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Halloween is almost here! - WWSKW?

by Ted Sherman on 2022-10-27T14:40:00-04:00 in Streaming | 0 Comments

For this year's list of Halloween movies we ask - what would Stephen King watch?

 

After all this master of the macabre has authored dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories in the genre. Many of his works have been turned into popular movies. If anyone has an expert opinion on what is frightening it is Mr King.

 

A quick search of the Internet confirms that he does enjoy a scary movie. Below are movies from our Kanopy streaming collection that Stephen King has mentioned as among his favorites. Watch them if you dare.....

 

 

The Witch


In this exquisitely made and terrifying horror film, the age-old concepts of witchcraft, black magic and possession are innovatively brought together to tell the intimate and riveting story of one family’s frightful unraveling.

 

Winner of Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Winner of a Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

 

 

 

The Brood

 

A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two story lines connect is the shocking and grotesque secret of this bloody tale of monstrous parenthood.

 

 

 

Diabolique

 

The story of two women—the fragile wife and the willful mistress of the sadistic headmaster of a boys' boarding school—who hatch a daring revenge plot. With its unprecedented narrative twists and terrifying images, Diabolique is a heart-grabbing benchmark in horror filmmaking.

 

 

 

Dementia 13

 

In DEMENTIA 13, we follow Louise Haloran who is left widowed after her husband suddenly dies of a heart attack. Worried she will not be able to claim any of her husband's inheritance, she convinces his family he is away on a business trip and joins them at their Castle estate on an isolated Irish island.

 

The family has gathered in remembrance of the 7 year anniversary of their daughter's death - and Louise is about to find out that the Haloran family has a morbid way of mourning their dead…

 

 

 

The Stepfather

A family-values man named Jerry Blake marries widows and divorcées with children in search of the perfect family. As soon as his new family members show signs of being human and not robots who will march unquestioningly to his tune, his dreams of domestic bliss begin to crumble, and he kills them. Then he alters his appearance, assumes a new identity, and skips to another town to begin the deadly ritual all over again. He marries Susan Maine, who sees him as the ideal surrogate father for her teenage daughter Stephanie, and he is soon up to his old tricks when she proves to be too much of a troublesome teen to handle.

 

 


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