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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
Warm Bodies (2013)
Available on Amazon Prime.
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TRAILER #2
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Available to rent on Amazon Prime.
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TRAILER #3
The Others (2001)
Available on Amazon Prime.
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TRAILER #4
The Innkeepers (2011)
Available on Amazon Prime.
FEATURE #1
Stir of Echoes
2001 | R | 97 minutes | d. Brad Anderson | dp. Uta Briesewitz | s. Brad Anderson & Stephen Gevedon |c. Fred Murphy
An asbestos abatement team accepts a job within the spooky hallways of a dilapidated mental hospital and discovers something more sinister than asbestos may be waiting for them there.
Available to rent on Amazon Prime.
TRAILER #5
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Available to rent on Amazon Prime.
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TRAILER #6
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Available on Fandango at Home.
FEATURE #2
Host (2020)
2020 | NR | 65 minutes | d. Rob Savage | s. Gemma Hurley, Rob Savage, Jeb Shepherd | c. NA
When friends confined to the pandemic lockdown take to an online seance as a Zoom-based girls’ night out, they inadvertently invite a supernatural evil into their evening.
Available on AMC+.
NEXT TIME …
Monsters are the name of the game every Halloween, and this double feature has them — big & small! Tonight’s features will include two films about small communities terrorized by a werewolf, one movie about a skyscraper-sized creature terrorizing NYC, 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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