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Every year, as Halloween approaches,\xa0Film Comment Co-Deputy Editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute are forced to confront one of their greatest fears: horror movies. For this year\u2019s festivities, they invited two horror experts\u2014Violet Lucca, web editor at Harper's Magazine, and Maddie Whittle, Programming Assistant at Film at Lincoln Center\u2014to inflict some scary movies upon them. Violet and Maddie selected a couple underground favorites: Mohammed Shebl\u2019s bonkers 1981 Egyptian horror musical Fangs and Andy Milligan\u2019s low-budget sleaze-fest The Body Beneath (1970). As it turned out, these vampire outings aren\u2019t all that frightening, but they challenge and expand commonplace notions of horror cinema with their play with genre, sexuality, and political commentary. The group\xa0also talked about some other picks: Mahakaal, an \u201980s Bollywood remake of Nightmare on Elm Street, Sandor Stern\u2019s Canuxploitation classic Pin, and more.