Friday the 13th, but Actually
Jason has been to Manhattan, to Hell, and must have some sort of gym membership, but in this franchise’s tenth entry, naturally taking place in the year 2455, where do we find the masked revenger?
Space
With thirty-two installments, this annual animated arboreous anthology is how the Simpsons share their love for Halloween.
Treehouse of Horror
With such hits as “We’ve Only Just Begun”, “Rainy Days and Mondays”, and “Halloween Main Title”, this supergroup knew how to slay an audience.
The John Carpenters
Trying to become proxies for this well-dressed skinny boi, two 12-year-old girls in Wisconsin stabbed their friend 19 times. Did you know the victim survived? Did you also know that one of the girls is out free, remanded only to supervision?
Slenderman
Rule number 18, you may not survive in this movie’s post-apocalyptic free-for all, but if you’re kicking it with Woody Harrelson and Emma Stone, you should at least try to enjoy yourself.
Zombieland
Perhaps (or plainly) riding on the success of Halloween two years earlier, Friday the 13th faced stiff competition at the box office from Prom Night, Dressed to Kill, The Fog, and The Shining during this big year for horror.
1980
The gold standard for childhood television horror, Are You Afraid of the Dark? aired in the final segment each Saturday night of this Nickelodeon 4-show block geared towards “older” viewers.
SNICK
A group of aspiring fashion designers compete for the chance to get lost in the woods shooting their urban legend documentary.
Blair Witch Project Runway
This bipedal creature with a horse-like head and bat-like wings is said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of South New Jersey. It has also been described as “half chicken, half hockey team”.
Jersey Devil
The fat lady might not be singing, but the bearded lady is in this trapeze act of an exploitation flick from 1932. One of us, one of us.
Freaks
While most of the cast and crew stayed at local hotels, apparently this makeup and effects artist, famous at the time for Dawn of the Dead, stayed on site at the campground during filming.
Tom Savini
Besides writing Scream and The Faculty, Kevin Williamson perhaps more famously created this American teen drama where you could count on a legitimately frightening Halloween episode each year.
Dawson's Creek
In literary internet parlance, this adage states that, without a clear indicator of author’s intent, every parody of an extreme short story can be mistaken for a sincere expression of poetical horror.
Edgar Allen Poe’s Law
Approximately 40 feet tall, stationary but can move quickly if necessary, and using its telephone-poll like appearance to hunt humans. Beware the sounds from this creature.
Siren Head
Lumbering somnambulist or living dead? Or might this expressionist horror be all in his head?
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Sometimes, if rarely, a work of art falls into place from the word go. Other times, as with the 17 scripts and nearly 20 years needed to finally arrive at a single “good” idea, movies like this one struggle some.
Freddy vs. Jason
A dream invading custodian uses his plunger to suck secrets out of kids’ heads in this Nickelodeon early 90s gem. Standard kids show stuff.
Salute Your Shorts
Based on a Manga by the same name, this band made it big owing to their first release depicting the time the singer woke up in the middle of the night, went to a local bar, and found his girlfriend sadistically torturing someone.
In 1892 Rhode Island, Mercy Lena Brown succumbed to this disease. Upon exhumation, she had “fresh blood” in her heart and had undergone little decomposition. Ritualistically, her liver and heart were burned, the ashes mixed with water to create a tonic, and her brother drank it to resolve his sickness. He died two months later.
Consumption / Tuberculosis
Of moons and Moons, one sets daily, one won’t go away. As it happens, Mr. Zombie makes her stay. Prime numbered violence, carnival pain. To win in this game, it’s best to abstain.
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By subtitle from earliest to most recent, which of the following Friday films came first and which came last: The Final Friday, A New Beginning, Jason Lives, The Final Chapter.
The Final Chapter, The Final Friday
Town: Pottsfield, Population: Walking, talking, dancing pumpkins. In this 2014 genre bender, Wirt and Greg better watch out or they might join in on the animated cultivariety show.
Over the Garden Wall
Starring Bryce Dallas Howard as Isabelle Archer, this work, simultaneously released in 1880 and 2006, centers on a woman who falls into the pool when visiting Europe.
The Portrait of a Lady in the Water
Animate and extremely hostile, personnel assigned to enter this beast’s container are instructed to alert one another before blinking. If direct line of sight breaks, necks break.
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If I told you this movie technically ends at a carnival, you probably wouldn’t believe me. If I told you Frank Booth gets into an epic duel at that carnival, you definitely wouldn’t believe me.
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