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The first intention of a Halloween watchlist is to recommend to its readers a handful of sinister cinematic screenings meant to celebrate the spooky season. But what if a witchy watchlist could inspire more screenings beyond the 10, 20, or 31 days that October could otherwise provide?
That’s why Late-Night at the Pickwick is serving up sneak previews of even more movies — so that you may discover ominous films well beyond the month of October. Follow along with our night-by-night double feature viewing recommendations, or dig deeper still into our cavern of carnage, going down a widescreen wormhole that these feature-length & short-form sinister suggestions promise to provide!
So prep the popcorn, settle into your seat, and get ready for a rioutous round of nightly nightmares …
Because terrors await!
TRAILER #1
At the Drive-In (2017)
Available on Amazon Prime.
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TRAILER #2
Halloween (1978)
Available on Amazon Prime.
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TRAILER #3
Fade to Black (1980)
Available on Amazon Prime.
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TRAILER #4
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
Available on YouTube.
FEATURE #1
The Monster Squad
1987 | PG-13 | 82 minutes | d. Fred Dekker | s. Shane Black & Fred Dekker | c. Bradford May
A young kids’ club of horror film fans is entrusted with saving its small town when it is invaded by the major motion picture monsters: a vampire, a werewolf, a sea monster, and a mummy – and they’re aided only by a horrific historian and a conflicted creature!
Available on Paramount+.
TRAILER #5
Silver Bullet (1985)
Available to rent on Amazon Prime.
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TRAILER #6
The Gate (1987)
Available on Amazon Prime.
FEATURE #2
The People Under the Stairs
1991 | R | 102 minutes | d. Wes Craven | s. Wes Craven | c. Sandi Sissel
When a young boy breaks into the home of his family’s landlords, he discovers a world where sinister deeds have kept a number of boys imprisoned under the stairs of the creepy house. Only his wits will save him now from the monsters who lurk here!
Available on AMC TV.
NEXT TIME …
Bloodsuckers prove to be a real pain in the neck — in a movie about parasitic roommates, in a road movie of vampires starring half the cast of James Cameron’s Aliens (1986), and more!
Chris Kaine is the most amateur film essayist whom you may ever imagine. He earnestly contends that he was named after the actor Chris Sarandon, because he was either conceived while his parents watched Fright Night (1985) in his paternal grandparents’ basement, or because of their love for The Princess Bride (1987), which stars a character by the name of “Humperdink,” which is pretty funny, if you think about it.
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