My Week in Movies: October 25 - 31

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Spooky season is over! sol_se and I ended up watching 50 spooky movies over the course of the month. Plus, we're still in a spooky mood, so there may be more to come.

I finished all the DLC for Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. I started Assassin's Creed III, which came free with Odyssey, but realized I'd rather be back in Ancient Greece. Yes, I started a New Game+ for Assassin's Creed: Odyssey.

I finally finished The Wicked + the Divine. I'm not sure I fully understood it. Something about stories being traps? I still liked it a great deal.

Movies I've seen before are in italics

Tales of Terror (1962)
The Haunted Palace (1963)
Twice-Told Tales (1963)
Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (1970)
Halloween (1978)
Halloween II (1981)
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Halloween 5 (1989)
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (Producer's Cut) (1995)
Halloween H20 (1998)
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Halloween (2018)
Prom Night (1980)
The Fog (1980)
Terror Train (1980)

We finished off the Corman-Poe-Price series (less The Raven, which we'd both watched before). I think Pit and the Pendulum is still my favorite, followed by The Raven. Tomb of Ligeia, despite being very pretty, is also very dull.

Twice-Told Tales is interesting in that it tries to make a horror anthology out of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The stories are mostly just Twilight Zone tales in the 19th Century. Vincent Price is a bastard in each one.

I really enjoyed An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (which I watched solo). Vincent Price gives some very spirited readings to three Poe tales, one of which (The Sphinx) I was unfamiliar with.

I took Thursday off of work (I usually have Friday-Saturday off) so that we could really binge horror. We watched the entire Halloween (Michael Myers) series (less the Rob Zombie reboot). My ranking:

1. Halloween (1978)
2. Halloween (2018)
3. Halloween H20
4. Halloween 4
5. Halloween 2
6. Halloween 5
7. Halloween 6
8. Halloween: Resurrection

For something a little different, here's my ranking of the Michael Myers masks:

1. Halloween (1978)
2. Halloween II
3. Halloween (2018)
4. Halloween H20
5. Halloween: Resurrection
6. Halloween 4
7. Halloween 6
8. Halloween 5

Seriously, the Halloween 5 mask had a neck frill. Made him look like a Cardassian.

We finished off Halloween with a trilogy of Jamie Lee Curtis 1980 horror films. None of them are spectacular (The Fog is probably the best of the bunch), but they were fun.