autumnal syllabus
I’ll meet you at the witching hour — to get into the All Hallows’ Eve mentality
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films
The Shining
Stanley Kubrick · 1980
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Carrie
Brian De Palma · 1976
A quieta e sensível adolescente Carrie White enfrenta insultos dos colegas na escola e abuso em casa de sua mãe, uma fanática religiosa. Quando estranhos acontecimentos começam a acontecer em torno de Carrie, ela começa a suspeitar que tem poderes sobrenaturais.
Bell, Book and Candle
Richard Quine · 1958
A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.
I Married a Witch
René Clair · 1942
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
Nosferatu
F. W. Murnau · 1922
The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock, prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.
Vampyr
Carl Theodor Dreyer · 1932
A student of the occult encounters supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside of Paris.
Häxan
Benjamin Christensen · 1922
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
The Witches
Nicolas Roeg · 1990
A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?
Rosemary's Baby
Roman Polanski · 1968
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
The Love Witch
Anna Biller · 2016
Una joven bruja está empeñada en encontrar el amor a base de conjuros y pócimas que le permitan seducir a cualquiera. Cuando por fin encuentra al hombre de sus sueños, su deseo se convierte en desesperación, en locura y luego en... Con un estilo visual que homenajea los thrillers en Technicolor de los sesenta, The Love Witch explora las fantasías femeninas y las consecuencias del narcisismo exacerbado.
Suspiria
Luca Guadagnino · 2018
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
Suspiria
Dario Argento · 1977
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Scream
Tyler Gillett · 2022
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
Practical Magic
Griffin Dunne · 1998
As mulheres da família Owens tem poderes mágicos. Mas uma maldição as persegue há mais de duzentos anos: qualquer homem que se apaixona por uma delas, morre. Descendentes da bruxa que começou este feitiço, Sally (Sandra Bullock) e Gillian (Nicole Kidman) são duas irmãs que foram criadas por suas tias (Dianne Wiest e Stockard Channing). Já adultas, enquanto Sally se mostra bastante reservada, Gillian foge de casa para ter o primeiro de muitos namorados. Após algum tempo, Sally se casa e tem duas filhas, mas seu marido acaba morrendo atropelado. Até que chega o momento em que ela deve ajudar Gillian, que se envolveu com Jimmy Angelov (Goran Visnjic), um búlgaro agressivo que as ameaça. Sentindo que correm perigo, as duas o envenenam, mas, temendo as conseqüências de tal ato, Gillian convence Sally que o melhor é trazê-lo de volta a vida. Uma decisão que trará uma série de complicações com polícia e com seus próprios poderes.
Addams Family Values
Barry Sonnenfeld · 1993
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.
The Addams Family
Barry Sonnenfeld · 1991
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.
The Witches of Eastwick
George Miller · 1987
Three single women in a picturesque Rhode Island village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.
Nosferatu
Robert Eggers · 2024
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
The Witch
Robert Eggers · 2016
Nueva Inglaterra en el año 1630. Una familia de colonos cristiana, formada por un matrimonio y sus cinco hijos, vive cerca de un bosque que, según las creencias populares, está controlado por un mal sobrenatural. Cuando su hijo recién nacido desaparece y los cultivos no crecen, los miembros de la familia se rebelan los unos contra los otros. Más allá de sus peores temores, un mal sobrenatural les acecha en el bosque cercano.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Tim Burton · 2024
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.
Beetlejuice
Tim Burton · 1988
Una pareja de fantasmas contratan a un "bio-exorcista" a sueldo para asustar a los intrusos que usurparon su hogar en Nueva Inglaterra.
Hocus Pocus
Kenny Ortega · 1993
After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
Jennifer's Body
Karyn Kusama · 2009
Jennifer, a gorgeous, seductive cheerleader takes evil to a whole new level after she''s possessed by a sinister demon. Now it''s up to her best friend to stop Jennifer''s reign of terror before it''s too late.
Scream
Wes Craven · 1996
Sidney Prescott, una adolescente de la pequeña comunidad de Woodsboro, se convierte en el objetivo de un misterioso asesino en serie. Una reportera de un canal de noticias, Gale Weathers, que cubrió el asesinato un año atrás de la madre de Sidney, cubre ahora estos asesinatos, además ha escrito un libro en el que defiende al supuesto asesino de Maureen, Cotton Weary, que va a ir a la cámara de gas, alegando que cayó en una trampa, lo que hace reavivar la polémica. Los crímenes dejan de ser aislados y continúan los asesinatos. Ahora Sidney, su novio y sus amigos están en peligro, ya que el asesino quiere revivir lo sucedido un año atrás con Maureen Prescott, pero esta vez con su hija.
Coraline
2009
Crimson Peak
Guillermo del Toro · 2015
Apaixonada pelo misterioso Sir Thomas Sharpe, Edith Cushing muda-se para a sua sombria mansão no alto de uma colina. Habitada também pela sua fria cunhada Lucille Sharpe, a casa tem uma história macabra e a forte presença de seres de outro mundo não demora a abalar a sanidade de Edith.
Casper
Brad Silberling · 1995
Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat. Casper quickly falls in love with Kat, but their budding relationship is complicated not only by his transparent state, but also by his troublemaking apparition uncles and their mischievous antics.
Dark Shadows
Tim Burton · 2012
Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.
Sleepy Hollow
Tim Burton · 1999
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.
Witches
Elizabeth Sankey · 2024
The Craft
Andrew Fleming · 1996
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.
shows
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa · 2018
Magic and mischief collide as half-human, half-witch Sabrina navigates between two worlds: mortal teen life and her family's legacy, the Church of Night.
Wednesday
Miles Millar, Alfred Gough · 2022
Mercredi Addams est envoyée par ses parents, Gomez et Morticia, au sein de la Nevermore Academy, à Jericho dans le Vermont, après avoir été une nouvelle fois expulsée d'un lycée. Nevermore est un établissement pour enfants particuliers, dirigé d'une main de fer par Larissa Weems, l'ancienne colocataire de Morticia lorsque toutes deux y étaient étudiantes. Mercredi doit alors appréhender cette nouvelle vie, tout en enquêtant sur une série de meurtres qui terrorisent Jericho et en essayant de maîtriser les visions qu'elle a depuis quelques mois.
music
Crystal
Song · Stevie Nicks
Witchy Woman - 2013 Remaster
Song · Eagles
Spellbound
Song · Siouxsie and the Banshees
(Don't Fear) The Reaper
Song · Blue Öyster Cult
I Put A Spell On You
Song · Nina Simone
November Rain
Song · Guns N' Roses
Rhiannon
Song · Fleetwood Mac
Sisters of the Moon - 2015 Remaster
Song · Fleetwood Mac
Dark Red
Song · Steve Lacy
Season Of The Witch
Song · Lana Del Rey
playlists
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I’ll meet you at the witching hour
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books
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>
Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice · 1991
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving · 1820
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 1818
