This Week in Horror History | Creepshow, Dracula & Ravenholm

Update: 2025-11-11

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This Week in Horror History dives into a loaded week: Creepshow hits wide release, Interview with the Vampire and Bram Stoker’s Dracula redefine luxe gothic on the big screen, Half-Life 2’s Ravenholm sneaks survival horror into AAA gaming, and Stephen King’s Cycle of the Werewolf howls through November. We spotlight Supernatural’s early heart-stopper “Home,” roll birthdays for genre icons, compare ’90s velvet vampires to today’s, and cap it with a cult-classic pick: Slumber Party Massacre. Perfect for spooky season’s afterglow—queue these up and feast.

Inside this episode

Creepshow (Nov 10, 1982): Romero + King bring EC-comics mayhem to multiplexes.
Interview with the Vampire (Nov 11, 1994): Velvet-and-venom epic opens #1 and rewrites vampire melodrama.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Nov 13, 1992): Coppola’s operatic, in-camera sorcery storms the box office.
Half-Life 2 — Ravenholm (Nov 16, 2004): A masterclass in atmosphere; survival-horror vibes inside a shooter.
Cycle of the Werewolf (Nov 1983): King + Wrightson’s lean, illustrated lunar calendar of carnage.
Duel (Nov 13, 1971): Spielberg’s white-knuckle TV thriller turns the highway into a hunting ground.
Deep-Cut Spotlight — Supernatural “Home” (Nov 15, 2005): Intimate, grief-haunted return to the Winchesters’ house.
Birthday roll: Roy Scheider, Radha Mitchell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Burgess Meredith.
Then & Now — Velvet Vampires: ’90s baroque romance vs. prestige-TV reinventions.
Weekly Recommendation — Slumber Party Massacre: A sharp, subversive slasher to cleanse the palate.

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