Ooh

Oh, ooh!

I may add that to my traditional H'ween movie marathon (this is my marathon and there are additions that may make no sense to you and movies missing that would be in your movie marathon). I've actually dropped The Craft, Mark I from the rotation for the last couple of years. I also added a movie that came with a quality warning, The Last Keepers: "When the teenage daughter of a reclusive family of artists falls in love with an unusual boy at school, she awakens mysterious powers and discovers ancient family secrets that will change her life forever." Starring Aidan Quinn, Virginia Madsen, Olympia Dukakis. Sounded okay, despite the reviews.

This movie, man. Filmed at peak leaf season in New England, it's absolutely gorgeous, visually. I don't know if it's the script or the ingenue lead, but anytime the movie moves indoors, even to the evocative, atmospheric seekrit attic spellwork room, you can hear brakes screech. Everybody works really hard, but it's literally a bad movie. If you inflict it on yourself, at least run it on mute with your finger on the FF button.

Chocolat (anything I learned about Depp after this movie was released does not affect my joy in this movie) and A Monster in Paris join Angelica Huston, Mai Zetterling and Rowan Atkinson in Roald Dahl's The Witches, and everlasting must-have, Hocus Pocus. Despite my Tim Curry love, The Worst Witch has been dropped from the H'ween festival list, though I'm thinking of adding Legend--if I can get past all the incipient Tom Cruise of it. It's like watching The Last Samurai with my thumb over his face throughout the movie and pretending it's all just fine without him.

Where was I? Oh, adding The Craft, mark II to the list. Or otherwise, adding Mark I back in.

My first reaction to the trailer is that they look SO YOUNG and my second thought was that that's kind of refreshing, having high school students on screen that actually look to me like kids

Oh, that looks fun! And it's making me a little nostalgic for my pixie cut of many years.

I have to think about what my Halloween marathon would be. I watch so many of my favorite horror movies whenever I want anyway. I do really like Trick 'r Treat (2007) at Halloween, though. And the original Halloween, too!

I think the trailer for The Craft sequel looks fun. I've seen a couple of Serious Goth types complaining that it looks like "witchy aesthetic" Instagram posts, but others of us are pointing out that most of those IG users are trying to recreate the aesthetic of the original movie, so whatever.

I have to think about what my Halloween marathon would be. I watch so many of my favorite horror movies whenever I want anyway.

The struggle is real.

ha! I knew there would be people on this board who'd be interested, especially at this time of year.

Of course! Now I really want to watch the original again. It's been years.

Speaking of horror, Criterion is putting up a '70s horror collection for the month. I'm not a huge horror fan, but there are a few I should probably watch for my Century+ project, e.g. The Wicker Man. I've already seen Daughters of Darkness, Black Christmas, It's Alive (in the theater as a kid if you can believe it), and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But what else should I see?

Horror fans, what are the must-sees (3 max please) on this list?
Trog (Freddie Francis, 1970)
The Vampire Lovers (Roy Ward Baker, 1970)
Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kümel, 1971)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (John D. Hancock, 1971)
The Nightcomers (Michael Winner, 1971)
Dracula A.D. 1972 (Alan Gibson, 1972)
Images (Robert Altman, 1972)
Death Line (Gary Sherman, 1972)
Season of the Witch (George A. Romero, 1972)
The Crazies (George A. Romero, 1973)
Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
Ganja & Hess (Bill Gunn, 1973)
Sisters (Brian De Palma, 1973)
Theater of Blood (Douglas Hickox, 1973)
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974)
Deathdream (Bob Clark, 1974)
It's Alive (Larry Cohen, 1974)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
Shivers (David Cronenberg, 1975)
The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)
The Witch Who Came from the Sea (Matt Cimber, 1976)
The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven, 1977)
Rabid (David Cronenberg, 1977)
Coma (Michael Crichton, 1978)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978)
Long Weekend (Colin Eggleston, 1978)
The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)
The Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara, 1979)

Oooof. I'd say Vampire Lovers, Wicker Man, and....either Rabid or Texas Chainsaw Massabre, based on my mood.

The Vampire Lovers, Wicker Man, and The Brood.