Frights, Camera, Action 2024

Romance has February, action has early summer and bad movies vaguely have the first two weeks of January. But, horror is the only genre with an entire month wholly devoted and dedicated to it. So we here at the Daily Arts Film Beat are doing what the fall leaves and porch jack-o’-lanterns damn near mandate us to do — we’re talking about horror. In this downright spine-tingling series, we’ll be hiding from jumpscares, putting fingers over our eyes and watching our favorite October classics — and we invite you to watch them with us.

Senior Arts Editor Rami Mahdi can be reached at rhmahdi@umich.edu and Film Beat Editor Lola D’Onofrio can be reached at lolad@umich.edu

The Eraserhead baby in a suit
Frights, Camera, Action: Let’s talk about the baby in ‘Eraserhead’
A man standing over a girl sitting in a bed
Frights, camera, action: Need a break from the slashers? Give ‘I Married a Witch’ a go
Robert Mitchum cloaked in shadow hovering above a bed watching a young boy sleep
Frights, Camera, Action: ‘The Night of the Hunter’ and Southern Gothic
Gene Wilder standing above his Frankenstein's monster with wild anticipation.
Frights, Camera, Action: It’s alive! How ‘Young Frankenstein’ remains a classic 50 years later
A man standing behind a woman cast in shadows
Frights, Camera, Action: Romance is Undead in ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ 
Two people hugging in an airport
Frights, Camera, Action: ‘Love, Rosie’ is a romantic terror
The clown Pennywise from “IT” shadowed in darkness
Frights, Camera, Action: A shapeshifting killer clown isn’t the scariest part of ‘It’
The words "It Follows" in stark red script against a blue sky with a person looking up at the bottom
Frights, Camera, Action: The insatiable predator of ‘It Follows’