This is my fourth year doing this and it is one of my favorite Spooky Season traditions!
Here is my list which is, as always, subject to change based on availability of movies and my moods and whims. I may also relax my personal "no re-watch" policy if I can fill a prompt with something I love that my husband hasn't seen.
The Rules:
31 movies
6 countries (other than Italy or the U.S.)
- Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (Japan)
- The Cremator (Czechoslovakia)
- Dangerous Animals (Australia)
- Good Boy (Norway)
- Oxygen (France)
- When Evil Lurks (Spain)
9 decades
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1960s
- 1970s
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2010s…
This is my fourth year doing this and it is one of my favorite Spooky Season traditions!
Here is my list which is, as always, subject to change based on availability of movies and my moods and whims. I may also relax my personal "no re-watch" policy if I can fill a prompt with something I love that my husband hasn't seen.
The Rules:
31 movies
6 countries (other than Italy or the U.S.)
- Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (Japan)
- The Cremator (Czechoslovakia)
- Dangerous Animals (Australia)
- Good Boy (Norway)
- Oxygen (France)
- When Evil Lurks (Spain)
9 decades
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1960s
- 1970s
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2010s
- 2020s
5 Zombie Films
- Ahockalypse
- Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
- One Cut of the Dead
- Queens of the Dead
- Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
3 Cult or Conspiracy Horror Films
- Banshee Chapter
- The Conspiracy
- Race with the Devil
1 film from a Black Director with a Black Lead
- Blacula
1 film from a Mexican or Central American director
- La Llorona
1 Canadian film
- Red Rooms
1 Russian or Former Russian State Film
- Viy
The most popular film from the 1940s that you haven't seen and can access
- The Wolfman
2 Post-Apocalyptic Horror films
- 28 Years Later
- Virus
1 film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot
- Final Destination Bloodlines
1 "The animals are pissed at us" film
- Under Paris
1 Silent film
- A Page of Madness
4 based on novels
- Clown in a Cornfield
- The Cremator
- Village of the Damned
- Viy
Any film from Cinemonster's list that you haven't seen
letterboxd.com/cinemonster/list/my-favorite-horror-movies-or-how-i-stopped-2/
- Cure
1 Ernesto Gastaldi written film
- Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory
1 film from 1932
- The Mummy
The Wizard of Oz
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper Film)
- Lifeforce
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK:
EXTRA CREDIT:
- Burn Witch Burn (aka Night of the Eagle)
- German Chainsaw Massacre
- Trick or Treat
Check out Cinemonster's list with musings and fun things to know about this challenge and a place to sign up if you want to say "hi" to the other folks doing it!
letterboxd.com/cinemonster/
Thanks again, Cinemonster for doing this every year! You rule!