100 Horror Movies in 92 Days - A Look Back at the Highlights
Season 06 of Eldritch Girl is a Horror Film focused season! I've been doing the #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days challenge for 4 years now, but this time I want to share my challenge progress on the podcast.
Here's my look back at the last 4 years, with a few Top 10 lists (plus runners up). I'm looking forward to starting this season but the episodes may be a challenge in themselves to get up! We'll see how often I can post, as all the films will be new to me, and I can't get a head start to record them!
For now, enjoy my look back at the 467 films I've watched over the last 4 years specifically for the challenge count.
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Thank you. I just want to let you know that we
are starting a new season soon. That is going
to be based on the challenge 100 Horror Movies
in 92 Days. I may have some bonus episodes where
I talk about fiction in book form as well. But
by and large, this is going to be a film season.
So I hope you enjoy it. We're going to kick off
with... my sort of look back on the four years
that i've been doing the 100 horror movies in
92 days challenge uh four years 467 films which
is quite an achievement i think i've been doing
it for a few years now obviously uh four and
i've been really enjoying it so i'm definitely
going to do it this year but this year is the
first year that i'm going to do it with a podcast
accompaniment The challenge itself was started
by gastro horror aficionado Sarah Stubbs. You
can find her on Letterboxd at Spooky Sarah Says.
And the rules are to watch 100 new to you feature
films labelled as horror on either Letterboxd
or IMDb. And you can waive that rule a little
bit if you think a film should be classed as
horror but is not classed as horror. For example,
I counted Crash by David Cronenberg as a horror
film in one of my challenges. I think I have
a fairly good argument as to why it should be
horror, but on IMDb it's classed as psychological
drama or a thriller, and it's a thriller and
drama on Letterboxd, but not horror. So technically
it shouldn't count under the rules of the challenge,
but I think it should because it does have the
affect of horror. And as things progress, things
get progressively horrifying. And there is the
sort of Cronenbergian body horror fascination
as well. So I think there's a lot of things there
that should make it count as psychological horror
as well or erotic horror as well. So that's one
example. Documentaries on horror are also allowed,
as are horror anthology films. The challenge
begins on the 1st of August and ends on Halloween,
the 31st of October. Hence the name of the challenge,
100 horror films in 92 days. So the idea is that
you obviously try and get to 100 or watch basically
as many as you can. You can go over 100 as well.
And I've discovered so many films as a result
of this challenge, but I'm aware of watching
quite a lot. I don't rate very highly or don't
really enjoy just to get my count up. So as a
result of that, I've started being more intentional
with my lists and trying to save up films to
watch for the challenge that I think I'm going
to really like. So the most unexpected find,
because I often go in cold to a lot of these,
was Fangs 1981, which is an Egyptian remake of
the Rocky Horror Picture Show. but instead of
rampaging queers in New England somewhere, it's
vampires in Egypt, led by Count Dracula, and
the film takes a bite out of Egyptian capitalism.
The music is mostly the same, but the lyrics
are changed to reflect the plot changes, and
obviously it's in Arabic. the funniest horror
film I think I've seen is Boys from County Hell
2020 which is an Irish horror film and again
vampire themed had me screaming with laughter
every five minutes so that takes the cake here
a very close second is a single line from Pat
Higgins film called KillerKiller which was delivered
just as I was drinking a glass of water and it
was it was one of those lines that you just weren't
expecting um to happen and it i just couldn't
swallow because i needed to laugh and i couldn't
spit the water out because i was watching on
my laptop which was right in front of me so i
literally nearly drowned in my own living room
yeah my all -time favorite comfort film is one
that i found as a result of this challenge it
is of course the torture chamber of dr sadism
I love everything about it, from the ridiculous
plot to the wholly inappropriate 1960s lounge
jazz soundtrack. Which kind of goes... And does
that on repeat as a riff while you're going through
this really desolate moorland on the way to a
really spooky castle. loved it and i love that
the two side characters that i shipped got together
at the end how bonkers the castle situation is
i love how sir christopher lee really tries to
bring gravitas to the role of count regular as
opposed to count dracula and just how fun it
is in general it's just got so many great moments
the original german title is the pit in the pendulum
which um makes so much more sense that's kind
of because there is in fact a pendulum and like
you know i think it was meant to be something
like that but they just went wild with it anyway
yeah so that's my favorite comfort film that's
come out of this challenge um the scariest film
that i've seen is terrified which is an Argentinian
film that really freaked me out the first time
I watched it. Like, I can't tell you how freaked
out I was. It really stuck with me. I was scared
to look under my bed. Oh, my God. Yeah. So I'm
going to go with that one. And it stood up to
a second watch as well. I haven't seen a film
that makes me want to sleep with the lights on
for a very long time. And that one definitely
did that. The most surreal film. like the weirdest
one uh the strange color of my body's tears which
is a belgian film i think it's actually surrealist
so that would explain that uh i'm gonna go with
that one and i've got a list of the weirdest
films that i'm gonna give you in a minute those
are kind of like the top ones for me the top
10 weirdest films like with a capital w or like
the most experimental films that I've seen out
of the 467 films that I've logged would be as
follows Enys Men oh my god what was that that
is so experimental and I know it's not for everybody
I did not hate it I cannot say that I liked it
I felt like I was watching like a kaleidoscope
fever dream experience, you know, like it was
a very interesting thing to watch, like it was
an interesting experience to have. And I think
it's much more of an experience rather than a
film. If you've seen it, let me know what you
think. I haven't seen it again. It's not one
that I would rewatch, I think. I mean, I might
rewatch it out of curiosity and think, well,
you know, will I get something out of it the
second time that I didn't get the first time?
