<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Señor Scary: Halloween, Haunts & Horror]]></title><description><![CDATA[A curated collected of tricks, treats & wicked works.]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:00:29 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.senorscary.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[2026 Horror Watchlist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to my horror (and horror-adjacent) watchlist! ]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/2026-watchlist</link><guid isPermaLink="false">695aefbfdb38cd5b6e665873</guid><category><![CDATA[Movies & Series]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:01:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_467c396adba84359940e5d142b53be9e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Camazotz]]></title><description><![CDATA[Should you find yourself in the Maya underworld of Xibalba, you may just encounter Camazotz, a creature with the body of a small man, leathery wings, large pricked ears and razor talons. His name can be translated as "Death Bat" and he guards the liminal boundary between the living world and the underworld. This legend transcends borders throughout Mesoamerica. The House of Bats The story of Camazotz as it appears in the Popol Vuh, an ancient text of the K’iche’ people of Guatemala, is...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/camazotz</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aacbae277684b726ca28a3a</guid><category><![CDATA[Folklore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_8115ebeb336d4aa3838f1c35cb9f6fbc~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insidious: Out of the Further]]></title><description><![CDATA[I admire this aged franchise for chugging along quietly in the background while elevated horror, meta horror comedy, and Gen Z horror take center stage. They must rake in the dough since we keep getting new chapters. At this point the central conceit has been exhausted, so it stands to reason they've pivoted to new ideas and villains. Insidious: Out of the Further takes a big swing at a high concept, courtesy of writer-director Jacob Chase: the ability for a person to reach into The Further...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/insidious-out-of-the-further</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a8f87dc10c1d906181c3eac</guid><category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movies & Series]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_9de0cd772f4345289cdcd1d7b12892b2~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_604,h_340,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Backrooms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Entering a liminal space has been a recurring nightmare of mine for years, and this movie is the embodiment of that dread and infinite strangeness. I went in with zero knowledge of director Kane Parsons, his YouTube fame, or the Backrooms phenomenon itself, which made for a genuinely eerie watch. I immediately did the deep dive to fully understand what I had seen. I still can't believe a 20-year-old first-time feature director convinced A24 to back something this obtuse and methodical for a...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/backrooms</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a21f6081f44c606b375682b</guid><category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movies & Series]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_98f3c85e105b432cbf1480e96fd43dad~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_512,h_286,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obsession]]></title><description><![CDATA[Be careful about the wishes you make. There's always something lurking about to ensure that you get what you deserve. It's one of the oldest moral frameworks in horror. But Obsession, the feature debut from YouTube prankster turned filmmaker Curry Barker, takes that worn premise and does something genuinely nasty with it. Bear (Michael Johnston) is a sad sack music store employee stuck in his own head, hopelessly crushing on his coworker and childhood friend Nikki (Inde Navarrette). He's too...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/obsession</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0e2609ce2b5b4a4d6ddce0</guid><category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movies & Series]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_fa689bb52a3a4c7391e1fcb2149c2e92~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_510,h_755,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mummy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mummies are finally scary, thanks to Lee Cronin. This iteration of The Mummy  is a well-orchestrated and ambitious update to the ancient Egyptian evil, transplanted to modern American culture. It feels familiar enough to the established lore but also leans heavily on modern horror tropes. There are many nods to other films, and this feels like a spiritual sequel to Cronin's Evil Dead Rise . In this movie, a family in peril is beset by a sinister entity with no way out. It's grim stuff where...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/the-mummy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e86510e30ec41b7d0a380b</guid><category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movies & Series]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:31:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_9fed762a2e5a4a0eb1059ffd9646e9c6~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exit 8]]></title><description><![CDATA[Turn Back. Turn Back! Turn Back!!! I found myself talking out loud in a packed theater as our witless protagonist, The Lost Man (Kazunari Ninomiya), wanders the white-tiled corridors of a Tokyo train station. Caught in a living existential nightmare, he traverses the halls in a desperate attempt to find the exit, only to be confronted with a dubious game: spot the anomaly or start again. While I'm not familiar with the video game it's based on, I caught on quickly to the rules while Lost Man...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/exit-8</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e041cc934ce5779170d73c</guid><category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movies & Series]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:06:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_0921ca580e43434d9ba31dbf3f33f2c1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen]]></title><description><![CDATA[Something Very Bad succeeds in maintaining a sense of dread throughout its runtime, but you have to buy into the relationship of Rachel (Camila Morrone) and Nicky (Adam DiMarco), which appears both loving and terribly dishonest. From the first minute, Rachel is presented as broken, and we soon discover that Nicky is from a well-off family which presents its own baggage. But this is Rachel's story and we are with her all the way through the many turns of an impending marriage and meeting the...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/something-very-bad-is-going-to-happen</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69daca2175afb0779a72ea03</guid><category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movies & Series]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_45585f6998b44ccab5183ef76a12cb7c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[28 Years Later: The Bone Temple]]></title><description><![CDATA[Less a self-contained sequel and more a continuation of 28 Years Later, Bone Temple suffers from being the middle child in an ambitious three-movie cycle. The Jimmies who appeared at the tail end of the last film are the core antagonists here while the zombies move even further into the background. But it's Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) who is the real focus. Fiennes single-handedly holds this chapter together with his deep investment in a peculiar if enigmatic figure. He is intent on finding a...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/28-years-later-the-bone-temple</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d14547f7044e6cf7adc785</guid><category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movies & Series]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_c1b1552b89de48eeaa65f45fd23df5d2~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready or Not 2: Here I Come]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nobody asked for a Ready or Not sequel. Nobody needed one. Here it is anyway, and somehow it works. It seems impossible to follow up the 2019 original that wrapped up so neatly, but they did, and did so with gusto and a stellar cast that miraculously stays on point in tone and bloody mayhem. The film wisely picks up seconds after the first one ends, and smarter still, reveals that the devil cult conspiracy runs much deeper than one unhinged family. Instead of one brain-dead family chasing the...