{"id":144,"date":"2016-10-12T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/10\/12\/halloween-nears-check-out-our-horror-movie-collection\/"},"modified":"2016-10-12T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T19:34:00","slug":"halloween-nears-check-out-our-horror-movie-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/10\/12\/halloween-nears-check-out-our-horror-movie-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween nears! Check out our horror movie collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/aulibmedia\/horror\/\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-P5Tw0ArlRuk\/V_6P9-gv7RI\/AAAAAAAACoc\/ku6WGQtd5u01468ezZVIPN89gXqtutLQgCLcB\/s400\/johnny.gif\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Halloween weekend is but two weeks away, and like most film nerds, we&#8217;re ready for horror movie season. Because it would be weird to watch <i>Halloween<\/i> in April, right?<\/p>\n<p>Almost 100 years have passed since <i>Nosferatu<\/i> and some of the earliest feature-length horror films, and they&#8217;re still as terrifying as ever. If you&#8217;re looking for a horror movie to watch, you have nearly a century of choices that still hold up. So where do you start?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/aulibmedia\/horror\/\">Our horror-themed Pinterest board<\/a> includes 200 movies in our collection, from <i>The Babadook<\/i> to the old <i>Phantom of the Opera<\/i>. You might recognize a few classics like <i>The Evil Dead<\/i>, but if you&#8217;re looking to jump off the usual path, you could try something like zombie drama <i>Maggie<\/i> or the extremely descriptive <i>Slumber Party Massacre<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>You could watch 10 horror movies from the AU Library every day until Halloween and still not make it through everything. It&#8217;s a deep genre! You should probably start on that today.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween weekend is but two weeks away, and like most film nerds, we&#8217;re ready for horror movie season. Because it would be weird to watch Halloween in April, right? Almost 100 years have passed since Nosferatu and some of the earliest feature-length horror films, and they&#8217;re still as terrifying as ever. If you&#8217;re looking for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[160,173,270],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommendations","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-pinterest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}