This Free-to-Stream Halloween Classic from Dread is one of Mike Flanagan’s Favorite Horror Movies
Mike Flanagan is an undisputed master of modern horror. Just ask me and I’ll spend an hour telling you all about it. He’s currently batting 1,000. Flanagan knows exactly what makes a fright flick effective. So, I put an awful lot of stock in what he has to say.
As it turns out, the Hush director holds a certain DREAD release in very high regard. More specifically, I’m talking about the killer anthology flick Tales of Halloween. How do I know that? Because Flanagan added the picture to his Letterboxd list of his all-time favorite horror films. That’s quite an honorable distinction if you ask me.
All about Tales of Halloween
For anyone not familiar with the picture, Tales of Halloween came to life via an original idea from Axelle Carolyn. The up-and-coming genre filmmaker assembled a dynamite team of contributors to submit a collection of vignettes, all of which take place in the same suburban neighborhood on the spookiest night of the year. What’s more, the production got Adrienne Barbeau to narrate the wraparound segment as a disc jockey. If you’ve seen The Fog, you surely get the reference. If you haven’t, watch The Fog.
Here’s an excerpt from my past coverage of the film right here on Dread Central: “Like Creepshow before it, Tales of Halloween succeeds at delivering a strong lineup of vignettes. Every twisted tale in this collection adds something to the equation. Some of the segments are scary, some are funny. Others are a little of both. The way the stories overlap lends a consistency to the greater narrative and makes this anthology feel like a cohesive whole, rather than a scattered collection of pieces that never quite fit together.”
Stream this Mike Flanagan-approved film on Tubi!
If you’re curious, my favorite vignette in the collection is Lucky McKee’s ‘Ding Dong,’ but there truly isn’t a bad apple in the bunch. If you’re game to see what I’m clucking about, you can scope this effective anthology effort on Tubi for free (with ads) as of the publication of this post.
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