If you have rewatched it, is that your experience?
I'd like to know. The Strange Colour of Your
Body's Tears, 100 % surreal, weird, mystery,
horror, drama, not sure what that is. so much
going on there's so much symbolism there's such
a lot of stuff to do with colour as well I was
picking up on but I don't have a film studies
background and I don't know anything about Belgian
cinema and I don't know anything about surrealism
so I was like there's stuff here that if I was
better versed I would be able to pick up what
this is or what they're doing but I can't and
so I think Parts of that film really were, I
don't know, like locked away for me in a way.
I don't know, but I appreciated it. I think I
did like that one. Luz, The Flower of Evil. I
don't actually know how to pronounce it. L -U
-Z is the original title. So like Luz, The Flower
of Evil is the English title. That one. was a
very weird um i think it is colombian yeah it's
colombian so this is the first i think colombian
film that i've ever watched i don't know if it
was a very good introduction to colombian filmmaking
it's very odd again it's like a kind of fever
dream compilation type thing where you've got
this isolated community in the mountains led
by a preacher known as el senor um he has a presumed
new messiah which is a small boy who is blonde
like an aryan child i guess um and he has him
locked up in a pen um and his daughter falls
in love with somebody she gets pregnant there
is a graphic miscarriage birth still birth scene
i can't remember it but it was really visceral
like the whole thing there's a whole lot of there's
a whole lot of like body horror and visceral
stuff there's like um so many shots of the gorgeous
scenery contrasted with like this violent brutal
human reality um yeah it's it's it's a i don't
know what do people think of that one that that
stuck with me um there's an argentinian film
called murder me monster which is another really
weird one um that one i did not like as much
that one fell really flat for me um again if
you liked it let me know let me know why that
one has the really weird genitalia monster in
it not to spoil it for anyone but that is the
monster of the title and i like i i don't know
i don't know how i feel about that honestly um
number five i would say is skinamarink that
was also incredibly weird I know that it's not
for everybody. I know a lot of people who just
didn't like it, thought it was really boring,
thought nothing happened. I also know people
who thought it was the scariest film they've
ever seen. I was somewhere in the middle. I really
didn't like it because it made me feel really
uncomfortable, which is what it was supposed
to do. It's not a film that I would rewatch.
I think it is a good film, like objectively a
good film, in that it achieved what it was set
out to do for me. um at least anyway um yeah
i don't know that was definitely definitely one
of the weirdest the outwaters again i know people
hate this one i know people who really like it
the outwaters for me is because it's so chaotic
towards the end and so like weird and fucked
up like it's the upper limit of what i can cope
with in terms of body horror um not because it's
so bad or so like gory or but because of the
chaos that comes with it and i don't like chaos
at all and it's yeah like there's like castration
and all sorts of shit and i'm like oh my god
no um and it also messes with your sense of time
and warps your reality as well when you're watching
it like you you're not sure um you know the characters
are not sure what's real they're not sure what
they're seeing they're not sure if they can see
themselves they're not sure if they're stuck
in like a is it like a time warp or something
i have no idea like it's just very you know that
that kind of the sense of the desert that's warping
your sense of reality and space and time um yeah
That one is very, very odd. Dr. Caligari 1989,
so not the German Expressionist one, and it's
nothing to do with the German Expressionist one
really, was definitely weird. It's not for me
at all. I didn't like it. It's, I don't know
what it is. It's this very kind of sexed up American
take. on you know sort of like a feminist asylum
type thing but i it's very 1980s very weird it's
been so long since i've seen it as well now like
a good few years that i can't even remember what
it was supposed to be doing um and i'm not sure
if it achieved that i'm not sure what it was
doing um maybe you love it maybe it's like you're
seminal film i don't know like let me know what
you think of that one for sure because i'd like
to know other perspectives on films that i've
seen men is number eight and again like that's
that goes very surreal at the end and it's sort
of you know men begetting men who are all the
same and yeah i get it mate thanks um i i liked
it i didn't mind it i wouldn't necessarily re
-watch it again like i think it's just one of
those films that i appreciated but um yeah definitely
on my list of the top 10 weirdest films that
i've seen number nine i would definitely re -watch
the unburied another argentinian film um i want
to re -watch this just to make to be like what
