Post by chvrchbarrel on Sept 3, 2024 10:09:52 GMT -6
Who will survive, and what will be left of them?
Welcome to the seventh (!!) annual installment of The Horror Movie Club, where we share our lists of movies we’re sinking our teeth into for the month of October. We’re back for another year with blood, guts, torture, torment, and the wendigo!
If you’re new to the club, everything in the program below will be added to a private Google Drive folder so everyone can watch along. Films are uploaded one week at a time, usually cycling on Sundays. I’ll give some notice when things are swapping out, and you can always request that something stay in longer. When space permits, I may also throw in some other random movies that didn’t make the official program.
This is our first year opening up the club to the Fans' Lounge, welcome all.
The “challenge” is to watch 31 horror movies between October 1 and sunrise on Nov 1. An even more fun way to approach it is to make at least half of your list first-timers. I like to differentiate between the two on my lists with black titles for re-watches and red titles for first-timers. You can do whatever you want!
Post your list as you go! Everyone wants to see what each other is watching.
A few guidelines to this project / challenge that nobody really cares if you follow:
1. Basically anything you want can count as a “movie,” who cares
2. You can decide what the definition of "horror” is for yourself
3. Watch whatever tf you want, I don't care if you stick with the program or not
4. Please PM me for an invite to the Drive. I will not be posting the link publicly.
Previous Challenges - for movie ideas, nostalgia, and posterity
The Horror Movie Club: 31 Nights of Halloween (2018)
The Horror Movie Club II: Revenge of the Castle Freak (2019)
The Horror Movie Club III: Return of the Living Boarders (2020)
The Horror Movie Club IV: The Board That Dripped Blood (2021)
The Horror Movie Club V: Night of the Living Thread (2022)
The Horror Movie Club VI: Board to Death (2023)
We’ll get ourselves primed for the month with a week of lighter content, to get the blood flowing…
COUNTDOWN TO OCTOBER: EAT MY SHORTS, AGAIN!
Links to the following shorts will hit the thread / box on September 24th, to give us a week to count down to the beginning of the month:
The Boogeyman (1982; Jeff Schiro)
A man tries to explain to his psychiatrist that the Boogeyman is real and has been killing his children. (Based on the short story by Stephen King)
The Lawnmower Man (1987; James Gonis)
Harold hires "Pastoral Greenery and Outdoor Services Inc." to cut his lawn. He later spies on the serviceman, discovering something unique about the service. (Based on the short story by Stephen King)
Excision (2008; Richard Bates, Jr.)
A neglected teen takes refuge in the dreams that used to haunt her and orchestrates a shocking plan to prove her worth to her disapproving parents.
Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared (2011; Becky Sloan, Joseph Pelling)
A disturbing puppet short exploring the concept of creativity.
T is for Toilet (2011; Lee Hardcastle)
A little boy is thrown into a disturbing nightmare when he is forced to use the toilet.
Backrooms (2022; Kane Parsons)
A short horror film about liminal spaces.
Slut (2014; Chloe Okuno)
Maddy is 16 years old, living alone with her sick grandmother in Nowheresville, Texas. Life at home is lonely and depressing, so, like everyone else within a 20 mile radius, Maddy spends her free time at the only place with half a pulse - the local roller rink.
Zepo (2014; Cesar Diaz Melendez)
Time ago, a winter morning, a little girl went out looking for firewood, she went away from home and came across a blood trail… she followed it.
--click to expand the full marathon program--
Tuesday, October 1st: Pet Sematary (1989; Mary Lambert)
Dr. Louis Creed’s family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep in the woods brings the dead back to life – with “minor” problems.
Available in the box
Wednesday, October 2nd: Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988; Tony Randel)
Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family - Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain.
Available on Prime / Tubi / Pluto
Thursday, October 3rd: The Phantom of the Opera (1925; Rupert Julian)
A grotesquely disfigured composer known as “The Phantom” haunts Paris’ opera house, where he’s secretly grooming Christine Daae to be an opera diva.
Available on Tubi / Pluto / the public domain
Friday, October 4th: Body Melt (1993; Philip Brothy)
Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new ‘Body Drug’ that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin, etc.) and painful death.
