Year Three let's gooooooo

Original List: boxd.it/EsPD6
9/1/25-10/31/25

All first time viewings
One film per rule, no overlaps
Reviews unlikely...(but never say never)
45/45

6 countries (other than Italy or US)

1. Portugal: I'll See You in My Dreams (2003) dir. Miguel Ángel Vivas (9/24)
2. Ireland: Oddity (2024) dir. Damian Mc Carthy (10/20)
3. Tanzania: Obambo (2022) dir. Freddy Feruzi (10/22)
4. Philippines: Outside (2024) dir. Carlo Ledesma (11/3)
5. Brazil: The Strange World of Coffin Joe (1968) dir. José Mojica Marins (10/15)
6. Serbia: The Life and Death of a Porno Gang (2009) dir. Mladen Đorđević (9/14)

9 decades

1890's: Le manoir du diable (1896) dir. Georges Méliès (9/14)
1900's: The Merry Frolics of Satan (1906) dir. Georges Méliès (9/14)
1910's: Dante's Inferno (1911) dir. Giuseppe de Liguoro, Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan (11/3)
1920's: A Page of Madness (1926) dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa (10/4)
1930's: Freaks (1932) dir. Tod Browning (9/8)
1940's: I Walked with a Zombie (1943) dir. Jacques Tourneur (10/5)
1950's: The Night of the Hunter (1955) dir. Charles Laughton (10/26)
1960's: Eyes Without a Face (1960) dir. Georges Franju (10/20)
1970's: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) dir. Philip Kaufman (10/24)

5 Zombie Films

1. The Plague of the Zombies (1966) dir. John Gilling (10/22)
2. Night of the Creeps (1986) dir. Fred Dekker (10/15)
3. Cemetery Man (1994) dir. Michele Soavi (9/4)
4. Zombie Strippers! (2008) dir. Jay Lee (10/9)
5. Trailer Park of Terror (2008) dir. Steven Goldmann (10/8)

3 cult or conspiracy horror films

1. The Invitation (2015) dir. Karyn Kusama (9/14)
2. Santa Sangre (1989) dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky (9/16)
3. Last Shift (2014) dir. Anthony DiBlasi (10/15)

1 film from a Black director with a Black lead

Blacula (1972) dir. William Crain (10/18)

1 film from a Mexican or Central American director

Death in Love (1951) dir. Ernesto Cortázar (11/1)

1 Canadian film

The Brood (1979) dir. David Cronenberg (10/31)

1 former Soviet state film (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan)

The Touch (1992) dir. Albert Mkrtchyan (10/31)

The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access..

Cat People (1942) dir. Jacques Tourneur (10/14)

2 Post Apocalyptic horror films

1. The Domestics (2018) dir. Mike P. Nelson (10/22)
2. The Road (2009) dir. John Hillcoat (10/21)

1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971) dir. Lucio Fulci (11/3)

1 The animals are pissed at us film

Dogs (1976) dir. Burt Brinckerhoff (10/28)

1 Silent film

The Man Who Laughs (1928) dir. Paul Leni (9/24)

4 based on Novels

1. Valentine (2001) dir. Jamie Blanks (10/19)
2. Let's Kill Uncle (1966) dir. William Castle (10/29)
3. Silver Bullet (1985) dir. Daniel Attias (10/29)
4. Seven Days (2010) dir. Podz (9/3)

Any film from THIS list that you haven't seen.

I Spit on Your Grave (1978) dir. Meir Zarchi (10/10)

1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film

Almost Human (1974) dir. Umberto Lenzi (11/3)

1 film from 1932

Strangers of the Evening (1932) dir. H. Bruce Humberstone (10/22)

I have never made a specific film a part of this before, but WIZARD of OZ ('39)

The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming (10/29)

And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)

The Mangler (1995) dir. Tobe Hooper (10/30)

***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH Burn Witch Burn, German Chainsaw Massacre & Trick or Treat (1986).

Burn Witch Burn (1962) dir. Sidney Hayers (10/31)
The German Chainsaw Massacre (1990) dir. Christoph Schlingensief (10/6)
Trick or Treat (1986) dir. Charles Martin Smith (10/29)

Pre-Game Picks:
(aka the films I ultimately didn't include in the picks above, but still want to watch this Hooptober season)
8/29-9/1

Dreams: Dream Demon (1988) dir. Harley Cokeliss (8/31)
Post-Apocalyptic: The Rezort (2015) dir. Steve Barker (8/30)
Post-Apocalyptic: The Crazies (2010) dir. Breck Eisner (8/29)
Ernesto Gastaldi: All the Colors of the Dark (1972) dir. Sergio Martino (8/31)