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The first 10 films for the challenge! They are as follows:

Chilean Horror

Indian Horror

Italian Horror

Nigerian Horror

Thank you. Hello and welcome back to Eldritch

Girl and here we are with our very first 10 films

of the 100 horror films in 92 days challenge.

I can't believe I've got 10 actually, I did that

in record time. So the rules of the challenge

as laid out on sarahstubbsays .com are these

the challenge runs from the august the 1st through

to october 31st the goal is to watch at least

100 horror movies in this time period the films

must be new to you you haven't seen it before

films must be at least 45 minutes to count films

must be classified as horror by either letterboxd

or imdb but exceptions will be made for gateway

horror films like hocus pocus the haunted mansion

etc uh documentaries about horror films those

involved in making and promoting them the filmmakers

the actors the horror hosts they also count however

if a documentary does not discuss the aforementioned

topics they don't count even if they have a horror

tag While TV shows do not count for the challenge,

films from series like Masters of Horror and

Hulu's Into the Dark are considered feature length

films and will count. So I think that also includes

the vintage kind of films that as long as they're

over 45 minutes long, they're standalone horror

films, even if they were released in a series.

And so they would count for the challenge. Things

like BBC's Ghosts series, things like... West

Country Tales, if that's over 45 minutes per

episode. So anything like that, I think, would

count. This challenge is not a dictatorship.

If a good case can be made for a film that doesn't

fall under the horror category, it can be brought

to the Discord server and discussed among participants

for a majority ruling. And there is a letterbox

list for movies that have been approved by the

group. There is no limit to how many films must

be watched per day or week, only that you should

have at least 100 by the end of the challenge.

If you're not a part of the Discord server, though,

and you're not doing the challenge, like, you

know, you're just doing it for fun and you're

doing it casually and you're doing it on your

own, like I have been for the last couple of

years. I think this is the first or second year

only that I've been part of the Discord server.

Like, I think if you can make the case to yourself,

it's fine. Anyway, I now have an active 100 horror

movies 2026 letterboxd list, and the first 10

movies are as follows. Bit of a mixed bag, but

we're going all round the world on this one.

The first film I watched was Clout, 2021, directed

by Bobby Emmanuel Okoye, written by the director

and Promise Okoli. No budget, found footage,

indie horror. by I think a few college students

suffers a bit from shaky handheld cam in parts

the plot is not always cohesive but they really

enjoyed making it I think that comes out in just

the way that they have put the film together

the acting they give it like 110 % it's a full

extra star just for effort really like they clearly

kind of a good dynamic. And it's basically about

six friends who embark on a journey to investigate

the mysteries of the Ozalia forest in Nigeria.

And I watched it on YouTube. I gave it three

stars on Letterboxd. The second one I watched

was another Nigerian film. It's a bit of a classic,

this one. Sakobi the Snake Girl, 1998, directed

by Zeb Ejiro, written by Zeb Ejiro and Ken Oghenejabor.

This is a classic, like... It's part one of two

on YouTube. So I am invested. I want to know

how part two goes. It's basically about a man

who wishes to be wealthy. So he gives up his

only daughter as a sacrifice to the goddess.

It's like a snake goddess. He flubs that part.

And then he ends up divorcing his wife to marry

a cobra woman like a dick. And so I really want

to know how his marriage to cobra woman goes.

But it's really cool. And you can watch that

on YouTube. that three and a half stars. It is

a bit of a classic and people do have a lot of

nostalgia around that one. I then watched Aror

amire which is The Figurine 2009 directed by

Kunle Afolyan written by Kemi Adesoye. This one

is a bit long for me. I didn't know what to expect.

