Going with an older one myself for #Movie16 and in honor of my family trip to Illinois yesterday, it's 1957's Beginning of the End! If I've seen this one before, I've repressed all memory of it. Giant locusts menace Chicago! #61MoviesOfHalloween

Well, mostly made up for those things. Anyway, for #Movie15, I'm going with that classic genre: slapstick mystery thriller, with 1941's The Ghost Train. 10 minutes in and I gotta say, I'm not sure the humor lands in quite the same way 85 years on. #61MoviesOfHalloween @republicandalek.bsky.social

Clearly I needed a palate cleanser and banking another one is just good practice, so I followed that with the short film "Again". 16:19 in duration and the credits start at 16:00 so we're good on time. This was part of a "best horror shorts of 2026" playlist on YouTube. #Movie13 #61MoviesOfHalloween

Sorry, that was totally the wrong link, that was a copy-paste from earlier in the day when I was <gasp> working. Here's the right one!

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#Movie12 #61MoviesOfHalloween @republicandalek.bsky.social

Richard Moll does show up as a fun recurring motif so it does have that going for it. #Movie12 #61MoviesOfHalloween @republicandalek.bsky.social

Not sure even Joe Bob would want to prolong the experience of this one. It's so so bad. And don't even get me started on the weird music video going on in the connecting story. #61MoviesOfHalloween

Well, at least that's surreal. In Night of the Big Heat, <spoiler alert> after an entire movie of build up, after killing off almost everyone, when the situation looks the most dire for Our Intrepid, Um, People, the aliens are vanquished by.... rain. It just... rains on them. #61MoviesOfHalloween

Correction! This movie was cobbled together with pieces of unfinished horror and porn movies. Not even sure Joe Bob could count all the breasts in this movie. #Movie12 #61MoviesOfHalloween @republicandalek.bsky.social

While I'm waiting for "more on The Prophecy", #Movie12 tonight is Night Train to Terror, because someone actually said "hey we have all these unfinished/unreleased horror movies, let's cobble them together into one movie!" and I somehow missed it. #61MoviesOfHalloween @republicandalek.bsky.social

And we're starting off strong with one of the least sexy screen kisses I've ever seen! #Movie11 #61MoviesOfHalloween

My first movie from the 60s is #Movie11 and is also, somehow, new to me! Night of the Big Heat, starring that madcap duo Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. It also has one of the best Italian movie posters I've seen. #61MoviesOfHalloween

Both of them qualify as "genuinely regarded as folk horror" and "new to me", which means I have ticked 3 of those 4 boxes. And it's only September 9th! #61MoviesOfHalloween

I'm not sure how I feel about haunted spoons. I'm also not sure how I feel about the two films I watched today, both from an old BBC program called Play for Today. Banking one for future unforeseen circumstances - #Movie9 was Robin Redbreast and #Movie10 was Penda's Fen. #61MoviesOfHalloween

Speaking of silly, my #Movie8 is the Rifftrax version of The Beast of the Yellow Night. Unfortunately, it doesn't qualify as a Creature Feature, and I'm considering suing... someone... for false advertising. #61MoviesOfHalloween

Mmmmm, lox. Meanwhile I am watching my first Creature Feature of #61MoviesOfHalloween - The Yeti! Turned out a lot better than the last movie I watched where the writer/director was also one of the actors. A LOT better. #Movie7

My pick for #Movie6 of #61MoviesOfHalloween is Baffled (which may or may not have an exclamation point, it's not clear). It's an occult mystery film starring Leonard Nimoy, which was supposed to be the pilot for a TV series, but wasn't. The jarringly jaunty opening credits give you a clue as to why.

It's not WNUF Halloween Special tho. #61MoviesOfHalloween

I think I saw a remake of #Movie5 a few years back, but for my first of two 1990s films, I selected Tesis because who doesn't like to watch a movie about snuff films on a gray Saturday afternoon? @mcmetalmom.bsky.social @republicandalek.bsky.social #61MoviesOfHalloween