October 2018 Marathon
by MetalunaZombie | created - 03 Sep 2018 | updated - 26 Jun 2022 | Publicno Halloween in Europe, and people are boring and don't celebrate it, so I set myself a goal to watch as many movies as possible that month to make up for the lack of festivities
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1. The Dead Don't Die (1975 TV Movie)
74 min | Horror, Thriller
In the 1930s, a sailor trying to prove that his brother was wrongly executed for murder finds himself becoming drawn in the occult world.
Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: George Hamilton, Linda Cristal, Joan Blondell, Ralph Meeker
Votes: 380
2. The Omega Man (1971)
PG | 98 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Dr Robert Neville has developed an experimental vaccine which makes him the only immune survivor of a biological catastrophe. A gang of homicidal mutants blame science for their condition and attempt to kill him.
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo
Votes: 34,088 | Gross: $8.72M
3. Craze (1974)
R | 96 min | Thriller
A nutty antiques dealer starts to sacrifice women to an African idol.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Jack Palance, Diana Dors, Julie Ege, Edith Evans
Votes: 696
4. The Comeback (1978)
R | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A singer holes up at a sinister estate to write new songs for his act. The ghost of his murdered wife begins to haunt him, then the person who actually killed her shows up at the mansion.
Director: Pete Walker | Stars: Jack Jones, Pamela Stephenson, David Doyle, Bill Owen
Votes: 1,305
5. Play Dead (1983)
R | 86 min | Drama, Horror
A rich, elderly woman casts black magic spells on her vicious Rottweiler to murder her relatives.
Director: Peter Wittman | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Stephanie Dunnam, David Cullinane, Glenn Kezer
Votes: 454
6. Necromancy (1972)
PG | 83 min | Horror
Mr. Cato is the head of a witches' coven in the town of Lilith, where he needs the powers of Lori Brandon to raise his son from the dead.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Orson Welles, Pamela Franklin, Lee Purcell, Michael Ontkean
Votes: 1,057
7. Future War (1997 Video)
Unrated | 90 min | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A run-away human slave from Earth's future escapes to the present.
Director: Anthony Doublin | Stars: Daniel Bernhardt, Robert Z'Dar, Travis Brooks Stewart, Kazja
Votes: 4,459
8. Appointment with Fear (1985)
R | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror
A man under the influence of an ancient Egyptian curse uses astral projection to kill those who protect his baby son from him. A woman and a shady cop try to stop him before he can get to the child and transfer the curse.
Director: Ramsey Thomas | Stars: Michele Little, Michael Wyle, Kerry Remsen, Douglas Rowe
Votes: 348
9. The House That Screamed (1969)
GP | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A strict headmistress runs a secluded school for wayward girls in 19th century France, whose students are disappearing under mysterious circumstances.
Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder-Brown, Maribel Martín
Votes: 4,129
10. The Return of the Exorcist (1975)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror
A priest becomes involved in demonology and exorcisms.
Directors: Angelo Pannacciò, Luca Damiano | Stars: Richard Conte, Françoise Prévost, Elisabeth Tulin, Patrizia Gori
Votes: 340
11. The Hanging Woman (1973)
R | 98 min | Horror
A man discovers the corpse of a young woman hanging in a cemetery.
Director: José Luis Merino | Stars: Stelvio Rosi, Maria Pia Conte, Dyanik Zurakowska, Pasquale Basile
Votes: 936 | Gross: $0.17M
12. Don't Hang Up (1974)
PG | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
In this horror movie, a dutiful grand-daughter goes home to take care of her elderly grandmother. Once there, she finds herself trapped inside the house with a homicidal maniac.
