SHOCKtober: 256-229

Move over (in Heaven), Del Rubio triplets, we've got to make room for more SHOCKtober triplets! (But don't move over too far, we will need your services when Winter arrives because honestly the SHOCKtober triplets aren't much for caroling.) Each of the following films received three votes!

256. Them! – 1954, Gordon Douglas

255. The Watcher in the Woods – 1980, John Hough and Vincent McEveety

254. The Sixth Sense – 1999, M. Night Shyamalan

253. The Seventh Victim – 1943, Mark Robson

252. The Old Dark House – 1932, James Whale

251. The Night Stalker – 1972, John Llewellyn Moxey

250. The Night House – 2020, David Bruckner

249. The Mist – 2007, Frank Darabont

248. The Menu – 2022, Mark Mylod

247. The Innkeepers – 2011, Ti West

246. The Host – 2006, Bong Joon Ho

245. The Funhouse – 1981, Tobe Hooper

244. The Empty Man – 2020, David Prior

243. The Devils – 1971, Ken Russell

242. The Amityville Horror – 1979, Stuart Rosenberg

241. Society – 1989, Brian Yuzna

240. Slumber Party Massacre II – 1987, Deborah Brock 

239. Skinamarink – 2022, Kyle Edward Ball

238. Rebecca – 1940 Alfred Hitchcock

237. Ravenous – 1999, Antonia Bird

236. Peeping Tom – 1960, Michael Powell

235. Orphan – 2009, Jaume Collet-Serra

234. Nosferatu the Vampyre – 1979, Werner Herzog

233. Motel Hell – 1980, Kevin Connor

232. Men – 2022, Alex Garland

231. Martin – 1977, George A. Romero 

230. Malignant – 2021, James Wan

229. Little Shop of Horrors – 1986, Frank Oz

• A reader on Nosferatu the Vampyre: "It’s not all that good, actually, but Kinski is the best Dracula—terrifying, revolting, and pathetic all at once." (A bold stance! One that gives me an idea...)
• Skinamarink is one of the more divisive horror movies in...uh, ever. I've read many a comment about how it is so evocative for some viewers, incredibly unsettling if not downright terrifying. But if it doesn't tap into that part of your nervous system for whatever reason, you are like me--that is, currently on the lam after angrily burning down the movie theatre you saw Skinamarink in. (I hope the police aren't reading this!) I really wished it worked for me. Maybe I'll try again in a few years.
• Why oh why is The Watcher in the Woods so very unavailable? Is it in the Disney vault or some shit...? You would think that a movie featuring Bette Davis and Kyle Richards would be showing on a 24-hour loop everyday forever. I haven't seen it in a hot...couple of decades and I'm all steamed up that it's nowhere to be found.
• The Night House is so good and has some really scary bits, but the real reason you should watch is because Rebecca Hall is such an incredible actress. She does this monologue in a bar and...just watch The Night House!
• I love to see so many goldie oldies listed throughout SHOCKtober. The Old Dark House is creeping up on 100 and it's still so much damn fun. The Seventh Victim is a wee bit younger and it's still so damn bleak. Rebecca is their middle sibling and it's still so damn perfect.
• Margot Kidder and James Brolin in The Amityville Horror: one of horror's most babealicious couples of all time. Of course there are other things to love in that film, including but not limited to the giant, purple, demonic pig and the completely over-the-top sound effects of the screeching tires/puking nun combo, which I will never ever grow tired of, even if I live to 1,000,000: