Halloween and Scary Movies

“You don’t get it do you? Society nods its head at any horror the American teenager can think upon itself. Nobody is going to care about exact handwriting.” – Heathers

Why don’t vampires go to Africa?  They heard someone blessed the rains down there.

Happy Halloween.

The origins of Halloween are older and murkier than what can be teased out of history.  Is it a Christian holiday tossed over the top of an old pagan one?  Is it a purely Christian holiday?  Is it a floor wax?  Is it a dessert topping?

Why not all of the above?

Regardless, Halloween happens at my favorite time of the year.  One of the things that we lose in the frenetic pace of modern society is a loss of connection to the cycles of life.  There are long cycles:  Infancy, Childhood, Adolescence, Adulthood, and Maturity.  Technology certainly has changed those cycles – children play on tablets seeing things they ought not, and Madonna© pretends she’s sixteen rather than sixteen minutes short of eighty.

The shorter cycles are changed, as well.  A typical day had time when we were fully engaged at work, and time when we weren’t.  Now?  Technology has made it so we’re partially engaged at work, and partially engaged with family.  At least we don’t have to be engaged with Madonna®.

Thankfully Madonna™ can’t walk through walls – she’s a material girl.

But the year, that’s something that technology can only partially mess with.  We can be warm in winter, and cool in summer, but unless we stay inside all year sealed in Tupperware™ (like Madonna®) we are exposed to the changing lights and temperatures of the season.

That is good.  We are humans.  Or at least I assume we’re all humans, since we all enjoy ingesting nutrients and drinking fluids that hydrate us while listening to sounds of non-random frequencies arranged in a mathematical progression juxtaposed with potentially emotionally triggering lyrics about mildly iconoclastic behavior.  Correct?

But all of that aside, I love that we’re still connected to the world via the changing of the seasons.  I’m not particularly a fan of summer.  But I love the other nine months.  And October is the sign that another damn summer is gone.  And Halloween is when the weather turns, and in October there is one particular day when I can know that every day for the next five months will be colder than that day.

And I love that.

I hear Spiderman® got a job as a web developer.

October is also the month when the harvest is done.  The time has come when the cycle is done.  Planting in spring, growing in summer, harvesting in fall.  Winter then comes, and the season has a pause.  This is the time humans need for reflection, for learning, for being together, for planning.  In short, none of the things that Madonna™ does.

For this cycle, at least, technology hasn’t stopped us entirely from getting to our roots.

Autumn is when the die is cast:  we have either done what we need to do to make it through the winter, or we haven’t.  I think that’s why horror movies are part of the season – harvest reminds us that we’re mortal, and for this part of the year we also, historically, had time to reflect on life and death and the cycle.

What nursery rhyme character loves this time of year as much as I do?  Humpty Dumpty.  He had a great fall.

So, thinking about death is natural – it is certainly part of the cycle.  And that’s my guess as to why horror movies seem to fit so well with Halloween.  And I like horror movies.

Many countries do horror movies really, really badly.

  • The Germans, for instance, make horror movies that are these weird psychological horror movies that probably only make sense if you wear rubber suits to go to the bank.
  • The Italian horror movies are nearly incomprehensible as German horror films, but the people in the movies look absolutely fantastic and change sides halfway through the movie.
  • English horror movies are generally as scary as the discussion of tax rates in the House of Commons. I guess that might be scary if you make enough money.
  • The three or four horror movies I’ve seen from Spain look like shoddy copies of Italian horror movies, but starring some American star like John Saxon. Why John Saxon?  Why not – he can fight green goo as well as anyone else.
  • Japanese horror films started as clumsy metaphors for being bombed with nuclear weapons, but then morphed into clumsy metaphors for being overworked by evil corporations after being bombed by nuclear weapons.

I will say it was a touching story.

Nope, for me?  It’s American horror films.  I think we do this particularly well.  My favorites are (in no particular order):

  • The Thing.
  • Alien.
  • In the Mouth of Madness.
  • Reanimator.
  • From Beyond.
  • Salem’s Lot.
  • Scanners.
  • Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (1973 only).
  • Event Horizon.
  • Night of the Living Dead.
  • Ravenous.
  • The Exorcist.
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
  • Phantasm.
  • Prince of Darkness.

