Halloween Horror-Movie-a-Thon! Week 5
Added 2022-10-28 15:00:07 +0000 UTCJust a couple more movies to go as we approach my favorite day of the year...Halloween!
Saturday, October 29th: Deep Red (1975)
Director — Dario Argento
Sungenre — giallo
Available on Shudder, Hoopla, Kanopy
Letterboxd — 3.9
Rotten Tomatoes — 93% critical, 86% audience
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
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Monday, October 31st: Midsommar Director's Cut (2019)
Director — Ari Aster
Subgenre — folk horror, occult horror
Letterboxd — 3.8
Rotten Tomatoes 83% critical, 63% audience/ director's cut RT
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
