31 DAYS OF DREW 2 - DAY 18: THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES

Every horrorhound's favorite month is upon us, and to celebrate, I'll be dishing out film recommendations for every day in October. I hope you enjoy the month with some good movies, even if they aren't ones I recommend!

Today's Pick: The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

Expect Vincent Price to make an appearance in this series at least once every year. I quoted Horror Movie A Day scribe Brian Collins once before and I'll quote him again: "If you go all October without watching a Vincent Price movie, you're doing something wrong." While I still think Theatre of Blood is Price's crowning achievement in the horror genre, The Abominable Dr. Phibes is a very close second, and even though the general setup of the two films are strikingly similar (Price is a character getting revenge on a group of people who wronged him), they each offer their own flourishes of creativity.

31 DAYS OF DREW - DAY 19: THEATRE OF BLOOD

Every horrorhound's favorite month is upon us, and to celebrate, I'll be dishing out a personal pick from the genre for every day in October. Some will be obvious and rather unoriginal (sorry that I like movies other people like), while some will be a little more oddball and off-the-wall. Some may even challenge your idea of what constitutes a "horror" movie. Regardless, I hope you enjoy the month with some good movies, even if they aren't ones I recommend!

Today's Pick: Theatre of Blood (1973)

As horror genre laureate Brian Collins has said on his Horror Movie A Day blog, "If you go all October without watching a Vincent Price movie, you're doing something wrong." The man is an absolute legend, but more importantly, he's an icon that seems to relish any bit of ghoulish fun he can inject into a project, making the majority of his filmography perfect for the Halloween season. Picking just one of his films was tough, but I think I was able to do it. Theatre of Blood manages to mesh together lots of elements that make a Price film great: a gleefully macabre sensibility, theatrical brilliance and, in the end, a genuinely poignant story and character.