Back for Hater Club Movie Challenge 2026 My partner and I fell off pretty early on in 2025 and got overwhelmed with playing catch up but we're gonna try again this year!
This year, we'll have just this list and attempting on most weeks to choose a 2nd movie from the same week of last years challenge from one of our 2 lists that we still have yet to watch. We might ending up watching soon out of order or back to back. :)
2025 lists
Mine
Theirs
With out further ado, here's our picks for 2026! As a reminder, we're choosing movies that at least one of us have never seen before, preferably both of us.
Week 1: Lynchian…
Back for Hater Club Movie Challenge 2026 My partner and I fell off pretty early on in 2025 and got overwhelmed with playing catch up but we're gonna try again this year!
This year, we'll have just this list and attempting on most weeks to choose a 2nd movie from the same week of last years challenge from one of our 2 lists that we still have yet to watch. We might ending up watching soon out of order or back to back. :)
2025 lists
Mine
Theirs
With out further ado, here's our picks for 2026! As a reminder, we're choosing movies that at least one of us have never seen before, preferably both of us.
Week 1: Lynchian Week
--Mulholland Drive
Week 2: Loser Cinema Week
--Big Man Japan
Week 3: Ari Aster Recommendation Week
--The Wolf House
Week 4: Black & White Week (no color films allowed!)
--The Day After
Week 5: Psychedelic Cinema Week
--House
Week 6: Spike Lee Week
--Chi-Raq
Week 7: It Passed the Bechdel Test Week
--Godzilla Minus One
Week 8: Goblincore Week
--Where the Wild Things Are
Week 9: Tim Robinson-core Week
--Sorry to Bother You
Week 10: Period Piece Week
--SLC Punk
Week 11: Non-Disney, Non-Pixar, Non-Ghibli Animation Week
--Paprika
Week 12: Sigma Female Week
--Perfect Blue
Week 13: Dark Comedy Week
--But I'm A Cheerleader
Week 14: Gaspar Noe Recommendation
--Strange Days
Week 15: Yakuza (Japanese Gangster)
--Ichi The Killer
Week 16: Hopeless Cinema
--The Florida Project
Week 17: Stoner Scrapbook
--Blades of Glory
Week 18: Phillip Glass
--The Truman Show
Week 19: Folklore
-- The VVitch
Week 20: We're So Fucked
--The Road
Week 21: Slice of Life
--Showing Up
Week 22: Guillermo del Toro Recommendation
--Memories of Murder
Week 23: NOW! That’s What I Call Cunty!
--Nope
Week 24: Two Lost Souls Find Comfort
--I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
Week 25: Scandinavian Cinema
--Dogs Don't Wear Pants
Week 26: Aesthetically Adjacent to Gay
--To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Week 27: Philip Seymour Hoffman
--Love Liza
Week 28: Bad Vacation
--Triangle of Sadness
Week 29: Directorial Debuts Only
--Together
Week 30: Charli XCX Recommendation
--Paris, Texas
Week 31: Unconventional Biopic
--At Eternity's Gate
Week 32: Sensual Cinema
--Thirst
Week 33: Trilogy (1 of 3)
--Creature from the Black Lagoon
Week 34: Trilogy (2 of 3)
--Revenge of the Creature
Week 35: Trilogy (3 of 3)
--The Creatures Walks Among Us
Week 36: Death Game
--Tag
Week 37: By Women, About Women
--Persepolis
Week 38: Michael Haneke
--Code Unknown
Week 39: Vinegar Syndrome
--The Killer Condom
Week 40: Good For Her
--Lady Bird
Week 41: Unholy Cinema
--Dark Match
Week 42: Creepy Crawlies
--The Wasp Woman
Week 43: Mind Fuck
--The Game
Week 44: Robert Eggers Recommendation
--Anora
Week 45: Eat the Rich
--Thoroughbreds
Week 46: If you like (American film) watch (foreign film)
--Wolfwalkers
Week 47: Neo-Noir
--Mother
Week 48: That's Fucked Up!
--Suspiria
Week 49: Feels like an episode of Black Mirror
--What Happened to Monday
Week 50: Val Kilmer
--True Romance
Week 51: Y2K
--Y2K
Week 52: Sam Learner Tool Recommendation
--the tool isn't working, last I checked
