Opening Notes, 8/27/25: My third year of participation. I am trying to satisfy multiple criteria with similar films and checking off horror films from the 1001 Movies You Need to See Before You Die. I'll be starting (and hopefully finishing) early this year due to some commitments in the latter half of October. No extra credit for me again. Looking forward to the binge!
Cinemonster’s Original: boxd.it/EsPD6
Criteria:
- 31 horror films
- 6 countries (other than Italy or US) (8 achieved: Japan, France, Germany, Sweden, UK, USSR, Mexico, Hong Kong)
- 9 decades (11 achieved: 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s)
- 5 Zombie Films (Lifeforce, One Cut of the Dead, MadS, I Walked…
Opening Notes, 8/27/25: My third year of participation. I am trying to satisfy multiple criteria with similar films and checking off horror films from the 1001 Movies You Need to See Before You Die. I'll be starting (and hopefully finishing) early this year due to some commitments in the latter half of October. No extra credit for me again. Looking forward to the binge!
Cinemonster’s Original: boxd.it/EsPD6
Criteria:
- 31 horror films
- 6 countries (other than Italy or US) (8 achieved: Japan, France, Germany, Sweden, UK, USSR, Mexico, Hong Kong)
- 9 decades (11 achieved: 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s)
- 5 Zombie Films (Lifeforce, One Cut of the Dead, MadS, I Walked With a Zombie, Day of the Dead)
- 3 cult or conspiracy horror films (Salo, The Seventh Victim, Alucarda)
- 1 film from a Black director with a Black lead (Bones)
- 1 film from a Mexican or Central American director (Alucarda)
- 1 Canadian film (Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning)
- 1 Russian or former Russian state film (Viy)
- The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access. (I Walked With a Zombie)
- 2 Post Apocalyptic horror films (Day of the Dead, Lifeforce)
- 1 Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot (Jacob's Ladder)
- 1 The animals are pissed at us film (Lake Placid)
- 1 Silent film (The Phantom Carriage)
- 4 based on Novels (Dracula, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Lifeforce, Salo)
- Any film from this other Cinemonster list that you haven't seen (Pulse)
- 1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film (All the Colors of the Dark)
- 1 film from 1932 (Vampyr)
- WIZARD of OZ ('39)
- And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (Lifeforce)
