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Spooky October delights to amuse and terrify you!
TV: Carrie, Season 1
- Prime Video (7th October)
The first televised adaptation based on the 1974 novel by Stephen King, and is the fourth screen adaptation of the novel, most notably the 1976 film staring Sissy Spacek.
The series follows Carrie White (Summer H. Howell), a teenage girl who has spent her life in seclusion with her domineering mother (Samantha Sloyan). After her father’s sudden death, Carrie finds herself contending with the challenges of attending high school, a bullying scandal, and the emergence of mysterious telekinetic powers. This adaptation based on an iconic member of the horror cannon is not to be missed!
Film: Other Mommy
Dir. Rob Savage (in cinemas from October 9th)
Universal’s newest supernatural horror Other Mommy, directed by Rob Savage, hits cinemas just in time for the Halloween season. The film is based on Josh Malerman’s bestselling novel ‘Incidents Around the House’.
The story centres on Bela, an 8-year-old girl living in a home strained by her parents’ troubled marriage. Her life is further upended by a sinister entity that emerges from her closet, calling itself “Other Mommy”, a presence that looks uncannily like her own mother. The entity persistently asks Bela, “Can I go inside your heart?”. When Bela refuses, Other Mommy’s manifestations grow increasingly aggressive, threatening the safety of Bela and her entire family.
Jessica Chastain stars in a dual role as both Ursula, Bela’s loving mother, and the terrifying Other Mommy. As the entity’s influence escalates, the line between the two becomes horrifyingly blurred, leaving Bela unable to tell which version of her mother she is actually encountering.
Music: The Avalanches: No Bad Memories
(from October 16th)
The Avalanches’ fourth studio album, ‘No Bad Memories’, is set for release on October 16th via Modular Recordings. The 31-track record contains their new single, ‘Can't Get Over Losing You,’
The album continues the group's shift toward combining samples with original instrumenta-tion, drawing on commercial jingles, startup sounds, and forgotten audio logos. “It's been interesting as adults to reflect on this often stunning period of marketing, the creativity, filmmaking, photography and music, which was also, you know, selling a completely unobtainable dream. The way we value devices and products; the way we reflect and represent ‘a life lived’; the wonder of memory and deep power of nostalgia, especially in sound. Revisiting imagery and jingles from childhood and realising how profoundly they have stuck…”. This album transfers corporate sound fragments into "joyous pop music."
