Seriously, my Häxan guess—still not confirmed—has caused more hysteria than it deserves. It was mostly luck, and my choices are really haphazard this month. The Godzilla release was my only certainty. As soon as I heard that Janus was touring Godzilla movies and did the math, I knew that there’d probably be a collection of Godzilla films ready for October. (My thanks to Shrew for his efforts that confirm Criterion’s practice of themed horror/ghost films around Halloween.) Given my belief in themes, I thought there’d be another release that would fit the horror-ghost-monster theme, but I almost never watch scary movies, so I had no idea of titles that might be brought into the collection. The alternative was to look into upgrades that fit the bill. So I started going through the list alphabetically. I found Devil and Daniel Webster and when I came to Häxan, something in the back of my mind recalled that it had played in New York not so long ago. Even so, I balked at first because it would mean two silent films in consecutive months, and three silents in one year! That's unheard-of, unless it's a box set. But I didn’t have the time to look any further (or I might have arrived at The Vanishing).
All my other guesses were cribbed from what other folks were already guessing in the thread.
