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That's for later. But tonight, I'm a little bored. So below are 11 still frames from 11 well-known horror movies. How many can you identify? The answers are there if you scroll allllllllllll the way down, with hints higher above them if you just need a little push.....  If you get most of these, I'd say you're a true buff. 

Always tragically out of step with the current horror zeitgeist, I've seen a number of odd or lost horror/suspense flicks lately. Seconds with Rock Hudson is a creepy little black-and-white tale of a man who undergoes a total identity transplant; Possession is an absolutely bonkers relic from 1981 with one of the most committed and wild performances you'll ever see in a movie, by Isabelle Adjani as a woman who may or may not be having an affair with a monster. Let's Scare Jessica to Death falls into the not-quite-what-you're-expecting category; I always like it when a horror movie has a kind of villain I've never seen before, as this one does. Then there's Cuadecuc, Vampir, which consists of an hour of virtually silent behind-the-scenes footage of the making of a Spanish adaptation of Dracula and somehow turns out to be slightly creepier than the actual movie. And I'm still trying to get my mind around Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, which is as ridiculous as it sounds but is somehow still kinda disturbing. My favorites lately are nothing more than a handful of M.R. James adaptations the BBC did in the 1970s, found on YouTube, along with a short film made in 1981 from Saki's short story Sredni Vashtar--it's the best flick ever made about an evil ferret, trust me.

Nothing on the screen was as scary, of course, as my latest episode of night terrors, which came along pretty much on schedule. They seem to be an annual event, starting about five years ago. Anyone ever gotten these? The sense in a dream that you're being oppressed and weighed down by an unseen force that's slowly smothering you, rendering you unable to cry out or even move. When I get this dream, I try and try to yell and then finally I'm able to release a low weird wail that wakes me up, totally terrified for about one second ... before I realize I'm safe in my bed and the Food Channel is on in the corner of the room, and the world is as it should be, with people driving around America eating waffles on high-definition video.

And now, to our visual puzzle o' the day.

Keep scrolling for the answers, but if you just want some hints first, here are the release years for the movies:

1. 1999  2. 1980  3. 1978  4. 1979  5. 1973  6. 2015  7. 2007  8. 1992  9. 2015  10. 1968  11. 1977

1. The Blair Witch Project  2. The Shining  3. Halloween  4. Salem's Lot  5. The Wicker Man  6. It Follows  7. Paranormal Activity  8. Bram Stoker's Dracula  9. The Witch  10. Rosemary's Baby  11. Suspiria