on earth did I see like the first time around
like I get it I get the story I get that you're
not supposed to know what's going on I get that
there are monsters or potential monsters or like
fucked up human hybrid creatures from whatever
they're doing in this kind of cellar situation
yeah fine like i get that and i i really liked
it as a concept i thought it was so messed up
i really enjoyed the messed up dynamics of it
um yeah it was just something that i appreciated
as a film yeah i would watch that one again um
and number 10 all you need is death which is
another irish horror folk horror this one focuses
on folk music again that gets very very weird
um I know that that doesn't work for a lot of
people in terms of the gender stuff that happens
and um kind of gender fluidity of I don't know
like yeah there was I don't want to give anything
away um but like yeah like I think I see what
was going on I think I get uh the transformation
kind of side of it it's quite i thought it was
quite a good film um it's really well made it's
very well acted there are bits that i thought
could be fleshed out um but overall i think this
is one that i would re -watch but again definitely
up there on my top 10 weirdest films that i've
ever seen which is a compliment runners up of
my top 10 include shepherd um asrael the with
um samara weaving A Wounded Thorn. I really don't
like head trauma so that one was again very close
to my limit of what I can watch. A German film
called Hotel which is very weird, very bleak,
very question mark, question mark, question mark.
You're not really sure what's going on. Very
ambiguous. Hollow is a British indie film from
2011. directed by michael axelgaard so that's
kind of like there's a weird tree um and an old
monastery in a remote village that has a dark
spirit that wills young couples to kill themselves
um and then four friends go on holiday and they
explore the local folklore and then things happen
that's Yeah, that's very odd, but it's not quite
top ten odd. Hargazusa is another runner -up.
Very, very, very, very, very, very bleak. Rampo
Noir, that was also, I mean, as you can imagine,
just very weird. But again, not top ten weird
exactly. The Icelandic film Rift. is also very
weird i would recommend that one there's a lot
of um flashbacks and tiny whiny stuff and um
yeah some sort of psychological drama and all
sorts suspiria i think as well the original and
the remake those are both quite weird but not
top 10 weird um and older gods which again is
an indie film set in wales this time and that
is you know uh well A guy who uncovers a cult
that is trying to raise Lovecraftian gods or
elder gods. That is also incredibly weird. There's
some really nice imagery in that and I've seen
it a couple of times. So those are my runners
up. Top ten most depressing films or the most
upsetting films that I've seen. Because I have
made some poor choices for my emotional state
while watching new to me films completely cold.
Not exactly the best idea sometimes. Some of
these were technically great films but they depressed
the fuck out of me. Some just really upset me.
Some did both. Some of these are on the list
because they have... I would give them trigger
warnings for rape, graphic miscarriage, stillbirth
or child abuse including CSA. Some are on the
list for being the upper limit of my body horror
that I can cope with. Or just for being really
gnarly in ways that I can't really explain. And
some just make me really sad. So the top ten
ones. Gwen. Oh my god. Set in North Wales in
Welsh. About the destruction of a traditional
way of life in a rural community. In the Industrial
Revolution. And kind of patriarchy triumphing
over matriarchy. Which is the... sort of more
traditional way of living in wales i guess um
and it's all about class and capitalism and ownership
over responsibility um and it just made me so
sad that has a trigger warning for rape as well
the outwaters is on there because the body horror
thing and the chaotic um people losing their
minds part the end hagazzusa at number three
the bleakest shit i've ever seen she also gets
raped so trigger warning for that um there's
just so much of that going on and like all the
betrayal and i don't know just just living in
the swiss alps just or austrian alps or wherever
she is just seems really grim the devil's bath
oh my god that is literally just a film about
depression and at the end like i was just like
hoping that she would die like it's like the
worst thing that could happen to this woman is
is that somebody goes oh no you're okay like
we'll just we'll let you live um yeah but um
just that was just so incredibly sad Number five,
Psalm 21. That one's got a trigger warning for
CSA. Number six, Silent House. Also trigger warning
for CSA. Number seven, Sennentuntschi. Again, trigger
warning for rape. Just again, very, very bleak,
very alpine. Number eight, Possum. Again, trigger
warning for child sexual abuse. Number nine,
Tigers Are Not Afraid. Oh my god, that is heartbreaking.
I love that film, but I can't watch it very often.
It's a Mexican film. It is really heart -wrenching.
