This list includes the most frightening and brilliant horror gems featuring black leads, from purely shocking scares to more tactful works of social commentary, including some of horror’s most groundbreaking films.

Fashion and film go hand in hand. A character’s iconic style shapes who they are. Especially true within the horror genre, costumes are mastered to transform ordinary people into frightening characters.

Halloween is swiftly approaching, and you know what that means — it's time to sit down and watch a terrifying (and/or disturbing/gruesome/chilling) film that will make you wish for some butterflies and Happy Meals (or Big Kid Meals, if you're a Burger King kind of kid). Here are a some film screenings in Austin that will be taking place this month, as well as several movies to keep an eye out for at the local video store. Beware — they will give you the heebie-jeebies.

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