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File:The Bell Jar in the Woods.jpg|link=The Bell Jar in the Woods|'''''[[The Bell Jar in the Woods]]''''' is the only horror film written and directed by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath.
File:Jack's Labyrinth.jpg|link=Jack's Labyrinth|'''''[[Jack's Labyrinth]]''''' is a fantasy horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro and Stanley Kubrick, starring Doug Jones, Jack Nicholson, and Shelley Duvall.
File:Saw of the South.jpg|link=Saw of the South|'''''[[Saw of the South]]''''' is a American live-action/animated musical horror film in the ''Saw'' franchise.
File:An Affair to Dismember.jpg|link=An Affair to Dismember|'''''[[An Affair to Dismember]]''''' is a 1957 American romance comedy-horror film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.
File:Nine and a Half Psychs.jpg|link=9½ Psychs|'''''[[9½ Psychs]]''''' is an erotic horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke.
File:Hellraiser - Adventure Time.jpg|link=Hellraiser: Adventure Time|'''''[[Hellraiser: Adventure Time]]''''' is a fantasy horror animated television series created by Pendleton Ward and Clive Barker.
File:When a Riddler Calls.jpg|link=When a Riddler Calls|'''''[[When a Riddler Calls]]'''''  is a 1979 American psychological horror superhero film based on the classic folk legend of "the babysitter and the man upstairs".
File:Sawless in Seattle.jpg|link=Sawless in Seattle|'''''[[Sawless in Seattle]]''''' is an American psychological horror television series starring Kelsey Grammer and Peri Gilpin, two marriage counsellors whose own marriage descends into madness when they host a live call-in radio show.
File:Sawless in Seattle.jpg|link=Sawless in Seattle|'''''[[Sawless in Seattle]]''''' is an American psychological horror television series starring Kelsey Grammer and Peri Gilpin, two marriage counsellors whose own marriage descends into madness when they host a live call-in radio show.


File:An Affair to Dismember.jpg|link=An Affair to Dismember|'''''[[An Affair to Dismember]]''''' is a 1957 American romance comedy-horror film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.
File:Jacob's Ladder and the Chocolate Factory.jpg|link=Jacob's Ladder & the Chocolate Factory|'''''[[Jacob's Ladder & the Chocolate Factory]]''''' is a musical fantasy psychological horror film directed by Mel Stuart and Adrian Lyne, starring Gene Wilder and Tim Robbins.
 
File:Crown of the Vampire.jpg|link=Crown of the Vampire|'''''[[Crown of the Vampire]]''''' is a historical horror drama television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
 
File:Hard Cotton Candy.jpg|link=Hard Cotton Candy|'''''[[Hard Cotton Candy]]''''' is an American psychological horror film about a 14-year-old female vigilante who traps and tortures a circus barker who she suspects of being an evil supernatural clown.
 
File:They Shoot Zombies, Don't They.jpg|link=They Shoot Zombies, Don't They?|'''''[[They Shoot Zombies, Don't They?]]''''' is a 1969 American psychological horror film about a group of individuals desperate to escape a Depression-era zombie invasion and an opportunistic emcee who urges them on.
 
File:We Need to Talk About Constantine.jpg|link=We Need to Talk About Constantine|'''''[[We Need to Talk About Constantine]]''''' is an American superhero psychological horror film about the Archangel Gabriel (Tilda Swinton),  who struggles to come to terms with her psychopathic son Constantine (Keanu Reeves) and the horrors he will unleash.
 
File:Little Man It.jpg|link=Little Man It|'''''[[Little Man It]]''''' is a 1991 drama horror film about Fred Tate, a seven-year-old child prodigy who struggles to make adults see the evil clown which follows them everywhere.
 
File:Close Encounters of the Leprechaun.jpg|link=Close Encounters of the Leprechaun|'''''[[Close Encounters of the Leprechaun]]''''' is a 1993 American horror science fiction film about a vengeful alien leprechaun who believes a family has stolen his spaceship.
 
File:Centipede Kane.jpg|link=Centipede Kane|'''''[[Centipede Kane]]''''' is a quasi-biographical film horror film examining the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a composite character based on several famous plastic surgery barons, as well as aspects of their patients' lives.
 
File:The Shining 2 - Return to Antarctica.jpg|link=The Shining 2: Return to Antarctica|'''''[[The Shining 2: Return to Antarctica]]''''' is a science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter and Stanley Kubrick, starring Kurt Russell and Jack Nicholson.
 
File:Rambo - First Brood.jpg|link=Rambo: First Brood|'''''[[Rambo: First Brood]]''''' is a psychological body horror action film directed by David Cronenberg and Ted Kotcheff, starring Samantha Eggar and Sylvester Stallone.  