And number ten, Lutz, Flower of Evil, which I've
mentioned above. Runners -up include Dan Gildark's
2010 Cthulhu, which is like a gay... uh protagonist
again trigger warning for rape it's also a tragedy
it's also just again quite grim um carmilla pretty
much any version of carmilla that i've seen to
be honest because none of them are particularly
well but in this case i'm talking about emily
harris's 2019 version of carmilla where the vampire
thing is implied it is not explicit so when the
ending comes which is the same as the ending
of the of the le fanu story um it's like ah okay
oh right yeah okay that we're just yeah all right
so that's it's it's just very very bleak halloween
kills a very very bleak ending um that one just
made me go oh you know smile again that's a one
about trauma and kind of the triumph of trauma
i know a lot of people think that that's a very
important thing and i agree but also i literally
lost a friend to that film so no off eden lake
um again that that's you know a bunch of let's
just demonize the working class shall we and
sure we can do that but I didn't like the way
the director was like oh you know if we made
it public school boys it wouldn't be scary like
yes it fucking would it would be just as scary
if it was public school boys and it might even
be worse because they're also in a position of
relative power over the protagonists in terms
of who their parents are especially if they're
moneyed whereas in Eden Lake the protagonists
are beset by lower class kids so they're middle
class these kids are working class and so are
their families and it's like oh yeah i don't
know that man um the medium oh that was sad i
would watch the medium again that's a thai film
i think and it was just really good so that's
a kind of thai story about shamanism um and about
possession but it's also just um a really interesting
story and exploration of faith and traditional
faith in the modern world and the loss of faith
and it's just i found it very very moving rita
that was incredibly sad i would watch that again
i don't think i would watch it soon but I would
definitely re -watch it at some point Dearest
Sister was messed up that's from Laos that one
yeah I would not watch that again soon but I
thought it was a really good film My Heart Can't
Beat Unless You Tell It Too which is a US made
film that's kind of a vampirism one and messed
up families and everything again that's not one
i would re -watch in a hurry but it is one that
i enjoyed and things heard and seen which has
amanda seyfried in it and that one is also about
eating disorders and patriarchy and unhappy marriages
and that one again was a really good film competent
film really well made film but it's not a film
that i would re -watch um The 10 scariest films
that I've seen or the creepiest ones that I've
seen. Yeah, it's not often that I watch films
that really freak me out. But these top 10 definitely
made me feel some aspect or affect of horror.
Like they, you know, maybe frightened or feel
sick or like, yeah, just really messed with my
head in some way. um terrified atarados argentinian
film that's my top one terrifier because of the
gore and like the um art the clown and that i
haven't watched the others i thought the first
one was fine um but it's not a franchise i'm
particularly interested in i don't like that
in terms of horror i'm not interested in torture
porn I know what it's trying to say. I understand
things like hostile and the kind of capitalism
critique and all of that kind of stuff. I get
that. But it's just not for me to watch. I don't
find it an enjoyable experience. If I don't find
it an enjoyable experience, I'm not going to
watch it. The Outwaters, I will never watch that
again. I did not find that an enjoyable experience.
But it's on my top ten. skinamarink again
i would not re -watch that but that definitely
did what it was meant to do i think for me smile
that did freak me out a bit and i wouldn't watch
it again but again that messed one of my friends
up really badly so he stopped speaking to me
um because he decided oh well you there we go
trauma always wins therefore i don't have to
do anything about it um so what's the point what's
the point of me even trying and i was like i
don't think that's that's really something to
take away from the film but you know that's what
he took away and then he stopped talking to me
so um yeah okay fuck that film i guess personally
no the collector um i really like the collector
franchise i love the second one i think the best
the collection um but the collector because of
all the traps and various things that's kind
of the upper limit of what i can cope with some
of the kills are really funny some are really
good um i did not like the cat um incident and
i found but it was funny when the cat went through
the window but i didn't like the torture of the
cat um but yeah there was you know other bits
and pieces that just got me about that one so
that's number six Number seven is a Spanish made
film that's set in Albania called The Invocation
of Enver Simaku. That's an odd one. That did
freak me out a bit actually in my first watch
of it. And I have rewatched it since then and
I don't think it's as scary the second time around
or as creepy the second time around because you
know what's coming. But it is an interesting
film. um but I don't know anything about what
it's talking about I don't know anything about
Albanian history really um so I don't know I
just I found it really interesting but I didn't
I think there are bits of it that I just didn't
get um and maybe if I did know more about the
history and know more about um some of the folklore
and some of the stuff they're talking about that
would have been a different experience to me
um Men is number eight. Again, I think that's
both weird and also very, very freaky. There
were bits of it that really freaked me out. Because
men on their own are just creepy. Just a town
full of really creepy men. Oh my god. Incantation.
