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October 31: The Thing (1982) – PERFECT (5 out of 5) Isolated at a remote Antarctic research station, a U.S. team is unknowingly infiltrated by a thing that can perfectly imitate lifeforms, human or animal. A storm sets in, cutting them off from the outside world and they find themselves alone...

October 30: The Thing (2011) - 4 out of 5 A discovery in the artic has Norwegian scientists excited. To excavate the discovery, they enlist the expertise of an American, Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). Once they have their prize back to their base of operations, the frozen discovery...

October 29: The Night House (2020) 4 out of 5 – First Time Viewing Beth (Rebecca Hall) is a bereaved widow struggling in the aftermath of her husband’s unexpected death by self-inflicted gunshot in a boat on the lake behind their home. But strange occurrences, a presence she can feel, even see...

October 28: Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street (2007) 4.5 out of 5 – First Time Viewing A barber, Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp) wrongfully imprisoned for years by the corrupt Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman), returns to London, and meets Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), owner of a disgusting...

October 27: Pet Sematary (1989) 2.5 out of 5 The Creeds relocate to the idyll of countryside Maine where Louis Creed (Dale Midkiff) is to become the town’s medical doctor. He’s there with his wife Rachel (Denise Crosby), daughter, Ellie (Blaze Berdahl) and young son Gage (Miko Hughes). They...

October 26: Smile (2022) 4.5 out of 5 – First Time Viewing A dedicated psychiatrist, Rose (Sosie Bacon), witnesses a frightening suicide where a newly admitted patient pleads for someone to believe her that something is trying to get her, who then slices he own throat with a wide, menacing...

What a great line up of movies here!!

Speaking of Rosemary's Baby! October 25: Rosemary’s Baby (1968) 4.5 out of 5 A young couple, Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy (John Cassavetes), move into a large apartment in Central Park West with hopes of starting a family. The other residents are much older, but the couple make friends with...

October 24: Crawl (2019) - 4 out of 5 As a category 5 hurricane rages over Florida, a father and daughter find themselves trapped inside a slowly flooding house by the rising waters caused by the storm, and a congregation of alligators, loosed by the flooding and eager to snack. Crawl is...

October 23: World War Z (2013) 4 out of 5 Former United Nations (UN) investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) barely survives with wife Karin (Mareille Enos) and two daughters as Philadelphia descends into raging chaos, overrun with people turned savage, attacking with speed and ferocity, and...

October 22: M3GAN (2022) 4 out of 5 – First Time Viewing Gemma, who works as a robotic toy engineer, becomes caretaker to her 8-year-old niece, Cady, when Cady’s parents die in a car accident. Gemma has been working on a revolutionary new toy robot design; a lifelike doll with significant AI...

October 21: Cat People (1942) 4 out of 5 – First Time Viewing Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon), a young Serbian immigrant meets an American man, Oliver Reed (Tom Conway), and they have an instant connection. But Irena has a fear, based on a cultural tale from her ancestry, that if she were...

October 20: Curse of Chucky (2013) 3.5 out of 5 In a grand, tucked away house, Nica (Fiona Dourif), lives with her mother. Nica uses a wheelchair due to her disability and contends with a strained but amicable relationship with her mother. Her life is upended when a strange doll is delivered to...

October 19: Man’s Best Friend (1993) 1.5 out of 5 – First Time Viewing Lori Tanner (Ally Sheedy), a local reporter, finds the story of abusive animal testing. Recording at the facility, Tanner and her camera operator are discovered, they steal one of the big, furry dogs and run. The dog they...

October 18: The Blackening (2022) 4.5 out of 5 – First Time Viewing A group of friends plan a get together at a house in the woods, but the house is more than they bargain for when they discover a game room with a racist board game. They decide to play (planning to slam the place in online...

October 17: Halloween: H20 (1998) 3.5 out of 5 It has been 20 years since Laurie Strode survived the murderous rampage of the silent, stalking killer, Michael Myers. Despite the trauma she carries from that Halloween night, and the terror she feels but hides each October 31, she’s become quite...

