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‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’ – beauty and the beast on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Essential Viewing, fantasy, giant monsters, Halloween, horror, SVOD 10/14/2021 Sean Axmaker

Jack Arnold’s horror classic introduced one of the most iconic movie monsters of all time.

‘Grimm’ – the fairy tale underworld of Portland on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult TV, DVD, fantasy, Halloween, horror, Streaming TV, supernatural, SVOD 10/13/2021 Sean Axmaker

A cop discovers his monster-hunting legacy in this entertaining mix of dark fairy tale, modern crime, and supernatural conspiracy set in the emerald forest of Portland, Oregon

Universal Horrors: the birth of American horror cinema and the original cinematic shared universe

!Featured, Articles, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, horror, Peacock, SVOD 10/08/2021 Sean Axmaker

Decades before the Marvel Comics movie universe was born, Frankenstein and Dracula and the Wolf Man crossed paths, teamed up, and battled one another.

‘Cat People’ 1982 on Peacock

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, fantasy, Halloween, horror, Peacock, remake, Streaming Movies, supernatural, SVOD 10/06/2021 Sean Axmaker

Nastassja Kinski stars in Paul Schrader’s visually elegant remake of the 1942 classic, a modern horror with slashes of sex and violence.

Mia Wasikowska is an American heiress in a British haunted manor in Guillermo Del Toro's 'Crimson Peak'

‘Crimson Peak’ – Guillermo Del Toro’s Gothic ghost story on Netflix

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, fantasy, Halloween, horror, Netflix, Romance, Streaming Movies, SVOD 10/04/2021 Sean Axmaker

Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, and Jessica Chastain star in this Gothic romance with notes of horror and bathed in the unreal and magical colors of a baroque Italian horror.

‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ – Guillermo del Toro’s dark fairy tale on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Halloween, historical, International Cinema, Netflix, socially aware cinema, SVOD, thriller 10/03/2021 Sean Axmaker

This elemental ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is both an escape from and a fantastical reflection of the horrors of Francisco Franco’s reign of terror in 1944 Spain.

Federico Luppi stars in the vampire film from Guillermo Del Toro

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Cronos’ on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, horror, International Cinema, SVOD 10/01/2021 Sean Axmaker

The feature debut of Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is a magnificent mix of fantasy and horror, an alchemic twist on vampire lore and the costs of eternal life.