Halloween Horror Binge

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Victim of The Night
Meshes of the Afternoon includes a woman with complex thoughts and feelings. In many parts of the world that would make her a Witch.
Hahaha! You are not wrong.



Victim of The Night
Day of Wrath has at least one witch (and is a stone cold brilliant film, in my top 5 all time).
Kuroneko has 2 witches/ghosts.
Meshes of the Afternoon has a mysterious human-like figure with glass for a face.
Le Bonheur and the Bresson films, no. Although Bonheur is definitely horror imo, even if you don't realise it until right at the end.
By total coincidence, I'm watching Le Bonheur tonight.
Kuroneko I've always thought of as a Horror movie.



Victim of The Night
LOL.
Le Bonheur is like . . . social horror? I'm not sure how to explain it without getting into wild spoiler territory.
Watched Le Bonheur last night and I get what y'all mean. I would never ever call it a Horror movie in the classical sense but by the end it does kinda feel like a Polanski or something, maybe even like a Stepford Wives, I dunno.
It's only my second Varda and I didn't like this one as much as Cleo (which was an instant favorite) but it was like the good type of refrigerator-moment movie. Meaning that the more I thought about it after it was done the more it felt like the film, which is so bright and bucolic and charming so much of the time, was actually kind of disturbing the whole time.
I actually wondered, during the phenomenal love-making scene (which I would instantly put among the best I've seen), "Is this just how the French are? Is everybody just so cool with extra-marital affairs that they can just talk openly about them while they're in the middle of them and ostensibly be in love with two people but it's actually fine cuz they're French?" And Therese's initial reaction really sold me that, "Wow, the French sure are different."
And then...



Every horror movie I watched in October, that I'd never seen before:

Asylum
Beast From Twenty Thousand Fathoms
Bedevilled
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Blood Beach
Body Bags
Bubba Ho Tep
Cars that Ate Paris
Children of the Corn (2023)
Club Dead
Cursed
Dead of Night
Deadly Blessing
Demons 2
Draug
Evil Dead Trap
Evil Ed
Forgotten (2004)
Frostbite
Full Circle
Gargoyles
Happiness of the Katakuris
Haunt
Hills Have Eyes (1977)
In a Glass Prison
In a Violent Nature
Incantation
Incredible Melting Man
Lake Bodom
Lake Placid
Lamb
Loop Track
Malignant
Medusa Touch
Moloch
My Soul to Take
Night Eats the World (2018)
Oddity
Pandorum
Shocker
Silent Hill 2
Smile 2
Starry Eyes
Stepfather
Summer of Fear
Teeth
Tenebrae
Terror of Frankenstein
Totally Killer
V/H/S Beyond
Vampire Lovers
Versus
Wither
Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
Zombie Exorcism