These aren’t endorsements, but just a record of all the shit I watched for Spooktober. 👻 🎃

For October this year, I set up a 24/7 stream using Owncast and OBS on a virtual machine. Additionally, I used the obs-tuna plugin to get the movie title and the obs-source-transition script to periodically fade the title in to the corner of the screen briefly before fading out, then fading back in a few minutes later.

I was primarily inspired by the old shudder.tv, before it required a subscription.

Lessons I learned:

• Software transcoding is bad for your power bill.
• Using OBS on Windows without a GPU is incredibly CPU intensive.
• Owncast naturally has 8+ seconds of delay/latency.
• I remember a lot of horror movies based solely on their intros.

Anyway here’s what I watched:

1. House by the Cemetary
2. Carrie
3. Jacob’s Ladder
4. Scanners
5. Friday the 13th: Part 2
6. Videodrome
7. TerrorVision
8. X
9. Messiah of Evil
10. A Cat In The Brain
11. The Amityville Horror
12. Amityville 2: The Possession
13. Beetlejuice
14. Misery
15. The Mutilator
16. Pieces
17. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
18. BODIES BODIES BODIES
19. Brainscan
20. Creepshow
21. Thir13en Ghosts
22. Dead Silence
23. Serial Mom
24. Night of the Creeps
25. Saint Maud
26. Scream
27. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
28. Slumber Party Massacre (2021)
29. The Mummy
30. Deep Red
31. Night of the Comet

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