4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!
This October, we’re using 4 Shots From 4 Films to look at some of the best years that horror has to offer!
4 Shots From 4 2018 Horror Films
Halloween (2018, dir by David Gordon Green)
Hereditary (2018, dir by Ari Aster)
Mandy (2018, dir by Pan Cosmatos)
Mom and Dad (2018, dir by Brian Taylor)
Vintage Postcard, Artist Unknown
“If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.”
Douglas Coupland
I came across this old cartoon on YouTube. Apparently, it aired in October of 1983.
It’s about bears living in Bearbank. Halloween is approaching and they’re worried about getting invaded by the monsters who live on Monster Mountain. Well, that makes sense. My question is why would you buy a house near a location called Monster Mountain? And really, shouldn’t the monsters be in the houses and the bears in the mountains? This cartoon is weird.
Anyway, the bears are getting ready to feel the city but little Ted E. Bear sets out to confront his fears! Woo hoo!
I don’t know. It’s from 1983. That was a strange year, I guess.
Enjoy!
1915 Postcard, artist unknown
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble.”
— William Shakespeare, MacBeth
Awwww, that poor pumpkin! Well, hopefully, he’s smiling now!
This animated special originally aired on Halloween night in 1979. I would imagine that the crying pumpkin probably traumatized children across America. Hopefully, all the kids were out trick or treating when this aired. Myself, I remember that when I was a kid, I would help my mom carve a pumpkin every year. And then I would get so depressed when we later had to throw it out. Seriously, I would get really attached to those jack o’lanterns.
Anyway, this cartoon is before my time but I have a feeling that, if I had been around to watch it, I would have been depressed for a whole year afterwards.
Enjoy!
Carmilla by D.H. Friston
“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after.”
— J. Sheridan La Fanu Carmilla
Varney the Vampire, artist unknown
“Tis strange what a change comes over masses of men as they gaze upon a dead body. It may be that they all know that to that complexion they must come at last. This may be the secret of the respect offered to the dead.”
— James Michael Rymer, Varney the Vampire
Shadow Out Of Time, by Harold V. Brown
“After twenty-two years of nightmare and terror, saved only by a desperate conviction of the mythical source of certain impressions, I am unwilling to vouch for the truth of that which I think I found in Western Australia on the night of July 17–18, 1935.”
— H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out Of Time
The King In Yellow by Earl Geier
Camilla: “You, sir, should unmask.”
Stranger: “Indeed?”
Cassilda: “Indeed it’s time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.”
Stranger: “I wear no mask.”
Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) “No mask? No mask!”
— The Mask by Robert Chambers
It’s always good to see the old gang back together again.
Enjoy!
Through the Shattered Lens 