October 2024 Update

Happy Halloween! 👻🧛🐺👺👿💀☽☾🌗🌘🌙🌛🌜🌝🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🥮

Unfortunately, I haven't watched any of my favourite horror and Halloween-themed movies this year. I've had no time, though I've caught up on some new horror and Halloween films. But I have been reading a lot of horror and Halloween books and comics - a few more reviews should be coming up next month, while it's still autumn!

I love this time of year. I love Halloween. I love the atmosphere. The wonderful, magical, rich, pumpkin-y, spicy, pumpkin spice, orange-leaves-and-cafés atmosphere. I love dressing up, especially as a witch! It's cheering me up. It's helping my mental health (sadly I'm still mostly depressed, anxious, fearful and obsessive). It's healing.

Here's me this year:

To close things off, my list of favourite Halloween films, updated as of 2024:

26. Near Dark (1987)

25. Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

24. Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

23. The Craft: Legacy (2020)

22. Black Christmas (2019)

21. Till Death (2021)

20. Jennifer's Body (2009)

19. Dracula's Daughter (1936)

18. Assassination Nation (2018)

17. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

16. Crimson Peak (2015)

15. Daphne & Velma (2018)

14. The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

13. Interview with the Vampire (1994)

12. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

11. Carrie (1976)

10. Mary Shelley (2017)

9. Ghostbusters (aka Ghostbusters: Answer the Call) (2016)

8. Black Swan (2010)

7. Corpse Bride (2005)

6. ParaNorman (2012)

5. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

4. Return to Oz (1985)

3. Coraline (2009)

2. The Love Witch (2016)

1. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

This Halloween post from two years ago feels relevant still.

PLEASE remember to take care. Take care of yourselves and others. NEVER STOP CARING. NEVER FORGET MORALITY AND YOUR CONSCIENCE. Remember love and kindness. And change, and creativity, and new things. Never be afraid of progress, and change for the better. The betterment and safety of others.

Staying nice, polite, kind, caring, empathetic and understanding in the face of all evil and hopelessness is a true magical power.