The month of October is winding down and I still have a stack of horror films to watch. To say I’ve been lagging behind on my horror-related entertainment would be an understatement. Yet, I’ve still been able to catch several horror films that tells me that all the doom and gloom that the current state of horror is running out of ideas.

The four shots chosen from four horror films I’ve witnessed this month run the gamut of Cronenbergian body-horror mashed together with some Bentley Little-style narrative, a disturbing little family horror piece from Austria, a siege horror with major Biblical overtones right up to that rare sighting of a great horror western.

4 SHOTS FROM 4 FILMS

Goodnight Mommy (dir. by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala)

Bone Tomahawk (dir. by S. Craig Zahler)

Let Us Prey (dir. by Brian O’Malley)

Starry Eyes (dir. by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer)