It’s happening again! October Horror rises from the grave for its sixth year!
Well, who knew that, six years later, Split Tooth would still be digging up the unholy tombs and sarcophagi of horror cinema for our annual October Horror series? But here we are, with another month’s worth of writing and podcasting to help you program the finest of Halloween viewing lists!
For Year VI of October Horror, our staff has been hard at work covering a wide variety of the genre’s most notorious and peculiar offerings. You can look forward to writing on American independent oddities, international classics, no-budget creature features, and more! This year’s series is stuffed to the slimy gills with terrifying monsters, small town serial killers, chilling desert landscapes, and more ghosts and ghouls than we can count.
We are also excited to present a new podcast series from Bennett Glace and Jim Hickcox devoted to the first season of the Masters of Horror television series. Look for episodes throughout the month on SoundCloud, Spotify, and whatever dark corners of the internet you crawl to for podcasts.
This list will be updated daily as titles are added through the month. Follow along with the series on our Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Letterboxd pages to stay updated with all things October Horror!
All-American Neon: Notes on Tobe Hooper and Eaten Alive (1976) by Brett Wright
The Incredibly Strange List of Favorite Horror Films That Kept Growing and Would Not Die! by Split Tooth Staff and Friends
Split Picks: James Wan’s Insidious Vs. Insidious: Chapter 2
Found Footage Not Meant Be Stared At: It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This (2023) by Aaron Bartuska
Evil in Repose: Ātman (Toshio Matsumoto, 1975) by Craig Wright
God Science on a Meager Budget: Doctor Strain the Body Snatcher (1991) by Vincent Albarano
The Nonidentical: Michael Haneke’s Funny Games (2007) by Oliver O’Sullivan
Nothing Has Ever Gotten Under My Skin Like Dr. Demento Presents: Spooky Tunes & Scary Melodies by Emerson Malone
Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul: Joel DeMott’s Demon Lover Diary (1980) by Brett Wright
Synthetic Surrender: David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future (2022) by Frankie Vanaria
Horror Vacui: Mark Region’s After Last Season (2009) by Oliver O’Sullivan
How Saints Are Made: Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) by Bennett Glace
Brewce Longo: The Split Tooth Interview by Aaron Bartuska
Woman of the Hour and Strange Darling: Feminine Presumptions as Protection in Contemporary Crime Thrillers by Logan Ann Taylor
Seeking Oblivion: Jason Banker’s Toad Road (2012) by Daniel Bromfield
Long Haul Horrors: Stacy Keach in Roadgames (1981) by Vincent Albarano
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: Adrian Țofei’s Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (2015) by Oliver O’Sullivan
Haunted Ground: Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2015) by Frankie Vanaria
They Won’t Believe You: Let’s Scare Jessica To Death (1971) by Craig Wright
Looking Into The Abyss: The Horror In The High Desert Films by Mark Hanson
Beautiful Dreamers: Ken Meyer’s Terror at Tenkiller (1986) by Brett Wright
Cinesthesia’s Hell to the King Now on YouTube
Lullaby of Hell: Hideshi Hino’s Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood (1985) by Oliver O’Sullivan
Tall Tales of Trauma: Local Terrors in Beyond Dream’s Door (1989) by Vincent Albarano
(pod)Casters of Horror: A Journey Through Masters of Horror Season 1 (2005-06) by Bennett Glace and Jim Hickcox
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October Horror graphic by Jim Hickcox
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