Director: S.F. Brownrigg | Stars: Susan Bracken, Larry O'Dwyer, Gene Ross, James N. Harrell
Votes: 642
13. Doctor X (1932)
Unrated | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy, Preston Foster
Votes: 4,266 | Gross: $0.88M
14. The Return of Doctor X (1939)
Passed | 62 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A hotshot reporter and a young doctor team up to investigate a series of grisly murders and a mysterious sample of synthetic blood.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris, Dennis Morgan
Votes: 2,559
15. The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942)
Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A mad scientist is forced to leave San Francisco when his experiments become known. He lands on a tropical island, takes control and terrorizes the local populace. The survivor of a ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Una Merkel, Lionel Atwill, Nat Pendleton, Claire Dodd
Votes: 552
16. The Black Room (1935)
Passed | 68 min | Horror
Ignoring an ancient prophecy, evil brother Gregor seeks to maintain his feudal power on his his Tyrolean estate by murdering and impersonating his benevolent younger twin.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Boris Karloff, Marian Marsh, Robert Allen, Thurston Hall
Votes: 2,255
17. The Child (1977)
R | 82 min | Horror
A newly hired housekeeper arrives to her employer's house in the countryside. She slowly discovers that the only child in the house, an eleven-year-old girl, hides a deadly secret.
Director: Robert Voskanian | Stars: Laurel Barnett, Rosalie Cole, Frank Janson, Richard Hanners
Votes: 1,442
18. Link (1986)
R | 103 min | Horror
When a female zoology student is invited to a remote seaside mansion to assist a primatology professor with his experiments involving chimpanzees, dangerous events start to occur, all involving the intelligent 45-year-old chimp, Link.
Director: Richard Franklin | Stars: Terence Stamp, Elisabeth Shue, Steven Finch, Richard Garnett
Votes: 3,744 | Gross: $1.72M
19. The Spirit Is Willing (1967)
Unrated | 100 min | Comedy, Horror
A couple and their teenage son rent a haunted New England seaside house, and their summer vacation turns into a ghost-hunt.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Sid Caesar, Vera Miles, Barry Gordon, John McGiver
Votes: 529
20. The Shuttered Room (1967)
Unrated | 99 min | Horror
A series of horrific murders is traced to a creature that inhabits a very strange house.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Oliver Reed, Gig Young, Carol Lynley, Flora Robson
Votes: 1,886
21. Doctor Hackenstein (1988)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Hackenstein is a genial but somewhat misguided scientist. He murders the locals for their body parts, but it's not for power or scientific research; he just needs them to put his wife back together.
Director: Richard Clark | Stars: David Muir, Michael Ensign, Cathy Cahn, Stacey Travis
Votes: 293
22. The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals (1969)
86 min | Horror
A mummy battles a jackal-man in Las Vegas.
Director: Oliver Drake | Stars: Anthony Eisley, John Carradine, Robert Alan Browne, Maurine Dawson
Votes: 101
23. Scarab (1983 Video)
90 min | Adventure, Horror
A former Nazi seeking to gain new power attempts to resurrect an ancient Egyptian god.
Director: Steven-Charles Jaffe | Stars: Rip Torn, Robert Ginty, Cristina Sánchez Pascual, Isabel García Lorca
Votes: 176
24. The Haunted (1991 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Horror
When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out its haunted.
Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: Sally Kirkland, Jeffrey DeMunn, Louise Latham, George D. Wallace
Votes: 2,206
25. Till Death (1978)
80 min | Horror
A widower, visiting the crypt that holds the body of his wife, is accidentally trapped therein. That night, he finds that she seems to have been cataleptic, rather than dead, and frees her ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Stocker | Stars: Keith Atkinson, Belinda Balaski, Marshall Reed, Bert Freed
Votes: 131
26. Rituals (1977)
R | 100 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Five doctors on a wilderness outing are stalked by disfigured, crazed killers.
Director: Peter Carter | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Robin Gammell, Ken James
Votes: 3,071
27. Lucifer (1987)
R | 100 min | Horror
A psychotic killer is embarked on a murder spree, and the authorities begin to suspect that he may have been sent from Hell.
Director: John Eyres | Stars: Emma Burdon-Sutton, Frank Rozelaar-Green, Jared Morgan, Jane Price
Votes: 279
28. TeenAlien (1978)
PG | 88 min | Sci-Fi
Local teenagers are holding a Halloween party at a supposedly "haunted" old mill, but find out that one of the partygoers who is dressed as an alien is actually a real alien.
