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Halloween is coming up in about three weeks.

Although, with Mercury in retrograde, we can safely say that the spookiness isn’t just reserved for one day this month.

As far as Halloween goes here in the South, many Saffas pretty much just celebrate with a scary movie and if you’re lucky, a dress-up party.

Perhaps a pumpkin spice latte will be drunk, too, now that Starbucks has infiltrated the country.

Anyway, we thought it would be nice to touch on a few scary films that are about to make their way to theatres and streaming services in the coming months.

We also threw in a riveting drama movie for good measure.

The must-sees of the season and where to watch them is thanks to Mashable:

Halloween Kills

This quintessential slasher film is the second part of David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy:

The classic scream queen, Jamie Lee Curtis, returns once more as the tormented but resilient Laurie Strode.

Teaming with her daughter (Judy Greer) and her granddaughter (Andi Matichak), this Final Girl braces for a definitive and grisly showdown with the iconic slasher.

You can watch Halloween Kills as it opens in theatres and becomes available on Peacock on October 15.

Wolf

This film is something like Romeo & Juliet, except the star-crossed lovers don’t come from families who hate each other.

Instead, they’re kept apart because he’s a wolf and she’s a wildcat, or at least, that’s what they think:

In Nathalie Biancheri’s snarling romance, George MacKay and Lily-Rose Depp star as young lovers who believe they’re animals trapped in human form. They meet at a clinic that claims it can cure them, but what if that’s not what they truly want?

Wolf opens in theatres on December 3.

The Power of the Dog

This period drama by Jane Campion has received critical acclaim from a range of prestigious film festivals:

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as a charismatic but cruel rancher, who relishes any chance to bully his genteel brother (Jesse Plemons), newly minted sister-in-law (Kirsten Dunst), and her sensitive son (Kodi Smit-McPhee).

As she did with The Piano‘s rustic setting, Campion brews a heady blend of chills, sexual tension, and shrewd laughs, so much so that calling it a “drama” feels woefully insufficient.

The Power of the Dog will be in select theatres from November 17 and on Netflix from December 1.

Nightmare Alley

The writer/director Guillermo del Toro from the Oscar-winning monster-romance The Shape of Water is behind this thriller, having adapted it from William Lindsay Gresham’s noir novel, Nightmare Alley:

Bradley Cooper stars as a conniving carny always on the lookout for an easy mark. But he meets his match in a ravishing and brilliant psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett in full femme fatale mode).

Expect lurid deception, twisted turns, and an all-star cast dripping in the decadent colours and deranged settings that only del Toro dare dream up.

Nightmare Alley will be in theatres from December 17.

The Feast

This brilliant Welsh movie has a rather eerie brand of terror, and for that, it has been gathering quite a bit of acclaim from the film festival circuit:

Director Lee Haven Jones invites audiences to a posh dinner party, where a politician and his socialite wife are so caught up in the details that they overlook an uninvited guest — to disastrous results.

Tapping into folk horror traditions, The Feast delivers chills, thrills, and a generous portion of blood. Be warned: this one is for those with strong stomachs.

The Feast will be in theatres from November 19.

[source:mashable]