It’s finally here. After a long and spookless eleven months, spooky season has finally returned. That means it’s time for this year’s edition of my annual Spooky Season Spookathon Spooktacular where I watch a different horror movie each day for the month of October. Last year’s was devoted to adaptations of Frankenstein. It was a lot of fun, and I even got to chat with the director of one of the films. This year’s theme will be horror films with a science fiction bent. That should provide plenty of variety between aliens, mad scientists, plagues, and heretofore unknown species of creatures before culminating in my traditional horror movie marathon on Halloween. Without further ado, here is this year’s schedule should you wish to follow along.
10-1 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) directed by John S. Roberson
10-2 The Invisible Man (1933) directed by James Whale
10-3 The Thing from Another World (1951) directed by Christian Nyby
10-4 The Man from Planet X (1951) directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
10-5 It Came from Outer Space (1953) directed by Jack Arnold
10-6 Invaders from Mars (1953) directed by William Cameron Menzies
10-7 Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) directed by Jack Arnold
10-8 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) directed by Don Siegel
10-9 The Fly (1958) directed by Kurt Neumann
10-10 The Blob (1958) directed by Irvin Yeaworth
10-11 It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) directed by Edward L. Cahn
10-12 The Tingler (1959) directed by William Castle
10-13 Village of the Damned (1960) directed by Wolf Rilla
10-14 The Last Man on Earth (1964) directed by Sidney Salkow and Ubaldo B. Ragona
10-15 Planet of the Vampires (1965) directed by Mario Bava
10-16 The Omega Man (1971) directed by Boris Sagal
10-17 Horror Express (1972) directed by Eugenio Martin
10-18 The Crazies (1973) directed by George A. Romero
10-19 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) directed by Philip Kaufman
10-20 The Brood (1979) directed by David Cronenberg
10-21 Alien (1979) directed by Ridley Scott
10-22 The Thing (1982) directed by John Carpenter
10-23 Videodrome (1983) directed by David Cronenberg
10-24 The Fly (1986) directed by David Cronenberg
10-25 From Beyond (1986) directed by Stuart Gordon
10-26 The Blob (1988) directed by Chuck Russell
10-27 Body Snatchers (1993) directed by Abel Ferrara
10-28 Signs (2002) directed by M. Night Shyamalan
10-29 Life (2017) directed by Daniel Espinosa
10-30 Annihilation (2018) directed by Alex Garland
Halloween Day Marathon
The House of the Devil (2009) directed by Ti West
Trick ‘r Treat (2007) directed by Michael Dougherty
Deadstream (2022) directed by Vanessa Winter and Joseph Winter
Halloween (1978) directed by John Carpenter
Halloween (2018) directed by David Gordon Green
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