File:Saw of the South.jpg|link=Saw of the South|'''''[[Saw of the South]]''''' is a American live-action/animated musical horror film in the ''Saw'' franchise.
File:John Carpenter's It.jpg|link=John Carpenter's It|'''''[[John Carpenter's It]]''''' is a science fiction horror film about an alien parasite which disguises itself as a circus clown.


File:The Day the Balloon Cried.jpg|link=The Day the Balloon Cried|'''''[[The Day the Balloon Cried]]''''' is an unfinished and unreleased 1972 horror film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis.
File:The Day the Balloon Cried.jpg|link=The Day the Balloon Cried|'''''[[The Day the Balloon Cried]]''''' is an unfinished and unreleased 1972 horror film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis.


File:Moby-Vamp.jpg|link=Moby-Vamp|'''''[[Moby-Vamp]]''''' is a "novel of Dread and the fearsome Unknown" by Herman Melville and Bram Stoker.
File:Moby-Vamp.jpg|link=Moby-Vamp|'''''[[Moby-Vamp]]''''' is a novel by Herman Melville about the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship ''Pequod'', for vengeance against Moby Dick, a giant vampire whale.
 
File:The Bedtime Story by William Peter Blatty.jpg|link=The Bedtime Story|'''''[[The Bedtime Story]]''''' is a 1973 comedy horror film directed by William Friedkin.  It is loosely based on the novel ''The Exorcist'' by William Peter Blatty.
 
File:Peeping Toms.jpg|link=Peeping Toms|'''''[[Peeping Toms]]''''' is a 1960 British psychological horror-confectionary film about a serial killer who murders women while using Peeps to record their dying expressions of terror.
 
File:Children of the Beans.jpg|link=Children of the Beans|'''''[[Children of the Beans]]''''' is a 1984 American supernatural slasher foodie film based on Stephen King's 1977 short story of the same name.
 
File:Bride of Chuckles.jpg|link=Bride of Chuckles|'''''[[Bride of Chuckles]]''''' is a 1998 American confectionary slasher film about a doll possessed by a criminally insane candy manufacturer, and his former lover and accomplice Tootsie, whose soul is transferred into a diabetic doll.
 
File:Jacob's Flatline.jpg|link=Jacob's Flatline|'''''[[Jacob's Flatline]]''''' is a 1990 American psychological horror film directed by Joel Schumacher and Adrian Lyne.
 
File:Zombie Doctor.jpg|link=Zombie Doctor|'''''[[Zombie Doctor]]''''' is a 2003 American medical crime-horror film about a physician (Danny Nucci) who is forced by an undead crime lord (Paul Sorvino) to heal zombies.
 
File:Cacofonia (Deafening Nights of Deafening Chainsaws).jpg|link=Cacofonia|"'''[[Cacofonia]]'''" (known in English as "'''Deafening Nights of Deafening Chainsaws'''") is a bossa nova song and Halloween standard written by Antônio Carlos Jobim in 1960. English lyrics were later written by Jason Voorhees.
 
File:Ocean's Plan 9.jpg|link=Ocean's Plan 9|'''''[[Ocean's Plan 9]]''''' is a 1957 independent American science fiction-horror heist film about World War II veterans Danny Ocean and Jimmy Foster, who resurrect the corpses of nine comrades from their unit in the 82nd Airborne to simultaneously rob five Las Vegas casinos.
 
File:Hellralpher - The box is making me evil.jpg|link=Hellralpher|'''''[[Hellralpher]]''''' is an American television series about Ralph, a boy with a magical box that summons the Cimpsons, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic cartoon animators who cannot differentiate licensed and unlicensed intellectual properties.
 
File:You Are the Shining of My Life.jpg|link=You Are the Shining of My Life|"'''[[You Are the Shining of My Life]]'''" is a song by Stevie Wonder and Scatman Crothers.
 
File:The Silence of Laura Mars.jpg|link=The Silence of Laura Mars|'''''[[The Silence of Laura Mars]]''''' is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film a young FBI trainee who is hunting a glamorous fashion photographer who sees real-time visions of the murders of her friends and colleagues.
 
File:Are_you_sure_that_John_Brown's_body_lies_a-mouldering_in_the_grave.jpg|link=John Brown's Body|"'''[[John Brown's Body]]'''" (popularly known as "'''[[John Brown's Body|John Brown's Body Rises a-Mouldering From the Grave]]'''") is an [[Unaffected States]] marching song about the zombie abolitionist John Brown.


File:Cannibal Argonauts.jpg|link=Cannibal Argonauts|'''''[[Cannibal Argonauts]]''''' is an independent fantasy adventure-horror film directed by Ruggero Deodato and Don Chaffey.
File:Cannibal Argonauts.jpg|link=Cannibal Argonauts|'''''[[Cannibal Argonauts]]''''' is an independent fantasy adventure-horror film directed by Ruggero Deodato and Don Chaffey.


