Halloween on OVID

Halloween on OVID

OVID's eclectic Halloween collection has something for everyone, whether werewolves (Good Manners), serial killers (Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart), high school bullies and sinister doppelgangers (Alena), vampires (Vampire Clay), demons (Demons), cannibal sorcery (Dachra), or supernatural ghost stories (Bedevil) are your thing.

For werewolf enthusiasts, you've never seen a birth scene quite like the one in Good Manners: "An unnerving werewolf tale that explores themes of motherhood and otherness, sometimes suggesting a retelling of Frankenstein. But with a werewolf. Yet for all the blood and gore, this is a quiet, gentle story…” —Village Voice

Also included in the Halloween collection is Bedevil by Tracey Moffatt, a stunning debut feature from the Indigenous Australian artist inspired by ghost stories she heard as a child from both her extended Aboriginal and Irish Australian families.

For binging purposes: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Penance, an eerie serial thriller unfolding in a small town, when a mysterious stranger approaches a group of young friends in a playground, then kidnaps and brutally murders one of the girls.

We also have more horror-hybrid films, including two recently added films by Polish filmmaker Jagoda Szelc: Monument and Tower. A Bright Day – two atmospheric experiences that leave you psychologically disturbed for days after.

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Halloween on OVID
  • Thunderbird

    Directed by Nicholas Treeshin • Drama • With Natalie Brown, Colten Wilke • 2021 • 95 minutes

    A supernatural psychological thriller centered around the story of William Brook (Colten Wilke), a reclusive young fisherman who goes looking for his missing sister in the rugged Pacific Northwest. As th...

  • Ghosthunter

    Directed by Ben Lawrence • Documentary • With Jason King • 2018 • 96 minutes

    A 40 year old security guard & part-time ghost hunter cannot remember his childhood and has spent two decades searching for his absent father. When his life-long search for answers converges with a police manhunt, a hor...

  • Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart

    Directed by Cédric Anger • Drama • With Guillaume Canet, Ana Girardot, Jean-Yves Berteloot • 2016 • 111 minutes

    Cédric Anger, once a critic for Cahiers du Cinéma, wrote and directed this chilling chronicle of notorious serial killer Alain Lamare (here renamed Franck Neuhart and played by Guillau...

  • Creepy

    Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Drama • With Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Toru Baba • 2017 • 130 minutes

    Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who made his name with classics CURE and BRIGHT FUTURE, gets back to his roots by putting the thumbscrews to the audience with his latest, CREEPY. A year after a botch...

  • Monument

    Directed by Jagoda Szelc • Drama • With Zuzanna Lit, Anna Biernacik • 2018 • 108 minutes

    A group of hotel interns wake up in an ice-cold van. They don't know each other yet, and have just arrived to do their internships. The strict manager of the hotel numbers the students: real names are not re...

  • Dachra

    Directed by Abdelhamid Bouchnak • Drama • With Yassmine Dimassi, Hela Ayed, Aziz Jebali • 2018 • 114 minutes

    Ever since she was discovered naked and near-dead decades ago, Mongia has been institutionalized, with a tendency to bite her nurses. Grisly, frightening, and stuffed with howling thrills...

  • Alleluia

    Directed by Fabrice Du Welz • Drama • With Laurent Lucas, Lola Dueñas • 2014 • 95 minutes

    Based on notorious real-life “lonely hearts killers” who make victims of their romantic liaisons, Alleluia is a dark and fascinating love-story-gone-wrong from Belgian horror maverick Fabrice du Welz. Miche...

  • Alois Nebel

    Directed by Tomas Lunak • Animation • 2014 • 84 minutes

    It is the end of summer, 1989. Alois Nebel works as a train dispatcher at a small railway station in the Sudetenland, a mountainous region on the Czechoslovak border. He is a loner who prefers old timetables to people, and he finds the lone...

  • Bedevil

    Directed by Tracey Moffatt • Drama • 1993 • 90 minutes

    BEDEVIL is the stunning debut feature from Tracey Moffatt (NIGHT CRIES, NICE COLORED GIRLS) and the first feature directed by an Australian Aboriginal woman. Inspired by ghost stories she heard as a child from both her extended Aboriginal an...