Taiwanese film. Absolutely loved that one. That
really scared me. There were bits of it that
really freaked me out. I loved it. I loved the
reveal. I just loved everything about it. And
number 10 is The Ugly Stepsister, which again,
upper limit of body tolerance. I hate parasites
with an absolute passion. And the fact that you
would willingly ingest one to be thin made me
so ill. And then what it did and like how she...
got rid of it then i was like nearly sick
that was horrendous so that's definitely top
10 of the like this the ones that freaked me
out the most runners up include the amazing under
the shadow which i really enjoyed um set during
the iran iraq war Dabbe 4: the possession which
is a turkish horror really like that one that
first watch was great um and it stands up to
re -watches as well talk to me great australian
film that creeped me out in many many ways queen
of black magic indonesian film fucking centipedes
everywhere absolutely the fuck not grave torture
another indonesian film there are moments that
i was like oh my god no um like you know what's
gonna happen with certain scenes because you
know there's this build -up and you're like oh
no and then it happens And you're like, ah, it's
as bad as I feared. Yeah, the medium. Again,
there were bits of that that really, really got
me. But it's not top ten. And oddity. Loved oddity.
My first watch, I was like, oh, my God, this
is so tense and so creepy. And then, you know,
you get into it and it stands up to rewatches.
You know, I don't find it as creepy the second
time, I guess, because I knew it was coming,
but it was just a really enjoyable film. So I've
done it for four years and I've tried to pick
10 films, my favourite 10 for various reasons
from 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. I can't pick
my favourite from all of those years because.
That's just way too hard, but I'll give you them
in order of release. So from the 100 films that
I watched to the 2022 challenge, my top 10 films,
I think, are Suspiria, 1977. I can't believe
that I hadn't seen that until 2022. That's mental.
Split Second, 1992, horror sci -fi. Again, where
have I been? Like, under a rock? starship troopers
1997 how have i not seen that until 2022 the
collection 2012 that was my first time um the
midnight man 2016 that's one with robert englund
really like that one actually that was quite
fun like i just had fun with it Errementari the
blacksmith and the devil 2017 that one's a basque
film love that so good I've re -watched that
multiple times since The Challenge. One Must
Fall, 2018. I've really enjoyed that. Loved the
premise. Yeah, just loved the main character
so much. I thought that was such a great film.
I had a really good time with that. Tumbbad,
2018. Tumbbad is an Indian film that is kind
of Indian Gothic Hindu fantasy, I guess. really
enjoyable um the binding which is an italian
ghost story 2020 it's kind of like a folk horror
as well i like the vibes of it i like the aesthetic
of it it's a very kind of predictable gothic
plot i think it borrows quite a lot well kind
of it's influenced by italian gothics of the
1960s and 70s but i love those so that's fine
i really enjoyed it and candyman 2021 and those
are my top 10 from that challenge my runners
up from that challenge would be the others i
can't believe i haven't seen the others before
but that was my first watch um karl which is
an indian film another one um it's about like
a killer tiger so good um the collector so the
first collector film the collection is the one
i put in my top 10. get duked that was so funny
um the kind of uh posh shows killing working
class kids and working class kids evading them
while doing their Duke of Edinburgh award and
um Susie Izzard is in it credited as Eddie Izzard
and playing the lord of the manor um I thought
that was it was just it was just great the craft
I've never seen The Craft before. That is in
my runners up because I don't have the nostalgia
around it. I think it's different when you're
in the UK and you're an adult and you're watching
a film that's obviously like made for American
teens. You know, like I'm never going to have
that 90s experience of whenever it came out first.
So, yeah, I liked it a lot. It's in my runners
up. Scanners. I can't believe I haven't seen
that one. David Cronenberg. That's my runners
up. Killer killer indie film. Pat Higgins. If
you don't know who Pat Higgins is. He makes a
lot of no budget. Micro budget. Indie films.
And they are. In various ways. And for various
reasons. Absolutely incredible. So I would recommend
that one. From the Dark, which is another Irish
vampire one. Love that. Things Heard and Seen.
That was a great film. I won't be watching it
again in a hurry, but it was technically a very
great film. And Mirror Mirror, which is not the
Snow White one. Mirror Mirror is a demon trapped
in a mirror. and a girl kind of like a teen girl
has this antique mirror and then you know there's
a raven involved and it's just very atmospheric
there's a there's a second one second one's not
so good but um yeah no i like that one top 10
from 2023 uh that was the year that i discovered
my comfort film the torture chamber of dr sadism
1967 uh so i'll be forever grateful for 2023
for that The Church, 1989. Amazing Italian film.
Kind of apocalyptic, kind of weird fiction, Lovecraftian
-esque, but also Catholic. Like, yeah, just highly
enjoyable. Cthulhu, that was the Dan Gildark
film, 2007. Gay tragedy, but also the shadow
over Innsmouth. It's called Cthulhu. Because
I think Cthulhu is the most famous part of the
mythos. And the cult is the cult of Cthulhu in
this film. But it's the shadow over Innsmouth
is what the story actually is. So the director
has it up on his YouTube channel. So you can
just watch it for free. I'd recommend doing that.