Available on Tubi
Saturday, October 5th: Carrie (1976; Brian De Palma)
Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them. Co-starring board darling John Travolta.
Available in the box
Sunday, October 6th: 28 Weeks Later (2007; Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)
The inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the isles, convinced the danger has come and gone.
Available on Hulu / in the box
Monday, October 7th: Black Roses (1988; John Frasno)
Teens in a small conservative town are turned into evil demons thanks to the music of the titular heavy metal band.
Available on Tubi
Tuesday, October 8th: The Third Saturday in October: Part V (2022; Jay Burleson)
Unstoppable killer Jakkariah “Jack” Harding is back in town after seven years as he stalks and kills at random before chancing upon a football watch party.
Available on Shudder / Plex
Wednesday, October 9th: Rabid Grannies (1988; Emmanuel Kervyn)
A large family gathers in the country side for their two Grannies birthday. It’s too bad one of the gifts happens to be from their devil-worshipping nephew, and upon opening it, the two loveable grannies turn into rabid, flesh-eating monsters.
Available on Shudder / Tubi
Thursday, October 10th: Saw II (2005; Darren Lynn Bousman)
When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw’s hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his plan.
Available on Max / in the box
Friday, October 11th: In a Violent Nature (2024; Chris Nash)
The enigmatic resurrection, rampage, and retribution of an undead monster in a remote wilderness unleashes an iconic new killer after a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower that entombed its rotting corpse.
Available in the box
Saturday, October 12th: Curtains (1983; Richard Ciupka)
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
Available on Prime / Peacock / Tubi
Sunday, October 13th: Cemetery Man (1994; Michele Soavi)
A cemetery man has the unusual problem of the dead rising from the grave. Himself and his assistant must end these creatures’ lives again after they are reborn. Everything is going well until “She” comes along and stirs things up a bit.
Available on Shudder / Tubi / Pluto
Monday, October 14th: Anaconda (1997; Luis Llosa)
A “National Geographic” film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world’s largest - and deadliest - snake.
Available on Max / in the box
Tuesday, October 15th: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988; Dwight H. Little)
The apparently comatose Michael Myers is being transferred from one hospital to another, but he wakes up when the ambulance crew talk about his surviving niece, Jamie. After slaughtering his attendants, Myers sets out to find his one living relative who is, fortunately, being cared for by a kind and resourceful foster sister named Rachel. Meanwhile, the ever-cautious Dr. Loomis remains on the killer’s path.
Available on Shudder / in the box
Wednesday, October 16th: Queen of the Damned (2002; Michael Rymer)
Lestat de Lioncourt is awakened from his slumber. Bored with his existence, he has now become this generation’s new Rock God. While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha, the Queen of the Vampires and the Dammed. He wants immortal fame, his fellow vampires want him eternally dead for his betrayal, and the Queen wants him for her King.
Available in the box
Thursday, October 17th: Late Night with the Devil (2023; Cameron & Colin Cairnes)
A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms.
Available on Shudder / in the box
Friday, October 18th: Censor (2021; Prano Bailey-Bond)
Film censor Enid takes pride in her meticulous work, guarding unsuspecting audiences from the deleterious effects of watching the gore-filled decapitations and eye gougings she pores over. When Enid is assigned to review a disturbing film, she begins to unravel how the eerie work might be tied to her past.
Available on Hulu / Kanopy / in the box
Saturday, October 19th: Fright Night (1985; Tom Holland)
Nobody believes teenager Charley Brewster when he discovers that his suave new neighbor, Jerry Dandrige, is a vampire.
Available on Max / in the box
Sunday, October 20th: Carnival of Souls (1962; Herk Harvey)
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man.
Available on Prime / Tubi / Criterion Channel
Monday, October 21st: Scarecrows (1988; William Wesley)
Five men heist the Camp Pendleton payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned farm surrounded by strange scarecrows.
Available on YouTube
Tuesday, October 22nd: Wendigo (2001; Larry Fessenden)
A family from the city decide to spend a weekend away at a friend’s country farmhouse. But a fluke accident sets off a chain of events that alters their lives forever and conjures up the ferocious spirit of the Wendigo.
