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From J-Horror classics like “Dark Water” to cult indie freakouts like “The Oregonian” and “Uncle Peckerhead,” check out what’s lurking in Fandor’s shadows this spooky season.

For the two men performing Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” in the documentary ME TO PLAY, that imperative echoes through the towering Irish modernist playwright’s often-quoted line (from his 1953 novel “The Unnamable”): “You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”

A critic grapples with a personal blind spot in a lifetime of film watching: the films of prolific South Korean auteur and soju enthusiast Hong Sangsoo.

MARY JANE’S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE (1996) is Riot Grrrl meets CARNAL KNOWLEDGE, celebrating its heroine’s agency by charting her route to it, fueled by feminist sass and a gender-fluid sensibility, lots of raw candor and barbed wit, and the absolute charm of its cast.

Best known by American cult-cinema obsessives for 1977’s “House,” Japanese filmmaker Nobohiku Obayashi’s late-career trio of pacifist epics are now on Fandor.