So........my October was a lot more packed than I thought. I ended up extremely busy across the board with school and shows, so I wasn't able to watch every single thing on my list. However, I ended up getting through a lot more than I thought I would.

Here's the rundown:

Ginger Snaps (2001) - thesis research, more to come

Blood Red Sky (2021) - monsters, motherhood, and the monstrous-feminine, more to come

El Conde (2023) - I was confused, but in a good way?

Flux Gourmet (2022) - really bizarre, but really really good

The Lighthouse (2019) - very odd, unsure how to feel about it

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021) -folk horror is really cool, more to come

The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (2018) - super interesting examination of trauma and escapism

Errementari: The Devil and the Blacksmith (2017) - again, folk horror is really cool

Ganja and Hess (1973) - thesis research, more to come

The Pale Door (2020) - depiction of witched, more to come

She-Creature (2001) - thesis research, more to come

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015) - lore is a bit confusing, but it's beautiful

Freeway (1996) - fucks with me every time I watch it

Midnight Mass (2021) - I think about Riley Flynn literally every single day of my life

The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) - this show fucks 10/10

Creepshow S4 (2023) - perhaps the best season of the show yet

To those who liked Shape of Water I strongly recommend the 2001 film She-Creature.  

Essentially the plot deals with a group of Carney folk who find a real, captured, mermaid.  They decide to take her to New York to make their fortune off of her.   One member of this group is Lily, a pretty ex-prostitute, who is infertile.  Lily takes pity on the mermaid and though the Mermaid does not speak out loud the two form a psychic bond.  When the moon rises the mermaid takes a more monstrous form and is able to emerge from water. One by one the mermaid kills all the people on the ship but she spares Lily, in fact Lily miraculously ends up pregnant.

The 2001 She Creature is very good.  A group of Carneys "steal" a captured mermaid and try to deliver her to New York to display her.  On their way the mermaid gets her revenge and murders the entire crew except for the one woman on board (whom she's fallen in love with).   She also impregnates her (the woman was infertile).