Last Sunday night was the original 1933 Universal Pictures version of The Invisible Man directed by James Whale, as well as the original 1941 version of The Wolf Man, also from Universal Pictures and directed by George Waggner. Followed them up with the 1959 Hammer Studios version of The Mummy from director Terence Fisher. Went with the Hammer version of The Mummy since, while I do love the original Universal version starring Boris Karloff, I also love the Hammer version and I was more in the mood for the slow shambler sort of mummy rather than the more cunning version in the 1932 original.
Monday was an all-day affair, as it is every Halloween.
- Dracula (1931, director Tod Browning)
- Frankenstein (1931, director James Whale)
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935, director James Whale)
- Son of Frankenstein (1939, director Rowland V. Lee)
- The Monster Squad (1987, director Fred Drekker)
- Halloween (1978, director John Carpenter)
- Trick 'r Treat (2007, director Michael Dougherty)
- Night of the Demons (1988, director Kevin S. Tenney)
- The Return of the Living Dead (1985, director Dan O'Bannon)
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982, director Tommy Lee Wallace)
Finally, on Tuesday I watched the original 1978 version of Dawn of the Dead and on Wednesday I watched the original 1985 version of Day of the Dead, both from director George A. Romero. Over the past number of years, I've made it a tradition to watch those movies to coincide with Día de los Muertos; they're zombie movies and have nothing to do with the holiday, I just figured I have to watch Day of the Dead on the actual Day of the Dead, you know?
And so my annual month-long horror movie marathon ended. I return to only watching movies sporadically throughout the year. Might not watch anything until Christmastime, aside from whatever The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs special they do for Thanksgiving on the Shudder streaming app this month.