It's worth a watch. Trigger warnings abound for
that one. And as I say, it's a tragedy. Yeah,
it goes very Carmilla, I guess. But yeah, it's...
Yeah, no, I like that one. I think it's one of
the better Lovecraftian adaptations I've seen.
Under the Shadow definitely makes it onto the
top ten of 2023. That was great. Again, sort
of an unexploded bomb goes through an apartment
building. During the Iran -Iraq war. And yeah.
The sort of idea of. Are there. Gin attached
to it as well. Yeah. Very creepy. Terrified Aterrados
2017. Loved that film. That was 2020. 2023 was
a banger of a year. His House 2020. Loved that
one. That was really good. Recommend that. Vampir
2021, which I recommend to everybody who's into
vampire films, that's kind of Serbian. The kind
of thing with that is that because it's set in
Serbia, only the main character speaks English
and the main character does not speak Serbian.
So none of the Serbian is subtitled for you because
he doesn't understand what's being said. And
so unless you speak Serbian, you shouldn't either.
And so he's kind of in this village and he doesn't
know what they're saying and he doesn't know
if they're kind of talking about him or if they
mean harm to him or what. And there's obviously
some sort of conspiracy in the village there
and he doesn't know what it is and he's there
to look after a graveyard. And yeah, it's really
good. I really like that film. It's a great take
on the vampire. talk to me what a film what a
class film and that to me just seems like what
australian teenage years are like i i could fully
believe that that is what australian teens get
up to um ile owu or house of money is a nigerian
film that's number nine uh 2022 film um in the
vein of the um the monstrous suitor of african
mythology that pops up across the continent in
different forms um but yes this is a nigerian
film and it's yeah i really liked it it's low
budget i think um but i just had so much fun
with it i've watched it multiple times if you
like fairy tales you like dark fairy tales and
you don't mind um sort of lower budget type films
with you know like the the effects aren't amazing
they're good but they're not they're good for
the money they're not fantastic you know if you
don't care about that um yeah give that a go
I loved it and incantation finally um 2022 again
they're not in an order of rank or how much I
like them they're just in order of release because
I loved incantation um that was easily One of
the top films I've seen in a long time. Runners
-up include Damien McCarthy's Caveat, which is
the one he did before Oddity. Blood Flower, which
is an Indonesian film. Again, that's got trigger
warnings for quite a lot of things. Death Line,
which is a 1970s kind of older film with Michael
Gambon and Christopher Lee. Absolutely loved
that one. Absolute class. older gods which is
the indie kind of lovecraftian film one of the
better lovecraftian films i've seen the block
island sound which i really like that i i yeah
and i kind of like the whole eco horror premise
renfield absolutely brilliant that was a comfort
film of mine for a while Meg 2 that was my first
time in an everyman cinema and I ordered a cocktail
I had a sofa to myself loads of cushions and
I sat down it was me and two guys behind me and
the rest of the theatre was totally empty and
they ordered some food and I had my cocktail
and we just watched a big fucking shark it was
great that is on my list that was just a fantastic
cinema experience The Empty Man Another kind
of Lovecraftian culty one. Not my top ten. But
it does stand up to a few rewatches. And I do
like it. So it's a runner up. The Wasteland.
Spanish film. Also quite weird. Allegorical.
Really enjoyed it. But that's definitely a runner
up. And of course there has to be a Jean Roland
film in there somewhere. This time it's Fascination.
I can't believe I haven't seen Fascination before,
because it's one of his more acclaimed films,
or most acclaimed films. But I haven't, and there
we go. So it's a runner -up for me. 2024 top
ten, if you're still with us. Thank you for sticking
around. Leptaritia, or Leptirica, I think, 1973,
which is just this really cool folk horror. I
now own it on... dvd um thanks to the severin
films box set um the folk horror box set which
i absolutely love that i got for christmas um
yeah uh so that's a really good one that's another
vampire one seven deaths in the cat's eye 1973
an italian giallo gothic type film that is set
in Scotland and everybody is dubbed even though
they're all speaking English to begin with and
I think that's because everybody has a different
accent naturally so it's absolutely great I love
it I this is another of my comfort films actually
um and it's got a guy in a gorilla suit instead
of having a real gorilla as a like the the laird
has a gorilla as a pet but he doesn't he has
a guy in a gorilla suit and it's just oh it's
it's great um the savage hunt of king stark in
1979 which is belarusian um when belarus was
part of the ussr yeah so a very anti -monarchist
anti -aristocracy um i think it's supposed to
be translated as the wild hunt um because that's
literally the title in in russian um but for
some reason it's translated as the savage hunt
and like no the wild hunt is a thing and the
wild hunt is featured um in the film so yeah
so i don't know what the english translated title
is doing there but yeah that's very good um fangs
that was when i watched fangs 1981 the egyptian
rocky horror remake born of fire 1987 that is
set in turkey in the travertines in cappadocia
i think and it's got a gin in it but it's by
a pakistani director a british pakistani director
um there's just such a lot going on with that
film it's great It's kind of, I don't know, like,
it's such a mixture of things. It's folk horror.