I didn’t rank this list on purpose.  If you’ve seen some of these, you’ll know right from the start if this matches up with what you like.  But I’ll add this part, too.  A horror movie doesn’t have emotional impact in a vacuum.  Night of the Living Dead?  To me, it was scary only because I saw it when I was five.  Watching it now, it might be one of the tamest movies on the list, so, your mileage may vary.

I guess that’s what happens when you ask Kanye to enter a bodybuilding competition.

With minor exceptions on the list, most of those have a fairly intense paranormal component.  I think that’s scarier than just people, otherwise numerous other classic movies like Silence of the Lambs would have been on the list.  Sadly, there newest movie on the list was done before the year 2000.  Have there been scary movies made since then?

Yeah.  And I’ve seen bushel baskets of them.  They’re just not nearly as good as what came before.  Except for that one horror star.  She’s scary.

Oh, wait.  That’s Madonna®.

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

51 thoughts on “Halloween and Scary Movies”

  1. Fall is our favorite too! And yes, I always think of Halloween here in KC as the first really cold day of the year (usually). Just a couple years back we had snow on Halloween, and I also had the experience of being a Southern California transplant to Minneapolis for grad school in 1991 when the October Surprise hit (same storm that hit the east coast as The Perfect Storm). We had 36 inches of snow in 48 hours, but when it began all the minneapolitans were scoffing at my marvellling at the snow “It’s a fluuuurrry!”

    Best Halloween movie I ever saw was Tucker and Dale vs Evil. Told my wife it was a serious scary movie before I put it on to see how long I could keep her believing that.

    Happy Halloween!

  2. ” … while listening to sounds of non-random frequencies arranged in a mathematical progression juxtaposed with potentially emotionally triggering lyrics about mildly iconoclastic behavior.”

    I’d have never pegged you [vampire reference] for a Cars fan. A Madonna fan? Maybe.

    1. Hahahaha! There’s also the television show Braindead, which was pretty funny that had a Cars reference.

  3. Don’t sell NOTLD short. Yeah, it’s total camp when you watch it today, but it is (1) one of the very few colorblind movies from the 1960s that had a legitimate Black hero character and (2) literally one of the most profitable horror movies ever made, making 250X its budget. Plus the scene where they open the door to the basement where they had put the little girl to protect her still haunts me to this day.

    https://twitter.com/reesewaters/status/1443893465486532614

    Not a traditional horror movie, but I kinda liked 1990’s Flatliners. It’s like The Breakfast Club Goes To Med School.

    https://youtu.be/gUDV0CUzG0k

    Madonna may be utterly (udderly?) creepy today, but she still made one of my favorite music videos of all time, a 1989 takeoff on Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece Metropolis. This was one of the most expensive music videos ever made, a stylish vision of our current world of billionaires and peons made at a time where nobody had any problems defining what a woman was.

    https://cometoverhollywood.com/2014/09/18/classic-films-in-music-videos-express-yourself-by-madonna/

    Finally, you wanna see a modern horro movie? I do not understand why they are waiting til November to start streaming this – EVERYBODY needs to see this NOW.

    https://twitter.com/DiedSuddenly_/status/1585405917616652288

  5. “Sadly, there newest movie on the list was done before the year 2000. Have there been scary movies made since then?”

    Absolutely yes. But the problem with 21st Century fictional shocking horror films of zombies taking over our world is that they are no longer fictional and they are no longer shocking. Just scary.

    https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1581691797708804096/vid/480×852/t4H4tmiB7YtOUJKV.mp4?tag=14

    https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1581720836553117696/pu/vid/640×360/osKDZJOu2WsXyju8.mp4?tag=12

  6. “The Shining” and “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” are my two favorites.

    1. I talked Ma Wilder into taking me to The Shining at a far too early age. Henry? Now that’s just about the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen.

  7. I have nothing new to say, so I almost never comment. But, Wilder, I want to wish you a happy Halloween and tell you that I enjoy and appreciate your writing and perspective.

    1. Here’s the original Broken Peach videos that are the source material for their live-performance compilation linked above. Their 2021 version of Tainted Love is my personal favorite and worth viewing as a stand alone, for sure.

