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It's the spooky season, what are your recommended movies (and other media) for the season that aren't gory horror or kids movies? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My SO and I are always looking for good movies, shows, etc. to fill the month of October. We like things that are atmospheric, cerebral, or just fun. But a lot of the standard recommendations are your typical slasher movies and the like, disgusting body horror, kids movies that we have no interest in, and things that are just plain miserable.

Here's some things we've liked to one degree or another from previous years.

Action Horror / Horror That's Actually Enjoyable

Aliens
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Fright Night
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
The Mummy (1999)
Silence of the Lambs
Sleepy Hollow (Great? No. Fun? Yes.)
Termors 1 & 2
Various Stephen King Mini series (IT, The Stand, Rose Red)

Funny and Spooky

Army of Darkness
BeetleJuice
Bubba Ho-Tep
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie)
The Burbs (didn't love it, but a good fit)
Death Becomes Her
The Frighteners
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Ghostbusters 1 & 2
Gremlins 1 & 2
High Anxiety
Little Shop of Horrors (not really into musicals, but still a good fit)
Shaun of the Dead
What We Do in the Shadows (movie)
Various MST3K horror movie episodes
Young Frankenstein

Anthology Shows (inherently hit or miss)

The Twilight Zone (60s)
The Outer Limits (90s)
Tales From the Crypt

Old Timey Classics

Dracula
Frankenstein (actually underwhelming, but it was a good fit)
The Haunting (1963)
The Haunting of Hill House (with Rifftrax, but still counts)
The Last Man on Earth
Psycho
The Invisible Man

Barely Qualifies as spooky but still good:

Dark Man
The Dead Zone (movie)
Men in Black
Pacific Rim
The Shadow
They Live

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Dead Zone with Christopher Walken is amazing. Glad to see it on this list.

Some more classic Stephen King you might enjoy if you haven’t already seen it:

Salems Lot (the original 1970s mini series)
Carrie (the original Spacek version, not the remakes)
Firestarter (original with Drew Barrymore)

Edit: The Fog isn’t Stephen King. But it’s still good. I don’t remember it being too gory because everything happens in “the fog” but there might be a neck slicing. It’s been a looong time since I last watched it.

The Fog (original with Adrienne Barbeau)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

We recently threw the Fog on the list but know nothing about it beyond it being early John Carpenter. Didn't even realize it was Stephen King.

Salem's Lot is something I keep remembering exists and then forget to add to the list. Neither of us have seen it but I have a vague awareness of it.

I know my SO hated Carrie, so probably not something we're watching together. I've never seen it, I've just seen the ten million things parodying it.

I completely forgot about Firestarter. I never saw the original, I think I saw the sequel that people hated, though all I remember is Dennis Hopper playing a guy who they establish sees the future with perfect clarity, and then immediately gets his predictions wrong.