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The movie ends. The credits vanish. Your television goes black,
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and for one second, it turns into a mirror. There
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is your couch. There's the little pool of light from
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the kitchen. And there, over your shoulder, is the hallway
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you've spent the last two hours carefully refusing. to look
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at nothing is in it probably but the remote is
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on the other side of the room your phone is
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nearly dead and at some point tonight you still have
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to take out the trash this is the part of
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a good horror movie that I adore so deeply when
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it stops happening on the screen next up It starts
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borrowing your house as its new location. This is Thursday Thrills.
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A quick weekly ride into the creepy stories, haunted places,
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weird obsessions, and eerie little corners of the world worth
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talking about. I'm Enrique Couto, and tonight we are building
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a Halloween 2026 watch guide with one very irresponsible question.
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What kind of fear do you want to invite into
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your living room? Call it Pick Your Poison. These are
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some new streaming premieres, so think previews. not reviews. We'll
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decide which ordinary piece of your home each one might
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make you second guess, if not full-blown ruin. First, the
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one premiering tonight, if you're listening on this Thursday, September 24th,
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American Horror Story 13 begins on Hulu on with three
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episodes dropping at once. The official description is having a
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wonderful time, not telling us much at all. It promises
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familiar faces, an unlucky number, and the kind of anthology
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surprise this show likes to pull out from under the rug.
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Or just pull the rug out from under us. That
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secrecy is... that's the poison. It's the unmarked bottle at
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the back of the medicine cabinet. Maybe you want your
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horror neatly labeled Ghost, Killer, Monster, Cursed Object. American Horror
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Story is offering a door with a 13 on it
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and asking you to open it without checking the peephole first.
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And I respect that. I also reserve the right to
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watch with one hand already reaching for the pause button.
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And if tonight is too soon to make that commitment, well,
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good news. The rest of this menu gives you time
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to choose your damage. Let's start at the front door,
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where Halloween is supposed to be friendly. Plastic Skeleton is
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Candy Bowl may be a jack-o'-lantern whose face you carved
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badly enough that it looks vaguely disappointed in you particularly.
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Tubi says a new Pumpkinhead curse is waking up in Redhaven,
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and Sam and Becca have to stop it before it
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takes the town. R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead 2 is scheduled for
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October 9th on Tubi. and you can catch the first
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film there already. And a bonus Halloween treat is... Cassandra Peterson,
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Elvira herself, will be playing a witch named... Cassandra. I
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loved the first one. I really did. It's a great
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one to watch, especially with younger ones who still like
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to be scared. I especially loved how its ending felt...
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much darker than you might expect from something... That's costume
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is resembling a gateway Halloween movie. It lets you enjoy
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the seasonal fun, but then it quietly asks whether you're
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paying attention to what the curse actually costs. No spoilers here,
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because that little turn deserves to find you on its own.
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So this is the poison for the person who wants
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the neighborhood to feel wrong. Not the impossible monster deep
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in a remote forest. The decoration you walked past on
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your own street. The porch light that clicks on when
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nobody seems to be home. The pumpkin that was facing
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the sidewalk when you left and seems to be facing
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your window when you returned. That's not a scene report,
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but That's more what a harvest curse does to Halloween decor.
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We've already decorated the crime scene for it. If the
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sequel keeps the original's willingness to put a dark little
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sting inside its Halloween candy, this may be the easiest
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entry point on our list and the one that leaves
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you eyeing your front steps afterward. Alright, now let's leave
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the porch, come inside, lock the door though. Excellent. That
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solved absolutely nothing. Shudder's Infirmary arrives October 2nd, also on
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AMC +. Its fictional setup is body camera footage from
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a security guard who vanishes on his first night at
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an old psychiatric hospital. The useful thing about a body
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cam for horror is how horrible it is as a limitation.
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It can show exactly where somebody looked, but it can't
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show what weighted half an inch outside the frame. And
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regardless of what the person wearing it is seeing, it
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only sees straight ahead. You're carrying laundry past a bathroom.
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The shower curtain is pulled all the way across. You
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don't believe something is behind it. Right? You also don't
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enjoy how much you suddenly need to keep believing that.
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A camera pointed straight ahead is just a more expensive
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version of that very problem. This is the poison for viewers...
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who like to participate. You will lean around the edge
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of the television as though the screen might somehow grant
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you a better angle. You'll study the background instead of
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the person who's speaking. Later, when you get up for
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a glass of water or some candy corn, you'll notice
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how many rooms you cross without seeing all four corners
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at once. As a filmmaker, I love that very simple bargain.