Director: Peter Semelka | Stars: Vern Adix, Michael Dunn, Keith Nelson, Dan Harville
Votes: 133
29. Blood Beast from Outer Space (1965)
85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Mutant humanoids from outer space kidnap young Earth females in order to interbreed and save their species from extinction.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: John Saxon, Maurice Denham, Patricia Haines, Alfred Burke
Votes: 870
30. All Hallows' Eve 2 (2015)
Unrated | 91 min | Horror
A woman finds a VHS tape on her doorstep that shows a series of gruesome tales that could be real. But the true danger is the pumpkin-faced killer that's using the tape to find his next victim.
Directors: Jesse Baget, Elias Benavidez, Andrés Borghi, Jay Holben, Mike Kochansky, James Kondelik, Jon Kondelik, Bryan Norton, Antonio Padovan, Ryan Patch, Marc Roussel | Stars: Andrea Monier, Damien Monier, Helen Rogers, Tyler Rossell
Votes: 2,886
31. Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror
A lawyer arrives at a castle to fix the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that his spirit is wandering around the castle with evil intentions.
Director: Massimo Pupillo | Stars: Barbara Steele, Walter Brandi, Mirella Maravidi, Alfredo Rizzo
Votes: 1,186
32. Alucarda (1977)
R | 78 min | Horror
After the death of her parents, a young girl arrives at a convent and brings a sinister presence with her. Is it her enigmatic imaginary friend, Alucarda, who is to blame? Or is there a satanic force at work?
Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Claudio Brook, David Silva, Tina Romero, Susana Kamini
Votes: 4,097
33. The Long Hair of Death (1964)
Not Rated | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror
A woman under suspicion of witchcraft is burned alive. Her curse brings her back from the dead for revenge.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Barbara Steele, George Ardisson, Halina Zalewska, Umberto Raho
Votes: 1,778
34. Mark of the Witch (1970)
GP | 78 min | Horror
A 300-year-old witch terrorizes a college town to get revenge on the descendant of the man who persecuted her.
Director: Tom Moore | Stars: Robert Elston, Anitra Walsh, Darryl Wells, Jack Gardner
Votes: 590
35. Corpse Eaters (1974)
R | 61 min | Horror
A story of zombies eating freshly killed humans.
Directors: Donald R. Passmore, Klaus Vetter | Stars: Michael Hopkins, Ed LeBreton, Terry London, Michael Krizanc
Votes: 204
36. Blades (1989)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Horror
Somewhere in New Jersey, a killer lawnmower stalks a small town's golf course.
Director: Thomas R. Rondinella | Stars: Robert North, Jeremy Whelan, Victoria Scott, Holly Stevenson
Votes: 1,174
37. Extra Terrestrial Visitors (1983)
84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young boy in the woods discovers a lovable alien...or is it?
Director: Juan Piquer Simón | Stars: Ian Serra, Nina Ferrer, Susana Bequer, Sara Palmer
Votes: 4,762
38. Dead of Night (1988)
R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
An abused woman conjures up a spirit to take revenge on the men who have misused her.
Director: Deryn Warren | Stars: Julie Merrill, Janet Graham, Ray Quiroga, John Reno
Votes: 159
39. The Club (1994)
R | 90 min | Horror
Time stops at midnight at the Senior Prom for five students, one murderous counselor, and John. They must find the courage to face themselves or, when time starts again, they may find that ... See full summary »
Director: Brenton Spencer | Stars: J.H. Wyman, Kim Coates, Andrea Roth, Rino Romano
Votes: 572
40. The Clown at Midnight (1998)
R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Seven teenagers are stalked by a murderous clown while refurbishing an old opera house.
Director: Jean Pellerin | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Margot Kidder, Sarah Lassez, James Duval
Votes: 2,371
41. Fright House (1989 Video)
R | 110 min | Horror
Two stories about witches getting ready to meet with the Devil, and a schoolteacher who never ages.
Director: Len Anthony | Stars: Al Lewis, Paul Borghese, Jennifer Delora, Kit Jones
Votes: 180
42. He Knows You're Alone (1980)
R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
A young bride-to-be is being stalked upon by a serial killer in Staten Island. She gets help from a former lover, but will they manage to escape?
Director: Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Don Scardino, Caitlin O'Heaney, Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Rolfing
Votes: 4,245
43. Monstrosity (1963)
Unrated | 65 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.
