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Halloween doesn’t have to be over once the last trick-or-treater has crept back into the shadows of the night. You may still be possessed by the spirit of the holiday and in desperate need of some real scares. In an effort to address that need and help you find a choice that goes beyond the usual iconography of the season, I’ve picked three titles that may not immediately jump to mind when it comes to autumn-tinged chills and terror. They are not self-consciously seasonal choices, like John Carpenter’s Halloween or Michael Dougherty’s 2007 anthology Trick ‘R Treat, both excellent choices for cinematic fear on the pumpkin circuit. Two of them rely more on mood, creeping dread, an insinuating style and, dare I say, even a poetic approach to storytelling than the usual Samhain-appropriate fare. And one has an inexplicably bad reputation in the halls of conventional wisdom,...

Believe it or not, her shocking exit from Survivor: One World wasn't Kat Edorsson's first blindside. In November 2010, the reality show's latest eliminee was arrested for shoplifting at a Macy's. So which experience was more traumatic? Survivor's ditzy blond opened up about her dark past—and that dark shadow on tribemate Kim's upper lip… Get The Recap: Survivor Insider: Boo-Hoo! Blindsided Babe Cries All the Way Home Although viewers enjoyed one of the reality show's most gratifying blindsides to date, Kat, 22, admitted to us she was "completely destroyed and baffled" by her tribemates' betrayal—minutes after she obliviously told host Jeff...