It's weird fiction. It's end of the world stuff.
It's cults. It's music. It's, you know, sort
of folklore fantasy. I loved it. I would watch
that again so many times. saloum 2021 absolute
banger of a film i loved this so much it's action
and then it does that 180 on you and becomes
a completely different genre in the middle so
it kind of does the from dusk till dawn thing
like oh is it a heist film it's a kidnapping
film it's a drama oh god vampires you know in
this case it's you know an action drama And then,
oh my God, Evil Spirits. Loved it. Good Madam
2021. I love this one as well. This is a South
African film sort of looking at the kind of impact
of apartheid and the aftermath of apartheid.
And I really enjoyed it. I thought it was really
good. Really interesting. irish film you are
not my mother 2021 coming in at number eight
folk horror but set in like an urban setting
which is not one that you usually see sort of
fey things set in or fair folk setting um so
i really like that one number nine fanga also
known as bell 2023 it's an icelandic set version
of beauty and the beast directed by max gold
and The cinematography is great because Iceland
does all of the heavy lifting by itself. But
it's very low budget. And I thought they got
around the, you know, we can't afford a fursuit
for the Beast or CGI really, really well by having
the Beast be a man, just a normal, hairy bloke
in a cave. But... He's cursed to be kind of immortal
and also he has a trigger and when that trigger
is tripped he becomes kind of like an unstoppable
savage cannibal and he doesn't remember what
he does or why it happens but that's what happens.
you know so if something happens and then he
will just so he lives on his own and he guards
a magic flower and there is a sorceress and it's
a fantasy it's like a very dark fantasy um but
i think it counts as horror as well it is classed
as horror um and i really enjoy it if you like
those sort of low budget horror takes on fairy
tales it's in that genre you know of like cinderella's
curse and all the rest of them oddity 2024 number
10 love that film so much what a banger um damian
mccarthy is doing great things i've seen hokum
in the cinema that was fantastic um i think he's
fast becoming the director that i would just
automatically go buy a ticket to see whatever
he's made runners up include impetigore indonesian
film absolute banger queen of black magic indonesian
film absolute banger a french take on the um
short story by what's his name guy at war and
peace tolstoy yeah i liked it i loved the fact
that they used a puppet for the vordelak that
was just phenomenal like great work guys i love
a creepy puppet um Huesera the bone woman
um love love that sort of lesbian awakening um
or you know bisexual i'm not sure but like very
queer very sapphic very very cool i like that
a lot um black circle really weird if you like
weird stuff with um like weird fiction stuff
with music as a theme black circle is great that's
a good one daddy's head what a weird film Not
one of the weirdest I've seen, but I really like
that as well. That's kind of grief horror. British
grief horror. Grave Torture, Indonesian film.
Again, love that. Beast by an Icelandic director
I quite like. He directed Apex. It's set in Australia.
It is Apex, yes. So it's the same director as
that, but Beast is the one with Idris Elba in
it. absolute cracking film i love that a lot
um attachment which is a danish film lesbians
um possession that's great loved it yeah it's
just really really good raging grace which is
a british film with um a filipina protagonist
and her daughter her daughter's called grace
there was a part of it where you realize something
and like when I realized what was going on like
my stomach just dropped and I knew it was coming
and then like it you know it was made explicit
and my stomach just dropped and I was like oh
no like yeah um so I thought that was just really
good recommend top 10 for 2025 last year then
here we go audition 1999 some jay horror um really
liked audition that was well fun um very very
corey but yeah um i just enjoyed that basque
film all the moons 2020 that one is a another
vampire film and i really liked it very similar
to One that I'm surprised I didn't put on here,
but I guess I guess it just wasn't in my head
at the time. So fair enough. That's what it's
called. It's very similar to You Won't Be Alone
2022, which is like Macedonia. It's in Macedonian.
The director is Australian Macedonian, I think.
Yeah, that one was great. um it's that but um
i'm surprised i didn't put that on my list but
there we go but i think all the moons is very
similar to that in some ways there's some very
similar themes apart from the fact that you won't
be alone is uh witch based and all the moons
is vampire based and basque um in my mother's
skin oh my god that was great like a fantasy
horror set in world war ii in the philippines
uh filipino film 2023 just great i think that
is definitely one I would recommend. Best Wishes
to All, 2023, another J -horror, but also like
a bit of an alternative universe Japan. It's
just got this really interestingly weird premise.