Directors: Joseph V. Mascelli, Jack Pollexfen | Stars: Marjorie Eaton, Frank Gerstle, Frank Fowler, Erika Peters
Votes: 2,972
44. Hallowed Ground (2007 Video)
83 min | Horror, Thriller
When her car breaks down in a small town, Liz Chambers (Jaimie Alexander) meets journalist Sarah Austin (Hudson Leick), who tells her about the town's bloodthirsty past. A hundred years ago... See full summary »
Director: David Benullo | Stars: Jaimie Alexander, Brian McNamara, Ethan Phillips, Chloë Grace Moretz
Votes: 1,597
45. Scarecrow (2013 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 86 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Six high school kids come face to face with an evil entity as they serve their detention before the town scarecrow festival.
Director: Sheldon Wilson | Stars: Lacey Chabert, Robin Dunne, Nicole Muñoz, Brittney Wilson
Votes: 2,281
46. Scarecrow (2002 Video)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Horror
When high school loner Lester is betrayed then viciously murdered, the bodies start stacking up as the scarecrow seeks vengeance from beyond the grave.
Director: Emmanuel Itier | Stars: Tim Young, Todd Rex, Tiffany Shepis, Jen Richey
Votes: 1,264
47. Scarecrow Slayer (2003 Video)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Horror
A college freshman is killed during a fraternity prank and is resurrected as a demonic scarecrow
Director: David Michael Latt | Stars: Tony Todd, Nicole Kingston, David Castro, Jessica Mattson
Votes: 894
48. Scarecrow Gone Wild (2004 Video)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Horror
College mischief spins out of control unleashing a horrifying scarecrow who terrorizes a resort town during Spring Break.
Director: Brian Katkin | Stars: Ken Shamrock, Matthew Linhardt, Samantha Aisling, Caleb Roehrig
Votes: 893
49. Messengers 2: The Scarecrow (2009 Video)
R | 94 min | Horror
Doing what he believes must be done in order to save his family and livelihood, farmer John Rollins places an odd scarecrow among his crops and promptly reaps the benefits. The thing is, his luck probably won't last for long.
Director: Martin Barnewitz | Stars: Norman Reedus, Heather Stephens, Claire Holt, Richard Riehle
Votes: 5,179
50. The Messengers (2007)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An ominous darkness invades a seemingly serene sunflower farm in North Dakota, and the Solomon family is torn apart by suspicion, mayhem and murder.
Directors: Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang | Stars: Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, Kristen Stewart, John Corbett
Votes: 41,221 | Gross: $35.37M
51. The Possessed (1977 TV Movie)
Unrated | 76 min | Horror
A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the Satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.
Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: James Farentino, Harrison Ford, Claudette Nevins, Eugene Roche
Votes: 712
52. House of the Living Dead (1974)
PG | 87 min | Horror
On a South African plantation, a maniac is on the loose, first killing the estate's animals, then starting on the human members.
Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Mark Burns, Shirley Anne Field, David Oxley, Margaret Inglis
Votes: 570
53. Shredder (2001)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Horror
At an exclusive, secluded North American ski resort up on Mount Rocky Summit, brutal slashing, severing and beheading on a group of teenagers are taking place and are believed to be the work of a mysterious skier dressed in black.
Director: Greg Huson | Stars: Scott Weinger, Lindsey McKeon, Juleah Weikel, Billy O'Sullivan
Votes: 1,995
54. What Waits Below (1984)
PG | 88 min | Action, Horror
An army experiment in submarine communications falls foul of the deadly secret hidden deep within the cave system housing their transmitter.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Robert Powell, Timothy Bottoms, Lisa Blount, Richard Johnson
Votes: 671
55. The Newlydeads (1988)
77 min | Horror
The owner of a lakeside resort murders a transvestite. Fifteen years later, a spirit comes back and starts killing honeymoon couples.
Director: Joseph Merhi | Stars: Jimmy Williams, Jean Levine, John Henry Richardson, Roxanna Michaels
Votes: 282
56. Stepmonster (1993 Video)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Horror
Todd Dougherty has an imagination driven by comic book. So when he accuses his soon-to-be stepmother of being a monster, no one believes him. When neighbors start turning up dead, it ... See full summary »
Director: Jeremy Stanford | Stars: Alan Thicke, Molly Cheek, Billy Corben, Robin Riker
Votes: 634
57. Ax 'Em (1992)
Unrated | 71 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A weekend retreat at a remote cabin in the woods for a group of childhood pals turns into a terrifying fight for survival, as a former friend whose family was killed years earlier comes along looking for revenge.
