Note: this is a song I wrote literally decades ago. It’s from the point of view of a character (I write fiction, too). That’s not to say that I have no connection to the way this feels…in the last couple of days, I’ve made a couple of mistakes. Sure, everybody makes them, including me, but I am always my own toughest critic. I think my coworkers would tell you, that’s one of the hardest things about working with me (there are many good things too, of course). When I think I’ve done something wrong that I should have done better, I can get down on myself. Fortunately, as an optimist and a realist, it’s always been temporary. Hope you enjoy this!
THEY LET ME GO
I was adrift in a lifeboat And I knew we couldn’t stay afloat Everyone else took a vote And the word came around That someone must drown
Well, I never took more than my share And I worked every day I was there But I never made anyone care So they let me go
Our house was surrounded by ice It was private, but we paid the price And I was nothing if I wasn’t nice But the word hit the breeze, that someone must freeze
Well, I never took more than my share And I worked every day I was there But I never made anyone care So they let me go
Our rocket was drifting through space And the air had bled down to a trace I thought all of us each had our place But the computers decide, someone’s going outside
Well, I never took more than my share And I worked every day I was there But I never made anyone care So they let me go
(slowly)
The world must come to an end There’s a definite entropic trend And you’ll lose everyone you call friend And don’t look to God, ’cause he’s raising his rod
(back to tempo)
Well, I never took more than my share And I worked every day I was there But I never made anyone care So they let me go
This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in theThe Measured Circle blog. To support this or other organizations, begin your Amazon shopping from a link on their sites: Amazon.com (Smile.Amazon.com)
Hey, little Ten Toes! Humans (at least those using the decimal system) like to observe anniversaries by the decade. This is a brief list of some of the geeky anniversaries happening this year. It is in no way comprehensive, and we certainly may add to it (and invite you to make suggestions by commenting on the post).
We arrange them by the day of the year, rather by the length of the anniversary. While I like pointing out the number of geek-friendly movie favorites released in 1960, for example, I think it will be easier for people to be aware of an anniversary based on the day of the year. I’ll try to highlight the big ones. Let me know if you like it this way better…
Oh, and after internal debate in 2018, I decided not to list the birthdates of living celebrities. Some of them may not like having their ages highlighted in this way.
I’ll call out a few I think could get media coverage, then give you a fuller list:
3 January: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Bill Gates introduce the Xbox (2001: 20 years)
9 January: 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996: 25 years)
19 January: From Dusk Till Dawn opens (1996: 25 years)
This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in theThe Measured Circle blog. To support this or other organizations, begin your Amazon shopping from a link on their sites: Amazon.com (Smile.Amazon.com)
2 unforgettable, shelter-in-place friendly gifts you can get for $10 and up
Looking for inexpensive (and up) stay-in-place friendly gifts? Just wanted to share two that I’ve used:
https://www.cameo.com/ These are customized short videos from a wide range of celebrities. I know someone who is a fan of The Walking Dead. We found an actor who was on the show (a small part, but the recipient will know who he was). For $10, he’s recording a video they’ll be able to have, where he says their name and (we don’t have it yet) what I wrote for him. Obviously, they can decline something you write. These are actors, but also athletes, musicians, influencers, and so on. There are current celebrities, but also retro favs. They start under $10 and then go way up (it seems like the prices have gone up around the holidays, understandably). Some of them also do texts, which are much less expensive. Obviously, they need to time to make them, so I wouldn’t wait much longer
Amazon Explore(at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*) is a service with one-on-one, live, virtual experiences around the world. You can have someone show you something and it often involves training. Those start at about $20. You can have as many people in a room watching it as you want, but you can’t share the experience with people in different places. There are some really great things available here, like visiting an animal conservancy, getting a history lesson, or being taken shopping in an exotic place (of course, you’ll pay for something you actually buy if you want). I’ve suggested to Loren Coleman of the International Cryptozoology Museum that they do this: I’d pay $50 to have a virtual tour like that! I support it, but have never seen it. I think this is a great way to go for venues that can’t be open right now
Enjoy!
* I am linking to the same thing at the regular Amazon site, and at AmazonSmile. When you shop at AmazonSmile, half a percent of your purchase price on eligible items goes to a non-profit you choose. It will feel just like shopping at Amazon: you’ll be using your same account. The one thing for you that is different is that you pick a non-profit the first time you go (which you can change whenever you want)…and the good feeling you’ll get.
I post a picture of the eyes of a celebrity (generally, an actor or musician, but I’ve done a scientist & others. I don’t intend to do politicians, although some people may in some ways be both). I give players roughly a day to guess who it is, then I reveal the whole picture.
I only use public domain (not under copyright protection) pictures. There are actually quite a few of those. It was common for studios to put out publicity shots without the required (depending on when it was) copyright notice. That might have been on purpose: getting wide distribution was part of the point. Government pictures can also be public domain (so someone who entertains the troops may appear that way, as one example).
I decided to tag correct guessers when I revealed the answer. That’s turned out to be a lot of work, but it feels like it’s worth it. It’s hard because scrolling back through my Twitter feed & typing the handles into a document isn’t easy. Twitter hides some tweets, and I have to notice that and expand a section. Some handles are quite complex, using zeroes for the letter O, for example, and it can be hard to tell an L from a 1 or an I. A typo can mean I can’t find the handle again. In some cases, they might also leave Twitter between the time they guess and the next morning.
However, people love the recognition: not just for themselves, but for each other!
That’s the best part. I refer to it as the #EyedentityGame community, and really it feels like one. They support each other, joke with each other. That’s important to note: this isn’t a competition with winners and losers. I think of it as a group activity with me and the players. The more who get it right, the better I like it! When a celebrity only gets a few correct answers, I feel kind of bad about that. I’m not good at guessing which ones will be easily recognized, but I want to honour these people who almost always have contributed something to my life (I’m an eclectic content consumer so I generally am familiar with the work of anybody I post).
However, I was guessing that yesterday’s was going to be well recognized…and it was!
I chose Leonard Nimoy and it was a picture of him as Spock.
Picking a subject is one of my challenges (challenges are fun for me) every day.
First, I have to think of someone. 😉
Then, I look for a public domain picture. I generally use Wikipedia. They do a good job of labeling the rights. I should mention, I say “public domain”, but in some cases, the pictures have been licensed for general use without attribution by the rightsholder. I want it without attribution just because there isn’t space on Twitter for it, and it might lead people to finding the picture too easily. I ask people not to post the source photo with their guesses (that happened a few times early on) to let other people have more of a chance to guess.
