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A while back, one of our favorite subscribers asked for recommendations on what we thought were the creepiest MHz Choice episodes to watch on Halloween. We put together a personalized list for her, and again this year we decided to expand that list and share it with everyone! So, grab your favorite pumpkin spiced beverage and get ready to be scared as we present The Top 5 Spookiest Episodes on MHz Choice!
German Crime Story – Deadlock
DRAMA – CRIME | GERMANY | GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-MA
German Crime Story – Deadlock is a fictionalized retelling of the hunt for the notorious “acid bath killer” who terrorized Hamburg in the late 1980s and early ‘90s. Raik Doormann, played by Oliver Masucci (Herrhausen – The Bank and the Bomb, Dark) is a disgruntled and down-on-on-his-luck furrier whose jovial façade conceals a dark, dark secret…
Why it’s great Halloween viewing:
When we say this series is dark, we mean it. Serial killers are erschreckend.
The Undertaker – Ghosts
MYSTERY | SWITZERLAND | GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
Luc and Fabio find themselves drawn to the case of a young woman found hanged in a haunted castle…
Why it’s great Halloween viewing:
Did we mention the haunted castle? Also – Fabio falls in love with a ghost!
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Tatort: Harbor Crimes – Love Frenzy
DRAMA – CRIME | GERMANY | GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
Bremen detectives Liv Moormann and Linda Selb are confronted with a suicide by a psych patient – or so it seems. After an apartment fire, the body of a woman is found in the locked bedroom dressed in a bridal gown. The walls are covered in cryptic messages about the devil speaking through the walls and wanting to come and take someone… It turns out that the woman’s daughter has disappeared from her school and is nowhere to be found. What happened to the girl? Has she been claimed by the devil?
Why it’s great Halloween viewing:
Demonic possession. Ever seen The Exorcist?
Tatort: Cologne – Martinsfire
DRAMA – CRIME | GERMANY | GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
The body of a four-year-old boy is found in a remote village. Freddy suspects they’re dealing with a psychopath and Max befriends Mirko, an emotionally neglected eight-year-old whom he suspects knows more than he’s willing to admit. As they investigate the murder, Freddy and Max are drawn further into a world of children’s fears – and grown-ups’ nightmares…
Why it’s great Halloween viewing:
There’s more than a hint of Stephen King in this eerie fever dream of an episode, as Freddy and Max encounter the strange denizens of an impoverished rural community and their disturbed children. Spooky direction by Niki Stein, who helmed some of the most memorable of the early Tatort: Cologne episodes.
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Crime Scene Cleaner – An Assignment From Beyond
COMEDY | GERMANY | GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | TV-14
Schotty is called in to clean a house where a homeless man was found dead. He arrives to discover that he’s not the only one there to cleanse the property; a shaman has also been brought in to perform ancient rites!
Why it’s great Halloween viewing:
Because Schotty rules, OK?
Related article:
Crime Scene Cleaner – microsite
