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Watching 31 Horror Films in October

  • Writer: Sunna Mjöll Valdimarsdóttir
    Sunna Mjöll Valdimarsdóttir
  • Sep 30, 2019
  • 3 min read

I had the idea to watch one horror film a day through October. I haven't seen any of these films. Many of them I have heard of before and some I have been meaning to watch for ages or since they came out and I just haven't had the opportunity or found the time to watch them.


I have been compiling this list for about a month to about a month and a half. There are classics like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Fly and The Omen. I also have some films that are horror comedies like What We Do in the Shadows, which I have been meaning to watch for ages, always waiting for someone to have time to watch it with me. And then there are a bunch of new or newer horror films that I haven't seen, I haven't been very good at watching films for the past few years. These are films like Hereditary, The Perfection, Veronica, It Follows and so forth. There are also some international films and none English films.


Some days I will try to watch more then 1 film. I also made a short list of films so that I have a list of films if I find that I have time to watch it. That list has some new films that have just come out or are coming out in October like The Lighthouse, which I can see in the cinema on either October 4th or the 6th but that depends on my time. Midsommar is on the proper list but it is currently being shown in cinemas in Iceland.


The list has been set up by date so I have a plan for what I am going to watch when but because of work and school there are days that might be hard to fit a film in but I'm keeping it as a guideline. The first 7 days are set up with films that I am exited about and have been meaning to watch since I heard about them. The rest is fairly random with the exception of the 12th to the 18th, those are days that i should be able to fit in two films if I manage to organise myself. That week is the reading week and I don't have to attend classes and work is only every other weekend so I don't have to go anywhere but I do need to study.


The List:

1. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

2. The Quiet Place

3. The Witch

4. Goodnight Mommy

5. What We Do in the Shadows

6. Sightseers / Lighthouse (I am going to try to go see it on this day)

7. We Are What We Are

8. You're Next

9. Us

10. In the Tall Grass

11. The Fly

12. Hereditary

13. The Perfection

14. Suspiria 1977

15. Pulse / Suspiria 2018

16. Veronica / I Am Mother

17. The Omen

18. Final Prayer (original title was Borderlands but was changed)

19. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

20. Gerald's Game

21. Bird Box

22. Ghost Stories

23. It Follows

24. The Wailing

25. Errementari

26. The Autopsy of Jane Doe

27. Jacob's Ladder

28. The Host

29. 28 Days Later

30. Midsommar

31. It Comes at Night


The additional list:

The Lighthouse (currently travelling the festival circuit, and is only shown on two days here. In the US, it's being released on the 18th of October and I don't know if it comes back to Iceland at that time or after the current festival, RIFF. So if I miss it, I miss it.)

Sauna (Finnish)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Annihilation

Misery

Dracula Untold

Only Lovers Left Alive

Rec

Inside (French)

Aterrados (French, English title: Terrified)

Possum

The Houses October Built

The Taking of Deborah Logan


If there is a film that you don't see on the list let me know. I have seen quite a few horror films but I am always interested in finding new and interesting ones. You can join me and try to watch these yourself if you want.

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