Horrorbound Halloween 2021 Watch List: Week 5
Welcome back to the fifth and final week of Horrorbound’s Halloween 2021 Watch List where we suggest one movie each day for the month of October that is easily streamable for your enjoyment. There are seven movies to cover in this week’s article so let’s skip the introductions and get right into it.
Monday October 25th
Teeth - Amazon Prime
Teeth is one of those movies that maybe you’ve heard about but never watched, do yourself a favor this Halloween season and watch this absolutely crazy film. Yes, the rumors are true, the film is about a young girl who has teeth in a very inconvenient place and explores all the pitfalls of being afflicted with this bizarre sort of condition. I’ve watched this one a few times and I am still uncertain if this is intentionally a comedy or not, either way, it’s absolutely amazing and well worth the watch.
Tuesday October 26th
Wilding - Netflix
I really hate spoilers but I needed to think of a clever way to get you to go out and watch this movie, unfortunately the best I could come up with is “It’s like Ginger Snaps, but seated firmly in reality.” Not that the events of Ginger Snaps is outside of the realm of possibility, it is set in Canada after all and god knows what goes on up there, but if there was a girl who was secretly transforming into a lycanthropic creature it would probably look more like Wildling. It’s one of those horror movies that is heavy on the character drama and light on the scares, but when the gore is present, it’s absolutely top notch.
Wednesday October 27th
Blood Red Sky - Netflix
Another movie with a legendary supernatural creature with unavoidable spoilers is Blood Red Sky. And oh yeah, it’s about a Vampire on an airplane fighting terrorist hijackers. You see? Sometimes a small spoiler is necessary to lure you into the film but what hooks you on this one is the human drama behind all of it. The main character isn’t just some ordinary vampire, she’s a mother of a human child and doing her best to raise her child and deal with her condition at the same time. This is one of my top horror films for 2021 and for good reason. The acting is top notch, the effects are amazing, there are gallons of blood which mixed with a few twists and turns in the story make for something truly special. Not to mention that it’s in three different languages, which is always cool.
Thursday October 28th
Ms .45 - TubiTV
Perhaps the most infamous film of the rape-revenge subgenre of horror as it takes all the aspects of those types of films and cranks everything up to 11. The film follows a mute seamstress in New York City who is raped twice in the same day and decides enough is enough and goes and gets herself a gun. After that, all bets are off. She murders random men for almost no reason at all, she has an old west shootout/kung-fu showdown with a ninja gang armed with num-chuks in central park and just when you think it couldn't get any more insane, she dresses up like a nun and murders like 20 people at a fancy costume party. Ms .45 is a wild ride from start to finish, check it out now.
Friday October 29th
Velocipastor - Amazon Prime
I once said that “Velocipastor is one the best rom-coms of all time” and I meant it. I love this movie and you should love this movie too. Why? Because it’s 10 times better than its name would imply and its name implies a whole fucking lot. Usually I praise low budget films for dumping the entire budget into the special effects department but this film does the exact opposite. The special effects are atrocious but the acting, story and characters are top notch. Enjoy this one today with your family if you can.
Saturday October 30th
Return of the Living Dead - HBOMax
There are a million billion things I could say about why I love this film so much but I will keep it simple and just list one that I’ve been thinking about since the last time I watched it. This film is basically a big ole punk rock middle finger to George A. Romero and the original film. George’s films were this whole social commentary about race, gender roles, the wealthy elites, the military industrial complex and conspicuous consumerism while Return of the Living Dead is basically about Linnea Quigley doing a naked graveyard dance. Everything about the characters is the inverse of the Romero living dead series, the cheap business owners, the bumbling government officials, the brain dead punks, the Nazi mortician and even the whacky Zombies talking about brains and requesting the dispatcher to “send more cops”. To me at least, it just seems like the creative team was looking back at George A. Romero and saying “Ok, how can we piss George off?”
…But I could just be reading too much into it.
Sunday October 31st
Night of the Living Dead - Amazon Prime, TubiTV
Ahh yes! The original, the OG, the classic, the all powerful Night of the Living Dead. If the creative team behind Return of the Living Dead were really giving the middle finger to George A. Romero’s classic it’s because they recognized its power and cultural impacts. Horror, as it exists today, would not exist if it were not for Night of the Living Dead. Before this film there was really nothing, sure William Castle and Hammer Horror were making some gothic horror films with Dracula in a creepy old castle, but there was nothing like Romero’s zombies or the image displayed on screen. I am of the opinion that if there was no Night of the Living Dead, there is no Exorcist, there is no Texas Chainsaw Massacre and there is no Halloween, and if there is no Halloween the movie, then there is no Halloween the holiday.
For those who have followed along with this series I hope you have enjoyed it and if you’ve been following along on our YouTube channel for daily recommendations, I’m very sorry for the things I have said, except for the things I said about Eight Legged Freaks and Phantasm.
Until next year. Happy Halloween!
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