Groovy Library started posting Halloween music last month, and it's Weird October at Nothin' Sez Somethin'. (EDIT: Opium Hum just posted a creepy one: "haunted house sound effects and rasping vocals [which] morph into the more identifiable shapes of queasy, droning black metal filth.") Jinkies!
Stinky took a broad-minded approach to his Halloween themed mix this year. It includes the musical saw (which can sound just as creepy as the theremin) as well as an accapella "Zombie Jamboree" by The Lords, and a lovely (but spooky) piano ballad by Anna Ternheim called "Keep Me In The Dark".
Stinky's Halloween Madness 2023 is still available for download, as well as his kid-tested and uncle approved Halloween mix and my own Halloween Creeps comp from last year.
And it's never too late (or too early) to take heed of the deeply concerned celebrities at the North American Hallowe'en Prevention Initiative and their public service message "Do They Know It's Halloween?"
HALLOWEEN MADNESS 2024: https://tinyurl.com/2024oween
ReplyDeleteWhat's your favorite scary movie? Mine is Phantasm (from 1979).
Thanks for the heads-up jonder, but just the usual weirdness over at my place 'til later in the month. I do have a late October fall fantasy & a set of three Halloween inspired releases set for closer to the 'Een.
ReplyDelete"just the usual weirdness"? You gotta SELL it, Nathan! Like my man Count Floyd:
DeleteAHWOO! Hey, kids! We got a really scary movie for you tonight on Monster Chiller Horror Theater! It's "Doctoor Tongue's 3D House Of Dread"! You're gonna love it, kids! But first! Count Floyd wants you to go to NOTHIN SAYS SOMETHIN. Type that on your iPhone, or whatever you kids are using these days!
Count Floyd's pal Nathan has some spooky music for you kids this month! He's got the BLACK DEVIL DISCO CLUB in dub! Whoo! Sounds scary! And he's got BURIAL! Brrrr! It's gonna scare your head off! But kids! If you want to hear how scary this music really is, you need to send $19.95 to me, Count Floyd, to get my Monster Chiller Horror Theater 3D ear goggles!
That's a great one - love the orb "BOY!!" I'd have to narrow it down to three: "Psycho," "The Raven" (Karloff, Price, and Lorre go for laughs), and Tod Browning's "Freaks."
ReplyDeleteExcellent choices all. B&W films somehow seem even spookier now. Polanski's Repulsion, Carnival Of Souls, Night Tide, Dementia 13...
DeleteThe Last House On The Left (1972)
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_House_on_the_Left
that scared the shit out of me back then...maybe not so anymore
The TV commercial for this one scared the bejesus out of me in 1978, and I didn't watch the movie until many years later: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077889/
DeleteThanks for the plug jonder! My favorite scary film is probably The Silence of the Lambs.
ReplyDeleteGroovy Library comps is the #1 source of Halloween sounds every Septober! Silence Of The Lambs is scary indeed, with excellent use of music (including The Fall). https://groovylibrary.blogspot.com/
DeleteJohn Carpenter's Prince of Darkness made quite an impression on me when I saw it on tv...
ReplyDeleteI’m partial to WHEN A STRANGER CALLS, & THE STEPFATHER. THE SIXTH SENSE is great, too. - Stinky
ReplyDeleteDo you prefer the original Stepfather (with Shelly Hack as the mother) or the remake (with Sela Ward)? I haven't seen either one, but the plot synopsis on IMDB made me think of Night Of The Hunter, with Robert Mitchum as the preacher with "Love and Hate tattooed on the knuckles of his hands" who marries a widow and then starts terrorizing her kids. Night Of The Hunter is a great one!
DeleteI bought the box set of DVDs of Phantasm. I think it was 4 discs. The original and 3 sequels. I'd never seen the sequels. Saw the original when it came out. Freaked me out. BTW they stopped wearing bell bottoms after the first. Tis the season to dig out that collection.
ReplyDeleteI've got Phantasm fever, and the only prescription is MORE BELLBOTTOMS!
DeleteJacob's Ladder is another creepy movie.
ReplyDeleteI love movies like Jacob's Ladder and Phantasm that can't really be explained. Nightmare logic. Surreal AND scary!
DeleteWhen I was a child, I saw The Medusa Touch and that was scary, as a pre-teen saw an Avengers episode and a Doctor Who episode with giant rats . That was sacry because I had a big rat running up my arm while replacing a few crates of apples. Now, looking back at all the movies, tv-series etc I have seen, only one scary movie
ReplyDeletestands out. M (1931).
M is a great choice. As a kid I saw a Doctor Who episode with a homunculus that seemed really creepy for some reason. Our childhood fears don't always hold up in retrospect. I recently rewatched a movie that played on TV a lot when I was younger. It was called "Let's Scare Jessica To Death". Not as good today as it was back then, although there were some menacing small town locals who didn't like the hippies moving in. And there's a death in an apple orchard, which may give Richard another apple-related flashback!
DeleteJust read a plot synopsis of The Medusa Touch (1978, with Richard Burton and Lee Remick). It sounds very intriguing!
Deletehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077921/
You rascal. Gimme a napple related compilation to cure me!
DeleteI will begin work on this apple related compilation immediately. Track one: https://youtu.be/65O0Qp1mPL4?si=HlNMVt_i65zyH086
DeleteI dig Suspiria and a lot of the other Italian Gallo films from the 60s-70s
ReplyDeleteI'm a fan of the original STEPFATHER (with Shelly Hack as the mother) and Terry O'Quinn as the psychotic stepfather. It's a completely believable premise and hinges on his powerful performance. I expected him to be a big star, and while he's certainly had an amazing career (LOST, THE ROCKETEER, YOUNG GUNS, PRIMAL FEAR) he's never been a name above the title kind of guy. - Stinky
ReplyDeleteMore musical madness for Halloween! [the first one is Italian horror film soundtrack music!]
ReplyDeletehttps://onebuckrecords.blogspot.com/2024/10/ti-piacerebbe-ascoltare-qualcosa-di.html
https://nathannothinsez.blogspot.com/2024/10/for-all-hallows-evethe-end-of-weird.html
https://dubhed.blogspot.com/2024/10/spookytunesseason-volume-one.html
https://dubhed.blogspot.com/2024/10/spookytunesseason-volume-two.html
https://peepeesoakedheckhole.blogspot.com/2024/10/disney-chilling-thrilling-sounds-of.html
https://voodoowagon.blogspot.com/2024/10/songs-about-murder-death-dying-best-of.html?zx=a453a597ecd5f8a4
https://selfishfew.blogspot.com/2021/10/dennis-dreads-halloween-mixtapes-2009.html
[the last one is an oldie but a goodie!]
Almost forgot this one... https://downunderground.blogspot.com/2024/10/halloween-2024-comp-w-mort-garson-w.html
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