In Reel Deep welcomes all ghosts and ghouls to Horror Month, where we'll examine the spooky genre and its finest films from numerous eras.

To get it started, we're breaking down what "horror" means. To many people, it's slasher films and big loud scares. For others, it's ominous undertones and the threat of something in the darkness. And sometimes it's sci-fi movies and dramas that fold frightening moments into their expertly told stories.

So what is horror? What does a movie need to earn or receive the "horror" classification? We break it all down on our first scary podcast of the year's most terrifying month.