Let's run it back for 2026 with some new prompts mixed in with a few faves. Please note: this is not a challenge to hate on films... it’s a year long descent into Lynchian nightmares, losers, goblincore vibes, sigma females, Yakuza violence, dark and absurd comedies, unholy rituals, and even some sensual cinema with recommendations from ppl like Ari Aster, Gaspar Noé, Robert Eggers, and Letterboxd user Charli XCX. Finding your new favorite film is 99% guaranteed.

Thanks again beveyhills for helping come up with prompts and huge shoutout to all the clever Letterboxd users making creative lists.

If you want to participate, make a new Letterboxd list called “Hater Club Movie Challenge 2026” using the prompts provided below to select a movie you’ve never seen before that fits the criteria for each week and add it to your list. Do that 52 times and you have your personalized homework for 2026. 🫡

Hater Club Movie Challenge 2026 Weekly Prompts:
Week 1: Lynchian
Week 2: Loser Cinema
Week 3: Ari Aster Recommendation
Week 4: Black & White (no color films allowed!)
Week 5: Psychedelic Cinema
Week 6: Spike Lee
Week 7: It Passed the Bechdel Test
Week 8: Goblincore
Week 9: Tim Robinson-core
Week 10: Period Piece
Week 11: Non-Disney, Non-Pixar, Non-Ghibli Animation
Week 12: Sigma Female
Week 13: Dark Comedy
Week 14: Gaspar Noe Recommendation
Week 15: Yakuza (Japanese Gangster)
Week 16: Hopeless Cinema
Week 17: Stoner Scrapbook
Week 18: Philip Glass
Week 19: Folklore
Week 20: We're So Fucked
Week 21: Slice of Life
Week 22: Guillermo del Toro Recommendation
Week 23: NOW! That’s What I Call Cunty!
Week 24: Two Lost Souls Find Comfort
Week 25: Scandinavian Cinema
Week 26: Aesthetically Adjacent to Gay
Week 27: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Week 28: Bad Vacation
Week 29: Directorial Debuts Only
Week 30: Charli XCX Recommendation
Week 31: Unconventional Biopic
Week 32: Sensual Cinema
Week 33: Trilogy (1 of 3)
Week 34: Trilogy (2 of 3)
Week 35: Trilogy (3 of 3)
Week 36: Death Game
Week 37: By Women, About Women
Week 38: Michael Haneke
Week 39: Vinegar Syndrome
Week 40: Good For Her
Week 41: Unholy Cinema
Week 42: Creepy Crawlies
Week 43: Mind Fuck
Week 44: Robert Eggers Recommendation
Week 45: Eat the Rich
Week 46: If you like (American film) watch (foreign film)
Week 47: Neo-Noir
Week 48: That's Fucked Up!
Week 49: Feels like an episode of Black Mirror
Week 50: Val Kilmer
Week 51: Y2K
Week 52: Sam Learner Tool Recommendation