Resources: Episode 10: Boo Without Goo: Scary Movies For the Squeamish

Hecate: O! Well done! I commend your pains,

and ever one shall share i’ the gains…

Sec. Witch: By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.

Open, locks,

Whoever knocks!

—Macbeth, Willam Shakespeare

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Scary movies for the squeamish: the list of 31 films

1. Paranormal Activity (2010)
2. Paperhouse (1990), based upon the young adult novel Marianne Dreams, by Catherine Storr
3. Lady in White (1988)
4. The Changeling (1980), with the amazing George C. Scott
5. What Lies Beneath (2000), with Harrison Ford and Michelle Pffiefer
6. 1408 (2007), the first Stephen King on the list–original story from the collection Everything’s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
7. Storm of the Century (1999), and there’s the second Stephen King (screenplay)
8. The Others (2001)
9. Dark Water: both the original (2002), directed by Ringu and Ringu 2 director Hideo Nakata, and the American remake (2005) with Jennifer Connolly; based upon the short story Floating Water (浮遊する水; Fuyū Suru Mizu from the collection From the Depths of Dark Water Honogurai mizu no soko kara (Kanji: 仄暗い水の底から) by Koji Suzuki
10. Rose Red (2002), lookee, Stephen King again
11. The Haunting (1963), based upon Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House
12. Skeleton Key (2005)
13. The Ward (2010)
14. Summer of Fear, sometimes also known as Stranger in Our House (1978), based upon the young adult novel by Lois Duncan
15. The Ones Below (2015)
16. It Follows (2014)—warning for the opening scene, as with others in this movie, the violence happens off-screen, but the result is grotesque
17. Jessabelle (2014)—warning for one dead goat carcass shown
18. The Caller (2011)
19. Return to Oz (1985), based upon the second, third and fourth books in the Oz series: The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
20. The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
21. Emelie (2015)
22. The Visit (2015)
23. Rosemary’s Baby (1968), based upon the novel by Ira Levin
24. The Blair Witch Project plus the short Curse of the Blair Witch (1999)
25. Unfriended (2014)
26. Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983), based upon the novel by Ray Bradbury
27. The Good Son (1993), script written by novelist Ian McEwan, famous for Atonement
28. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
29. The Houses October Built (2014)—this is a remake of the 2011 original by the same filmmakers, I have not seen the original. This is one of those movies that you will finish watching and swear it was gory. I promise you—no gore. None.
30. One Hour Photo (2002)
31. The Woman in Black (2012), based upon the novel by Susan Hill

bonus movie that I apparently inserted off the cuff during production: The Witch (2016)

All books added, as usual, to our bookshelf at Goodreads

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From the list:

Addendums to Rose Red:

not without goo:

book: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life At Rose Red, and accompanying movie

Addendum to Something Wicked This Way Comes:

the books:

series order:

1. Dandelion Wine
2. Something Wicked This Way Comes
3. Farewell Summer
4. Summer Morning, Summer Night

Addendum to Dark Water:

the book tangents:

Koji Suzuki is also the author of the Ring novels:

1. Ring
2. Spiral
3. Loop
4. Birthday
5. Rings

Addendum to Rosemary’s Baby

The novel has a sequel: Son of Rosemary. If you cannot figure out the riddle given in a reasonable amount of time, hit me up.

My podcast recommendation this week: Faculty of Horror, Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West’s monthly graduate course on horror movies. Do your homework; here there be spoilers, and they grade on the curve of a knife.

• episode index: where you can search by filmmaker or film title
• helpful Podcasts 101 course provided by their college–very quick audit

Music used in this episode: “The Haunted Metronome”, by Pixyblink

Quoted in this episode (and not already mentioned)

• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
• John Wick
• The Family Reunion by T. S. Eliot (listen for recitation of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Albert Prufrock” during a scene in It Follows)
• Cell by Stephen King
• It by Stephen King
• Frederic Brown
• Chuck Palahniuk
• Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry For Your…Brains by Ryan Mecum

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