This Week in Horror History | Halloween Primer: Blade, Exorcist III & American Werewolf

Blade, The Exorcist III, An American Werewolf in London, You’re Next, The Night House, and Night of the Creeps lead this August 17–23 horror-history guide.

The release-date calendar revisits William Peter Blatty’s rain-soaked supernatural detective story The Exorcist III, Rebecca Hall’s haunted grief in The Night House, Wesley Snipes’ debut as Marvel’s vampire-hunting Daywalker in Blade, and the masked home invasion of You’re Next. Each film offers a different route into the Halloween pregame: possession, architectural dread, vampire action, and survival horror.

The deep-cut spotlight belongs to Fred Dekker’s Night of the Creeps, where alien parasites, reanimated fraternity brothers, college chaos, and Tom Atkins with a flamethrower collide. Horror birthdays celebrate Taissa Farmiga, Peter Weir, Ray Bradbury, and Park Chan-wook.

The weekly recommendation is John Landis’s An American Werewolf in London, with Rick Baker’s landmark transformation effects, full-moon tragedy, dark comedy, and undead warnings making it essential spooky-season viewing.

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