Themes
Every night has a reason. Pick a thread and pull.
1986core
Something was in the air in 1986. Practical effects, bitchin' soundtracks, and everything turned up to 11.
11 titles
All in the Family
Horror runs in the family. Parents and children, brothers and sisters, all behind the camera.
15 titles
Anthologies of Terror
Several nightmares for the price of one.
15 titles
Attack of the Sequels
Part twos and beyond that earned their place.
10 titles
Awesome '80s
Peak practical effects, peak synth, peak '80s.
6 titles
B-Side Body Count
The slasher boom's second string.
5 titles
Based on a True Story
Horror with a real-world hook, whether the claim is solid, stretched, or marketing.
7 titles
Boo's Clues
Ghost stories where the haunting is a mystery to solve.
12 titles
Camp Carnage
Summer camp, a lake, and a machete.
10 titles
Carpenter Closeout
Synth scores, widescreen dread, and an appropriate distrust of anyone in charge.
10 titles
Cease & Desist
Blockbusters and the Italian knockoffs their studios took to court.
4 titles
Creeping Death
Death that spreads.
14 titles
Creepy Country
Take a wrong turn off the highway and you're in their world now.
9 titles
Culinary Carnage
Horror about what gets eaten. Killer desserts, contaminated lunches, and cannibals.
16 titles
Dario Days
Dario Argento at full volume.
7 titles
Deaducation
School is hell.
22 titles
Devil's Night
Devil's Night mainstays.
8 titles
Devilish Duos
Two against one, or one against the other. Horror that pits its heavyweights head to head.
2 titles
Dystopian Futures
The world has already ended, or is about to.
5 titles
Finders Creepers
Found footage and faux documentaries.
17 titles
First Cut
A director's debut feature.
89 titles
Foundations
The films the genre is built on. Universal monsters, Hitchcock, and the classics everything since has borrowed from.
11 titles
French Ferocity
French horror that goes straight for the jugular.
9 titles
Geiners
Named for "telling a geiner," the slang that spread after Ed Gein's arrest for a joke that was dark and gross at once. Horror comedies, but make it gross.
4 titles
Gnarly '90s
The decade horror got weird again.
4 titles
Good for Her
Women who come out on top, no matter how messy it gets.
13 titles
Gory Games
Manipulation, rigged rules, and nowhere to hide.
4 titles
Hack & Slash
Masked killers, bladed weapons, and a body count to keep track of.
32 titles
Halloween
Halloween night mainstays.
2 titles
Hammer Time
Gothic horror from Britain's Hammer Films.
4 titles
Hard Boyled
Danny Boyle's horror.
2 titles
Hex in the City
Horror in the big city.
11 titles
Horny Horror
Sleazy, exploitative, and sometimes artful... as long as the horniness drives the plot.
19 titles
I Will Have My Revenge
Wronged people who go all the way.
10 titles
Into the Void
Space, cosmic dread, and things that fall from the sky.
20 titles
Italian Stallions
Italian titans of terror.
21 titles
Kids on Bikes
A gang of kids against the monster, before cell phones and before any of them could drive. The grown-ups never believe them.
5 titles
Killer Entertainment
Show business will kill you.
15 titles
Laughing Dead
Screams and giggles.
27 titles
Medical Malpractice
Doctors, surgeons, and mad scientists who should have been stopped.
7 titles
Monster Mania
A monster for every taste.
20 titles
Naughty by Nature
Nature bites back.
7 titles
No Man's Land
Empty highways, deserts, and nowhere to run.
10 titles
Old & New
Remakes and the originals that inspired them.
12 titles
Pain & Pleasure
Suffering that turns into something else, for whoever's inflicting it or whoever's enduring it.
9 titles
Raimi-Rama
Hop in the Delta, loser. We're hunting deadites.
5 titles
Re-Animated
Animated one frame at a time.
3 titles
Romero Rising
George A. Romero, father of the modern zombie.
4 titles
Sci-Fright
Spaceships, labs, and bodies that science should have left alone.
17 titles
Self-Awarewolves
Horror that knows the rules and plays with them.
6 titles
Sentient Slaughter
Objects with a grudge.
8 titles
Spikes & Hairspray
Horror with a loud soundtrack. Metal, punk, denim, big hair, and demons summoned by the wrong riff.
11 titles
Stephen King's Brain
Straight from Stephen King's imagination, whether he wrote it, directed it, or both.
10 titles
Surreal Nightmares
Horror that runs on dream logic.
12 titles
Tax Shelter Terror
Canada's tax-shelter boom, when a loophole paid for an entire wave of horror.
9 titles
Terror on the High Seas
You're going to need a bigger boat.
8 titles
The Last Drive-In
Joe Bob Briggs's drive-in: the films he has hosted, and his specials.
30 titles
Toil 'n' Trouble
Genuine cauldron-stirring witches.
7 titles
Toxic Terror
Toxic waste and what it turns people into.
6 titles
Tracking Error
Camcorder horror and found broadcasts with the tracking lines to prove it.
4 titles
Troma-Rama
Troma Entertainment: cheap, loud, and proudly tasteless.
5 titles
Unholy Hosts
Something unholy is driving this meat wagon.
23 titles
Vampire Weekend
Bloodsuckers of every era, from gothic counts to drifters, strippers, and flatmates.
18 titles
Video Nasties
Banned, seized, and notorious. The tapes censors, tabloids, and at least one terrified movie star tried to get off the shelves.
4 titles
Weird Warm-Up
Limber up and ease into the season with the weird, wacky, and strange.
5 titles
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah
Full moons and painful transformations from the moors to the suburbs.
6 titles
Wes Week
From the Craven mind of our favorite Wes.
5 titles
What a Horrible Night for a Curse
Curses, hexes, and bad bargains.
6 titles
Yuck
The gross-out hall of fame.
18 titles