Every October for the past few years I’ve done a little something called “Netflix Halloween” that surveys a random sampling of the horror flicks available on America’s purportedly favorite streaming service, and every year I’ve noticed the same thing : the pickin’s are getting slimmer and slimmer on Netflix all the time for horror fans. This year I finally decided to break the mold, quit scraping the bottom of the barrel, and jump ship over to Hulu for the Halloween season, and whaddya know? They have a shit-ton more to choose from, and lots of it is stuff that I’ve never even heard of, much less seen — which, believe you me, takes some doing.

Sufficiently chuffed to find some films to review that you won’t see covered on many other movie blogs, I dove right in with just a couple of ground rules in mind : everything I’ll be…