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The frame gives you information and then it teaches you
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to distrust every bit of it because so much is
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left out. If infirmary delivers on that premise, the jump
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scare may not be the part that follows you. It
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may be the empty space beside the doorway when you finally, reluctantly,
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Against your better judgment, turn off the light. If you
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are enjoying this tour of newly suspicious rooms, follow Weekly
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Spooky for Thursday thrills every single week and send this
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to a friend who suddenly needs the hall light to
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stay on. All right. You checked the doorway. You checked
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behind the curtain. You have achieved the deeply temporary peace
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of a person who has inspected the obvious places. Then,
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something makes a noise. On October 9th, Shudder and AMC
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Plus get VHS Mixtape, a new entry in the Found
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Footage anthology series. Shudder says this time music, rhythm, and
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sound are built into the horror. That is a particularly
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cruel choice for a movie. you're watching at home because
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sound does not stay politely inside the rectangle of the
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TV an image has edges you can look away but
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a sound fills the kitchen while you're getting yourself another
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drink It follows you down the hallway. If something in
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a film seems to be coming from the left speaker,
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your brain may briefly vote that the noise came from
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the left side of the actual room. Your brain is
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not a reliable houseguest after midnight. The anthology format helps too.
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Just as you settle in to one set of rules...
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A new story arrives and shakes the trap up. You know,
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the little metal one you're stuck in. For anyone who
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falls asleep with background noise, that premise is delightfully hostile. Suddenly,
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the hum of the refrigerator has a second opinion. Pick
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this poison if you want the credits to end, but
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the soundtrack to keep going in your head. Maybe you
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decide the safest thing is silence. Then the house makes
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its usual tiny noises, and you discover silence was not
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the safest thing at all. There is a different kind
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of noise in Prime Video's Carrie. The new Mike Flanagan
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series drops all eight episodes... October 7th, Amazon describes Carrie
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White navigating a viral bullying scandal, the casual cruelty of
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the social media age, and powers she simply can't wish away.
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The name and premise are familiar. The small screen in
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everybody's hand gives this version a fresh starting place. Carry
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is not the poison for someone who only wants a
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hand to shoot out of a dark closet. The frightening
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thing at the center of this story is that humiliation
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can become a bonding exercise. Somebody records, somebody shares, somebody
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laughs because everyone else is laughing. Then your own phone
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buzzes on the couch and the little screen is suddenly
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the one you don't want to look at. That can
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make for a rough night on the couch. A slasher
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can make you afraid of the backyard. A story like
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this might follow you into sleep. It asks you to
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remember a room where nobody stepped in or a moment
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when maybe you should have. Flanagan has a full series
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rather than one feature to let the pressure build. I'm
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very curious about the distance between the tiny phone screen
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where cruelty goes viral and the big screen in your
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living room where we have to sit with all its consequences.
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That contrast alone can make this feel like a nightmare
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with your name on it. Choose carry when you want
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horror that may linger after the lights are on, not
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because you're checking a closet, but because you're still thinking
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about what people are capable of doing in plain sight. Now,
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the practical problem. The trash problem. It's gotta go out.
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The bins are just beyond the porch light, and a
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three-night-old tuna salad is beckoning to leave your personal space.
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On October 15th, Peacock is bringing us Crystal Lake, its
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new Friday the 13th prequel series. Peacock has confirmed the
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release date. A binge drop and Linda Cardellini... as Pamela Voorhees.
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There's a trailer out now, but I'm saving the camp's
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worst surprises for October. The name Crystal Lake already carries
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a whole weather system with it. You hear it, and
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you know the kind of place where a path disappears
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in the trees, where a little distance from other people
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stops feeling like freedom. A prequel can move the dread
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backward you know the legend that comes later now you
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wait to see what horrors were before it this is
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the poison for the person who loves the ritual of
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the scary movie and then regrets having normal chores in
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your living room there are walls a lamp there's a
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reasonably sturdy door Outside is the short walk to the
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bins that somehow has no business being so long. The
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motion light turns off while you're halfway back. Congratulations, you
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are now negotiating with your own driveway. That is the
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wicked pleasure of this category of horror. It doesn't have
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to convince you your home is haunted. It only has
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to make the dark patch between two safe places feel like...
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like a scene. If Crystal Lake finds a fresh way
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into familiar Friday the 13th territory, I suspect that that
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is where it'll get me. Not at the lake, but
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on the walk. From my front door to the edge
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of the yard. Six ways to ruin a perfectly peaceful
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night at home. Beautiful. My vote. Start with the kind
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of scare you enjoy bringing home. If you want a
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playful Halloween chill with a surprisingly sharp edge, keep an
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eye on Pumpkinhead 2. And hey, it's free to watch
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on Tubi, so what have you got to lose but
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your soul? If you want to make the whole house
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feel bigger and less trustworthy, try infirmary or VHS mixtape.
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If you want something that might follow you into dreams,
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Carrie is waiting. And if you have chores after dark,
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Maybe save Crystal Lake until somebody else agrees to take
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out the trash. Whichever poison you pick, leave the room
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exactly as it is when the credits roll. Don't rush
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to turn on another light. Watch the television become a
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mirror again. See the couch. See the kitchen. See the
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hallway behind you. Then, when you're quite sure it's empty,
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go check the locks. This has been Thursday Thrills. I'm
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Enrique Couto. Sleep well and, if the trash can can
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wait until morning, let it. Come back tomorrow for more fear.
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Until then, lock your doors. As if that will help.