As before I'm going to aim for a film from every decade since the 1910s. And I don't enjoy the "worst" category so I'll skip it, like I do every year, but this time on purpose and in advance. I'm also going to try to watch as many of the short films at the end as "trailers" before longer, thematically related films. All first-time watches for me, and I'm starting early this year, on September 10th, to make this more enjoyable.
In making this list—and stacking it with 16 female directors—I realized a lot of women have made cannibal horror movies, and I'm developing a pet theory about it.
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 films:
✘ 10/6 countries…
As before I'm going to aim for a film from every decade since the 1910s. And I don't enjoy the "worst" category so I'll skip it, like I do every year, but this time on purpose and in advance. I'm also going to try to watch as many of the short films at the end as "trailers" before longer, thematically related films. All first-time watches for me, and I'm starting early this year, on September 10th, to make this more enjoyable.
In making this list—and stacking it with 16 female directors—I realized a lot of women have made cannibal horror movies, and I'm developing a pet theory about it.
QUICK EASY RULES:
There must be 31 films:
✘ 10/6 countries (UK, USA, Austria, South Korea, Czech Republic, Italy, Canada, Australia, France, Mexico | Brazil)
✘ 10/8 decades (10s, 30s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s)
✘ 2/2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster related films (Wolf's Hole, Clearcut)
✘ 1 film with Robert Englund (Dead & Buried)
✘ 3/1 something is underground film (Dead & Buried, Tales from the Crypt, Lair of the White Worm)
✘ 4/3 Satan/Devil centered films (Messiah of Evil, The Witches of Eastwick, The Devils, Saint Maud)
✘ 1 Amicus film (Tales from the Crypt)
✘ 2 LGBTQ+ connected film (Lyle, The Mafu Cage)
○ 4/5 Films from De Palma, Wes Craven, Ken Russell, Hitchcock and/or Moorehead & Benson. (Frenzy, Gothic, The Devils, Lair of the White Worm | Altered States)
✘ 2 Peter Cushing films (Dracula, Tales from the Crypt)
✘ 2/1 film based on a work of or invoking the name Bram Stoker (Dracula, The Lair of the White Worm)
✘ 2/1 film based on a Clive Barker story (Hellraiser, Candyman)
✘ 1 film that was released the year that you turned 10 (Trouble Every Day)
✘ 1 Mario Bava film (Blood and Black Lace)
✘ 1 film with an 'x' in the title (The Exorcist)
✘ And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (Lifeforce)
Possible double features / trailers:
✘ Blood and Black Lace / Messiah of Evil (???)
○ Wolf's Hole / The Lodge (snow)
○ Trouble Every Day / In My Skin (cannibalism)
✘ Dracula / Tales from the Crypt (hammy horror)
○ The Devils / Saint Maud (Catholicism)
○ Rebecca / Frenzy (Hitchcock)
○ Rebecca / Gothic (gothic)
○ Gothic / Lair of the White Worm (Ken Russell)
○ Fry Day / Medusa (killers)
○ Visitation / The Hourglass Sanatorium (dreams)
○ Monster / Lyle (mothers)
○ Kitchen Sink / Flux Gourmet (food)
○ Witch's Cradle / Salomé (dance)
○ Suburbs of Eden / The Mafu Cage (containment)
