October without end (spooky stuff rec-and-share thread)

I work at a Jellystone and we are in full swing for the spoopyest month of the year! We've got decorated campsites, costume contests and trick or treating on Saturdays, and my end of the park is doing an outdoor haunt on Fridays with a "revenge" paintball trailer the next day where you get to shoot our aliens! It's so much fun, even for the employees!

I also was invited to my very first Halloween party! I'm kinda stumped on costumes, prolly gonna end up being a skeleton cause my mom can do an amazing skeleton make-up! I'm excited

 

@jacktrash have you listened to the "Alice isn't dead" podcast? It's by the same people who made nightvale and the main character is a lesbian truck driver looking for her lost lover as she drives through unsettling places in America

 

Leans more creepy, definitely surreal. Each episode feels like a decent level creepypasta imo

 

PUMPKINS. I wanna knit a bunch of them for the apartment.
Like maybe this
but I also like these??

these cost money but if they didn't I'd be ALL over them

 

Anyone got recs for really bad horror? The unintentionally hilarious kind? I know I wanna show my girlfriend Birdemic, but if we had a couple more we could have a Bad Horror Night. :D

Anyway, we’re gonna be witches and it’s gonna be AWESOME. <3 (My mom is gonna be a witch too so maybe that makes us a lil coven??) We haven’t really decided exactly what we’re doing but I’m genuinely considering recommending that we go trick-or-treating—there’s a neighborhood near me that goes absolutely BUCKWILD for Halloween and doesn’t mind adult trick-or-treaters (source: personal experience), so...

Also maybe jack-o-lanterns?? My bestie still hasn’t ever made one despite being fucking 28 and I want to rectify that someday anyway.

 

Yes, Jack-o'-lanterns Good

Hm, cruddy horror... How about Troll 2? It's a horrible classic!



Also, I forgot this existed til now but it's that time again:

 

A decent amount of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 circuit is terrible horror B movies. The level of bad varies from "hilarious" (Night of the Blood Beast, Werewolf) to "so unbelievably awful it's almost unwatchable even with the MST3k treatment" (Manos: The Hands of Fate, The Beast of Yucca Flats).

 

SCP Foundation, if anyone in existence hasn't heard of it already! Trigger warnings vary by entry and there are thousands, so tread carefully.

 

Song of the Dead! I don't think you can count it as unintentionally bad, but it sure puts a lot of effort into being as bad as a horror musical can be. The whole film's on YouTube.

Spoiler: Warning for standard zombie stuff in thumbnail

 

I can't believe no one's (including me) posted David Pumpkins yet:

 

@jacktrash since I could second your night vale & graveyard book recs I gave the Magnus Archives a try and I'm really enjoying it, thank you! I was studying late and it felt very season-appropriate walking through the empty corridors listening to stories set in places I've been. I can add that there are official transpcripts for the first hundred or so episodes [here]. The only content warnings I could find are on the episode descriptions from episode 91 onward.

 

I don't have many recs for things that aren't terrible, but here's a delightful jingle/loathsome earworm from Halloween 3, which is at least endearingly bad?:

 

I cannot believe I haven’t recced Gravity Falls in here!!

For those who don’t know of it, it’s an excellent cartoon about a pair of twins who go up to a small Oregon town (the titular Gravity Falls) for the summer and discover that the place has a lot of crazy stuff going on just beneath the surface. It’s kind of a horror-comedy—and given how genuinely scary it gets at points, it’s definitely more than spooky enough for Halloween!