It’s that time again! In this episode, The Magic Jack O’Lantern 2018, we once again bring you our list of viewing tricks and treats to celebrate the season. We watched one Halloween inspired title every day in October and now pass the list and our impressions on to you in hopes that you might find some new scares for your regular viewing rotation or revisit some old spooky favorites. This year, our goal was to only watch films we had not yet seen: so Cole picked films that were new to him, and Ericca did the same. Here’s the full list!

Day 1: Opera (Argento, 1987)

Day 2: Hotel (Hausner, 2004)

Day 3: Kuroneko (Shindô, 1968)

Day 4: Demon (Wrona, 2015)

Day 5: God Told Me To (Cohen, 1976)

Day 6: Suspiria (Argento, 1977)

Day 7: The Vampire Doll (Yamamoto, 1970)

Day 8: Get Out (Peele, 2017)

Day 9: The Nun (Hardy, 2018)

Day 10: Poison for the Fairies (Taboada, 1985)

Day 11: The Beyond (Fulci, 1981)

Day 12: The Rats are Coming! The Werewolves are Here! (Milligan, 1972)

Day 13: Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (Christensen, 1922)

Day 14: Maniac (Lustig, 1980)

Day 15: Maniac (Khalfoun, 2012)

Day 16: Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)

Day 17: The Fall of the House of Usher (Epstein, 1928)

Day 18: Tenebre (Argento, 1982)

Day 19: Lake of Dracula (Yamamoto, 1971)

Day 20: Black Sunday (Bava, 1960)

Day 21: The Devils (Russell, 1971)

Day 22: The Wicker Man (Hardy, 1973)

Day 23: Razorback (Mulcahy, 1984)

Day 24: Deep Red (Argento, 1975)

Day 25: Halloween (Green, 2018)

Day 26: The Exorcist III (Blatty, 1990)

Day 27: The Autopsy of Jane Doe (Øvredal, 2016)

Day 28: Livide (Bustillo, Maury, 2011)

Day 29: Kill List (Wheatley, 2011)

Day 30: Evil of Dracula (Yamamoto, 1974)

Day 31: Kwaidan (Kobayashi, 1964)

What you’ll find in this episode: lots of giallo, filling in major gaps in our horror firmament, and many new and old favorites from the 1920’s up through the last few years.

– Cole and Ericca

Links:

The history of the Jack O’Lantern.

Dario Argento talks about the giallo.

Japanese horror in print.