It’s possible that the celebrity that was my thought doesn’t have a picture I can use. I need a pretty good picture of the eyes. I’ve found that looking directly into the camera improves guessers’ accuracy: side eye is hard, as I think someone said.
I would have preferred a picture of Nimoy not as Spock: I like a more neutral shot, since it’s the celebrity being guessed, not a character. There was a shot of him from Mission: Impossible, but it was a group shot and his face was just too small to use.
Lots of regulars got it, but there were also many newbies, which I really appreciate!
Regulars know that I enjoy creative guesses, as long as I can tell who you mean (if I can’t, I may ask). For example, if someone said the guess was “logical” this time, even with no reference to Nimoy, I counted that. Some newbies didn’t really make a guess, just said that they thought it was obvious…I couldn’t count that without clarification.
Well, I’ve counted 118 correct! That smashes the old record of 92 held by Moe Howard since September 24th. I guess it was a battle of the bowl cuts. 😉 I’ve been wanting to get 100 right since I started tracking it regularly back on 5 June with Josephine Baker (although I had started the game months before that). The average right now is 31. I’ve been asked sometimes about percentage correct: I don’t track guesses that aren’t the picture. That would be a lot more complicated, especially if I wanted to track who every guess was, and people who know me know I’m a very positive person: I’m much more interested in the positive achievement.
Thank you to all of my players! You bring a lot of joy to my life and I look forward to it every day.
I tweet new movies to streamers from time to time, but right now there were so many I wanted to mention, it would have been way too unwieldy. This is truly a remarkable time for movie buffs at home. The competition between streamers, both those for which you pay a subscription fee & ones that are ad-supported is surely driving these opportunities. If you are willing to pay for your movies by watching ads, there are great choices, whether you are looking for cult/genre movies or box office draws, contemporary or vintage.
a free app I highly recommend. I’ll be writing this from the perspective of the USA, but you can set it for other countries, too. I’m only listing some of the ones that caught my eye: there are many, many more listed there.
These are all available at no additional cost: for example, they could be included in a monthly/annual fee you pay, or as I mentioned, supported by advertisers.
These are also available on demand, so you can watch them when you want. If you are interested in just “tuning in” to whatever is on right then, I’m loving
another free ad-supported app. They have some really good movies & TV shows (I’m seeing a lot of shows I haven’t seen in years), but again, you just go with the flow. Right now (presumably, during December) they have not one but two holiday channels: Holiday Specials & Holiday Cartoons.
Okay, on to movies!
Peacock TV (free tier)
Batman Begins, The Dark Knight
The Goonies
Tremors (and sequels)
Se7en
Beetlejuice
Crazy Stupid Love
Serenity (the Firefly movie)
Space Jam (Michael Jordan & Bugs Bunny)
Problem Child (and sequel)
Wet Hot American Summer
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
The Blues Brothers 2000
The Road to Wellville
The Gambler (Kenny Rogers)
HBO Max (over 100 added recently!)
Final Destination (and sequels)
The Blind Side
The Shawshank Redemption
Gladiator
Sex and the City (2008 movie) (and sequel)
Hero (2002, Jet Li)
Unfaithful (Richard Gere, Diane Lane)
Misery
Robots
Hot Fuzz
Shaun of the Dead
Deep Blue Sea
The Crow
Snakes on a Plane
Mars Attacks!
Demolition Man
The Girl with All the Gifts
The Last Samurai
Striptease (Demi Moore)
Phantom Thread
Outbreak
Rock of Ages
Spawn
Billy Elliot
Soylent Green
Juice
Harry and the Hendersons
Risky Business
The Omega Man
Gods and Monsters
Westworld (the original movie)
Blow-Up
Capricorn One
Logan’s Run
Less Than Zero
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
THX 1138
Love Story
The Champ (Jon Voight, Ricky Schroder)
Meet Me in St. Louis
Joe Versus the Volcano
The Bishop’s Wife
Gun Crazy (1950)
The Stunt Man
3 Godfathers (and Three Godfathers)
It Happened on 5th Aveue
Young Man with a Horn
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Susan Slept Here
Amistad
No Blade of Grass
Prime Video
2012
The Hurt Locker
The Pursuit of Happyness
Goldfinger
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Spanglish
The King’s Speech
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Charlotte’s Web (1973)
Quigley Down Under
Full Moon High
Outlaw’s Son (Dane Clark)
The Gate
Netflix
E.T.
Monster House
50 First Dates
Jurassic Park (and Lost World & III)
The Da Vinci Code (and Angels & Demons)
The Happytime Murders
Little Nicky
Chef
You Got Served
Runaway Bride
Madea’s Big Happy Family
The Christmas Chronicles 2
Hillbilly Elegy
Pluto TV
Scary Movie (and 2)
Sleepy Hollow
The Ghost and the Darkness
Journey to the West
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Dracula (Gary Oldman)
Cujo
The Crazies (2010)
Dances with Wolves
The Dead Zone
Silver Bullet
El Mariachi
Kingpin
Look Who’s Talking
The Ides of March
Layer Cake
Robot Jox
Game of Death
Remains of the Day
Cat Ballou
Kramer vs. Kramer
St. Elmo’s Fire
Dear White People
And Justice for All
The Prince of Tides
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
Mary Reilly
V/H/S
Europa Report
Tubi (I have to say, they seem to particularly respect their videos, trying to find good places to do ads, and knocked it out of the park with their new additions, 261 on 30 November alone)
Kung Fu Panda
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Anaconda
Pet Sematary (1989)
Cujo
Step Up
Daredevil
Blair Witch (2016)
The Bank Job (2008)
The Little Rascals (1994)
Jumper
Police Academy
Sin City
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
House of 1000 Corpses
Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo
The Monuments Men
Reign of Fire
Max Payne
I, Frankenstein’
Escape from Alcatraz
The Wrestler (Mickey Rourke)
Drillbit Taylor
Bad Company
TMNT (2007)
Nine
White Men Can’t Jump
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Kate & Leopold
Rudy
Attack the Block
Dead Presidents
The Man with the Golden Arm
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* | *But We’re Afraid to Ask
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Saturday the 14th
Brenda Starr
The Wicked Lady
Hulu
Teen Wolf
Marie Antoinette
The Lord of the Rings
Dr. No (and other James Bond movies)
The Fifth Element
30 Days of Night
Eyes Wide Shut
Con Air
Hulk
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Cliffhanger
The Client
Euphoria
Under the Tuscan Sun
Any Given Sunday (1999)
Sunshine
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
The 6th Day
About Last Night
Love Potion #9
West Side Story
Black Dynamite
Sleeping with the Enemy
The Color of Money
Sands of Iwo Jima
The Roku Channel (recently available on Fire TV devices)
Sinister
Megamind
Blade Runner
Nacho Libre
The Age of Adaline
The Big Short
The Adventures of Tintin
The Golden Child
Timecop
Short Circuit
Letters from Iwo Jima
Quiz Show
Terms of Endearment
The Preacher’s Wife (1996)
Major League
Michael
Senior Trip
There…are you not entertained? 😉
Feel free to suggest others by commenting on this post or replying on Twitter.
