Do you like scary movies? I do. I especially like to watch them in October as the leaves are changing and as Halloween approaches.

This year, I scheduled a set of five horror films to be watched each Saturday in October. I’ve also enjoyed creating my own vector art posters as a way of reflecting on the films.

My posters and brief synopses of the first two films are below.

The Birds (1963) directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Melanie Daniels meets heartthrob lawyer Mitch Brenner in a pet store one afternoon. She follows him out to Bodega Bay, but her lover’s game of cat and mouse takes a bizarre turn when a sea gull dive bombs her in the forehead. As romantic tension builds between Daniels and Brenner, the birds of Bodega Bay turn violent. First the birds attack a group of school children and then the public at large. Daniels and Brenner find safety at the Brenner house, but will they survive the night?

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An American Werewolf in London (1981) directed by John Landis

NYU undergrads David and Jack begin a three month backpacking trip through Europe, but on their first night on the moors of Yorkshire, they are attacked by a werewolf. Jack dies. David wakes up in a London hospital three weeks later with newly healed wounds. Jack’s ghost appears to David and warns him of the coming full moon. As David settles in London to further recover, he wonders if he’s losing his mind, what with the bad dreams and seeing ghosts. As the full moon approaches, what will become of David?