

[Luigi]

 

[Lily Adler]

Okay am I dumb or was the premise of this film a little too much? Like the serial killer's personality is split into a bunch of babies upon his death and one of them is the killer side or something?

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Lily Adler]

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[Lily Adler]

 

[Kane52630]

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[Lily Adler]

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[Luigi]

 

[Luigi]

 

[Drizzle]

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

This is one I've wanted to see since it was in theaters and never got around to it. The book covers scared me as a kid to the point where I never went near them so I guess I finally faced that fear by watching this. It was quite creepy for a PG-13 movie and some of the VFX were pretty good. Gotta love some old fashioned prosthetic makeup but no one prepared me for the Richard Nixon jumpscare.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Night 58

176. Carved (2024) dir. Justin Harding

Bite-Sized Review: I liked this one less then I did last year. Too much time spent in one place doing nothing.

**1/2

177. R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead (2025) dir. Jem Garrard (NEW)

Bite-Sized Review: This is weird. The technical a-plot with the kid kind of sucks. He's beyond annoying with no redeeming qualities, especially standing next to his new friend who is far more capable. But the b-plot involving my favorite Greendale ice cream man, with a brand new southern drawl, had me.

**3/4

178. Sleepy Hollow (1999) dir. Tim Burton

Bite-Sized Review: Nothing feels quite like fall the way this one does.

****1/2

179. Der Golem, wie er in die Welt (1920) dir. Paul Wegener & Carl Boese (NEW)

Bite-Sized Review: Saw this banger for the first time on it's 105th birthday. A great take on Frankenstein by way of Jewish struggle. The first horror film series was truly revolutionary, with this one being a prequel. Real sad the first two of this trilogy are lost.

*****

180. The Wonderful Autumn of Mickey Mouse (2024) dir. Karl Hadrika, William Reiss & Eddie Trigueros (NEW)

Bite-Sized Review: As adorable as always.

***1/2

181. It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (1966) dir. Bill Melendez

Bite-Sized Review: Someday Linus, someday.

*****

182. The Stylist (2020) dir. Jill Gevargizian

Bite-Sized Review: A masterclass in self-loathing that always makes me feel so seen.

*****

183. The Batman (2022) dir. Matt Reeves

Bite-Sized Review: Some heroes do wear capes.

****1/2

 

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October 25th:
The German Chainsaw Massacre (1990)

A trashterpiece, if I ever saw one. The German Chainsaw Massacre defies description, but I certainly wasn't bored by this unholy collision of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, German unification... and sausage. Wunderbar.

October 26th:
The Damned (2025)

The Damned is certainly atmospheric, but its thin story and lackluster characterizations left me cold. It's a snowbound folk horror with an aesthetically pleasing visage — a combination I was sure to love — but it never quite won me over beyond its early, uncollected promise. I'll revisit it one day, though.

Another episode of Guillermo's CoC:

Episode 5 out of 8.

An adaptation of a classic Lovecraft yarn and the weakest episode yet. It's structurally unsatisfying, and the pacing feels off, but Crispin Glover is fantastic as the titular painter, and the ending is unforgettably horrific. This one's all about the destination; I just wish the journey had been more enjoyable.

 

[Drizzle]

@DarthSkywalker this whole time you've been talking about Zombie's Halloween II, you've been talking about the Director's Cut right?