What are Twitter Fleets & why I think they’ll succeed
Twitter was all a-flitter yesterday when a major new feature was introduced.
That doesn’t particularly surprise me.
I’m a trainer by profession, and I do process improvement. I’ve taught change management. It’s pretty simple: the majority of people don’t like change.
That doesn’t mean that everybody doesn’t like every change. Humans are both neophiliac (new loving) and neophobic (afraid or disliking the new). The most successful content tends to be things in which the brain can recognize familiar patterns (reassuring) in unfamiliar circumstances (exciting), such as a sequel or a twist on a comfortable genre (for an excellent book on this see Hit Makers ((at Amazon Smile)) by Derek Thompson).
However, it’s a rare person who likes having a routine interrupted, even if it is made better.
That’s because of something called “memory chunking”. Humans are great at memorizing a sequence…and forgetting the individual steps.
When I demonstrate this, I’ll say to someone, “Quick! Tell me the 5th number in your phone number.” I have plenty of time, typically a second or more, to stop them before they actually do that. On the other hand, if I asked them to tell me their phone number, they could have done it immediately.
The fifth digit is one “click” (people who do user interfaces love to count clicks): the whole number is 7 or 10 or 11 clicks, depending on how you think of it. Yet, one click took longer than seven clicks. Why?
The phone number has been “chunked” into a single memory unit & stored for easy retrieval. They aren’t recalling each number individually. There has been no reason to label the fifth number for easy retrieval, so it has to be extracted from the chunk, which is hard to do.
So, when Twitter made a change yesterday which broke the sequence of how people did existing things, it “brupted” them, as one of my parents likes to say. It was an offputting abrupt change.
Not only was there something new in the environment (account avatars at the top of your homescreen…on a phone, by the way, not on a computer), but things were missing.
They are different and I want to know which one I’m using when I’m replying to or liking a tweet. I used to be able to see my avatar (profile picture) in my top left corner, but that’s been replaced by a menu indicator (horizontal lines), so it’s not as obvious.
Sure, that was a bit troubling…no big deal, though. My feathers are hard to flap…you know, I tend to be “unflappable”. 😉
Even though I would think that relatively few people switch between multiple Twitter accounts the way I do, that change likely caught people off guard: it’s also how you get to your profile easily.
A change, and Twitter did little that I could see to manage it. There wasn’t some sort of announcement I saw first, to tell me what wasn’t changing (the most important part of change management), and to connect it to my “drivers” (things that motivate me). My first awareness was seeing that Fleets was trending…I honestly thought Star Trek’s Starfleet first.
When I started looking, the most common reaction was, “What’s a Fleet?” Several referenced Fleet enemas! 🙂
I’ll share my overview of what Twitter Fleets are, and respond to objections I saw expressed.
I’m going to assume here that you are already a Twitter user and know how to tweet.
A Fleet is a “fleeting tweet”: it disappears after 24 hours.
That’s the key differentiator, but not the only thing. The public doesn’t see likes and replies.
Fleet something (it could be text, a video, an image…even a live capture of a photo or video). It’s gone in a day and no one can endorse it or condemn it in situ.
This takes away (for the most part) the “internet is forever” problem, where you apply for a job and they find some embarrassing photo, or opinion you expressed ten years ago, and decide you won’t fit in with the team.
I say for the most part, because someone can screenshot it or use screen recording software.
This is not like Twitter generally, where, unless you delete them, your Tweets are hypothetically forever (I’ve been on Twitter for more than 10 years…my first tweets can still be seen).
It is, though, like some other services.
That’s the first big objection I saw: “Twitter isn’t Instagram or Snapchat: why would I want two places like that?”
That comes from “fluency bias”, which seems pretty common to me in technology. It’s the assumption that most people are as familiar with something as you are.
My guess is that Twitter has the highest percentage of single platform users of any major social media service. It’s been around long time. Entry is relatively easy. “Old media” stars and public figures use it. If someone joined Twitter to follow a politician, a broadcast TV show, or a store (to get offers), that doesn’t mean they also join Instagram or Snapchat.
For them, this is new!
It also means that you don’t have to go to a different app to post something ephemeral. That’s one of the hardest things when using computers (including SmartPhones): going somewhere else. I loved it when a student of mine said, “I want what I want to be where I’m looking now.” Exactly.
That doesn’t mean people will necessarily drop another service and use this instead, of course, although some might.
That’s another issue: “binary bias”. That suggests that everything is a choice between this or that. “Why would I use a Fleet instead of IG?” You can use both. Sometimes one is right. Sometimes another is right. Sometimes both. Sometimes neither.
One of my main areas of focus has been e-books. I got that all the time in the beginning and still see it. Someone will give one way that a p-book (paperbook/physical book) is better than an e-book as a reason to never use e-books. You can use both or one or the other. I can’t think of something where there isn’t another thing that is better than it in some element.
Here are the basics for how to Fleet:
Be on your homescreen (the little house in your bottom left, usually) in Twitter on your phone
Tap the “Add” button in your top left
It will default to your gallery, where you pictures/screenshots/downloaded images are…it may have a different name or default, possibly, but that’s what I see
At the bottom of the screen, you can choose to change it to Text, Capture (“live” from our camera), or video
Create or select it
Tap Fleet in your top right corner
While the Fleet exists, you can see how many (and who) have viewed your own Fleets by looking at it.