Available on Shudder / Tubi
Wednesday, October 23rd: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987; Chuck Russell)
Nancy’s all grown up; she’s put her frightening nightmares behind her and is helping teens cope with their dreams. Too bad Freddy’s decided to herald his return by invading the kids’ dreams and scaring them into committing suicide.
Available in the box
Thursday, October 24th: Shocker (1989; Wes Craven)
About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker transforms into a terrifying energy source. Only young athlete Jonathan Parker, with an uncanny connection to him through bizarre dreams, can fight the powerful demon.
Available on Shudder / Peacock / in the box
Friday, October 25th: The Guardian (1990; William Friedkin)
Phil and Kate select the winsome young Camilla as a live-in nanny for their newborn child, but the seemingly lovely Camilla is not what she appears to be.
Available on YouTube
Saturday, October 26th: The Gruesome Twosome (1967; Herschell Gordon Lewis)
An elderly woman has her son kill and scalp various young women to use their hair for her wig shop. A persistent coed tries to link various killings on a local Florida college campus to them.
Available in the box
Sunday, October 27th: The Omen (1976; Richard Donner)
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. What he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
Available on Hulu / in the box
Monday, October 28th: Mirage (1990; Bill Crain)
A smiling, sadistic and seemingly demonic young killer in black, who drives a black pick up truck, is hunting three young couples who came to the desert to drink, party and have sex.
Available on YouTube
Tuesday October 29th: Nosferatu (1922; F.W. Murnau)
Vampire Count Orlok is interested in a new residence and in his real estate agent’s young wife.
Available on Tubi / Pluto / the public domain
Wednesday, October 30th: The Beyond (1981; Lucio Fulci)
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural “accidents”, she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
Available on Peacock / Tubi / Pluto
Thursday, October 31st: Pumpkinhead (1988; Stan Winston)
After a tragic accident, a man conjures up a towering, vengeful demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy a group of unsuspecting teenagers.
Available in the box
Here's the current availability of horror movies on the major streaming services just in case it helps:
www.netflix.com/browse/genre/8711
www.max.com/collections/horror
www.amazon.com/gp/video/genre/horror
www.hulu.com/hub/horror-movies
www.peacocktv.com/collections/horror-movies
www.criterionchannel.com/horror
www.paramountplus.com/movies/horror/
Welcome to the seventh (!!) annual installment of The Horror Movie Club, where we share our lists of movies we’re sinking our teeth into for the month of October. We’re back for another year with blood, guts, torture, torment, and the wendigo!
If you’re new to the club, everything in the program below will be added to a private Google Drive folder so everyone can watch along. Films are uploaded one week at a time, usually cycling on Sundays. I’ll give some notice when things are swapping out, and you can always request that something stay in longer. When space permits, I may also throw in some other random movies that didn’t make the official program.
This is our first year opening up the club to the Fans' Lounge, welcome all.
The “challenge” is to watch 31 horror movies between October 1 and sunrise on Nov 1. An even more fun way to approach it is to make at least half of your list first-timers. I like to differentiate between the two on my lists with black titles for re-watches and red titles for first-timers. You can do whatever you want!
Post your list as you go! Everyone wants to see what each other is watching.
A few guidelines to this project / challenge that nobody really cares if you follow:
1. Basically anything you want can count as a “movie,” who cares
2. You can decide what the definition of "horror” is for yourself
3. Watch whatever tf you want, I don't care if you stick with the program or not
4. Please PM me for an invite to the Drive. I will not be posting the link publicly.
Previous Challenges - for movie ideas, nostalgia, and posterity
The Horror Movie Club: 31 Nights of Halloween (2018)
The Horror Movie Club II: Revenge of the Castle Freak (2019)
The Horror Movie Club III: Return of the Living Boarders (2020)
The Horror Movie Club IV: The Board That Dripped Blood (2021)
The Horror Movie Club V: Night of the Living Thread (2022)
The Horror Movie Club VI: Board to Death (2023)
We’ll get ourselves primed for the month with a week of lighter content, to get the blood flowing…
COUNTDOWN TO OCTOBER: EAT MY SHORTS, AGAIN!