Director: Michael Mfume | Stars: Michael Mfume, Sandra Pulley, Joe Clair, Racquel Price
Votes: 2,111
58. Carnage (1984)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror
Carol and Jonathan, a newlywed couple, move into their new house which is haunted by the ghosts of another newlywed couple who commited suicide in the house three years earlier.
Director: Andy Milligan | Stars: Deeann Veeder, Chris Georges, Leslie Den Dooven, Michael Chiodo
Votes: 606
59. Death by Dialogue (1988)
R | 89 min | Horror
A guy and four of his friends visit his crippled uncle, a taxidermist who lives with his housekeeper next to a movie set. Pretty soon people start being killed in the manner they are in the script of the movie being filmed next door.
Director: Thomas Dewier | Stars: Ken Sagoes, Laura Albert, Lenny Delducca, Kelly Sullivan
Votes: 385
60. Blood Salvage (1990)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Horror
Twisted tale about a crazy, preaching redneck named Jake who kidnaps people off the highway and performs sick medical experiments on them. He then proceeds to sell their organs on the black... See full summary »
Director: Tucker Johnston | Stars: Danny Nelson, Lori Birdsong, Christian Hesler, Ralph Pruitt Vaughn
Votes: 636
61. Killing Spree (1987)
88 min | Horror
A man suspects his wife of adultery and goes on a killing spree, eliminating all he believes are sleeping with her, but his victims don't stay dead.
Director: Tim Ritter | Stars: Asbestos Felt, Courtney Lercara, Raymond Carbone, Bruce Paquette
Votes: 1,015
62. Hell House LLC (2015)
Not Rated | 93 min | Horror, Mystery
Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really happened.
Director: Stephen Cognetti | Stars: Gore Abrams, Alice Bahlke, Danny Bellini, Theodore Bouloukos
Votes: 24,866
63. Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel (2018)
Not Rated | 89 min | Horror, Mystery
Two years after escaping from demonic terror, a young woman is still haunted by unnatural visions.
Director: Stephen Cognetti | Stars: Vas Eli, Jillian Geurts, Joy Shatz, Dusty Austen
Votes: 7,100
64. He's Out There (2018)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath.
Director: Dennis Iliadis | Stars: Yvonne Strahovski, Anna Pniowsky, Abigail Pniowsky, Ryan McDonald
Votes: 9,526
65. Catacombs (2007)
R | 100 min | Horror, Thriller
Victoria visits her sister in Paris and goes to a rave in the catacombs under the city, on her first night. The remains of over 6,000,000 people are there and something evil is lurking in the tunnels.
Directors: Tomm Coker, David Elliot | Stars: Shannyn Sossamon, Pink, Emil Hostina, Sandi Dragoi
Votes: 9,270
66. Minutes to Midnight (2018)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
On the cusp of New Year's Eve, seven friends and a mysterious backpacker converge at a desolate ski lodge in the mountains when they are systematically hunted down by ruthless masked men with a cryptic agenda.
Director: Christopher Ray | Stars: William Baldwin, Richard Grieco, Bill Moseley, Viva Bianca
Votes: 569
67. Gargoyle (2004 Video)
R | 87 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Two CIA agents are sent to Bucharest, Romania to solve a high profile kidnapping. But what they discover is something inexplicable. An evil gargoyle, once thought dead and banished forever, has returned with a vengeance.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Michael Paré, Sandra Hess, Fintan McKeown, Kate Orsini
Votes: 1,147
68. Halloween (I) (2018)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe, Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney
Votes: 169,192 | Gross: $159.34M
69. Halloween Night (2006 Video)
TV-14 | 85 min | Horror
The film follows Chris Vale (Scot Nery), a young man who was wrongly convicted of murdering his family in 1982, and admitted into an insane asylum based largely on the fact that Chris had ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Atkins | Stars: Derek Osedach, Rebekah Kochan, Scot Nery, Sean Durrie
Votes: 1,165
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