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Halloween Horror-Movie-a-Thon! Week 3

Added 2022-10-14 15:00:07 +0000 UTC

Here's the movies we have lined up for Week 3.

Saturday, October 15th: Mad God (2021)

Director — Phil Tippett
Subgenre — stop motion, experimental

Available on Shudder

Letterboxd — 3.8
Rotten Tomatoes — 92% critical, 63% audience

Follow The Assassin through a forbidding world of tortured souls, decrepit bunkers, and wretched monstrosities forged from the most primordial horrors of the subconscious mind. Every set, creature, and effigy in this macabre masterpiece is hand-crafted and painstakingly animated using traditional stop-motion techniques. MAD GOD is a labor of love, a testament to the power of creative grit, and an homage to the timeless art of stop-motion animation. Ready your eyes. Ready your spirit. Prepare to meet your maker.

Tuesday, October 18th: Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)

Director — Goran Stolevski
Subgenre — psychological horror

Available to rent

Letterboxd — 3.5
Rotten Tomatoes — 36% critical, 50% audience

Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there who may or may not be a vampire. Jessica’s terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her, making her wonder: Are the visions real or is she slipping back into madness?

Thursday, October 20th: The Wicker Man (1973)

Director — Robin Hardy
Subgenre — folk horror, occult horror

Available to rent or library

Letterboxd —3.9
Rotten Tomatoes — 89% critical, 82% audience

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.