Halloween is finally here, and I have a seasonally appropriate episode of Someone Else’s Movie for you!

This week, I’m joined by writer-director Zach Clark — whose striking contribution to the body-snatcher genre The Becomers arrives on Blu-ray today from Dark Star Pictures by way of Vinegar Syndrome — who was very excited to unpack his lifelong fascination with Jack Hill’s grindhouse novelty Spider Baby.

If you’ve seen Spider Baby, you can understand why a thoughtful horror buff would be fascinated by it: Hill’s exploitation quickie about a family of weirdos somehow prefigures both Night of the Living Dead and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and in the casting of both an aging Lon Chaney Jr. and a young Sid Haig it does offer a weird sense of torches being passed, and used to set the previous older alight. It’s relentlessly, unapologetically strange, and there’s a lot to discuss. Also, you should see The Becomers; it’s really good.

Want to join us? Subscribe to the show at Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts or on your podcatcher of choice, or download the episode directly from the web and listen to it while you endlessly ride the dumbwaiter up and down between the dining room and the dark, dark basement.

And once you’re done with that, we have such Shiny Things to show you! Last week, I wrote about Lee Isaac Chung’s surprisingly engaging Twisters and Arrow’s new 4K release of the first four Hellraiser movies, the Quartet of Torment, and how no one has been able to equal Clive Barker’s original accomplishment … not even Barker himself, really. Subscribe right here, and let me help you make better choices.

Happy Halloween, everybody. You could do worse  than locking yourself inside on Thursday night with a black-and-white CinemaScope double-feature of The Innocents and The Haunting. Go on, be classy.