It's baaaaaaaack!!
My favorite time and challenge of the year has returned, and boy do I have myself cut out for some WILD first-time experiences!
This will be my third year participating in the challenge, and I couldn't be more excited to share it with you all! I've loaded this list up with tons of classics and beloved Letterboxd favorites I've been meaning to get to, as well as some hidden gems that I've yet to see. I've also been reading a ton of Stephen King this past year, so expect to see a ton of adaptations and projects with his name attached!
Per usual, I'm following the guidelines that Cinemonster creates every year, AND I'm going to attempt to…
It's baaaaaaaack!!
My favorite time and challenge of the year has returned, and boy do I have myself cut out for some WILD first-time experiences!
This will be my third year participating in the challenge, and I couldn't be more excited to share it with you all! I've loaded this list up with tons of classics and beloved Letterboxd favorites I've been meaning to get to, as well as some hidden gems that I've yet to see. I've also been reading a ton of Stephen King this past year, so expect to see a ton of adaptations and projects with his name attached!
Per usual, I'm following the guidelines that Cinemonster creates every year, AND I'm going to attempt to complete every category instead of sticking to the standard 31 films. I haven't settled on a franchise to go through this year, which I normally like to add to each yearly list, and depending on the time I have, I may skip out on that challenge for myself. However, if I do add one, it will likely be one of the franchises I already have started on this list (i.e., The Exorcist, Hannibal, Phantasm, etc.).
Stoked to see what everyone else is watching this year, and hope you all have the spookiest season! 🏺👻
6 countries (other than Italy or the US):
• Witchhammer (Czechoslovakia)
• Funny Games (Austria)
• The Vanishing (Netherlands)
• Thesis (Spain)
• Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Japan)
• The Third Part of the Night (Poland)
9 decades:
• The Spiral Staircase (40s)
• The Incredible Shrinking Man (50s)
• Village of the Damned (60s)
• Who Can Kill a Child? (70s)
• Creepshow (80s)
• The Exorcist III (90s)
• The Others (00s)
• Helter Skelter (10s)
• The Boogeyman (20s)
5 Zombie Films:
• The Beyond
• Dead of Night
• Phantasm
• Re-Animator
• [REC]
3 cult or conspiracy horror films:
• The Tenant
• Seconds
• The Night Flier
A film from a Black director with a Black lead:
• Blacula
A film from a Mexican or Central American director:
• Poison for the Fairies
A Canadian film:
• Ginger Snaps
A film from a former Soviet state (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan):
• November
The most popular film from the 1940s that I haven't seen and can access:
• Wolf Man
2 Post-apocalyptic horror films:
• The Last Man on Earth
• The Mist
A Film with dreams or a dream as part of the plot:
• The Hourglass Sanatorium
A film where the animals are pissed at us:
• Roar
A Silent film:
• Faust
4 films based on Novels:
• The Haunting
• Red Dragon
• Hannibal
• The Invisible Man
A film from THIS list that I haven't seen:
• Sleepaway Camp
A film written by Ernesto Gastaldi:
• The Whip and the Body
A film from 1932
• Island of Lost Souls
Must Watch:
• The Wizard of Oz ('39)
A Tobe Hooper Film
• The Mangler
Personal Mandatory Yearly Viewing:
• The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad
Additional Films:
• Cat's Eye
• Graveyard Shift
• 1408
• It (1990)
• It (2017)
• It Chapter Two
• In the Tall Grass
• The Toxic Avenger Unrated (2025)
• Labyrinth
• Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein
• Bring Her Back
• Bugonia
• Black Phone 2