It hasn’t been long enough for one to disappear yet, but my guess is that I won’t have a record of it when it’s gone.
Speaking of seeing…
You can tap on an avatar at the top of your homescreen to see the Fleet. If that account has more than one active, it will show them to you sequentially. Then, it automatically moves to the next account, like a slideshow which is running.
You can also see someone’s Fleets on their Profile page, although I haven’t found that myself yet.
If you follow each other, you’ll see a place at the bottom to message the account…but it’s a private DM (Direct Message). No one else sees it. You have no awareness of the popularity or interactions with another account’s Fleets (unless popularity determines the order in which the avatars appears, not sure about that. It appears to favor my tweeps, people I follow and such.
The next question: why Fleet?
It will take a while for the community to figure out what works. The first YouTube video was “Me at the Zoo”…yes, it’s had over 100 million views by now (it’s had more than 15 years), but I don’t think they were picturing Gangnam Style or unboxing videos at that point. 😉
So far, I’ve seen mostly “Hello, world” style, or ones questioning why they were Fleeting (many first tweets are like that, too).
I have, though, seen commercial accounts Fleeting.
That’s going to be part of it.
For example, you could run a contest, maybe a book giveaway, that lasts a day. You don’t have to worry about someone stumbling on it five years later and being mad they missed it. You could promote a show running that night without confusing people a week later.
My Fleets, still visible at the time I write this, alert people to upcoming movies/TV shows on the free ad-supported streamer, Airy TV. I’m not connected with them accept as a viewer.
I may do the same thing with Tubi, Pluto…other streamers.
I’ve done tweets listing “new to streamers”: that might be better in a Fleet. I have had it happen that people find something that’s quite old and tell me why it is inaccurate today, not realizing that it was right when I wrote it (in this case, it would be possible that a movie I said was on a particular streamer might not be years later).
Another big thing is going to be “reaction shots”. You might have a shocked or positive reaction to an event, but not want that out there forever. It could also just be a snapshot in time.
Oh, that brings up an obvious question: NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content. I get that sometimes in my Twitter feed. If you see a Fleet that you feel is inappropriate for everyone, you can report it, or you can mute that account (so you don’t see anything they do again) in your top right corner of the Fleet…there is a little chevron there, a dropdown. I’m sure that will happen.
I also expect, if it succeeds, that we’ll see it written into crimefighting dramas on TV. The “bad guy” posts a picture or video of the crime in progress (maybe a kidnapee), but if vanishes before they hear about it. Twitter says it may hold on to Fleets for a while, if they look…let’s go with suspicious.
Something else I expect: a game. Clues are fleeted once a day. That would get engagement. A movie studio could do the same thing: Fleet a single picture a day from an upcoming movie.
I do have a few questions and concerns:
Is there a record of the metrics I can see…how many people viewed it? That would make a difference for A/B analysis of what worked best
I’d prefer that the icons for tweet/DM/Fleet were more differentiated…maybe by color background, or putting speed lines on the Fleet. More than once on my phone, I’ve accidentally tapped Fleet when I went to share
Do I get a notification if someone tags me in a Fleet?
I don’t see a way to delete a Fleet
Speaking of that last one (deletion), that’s the other big complaint I saw on Twitter. They did this, but didn’t give us spellcheck or revising a posted Tweet? I’m always amused by that. “You can fly now!” “Yes, but am I super strong?” 😉 There is some impact of finite resources in a company, but the same people building Fleets might not be building a revision feature.
I also had someone explain to me why a revision feature would be a lot trickier than it seems. Suppose you had like a Tweet, and then the person revised it to express the opposite opinion? You would appear to be endorsing something you don’t. That’s not insurmountable (a revision could place interactions into an invisible holding state, awaiting reapproval from the reactor), but it’s complicated.
I expect we’ll still have Fleets as a feature three years from now, but we’ll see. It may become a thing like Vine was to just let the Fleets scroll by, maybe while waiting in line or for something to load. No scrolling, no interaction.
What do you think? Will you create Fleets? Will you view them? What should be changed? Feel free to let me and readers know by commenting on this post or interacting with me on Twitter…you could even Fleet, but I might not see it. 😉
Airy.TV: a great free (ad-supported) streamer for TV & movies
I know, I know: another streamer, right? 😉 As regular readers know, we use a lot of streamers: HBO Max, Disney+, Prime Video, Netflix, Hulu, Pluto, Tubi, Peacock, YouTube…I wasn’t really looking for another one.
However, I saw Wesley Eure (@WesleyEure on Twitter) mention that he’d run across his show, Land of the Lost (he played Will), on something called Airy.TV.
I love those Sid and Marty Krofft shows, so that got me to check it out.
I’ve been enjoying it! I’ve seen shows I haven’t seen in years, including Forever Knight & Automan. They have movie channels that I can just leave running: a Godzilla channel, a musical channel…wait, before I get too much into the content, let’s get a little higher level. Here are some key points:
It’s free! It is ad-supported, but the ads aren’t intrusive (unlike some streamers). They don’t interrupt a movie: typically, there might be a roughly thirty second ad when you change channels, before the show starts. You don’t even need to create an account, although you can
The app is available for Fire TV & I also watch it on my Android phone. You can watch it on the web, and while I haven’t done it, it’s available for iOS (for iPhones and such)
This is strictly streaming: no on demand. That means you watch what they put on when they put it on. In that way, it’s like old-fashioned TV. There are plenty of options, though. You also can’t pause or rewind
Generally, the video quality is good, but I have run into some TV shows that look like VHS videotapes
I’m writing about this in the USA and just as a user. The website has information for people who want to advertise on the service, and for those who want to provide a stream. There is a Rewards program for viewers, but I haven’t investigated that
The interface is simple: you can watch full screen. You can mute or not. Shows/movies thumbnail at the top first, then you can select them to make them full screen. There are two themes (I’ve only used one). I haven’t seen any search capability. The programs don’t have descriptions, just titles. For a TV show, for example, it doesn’t tell you the episode or give you a summary
They have responded to me: good customer service! I spotted a typo (no big deal), mentioned it to them, and it got fixed. I don’t know, of course, that it was just me that mentioned it, but it may have been
One curious thing: when I select a TV show, even a few minutes after the hour/half hour, it seems to start at the beginning: not sure if that’s coincidental or clever programming
I haven’t seen closed captioning as an option
So, basically, I just…watch. 🙂
Now, let’s talk about content!
