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This list includes suggestions for our Spooktacular October reading challenge. You can participate at https://marshalllyonlibrary.beanstack.org/.
Don't forget that you have on-demand digital access to horror films with your Lyon County library card! These services both have apps for mobile devices, streaming devices, and smart tvs.
A Quiet Place


Format: DVD

A powerful and evil force threatens to attack a family whenever they make a noise, causing them to plunge into lives of silence. Any move they make, they live with the terrifying threat of being ambushed at any moment. With their existence on the line, they will need to develop a plan to escape...
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Psycho: Universal Legacy Series (Special Edition) (1960)

Anthony Perkins - Universal Studios
Format: DVD

At last--a great American movie available on video for the first time in its original aspect ratio. For all the slasher pictures that have ripped off Psycho (and particularly its classic set piece, the "shower scene"), nothing has ever matched the impact of the real thing. More...
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Hereditary

Ari Aster - Lions Gate
Format: DVD

When her mentally ill mother passes away, a woman named Annie (Toni Collette) and her husband (Gabriel Byrne) , son (Alex Wolff) and daughter (Milly Shapiro) all mourn her loss. The family turn to different means to handle their grief, including Annie and her daughter both flirting with...
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Night of the Living Dead

Russell W Steiner - ‎Criterion Collection
Format: DVD

Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential...

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Get Out [DVD]

Jordan Peele - Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

When Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) , a young African-American man, visits his white girlfriends (Allison Williams) family estate, he becomes ensnared in the more sinister, real reason for the invitation. At first, Chris reads the familys overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal...
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Halloween

Donald Pleasence
Format: DVD

" Halloween stars Jamie Lee Curtis (A Fish Called Wanda, True Lies) in her debut role. Anyone who's ever watched a horror film in the last 35 years knows the story of Michael Myers, who as a child, butchered his sister with a kitchen knife. Committed to a mental institution and watched...
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It: Special Edition (DVD)

Jaeden Lieberher - WarnerBrothers
Format: DVD

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Stephen Kings It (Double Sided Disc)

Harry Anderson - WarnerBrothers
Format: DVD

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Stephen Kings It! (DVD) IT rises from dank, dark places. IT preys on children. IT knows exactly what scares you--and IT never goes away. A sinister force lurks menacingly behind the warm visage of Pennywise the Clown (Tim Curry) , who awakens every thirty years...
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Pan's Labyrinth

Telecinco - New Line Home Entertainment, 2007.
Format: DVD video

When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both...
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Rosemary's baby

William Castle; Roman Polanski; Mia Farrow; John Cassavetes; Ruth Gordon; All authors - Paramount Pictures
Format: DVD

After unwittingly becoming friendly with a coven of witches and warlocks, a young wife is impregnated by the Devil.
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The Birds (Collector's Edition) (1963)

Rod Taylor - Universal Studios
Format: DVD

Vacationing in northern California, Alfred Hitchcock was struck by a story in a Santa Cruz newspaper: "Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes." From this peculiar incident, and his memory of a short story by Daphne du Maurier, the master of suspense created one of his strangest and most...
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Midsommar

Ari Aster - Lions Gate
Format: DVD

A young woman reluctantly joins her boyfriend on a summer trip to a Swedish festival where things quickly go awry. MPAA rating: R; disturbing ritualistic violence and grisly images, strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language.
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