IT’S NEARLY HERE. GUYS. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I LOVE HALLOWEEN. I HATE ALL CAPS SENTENCES BUT I LOVE HALLOWEEN SO MUCH I OVERCAME THAT HATRED.
Every year I try to marinate myself in as much Halloween goodness as possible, and while most of my favourite Halloween films are not on Netflix, I appreciate the chance it gives me to try new titles. So here are some of the films I’ve been binging that I think might put you in the mood.
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One You Can Watch Instead of Reading the Book
Extraordinary Tales (2015)
Dir. Various
3.4/ 5 Bones
Every Halloween requires Edgar Allen Poe as an ingredient. Extraordinary Tales is a series of animated shorts in various styles, covering various poems or novellas by the droopiest moustache in all of Victorian fiction. I really enjoyed this one, though I did watch it in chunks. They attempt to tie all the shorts together with a ghastly original poem in which Poe’s spirit takes the form of a crow and speaks with the personification of death. Poe is even more emo as a crow than he is in The Raven, a feat of some magnitude. If you can squirm through those awful but mercifully short celluloid stitches, you’ll get to a collection of truly interesting adaptations. The directing is often far too fast-paced - Poe needs time to build dread and despair - but the aesthetics are all unique enough to keep you curious for each tale.