File:The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Constantine.jpg|link=The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Constantine|'''''[[The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Constantine]]''''' is a 2008 fantasy superhero horror film about Caspian (Keanu Reeves), a dispossessed prince who strikes an uneasy bargain with the White Witch (Tilda Swinton).
File:Stephen King's Winnie-the-Pooh.jpg|link=Stephen King's Winnie-the-Pooh|'''''[[Stephen King's Winnie-the-Pooh]]''''' is an American children's horror novel about an anthropomorphic bear who befriends an evil clown.


File:The China Thing.jpg|link=The China Thing|'''''[[The China Thing]]''''' is a science fiction disaster horror film starring Wilford Brimley, Jane Fonda, and Kurt Russell.
File:You Should Have Six Degrees Left.jpg|link=You Should Have Six Degrees Left|'''''[[You Should Have Six Degrees Left]]''''' is a psychological parlor game horror film starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried.
File:Workshop of the Damned.jpg|link=Workshop of the Damned|'''''[[Workshop of the Damned]]''''' is a science fiction Christmas horror comedy film starring Christopher Reeve, Will Farrell, and Kirstie Alley.
File:John Dies at Parkland.jpg|link=John Dies at Parkland|'''''[[John Dies at Parkland]]''''' a 2013 American historical drama horror film that recounts the supernatural events that occurred following the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.


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== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==


* ''[[9½ Psychs]]''
* ''[[An Affair to Dismember]]''
* ''[[An Affair to Dismember]]''
* ''[[Bride of Chuckles]]''
* ''[[Cannibal Argonauts]]''
* ''[[Cannibal Argonauts]]''
* [[John Carpenter Festival]]
* [[Cacofonia]]
* ''[[Centipede Kane]]''
* ''[[Children of the Beans]]''
* ''[[Close Encounters of the Leprechaun]]''
* ''[[Crown of the Vampire]]''
* [[Festivals]]
* [[Festivals]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
* ''[[If God Loves Me So Much Then Why is Spirit Halloween Not Year-Round?]]''
* [[Halloween Festival]]
* ''[[Julia Child the 13th]]''
* ''[[Hard Cotton Candy]]''
* ''[[Precinct 13 Halloween]]''
* ''[[Hellraiser: Adventure Time]]''
* ''[[Hellralpher]]''
* ''[[Jack's Labyrinth]]''
* ''[[Jacob's Flatline]]''
* ''[[Jacob's Ladder & the Chocolate Factory]]''
* [[John Brown's Body]]
* ''[[John Carpenter's It]]''
* ''[[John Dies at Parkland]]''
* ''[[Little Man It]]''
* ''[[Moby-Vamp]]''
* ''[[Ocean's Plan 9]]''
* ''[[Peeping Toms]]''
* ''[[Rambo: First Brood]]''
* ''[[Saw of the South]]''
* ''[[Saw of the South]]''
* ''[[The Brother in the Coffin]]''
* ''[[Sawless in Seattle]]''
* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Constantine]]''
* ''[[Stephen King's Winnie-the-Pooh]]''
* ''[[The Bedtime Story]]''
* ''[[The Bell Jar in the Woods]]''
* ''[[The China Thing]]''
* ''[[The Day the Balloon Cried]]''
* ''[[The Shining 2: Return to Antarctica]]''
* ''[[They Shoot Zombies, Don't They?]]''
* ''[[The Silence of Laura Mars]]''
* ''[[When a Riddler Calls]]''
* [[You Are the Shining of My Life]]
* ''[[You Should Have Six Degrees Left]]''
* ''[[Zombie Doctor]]''
 


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
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== External links ==
== External links ==


* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween Halloween] @ Wikipedia
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror Horror] @ Wikipedia


=== Social media ===
=== Social media ===


* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1695575501048258802 Post] @ Twitter (26 August 2023) • Sawless in Seattle • The Turkey Chainsaw Massacre Slake • Saw of the South
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1773217167862886665 Post] @ Twitter (27 March 2024) • We Need to Talk About Constantine • Saw of the South • Ocean's Plan 9 • Hellraiser: Adventure Time
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1760009586113687881 Post] @ Twitter (20 February 2024) • Saw of the South • Little Man It • The Silence of Laura Mars John Dies at Parkland
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1725877920198013219 Post] @ Twitter (18 November 2023) • Saw of the South • 9½ Psychs • When a Riddler Calls • We Need to Talk About Constantine


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Latest revision as of 13:49, 8 November 2024

The Horror Festival is a celebration of horror in film, literature, and other media.

Gallery

Fiction cross-reference


Nonfiction cross-reference

External links

Social media

  • Post @ Twitter (27 March 2024) • We Need to Talk About Constantine • Saw of the South • Ocean's Plan 9 • Hellraiser: Adventure Time
  • Post @ Twitter (20 February 2024) • Saw of the South • Little Man It • The Silence of Laura Mars • John Dies at Parkland
  • Post @ Twitter (18 November 2023) • Saw of the South • 9½ Psychs • When a Riddler Calls • We Need to Talk About Constantine