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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 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 a 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
The Haunting (1963)
Available on Amazon Prime.
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TRAILER #2
Stir of Echoes (1999)
Available on Fandango at Home.
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TRAILER #3
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Available on Amazon Prime.
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TRAILER #4
Werewolves Within (2021)
Available on Amazon Prime.
FEATURE #1
Creature from the Black Lagoon
1954 | Rated G | 79 minutes | d. Jack Arnold | s. Harry Essex & Arthur Ross | c. William E. Snyder
A modern-day scientific expedition discovers a prehistoric amphibian creature in the wild that becomes enamored with one of the female scientists on the team and poses a lethal threat to anyone who stands in its way.
Available to rent on Amazon Prime.
TRAILER #5
The Shape of Water (2017)
Available on Amazon Prime.
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TRAILER #6
Cloverfield (2008)
Available to rent on Amazon Prime.
FEATURE #2
Spring
2014 | NR | 109 minutes | d. Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead | s. Justin Benson | c. Aaron Moorhead
An American transplant visiting Italy falls in love with a medical student who may harbor a primordial, sinister secret.
Available on Fandango at Home.
NEXT TIME …
We’ve saved some of the best for some of the last: the last slash. In this night of maniacal madmen, cinematic stories include a slasher film allegedly shot much like the first-person video games popularized today, a bloody picture that was meant to bring a big screen slasher to an end (and didn’t) — 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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