Weekly Triple Feature

Haunted Houses

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October is the month for terror, and at the Weekly Triple Feature we have you covered. Each week we’re offering up horror selections from throughout film history that range from spine-tingling to bloody, to downright hilarious. Whatever your particular flavor of horror is, you’ll find it here this month.

THIS WEEK: HAUNTED HOUSES

THE FILMS: The Amityville Horror (1979, Stuart Rosenberg), The Conjuring (2013, James Wan), House (Hausu) (1977, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi)

Of all the sub-genres of horror, the haunted house might be the most universal. We don’t all go to summer camp or have a cursed video tape we have to pass on before it kills us, but we do all live in a home. So the idea that some dark thing is around us when we’re at our most vulnerable, watching us while we sleep, is terrifying because, who knows, maybe it could happen. Maybe it is happening right now.

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Weekly Triple Feature

Horror Comedy

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October is the month for terror, and at the Weekly Triple Feature we have you covered. Each week we’re offering up horror selections from throughout film history that range from spine-tingling to bloody, to downright hilarious. Whatever your particular flavor of horror is, you’ll find it here this month.

THIS WEEK: HORROR COMEDY

THE FILMS: Student Bodies (1981, Mickey Rose), The Return of the Living Dead (1985, Dan O’Bannon), Werewolves Within (2021, Josh Ruben)

Comedy and horror are very dissimilar genres of film. Their tones couldn’t be more different, and the responses they elicit might seem on opposite ends of a spectrum. But if you keep going in either direction, you’re bound to circle back around and the two will meet. Comedy can get dark, and horror can be so terrible that it’s laughable. Where these two things intersect is where this week’s triple feature lives.

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Weekly Triple Feature

Folk Horror

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October is the month for terror, and at the Weekly Triple Feature we have you covered. Each week we’re offering up horror selections from throughout film history that range from spine-tingling to bloody, to downright hilarious. Whatever your particular flavor of horror is, you’ll find it here this month.

THIS WEEK: FOLK HORROR

THE FILMS: The Wicker Man (1973, Robin Hardy), The Witch (2015, Robert Eggers), Häxan (1922, Benjamin Christensen)

Folk horror is a sub-genre that’s tough to pin down. While most of horror is fairly specific—slashers, haunted houses, vampires—this one is more abstract. That’s partly because it’s based in culture: It’s everywhere and nowhere all at once. There isn’t necessarily a serial killer on the loose, but there could be a witch or even an entire town that has no problem offering you up to some invisible god.

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