🎃 Happy Halloween! 🧙♀️ In this finale, we conclude our reviews of horror we overlooked in last year’s roundup of faves down the decades. We wrap up with recs from the 2000’s-20’s.
Music-free version here.
Recs:
- Anything by Takashi Miike
- Ginger Snaps (2000)
- Battle Royale (2000)
- In My Skin (2002)
- Three… Extremes (2004)
- Pontypool (2008)
- Thirst (2009)
- Death Note (2009)
- Jennifer’s Body (2009) plus The Take’s video essay Jennifer’s Body and the Horrific Female Gaze
- All About Evil (2010)
- Attack The Block (2011)
- Under The Skin (2013)
- It Follows (2014)
- Antibirth (2016) plus Jo Isaacson’s essay Reproductive politics and Body Horror in Antibirth
- 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
- Raw (2016)
- Summer of ’84 (2018) plus Ryan Hollinger’s short video essay Exploring The Bleakest & Scariest Reimagining of 80s Nostalgia
- Mandy (2018)
- Assassination Nation (2018)
- Overlord (2018)
- Knife + Heart (2018)
- Tumbbad (2018)
- Blood Quantum (2019)
- Atlantics (2019)
- I Blame Society (2020)
- The Invisible Man (2020)
- Titane (2021)
- Fresh (2022)
- X (2022)
- Crimes of the Future (2022)
- Nope (2022)
- Men (2022)
Edited by PodCraft.ph’s Zarah Meneses. Poster image from Halloween III (1982). Samples from reviewed movies, as well as Day of the Dead (1985), and Carnival of Souls (1962).
Music:
- Where’s My Jetpack by Radio Free Babylon
- 2.5 Hour John Carpenter Style Retro Synth Mix by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
- 🎃 Halloween Lofi Hip Hop Mix 🎃 by lofi geek
Sound effects by jpkweli, jacobzeier, PanZen, coltures, NaturesTemper, plasterbrain, flacfile, Truss88, Laynus ST, Free Sounds Library, Sound Laboratory, Sound Masters, Team Sponkel, Rosen Engel.
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