Warning: The review below concerns a product that is, as of this writing, sold out by its distributor (or maybe not… more on that below). NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1990) was issued this month on Blu-ray disc in a limited run of 3,000 copies by boutique label Twilight Time, almost all of which have been snapped up through mail-order by eager fans. If you feel sore about missing out and are hoping to procure this disc by spelunking the secondary market, please put the credit card down and read this first.

In 2009’s THE COLLECTOR, directed by Marcus Dunstan from a screenplay he wrote with Patrick Melton, we were introduced to Arkin (Josh Stewart), a comparatively innocent thief attempting to burglarize a house. Unfortunately, that home is simultaneously invaded by the Collector, a masked man who likes to wipe out a whole group of people in a short span of time via inventive contraptions. However, he always spares one to “collect,” torture at leisure and ultimately display for his own viewing pleasure.

DARK HORSE PRESENTS was the very first title launched by the publisher in 1986, and has set the standard for the strange and unique comics to follow its stead. Though Dark Horse now has literally tons of works to its name, DHP is still remembered as a series that many of us had cut our teeth on in terms of indie horror, sci-fi, and noir comics.

It's that time of year again! The time when children dress up in their spookiest attire, parents sigh and shuffle along with their little hell-beasts as they collect candy, and every channel on TV plays the most terrifyingly edited horror movies they can get their hands on. That's right, it's Halloween, probably the best holiday of the entire year, but not everyone shares its dreams of candy corn and mischievous fun. When you're stuck working all night, dressing ill-fitting costumes on late-coming merry-makers, you'd be sore on the whole prospect too. Such is the new one-shot HALLOWEEN EVE (out now from Image Comics), about a girl, a costume shop, and the true spirit of Halloween.

Built on a history of neglect and family secrets, the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY franchise has, until now and however unintentionally, managed to question why exactly we move to the suburbs. Peace, and quiet and family and freedom? The freedom from worry, from our childhood scars, from neurotically checking on the kids and from believing they might be getting into trouble when out of sight. Of course, kids get into trouble everywhere and in this series, they do it with demons.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 is the first film in the series to be as funny as it is scary, and that’s not a bad thing, as it seems to have been intentional, and was probably the right direction at this point in the franchise.

It remains to be seen if Kit Walker’s encounter with that one, grotesquely overlong extraterrestrial hand was in fact the result of neuroses, but with one season of AMERICAN HORROR STORY behind—and considering all they crammed into one house of horrors there—the premiere of AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM certainly felt in line with the tone and energy Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk hath previously set.