  • The Two Sights

    Directed by Joshua Bonnetta • Documentary • 2020 • 90 minutes

    The first solo feature from Joshua Bonnetta (co-director, El Mar La Mar), The Two Sights (An Dà Shealladh) explores the disappearing tradition of second sight in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. As we listen to locals' accounts of haun...

  • Detention

    Directed by John Hsu • Drama • With Gingle Wang; Meng-Po Fu; Hung Chang Chu; Jing-Hua Tseng; Cecilia Choi • 2019 • 102 minutes

    Set during the Taiwanese martial law of the 1960s, this shockingly gruesome and terrifying coming-of-age drama based on a hugely popular video game sees two classmates w...

  • Vampire Clay

    Directed by Soichi Umezawa • Drama • With Ena Fujita, Yuyu Makihara, Momoka Sugimoto • 2017 • 81 minutes

    From Japanese special effects master Soichi Umezawa comes a singular horror experience in a wildly hilarious marriage of The Blob and The Evil Dead. After studying in Tokyo, Kaori returns to ...

  • Good Manners

    Directed by Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra • Drama • With Sabél Zuaa, Marjorie Estiano, Miguel Lobo • 2017 • 135 minutes

    Filmmakers Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s second collaboration (after the acclaimed Hard Labor) deftly integrates art-house and genre cinema to create a thrilling and dark gothi...

  • Alena

    Directed by Daniel di Grado • Drama • With Amalia Holm, Molly Nutley, Felice Jankell • 2017 • 83 minutes

    With a traumatic event in her recent past, Alena transfers to a posh private all-girls school where her decidedly lower class roots makes her an outsider. While a gang of mean rich girls are ...

  • Tower. A Bright Day.

    Directed by Jagoda Szelc • Drama • With Anna Krotoska, Malgorzata Szczerbowska • 2017 • 107 minutes

    A protective woman has raised her young niece in the countryside as her own daughter. When her sister suddenly returns, it triggers a sense that she may be back to reclaim her offspring or to impl...

  • The Long Walk

    Directed by Mattie Do • Drama • With Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy, Vilouna Phetmany, Por Silatsa • 2021 • 116 minutes

    The Long Walk centers on an elderly man who has the power to travel back in time thanks to a mysterious companion whose death he witnessed 50 years earlier. With his new power, he ...

  • Knocking

    Directed by Frida Kempff • Drama • With Cecilia Milocco, Albin Grenholm • 2021 • 78 minutes

    After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly (Cecilia Milocco) moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams b...

  • Wild

    Directed by Nicolette Krebitz • Drama • With Lilith Stangenberg • 2016 • 97 minutes

    Nicolette Krebitz’s long awaited third feature WILD, shocked and awed audiences at the 2016 Sundance festival. A seductive, dark trip into the soul of civilized humanity, WILD is a strange, dream-like journey of ...

  • The Midnight Swim

    Directed by Sarah Adina Smith • Drama • With Lindsay Burdge, Jennifer Lafleur, Aleksa Palladino • 2014 • 84 minutes

    Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom, though many have tried. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters...

  • Penance: Episode 1

    Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Drama • With Kyoko Koizumi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yu Aoi • 2014 • 75 minutes

    The French Doll : Tragedy strikes when Emili is shockingly murdered by a mysterious stranger. The other four girls present at the scene of the crime - Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuka - are unable to ...

  • Vampire Cleanup Department

    Directed by Yan Pak-wing, Chiu Sin-hang • Drama • With Babyjohn Choi, Chin Siu-ho, Lin Min-chen, Richard Ng • 2017 • 94 minutes

    A secret vampire busting group hires a young recruit (Babyjohn Choi) only to see him fall in love with one of vampires he must destroy. Learning on the job and fighting...

  • Demons

    Directed by Daniel Hui • Drama • With Vicki Yang, Glen Goei, Vikneshwaran Kobinathan • 2018 • 84 minutes

    Aspiring actress Vicki thinks she has gotten the role of her life in Daniel’s new play. But her debut lead role only casts her into endless torture at the esteemed director’s hands. When she ...

  • Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World

    Directed by Belinda Sallin • Documentary • 2014 • 95 minutes

    Surrealist artist H. R. Giger (1940–2014) terrified audiences with his Oscar-winning monsters in Ridley Scott's ALIEN. Sci-fi, horror, music, album covers, tattoos and fetish art have been influenced by his dark, intricate paintings an...