Halloween weekend is upon us! If you’re looking to cozy up with a frightful movie marathon, we’ve got you covered with some streaming scaries – all free to access with your library card, no need to even leave home. (Audience note: most of these films are for adult audiences; please use discretion if watching with younger folks.)
Kanopy’s Fright Fest collection features 52 movies for the horror fan. Among the selections are contemporary films including The Witch, in which a Puritan family in 1630s is exiled from their village and encounter sinister forces on their new homestead at the edge of the woods; and Hereditary, where a death reveals a cryptic and terrifying family legacy. Classic offerings include Nosferatu, the original cinematic vampire; and George Romero’s zombie classic Night of the Living Dead. Or take your viewing international with the Swedish Let the Right One In, which finds 12-year-old outcast Oskar making a new friend who only comes over at night, coinciding with a series of strange disappearances and murders. Get creeped out by the Japanese film Ringu, where a cursed videotape causes anyone who views it to die within a week unless they can pass along the curse. Or laugh it up with the campy vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows.
Hoopla has a trio of classics perfect for a movie night. In John Carpenter’s slasher classic Halloween, featuring Jamie Lee Curtis, murderer Michael Myers escapes from a sanitarium and returns to his hometown for a grisly killing spree. Children of the Corn promises – and delivers – both creepy children and the claustrophobia of corn fields as a young couple find themselves stranded in rural Gatlin, Nebraska. And in Hellraiser, a family returning to their ancestral home is terrorized by the resurrected corpse of a relative who needs fresh blood in order to survive.
Kanopy and Hoopla can both be accessed from the Library’s webpage. With your library card, you can stream up to five movies per month with Kanopy, and up to 15 movies/TV shows per month with Hoopla.
~ posted by Andrea G.
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