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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)
- 10.14 (INDEPENDENCE DAY)
• Frogs (1972)
• Graveyard Shift (1990)
• Uncle Sam (1996)
- 10.21 (EASTER)
• The Being (1983)
• Little Witches (1996)
• Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill! (2006)
- 10.28 (NEW YEAR'S, VALENTINE'S, APRIL'S FOOL)
• New Year's Evil (1980)
• My Bloody Valentine (1981)
• April Fool's Day (1986)
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...
- 10.15
• Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
• The Nature of the Beast (1995)
• Mermaid Down (2019)
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)...
- 10.23
• Scream 2 (1997)
• Scream 3 (2000)
• Cursed (2005)
- 10.23
• Red Eye (2005)
• Scream 4 (2010)
• My Soul to Take (2011)
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)
- 10.10
• The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
• The Premature Burial (1962)
• Critters 2: The Main Course (1988)
- 10.17
• Tales of Terror (1962)
• The Raven (1963)
• Critters 3 (1991)
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...
- 10.11
• Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
• Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
- 10.25
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
• Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
• Halloween: The Inside Story (2010)
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)
- 10.12
• A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)
• The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971)
• Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971)
- 10.19
• Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
• The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974)
• Short Night of Glass Dolls (1980)
- 10.26
• The Medium (1980)
• Nightmare City (1983)
• Zeder (1983)
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...
- 10.27
• Frailty (2001)
• 11/11/11 (2011)
• Immaculate (2024)
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)