It's more of a slice of life soap opera drama

that goes slowly downhill with a twist at the

end. But I'm into that. I like slice of life

dramas. I love soap opera dramas. I love relationship

dramas. So that's mostly what this is. And then

there's like this overtone of supernatural horror

that goes along with it. This one actually plays

the ideas in the recent movie Obsession. Not

quite the same though. But it's like what happens

if you realise you're the pregnant wife of the

love of your life because he has an idol that

made it so. like what happens if you realize

oh actually maybe you know he's got this idol

and that's what's given him me yeah so is but

is that even what's happening or is it something

else that's going on it's really it's really

interesting i love the twist um i did really

enjoy it's about two hours and or longer than

two hours it's really quite long but it's about

two buddies and a girl down on their luck have

their lives changed when one of them discovers

a mysterious figurine in an abandoned shrine

which according to legend bestow seven years

of good luck but no one told them about the next

seven years watched it on youtube gave it three

stars then i went into italy and got into some

italian gothics and a bit of shadow uh la settima

tomba the seventh grave 1965 directed by garibaldi

serra caracciolo written by alessandro santini

antonio casale and garibaldi serra caracciolo

when the english title card appeared as old scotland

at the start I knew I was in for a treat with

this Italian Gothic. My favourite one is also

set in Scotland, where it appears the actors

have been dubbed back into English, even though

they were speaking English to begin with. And

I have no idea why, except that perhaps they've

all got different accents. But the Scottish people

have not been dubbed by Scottish people. It's

very odd. Like, unless it's the weird sound mixing

and they're literally just like a split second

ahead. I don't know, there's something very odd

about that sound balance. But it's called Seven

Deaths in the Cat's Eyes. And that is a really

good one. It's one of my favourites. This, not

one of my favourites. But, also set in the 1800s,

it's about an American family who travel to Scotland

for the reading of Sir Reginald Thorne's Last

Will and Testament, not expecting that the trip

will lead them to black magic seances, mad doctors,

escape lepers and giallo-style killings. Missing

for half a century, The Seventh Grave is a fascinating

twist on The Cat and the Canary. which is a 1927

USA made silent horror, remade under that title

in 1939 USA and 1978 UK, and that ranks as one

of the rarest and strangest Italian gothic films

ever made so i'm glad i watched it i watched

it on youtube i gave it three and a half stars

i especially did like that they didn't differentiate

between england and scotland in the film they

set it in scotland specifically and then they

kept talking about england throughout it's like

yeah italians don't care then i watched il mostro

dell 'opera The Monster of the Opera, 1964, directed

by Renato Polselli, written by Giuseppe Pellegrini,

Ernesto Gastaldi and Renato Polselli, the director.

So if you love weird dream sequences, extended

dance numbers and jaded musical theatre performance,

winding each other up and getting off with each

other, this is the one. There's also a vampire.

It's basically Phantom of the Opera, but it is

with a vampire who is not disfigured. So that's

essentially the plot. A theatre troupe's young

energetic leader has secured an old theatre in

which to produce his new production. The theatre's

elderly caretaker urges the group to leave at

once. A vampire is awakened and discovers that

one of the troupe is the reincarnation of the

woman who he once loved. Watched on YouTube,

gave it three stars. Then I saw Demonia, a 1990

film directed by Lucio Fulci, written by Piero

Regnoli and Lucio Fulci. This is quite a cool

one. If you like evil nuns, then this is probably

the one for you. Professor Malcolm Evans leads

his archaeological expedition into the valley

of temples in southeast Sicily. His companion

and former student, Liza Harris, is looking forward

to her very first dig. There's a whole lot of

weird academic stuff going on here, but as somebody

who used to be adjacent to the archaeology department,

I will let it slide. But Liza feels a strange

sympathy with the valley, and her recurring nightmares

seem strongly tied to nearby ruins. She is drawn

to the remains of a 16th century convent. She's

there to do, like, ancient Greek stuff, but...

Okay, fine. She's drawn to the remains of a 16th

century convent and its grisly legend of crucifixion,

where basically they crucified the demon nuns.

The local villagers arise to protect the entombed

secrets of their ancestors as Liza's obsession

with uncovering the truth takes her deeper into

the forbidden ruins and further from sanity.

And I gave that three and a half stars. Quite

like that one. That was quite good. Then we get

into Chile, Chilean horror. I watched Wekufe,

The Origin of Evil, 2016, directed by Javier

Atridge, also written by him as well. It's found

footage. I thought it was really well done. It's

obviously indie and it really looks like they

had fun making it. That is like my number one

thing. Does it look like they enjoy being here?

That's a star all by itself. This one is... A

really interesting one. So the premise is a student

travels with her boyfriend to Chilóe, a remote

Patagonia island in southern Chile, to investigate

the link that exists between the high number

of sexual related crimes and the myths and legends

that surround this mysterious place. And I really

appreciated the nuance of the folklore. whether

or not it was indigenous folklore or it was brought

over by the Spaniards. And even though it was

brought by the Spaniards, which is the general

overarching belief, some people still believe

in it. And there's this whole kind of like tug

of war between those kinds of colonial beliefs

and indigenous beliefs and the fact that they

both coexist. There's a lot of nuance to this.

