Split Tooth Media’s second annual October Horror series returns with a vengeance
Horror films provide a space for artists and viewers to process the grotesqueries that should ideally never occur in our own reality, but 2020 has tested the boundaries between real and imagined terrors. In this pandemic year of quarantine, wildfires, civil unrest, conspiracy theories, bubble basketball, and ceaseless partisan politics, existing in this landscape has been its own special fright fest.
For last year’s inaugural October Horror, we featured an essay about a horror movie every day, plus Cinesthesia tackled a different Stephen King adaptation in the daily Hell to the King podcast series. This year’s series is more compact, but it will cover a greater range of topics.
From Bob Hope’s mansion to The Last House on Dead End Street, the terror reaches everywhere this year. Follow along as we highlight more of our offbeat favorites, some unknown gems, and a few exploitation classics in Split Tooth Media Presents: October Horror 2020. This list will be updated daily as more titles are added.
Joys!: When Bob Hope Made A Giallo Movie (Dick McDonough, 1976) by Bennett Glace
Eight-Legged Enemies: Spiders and the Fear of Self by Logan Ann Taylor
Appropriately Vague: George A. Romero’s The Crazies (1973) by Brett Wright
The Music of Murder: John Brahm’s Hangover Square (1945) by Steve Collins
Reel Rap’s Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)
The Many Subversions of You’re Next (2011) by Logan Ann Taylor
Under the Blood Moon: Messiah of Evil (1973) by Brett Wright
“The Dialectics of Werewolf Sex” — Cinesthesia Chapter 9: A discussion of The Howling III: The Marsupials
You Better Not Cry: Christmas Evil’s Melancholy Holiday Madness by Bennett Glace
Event Horizon and the Familiarity of Disaster by Frankie Vanaria
The Tragic Ghost-Hunter Hero of Noroi: The Curse (2005) by Daniel Bromfield
Reel Rap: Mike Nichols’ Wolf (1994)
A Chinese Ghost Story (1987): Confronting The Unknown by Shane Pfender
10 Macabre Animated Films to Watch Before Halloween by Robert Delany
15 Essential Films About Witchcraft Through the Decades by Logan Ann Taylor
The Devil’s Work: Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan and the Limits of “Director as God” by Bennett Glace
This is Where It All Ends: Roger Watkins’ The Last House on Dead End Street (1977) by Brett Wright
The Silence Of Survival: ‘Invasion Of The Body Snatchers’ (1978) by Craig Wright
Cinesthesia: Sleep Perchance to Scream
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