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These are the warm up days for Halloween, guys! I have two Halloween-group reads scheduled for next month: first one is The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories , edited by Stephen Jones, from which I'll be reading one story on each day of October and second one is House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski that has been sitting in my bookshelves for way too long! Until I get to finish those, you have to be content with my smaller reads here, but since I'm a little late this month with my wrap up, you will find that there are more books than usual. Hope you enjoy!

  Talking about movies - I will certainly continue doing my watch-at-home-festival thing BUT we can actually go back watching movies in theatres again! I have opened the post-corona season with Dennis Villeneuve's Dune yesterday and I can't wait to go back for the Fantasy Fimfest in October/November and The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival at the City Kino Wedding around Halloween, I'll keep you posted about the schedules and my selection.

Having finally seen The Green Knight that I longed for so much, I completed viewing pretty much all the movies in my schedule for the spring-summer season and it’s time to pick a winner… which really wasn’t easy because there were so many good ones this time!!! Just to give a little reminder, check here to see my complete lineup. There are a couple of movies that I didn’t get to watch this past season, but I’m sure I’ll catch up. Also, I watched a few movies outside of my pretend-festival and I ended up loving and here they are: In the Earth ; The Empty Man and Come True . From my initial lineup, an unholy s-trilogy stood out and made the top 3: Spiral , Son and Sator . And the indisputable winner of my Stay-At-Home Film Festival Spring-Summer is, the super original folk horror/psychological horror SATOR!!!

  My quest of reading and reviewing the complete “Rewind or Die” series for the Otherland Newsletter proceeds; a sum total of 23 retro-horror paperbacks (I recently realized that the series isn't even complete yet, so it's still counting!) inspired by 70s, 80s and 90s horror movies. Ever since I first found out about this series I am dreaming about these colorful little books with amazing cover art and extremely over the top storylines. Tongue-in-cheek, bizarro, absurd, gore-splatter, wild ride or pulpy are terms that come to mind describing this incredibly fun series that I will happily read and discuss for you guys in the near future.