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/ready-or-not-2-here-i-come</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c9a790495b613043548ed0</guid><category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movies & Series]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:38:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_51dba00ea2e04edfbc47832fca275302~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Undertone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ian Tuason's directorial debut, Undertone,  is a horror movie that has the nerve to trust your ears over your eyes. And it works. The setup is simple: Evy (Nina Kiri) is a paranormal podcast host who's moved back home to watch her mother die. The two of them are the only people you ever actually see on screen. Everyone else, her podcast co-host, the couple whose terrifying recordings land in her inbox, the demon slowly making itself at home in all of it, is a voice. A sound. A feeling at the...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/undertone</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c9a52c495b613043548a48</guid><category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movies & Series]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_cb371c86ba1e48fc9cc7f30a81595379~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_675,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bride]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bride! is a fever dream of a classic horror story reinvisioned as glam pop spectacle, part Bonnie and Clyde crime spree, part song-and-dance extravaganza, and all political provocation. Where the 1935 original gave its titular character fewer than five minutes of screen time and not a single line of dialogue, director Maggie Gyllenhaal's film expands that absence into an entire reckoning, following the Bride as she claws toward an identity she was never meant to have, hoisted back from...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/the-bride</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b21cfd9f757da15ac4b348</guid><category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movies & Series]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:12:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_0af6bd6143a24f5aa1b7a7d0d15cf479~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paranormal Activity: The Stage Play]]></title><description><![CDATA[Theatrical Review, No Spoilers Horror on stage is a rare beast, and finding a production that actually works is a genuine rarity. Between the massive scale of an ornate auditorium and the inevitable chorus of coughs from the audience, capturing the intimate dread of the cinema is a significant challenge. Horror films dictate exactly where and when you look. They use quick cuts and invasive close-ups to manufacture a reaction. In live theatre, you are on your own. The new production of...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/paranormal-activity-play</link><guid isPermaLink="false">699b9b46cfa5020e41bd13ba</guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Music]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:24:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_868dd589d0b340ee8c72eea1cb151ad8~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Send Help (2026)]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a particular kind of film that works precisely because it refuses to give you anyone to root for, and Send Help  understands this completely. Sam Raimi drops Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien onto a deserted island after a plane crash and then just... watches them eat each other. Linda Liddle is a meek, hygienically challenged corporate strategist who has been stepped on by everyone with a corner office. Bradley Preston is her new boss, a catastrophically useless rich boy whose only...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/send-help-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b22507ecfce39c49a86966</guid><category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movies & Series]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_9c858340496e4af4b6c8cde75af48b13~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother of Flies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mother of Flies is a folklore-tinged mood piece, an intimate portrait of a witch told entirely from the witch's own mouth, on her own terms. The genre has long followed a familiar and suffocating pattern: persecution at the hands of men, retribution through a curse, and a careful framing that casts the witch as the monster while the violence done to her gleams with the clean light of righteousness. This film spits on any amens and insists, without apology, that we finally see a different...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/mother-of-flies</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b1bea2b888d78955e4cd3d</guid><category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movies & Series]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_d1f09d9917e74c84847933c475b574ea~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Scary Movies of 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every year, my list of “Scary Movies” grows more expansive as filmmakers toss genres into a blender and whip up increasingly devious delights. I love straight horror, but I’m just as drawn to horror-adjacent films: sci-fi with a streak of ick or existential dread, dramas steeped in chewy folklore, and comedies that gleefully splash the screen with buckets of blood. Lists like these usually offer something for every taste, though I’ll admit that the more tasteless, schlocky B-movies rarely...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/best-scary-movies-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69571ff3dd9c59302c37e37a</guid><category><![CDATA[Movies & Series]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Editorial]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:19:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_b14af906d8774fb89185172f0fb13c1d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[La Nahuala]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Shape-Shifting Witch of Mexican Legend: La Nahuala Deep in Mexico’s folk memory lurks La Nahuala—sometimes called La Naguala—a...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/nahuala</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68ccc707d4947e71b7ae8995</guid><category><![CDATA[Folklore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_3d92c638af5f465a9698c4baae125132~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[El Charro Negro]]></title><description><![CDATA[El Charro Negro  is a figure from Mexican folklore who embodies a cautionary tale about temptation, greed, and making deals with the...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/charronegro</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66f768c4db76332839c6266e</guid><category><![CDATA[Folklore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_7cae508d32d6455fbbe1207a4e3ea73b~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scary Summer Reads: Diavola]]></title><description><![CDATA[There’s something deliciously unsettling about vacation horror, especially when the trip takes you to a sun-soaked villa in Italy that...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/scary-summer-reads-diavola</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68b67772bf96fd629915b81e</guid><category><![CDATA[Books]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_0835b7266ee54505b03b7cbcb44d6099~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_678,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weapons]]></title><description><![CDATA[Weapons is not your typical horror film. It’s more of an enigmatic drama, punctuated with bursts of absurd, pitch-black humor, then...]]></description><link>https://www.senorscary.com/post/weapons</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68a5547c81e6ee2fae602292</guid><category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movies & Series]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 04:55:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7711d8_ab3ffe3d9ef34d2f9752ceff85dd96ef~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_509,h_286,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Señor Scary</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>