 | The Munsters: Two-Movie Fright Fest - (Franchise Collection) - (Munster, Go Home! & The Munsters' Revenge)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.49 Oct 1: "Munster, Go Home;" dig through the ditched and burn through the witches and slam in the back of my Dragula!
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 | Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $3.25 Oct 2: Inspired by the TV show of the same name. Screenplay by George Romero. "Lot 249" is as strong a vignette as they come.
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 | Phantasm
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.61 Oct 3: Angus Scrimm rules all. The dwarf druids, the silver slaughter balls ... this one kickstarted the fury.
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 | The Burning
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.98 Oct 4: Uncut, and served raw for your consumption. Great slasher genre entry, and effects by Tom Savini make this one a can't miss.
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 | The Gravedancers - After Dark Horrorfest
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.65 Oct 5: Arguably the best of the "After Dark" 8. Effective story, with some pretty decent thrills and chills. The ghosts don't get any creepier.
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 | The Call of Cthulhu: The Celebrated Story by H.P. Lovecraft
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.25 Oct 6: The "unfilmable" HP Lovecraft story appears, in silent form, no less! Very effective use of cinematic skills & resources to make this an unnerving entry into Lovecraft's film canon.
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 | Santo & Blue Demon vs Dracula
Buy used from: $25.00 Oct 7: Luchadores wrestling, and Dracula and the Wolfman teaming to take over the world. Cinema today can't even compare to the way things used to be.
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 | The Dukes of Hazzard (Television Favorites Compilation)
Buy used from: $0.01 Oct 8: "The Ghost of the General Lee." Those Duke boys pull the wool over the eyes of Hazzard County PD, with a little phosphorescent paint.
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 | Scarecrows
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $7.99 Oct 9: Scarecrows coming to life and hunting & killing intruding thieves on an abandoned farm ... a great premise to a stark, horrifying film.
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 | Dracula vs. Frankenstein
Buy used from: $11.99 Oct 10: The last cinematic appearances of J. Carrol Naish & Lon Chaney Jr. An Al Adamson schlocker. Cheesy & poorly made, but a must for fans of cult cinema.
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 | Demons 2 - The Nightmare Returns
Buy used from: $5.72 Oct 11: Sequel to the superior "Demons;" directed by Lamberto Bava (Mario's son), produced by Dario Argento. Demons possess the citizens of a tenement through television.
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 | Tales From the Crypt / Vault of Horror (Double Feature)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $5.77 Oct 12: "Tales From The Crypt." At Science Gone Mad, we loves us some anthology horror films, and this one's no different. "And All Through The House" is classic horror.
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 | The Devil Commands
Buy used from: $5.35 Oct 13: Boris Karloff turns in one of his best mad scientist roles in this underrated sleeper of a sci-fi/ horror film.
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 | Ebola Syndrome
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $1,111.92 Oct 14: Wow. No ... double wow. This film is not for the squeamish, by any means. Rape, cannibalism, brutality ... more over-the-top than your six o'clock news.
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 | The Monster Squad (Two-Disc 20th Anniversary Edition)
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $3.17 Oct 15: A group of neighborhood kids takes on the universal horror icons. Starring SGM CAF award winner, Tom Noonan, as the Frankenstein monster.
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 | Behind the Mask - The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $1.83 Oct 16: An intense deconstruction of slasher films, through the eyes of protagonist Leslie Vernon. A classic film awaiting discovery.
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 | From Beyond (Unrated Director's Cut)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $3.46 Oct 17: Stuart Gordon's take on the HP Lovecraft tale. Scientists studying the pineal gland open up a doorway to another dimension. Some people's pineals are just not to be messed with.
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 | El Vampiro (The Vampire) & El Ataud del Vampiro (The Vampire's Coffin) - 2 Disc Special Edition
Buy used from: $32.12 Oct 18: "El Vampiro (The Vampire)." Abel Salazar ushers in a commanding performance in this classic piece of Mexican horror cinema.
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 | Halloween II
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $3.99 Oct 19: The continuation of the genre-busting "Halloween." Occurs on the same night of the original film, and opens up many elements of the Myers mythology.
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 | Witchfinder General
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $2.86 Oct 20: Reported animosity between the director and Price appears to have yielded Price's most commanding performance to this point.
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 | The Manitou
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.96 Oct 21: A woman goes to the doctor with a tumor on her neck, only to find that it's a rapidly gestating offspring. Freaky good times.
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 | National Lampoon's Class Reunion
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.80 Oct 22: Satire of slasher films, by the Lampoon gang. Humor may be a little dated, but a fine film. Better than "Scream," anyway.
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 | The Dead Next Door
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.87 Oct 23: No-budget unofficial entry into Romero's zombie epic. Compelling charaters, as well as some interesting takes on the zombie mythos.
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 | Frankenstein Conquers the World / Frankenstein Vs. Baragon
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $117.47 Oct 24: Mary Shelley's classic, by way of Toho Studios. Don't front on Frankenstein's final confrontation with Baragon!
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 | Satan's Little Helper
Buy used from: $1.53 Oct 25: A child who's apparently the product of poor parenting befriends the Prince of Darkness on Halloween; let the smiley faces and neighborhood disembowelment begin.
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 | Zombie Honeymoon
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $1.64 Oct 26: A couple gets married, but their life as newlyweds is sorely tested when he becomes a ravenous, flesh-eating zombie. Seriously, who goes to the Jersey Shore for their honeymoon?
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 | The Return of the Vampire
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.28 Oct 27: Bela Lugosi again stars as a vampire villain, the kind of pigeon-hole that he was squeezed into after his success in Dracula and his refusal of Frankenstein. But this is a step above most of his work from the same era.
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 | Scooby-Doo Meets the Harlem Globetrotters
Buy used from: $1.00 Oct 28: "The Loch Ness Mess;" one of the classic Scooby-Doo team-ups; the Globetrotters help solve a mystery involving a sea monster. Scatman Crothers was the Patrick Warburton of his day - an actor with a voice tailor-made for cartoons.
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 | Just Before Dawn
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $8.84 Oct 29: Campers, a killer, and lots of bloodshed; yep, ANOTHER take on the classic slasher formula. It's nice to know that Hollywood has always been focused on the lowest common derivative, and it's not just some recent trend. Good flick anyway, despite its dubious etiology.
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 | Feast (Unrated Edition)
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.67 Oct 30: Now, here's what I like to see ... nameless characters who are just fodder for the killing machines for which there is no explanation. Good, clean horror, with no pesky backstories or characterizations to wade through. And I mean this in a nice way.
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