Links to the following shorts will hit the thread / box on September 24th, to give us a week to count down to the beginning of the month:
The Boogeyman (1982; Jeff Schiro)
A man tries to explain to his psychiatrist that the Boogeyman is real and has been killing his children. (Based on the short story by Stephen King)
The Lawnmower Man (1987; James Gonis)
Harold hires "Pastoral Greenery and Outdoor Services Inc." to cut his lawn. He later spies on the serviceman, discovering something unique about the service. (Based on the short story by Stephen King)
Excision (2008; Richard Bates, Jr.)
A neglected teen takes refuge in the dreams that used to haunt her and orchestrates a shocking plan to prove her worth to her disapproving parents.
Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared (2011; Becky Sloan, Joseph Pelling)
A disturbing puppet short exploring the concept of creativity.
T is for Toilet (2011; Lee Hardcastle)
A little boy is thrown into a disturbing nightmare when he is forced to use the toilet.
Backrooms (2022; Kane Parsons)
A short horror film about liminal spaces.
Slut (2014; Chloe Okuno)
Maddy is 16 years old, living alone with her sick grandmother in Nowheresville, Texas. Life at home is lonely and depressing, so, like everyone else within a 20 mile radius, Maddy spends her free time at the only place with half a pulse - the local roller rink.
Zepo (2014; Cesar Diaz Melendez)
Time ago, a winter morning, a little girl went out looking for firewood, she went away from home and came across a blood trail… she followed it.
--click to expand the full marathon program--
Tuesday, October 1st: Pet Sematary (1989; Mary Lambert)
Dr. Louis Creed’s family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep in the woods brings the dead back to life – with “minor” problems.
Available in the box
Wednesday, October 2nd: Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988; Tony Randel)
Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family - Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain.
Available on Prime / Tubi / Pluto
Thursday, October 3rd: The Phantom of the Opera (1925; Rupert Julian)
A grotesquely disfigured composer known as “The Phantom” haunts Paris’ opera house, where he’s secretly grooming Christine Daae to be an opera diva.
Available on Tubi / Pluto / the public domain
Friday, October 4th: Body Melt (1993; Philip Brothy)
Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new ‘Body Drug’ that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin, etc.) and painful death.
Available on Tubi
Saturday, October 5th: Carrie (1976; Brian De Palma)
Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them. Co-starring board darling John Travolta.
Available in the box
Sunday, October 6th: 28 Weeks Later (2007; Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)
The inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the isles, convinced the danger has come and gone.
Available on Hulu / in the box
Monday, October 7th: Black Roses (1988; John Frasno)
Teens in a small conservative town are turned into evil demons thanks to the music of the titular heavy metal band.
Available on Tubi
Tuesday, October 8th: The Third Saturday in October: Part V (2022; Jay Burleson)
Unstoppable killer Jakkariah “Jack” Harding is back in town after seven years as he stalks and kills at random before chancing upon a football watch party.
Available on Shudder / Plex
Wednesday, October 9th: Rabid Grannies (1988; Emmanuel Kervyn)
A large family gathers in the country side for their two Grannies birthday. It’s too bad one of the gifts happens to be from their devil-worshipping nephew, and upon opening it, the two loveable grannies turn into rabid, flesh-eating monsters.
Available on Shudder / Tubi
Thursday, October 10th: Saw II (2005; Darren Lynn Bousman)
When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw’s hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his plan.
Available on Max / in the box
Friday, October 11th: In a Violent Nature (2024; Chris Nash)
The enigmatic resurrection, rampage, and retribution of an undead monster in a remote wilderness unleashes an iconic new killer after a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower that entombed its rotting corpse.
Available in the box
Saturday, October 12th: Curtains (1983; Richard Ciupka)
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
Available on Prime / Peacock / Tubi
Sunday, October 13th: Cemetery Man (1994; Michele Soavi)
A cemetery man has the unusual problem of the dead rising from the grave. Himself and his assistant must end these creatures’ lives again after they are reborn. Everything is going well until “She” comes along and stirs things up a bit.
Available on Shudder / Tubi / Pluto
Monday, October 14th: Anaconda (1997; Luis Llosa)
A “National Geographic” film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world’s largest - and deadliest - snake.
