OKAY! Like I say every year, I thought I was gonna not do this again this year and I think I'll probably not meet my goal. And yet...each year I come crawling back and end up hitting it. But this year's gonna be a bit different

Usually I start this in June and finish by Halloween night. A long time, but 39 movies is a lot of movies dedicated to this one thing since I'm watching other shit too. So I'm doing a couple of things different for this one + going forward. FIRST, I'm making this a year long challenge for myself from now on (for as long as I do it). Gonna start it in January and spread my 39 out across the whole year, no more June start, no more Halloween finish. I end up cramming these movies in very quickly and it makes me enjoy them less, I'd rather spread them out and enjoy them

The other thing I'm doing for this particular list is retroactively filling slots with horror movies I've watched this year. By the time I made my list I had watched 21 horror movies and all of them slotted nicely into different subgenres. Kinda cheating, but not really! Still watched them this year, just not with this challenge in mind. This'll save me a ton of time since I'm now down to 18 movies left. I probably won't be posting any reviews for the 21 I've already watched. Or maybe I will if I'm bored, or maybe I'll just copy my very brief Letterboxd posts and post them here as placeholders, we'll see

Unfortunately many of the horror movies I've already watched this year were p bad (but that's half the fun sometimes) because I didn't try to seek out higher quality movies with this challenge in mind, so my list this year is gonna be pretty bleak and ratings are gonna be bad. But oh well! I've watched many bad movies through this as is

tldr: I found this chart on reddit. It shows 39 different horror sub-genres and a couple examples from each one (the person said they did a lot of recent examples instead of the best possible pick at times). I'm picking one movie per subgenre that I haven't seen and watching it. Don't start nitpicking the subgenres that I put some movies under please, I went by what little I know about some of these movies and I don't wanna be spoiled on what exactly the horror element is unless the description says it. Also don't say so and so sucks because it'll make me not wanna watch it at all, pls and ty



I've had some of you join me in the past. Some finished, some didn't, that's fine! If you wanna join in and make your own list, join in! You can go wild and try to finish by Halloween, you can do what I'm doing and try to finish by the end of the year, you can backfill with horror movies you've already seen this year if you want. Do your thing!


MY LIST: https://letterboxd.com/curtislost23/list/39-horror-subgenres-60/

lfg

Josh @ 18/8/2023 21:32

excited for you to see evil dead, talk to me, scream 6, & megan. need to hear ur thoughts expeditiously

I’ve seen all four! I filled my list with movies I’ve already watched this past year, 21 watched, 18 left

Knock at the Cabin [Psychological - Home Invasion]
Messiah of Evil [Psychological - Fanaticism]
Watcher [Psychological - Phobia & Isolation]
Shallow Grave [Psychological - Madness & Paranoia]

I Walked With a Zombie [Monster: Undead]
The Horde [Monster: Virus]
Daughters of Darkness [Monster: Classic & Mythological]
Silver Bullet [Monster: Werewolf]
Godzilla 1954 [Monster: Giant Monsters]
Salem's Lot [Monster: Vampire]
Bride of Chucky [Monster: Small Creatures]
The Blob 1958 [Monster: Aliens]
Leviathan [Monster: Neo-Monsters]
Grizzly [Monster: Animals & Nature]

Thesis [Gore - Torture]
Wither [Gore - Splatter]
Night of the Comet [Gore - Cannibal]
Infinity Pool [Gore - Extreme]

Evil Dead Rise [Paranormal - Possession]
Häxan [Paranormal: Witches & Occult]
The Dead Zone [Paranormal: Supernatural]
Wind Chill [Paranormal: Ghost & Spirits]
The Sentinel [Paranormal: Haunted House]
Talk To Me [Paranormal - Devil/Demon/Hell]

Just Before Dawn [Killer - Backwoods & Redneck]
Scream VI [Killer - Slasher]
Bay of Blood [Killer - Crime & Giallo]

