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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
Gremlins (1984)
Available to rent on Amazon Prime.
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TRAILER #2
The Descent (2005)
Available on Fandango.
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TRAILER #3
Peeping Tom (1960)
Available on Criterion Channel.
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TRAILER #4
Scream (1996)
Available on Hulu.
FEATURE #1
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
2006 | Rated R | 92 minutes | d. Scott Glosserman | s. Scott Glosserman & David J. Stieve | c. Aaron Presant
In a world where Freddy Krueger truly killed teens in their sleep on Elm Street, where Michael Myers truly stalked the streets of Haddonfield, and where Jason Voorhees truly terrorized camp counselors at Camp Crystal Lake … an aspiring serial killer employs a documentary film career to record his origin story & his first night of carnage.
Available to rent on Amazon Prime.
TRAILER #5
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Available to rent on Amazon Prime.
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TRAILER #6
Freaky (2020)
Available on Amazon Prime.
FEATURE #2
The Final Girls
2015 | PG-13 | 92 minutes | d. Todd Strauss-Schulson | s. M.A. Fortin & Joshua John Miller | c. Elie Smolkin
It’s been a year since Max’s mother died in a car accident, and she will now attend a screening of the slasher film that defined her mother’s career. Before the end of the night, Max & her friends will be transported into the slasher film where her late mother resides as a character … and where the killer might finally be vanquished!
Available for rent on Fandango.
NEXT TIME …
In our penultinate foray into frightening features, we’re filling the evening with more stories than the last three nights combined — at least! It’s an entire evening of horror anthology films — and you know what that means: the more, the scarier! Treat tonight like an onslaught of going door-to-door, trick-or-treating, because our final night’s feature might very well be your last!
Actually … our last night’s film will be your last.
That’s the nature of a movie marathon …
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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