Available on Max / in the box
Tuesday, October 15th: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988; Dwight H. Little)
The apparently comatose Michael Myers is being transferred from one hospital to another, but he wakes up when the ambulance crew talk about his surviving niece, Jamie. After slaughtering his attendants, Myers sets out to find his one living relative who is, fortunately, being cared for by a kind and resourceful foster sister named Rachel. Meanwhile, the ever-cautious Dr. Loomis remains on the killer’s path.
Available on Shudder / in the box
Wednesday, October 16th: Queen of the Damned (2002; Michael Rymer)
Lestat de Lioncourt is awakened from his slumber. Bored with his existence, he has now become this generation’s new Rock God. While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha, the Queen of the Vampires and the Dammed. He wants immortal fame, his fellow vampires want him eternally dead for his betrayal, and the Queen wants him for her King.
Available in the box
Thursday, October 17th: Late Night with the Devil (2023; Cameron & Colin Cairnes)
A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms.
Available on Shudder / in the box
Friday, October 18th: Censor (2021; Prano Bailey-Bond)
Film censor Enid takes pride in her meticulous work, guarding unsuspecting audiences from the deleterious effects of watching the gore-filled decapitations and eye gougings she pores over. When Enid is assigned to review a disturbing film, she begins to unravel how the eerie work might be tied to her past.
Available on Hulu / Kanopy / in the box
Saturday, October 19th: Fright Night (1985; Tom Holland)
Nobody believes teenager Charley Brewster when he discovers that his suave new neighbor, Jerry Dandrige, is a vampire.
Available on Max / in the box
Sunday, October 20th: Carnival of Souls (1962; Herk Harvey)
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man.
Available on Prime / Tubi / Criterion Channel
Monday, October 21st: Scarecrows (1988; William Wesley)
Five men heist the Camp Pendleton payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned farm surrounded by strange scarecrows.
Available on YouTube
Tuesday, October 22nd: Wendigo (2001; Larry Fessenden)
A family from the city decide to spend a weekend away at a friend’s country farmhouse. But a fluke accident sets off a chain of events that alters their lives forever and conjures up the ferocious spirit of the Wendigo.
Available on Shudder / Tubi
Wednesday, October 23rd: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987; Chuck Russell)
Nancy’s all grown up; she’s put her frightening nightmares behind her and is helping teens cope with their dreams. Too bad Freddy’s decided to herald his return by invading the kids’ dreams and scaring them into committing suicide.
Available in the box
Thursday, October 24th: Shocker (1989; Wes Craven)
About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker transforms into a terrifying energy source. Only young athlete Jonathan Parker, with an uncanny connection to him through bizarre dreams, can fight the powerful demon.
Available on Shudder / Peacock / in the box
Friday, October 25th: The Guardian (1990; William Friedkin)
Phil and Kate select the winsome young Camilla as a live-in nanny for their newborn child, but the seemingly lovely Camilla is not what she appears to be.
Available on YouTube
Saturday, October 26th: The Gruesome Twosome (1967; Herschell Gordon Lewis)
An elderly woman has her son kill and scalp various young women to use their hair for her wig shop. A persistent coed tries to link various killings on a local Florida college campus to them.
Available in the box
Sunday, October 27th: The Omen (1976; Richard Donner)
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. What he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
Available on Hulu / in the box
Monday, October 28th: Mirage (1990; Bill Crain)
A smiling, sadistic and seemingly demonic young killer in black, who drives a black pick up truck, is hunting three young couples who came to the desert to drink, party and have sex.
Available on YouTube
Tuesday October 29th: Nosferatu (1922; F.W. Murnau)
Vampire Count Orlok is interested in a new residence and in his real estate agent’s young wife.
Available on Tubi / Pluto / the public domain
Wednesday, October 30th: The Beyond (1981; Lucio Fulci)
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural “accidents”, she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
Available on Peacock / Tubi / Pluto
Thursday, October 31st: Pumpkinhead (1988; Stan Winston)
After a tragic accident, a man conjures up a towering, vengeful demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy a group of unsuspecting teenagers.
Available in the box
www.netflix.com/browse/genre/8711
www.max.com/collections/horror
www.amazon.com/gp/video/genre/horror
www.hulu.com/hub/horror-movies
www.peacocktv.com/collections/horror-movies
www.criterionchannel.com/horror
www.paramountplus.com/movies/horror/
