My attempt at the HORRORx52 Challenge.
1. Most popular horror film on your watchlist.
2. Lowest rated horror film on your watchlist.
3. BLINDSPOT: Highest rated horror film you haven't seen that's not on your watchlist.
4. Released in 2022
5. Made in the UK
6. Number In the Title.
7. Directed by Women #1
8. A film released in the year you were born.
9. 2010s
10. Made in Italy
11. Criterion Collection.
12. Color in the title
13. Distributed by ARROW Video or 88 Films.
14. 2000s
15. Made in Japan
16. Features a Pro Wrestler
17. ALTER short
18. Made for TV
19. 1990s
20. Made in South Korea
21. Screened as part of Screamfest 2021
22.…
My attempt at the HORRORx52 Challenge.
1. Most popular horror film on your watchlist.
2. Lowest rated horror film on your watchlist.
3. BLINDSPOT: Highest rated horror film you haven't seen that's not on your watchlist.
4. Released in 2022
5. Made in the UK
6. Number In the Title.
7. Directed by Women #1
8. A film released in the year you were born.
9. 2010s
10. Made in Italy
11. Criterion Collection.
12. Color in the title
13. Distributed by ARROW Video or 88 Films.
14. 2000s
15. Made in Japan
16. Features a Pro Wrestler
17. ALTER short
18. Made for TV
19. 1990s
20. Made in South Korea
21. Screened as part of Screamfest 2021
22. GDT Twitter picks.
23. Slasher.
24. 1980s
25. Made in Scandinavia (Norway/Denmark/Iceland/Finland/Sweden)
26. 2021
27. Giallo
28. Based on a book
29. 1970s
30. Made in France
31. Edgar Wright's favorite horrors.
32. Creature Feature
33. Directed by Women #2
34. 1960s
35. Made in Spain
36. 2020
37. Mark Kermode's BFI Horror Picks
38. A Horror Short featured on Short Of The Week's YouTube channel.
39. 1950s
40. Made in Canada
41. Video Nasty
42. Comedy Horror. After Hollie Horror left I'm in need of a decent resource list.
43. Sequel/Prequel/Remake
44. 1940s
45. Made in Australia
46. Made in New Zealand
47. A film that someone logged as part of last years challenge.
48. Made in Germany
49. Shown as part of Joe Bob Briggs's The Last Drive-in.
50. Screened at Frightfest 2021
51. Made in Hong Kong
52. A film featured on Elvira's Movie Macabre.
Progress: 52/52
This challenge took from January 10, 2022 to December 28, 2022. The average score I gave for this challenge was a 3.3.
The biggest surprise was The Girl with All the Gifts. I expected a somewhat generic zombie film. Zombie films at this point are one of the hardest horror subgenres to do. But this one, released in 2016, managed to feel refreshing and unique and incredibly thoughtful. Genuinely one of the best horror films I’ve ever seen. The biggest disappointment was Black Moon. I was hoping the film directed by the man who made Zazie Dans Le Metro would feel more subversive and boundary pushing but it felt so nonsensical instead. I always love a good Alice in Wonderland sorry but that one was just incredibly stupid and pointless. His worst film I’ve seen and a significant disappointment following the high of Zazie.
Top Three:
1. Prince of Darkness
2. Hellraiser II: Hellbound
3. The Void
Bottom Three:
1. Daddy’s Deadly Darlings
2. Black Moon
3. Motherly
Other Superlatives:
Best Performances: Taissa Farmiga in The Final Girls/Miguel Ferrer in The Night Flier
Worst Performances: Cathryn Harrison in Black Moon/Tony McCoy in The Bride of the Monster
Most Beautiful: The Final Girls
Most Thought-Provoking: Prince of Darkness
Made Me Cry: Spontaneous
Most Fun: Mayhem
Scariest: Prince of Darkness
