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BAMPFA SC's October Recommendations!

10/29/2025

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Whether you're out cavorting with your fellow ghouls or taking tea with the house spirits, BAMPFA SC has media recommendations for all levels of spookiness this Halloween.
🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃: Nightmare
  • Rotten Mango: Watch this true-crime podcast on YouTube, or listen on Spotify!
  • Our favorite episode: Episode #325: 33 crew members went deep sea squid hunting, turned MAD and started hunting EACH OTHER.
🎃🎃🎃🎃: Conjuring Terror
  • The Magnus Archives: episodic horror, ranging from hair raising to nightmare causing. Listen on Spotify.
  • Our favorite episode: Here's a mid-season episode which reliably conjures some terror of the dark. Transcript can be found here.
🎃🎃🎃: The Creaking Under the Bed
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  • Sinners (2025): Set in the 1932 Mississippi Delta, two twin brothers return home from their life of crime, only to discover a greater evil awaiting them. Sexy vampires, sexy soundtrack. 
  • Bonus picks:
    • A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
    • Barbarian (2022)
    • Get Out (2017)
    • Psycho (1960)
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  • Midnight Mass: a beautiful, alluring limited series set on an isolated island on the east coast. Gothic horror, religious imagery, small town secrets.
  • Bonus picks:
    • Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018)
    • Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (2011)
    • Interview with the Vampire (2022)
    • The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
🎃🎃: Goosebumps
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  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975): A classic horror film that is perfect all year round. Both sexy and outrageous, it’ll leave you wanting to visit a live Rocky Horror Picture Show performance and experience it in person. 
  • Bonus picks:
    • Coraline (2009)
    • Knives Out (2019)
    • Practical Magic (1998)
    • Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (2010)
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  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997): Spike. Enough said.
Books
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  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson: Past haunting the present, anyone? Another chilling gothic novel, this short read considers family, otherness, and a shocking mass-family death with two lovable sisters, Merricat and Constance, at the story’s center.
  • Bonus pick: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson: This perfectly spooky gothic narrative takes place in one central house and explores themes of grief, the complexities of familial relationships, and is a perfect companion to the equally brilliant Netflix show of the same name.
🎃: Trick-or-Treating
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  • Sabrina Carpenter - Tears: Enjoy The Rocky Horror Picture Show? You’ll love this!
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  • Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009): A childhood classic novel transformed into a sucker-punch of a movie that forces you to rethink and appreciate your life and loved ones. 
  • Bonus picks:
    • Dead Poets Society (1989)
    • Girl vs. Monster (2012)
    • It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
    • Juno (2007)
    • When Harry Met Sally (1989)
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  • The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell (2018): Eccentric baker Christine McConnell and her equally “zany” friends Rose the re-animated raccoon, Rankle the mummified sphynx, and Edgar the werewolf make addictively horrifying and delicious confections. 
  • Bonus picks:
    • Gilmore Girls (2000)
    • Over the Garden Wall (2014)
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