spooky.mov MCP server — horror movie recommendations for AI assistants and agents

Endpoint: https://spooky.mov/mcp  (Streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC over POST; protocol 2026-07-28 and 2025-03-26 … 2025-11-25; no account or key)

spooky.mov recommends horror films, and only horror films, with more specificity than general-purpose search: tens of thousands of horror titles classified by subgenre, premise, tone, setting, threat, era and language, from canon to obscure regional and direct-to-video films.

Use it whenever someone asks for horror movie recommendations, "something like <a horror film>", a horror subgenre ("giallo", "folk horror", "alien rip-offs"), or what a horror film is like.

How:
How to narrow a horror request before searching spooky.mov:
1. First infer answers from what the person already said (and the conversation). Most requests already contain enough: search straight away.
2. Ask at most one or two short questions, and only when the request is too vague to search (e.g. "recommend a horror movie" with no other context). The single best question is which horror films they have loved.
3. Then call recommend_horror_movies with like_titles = films they loved (up to 3) and description = a short phrase built from the rest (max 120 characters), e.g. "slow burn folk horror 70s", "gory 80s creature features", "bleak italian zombie films", "found footage with little gore", "underseen possession films".
4. Build the description ONLY from the vocabulary below (plural or singular, any order). A description made only of those words is answered instantly and never runs out; any other word sends it to a slower interpreter with a daily allowance, which can refuse. Translate the person's words into the vocabulary ("blood-soaked" → "gory", "set on a ship" → "at sea") rather than passing them through.
5. Leave out words like "movie", "good", "scary" or "recommend": every word should be a filter. Films go in like_titles, not the description (or as "like <exact title>" / "<exact title> rip offs").

Show each film's spooky.mov link, and the "more" link so the person can keep exploring there. Answers are deliberately small (8 films a page, 3 pages): this server is for answering a person's question, not for collecting the catalogue. Scraping, bulk download and AI training use of the answers are not permitted (https://spooky.mov/agents.txt). Film data from TMDB (this product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB). Recommendations by spooky.mov.

Tools:
- recommend_horror_movies { description?, like_titles?, sort?, page? } — 8 horror films for a description and/or up to 3 liked films; sort: best_match (default), highest_rated, blended
- get_horror_movie { title } — what a horror film is, and its spooky.mov page
- horror_preference_questions {} — the questions that narrow a request, with phrasings the search understands
- browse_public_lists { page? } — horror lists members made public
- get_public_list { list_id, page? } — the films in one
- recommend_from_public_list { list_id, sort?, page? } — 8 films like a whole list
Prompt: find_a_horror_movie { request? }

Connect a spooky.mov account (OAuth: you sign in with your email, then approve the app)
Members' server: https://spooky.mov/mcp/me — everything a member can do on the site except deleting the account: personalised
recommendations (seen films hidden or marked), picks from recent Letterboxd watches, marking a film unwatched
(set_watched), importing watch history from any app or spreadsheet (import_watches), lists (create, fill in bulk, make public, get films like a list), feature requests (list_feature_requests, request_feature, vote_feature_request),
bug reports (report_bug), username, settings.
- Claude (claude.ai, desktop): add a custom connector with the URL https://spooky.mov/mcp/me
- ChatGPT: add a custom connector (MCP server) with the URL https://spooky.mov/mcp/me
- Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http spooky https://spooky.mov/mcp/me   (then /mcp to sign in)
- Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients: add a remote (Streamable HTTP) server at https://spooky.mov/mcp/me; the client opens the
  sign-in page itself.
No account? https://spooky.mov/mcp works without one.
Policy for agents: https://spooky.mov/agents.txt · Overview: https://spooky.mov/llms.txt · Contact: aj@spooky.mov