🦇 Spooky Season | Badge of the Month | October 2022

Freddy Krueger was enough for me to stop watching scary movies for a LONG time until about 3 years ago when I started watching almost nothing else. I think I've seen almost all of them now, even the old ones that make you laugh because of the graphics and horrible acting. I've since reverted back to the psychological thrillers and sci-fi genre I've always gravitated to. For now...

I am not into scary movies at all. In fact, I'm not into anything spooky. Black Bird on Apple TV was enough scary and suspense for me these days.

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/50340#Comment_50340I totally agree. Nothing says scary like the best take on the 'Scary Parody' than this classic. I watch it at least 3 times every year in the fall. No matter how many times I watch it, there is always another gem that I catch. I'm sure I take a secret pleasure in laughing at the absurdity of "collective idiots" that are found in every one of Mel Brooks' movies.

House of Leaves by Danielewski is unlike anything you've ever read before and contains the scariest scene I've read.

I love Stephen King's short stories. The Long Walk is my favorite. It reads like a pre-cursor to The Hunger Games. Although many may not consider them horror, I find dystopian futures scary!

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 am not a scary movie fan and do not like haunted houses at all. I do love to see all the costumes the kids wear and how some are so creative. My husband and I volunteer each year at our Tulsa Zoo for the HallowZOOeen event and it is tons of fun. My work (QT) and many other companies sponsor areas in the zoo which provide games for the little kids to play while trick or treating.

Ended up rewatching the entire series of Dexter in order to watch the reprise Dexter, New Blood. The original series was a strangely deep commentary on vigilante justice, and the new season made years later tried to bring closure to a few open questions the many fans had. It took a wild twist to end the show that so many did not want, but was also "right" in its own way. This show is spooky because they tried to make viewers empathize with a serial killer. I used to enjoy horror movies a long time ago, but stopped watching. This show was the first thrilling story in a long time that I watched because it did portray a character that truly struggled with right versus what felt right to them which I think is a common human experience. One of my main take aways from this show is not that vigilante serial killing should be praised, but people genuinely wrestle with deep mysterious parts of who they are.

Just like most people Stranger Things Season 4, was just dark in a new way. Lovecraft Country did it for me with the creepy factor and it was very entertaining, I was super sad about not having a season two. One for me as a kid, I watched Event Horizon at a sleepover and that stayed with me for years lol. My mom will still tease me to this day about that movie.

leah_moore The Others is my mom's favorite scary movie too! We both think that movie does an incredible job of scaring you without you actually seeing anything explicitly scary - it's what you don't see that is so spooky!

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.

Oh I SO do not like scary movies at all, and can't even watch TV in the month of October because of all the movie trailers! (In the summer of 1999 I was dating someone who loved to go to movies - any movies really - and in a short window we went to see The Blair Witch Project (covered my eyes through most of it), The Sixth Sense, and The Haunting.
I really must have liked this guy, right??? LOL
After that, I bought nightlights. Not kidding at all.

I just recently finished the series Midnight Mass on Netflix and I thought it was really good (and spooky). The creator of the show also did The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, which are great too.