      2022 – Don’t You Want Me
      2021 – Tainted Love
      2020 – The Remains Of The Day
      2019 – Ghostbusters
      2018 – Pink Elephants on Parade
      2017 – I Put a Spell on You
      2016 – Personal Jesus
      2015 – This Is Halloween

      The 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬:

      2022: https://youtu.be/4xv_ouDbd70
      2021: https://youtu.be/Q45yicposyI
      2020: https://youtu.be/MjiXrpB7D-k
      2019: https://youtu.be/KJ4i1Kw4H0M
      2018: https://youtu.be/DGF-peBV4jc
      2017: https://youtu.be/-E2WWfl_Qgw
      2016: https://youtu.be/pzAXITkCxG4
      2015: https://youtu.be/YNiI6C0142g

  9. There have been a few good horror movies made in the last two decades. But my tastes are a bit further afield than most. Not towards actual horror and gross-outs, of course.
    The Death of Stalin – Black comedy based on true events, and truly horrific.
    Cabin in the Woods – Horror/black comedy. All the tropes. So much blood they had to use CGI.
    Apollo 18 – In space, you can’t run away.
    Rubber – A movie like no other. Thankfully.

    1. I’ve seen and enjoyed the first three . . . Rubber . . . sounds interesting in a b-movie way. And that’s not bad.

  10. Underrated monster/horror/thrillers. This shows my taste for comedy.
    My Best Friend is a Vampire – Vampire hunter as psychotic mass murderer.
    The Stuff – The opening salvo in the frozen yogurt wars.
    Mystery Men – Okay, it’s really a “superhero” film, but the villain is terrific and the death ray truly monstrous.
    ZomBeavers – More stupid (quite deliberately) than the title suggests.
    Gamera: Guardian of the Universe/Attack of Legion/Revenge of Iris trilogy – Where would we be without a giant, flying, fire breathing turtle to protect us from giant, vampire pterodactyls?
    Shin Godzilla – Truly the best Godzilla since the original. Government bureaucracy as the villain.
    Brazil – Government bureaucracy as the ultimate evil.
    Forbidden Planet – Made in 1958, it still holds up. The soundtrack itself is chilling.
    Fantastic Planet – Just because it’s animated, doesn’t mean it’s for children.
    Wizards – Made by Ralph Bakshi. How did this get a PG rating?
    Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind – Japanese weirdness, gross and beautiful and deadly in equal measure.
    Omega Man – Forget Will Smith, the original Charlton Heston was better.
    Planet of the Apes – The original with Charlton Heston, of course. (2011’s Rise was good, too.)
    Saturn 3 – In space, Farrah Fawcett still can’t act.
    Outland – But Sean Connery can. Set in the same universe as Alien.
    Island of Terror – The cure for cancer, is much, much worse than the disease.

    1. Outland isn’t a horror movie. It was High Noon set in space.
      No more, and no less.
      Nothing horrific about it whatsoever.
      Just a cheesey western with space cowboys.
      Joss Wheedon didn’t pioneer anything with Firefly. He was just trying to make a buck off the same recipe with new cheese.

    2. I’m going to note that some of these are genre drifters. But . . . I haven’t seen the first one. Sounds like a must see.

      Te Stuff held up well – I watched it again about two years ago, and was surprised. ZomBeavers was one The Mrs. found and loved and made me watch. Gamera flicks were Saturday morning fodder. Hilarious. Haven’t seen Shin Godzilla. Brazil – I could never get into that one, but I was a kid. Forbidden was a great Shakespeare remake. Fantastic Planet – parents would *not* let me watch and I haven’t seen it since. Wizards – 1980s VHS, rented and watched a dozen times. Nausicaa – first time hearing of that one. Omega Man, which was also the remake of The Last Man on Earth (V. Price) and based on a great book. Loved it. Saturn 3, but she can get nekked. Outland, disappointed in that one. Island of Terror – again, first time hearing about.

      Nice! Now I have new things on my list!

    3. Okay, if we are in for obscure horror, how about some British Dr. Who? Two favorites: Blink, and Silence in the Library.

      As for Japanese horror, Mr. Wilder has clearly missed the anime train. I will see your Nausicaa and raise you a Mononoke Hime.

      And there is much, much scarier. Most of which is too scary and/or or perverted for me. But as a librarian, I can tell you to run a search using anime, hentai, tentacle, and horror. Don’t tell me what you got, kthx.

      In other news, wrapping up my Wilder catchup. I get to go to B&B with the fam cos I am home! Finishing computer setup! Gotta job! And when Q gets me scripts, I can start drawing new episodes! W0000t!

      1. I liked those Dr. Who episodes. I haven’t seen (really) any anime except a snippet of Vampire Hunter D. It was okay. You’re home! Yay!!!!!

