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It’s wild that spooky season is almost here already! So here’s my list of things I plan to do for it.

First the cinema is having its seemingly annual Frights At The Light. (I say seemingly, I know they did it last year but dunno before that). Here’s the current listings for it.

Verity - General release from 2/10 *
Paranorman - 3/4 + 4/4
Other Mommy - General release from 9/10
The Craft (30th Anniversary) - 10/10-
Twilight - 11/10
Dracula - 16/10 *
The Shining - 16/10, 21/10, 22/10 -
Evil Dead II - 17/10
Scream (1996) - 23/10
Hocus Pocus - 24/10, 25/10, 28/10
A Nightmare On Elm Street - 24/10 -
Room On The Broom - 30/10, 31/10, 1/11, 4/11
The Thing - 30/10 -
Scooby Doo - 31/10, 1/11, 4/11
The Rocky Horror Picture Show - 31/10
Donnie Darko - 31/10
Pan’s Labyrinth - 2/11

*= definitely see, -=maybe

It’s a pretty varied selection. Part of me does wanna see Hocus Pocus on the big screen because I never have, but it’s one of those cosy Halloween time films we watchin the run up. Also I feel like the Halloween Rocky Horror would be really special for fans.

Anyone have recs from that list though?

Other cinema stuff.
Hope - if I see it on Monday or Thursday next week)
Spirited Away - 10/10, 11/10
Forgotten Island - General release from 16/10 (dunno if it qualifies as spooky but)
Wildwood - General release from 23/10
Clayface - General release from 23/10

There may be other stuff but that’s what’s in the coming soon currently. I’m also so tempted to see Resident Evil again but it does depend on if I can slip it in somewhere.

Now onto streaming things

Amazon Prime

Nothing specific as of yet but I’ve got a bunch of films on my to watch list so I’m just gonna go through it (and add some here)

Disney+ - American Horror Story (continuing), Hocus Pocus, The Beauty (continuing), The X-Files

I am gonna finally get back to American Horror Story and since it’s almost spooky season it’s gonna be there anyway. I’m at Asylum still so I should be able to finish it at least. I also wanna finish The Beauty too since I got sidetracked from it. And also, I’d been meaning to rewatch The X-Files and mum mentioned doing it out of nowhere Sunday so…

Netflix - Tales From 85 (continuing), Below

I’m super super hyped for Below. Small coastal town getting terrorised by a sea creature? I’m so in

Now Tv - Yaga

Yaga is coming to the uk on Halloween! So I’m definitely going to watch thwt. Like Below I’m so incredibly hyped for this. Especially with Hudson Williams

Paramount +

I know there’s horror films on here so like with Amazon I’ll look through and add some. (If nothing else I’ll be watching Strange New Worlds which do sometimes have spooky eps)

Shudder - Infirmary, The Curse, VHS Mixtape

Shudder is getting a found footage called Infirmary on Friday and the trailer so sold me on it so I’m glad we’re getting it. Plus there’s the annual vhs, which looks unhinged with puppets and claymation. And there’s The Curse coming! I read it in sfx and had been curious so I squeed when I saw it on shudder cause new j-horror yesss!

4k/Blu ray - Cold Storage, Event Horizon, Exit 8, Noroi, Trick R Treat (One Missed Call or Three/Three Extremes)

Most of these are rewatches of (in the case of Cold Storage and Exit 8) first watches on disc. One Mkssed Call and Three/Three Extremes are from the last arrow order which I not watched.

Plus in the non spooky sense I’ll have Masters Of The Universe and Project Hail Mary coming too!

BBC

It seems the bbc are putting on some horror stuff for the season. I’ve seen in the tv listings there’s The Substance and Bram Stoker’s Dracula so I assume there’ll be more

Books - Clown In A Cornfiled 2

Again this is something I meant to start sooner but it looks like it’ll be started in October anyway. I also have a short story thing but I need to find it.

Gaming

I wanna do some sort of horror gaming but I’m not sure what. Maybe I’ll go back on Resident Evil Requiem finally. Or check out the long long list on Xbox, cause I’ve got a load of spooky games I got from sales. If nothing else I’ll go on Dreamlight Valley, Fortnite and Dead By Daylight for their Halloween eve nets

I’m sure I’m missing something so be sure to come back as I add stuff. I might go through Amazon/paramount+ latter but we’ll see.

I only managed to watch some of Strictly after the last post, because I was watching it on the iplayer (we were finishing a detective thing) and the app crashed part way through. I hate that it does that a lot. I dunno if I’m sold on the new presenting team, though obviously change does get some getting used to (and them settling into it too). But also I’m not sure if there’s anyone in the lineup I wanna root for, though I could have missed someone.

I did watch Marble Hall Murders after it which I’m curious to see how it goes (and also there’s a cute kitty). And then I did start Tales From 85, which was pretty good and I do like the ghost type things and Dustin is so sweet as always. So hopefully it does turn out to be good like the first season (despite the obvious issue of fitting stories like this between 32 and 3 of the main show).

We also finished the Australian bake off (on Friday) and it was both sweet and sad cause of the tribute to the presenter that passed before it came out.

Sunday ended up being a low energy, though I did watch the Professor T season finale which also ended up being so sweet. And at least I did manage to finish ficcing which was a plus.

After finishing fic I decided to watch one of the films on the list of doom. I settled on Yellowbrickroad which I’d seen when I was on tv tropes and thought it sounded interesting. One day a population of a town just walked off into the woods, never to be seen. In present day a group decides to find out what happened to them.

Of course the central mystery is what intrigued me and made me wanna watch, but it’s also one of those films that never answers some of the mysteries that it puts out. There’s also a lot of loud audio noises that are so much louder than everything else and repetitive, to the point I had to turn the sound down at some points. There is some good practical effects, and one nice one in the last scene. But overall? It’s a bit eh which is a shame cause the mystery had potential.

Yesterday I had been hoping to go and see Hope but I woke and my stomach felt funny. I’d felt a little off on Sunday too but it really hit me in the morning. I decided not to risk it, especially since Hope was so long and had more showings planned.

But ugh mum decided it’d be the perfect time to start argument and that just made it worse. (And then because of both depression got triggered so I spent most of the day in a zoned out state.)

Thinks we’re only resolved in the night but I still felt eh (and then my eyes started to ache too later on).

I did watch the next Strange New Worlds ep. I started season 4 last week (the opening ep was pretty good!) and I just loved The Griffin Incident right from the start. Mysterious abandoned spaceships are always a great concept and as it went on it became more and more clear it was Event Horizon coded. Funnily it too didn’t answer the mysteries it raised but that didn’t seem to matter as it was so well executed. (Plus I hope we see more of this Division 12, I’m so intrigued by them)

I did a little gaming but then by eyes got worse again so I ended up listening to a Doctor Who audio (The Eighth Of March Protectors Of Time - Stolen Futures) which was a pretty good one with Romana II (and K9!) set after her departure, though it was also timey wimey.

My stomach now feels mostly settled which is a plus so we’ll see if I watch Hope tomorrow or just wait until the showing of it Monday (and I’ve still not settled on the Natewantstobattle gig, probably for the best to hold off and see how I feel)

Plan today is mostly rest up, then watch Bake Off and maybe watch something else.

Next post should be spooky season plans since October is only a few days away (fuck where has the year gone??)