Note that this is just a snapshot of how it is right now, as I’m writing: even the channel availability can change. They had a couple of Halloween-related channels in October, for example.
Celebrity Scene TV Live (this appears to be contemporary showbiz news)
Newsmax
FightTV
SportsTV
Camera Smile TV (this seems to be Candid Camera type bits, but not sure)
Spydar TV (it appears to be an eclectic set of black and white older shows, but I’m not entirely sure…haven’t watched it much yet)
Kartoon Funtime
Classic Comedy
Cartoon Classics
Lone Ranger
Airy Westerns
Travel & Food TV
Race Central
70’s Classics (Vega$ is on right now)
Dragnet (yes, all Dragnet, all the time! Many channels are like this)
The Streets of San Francisco
Open House
Rope 2 Rope (wrestling)
Movie Channels: right now there are five “generic” movie channels: running titles at this moment include:
The Lifeguard
Fargo
Gone in 60 Seconds
Crocodile Dundee 2
XTREME Movies: Warren Miller; Higher Ground
Classic Movies section
Classics: Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
Classics 2 Happy is The Bride
Western Club: Joe Dakota
Western Club 2: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Western Club 3: West of the Divide
Godzilla TV: Godzilla vs. Mechagodzila 2 (I can just turn this channel on any time and be happy)
Blaxploitation: Golemite
Kung Fu Movies: Warriors of the Steppe
Monsters, Aliens, &…: It Came from Beneath the Sea
Screen Sirens: Ladies of the Chorus (this is nicely curated)
Musicals: The for the Show (I can just have this running for my Significant Other and myself, which is not a good choice with Godzilla. 😉 I’ve seen My Sister Eileen, The Gang’s All Here (a Carmen Miranda vehicle), and more
Classic TV Series section (channels here have a variety of shows
50’s Classics: I Married Joan
50’s Classics 2: The Restless Gun
60’s Classics: Petticoat Junction
60’s Classics 2: The Munsters
60’s Classics 3: Flipper
70’s Classics: Vega$ (same as above…the top section has featured channels)
70’s Classics 2: The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
Horror TV: Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter
Sci Fi TV: Space Patrol (this is another one I can just leave on…Buck Rogers, Time Tunnel, Misfits of Science, Tomorrow People…)
Classic TV section (this tends to be only one series: maybe the section names should be swapped?)
Gimme a Break!
The Greatest American Hero
Midsommer Murders
Doctor Who
McHale’s Navy
Highlander (strangely, this one appears to list the episode titles)
Dragnet
The Bob Newhart Show
The Rifleman
Degrassi TV
Gomer Pyle
Hogan’s Heroes
Dukes of Hazzard
My Three Sons
Rockford Files
Highway to Heaven
Bonanza
Renegade
Green Acres
The Commish
Sanford and Son
Moonlighting
The Man Show
The Jeffersons
Mission:Impossible
The Three Stooges
MXC (Most Extreme)
21 Jump treet
Barney Miller
Columbo
The Fugitive
My Little Margie
Bewitched
Perry Mason
The Streets of San Francisco
Are You Being Served
Classic Kids section
Classic Cartoons: Felix the Cat
90s Cartoons: Doug
80’s Cartoons: He-Man
70’s Cartoons: Fat Albert
Tom and Jerry TV
TV Shows
Encore+: The Odd Couple
Celebri-TEA: Actually Me
Talk Shows: Last Week with John Oliver
Bob Ross
How It’s Made
Reality section
Kitchen Night: Kitchen Nightmares
Judge TV: Divorce Court
OMGnetwork: Real and Chance
Reality Pleasure: Beauty and the Geek
Money Makers: Barter Kings
Conspiracy: The Exodus Decoded
Hell’s Kitchen
Hoarders
Ice Road Truckers
The Maury Show
Duck Dynasty
Comedy
David Spade
Shade: Wild N’ Out WildStyle
Comedy Central: Key & Peele
British Comedy: The Goodies
Just for Laughs
Food & Travel section
Wanderlust: Cambodia
Bon Appetit: Sweet Potato Casserole
Disaster Channel: Rogue Boeing 737
Open House: Property Virgins
Documentaries section
World Documentary: Cash: A Thing of the Past
Ancient Aliens
Wildlife: Natural Curiosities
Military: Starting Strong
Deep Space: Death of the Earth
Thriller section
True Crime: Mugshots
Medicale Detectives
Fright Night: Nightmare on Elm Street Kill Count Vol. 1
Paranormal: Ghost Stories
Real Stories: Too Posh to Pay
Crime Stoppers: Dog the Bounty Hunter
Crime Stoppers: Woman Behind Bars
Espanol section
TV Espanola: La Reina del Sur
TV Espanola: La Fea Mas Bella
TV Espanola: El Zorro la espada y la rosa
Captiva TV
Sports section
Rugby
Table Tennis
Climbing
Ultimate Frisbee
Gymanstics
Curling
Golf
Roller Derby (looks like contemporary)
Music Section
Music Videos: Guns N’Roses
Top of the Pops: TOTPS 1996 (on deck is TOTPS 1980)
Vintage Radio
Wow, right? 🙂
Note again that this just a snapshot right now: there will be different movies & TV shows when you check, and possibly different channels.
I’m confident that I can always find something on Airy.TV to watch…accessible to me anywhere.
I don’t know how much turnover there will be…it’s possible that six months from now, I feel like I’ve seen a lot of it, but that may not be the case. Besides, there is a lot available, and I don’t mind watching something more than once (with some time between viewings).
Does this replace my other services? Nope. There are definitely times I’m going to watch a particular show. However, it definitely supplements it, being a choice when I just want to have something on that I want to watch, and when I want to be surprised. A lot of what it has isn’t available on my other streaming services.
I’m truly happy that some people are saying Halloween 2020 was their best ever.
While I like to say that I have a genetic abnormality (I’m an optimist), I can’t say that for me.
That’s not to say I thought it was bad…I’m still me, even in 2020. 😉
However, this was the first year in my life that I didn’t, in person, see one other person (outside of my Significant Other) actually celebrating Halloween.
Nope, not a kid in a costume, not an adult in a costume.
As far as we could tell, no one got very near to our house. We thought we heard some people walking by one side, maybe across the street, but nothing triggered our doorcam.