  12. The pagan Samhain or feast of the dead.
    Happy Happy Halloween Silver Shamrock!
    Comin’ in hotter than a Jamie Lee Curtis aerobics movie.
    This just in from SD Plissken:
    The president of what? I don’t give a F’ about your WAR or your president.

  13. You said: “Night of the Living Dead? To me, it was scary only because I saw it when I was five. Watching it now, it might be one of the tamest movies on the list…”

    I know exactly what you mean. I took my little sister to a movie called “Mr. Sardonicus” when I was 9 years old (she was 7). The Baron (the main character) had a hideous disfigured face that frightened both of us so bad, we couldn’t sleep with the light off for several weeks.

    Why did our folks let us see this at such a young, impressionable age? Because we (and they) thought we were going to see “Blue Hawaii”, which was the first movie in this double feature.

  14. Don’t watch horror movies. Don’t get them (as in cannot explain their very existence rationally), don’t like them, and in fact, they piss me the f**k off, in 99.9% of cases. I only ever watched two from your list, and they both still piss me off, for having wasted a few hours of my life I’ll never get back.
    The last thing I’m going to do is plunk down cash to get scared (and that was as true when the price was under a buck – yes, kids, that actually happened once upon a time – as it is now that a movie ticket requires a broker’s advice, and they generally seem to me like movies for people with lives so boring, they need bad Hollywood actors in really bad movies to get their pulse to rise above sustenance levels. How pathetic is that?

    A bare few, by certified maestros, transcend the genre into actual worthy cinema with things like plots and characters in a decent story: North By Northwest, Jaws, Aliens.
    And other than that 0.1% (and those three are almost the entire worthwhile list), the rest are nothing but campy trash, and the best thing the studios could have done was burn the prints, the scripts, and the authors, all on the same bonfire.
    That would be a Hollywood ending I could applaud.

    A distant second choice would be to applaud the only two people who get how stupid the entire genre is, and actually did something about it while getting rich in the process: the Wayans brothers (I worked on their crap WB TV show for years, and until this movie series came out, I always thought that Damon was the only funny one in that family), and the entire Scary Movie franchise, which mocks the genre in the way it truly deserves. Which is non-stop, at every opportunity, and in every way possible.

    Third choice when presented with a horror movie: do like most people do. Light a candle for the smell, open the window, and jiggle the handle to make sure the water stops running.

    YMMV.

    2. I’ll give you that – most horror movies are genre, and focus more on the situation than on the characters. For me? That’s okay. I really like some of the odd ideas that come out of them – the what-ifs.

      1. Tremors has that going for it, being so over-the-top stupid and self-deprecating that everyone in creation gets that they know this is all a joke made it into a cult classic, and they rode the sequels right into the ground.

        It’s also about as scary as Droopy in an MGM cartoon saying “Boo.”

        But most of them are so god-awful that the Black Rifle parody send-up “If military veterans were in a horror movie” YouTube vids are twenty times funnier in 1/20th the time.

        This is also why parody flicks like Young Frankenstein and Dracula- Dead And Loving It are far more watchable than anything starring the original characters.

        Catch another 80s genre comedy classic sometime: Monster Squad. It’s Goonies meets horror movies.

        1. Tremors was very, very fun, especially in a 1950s homage way. But not scary at all.

          Monster Squad? Missed that one. I’ll give it a look!

  15. Good early morning to you all. My offering to this thread is The Haunting from 1963, in black and white. Nothing is ever seen, it’s all camera angles and dialogue and `atmosphere. I would add the first in the series Mimic, but that’s just ’cause I don’t like giant bugs. If I could step out of the movie category, the radio show X-1 had some def scary offerings, as did television’s Alcoa Presents.
    Stay safe

  17. I toss my comment in, maiy to say, this has become my favorite blog to read.
    I look forward to every issue, much like I did to waking up to Saturday morning cartoons some 50+ years ago.
    I little of everything. And I have a huge appreciation for dry wit.

    Anyway, my scariest movie ever, from a first view of when I was just a kid at the drive-in.
    Vincent Price in the Pit and the Pendulum.

    Thanks Wilder, keep up the…well, whatever you do.

    PS- my Mrs. says to say hello to your Mrs.

    1. Thanks Capt! I really do appreciate it, and will share that with The Mrs. I remember reading the Pit and the Pendulum when I was in middle school. Cool stuff.