Sick [Misc - Meta]
The Phantom of the Opera [Misc - Horror Romance]
Alice, Sweet Alice [Misc: Creepy Kid]
Island of Lost Souls [Misc: Body Horror]
The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales [Misc - Revenge]
Tales From the Darkside: The Movie [Misc - Anthology]
A New Life [Misc: French Extremity]
House [Misc - Comedy Horror]
Deadstream [Misc - Found Footage]
Stoker [Misc: Gothic Horror]
Quartermass and the Pit [Misc: Sci-Fi Horror]
M3gan [Misc - Technology]

Just gonna be pasting over what little I said on Letterboxd for each of these first 21 movies so I can have everything in one spot here

[Paranormal - Ghost & Spirits]

Wind Chill	+
“That’s not Tom.” 2023 resolution: don’t just log movies, post thoughts on them even if I have nothing worthwhile to say. This movie stunk! ★★ disappointing/uninteresting

[Misc - Meta]

Sick

+

“Will you respect the 6 feet rule?” Pretty solid. Not as good as something like Hush, but more memorable than something like The Rental. Decent cat and mouse stuff but I would’ve expected some more clever bits from Kevin Williamson. Still not much to complain about though, looked good and the frenetic action mostly worked. Always down for an easy breezy ~90 minute horror either way. Jason and Pamela, I get it! Not a chance Tyler is the type to wipe down his groceries. ★★★ average/good/interesting concept

[Gore - Extreme]

Infinity Pool	+
“You’re such a bad driver James. I can’t believe you hit that guy, do you remember that?!” Mia Goth car hood scene: 5 stars ★★★½ pretty good!/well executed

[Monster - Neo Monster]

Leviathan	+
“Say ‘ahh’, motherfucker!” Best shark sequence in movie history. ★★ disappointing/uninteresting

[Psychological - Home Invasion]

Knock at the Cabin	+
“Look at that crispy chicken!” Didn’t fully do it for me but I’ll always have a soft spot for my boy M. ★★½ mixed feelings/flawed but fine/some good ideas

[Misc - Technology]

M3gan	+
“You killed people.” “Oh big whoop!” A better Child’s Play reboot ★★★½ pretty good!/well executed

[Monster - Small Creatures]

Bride of Chucky	+
“Rude fucking doll.” Not great, but some fun kills! Jennifer Tilly helps save it. ★★½ mixed feelings/flawed but fine/some good ideas

[Paranormal - Possession]

Evil Dead Rise

+

“Don’t read it! It’s called the Book of the Dead for a reason!” Solid! Well paced and brisk once it really gets going. Setting change works really well and was probably necessary, I remember being nervous when it was announced that it’d be set in a high rise but they did a good job of cutting them off and isolating them. Title card was perfect Thought they could’ve gone a lot more ham with the tattoo needle and cheese grater among other things, the 2013 version sure would’ve. It’s a step below that one for me but it’s still appropriately mean spirited and more fun than the average modern possession movie. Alyssa Sutherland deadite is an all timer. Wish a certain third act creature actually did something nasty, that was a bit of a letdown Features roughly 87 too many split diopter shots instead of adding something new or creative, but what can you do. I liked the drone joke shot at the start at least, plus the peephole sequence was cool My least favorite of the franchise, but that’s how consistent it is for me (most consistent horror franchise? Prob). Still a fun time! Gimme one about the third book set on an 18th century ship or something ★★★½ pretty good!/well executed

[Monster - Vampire]

Salem's Lot	+
“The house was a monument to evil sitting there all these years holding the essence of evil in its smoldering bones.” Comforting. Aged better than most King adaptations. ★★★½ pretty good!/well executed

[Misc - Anthology]

Tale's From the Darkside: The Movie	+
“Evisceration takes at least an hour.” Consistent enough anthology. Wraparound story didn’t have enough to it but the three main tales were all solid. Cat From Hell >>> Lot 249 > Lover’s Vow (probably better than Lot but the twist was way too predictable) Good gore throughout, but the cat down the throat stole the show. ★★★ average/good/interesting concept