Now, it’s understandable that they didn’t come up to the door: we strung signs across the walkways saying, “Sorry, no treats this year. Happy Halloween!”
However, we had decorated. We got a compliment on that ahead of time. I set up a rear projection on our front windows, which normally attracts some people.
Nothing.
It reminded me a bit of the Halloween when the Zodiac Killer was active. The previous year, we’d had hundreds of kids (we did somewhat elaborate “haunted houses”). That year? Under 50.
We normally get about 20 groups where we live now, but not this year.
So, what was fun?
We did a #Virtualloween at work, and it went really well! I was hosting and had put together the agenda. It was a video conference call, and everybody was in costume! Since it was virtual, several people also matched their backgrounds to their costumes.
We did trivia (hosted by someone else): that worked!
Then, we did virtual breakout rooms: smaller groups, where we talked about treats or costumes or decorating or books/TV/movies/music. That was more successful than I thought it was going to be! I should have allowed more time, but then it was
#Scaryoke
time!
We did Monster Mash and Ghostbusters. I was hoping people would sign up to take verses, but that didn’t happen much. That’s okay, I could take the lead (I do a good Monster Mash voice!). Others sang along, especially the choruses.
The houses were well-decorated in our neighborhood! I think more than usual. I’m also guessing that people will leave decorations up longer…it won’t surprise me if I see them a month from now…just as a distraction.
Another positive?
Great streaming options! Pretty much any type of Halloween related movie or TV show was available to me. Oh, not every title, but every type.
Summing up, I’m going to say it was the saddest Halloween for me…but there was still some good in it, and I’m already looking forward to next year!
Feel free to share how your Halloween was with me and my readers by commenting on this post or letting me know on Twitter (this will be tweeted automatically).
However, while I have added some descriptions there, it’s much more useful for readers who are already familiar with the movie titles. It has everything from kids’ movies to R-rated fare, and only separates them by streamer and time released.
I thought some of you might appreciate a shorter list divided by “moods”…if you aren’t familiar with them, it should help you pick something to watch, including depending on your audience.
All of these are available at no additional cost, meaning that they are either free or included in what you are paying for a streamer. This list is for the USA.
Note: I hope to keep adding to this! Please feel free to ask me about specific movies or for recommendations by commenting on this post or reaching out to me on Twitter https://twitter.com/bufocalvin
Last thing: we may not agree on the categorizations! Something I might consider mild you might find objectionable…and vice versa. 🙂
Spooky
These movies may be scary, but I would consider them appropriate for kids…no explicit sexual content or gore.
Dracula (1931): the Lugosi original (Peacock TV free)
Son of Frankenstein (1939): while a later entry, you can watch it without seeing the earlier ones. Karloff plays the monster, Lugosi is Ygor (Peacock TV free)
Dr. Cyclops (1940): mad scientist shrinks people (Peacock TV free)
Drive-In
It Came from Outer Space (1953): Jack Arnold directs Richard Carlson (Peacock TV free)
The Blob (1958): Steve McQueen (HBOMax)
The Killer Shrews (1959): (Prime Video, Tubi, Shout TV)
Weird
I think it’s better to approach these without me giving you any context…
Spider Baby (1967) (Prime Video)
Matango (1963) (Prime Video, Tubi)
The Manster (1959) (Prime Video, Tubi, Epix, Classic)
Highbrow
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) (Peacock TV free)
The Shout (1978) (Prime Video, Epix)
Funny
Zombieland (2009): (Peacock TV free)
A Bucket of Blood (1959) (Prime Video)
The Addams Family (1991) (Prime Video)
Addams Family Values (Prime Video)
I Married a Witch (1942): Veronica Lake stars in this movie that clearly influenced Bewitched (HBOMax, Watch TCM, The Criterion Channel)
Bell, Book and Candle (1958): Another influence on Bewitched, starring Jimmy Stewart & Kim Novak (Pluto)
Silent
Nosferatu (1922) (Prime Video)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Prime Video)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925): Lon Chaney (Prime Video)
Gonzo
The Devil’s Rain (Prime Video)
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (Prime Video)
Eco-Horror
Frogs (Prime Video)
Musical
If you think of musicals as Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, these aren’t that! They may be quite dark and/or have sexual content/violence…still, people sing along!
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1974): arguably, the ultimate cult movie! When Disney+ was launched, it was clearly parts of their Fox library weren’t going to show up there…Disney said they’d put them on Hulu. That’s where this one is (Hulu)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again (2016): Fox TV remake starring Laverne Cox (Hulu)
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008): Anthony Head, Paul Sorvino, Sarah Brightman: this has a Rocky Horror appeal, released a generation later. There’s a pandemic, but this has to do with a company repossessing organs (Prime Video, Tubi)
Anna and the Apocalypse (2017): it’s an R-rated high school zombie musical! (Prime Video, Hulu, Epix)
Socially relevant
The Stepford Wives (1975): Katharine Ross…based on Ira Levin’s book about gender relations (Prime Video, Tubi)
Screamers on streamers: Halloween gems on Netflix, Disney+, Prime, HBO Max, Peacock, and more!
There’s never been a better time to watch Halloween movies at home! With all the streamers (streaming video services) competing for audience, a lot of content which would have been hard to find is just a click (or remote button…or voice command, or…) away!
This time, I’m going to keep it high level, but break it down by streaming service. We subscribe to several (some are free perks for other services for which we pay), but they also generally offer a free trial…you might do that right before Halloween.
Note that these aren’t all the offerings…or all the streamers…or even all the ones I watch! That’s how many options there are. 🙂 If you want to add more suggestions, feel free to do so by commenting on this post (or on Twitter, if you see this there first). I may also add to it myself (including descriptions): I wanted to get this out for the weekend…getting close to Halloween!
One last note before we start unreeling: these are based on USA availability. I recommend the free app JustWatch: you can set your country and streaming services there.
Want to thank me for this? Please take a look at my suggestion on how to safely keep the trick-or-treat traditions going in 2020, and if you like it, share it freely…you don’t need to ask permission or even to attribute it to me. I love Halloween & just want to help:
Peacock(free tier, but I’ll also be including Peacock Premium here)
The Universal horror cycle which started in the 1930s: this is the crown jewel of Peacock for me, and possibly, of any of the streaming services 😉 . Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman…here’s my article on it: Home Film Festival: Universal Classic Horror on Peacock TV July 2020. These are available on the free tier unless I note them as PREMIUM
Dracula (1931): starring Bela Lugosi…the classic! (also on DIRECTV, Watch TCM)
Dracula’s Daughter (1936): starring Gloria Holden
Son of Dracula (1943): Lon Chaney Jr.
