Joey Magidson
The Sunday Scaries are upon us once again! Yes, as the weekend concludes, most of us feel an oncoming sense of anticipatory dread about the week ahead. Anxiety about work manifests itself into a feeling that’s known as the Sunday Scaries. However, we at Awards Radar are here to combat that, by taking back the name. Now, we want you think about a horror-centric piece on the site when you hear the term. So, let us continue on with another installment of the Awards Radar Sunday Scaries! Today, we’re asking what you did on Friday/this weekend to celebrate Halloween…
Friday was Halloween, a holiday that almost everyone marks in a fun way. We wished you all a very Happy Halloween on the day, but today, as the weekend begins to wrap up, we’re curious how you spent your Friday/weekend. So, it feels like a good time to mix the Awards Radar Community Question with Sunday Scaries. Simply put…how did you spend your Halloween?
Much like we said on Friday, we’re curious about whatever you did. Was it a party? Did you still go trick or treating? If so, the details would be fun to hear about. If you watched some horror films, we’re very curious to find out which fright flicks they were. Were they new release scary movies? Classics? Cult classics? Whatever they were, comparing notes would be fun!
Now, the time to share has come. What were your Halloween plans? However you spent your Friday/holiday weekend, let us know. We’re all ears…
How did you spend your Halloween? Let us know!
I spent the week of Halloween just watching Frankenstein movies in preparation for the new one:
Sunday: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein — First rewatch since I encountered it in high school twenty years ago. Back then, I despised it with a white-hot passion. Now, I… still think it’s “objectively” bad, but so hilariously overwrought and melodramatic that I sort of had a blast on this second go-around.
Monday: Frankenstein (1931) — Maybe the third or fourth time I’ve seen this? Still so haunting and sad and evocative nearly a century later. I actually think this improves on the novel in some key respects.
Tuesday: The Spirit of the Beehive — First time! Really interesting and unique film. Beautifully lensed. Great at portraying a child’s POV. A certain Academy Award-winning Mexican filmmaker owes a lot to this one.
Wednesday: Young Frankenstein — I’m not even going to try to tally up how many times I’ve seen this. Literally one of my all-time favorite comedies. Peak Mel Brooks in my eyes. Wonderfully affectionate love letter to old-timey Universal monster flicks. Some of the funniest performances of any comedy from the last sixty years.
Thursday: Victor Frankenstein — First and only time I’ll ever suffer through this. Max Landis is a blight on narrative art.
Halloween Night: Frankenstein (2025) — Jacob Elordi is terrific and the costumes and sets were predictably delightful on the eyes… but just like Nightmare Alley, I walked out of the theater praying Guillermo del Toro finds a new producing partner with the courage to tell him, “No, we need to cut this.”
Well done! Young Frankenstein is obviously one of my favorite films, let alone comedy, but this is an excellent week, thematically.