It’s Halloween on Friday, and I have the perfect episode of Someone Else’s Movie for the occasion.

My guest is Bryn Chainey, whose creepy first feature Rabbit Trap stars Dev Patel and Blue Jean’s Rosy McEwen as a 1970s couple who retreat to rural Wales to record environmental audio and wind up opening a gate that shouldn’t be opened.

And Bryn, who’s very fond of tales of the uncanny, wanted to talk about a similar production: Jonathan Miller’s television adaptation of Whistle and I’ll Come to You, which transmitted into British homes by the BBC in the spring of 1968. They weren’t ready for its immersive, almost experimental take on M.R. James ghost story, starring Michael Hordern as a fusty academic who opens a gate of his own while wandering around the beaches of East Anglia … and 57 years later there’s enough to talk about that my conversation with Bryn actually runs longer than the film he chose. That’s always fun.

Join us, if you dare! Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice, or just download the episode directly from the web and listen to it as you trudge around the unforgiving landscape, looking for curious artifacts.

And then you can get caught up on Shiny Things, because I’ve been busy: Last week I tackled the new releases of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Eddington and Weapons, and the beautiful 4K restorations of David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence (from Criterion) and Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu, the Vampyre (from Shout!). A nice balance for the spooky season, I should think. Subscribe now so you don’t miss the next edition … because you never know what’s coming.

UPDATE: It went up right after I posted this, but if you ever wanted to hear the story behind my undying pull-quote on every physical release of I Know What You Did Last Summer — from VHS to UHD — I tell on the latest episode of the Springfield Googolplex podcast, where hosts Adam Schoales and Nate Storring are doing very particular explorations of cinema referenced on The Simpsons. It’s an epic conversation, but I had a blast and hopefully you’ll enjoy it as much as I did. And then you can dig into the show’s truly terrifying back catalogue! There’s seven seasons of it!