Frankenstein (1931) PREMIUM: Boris Karloff…it’s alive!
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935): includes Elsa Lanchester…routinely gets listed among superior sequels
The Ghost of Frankenstein 1942: Lon Chaney Jr. as “the monster”
Son of Frankenstein (1939): Boris Karloff is back as “the monster”, Bela Lugosi plays Ygor
Werewolf of London (1935): Henry Hull…years before the Lon Chaney Jr. definitive establishment of The Wolfman, some elements are in place
The Wolf Man (1941) PREMIUM: Lon Chaney Jr….Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man were all based on novels (although Dracula took a lot from the stage play based on the novel), while Curt Siodmak’s brilliant original script had many convinced it was based on existing folklore
The Invisible Man (1933): Claude Rains: directed by James Whale, it has humor, and clever writing…but still scary (also on IndieFlix)
The Invisible Man Returns (1940): Vincent Price is falsely accused of murder, but when he becomes invisible, he tries to clear his name
The Invisible Woman (1940): strictly a comedy with Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, and Margaret Hamilton
The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944): Jon Hall & John Carradine
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman
House of Dracula
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Abbott and Costello Meet The Invisible Man
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Phantom of the Opera (Claude Rains)
The Mummy PREMIUM
The Mummy’s Hand
The Mummy’s Ghost
The Mummy’s Curse
The Creature (from the Black Lagoon) Walks Among Us (the original movie had been on Peacock, but isn’t now: looks like it is on DIRECTV)
Here are some others (free tier & premium…if it’s premium only, I’ll note that):
Pre 1980
Island of Lost Souls PREMIUM: 1932, Charles Laughton is Doctor Moreau, Bela Lugosi is the Speaker of the Law…”Are we not men?”
The Incredible Shrinking Man (sci-fi horror): 1957, Grant Williams…this is a thoughtful movie, but I included it because it does have some horror to it, and it’s a great movie! Marginally Halloween, though
Brides of Dracula (Peter Cushing)
The Evil of Frankenstein (Peter Cushing)
The Phantom of the Opera (Herbert Lom)
It Came from Outer Space
The Curse of the Werewolf (Oliver Reed)
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Dr. Cyclops
The Raven
Night Monster (Bela Lugosi)
Psycho PREMIUM
The Birds PREMIUM
1980-2010
Sleepaway Camp
Dead Ringers
Hollow Man
House of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
The Grudge (2004)
Zombieland
Monster House
Hellboy II: Golden Army
Haunting in Connecticut
2011-
It Follows
Jigsaw
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (Spike Lee)
Final Girl
Tyler Perry’s Boo 2!
Bigfoot (Danny Bonaduce)
Zoombies
You Should Have Left PREMIUM
The Purge PREMIUM
R.I.P.D. PREMIUM
Prime Video
Pre 1980
Nosferatu (1922)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Phantom of the Opera (1925: Lon Chaney)
Don’t Look Now
Spider Baby
Dementia 13
The Comedy of Terrors
Vampire Circus
The Beast Must Die
Season of the Witch
The Day of the Triffids
The Shout
The House That Dripped Blood
Bug
Squirm
The Creeping Flesh
Twins of Evil
Frogs
A Bucket of Blood
Night Tide
Trilogy of Terror
Beyond the Door
Alligator
Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things
The Devil’s Rain (William Shatner)
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Planet of the Vampires
Phase IV
A Chinese Ghost Story
The Crazies (1973)
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Phantasm
Last House on the Left
The Stepford Wives (1975)
The Tenant
Diabolique
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
Matango
Manos: The Hands of Fate
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
Blacula
Lady in a Cage (Olivia de Havilland)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
Carnival of Souls
The Little Shop of Horrors
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Alice, Sweet Alice
1980-2010
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Night of the Demons
Q
Dead Heat (1988)
City of the Living Dead
Escape from New York
Humanoids from the Deep: 1996, Emma Samms, Robert Carradine…this is not a monster movie for kids, it’s an R-rated, raunchy Roger Corman produced movie
Labyrinth
Dance of the Dead
Mausoleum
Dolls
Waxwork (1988)
Lord of Illusion
Transylvania 6-5000
Witchboard
Bloodrayne
C.H.U.D.
Creature (1985: Klaus Kinski)
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)
Phenomena (Dario Argento)
The Addams Family (1991)
Addams Family Values
Resident Evil (2002)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Fright Night (1985)
Hellboy (2004)
Bride of Re-Animator
Poltergeist II
Wishmaster (1997)
The Gift (2000)
Little Monsters (1989)
Silent Hill (2006)
Monsters (2010)
30 Days of Night
Delicatessen
Ju-On The Grudge
Children of the Corn (1984)
The Mothman Prophecies
The Haunting (1999)
Vampires (John Carpenter)
I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
The Midnight Meat Train
The Stuff
The Relic
Motel Hell
My Bloody Valentine
Species
2011-
The Lighthouse (2019): Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe…an 1890s R-rated horror piece set at a lighthouse
Midsommar (2019): Florence Pugh, running afoul of an old religion today…reminded me a bit of The Wicker Man (R)
The Vast of Night (2020): Sierra McCormick…a thoughtful 1950s period piece about flying saucers and a small town radio station (PG-13)
Willow Creek (2013)
Hereditary (2018): Toni Colette (R)
Train to Busan
I See You
Crawl
Zombeavers
The Lazarus Effect
The Addams Family (2019 animated)
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
The Wailing
The Neon Demon
Child’s Play (2019)
Suspiria (2018)
Pet Sematary (2019)
The Love Witch (2016)
The Lords of Salem
Anna and the Apocalypse
Hatchet
Netflix
Pre 1980
The Car
1980-2010
The Silence of the Lambs (1991): Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins…lauded psychological horror with Dr. Hannibal Lecter (R)
Pan’s Labyrinth
Poltergeist
The Witches (1990)
The Evil Dead (1981)
Underworld
House of 1000 Corpses
Bhoot
Anaconda
The Witches (1990): Nicolas Roeg directs Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, and Rowan Atkinson in this version of the Roald Dahl story (there is a 2020 version, see HBO Max)
2011-
Dark Skies
House at the End of the Street
As Above, So Below
The Boy
Death Note (2017)
The Bye Bye Man
Hubie Halloween
Bird Box
Veronica
In the Tall Grass
Apollo 18
Vampires vs. the Bronx
The Girl with All the Gifts
It Comes at Night
Disney+
Pre 1980
Ichabod and Mister Toad
Blackbeard’s Ghost
1980-2010
Hocus Pocus: an annual watch event for many…Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy
The Haunted Mansion
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Return to Oz (very scary: I’d call it a horror movie)
Halloweentown
Monsters, Inc.
