It’s virtually Halloween time, and which means each streaming service is getting ready its finest horror programming for a month filled with scares. And identical to yearly, The Criterion Channel has put collectively a singular and unbelievable collection of spooky movies you could not have seen earlier than. Criterion Channel is including 14 movies as a part of its Halloween celebration this 12 months, together with 11 that might be launched on Oct. 1 — so that you’ve bought no excuse for not attending to all of them by the top of the month.
Criterion’s streaming service has themed its Halloween content material after a selected decade every of the previous few years, and that pattern continues with this 12 months’s ’90s theme.
The standouts among the many very sturdy lineup embody a couple of excellent movies which might be hardly ever accessible on streaming, like Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction, an under-the-radar vampire film that stars Christopher Walken. There are additionally a couple of streaming stalwarts, like Bram Stoker’s Dracula and The Exorcist III. Of course, with this being The Criterion Channel, there are additionally some underseen classics too, like In the Mouth of Madness, the least talked-about and most bonkers of John Carpenter’s “Apocalypse Trilogy,” which additionally includes The Thing and Prince of Darkness.
Here’s a have a look at all of the creepy movies which might be coming to Criterion as a part of it ’90s horror celebration:
Premieres Oct. 1
- Def by Temptation, James Bond III, 1990
- The Exorcist III, William Peter Blatty, 1990
- Frankenhooker, Frank Henenlotter, 1990
- Body Parts, Eric Red, 1991
- The Rapture, Michael Tolkin, 1991
- Dust Devil, Richard Stanley, 1992
- When a Stranger Calls Back, Fred Walton, 1993
- The Addiction, Abel Ferrara, 1995
- Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight, Ernest R. Dickerson, 1995
- Ravenous, Antonia Bird, 1999
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In the Mouth of Madness, John Carpenter, 1994
Premieres Nov. 1
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola, 1992
- Body Snatchers, Abel Ferrara, 1993
Premieres Dec. 1
- Event Horizon, Paul W.S. Anderson, 1997
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