Sing it with me!
/ It’s the most wonderful tiiiime of the year. When the zombies are lurching and vampires and slurping so we live in feeeeaaar. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. / It’s the hap-happiest season of all. With the slashers all stalking and spirits all walking down your bedroom haaaaallll! /
Absolutely terrible adaptations of Christmas songs aside, October is back and the Halloween season is upon us. For my money, it’s right on time. I mean, it’s always right on time, but this year it’s even righter on time. Yup, it’s so perfectly timed I’m not even using well constructed phraseology anymore.
It’s been such a crazy year for me since Halloween Movie Fest 2015. We live in Brooklyn now, a very recent development, and I miss Seattle terribly. I’m surrounded by strange new things, thousands of miles from my friends and the home I grew to love over the course of nearly a decade.
What better way to feel something familiar than to slip into the tradition of Halloween Movie Fest? I hope it will be the movie-watching equivalent of putting on a perfectly aged sweatshirt on a chilly, rainy afternoon.
This year, there will be an ‘Another Day, Another Movie’ (ad,am) festival within HMF16. Some Inception-level shit. The first 10 of the 20 nights of HMF16 will be a vampire themed version of ad,am. More on that in the post for the first portion of the (mostly) one man movie festival. For now, the important thing is that bloodsuckers will make up half of this year’s list.
Here are the movies:
Movement 1 – The Vampires
- Near Dark
- The Lost Boys
- A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
- What We Do In the Shadows
- Nosferatu the Vampyre
- Martin
- The Horror of Dracula
- Cronos
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Trouble Every Day
Movement 2 – Everything Else
- The Witch
- A Tale of Two Sisters
- They Look Like People
- We Are Still Here
- Attack the Block
- Kill List
- The Hallow
- The Invitation
- Berberian Sound Studio
- Pontypool
