What Scares Me Is This …, Night #8 (10/31/25)

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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 wi9thtchy 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

In Search of Darkness (2019)

Available on Amazon Prime.

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TRAILER #2

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019)

Available on Shudder.

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TRAILER #3

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)

Available to rent on Amazon Prime.

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TRAILER #4

Deadtime Stories (1986)

Available on Fandango at Home.

TRICK ‘R TREAT

In what may be the best cinematic rendering of Halloween, this anthology film traces the terrifying tales of a small town on the Greatest Night of the Year! The stories themselves include a diabolical evening of pumpkin carving, a costume ball in the middle of the woods, a legendary local legend, and swift justice for a neighborhood monster.

Available to rent on Amazon Prime.

Until next time …

Everyone here at the Pickwick Drive-In hopes you’ve had a frighteningly fantastic Halloween — as complete as it was with checking your candy & checking in with some monstrously entertaining movies.

Until you stop by again — don’t forget to look both ways before crossing the street, and don’t forget to check under the bed for monsters who may have followed you home.

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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