And so, it begins...

This is the moment I've been desperately waiting for. Friday Night at Midnight I at long last get to begin my Halloween viewing for lucky 2013. This year, thanks to a wonderful new work schedule, I get not 2 but 3 nights each week to watch spooky material. That's a whopping 50% increase! I watched 40 movies total last Halloween Season, will I watch 60 this year? Quite possibly, but I also have a profoundly richer selection of TV and documentaries to watch this year, so time will tell. I guess I better get down to some watchin'!

And hey, thanks to Netflix and Amazon Prime, I'll get through this season barely spending a sent. Here's a rough draft of my TV/film list for this year. It will be frequently edited. Keep in mind the goal isn't to watch everything, the goal is to always have something good to watch!

Content available for free on Netflix and/or Amazon Prime is coded in BOLD.
Keynote/primary content is coded in RED.


TV Drama

Dead Set
American Horror Story Asylum
The Walking Dead Season 3
Survivors
Falling Skies
Harper's Island
Earth 2
The Vampire Diaries (s1/s4)
Teen Wolf
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The X-Files
Jeremiah
Being Human
Apparitions
Hemlock Grove
Revolution
The Gates
The Lost World
Defiance
Under the Dome
The Secret Circle
Roswell
Stephen King's The Stand
Defying Gravity
Outcasts
Wolf Lake


TV Anthology

Masters of Horror
R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Lost Tapes
Goosebumps
The Hunger
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
The Twilight Zone


1st Tier Films

Warm Bodies
The Roost by Ti West
Scream 3
Ginger Snaps Back
Cronos
Silent House
V/H/S 2
The East
Abandoned Mine
Mutants
Citadel
Stake Land
Invasion
The Road
The Reef
House at the End of the Street
Compliance
Apartment 143
Hunger
Cargo
The Mooring
The Bay
Abducted
Tomorrow When the War Began
Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan
The Others
The Eye
The Uninvited
Devil's Backbone
Trigger Man
Diary of the Dead
Zombieland
Les Revenants
Darkest Night
Right At Your Door
The Quiet Earth

Carriers

Unaware
Absence
Another Kind
Europa Report

Night Skies

Silent Warnings
Progeny
Midnight Son
Evidence
Last House on the Left
World War Z
Nightfall


2nd Tier Films

Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows

Lovely Molly
Tremors 3: Back to Perfection 

The Devil Inside

The Hole

The Hole (other one)

Intruders

To. Get. Her.

Kill List
The Ward

John Dies at the End

Pet Sematary

The Lost Boys

Identity (2003)

Slither

The Host

Big Bad Wolf

Zombie Diaries 1/2
Hollow
Vampires
Mimic
Fear Island
Kidnapped
Black Death
The Faculty
Trapped Ashes
The Devil's Carnival
Greystone Park
Ghost Cat
Crowsnest
Cropsey
June 9
UFO Target Earth
The Ritual
Exhibit A
Recut
Girl Vs. Monster
Creepy Tales: Girls' Night Out
Vampire Diary
Spiders (2013)
Elevator
Dark Waters
The Objective
Truth or Die
The Pact
The Frozen
Jacob
Dead of Winter
Splintered
Blackout
State of Emergency
Ghoulies
Barrio Tales
Rites of Spring
Last Kind Words
Munger Road
I Spit On Your Grave
Pontypool
The Open Door
The Shrine
The Afflicted
Shark Week (film)
Donner Pass
The Orphanage
Under the Bed
Visitors
The Bunker
Darkness
The Strangers
Excision
Sinister
American Mary
The Purge
War of the Worlds: The Untold Story
Communion

Apollo 18

Shadow of the Vampire

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Blindness

The Divide
Battle Dogs

Lo

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Splice

Carrie (2013)

Halloweentown

My Babysitter's a Vampire

Blood and Chocolate
Mother of Tears
I Am Legend

HORROR FEST

Documentary TV Shows

Is It Real?
Paranormal Witness (highly recommended)
Unsealed Files
A Haunting
The Universe
Dark Matters: Twisted But True
Urban Legends
My Ghost Story: Caught On Camera
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Deadly Women
Best Evidence
Shark Week
Stalked: Someone's Watching

Dark Days in Monkey City

Untamed & Uncut

Night

I'm Alive

After the Attack

Nightmare Next Door
Beyond
Ancient Aliens
Destination Truth
Ghost Adventures
Forecasting The End
Real Scary Stories
Beyond Belief/Bizarre
MonsterQuest
Sightings

Documentaries

The Truth Behind Zombies, National Geographic
Mermaids: The Body Found
Mermaids: The New Evidence
The Last Dragon/Fantasy Made Flesh
Werewolves: The Dark Survivors
Twisted History: Vampires
PBS Nova: Can We Make it to Mars?
Apocalypse How?
Secrets of the Dead: The World's Biggest Bomb
Countdown to Zero
Trinity & Beyond
Out of the Blue
The Watcher
Hiroshima: BBC History of WWII
The Forgotten Bomb

Eyes of the Moth Man

The History Channel: Apocalypse, Puzzle of Revelation
Secret KGB UFO Files
Murder By Proxy: How America Went Postal
666 Revealed
Fastwalkers
The White Mountain Abduction
Devil Worship: The Rise of Satanism
Hell: The Devil's Domain
History Channel/A&E specials
The Unexplained: Zombies
History's Mysteries: Zombies
Investigating the Haitian Zombie

History Channel: Hauntings
Haunted History: Halloween
Zombie Apocalypse (Discovery Channel)\
Europa: Mystery of the Ice Moon

Film Classics

Cryptic TV & other Roku horror channels
Jaws
An American Werewolf in London
Night of the Living Dead
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Alien
Nosferatu
Suspiria
The Exorcist
Fire in the Sky
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane


Notable Rewatches

Perkins' 14
Penny Dreadful
Trick 'r Treat
The House of the Devil
The Cabin in the Woods
Jack & Diane
Deadgirl
Grizzly Man


I've decided (loose blueprint) that Saturday will be movie night, Sunday will be theme night, and Monday will be TV night. I mean each night will feature a mix, but each with a different focus. I've already got Witch night set up for this Sunday.

But it's not just about the watching. I've got about 17 (and counting!) of Halloween-themed audio on my iPod. Eight & a half of those hours are creepy campfire stories. I'm also on the lookout for a good horror novel to read.

I'm planning two "Samhain Feasts" this year, though the specifics of what they'll include is sub-preliminary at this point. This time it's A Feast For Ghouls and A Feast For Goblins; the first being intended to scare the shit out of me and the second just for pure Halloween fun.