HALLOWEEN SUGGESTIONS
By Alex Ness
October 20, 2023
A brief entry today...
I am amidst a great deal of pain, but wanted to offer some suggestions for scary, disturbing, fear inducing works that might appeal to you, especially if you haven't watched, viewed or read them.
First up is the art of Zdzisław Beksiński, a Polish artist who had numerous tragedies in life, and expressed pure fear and horror in art form, but was overall a very kind and good natured in person.
View his work and buy it perhaps at this LINK
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Different kinds of movies to choose for a Halloween scare. Click each image to enlarge them.
Good films made for not a lot of money, resulting in a good scare and one that sticks around in memory. Joe Monks Bunker is dark and brutal but it has a lovely spirit about it, it has an ending worth the wait. Shock Waves has Peter Cushing in it, and some level of fear inducing Nazi Zombies. Night of the Living Dead needs no intro, but it is the best Zombie movie and ending of all. Duel was relentless and had the benefit of fear from the fact it could happen to you too. Frankenstein meets the Space Monster is not a million dollar budget work, but it has a charm about it.
Next up are science fiction movies from the 50s-70s that have a scare in their purpose and result. The works here are all films that work, despite whatever flaws in special effects that make the suspension of disbelief somewhat impossible. Aliens and UFOs are the boogie men here, and these formed the influences upon modern film maker minds and audiences.
Get these older horror films in the finest quality available, each film works hard creating a work of horror, without doing what had been done a million times before their creation. Yes, the Mummy moves slow, BUT, it uses the development time, to its advantage. Give it patience and you will be rewarded. I love the Karloff Mummy, it deserves to linger in memory.
HALLOWEEN READINGS
Clive Barker is a brilliant writer and artist. He has created numerous art pieces and has written many powerful stories, using cosmic themes and darkness. I would have loved to have interviewed him, over the years, but I am not currently prepared for the research and labor to find the questions he might not have been asked over the years. Find his work at this Link
There are many excellent works found in comics, novels and illustrated novels. My selections here are found into different kinds of monsters, and true crime. Frankenstein, Dracula/Vampires, King Kong, Godzilla, Werewolves and The Cleveland Torso Slayings and M, about a child killing serial killer in Dusseldorf (and influenced heavily by the killings of murderous Peter Kurten), all make for dark but interesting tales. The various books do depend largely upon excellent art, and interpret various stories, legends and film lore to get their points across. If you aren't moved to fear, you've likely seen more horror than most.
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