The penultimate theme of the month is "Fear the Unknown." The rules are simple: watch a film you have never seen before.  It might be an oldie you just never got around to seeing or something from a fresh young filmmaker who you haven't given a chance yet.  OUR WATCHLIST Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein  Antibirth Azrael The Vourdalak Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead The Gate I Know What You Did Last Summer (the requel) Black Phone 2 Kill Me Again Vicious Something Wicked This Way Comes The Mannequin MAR.IA

Today's theme is "Damn, Nature, You Scary!" ...in other words, it's nature horror day! Today we celebrate any and all movies set in nature or with antagonists that are nature-based--even those that may be mutated! RECOMMENDATIONS Anaconda Snakes on a Plane Backcountry The Ritual Enys Men Killing Ground Crawl Open Water Dante's Peak Infested Arachnaphobia Squirm Blood Beach Remember to support your local library this Halloween! Your library has more than just books, but DVDS, audiobooks, ebooks and even movies and TV shows to stream through apps like Hoopla or Libby! And it's all available for free with a library card.  A Spooktacular Book Recommendation The Ruins by Scott Smith

Named, ironically, for Christian hair metal band Stryper's hit song "To Hell With the Devil" (albeit re-interpreted for our purposes--more in the vein of "let's go to Hell with the Devil!") today we celebrate all things satanic and hellacious. Movies about the devil and hell (and demons), it's that simple. But boy oh boy is it gonna be a fun day... RECOMMENDATIONS Prince of Darkness End of Days Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made Hellhole Where the Devil Roams Spawn Drag Me to Hell Martyrs The Pope's Exorcist As Above So Below Hellraiser 2: Hellbound Event Horizon Remember to support your local library this Halloween! Your library has more than just books, but DVDS, audiobooks, ebooks and even movies and TV shows to stream through apps like Hoopla or Libby! And it's all available for free with a library card.  A Spooktacular Book Recommendation The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

Today is an extra special celebration in honor of all of our favorite foreign language horror films. Horror around the world is booming and I'm sure you'll notice that this is far from the only day where we've programmed foreign language films because there's just so much great stuff out there but today we celebrate foreign horror explicitly. RECOMMENDATIONS Dearest Sister Tigers Are Not Afraid Terrified Skull: The Mask Hatching Red Rooms The Orphanage A Tale of Two Sisters Ichi the Killer I Saw the Devil Veronica House (1977) The Devil's Backbone Remember to support your local library this Halloween! Your library has more than just books, but DVDS, audiobooks, ebooks and even movies and TV shows to stream through apps like Hoopla or Libby! And it's all available for free with a library card.  A Spooktacular Book Recommendation Ringu by Koji Suzuki

In defining today's theme we turn to a description outlined on the  website for  Horror Noire  Executive Producer Tananarive Due and author/screenwriter Steven Barnes's six-part online course , "The Sunken Place: Black Horror" (based on Due's UCLA class "The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and the Black Horror Aesthetic"): “We define 'Black Horror' as Horror by Black creators and/or featuring a Black protagonist(s) in service to a story through a Black lens. Black creators may (though not always) tackle themes of social justice, ritual and magic, ancestors, and Black survival in their work. But all Black Horror combats the erasure of Black voices in Horror.”  RECOMMENDATIONS Nanny His House Tales From the Hood Saloum Perpetrator Get Out Candyman Sinners The Blackening Spell Bones The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster Tales from the Crypt Demon Knight Remember to support your local library this Halloween! Your library has more than just books, but ...

Today is a numbers game--literally! Anything having to do with numbers or any movie with a number in the title--including all sequels with numbers in the title. RECOMMENDATIONS 13 Sins Terrifier 3 28 Days Later Apollo 18 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Thir13en Ghosts Scream 4 Phantasm 2 Saw 3 Smile 2 Evil Dead 2 Se7en 47 Meters Down Remember to support your local library this Halloween! Your library has more than just books, but DVDS, audiobooks, ebooks and even movies and TV shows to stream through apps like Hoopla or Libby! And it's all available for free with a library card.  A Spooktacular Book Recommendation The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

Today we celebrate all the delightful horror musicals and all other manner of musical horror. Anything that's about musicians or where music is a central feature, or even any movie that has really great music can fit in this spot so go nuts! RECOMMENDATIONS Anna and the Apocalypse Sons of Steel Punk Rock Holocaust The Lure Lords of Chaos This is GWAR Phantom of the Paradise Rocky Horror Picture Show  Sweeney Todd Repo! The Genetic Opera Little Shop of Horrors Studio 666 The Phantom of the Opera Remember to support your local library this Halloween! Your library has more than just books, but DVDS, audiobooks, ebooks and even movies and TV shows to stream through apps like Hoopla or Libby! And it's all available for free with a library card.  A Spooktacular Book Recommendation Lords of Chaos by Michael Moynihan

Today we celebrate the rich history and bright future of queer horror. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Nonbinary, Intersex, Asexual and beyond, we love all the beautiful queers in horror! RECOMMENDATIONS Sissy Vegas in Space Cuckoo Knife+Heart Picnic at Hanging Rock Hellraiser (2022) Suspiria (2018) Titane  Sleepaway Camp Jennifer's Body The Perfection Cruising Seed of Chucky Remember to support your local library this Halloween! Your library has more than just books, but DVDS, audiobooks, ebooks and even movies and TV shows to stream through apps like Hoopla or Libby! And it's all available for free with a library card.  A Spooktacular Book Recommendation Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Today is the day for all things James Wan! The master of horror has directed, written, produced, and even starred in dozens of great films and some of the most iconic horror franchises and it's all fair game today! RECOMMENDATIONS Dead Silence Insidious The Conjuring Saw M3GAN Malignant The Conjuring 2 The Nun Anabelle Comes Home M3GAN 2.0 The Curse of La Llorona The Monkey Saw 2 Remember to support your local library this Halloween! Your library has more than just books, but DVDS, audiobooks, ebooks and even movies and TV shows to stream through apps like Hoopla or Libby! And it's all available for free with a library card.  A Spooktacular Book Recommendation The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft