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This is easily the most ambitious project I've undertaken on this site to date: 100 FEATURE-length movie reviews in just 31 days. Will I be able to keep up? Will I even finish? Will this much horror fry my brain??? You'll have to stay tuned to find out. Each day of the week has a specific theme and I'll add links to this page as I go...
MONDAYS
NON-HALLOWEEN HOLLIDAY HORROR: I'll be reviewing a different holiday each week, culminating with a three-pack of special dates on the last Monday of the month...
- 10.07 (THANKSGIVING)
• Home Sweet Home (1981)
• Blood Rage (1987)
• Thanksgiving (2023)
TUESDAYS
100% RANDOMLY SELECTED FILMS: I'll be using the same website I use for TRUE RANDOM to pick something out of the horror genre from any country/any year...
- 10.01
• The Tingler (1955)
• The Kiss of the Vampire (1963)
• Some Guy Who Kills People (2011)
WEDNESDAYS
WES-NESDAYS: I'll be starting a chronoligical Director Focus Fill-In on the oeuvre of the legend Wes Craven — every movie I haven't critiqued yet except his only non-horror Music of the Heart (I'll continue to fill in his gaps starting in November)...
- 10.02
• Deadly Blessing (1981)
• Swamp Thing (1982)
• The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985)
THURSDAYS
CORMAN & CRITTERS: I'll be pairing a different Roger Corman-directed Poe adaptation with one film from the original four-movie run of the Critters franchise (as one does)...
- 10.03
• House of Usher (1960)
• The Terror (1963)
• Critters (1986)
FRIDAYS
HALLOWEEN!: I'll finally be reviewing the ENTIRE Halloween franchise after completing the David Gordon Green reboot last year — all movies including the two Rob Zombie ones + a couple bonus ones - in unique canonical order...
- 10.04
• Halloween (1978)
• Halloween II (1981)
• Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
SATURDAYS
LESSER-KNOWN GIALLO: I'll be going through the early 60s to the early 80s to find Italian horror movies that weren't made by Fulci, Bava or Argento — I specfically sought out 12 unique directors whose work I'd never seen before...
- 10.05
• Mill of the Stone Women (1960)
• The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)
• The Long Hair of Death (1964)
SUNDAYS
RELIGIOUS HORROR THRU THE DECADES: I'll be watching one religious horror (or close enough) movie from every single decade, starting in the 1910s and finishing with the Sydney Sweeney scary nun movie Immaculate from 2024...
- 10.06
• The Plague of Florence (1919)
• Maciste in Hell (1925)
• Fährmann Maria (1936)
HALLOWEEN DAY SPECIAL
ALL 10 TI WEST FEATURES ON 10/31: As if watching a triple feature every single day wasn't enough (3 x 30 only = 90, folks), I'm ending Spooky Month '24 with a bang by reviewing the entire Ti West (director of the recent X Trilogy starring Mia Goth) solo feature-length filmograhy...
- 10.31
• The Roost (2005)
• Trigger Man (2007)
• The House of the Devil (2009)
• Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009)
• The Innkeepers (2011)
• The Sacrament (2013)
• In a Valley of Violence (2016)
• X (2022)
• Pearl (2022)
• MaXXXine (2024)