I told myself, “Never again.” Never again would I challenge myself to watch 100 movies in three months. That’s a lot of movies. Do I even like movies that much? What is a movie?

Well.

Here we are again. I am nothing but a weak, competitive soul.

But this year, I’m going full metal. We’re following all the rules, baby! This Letterboxd challenge, created by user Sarah Stubbs, asks horror fans to watch 100 new-to-them horror films in the three months leading up to Halloween. Sarah has a list of all the rules on her website. And unlike last year, I’m trying to abide by them all! This means no short films (at least 45 minutes) and must be tagged as “horror” in either IMDB or Letterboxd unless considering gateway horror. And yeah, that ruined all my giallo options!

Jokes aside. I do enjoy this. And it’s a great way of forcing myself to watch some films I’ve put off for ages.

At the point of writing, I’m about halfway there. But here is everything I watched in September. Check out my Letterboxd if you care to check out more, including seeing my ratings!

#1-37

1 Prey (2022) dir. by Dan Trachtenberg

2 You Won’t Be Alone (2022) dir. by Goran Stolevski

3 The Crazies (1973) dir. by George A. Romero

4 The Curse of Kazuo Umezu (1990) dir. by Naoko Omi

My first cheat, okay? It’s only 43 minutes. Cut me some slack.

5 Just Before Dawn (1981) dir. by Jeff Lieberman

A surprsingly good slasher with one hell of an ending!

6 America’s Most Haunted (2013) dir. by Chris Randall

7 V/H/S (2012) dir. by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence

8 Howl (2015) dir. by Paul Hyett

9 Zombie Flesh Eaters/Zombi 2 (1979) dir. by Lucio Fulci

10 Scared to Death (1946) dir. by Christy Cabanne

11 Damien: Omen II (1978) dir. by Don Taylor

12 Creepshow 2 (1987) dir. by Michael Gornick

13 Color Me Blood Red (1965) dir. by Herschell Gordon Lewis

14 Big Top Scooby-Doo! (2012) dir. by Ben Jones

15 A Creepshow Animated Special (2020) dir. by Gregory Nicotero

16 Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) dir. by Dominique Othenin-Girard

17 Sting of Death (1966) dir. by William Grefe

18 Noroi: The Curse (2005) dir. by Koji Shiraishi

19 The Night Walker (1963) dir. by William Castle

20 Xtro (1982) dir. by Harry Bromley Davenport

21 Blood Feast (1963) dir. by Herschell Gordon Lewis

22 Dream No Evil (1970) dir. by John Hayes

23 Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021) dir. by Thomas Hamilton

24 So Vam (2021) dir. by Alice Maio Mackay

25 Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) dir. by Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman

26 Viy (Вий) (1967) dir. by Georgiy Kropachyov, Konstantin Ershov

27 The Seventh Curse (1986) dir. by Lam Ngai Kai

28 Savage Intruder/Hollywood Horror House (1970) dir. by Donald Wolfe

29 The Curse of Halloween Jack (2019) dir. by Andrew Jones

30 The Gorgon (1964) dir. by Terence Fisher

31 Cult of VHS (2022) dir. by Rob Preciado

32 Torn Hearts (2022) dir. by Brea Grant

33 V/H/S 2 (2013) dir. by Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Timo Tjahjanto, Eduardo Sánchez, Gregg Hale, Simon Barrett, Adam Wingard

If anything, just watch Timo Tjahjanto and Gareth Evans’s segment “Safe Haven”. A brilliant bit of found footage terror!

34 Beyond the Door (Chi sei?) (1974) dir. by Ovidio G. Assonitis, Robert Barrett

35 Barbarian (2022) dir. by Zach Cregger

Going to call it now: this is going to be my favourite horror film of the year. Utterly bananas and terrifying. I LOVE THIS MOVIE. I would give anything to watch it for the first time again.

36 Tremors (1990) dir. by Ron Underwood

37 V/H/S: Viral (2014) dir. by Nacho Vigalondo, Marcel Sarmiento, Gregg Bishop, Justin Benson, Aaron Scott Moorhead