      1. Maher’s an opportunistic idiot, who has spent an entire lifetime self-beclowning.
        The only reason to hope he dies in a fire would be to show up and throw gasoline balloons at him.

        1. Yes, he is. But he looks sane in comparison to the Left right now. I got Maher-fatigue in, oh, 1997 or so. He was playing a game that got boring. Still don’t watch him. But he makes more sense than AOC (which is itself a low bar).

          1. He was a 99¢ Store version of Archie Bunker, and even less funny, and calling his show Politically Incorrect was the height of The Big Lie: it was the most PC butt-slurpingly obvious woke BS on TV, decades before that term even became popular.

            His schtick since ever was always to lampoon the Right by picking controlled opposition (which worked for about two seconds, until they turned out to be funnier than the Left, plus correct.)
            While he was tap-dancing to the left, the actual Lunatic Left ski-jumped the shark, and now he’s found himself two miles behind enemy lines, with no allies, getting shot at from both sides, and just now figuring it out.

            He was always a sad little panda, and now he’s just pathetic.

            It’s kind of like watching PCU, without any of the comedy: Jeremy Piven in real life is just another woke-to-the-gills Hollywood @$$hole, but his character in that movie sends up the Libtard Moonbats better than any twenty of Maher’s attempts. Hollywood was so embarrassed by how spot-on that lampoon was, the effort has been all but denied to exist. And everything they made fun of in the flick is now holy writ now.

            It’s how an entire industry became the punchline of their own joke, and they still can’t figure out why people stay home in droves and watch DVDs/BDs of old movies instead of shelling out for the current bucket of swill.

            That has them so mad, I give it five years before woketarding the current iteration of James Bond isn’t enough, and they CGI Connery into a gay tranny wearing a dress and wig, and turn John Wayne into a swishy brokeback cowboy/Nathan Lane caricature.
            Lucas playing with the original Star Wars releases was the template.
            Mark my words.

          2. Dammit, dammit, dammit, you’re right. I’ve not seen his HBO show in forever, just clips. And those were reasonable clips. The last clip? How the world was going to be forever lost if the Left didn’t retain power on Tuesday.

            You were right. Dammit.

  19. Fall? And ‘Horror’ Movies?

    FAVORITE time of Year. For Hunter’s, for sure. 2-3 yr. old Doe CAN NOT be beat for Eating. ‘Steaks’ IMHO, are best cooked like ANY Steak. ‘Pittsburgh’-style if ya like the extra Carcinogens Char, crispy fat, (Very Subjective). Still quivering on the inside. On Beef. Used to trim off the excess (Fat) on Deer, if any NOT already trimmed/Overlooked during the butchering. ‘RARE’ IS where it’s at. ‘Frenching’ A Standing Crown Roast adds a nice touch. THAT fat really tasty!

    ‘Cold Pack’? Should’ve seen the face on a few of the ‘Lady’s’ who exclaimed…”Why I do declare, THAT was some of the BEST Roast Beef $#@! on a Shingle i’ve Ever Eaten!”

    ‘Well, It Was Bambi.’

    Led to many wrestling matches. Arguing over the leftovers after taking care of a few minor details.

    Low & Slow, all else. ‘Collagen breakdown’ and all that. A debt of Gratitude to my MAN, Alton Brown. Good (All Purpose) burger, 50:50 Boston Butt, mixed for fat, not withstanding.

    P&Y Neck (whole) Roast, Garlic inserted BEFORE freezing. Years ago, One Sunday Morn. By 6 a.m., In a Calphalon® Roasting pan w/Rack, covered with foil. Experiment. Convection Bake, 220°. ‘Plan’ Was for 8 hrs., ‘Check Progress/Temp°. ‘Finnish’, uncovered, Convection Roast 400° until exterior ‘Browned’.

    ‘Called-Out’ by my Employer @ the time…”Emergency!”

    DID NOT Get Home ’til 7ish p.m., Worried that the Roast would be ruined! Could smell it outside when i parked my van. OMG! Words escape me. AND i was starving! Won’t bore Ya with the ‘Wet/Muddy’…WHY can’t Buried Hot Water Boiler Mains break in the Summertime?

    Literally drooling, by the time i shed my clothes in the basement and went upstairs.

    Put the roaster on the stovetop and peeled the foil gingerly, Steam Burns ALWAYS a concern. The little fat remaining had Completely dissolved, some ‘Browning’ even with the foil.

