Robtober 2016
A month’s worth of movies to help you stay awake
Every October, I put together a sizable schedule of horror/thriller/exploitation films, most of which I haven’t seen before. Dates and times (subject to change) are listed for any friends who want to join me. Also available as a handy Google calendar!
Don't Breathe
Three delinquents break into the house of a war veteran who is blind to steal his money. However, they discover that the man is not as defenseless as he seems.
What We Do in the Shadows
Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are struggling with the mundane aspects of modern life, like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.
Deathgasm
Two teenage boys unwittingly summon an ancient evil entity known as The Blind One by delving into black magic while trying to escape their mundane lives.
Bloody Birthday
Three children are born at the height of an eclipse of the sun. Ten years later, they begin to murder the people around them – even their family members.
House
A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt’s country home, which turns out to be haunted.
Under the Shadow
As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
The Visit
Two siblings become increasingly frightened by their grandparents’ disturbing behavior while visiting them on vacation.
Jaws
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Jaws 2
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
Jaws 3-D
A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.
Jaws: The Revenge
Chief Brody’s widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.
I Saw the Devil
A secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases.
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
A mystery novel-loving American tourist witnesses a murder in Rome, and soon finds herself and her suitor caught up in a series of killings.
The Invitation
When a man accepts an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife, the unsettling past reopens old wounds and creates new tensions.
Two Thousand Maniacs!
Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
The Mummy
A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.
The Wolf Man
Upon his return to his father’s estate, aristocrat Larry Talbot meets a beautiful woman, attends a mystical carnival and uncovers a horrifying curse.
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster’s body.
Cat People
An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland’s fables if they are intimate together.
Supernatural
A serial black widow murderess returns to life in the body of a young woman to exact revenge on a former lover, a phony spiritualist who betrayed her.
TerrorVision
“TerrorVision” is a 1986 horror / science fiction movie; telling the tale of when a family's new satellite television system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.
The New York Ripper
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
The Thing from Another World
Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.