Really enjoyed it. Home for Rent, 2023, Thai
film. When I started it, I was like, why is this
film over two hours long? Why are we doing this
to ourselves? Why is this necessary? then i realized
it was broken up into three chapters after the
first chapter i was like okay yeah no but i still
don't get why it's two hours long then we got
the second chapter and i was like oh my god okay
no yes yes i can see why we need all this time
we need more time in fact i want more time with
these characters i need to know more about what's
going on i love this film i thought it was great
um definitely one of the best films i've seen
in 2025 for sure um it lives inside 2023 this
is a us film um with which is kind of like um
indian american as in like from the country of
india american um and it's kind of about um so
it's kind of an immigrant story as well as being
like you know kind of wanting to assimilate versus
you know keeping alive your traditions from home
and from a country that isn't your home but is
kind of following you anyway like that sort of
experience being Hindu and having those sorts
of differences to your American other American
classmates who are you know white American or
Don't have any kind of. Understanding perhaps
of Hinduism. Or you know. Coming from a mainstream
Hindu culture. Into a mainstream Christian culture.
And that kind of thing. And like wanting to assimilate.
But also being stalked by demons. From your homeland
I think. Like that's just really. Really interesting.
Especially because. The main character really
wants her homeland. And thinks of her homeland
as being the USA. Whereas her parents. don't
think that because they have you know that you
know yeah i i just found that really interesting
to watch i found it a really interesting film
overall um yeah i would like that i like that
one a lot the moogai 2024 um this one was a hard
watch because i don't like bad things happening
to babies And a lot of stuff happens to this
poor child. Yeah, so it was a hard watch, but
it also looks at Aboriginal folklore and looks
at that sort of contrasting experience that you
get from a black Australian family versus a white
Australian middle -class family, I guess. The
Ugly Stepsister, 2025, Norwegian film. Absolutely
brutal body horror. What on earth? Yeah, the
parasite thing really got me. sinners 2025 of
course you knew that was coming that was just
a fantastic film all around i know there's lots
of stuff about sinners that i just didn't get
because the references don't travel um and i
don't know enough about america to get everything
culturally but like I was really interested in
the discourse around that film as well and had
all of this discussion online. I found all of
that fascinating. And then when I watched the
film, I was like, oh yeah, this is just an objectively
really good film anyway. Even without knowing
kind of stuff, I think I would have really enjoyed
it. The Surrender, 2025, number 10. The Surrender,
really enjoyed that one as well. It's another
US film. Kind of another grief horror one. Really
liked it. Runners up include Bridge Curse Ritual.
I saw, I think, all of the Bridge Curse films,
but that one was the best for me. Ms. Kanyan,
which is a Nigerian horror. Rita and La Llorona,
which is both by the same director. Both really
enjoyable. Well, not enjoyable. Neither of them
particularly, like, enjoyable. um but both of
them very very good films don't say its name
which is um like an indigenous film from canada
i think first nations film i really enjoyed that
that was kind of low budget um but yeah definitely
deserves to be a runner -up strange darling i
like that um runner -up The Beast Must Die. That's
a 70s film that I can't believe I hadn't seen
before. Werewolf film with like the werewolf
break where you can guess who the werewolf is.
And I got it wrong. But it's got loads of like
really good actors in it. The Monkey is a runner
up. I enjoyed that one. That's by the director
of Long Legs, Osgood Perkins. Really enjoyed
it. Maa, M double A. which is an Indian film.
I really like that one. It's kind of Kali -centred.
Kali is kind of protector, goddess. I just, yeah,
I've really enjoyed it. Boys from County Hell
is also a runner -up, but one of my favourites
in terms of horror comedies like that one made
me cry with laughter. And there are so many more
than these runners -up that I should have included.
I liked so many of them from my lists. And I'm
sure that if I was in a different frame of mind
when I had made the lists here, I would have
put in different films. Like, you know, I thought,
oh, why haven't I put in this film? Why haven't
I put in that film? But there we go. I have spoken.
Those are, that is it. That is my four years.
467 films my look back at 100 horror movies in
92 days and so we're going to go on to this year
2026 and I'm going to do like a little roundup
of all the films I've seen each week and pick
my film of the week I don't know how I'm going
to manage this because it's basically going to
be like a live recording almost because I won't
have time to edit it properly before I release
it if I'm going to do one a week and I'll probably
skip some weeks I can't promise that I'm going
to release an episode on the same day every week
I have no idea guys how this is going to work
but bear with me and we'll just give it a go
I reckon so thanks for listening I hope that
you'll join us for 100 horror movies in 92 days
can't wait to get started Bye for now.