October 16: Sleepy Hollow (1999) 4 out of 5 Constable Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp), a man of intelligence and honor working on the New York police force where a brutally efficient and unthoughtful approach to peacekeeping is the norm, is called to the town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate the...

October 15: The Meg 2: The Trench (2023) 3 out of 5 – First Time Viewing It’s been years since humanity’s first encounter with the prehistoric megalodon. The team who battled the Meg and saved thousands of lives now have a new billionaire investor funding their work as they explore the deep-sea...

October 14: The Meg (2018) 3.5 out of 5 A team of deep-sea explorers discover and accidentally let loose a giant megalodon shark, then race to track and kill the prehistoric creature before it can kill an unsuspecting population. Despite the bloody kills the massive prehistoric shark...

October 13: Friday the 13th (1980) 3.5 out of 5 30 years after mysterious deaths at Camp Crystal Lake, the camp is reopening, and a group of young, enthusiastic counselors are helping prepare the facility. But a deadly killer is stalking them and killing them off, one by one. By the time I was...

October 12: Malignant (2021) – 4 out of 5 A young woman sees terrifying visions of murderous acts by a strange and shrouded figure. But what she sees aren’t just nightmares, they are terrifying things really happening. It’s hard to write about this one because I think it’s important to go into...

October 11: Barbarian (2022) 4 out of 5 – First Time Viewing Tess, visiting Detroit for a job interview, heads to an Airbnb for the night and discovers a man already staying there. Despite her unease, she decides to stay anyway. She soon discovers something far worse than a worrisome stranger...

October 10: Videodrome (1983) – 4.5 out of 5 Max Renn, a producer for a sleazy television station, is looking for the next thing, something edgy and harder hitting than the softcore porn he’s so often offered. When he stumbles on 'Videodrome,” something violent and unusual, he must know who is...

October 9: Mimic – Director’s Cut (1997) 4 out of 5 An epidemic in New York City is killing kids. Scientists and virologists, unable to treat the disease, decide to attack the carriers of the disease, cockroaches. Entomologist Susan Tyler (Mira Sorvino), in partnership with Dr. Peter Mann...

October 8: Feast (2005) 3.5 out of 5 In a dusty, gritty, grimy dead-end bar somewhere in the lifeless plains of the southwest, bloody monstrous mayhem erupts and embroils a disparate band of hopeful and hopeless remnants of humanity in a battle. Creatures, origins unknown, want to snack on this...

October 7: No One Will Save You (2023) 4.5 out of 5 – First Time Viewing Small town pariah, Brynn, shunned by the townsfolk for something that happened in her past, fights a persistent alien threat in her secluded home in the woods. A deliciously intriguing, almost entirely dialogue free...

October 6: The Ring (2002) 4 out of 5 Rachel is a journalist who recently lost her niece in suspicious circumstances. Wanting to understand what happened, she begins investigating and finds a bizarre urban legend, the story of a videotape that, when watched, will leave those witnesses dead in...

October 5: Ringu (1998) 4 out of 5 – First Time Viewing A story about teens who watched a VHS tape one night, get a call telling them they will die in seven days, then perish after those seven days, spreads, and captures the interest of an investigative reporter, Reiko Asakawa (Nanako...

October 4: Innocent Blood (1992) 3 out of 5 – First Time Viewing A vampire (Anne Parillaud) who only dines on criminals makes two mistakes. First, she snacks on Sallie the Shark (Robert Loggia), a mob boss, but when interrupted can’t finish the job, allowing him to turn into a vampire. That...

October 3: The Pope’s Exorcist (2023) 2.5 out of 5 – First Time Viewing The leading exorcist in the Vatican, Gabriele Amorth (Russell Crowe), also known as the Pope’s exorcist, is dispatched to an apparent possession of a visiting American boy in Spain, where a powerful demon has resurfaced...