Criterion Channel is kicking off the Halloween year with an avalanche of fantastic horror flicks as part of its ’80s Horror sequence. The lineup comes on Oct. 1 and involves classics from all around the globe and less than-the-radar gems. The huge get? In the vicinity of Darkish, a film which is notoriously complicated to stream.
Near Dark is a 1987 horror-motion vampire movie from Oscar-profitable director Kathryn Bigelow (The Damage Locker). Irrespective of this cult-traditional film starring Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen, and coming from a lauded American motion director, it is rarely been readily available on streaming platforms for just one cause or a different. The series will also consist of one more vampire-typical in Tony Scott’s The Starvation, which will be a part of the lineup on Nov. 1.
Together with people vampire motion pictures, the sequence also features movies like John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness, about a group of university college students exploring anything even worse than the satan, Larry Cohen’s Q: The Winged Serpent, about a dragon terrorizing Manhattan, Dario Argento’s Inferno, Tobe Hooper’s The Funhouse, Paul Schrader’s Cat Persons, Michael Mann’s The Keep, and a dozen more excellent horror movies from the ’80s.
Here’s a entire list of all the movies Criterion Channel will be adding to its streaming services on Oct. 1 (with the exception of The Starvation which arrives a thirty day period later):
- Inferno, Dario Argento, 1980
- The Strange Scenario of Dr. Jekyll and Skip Osbourne, Walerian Borowczyk, 1981
- Dead & Buried, Gary Sherman, 1981
- The Home by the Cemetery, Lucio Fulci, 1981
- The Funhouse, Tobe Hooper, 1981
- Weird Conduct, Michael Laughlin, 1981
- Wolfen, Michael Wadleigh, 1981
- Scanners, David Cronenberg, 1981
- Road Online games, Richard Franklin, 1981
- The Supporter, Ed Bianchi, 1981
- Basket Situation, Frank Henenlotter, 1982
- Following of Kin, Tony Williams, 1982
- Cat Persons, Paul Schrader, 1982
- Q: The Winged Serpent, Larry Cohen, 1982
- The Slumber Celebration Massacre, Amy Holden Jones, 1982
- The Keep, Michael Mann, 1983
- The Hunger, Tony Scott, 1983*
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, John McNaughton, 1986
- The Hidden, Jack Sholder, 1987
- Prince of Darkness, John Carpenter, 1987
- White of the Eye, Donald Cammell, 1987
- Around Darkish, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987
- The Vanishing, George Sluizer, 1988
- Brain Injury, Frank Henenlotter, 1988
- Dream Demon, Harley Cokeliss, 1988
- The Blob, Chuck Russell, 1988
- Lair of the White Worm, Ken Russell, 1988
- Vampire’s Kiss, Robert Bierman, 1989
- Culture, Brian Yuzna, 1989
- Tetsuo: The Iron Gentleman, Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989
