Creepy Movies & TV Shows for Halloween 🎃 + Spooky Art!

Oh hi. I'm Ley and welcome to my own

way of celebrating Halloween with you

guys -- which is my favorite holiday --

by painting spooky art and talking about

some of my favorite spooky movies and TV

shows. This piece is mounted to wood,

which you can find out more on in last

week's video where I talk all about

mounting watercolour paper to wood panel.

I also include footage of painting the

background of this piece in that video

and how I also did the salt wash, so if

you're feeling like you missed out on

something you can always click the

pop-up card in the top right corner or

check out the description box to find

the link. This piece is also a redraw.

I don't want to go too much into

the piece and sort of what it's all

about but it is a redraw of something I

drew for Inktober 2017 based on the urban

legend of the girl with the ribbon

around her neck. This version is far

creepier and that video is super old so

I'm not going to link it here but I'll

try to remember to show the old version

of the art here. Somewhere. Probably in a

corner. I was so proud of it when I did

it but I definitely think this new

version is far better. So, I want to talk

about some things that are spooky or

creepy or otherwise just get under my

skin. This isn't a list of my favorite

horror movies because I'm a huge horror

geek and horror can be so many different

things. It can be jump scares and

slashers and revenge flicks and so many

different things. I could make a list

just of my favorite horror movies from

Japan and Korea, or my favorite B-horror

movies, or my favorite horror TV shows.

Maybe next year I'll do a proper October

just of horror related videos and spooky

art but right now? Just the spooks. Oh, and

in case anyone is concerned: there will

be no spoilers for anything on

this list. I'm going to try to give you

the basic facts and keep it as vague as

possible. So I do watch a few horror or

sort of horror-adjacent TV shows -- like

Black Mirror and Stranger Things and

American Horror Story -- but the only one I

have for TV on this list is The Haunting

of Hill House. My partner and I binge-

watched this in two days and I'm not

really sure it was too healthy to do

that. I still haven't really

recovered. The Haunting of Hill House can

be found on Netflix. It came out earlier

this October and was created by Mike

Flanagan, who is one of my favorite

horror directors ever. He has previously

done Oculus. For Netflix, he's done Hush

and Gerald's Game, which are both really,

really good. I highly recommend any of

those if you haven't seen them.

The Haunting of Hill House is a family drama

with these incredibly disturbing horror

elements and ghosts. So many ghosts. There

are ghosts hidden in most of the scenes

involving the house. They are hidden in

the hallways, underneath pianos, behind

ladders, sometimes they're just behind

the character. Just chillin' everywhere.

This is a haunted house movie done right--

(Well, it's not a movie, it's a TV show.)

And probably one of my favorite horror

anythings of the past several years.

There are a lot of older horror movies that I

love -- Night of the Living Dead,

The Exorcist and Suspiria are some of my

favorites -- but I want to talk about The

Shining. There are some Stephen King

novels I enjoy and The Shining is not

one of them, which is maybe why I like

the film so much. The film by Stanley

Kubrick is just so peculiar and it's so

good at getting under your skin. I have

watched it so many times and I still get

this same feeling every time I watch it.

This sensation of like wrongness.

The worst part is I don't 100% know what

it is about this movie that affects me

so much. I don't know if it's the weird

kind of ghostly characters, or the

cinematography, or the acting, or what it

is. My partner doesn't feel the same way

and he is also a huge horror geek so I

guess this is just me as I mentioned.

The Shining is one of those movies where

every time I watch it I get the exact

same feeling as the first time I watched

it. Not all horror movies do that for me.

The Ring is another one, which is also

one of my absolute favorite horror

movies, but another one that does it

which is also one of my absolute

favorites is Session 9. This one is

probably less known than anything else

on the list, if it could even be

considered a cult classic. It takes place

in an actual abandoned asylum, Danvers

State Hospital, which was located in

Massachusetts. Session 9 came out in 2001

and since then Danvers has been

renovated into apartments, but the state

that it was in before -- derelict, neglected,

and rotting -- is immortalized really

beautifully in this movie. Session 9

follows an asbestos cleanup crew sent to

Danvers and -- I don't want to give

anything else away.

there's not even really supernatural

elements in it. Well, there could be.

I think that's the that's the thing

with a lot of these movies. Are there

actually supernatural elements or are

these people just crazy? It's really hard

to say. But Session 9 is just so

incredibly eerie from start to finish

and it is older and the acting is maybe

a little over the top, but I still

recommend it. It's great.

As you've probably noticed from this

list, so far I love things that are

abandoned and empty and neglected.

Haunted houses, empty asylums, ghost towns.

I love Silent Hill. Not so much the

movies. Those were pretty disappointing.

But the games are some of my favorites

ever. The first Silent Hill I ever played

was Silent Hill 2. I still remember that

first scene as you're walking into the

town and there's all these spooky

ambient noises

as you step deeper and deeper into the

fog. You keep expecting something to leap

out at you at any moment, because that's

how horror is, right? It's jump scares and

things are coming to attack you, but

nothing does. It's like you're walking

forever. That scene alone sold me on this

franchise and I have been in love ever

since. It also helps that the first time

I ever played it it was a foggy night and

it was dark as heck and my sister and I

were so freaked out -- but yeah, highly

recommend checking out really any of the

Silent Hill games but Silent Hill 2

and 3 and 4 are my favorites.

So getting away from places that are

haunted and abandoned -- to a person.

The Autopsy of Jane Doe is a horror thriller

film that was released in 2016.

It follows two coroners working on the

autopsy of a mysterious woman

(thus the Jane Doe) found in the basement

of a home wherein all the residents were

killed. With everything they discover

about the woman's apparent cause of

death, more strange things begin to occur

around them until it just escalates. This

is another one I don't want to spoil

anything from or give too much away, but

it doesn't go the way you expect. Or

at least, it didn't go the way I expected

when I first watched it. Obviously this

one has some gore if you're

uncomfortable with

autopsies or dead bodies, and I think there

is some blood later on. I can't remember.

But it's the use of tension and creepy

atmosphere that really makes this one unnerving.

I could go on and on, but in the

interest of keeping this video more on

the reasonable-length side, I'm going to

stop here. I hope you enjoyed this video

and maybe discovered some new creepy

things to watch on Halloween!

A lot of these are on Netflix depending

on the area you're in, and for those that

aren't I am pretty sure they're probably

available for rent on iTunes or I think

YouTube has like a movies rental

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new art and art-related videos from me. I

hope everyone has a very spooky and safe

Halloween and I'll see you later this

week for something entirely different!

Bye~

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