🦇 Spooky Season | Badge of the Month | October 2022

To bring something new to the table, I'll recommend "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken", which stars Don Knotts. Knowing the star, you have an idea what kind of fun nonsense you'll get with this. It has several lines my family often quotes. Kind of highlights how very far from dark my "spooky" tastes are (hence why I also enjoyed "Hubie Halloween").

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/50395#Comment_50395Sci-Fi horror instantly makes me think of Event Horizon. Truly uncomfortable :D

I prefer the Halloween movies that are more fun than scary. Along the lines of the 31 nights of Halloween movies: Hocus Pocus, Nightmare Before Christmas, Frankenweenie, Beetlejuice. More seasonal nostalgia than screams.
(Also, I think that is a tomato emoji  and not a pumpkin, but I am just going with it!)

With Halloween seemingly having its roots in paganism and early (Irish/Scottish) Christianity, it only became popular in the Netherlands in the last decade or so along with other fads like Valentines Day that blew over from the US. Apart from the spooky aspect, a key activity is kids going door to door to collect sweets. Which the Dutch children traditionally do on November 11th as part of Sint Martin's Day where they carry a lantern and sing songs in return for candy.  

I think the only "scary" movie I saw this year was Ghostbusters Afterlife. I'm not the target audience for scary movies

Spooky is an interesting adjective. If we're talking scary, Alien (the original) is the only scary movie that I enjoyed and that probably had a lot to do with my age at the time. For spooky, I would have to go with The Sixth Sense.

I try to avoid scary and horror films because i cant watch them all alone. But i like to watch some less scary like "The GooseBumps" and I like every part of that movie and the book.
Stranger Things Season 4 , I have seen a K-drama named "Hell Bound" this year and I was literally scared for few days thinking about it. And the last one, Jeepers Creepers all parts.

I loved the post above about the ghost and mr. chicken. I haven't thought about that movie in 30 years. Now to find it streaming. Another older one is the Topper movies. A little older than Don Knotts film, but vintage supernatural goodness.

I'm not big into television or movies, but I did read "The Carpathian Castle" by Jules Verne this year. Written in 1893, it is one of the first "Horror" novels ever written. Verne is known as the father of science fiction, but also was an early forerunner of fantasy, horror, and romance (yes, its true - See Verne's "The Green Ray"). The Carpathian Castle is filled with mystery and superstition (instead of violence and gore) it was enjoyable to read where the "horror" genre got its start...yet, to be honest, it is somewhat disturbing to me to see where it is now in our day and age.

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/50490#Comment_50490I remember the craziness around Blair Witch Project! It's kind of amazing how the mythos of that movie went viral before the days of social media. Everyone was talking about it!

I watched a movie called - "Choose or Die". Nothing flashy or conventional about this film; it's just good ol' fashioned physiological terror that keeps you wondering what's going to happen next. I think the movie is a great new direction for the horror genre.

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/50850#Comment_50850Same!! Right there with you!

I challenged myself (because watching movies is so hard) to watch a horror movie each night in October. My favorite movie so far has been Ready or Not, with a close runner up being Society. The former is pretty fun, with some over-the-top kills and plot. The latter...well...the latter is just plain weird!