Twitches
Mr. Boogedy
Mom’s Got a Date with a Vampire
The Scream Team
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
2011-
Maleficent
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Frankenweenie
Girl vs. Monster
Coco
Zombies
HBOMax
Pre 1980
Jaws (1975): Roy Scheider…Spielberg’s movie that really established the summer blockbuster. I’ve always felt it was a monster movie, although I know others disagree (PG-13)
Vampyr (1932)
I Married a Witch
Alien (1979): Ridley Scott directs Sigourney Weaver in the original series starter…in space, no one can hear you scream (R)
Carnival of Souls
House (1977)
Night of the Living Dead
Scanners
Blithe Spirit
Day of the Dead
The Blob (1958)
Eyes Without a Face
The Brood
Piranha
Magic
Equinox
Kwaidan
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Horror of Dracula (1958: Christopher Lee)
Godzilla (1954)
Many Godzilla and other Kaiju movies!
1981-2010
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
The Haunting (1999)
Vampire in Brooklyn
Lifeforce
I Was a Teenage Zombie
Dreamscape
Leprechaun
The Hitcher (1986)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Constantine
Teen Witch
Signs
Death Becomes Her
Scooby-Doo (2002)
The Frighteners
Jeepers Creepers
The Ruins
Devil
2011-
The Invisible Man (2020): Elizabeth Moss…Universal’s modern take focuses on a woman not being believed (also on DIRECTV)
Red Riding Hood (2011)
The Devil Inside
Doctor Sleep (2019): Ewan McGregor, long-awaited sequel to The Shining has a grown-up Danny (R)
Us (2019): Jordan Peele writes and directs Lupita Nyong’o in a movie about identity (R)
It Chapter II
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
The Conjuring 2
The Curse of La Llarona
The Witches (2020): Robert Zemeckis directs Anne Hathaway & Octavia Spencer is this new version of he Roald Dahl story (Guillermo del Toro is a producer & co-screenwriter). The 1990 version is on Netflix
Hulu
Pre 1980
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1974-R): cult tribute to old horror and sci-fi that is so much more, including an iconic performance by Tim Curry….they also have the 2016 version with Laverne Cox
1980-2010
Twilight (2008): Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner…series starter based on the bestselling books about modern vampires & werewolves (PG-13) (also on The Roku Channel)
The Host
Interview with the Vampire
Let the Right One In
Hellraiser
Children of the Corn
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (the Olsen Twins)
2011-
The Lodge
Crawl
The Addams Family (animated 1999)
Cabin in the Woods (2012)
The Wretched
Child’s Play (2019)
Wolfcop
I, Frankenstein
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again (new version with Laverne Cox in the role Tim Curry originated)
Tubi
Pre 1980
Suspiria (1977)
The Crazies (1973)
The Boys from Brazil
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Night of the Living Dead
Beyond the Door
War of the Colossal Beast
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
The Gorgon
Dracula (Jack Palance)
The Angry Red Planet
Schlock
Attack of the Crab Monsters
The Medusa Touch (Richard Burton)
Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors
Demon Seed
Devil’s Rain
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
The Day of the Triffids
Squirm
Horror Express
Destroy All Monsters
The Creeping Flesh
Blood Feast
The Tingler
A Bucket of Blood
Night Tide
Phantasm
The Stepford Wives (1975)
Nosferatu (1922)
Nosferatu: The Vampire (1979)
The Cabinet of Caligari (1920)
Black Christmas
Carnival of Souls
Plan 9 from Outer Space
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
Rabid
Cat O’Nine Tails
Black Sunday
Blood for Dracula
The House That Dripped Blood
Spider Baby
The Beast Must Die
Season of the Witch
20 Million Miles to Earth
Day of the Animals
Dementia 13
Gargoyles
Scream Blacula Scream
Vampire Circus
Thirst
Eaten Alive (1976)
Matango
Manos: The Hands of Fate
Shock Wave
1980-2010
The Descent
The Dunwich Horror
Let the Right One In
Witchtrap
It Waits
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Hellraiser
Mausoleum
Dance of the Dead
Hell Night
Vamp
Wishmaster
The Uninvited (2009)
Basket Case
Bones
Forbidden World
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Little Monsters
Dog Soldiers
Stage Fright
Once Bitten
Waxwork
Witchboard
C.H.U.D.
Wraith
City of the Living Dead
Creature
Repo! The Genetic Opera
The Haunting (1999)
Bubba Ho-Tep
Night Breed
Hatchet
Ju-On The Grudge
Children of the Corn
Killer Klowns from OUter Space
Battle Royale (2000)
Ginger Snaps
Rubber
Troll Hunter
House of 1000 Corpses
Sleepaway Camp
30 Days of Night
Re-Animator
The Return of the Living Dead
The Stuff
Chopping Mall
House (1985)
Lair of the White Worm
The Ninth Configuration
Cloverfield
Teeth
An American Werewolf in Paris
Day of the Dead (1985)
Humanoids fro the Deep
The Midnight Meat Train
2011-
Train to Busan: Korean movie about martial law imposed because of an epidemic
The Host
Wolf Cop
Chillerama
Evil Dead (2013)
Cockneys vs Zombies
The Wailing
Tales of Halloween
Zombeavers
The Mothman of Point Pleasant
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
The Void
The Last Witch Hunter
That should satisfy pretty much anybody’s Halloween movie needs! Feel free to add more by commenting on this post or replying on Twitter.
Want to thank me for this? Please take a look at my suggestion on how to safely keep the trick-or-treat traditions going in 2020, and if you like it, share it freely…you don’t need to ask permission or even to attribute it to me. I love Halloween & just want to help:
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