The best horror to watch this Halloween

Full month spooktacular recommendations with the flow, one night at a time

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WhaaAwasthat? Silence before screaming, thorn on your neck, first cold latch under the door? This can only mean one thing: the Halloween season has returned, like an annual Halloween countdownField

The landfill covers horror throughout the year, but October deserves a special ritual. For the fifth year in a row, we have been developing a 31-day viewing project, with 31 taken employees in films, TV, special offers, shorts and oddities of an online one of them are easy to watch at home.

Every day in October we will reject a new recommendation and tell you where to find it. Expect that stone classics, a new school of nightmares, cozy special dishes for Halloween, upset deep cuts on YouTube and blows the size of a bite that hit more than you think. Muffle the light, accumulate sweets and think about grabbing a friend: screaming for a jump better together.

Check daily. We will keep light at a low level. You cope with screams.

  • October 1: Doctor X / Crazy Love

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    These films about crazy horrors are even darker than Frankenstein

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    Doctor x
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    Polygon horror fans returned with the annual backbone of Halloween, 31-day passage of short recommendations for the best films, show, television episodes and online special offers for broadcasting in the Halloween season. Tune in for every day for a new recommendation and Find the whole calendar hereField

    Although the horror films Universal Pictures of the 1930s and the 1940s were popularized A series of current monsters1931 Frankenstein He also followed his Gothic new material to explain that sometimes a real offense is not committed by a terrible creature of the night. Sometimes this is the work of a doctor who has gone crazy from the Got-scientific power. Two horror films that are not universal horrors create a particularly interesting double function for fans of monsters and/or crazy science: Doctor x Since 1932 and Crazy love Since 1935.

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  • October 2: There are people in this house

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    The most terrible video for adult swimming will leave you paranoid

    An artificially looking wooden floor with a girl’s nose and mouth and pieces of hair protruding through it in this house, there are people in it Image: adult swimming

    There are people in this house in This is a record in 2015 in The continuing series Adult Swim PlimeWhich includes a strange, often alarming content, starting from fake commercials with prescription drugs to fictional current shows of late night. Presented in the form of video surveillance personnel from the suburban house, this short with lifting the hair follows the family, since they go to what seems to be a completely normal day.

    Parents Tom and Ann argue about how to cope with their teenage-teenage Madison, who stubbornly decided to go down the floor in the fact that, apparently, it is a country protest against her parents. Meanwhile, her younger brother Jackson is preparing for his upcoming birthday party, while his grandmother is still focused on a strange television program about sculptural clay instead of paying attention to the latest addition to the family: her granddaughter of the baby. In the basement, a master named Dennis is working on plumbing under the kitchen.

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  • October 3: collector

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    This underestimated serial killer film was almost a prequel

    A grinning person in a shapeless, fat hood holds a sharp object in the 2009 film, a collector Image: LD Entertainment

    The former convict became the difficult master Arkin O'brien (Josh Stuart) has a problem: if he does not pay off his duty to some credit sharks, his wife and daughter will be killed in them. Seeing several options, Arkin goes to the old client’s house to rob them – and discovers that the family of his client is already holding and trying in a mask of a psychopath, who is glad to conduct his victims through patients, perverted games. Arkin, locked in a house loaded from top to bottom, should fight to survive.

    It may sound a little like films about saws, with a good reason: Collectororiginally named Apoil personAt some point consider as an additional prequel For the Saw franchise, as a history of origin for Jigsaw. However, the original Saw producers read the script and rejected this idea. The history of the origin of Jigsaw was later told in other films, and Midnight man The script revised Collector. These were not all bad news for the director of Marcus Danstan; He and co -author Patrick Melton ultimately became part of the franchise, writing scripts for I saw IVIN I saw V.IN I saw VIAnd I saw 3DField

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  • October 4: White Deer

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    This lost folk classic has a radical, original view of vampirism

    The black and white image of a woman dressed in a traditional Finnish hat and a vampire’s sports teeth in a white deer Image: Eureka Entertainment

    Finnish film 1952 White deer This is one of the great lost classics of folk horror. Despite the fact that he won prizes in Cannes and Golden Globes at one time, in 2017 he was largely forgotten, while 4K's magnificent restoration did not begin to make rounds in 2017. This is a terrible, completely rich dark fairy tale

    In the persecuting prologue, it was predicted that the girl’s newborn by Sami will become a witch; It turns into Piriti (Mirjami Kuosmanen), an energetic woman who lives against her lonely existence as a wife of a roaming deer chamber. She is looking for relief from a local shaman, but perhaps because of her innate magic, his love ritual goes wrong and turns it into a vampiric switch of a form, damned to hunt and consume men in the form of a white deer.

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