Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) 08, 10/6.

Row Three's a few days into its "31 Days of Horror" special. So far John Allison has survived My Little Eye, Road Games, À l'Interieur (Inside) and Identity.

Quint's horror movie of the day at AICN: Salò. And here's the full list for October.

Updated through 10/7.

Bob Turnbull gorges on five horror flicks all at once.

"Genres are borrowed skins," writes Michael Guillén. "Filmmakers adopt them and adapt them to fit the stories they want to tell. In the case of Tomas Alfredson's Swedish coming-of-age vampire tale Let the Right One In (Låt den Rätte Komma in) the tale is so dense with nuance, so textured with masterful indirection and tender delights, so imaginative in how it reconfigures established tropes of the vampire mythos that it stretches the skin taut, rendering it nearly translucent to reveal its wondrous heartbeat within, like the vulnerable pulse at one's temples."

More from Marilyn Ferdinand: "A more emotionally rich, honest, and harrowing film - though properly wrapped in the conventions and graphic horrors of vampire tales - you're not likely to see for some time."

"It seems that Russia-set three-quel 28 Months Later... has settled on a director," notes Kurt Halfyard. "And that fellow is The Cottage director Paul Andrew Williams." Update, 10/7: Kurt hears from reliable sources that this rumor is "totally untrue."

Also at Twitch, Todd Brown, filing from Sitges: "A mock-propaganda film, Die Schneider Krankheit is a stunningly - and lovingly - accurate reproduction of 1950s film techniques, a purported newsreel detailing the beginnings of a viral outbreak throughout Germany following the crash landing of a Russian space capsule containing an infected monkey."

Posted by dwhudson at October 6, 2008 11:25 AM