Danse Macabre: The 2025 Halloween Horror Thread

[lovecraft68]

Starting a little early as I may not be around first week of October. That and its Halloween all year long for me anyway.

A thread for anything horror, dark or morbid.

Going to kick off on a light note. If you grew up in the 70's its likely one of your first sources of ghosts and ghouls was this classic. 2025 and Scoob and the gang are still going strong but it all started here

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Besides a couple of questionable horror movies on TV, I can't say that I've had many opportunities to watch horror as a kid. I certainly didn't like it at the time.

All of that changed when I discovered https://en.sergiobonelli.it/section/2563/dylan-dog

The subtle and often philosophical horror in those comics gave birth to a steady appreciation for the genre.

 

[Erozetta]

I will be going to see Evil Dead in concert this year, but I'm not saying when, lol. To narrow it down, it will be either MA, NH, CT or RI as they are all within driving distance of me, it's just a matter of which night I can get off work.


Last year I got to see The Crow and Nightmare on Elm Street on film in a theater around Halloween. Sadly the talk on horror and healing from trauma before NOES got cancelled.

 

[Erozetta]

Besides a couple of questionable horror movies on TV, I can't say that I've had many opportunities to watch horror as a kid. I certainly didn't like it at the time.

All of that changed when I discovered https://en.sergiobonelli.it/section/2563/dylan-dog

The subtle and often philosophical horror in those comics gave birth to a steady appreciation for the genre.

My favorite horror comic is Hack/Slash

 

[lovecraft68]

My favorite horror comic is Hack/SlashView attachment 2565952

That was huge when I had the shop, great title.

 

[lovecraft68]

In the past I didn't post things like this in these threads but it seems true crime podcasts are all the rage these days so here's one that occurred about an hour from where I live.

Tony Costa, the Vampire of Cape Cod

 

[lovecraft68]

I always mention this one and always will. A huge influence on me, and I honored it by naming my first horror novel after it.

The first horror themed metal album that tells a story start to finish.

1987's Abigail by King Diamond

 

[AwkwardlySet]

My favorite horror comic is Hack/SlashView attachment 2565952

First time I see that comic. Then again, I'm only familiar with the most popular US comics.

 

[lovecraft68]

Alter, a fantastic channel for short indy horror films

https://www.youtube.com/c/WatchALTER

 

[lovecraft68]

Audio of The Call of Cthulhu

 

[lovecraft68]

The Darker side of Tolkien: Ungoliant

 

[lovecraft68]

More Tolkien: The Nameless Things

 

[Erozetta]

That was huge when I had the shop, great title.

I learned about it just a few years ago. A friend sent me a copy of one with a note that Cassie's take on life and general attitude reminded him of me and Vlad reminded him of another of our friends.

I need to give it a re-read, it's been a while.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Besides a couple of questionable horror movies on TV, I can't say that I've had many opportunities to watch horror as a kid. I certainly didn't like it at the time.

All of that changed when I discovered https://en.sergiobonelli.it/section/2563/dylan-dog

The subtle and often philosophical horror in those comics gave birth to a steady appreciation for the genre.

Unpopular opinion, but I really liked the movie they made based on that. It would have made a wonderfully fun TV series.

 

[lovecraft68]

Long before the X-Files there was Kolchak The Nightstalker.

The show spun off from the movie of the same name and featured a reporter who encountered various supernatural situations

 

[lovecraft68]

This is the one that started me off on the path of horror. Watched it from behind the couch when my parents thought I was sleeping. A Drop of Water directed by legend Mario Bava

For years after seeing this the sound of a dripping faucet would freak me out and there were times I'd walk into a room and think "What if that dead woman's in the bed?"

 

[lovecraft68]

The true story behind the Blair Witch legend

 

[dirk2024]

Long before the X-Files there was Kolchak The Nightstalker.

I loved this show!


Another one that I grew up with was Bob Wilkins who hosted the Creatures Features, late on Saturday night in the 60's and 70's. He showed horror movies from the 50's and 60's. Anything from Godzilla to Vincent Price's Dracula.

 

[lovecraft68]

Finally, a boy band I could listen to

 

[lovecraft68]

Rob Zombie Werewolf, Baby

 

[lovecraft68]

Back in 1981 this scene blew people away. Still holds up better than some of today's CGI

 

[lovecraft68]

This is one I always enjoy posting.

From the original Night of the Demons

Angela's classic possession dance to Bahuas Stigmata Martyrr

Trivia: The actress who played Angela, Mimi Kincaide, is a professional dancer who starred as the lead dancer in Stray Cats Sexy and Seventeen.

 

[lovecraft68]

I was ragging on Anne Rice's wimpy whiny vamps in another thread the other day.

This is more like it. The lunaic vamps from Near Dark

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Unpopular opinion, but I really liked the movie they made based on that. It would have made a wonderfully fun TV series.

Meh. I saw the movie. But they failed to capture both the character and the atmosphere of the comic. It was a weak attempt. But I'm glad they thought the character and the comic were big enough to make a mainstream movie about it. It's something, at least.

 

[lovecraft68]

Swamp Thing #29 published in 1984 became the first comic book to be released without the approval of the Comics Code authority. It broke the rule of not bringing the dead back to life rolleyes that was instituted with the code in 1954 thanks to Frederic Wertham.

Alan Moore's revival of the title and returning it to its horror roots was selling like wildfire so DC said piss off. This would soon lead to them creating the Vertigo line of comics in case they had much blacklash.