October falls again! Expect polychromatic corn, terrifying masks, and (this year) a spike in the sale of cornhusk-colored wigs and pumpkin-colored foundation. And expect the Bureau to run reviews of horror movies old and new, counting down to the haunted thirty-first.

Our full schedule for October appears below.

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We’ll get you something new next weekend when our annual October Countdown begins. Specifically, we’ll have a review of The Blair Witch, currently shaking up theatre audiences.

For now, with summer ’16 just gone and the horrors of the Presidential Debate nigh, we present one more retro review, from a more innocent time.

This film holds a strange place in the history of SF cinema. Made in Japan with a non-Japanese cast, The Green Slime plays like the love child of Star Trek and a 1950s drive-in movie creature feature, presages (and possibly helped inspire) Armageddon and Alien, and was the basis of Mystery Science Theater 3000‘s unaired pilot episode.

That’s probably all you need to know but, if you want more, read on.

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Some people divide 1960s SF into 2001: Space Odyssey and Everything Else: A Cheesy Outing. One exception came along in 1969. Marooned features A-list actors and production values.

A few months before Apollo 13, the theatres ran a movie in which American astronauts, returning from a very-near-future space station, must inform Houston that they have a problem.

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A new adaptation of Stephen King’s notorious It will hit theatres roughly a year from now, early September 2017. The novel features a brilliant horror premise with flawed development, but no one can deny It‘s¹ success and influence.

This weekend’s review flashes back to 1990, when the first adaptation hit the small screen.

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Oscar Wilde’s novel has been adapted to the screen more than twenty times, but the most famous is the 1945 version, which received two Oscar nominations and one win (Best Cinematography), a Golden Globe (Best Actress) and a Hugo (Best Dramatic Presentation).

It tells the tale of man whose wish, mystically granted, goes disturbingly awry.

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The last DC film about a super-villain was Catwoman. By the established standard, then, Suicide Squad must be a success. By other standards, well, that is a matter of opinion.

What is yours?

Star Trek opened last week and Suicide Squad arrives next. In between, we take you back to 2011, to a beach town where something sinister is afoot, and a Game of Thrones alumna is among the targets.

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