| Addams Family Values | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ancient Magus’ Bride | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| And God Made Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Arabesque (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Classic comedic Halloween fare. | ||||||||
| Baby Blood (Kino Cult #19) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Battle of Chile | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Beast with Five Fingers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Blink Twice | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bloodline | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Classic Ghosts (Kino Cult #18) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | 1970s Gothic Television, specifically The Haunting of Rosalind, The Screaming Skull, The Deadly Visitor, The House and the Brain, and And the Bones Came Together. | ||||||||
| Crackoon | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cruel Brittannia: Three Killer Thrillers From the UK | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Craze, Penny Gold, and Crucible of Terror. | ||||||||
| Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Ghost of Yotsuya, The Snow Woman, The Bride from Hades | ||||||||
| Dance, Girl, Dance | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Drag Me to Hell | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| El Vampiro: Two Bloodsucking Tales from Mexico | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Vampire / El Vampiro and The Vampire’s Coffin / El Ataud Del Vampiro. | ||||||||
| Executioner and Her Way of Life | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XII (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes The Enforcer, The Scarlet Hour, and Plunder Road. | ||||||||
| Hi-De-Ho and Boarding House Blues (Kino Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hope | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| I Used to Be Funny | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| J-Horror Rising (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Shikoku, Isola: Multiple Personality Girl, Inugami, St. John’s Wort, Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman, Persona, and Noroi: The Curse. | ||||||||
| Joker: Folie a Deux | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Kong – Return to the Jungle | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Level 1: Demon Lord and One Room Hero | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series about a Demon Lord who has reincarnated and learned that the hero who beat them has become an unemployed slacker. | ||||||||
| Local Hero (1983) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| My Life is Murder | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Name of the Rose | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nightmare on Elm Street | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| No Escape | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| One Piece Film: Gold | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Return of Doctor X | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Scarygirl | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Seven Chances and Sherlock Jr. (Kino Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Two Buster Keaton classics | ||||||||
| Shocker | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| That Guy Dick Miller | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Touch | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Trick ‘r’ Treat (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Walking Dead | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is not the TV series based on the comic written by Robert Kirkman and drawn by Tony Moore, Charlie Adlard, and Stefano Gaudino. Instead, it’s the 1936 movie starring Boris Karloff and directed by Michael Curtiz. | ||||||||
| Zodiac | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “Of the Japanese horror film collections, I’m going for the Daiei Gothic one – though I’m probably going to want to get the J-Horror Rising collection at some point as well. On the 4K side, I’m going with Addams Family Values.” Blaine says, “Arsenic and Old Lace is my pick of the titles that I’ve seen so far. I keep hearing wonderful things about Zodiac and The Name of the Rose, so I may check those out, too.”
Local Hero is a quirky piece of the 80s that is worth seeing, certainly, and I enjoyed The Name of the Rose, though it misses aspects that made the book memorable. Zodiac is one of the most chilling films I’ve seen, while Trick ‘r Treat is, IMO, the best Halloween anthology film ever made. If already own it, but if I were buying one this week, that would be it.
The Return of Dr. X isn’t a sequel to Doctor X and isn’t all that good, but it has some kind of place in film history as Bogart’s only horror movie.