SHOCKtober: 760-733

Folks, let me just say that I love the list. I love the list! During submissions month and every day of SHOCKtober proper, I get so pumped for horror movies. I want to watch everything right this minute--all the things I should have seen by now but haven't, the things I've already seen a million times, the things that are completely new to me in every which way...it's just the best. So let's get to today's chunk-o-list and get jazzed, shall we?

Each of the following films received one vote each.

760. The Shallows – 2016, Jaume Collet-Serra

759. The Sender – 1982, Roger Christian

758. The Satanic Rites of Dracula – 1973, Alan Gibson

757. The Sadness – 2021, Rob Jabbaz

756. The Ruins – 2008, Carter Smith

755. The Return of the Vampire – 1943, Lew Landers

754. The Raven -- 1963, Roger Corman

753. The Prophecy – 1995, Gregory Widen

752. The Poughkeepsie Tapes – 2007, John Erick Dowdle

751. The Perfection – 2018, Richard Shepard

750. The Outwaters – 2022, Robbie Banfitch

749. The Ninth Gate -- 1999, Roman Polanski

748. The Night Strangler -- 1973, Dan Curtis

747. The Mummy – 1959, Terence Fisher

746. The Mummy – 1999, Stephen Sommers

745. The Mothman Prophecies – 2002, Mark Pellington

744. The Midnight Hour – 1985, Jack Bender

743. The Mafu Cage – 1978, Karen Arthur 

742. The Mad Magician – 1954, John Brahm

741. The Lure – 2015, Agnieszka Smoczynska

740. The Legend of Lizzie Borden – 1975, Paul Wendkos

739. The Legend of Hell House – 1973, John Hough

738. The Legend of Boggy Creek – 1972, Charles B Pierce

737. The Legacy – 1978, Richard Marquand

736. The Last Voyage of the Demeter – 2023, André Øvredal

735. The Last Man on Earth – 1964, Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow

734. The Killer Shrews -- 1959, Ray Kellogg

733. The Keep – 1983, Michael Mann

• Just look at that ad. Just look at that cast. Just look at me, sitting here wondering why I've never seen The Midnight Hour when it feels like it was assembled from the magnetic poetry of my mind.
• How is The Lure almost ten years old? What is time? PS if you have never seen the absolute manic delight that is The Lure...stop whatever it is you're doing after reading the rest of this scintillating blog post and go watch The Lure! PLEASE!
• A reader on The Killer Shrews: "No budget, but lots of gumption. Has one jump scare that always gets me."
• This list always gives me big ideas about future SHOCKtobers and non-SHOCKtober events. You know, like "Ooh I should do all Vincent Price movies!" or "Ooh I should do all the Corman Poe movies!" or "Ooh a made-for-TV month!" or "Ooh a black and white month!" or or or.
• Will I ever see The Sadness? I am intrigued but I think it will be too much for me.
• I LOVE THE LEGACY! Yes, I had to shout that. There is just something about it that induces seriously good feelings. I think I saw it on a creature double feature or something when I was a kid and it really got me: the swimming pool scene, the creepy beef jerky fingers reaching out from behind the curtain...the whole thing was eerie English countryside vibes. It's still so good but now, of course, I'm really into the sweaters. And Sam Elliott and Kathryn Ross. And the beef jerky fingers. And, as I wrote once upon a time, all the ways Nurse Adams compares to Rebecca's Mrs Danvers. But did Mrs Danvers ever turn into a cat? NO. Checkmate, Daphne DuMaurier. The Legacy rules.