Most of y’all have seen photos of my DVD collection, and long-time readers already know a large fraction of it consists of horror movies. But October has only 31 nights, so every year I need to pick which of many scores of titles we’re going to watch (you can follow along below, with trailers). Of course, I’m largely guided by impulse; I look down the shelves and pick every one that speaks to me, making sure I get at least one from all the big categories: at least one each from Universal, Hammer, and Amicus; at least one each with Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing; at least one anthology; at least one each from my ten scariest and my ten favorites; any ones I’ve bought but not yet watched; at least one Roger Corman and one William Castle; and so on. Of course there’s a lot of overlap (Karloff/Lugosi, Price/Corman/Poe; Lee & Cushing; etc), but this isn’t an exact process. The most important thing is to cover as much of the range of horror as I can get, from Gothic to sci-fi, from silent to modern, from funny to truly horrific, from schlock to true art, and from familiar to novel. That, and of course to have a month of good, spooky fun!
Every night in October, we watch a horror or monster movie; the first few are usually horror-adjacent, then we move into straight horror. We're starting tonight with one of Grace's favorites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8TV…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2024-10-02T02:28:06.461Z