    The Neck Bones? ‘Tricky’ to lift out segments without it falling completely apart. The Vertebrae were Shiny White. Had to improvise, 2 Spatulas. 4 sandwiches later…Lightly toasted Full Loaf Italian Base, ’bout 3/4″ thick. Slathered with copious amounts of Dijon & Homemade Horseradish, Real Mayo. Mountain of ‘Self-Shredded’ Meat, Broiler melted Provolone and/or SHARP Cheddar, BOTH sides of the assemblage. (2 & 2) Lettuce, Onions, Bread & Butter pickles, pepper & salt. …Yummy!

    There is a REASON that ‘Steer’ are NONE of the Man they used to be. SAME applies to all meat. Deer Meat? Shockingly, It Tastes Like DEER. (Assuming It Was Killed & processed ‘Properly’) Art imitates Life. Better to Eat the Females. Lookin’ for Tuna that tasted good, Not Tuna with good taste.
    WAS a ‘Rack’ Hunter when i was young, Can NOT eat the antlers. Buck MEAT is inherently ‘Stronger’, ALL else being ‘Equal’.

    Currently, ‘3-400# of Field corn/Month or so, in various forms feeding various critters, mostly contingent on the annual Crick level/flow, which affects the transient Duck population, waxing/waning throughout the Spring/Summer/Fall. Keeps the Wife entertained on the porch. After i learned to ‘broadcast’ the cracked corn for the Ducks? Strip of Crick Bank approx./Avg. 15′ x 300+’, Parallel to the driveway.

    DO NOT have to run the Weedeater there at all, 4 yrs. running. Wife DID briefly mention the ever burgeoning ‘expenditure’, 1st Yr. I finally sat down and counted. There was a ‘Notch’ in the Bank where a runoff ditch intersected. Was going to ‘invest’ in a Duck Call, but with practice, i’m now fairly proficient on my own. i would spread the corn in one ‘Quadrant’, depending on which area needed ‘Trimmed’ @ Daybreak. i ‘called’ a few times and waited.

    There. Flyin’ up the Holler, circling around and landing upstream, where they floated down in groups of 3-4 to see where the ‘Trimming’ spot was that day. i quit counting @ 120, still a few stragglers further upstream. Nice round number for ‘Calculations’. Whole Frozen Duck @ $$/’Unit’, X 120…

    ‘Baby! We can CLEAR $1800 AND pay for all the Feed!’
    ‘Priceless’ does NOT do the response i received justice.

    Speaking of $#@!…
    Apparently, i’m INCAPABLE of writing a short, coherent note.

    What i meant to say…. ‘Current Favorite Horror Movie’?

    https://link.therealanthonyfaucimovie.com/a/229/click/9848855/744406998/_c17e952376b5e88ac0168c591eb1ae295d0bcbf3/49f445cb862ace1913293625f38c47bcb6cdf1c6 is still FREE! until Tues. Nite @ The Witching Hour.

    If You don’t have the Book. Already. Got through “Killing The Planet” & “The Killing of Uncle Sam” last winter. WILL read “The REAL Anthony Fauc(ist)” Soon.

    Books are invariably better than the Movie©

  20. Here are a few off the wall horror movies I scavenged off of amazon, freevee,etc.
    Juan of the Dead. A cuban zombie movie!
    “Juan is a slacker trying to reconnect with his daughter, who plans to rejoin her mother in Miami. Lazaro, Juan’s friend, is trying to connect with his own son, a persistent womanizer. They begin to notice that locals are “going crazy”, killing people and eating their flesh, and the recently deceased are returning to life. The Cuban government and the media claim that the zombies are dissidents revolting against the government.”

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1838571/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

    The Devil’s Rock.

    British horror film. Commandos land to sabotage a nazi installation. There’s a castle. What could the nazis be up to there?
    Very bloody.

    “In 1944, the New Zealander’s soldiers Captain Ben Grogan and Sergeant Joseph Tane are assigned to explode a German military facility in a occupied Channel Island to create a diversion far from the Normandy on the eve of the D-Day. They hear screams inside the installation that is apparently unprotected and they prepare the explosives. When Grogan overhears a woman scream, he decides to seek her out inside the bunker”

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1712578/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

    Frankensteins Army

    One of my all time favorites. Mosin action. Mosquito man. Propeller face. What could Dr. Frankenstein’s grandson be doing to help the nazis in 1945?
    He should learn to sew better.

    “Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein.”

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1925435/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2

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