‘Tis the season for big screams-on-screens action

As I write, it’s still mid-late October, which can only mean one thing: Christmas movies!! Sorry to say, that is not entirely a joke—arriving this coming week are several drastically early seasonal arrivals with unappetizing names like Christmas at the Kringles (comedy horror), The Holiday Hitman (comedy action), and A Very Merry Breakup (romcom). They’ll soon be crowded out by bigger enterprises in the same vein, so I guess you can’t blame them for trying to attract some attention before the annual deluge. However, in the interest of staying in the here-and-now, this week we are finally ready to celebrate Halloween in earnest. Which means of course finding the most obscure horror-ish titles.  Needless to say, there are plenty of non-obscure ones available at theaters and via streaming outlets. We belatedly caught up with the year’s breakout indie horror hits, Backrooms and Obsession, and liked them both—in their very different ways, both significantly diverge from the jumpscare-rid