I really, really liked it and the way that they

discussed it. I also liked that the film itself

is incredibly ambiguous. So that one is a standout

for me that I gave that one four stars. Then

I finally saw a stop motion animation, La Casa

Lobo, The Wolf House, 2018, directed by Cristobal

Leon and Joaquin Cochina and written by Cristobal

Leon, Alejandra Mofat and Joaquin Cochina. I'm

sorry about my pronunciation of all of these,

by the way. I did French, not Spanish in any

form in school. And that was many, many years

ago. So this is framed as a propaganda film to

promote the colony, which is based on La Colonia

Dignidad, founded by basically a paedophile,

Paul Schaeffer, who came over from West Germany

with former Nazis and trafficked children and

started this colony in Chile. And this is a stop

-motion animated nightmare of a girl who escapes.

She's chased by a wolf. She finds shelter in

a strange house. So when I say escapes, she's...

part of a colony and then she asks loads of questions

and then she's like oh i don't really like it

here and then she goes out to make it somewhere

on her own but she wasn't abused anywhere she

was just like oh i don't really fit in here sort

of thing that's the premise and she's in this

house she meets two little pigs in the house

so it's like a retelling of the three little

pigs folk tale and she tells the pigs oh i'm

not like the wolf And then the window of the

house, I really like this point. So everything

moves and changes and the art moves and changes.

And one of the changes is you kind of explore

the house with her. The window appears and it's

a swastika that rotates to create a window that

is a square window with a frame, like a cross

in the middle, you know, like a child's drawing

of a window. And I thought that was so clever

because it's... this is about the establishment

of the colony and essentially how maria the girl

becomes like this is you know sets up the the

rules of the colony and all this kind of thing

and she's not perfect she tries really hard it's

a very weird film it's very disturbing the whole

thing is very disturbing it's just an amazing

piece of art as well it's just amazing to watch

so i gave that one four and a half stars just

for the experience because i really appreciated

that and i think it's a really difficult subject

matter as well so it was a very interesting style

to choose and they're very interesting framing

and really well done i thought anyway And then

lastly, I watched two films from India. They're

both Hindi films, Booth Bangla, 2026, directed

by Priyadarshan, written by Rohan Shankar, Priya

darshan and Abhilash Nair. So it's the longest

one, I think, of the 10. Two hours, 45 minutes

runtime. It has a musical interlude, of course.

Dance sequence at the wedding. It's got everything.

It's a Hindi horror comedy. I was not bored the

whole time. The setup is also a really fun relationship

drama, family drama, with some romantic overtures,

and then we get into the demon action. So a man

inherits a palace in rural Mangalpur and plans

his sister's wedding there, but strange supernatural

events and panicked locals force him to investigate

the property's mysterious past. I really like

that. I gave that three and a half stars. Then

I watched Jungle Mahal The Awakening 2023, directed

and written by Arunava Chowdhury. I really wanted

to like that, but it... didn't hold my attention

well enough I could see that it's won some awards

like festival awards I think it deserves them

the effects are not the best also not the worst

it's interspersed with footage but it's not a

found footage film I don't know it was a kind

of mixed bag for me this one I really like the

atmosphere I like the setting I like the premise

but the film itself didn't do anything for me

it might do something for you It's loosely based

on real incidents of the monsoon of the mid -1980s

following the uprising of Naxalites in the Eastern

Gap Range. A group of travellers head through

the deep forest to reach the rescue camps and

a series of mysterious incidents starts taking

place around them as they find themselves in

an abandoned guest house that is not what it

seems. And again, I did like it, but... This

is the one I think I liked the least. I gave

this two and a half stars. So it's definitely

looking like the standout horror films for me

from this first batch of 10 from Chile. Yeah.

And with a close runner up from Nigeria and also

India. So, yeah, I. really enjoyed all of these

in some way I think they gave they all had something

going for them and I'll be back next time for

the next 10 in my challenge so hopefully I will

make it to 20 and then I will tell you guys what

I watched and what my favorites were in the meantime

I've got some bonus episodes for you where I

talk about media that I've really enjoyed apart

from horror so books podcasts tv shows you name

it anything that i've enjoyed i do a shout out

for so i'll have those episodes coming up as

well i hope to have some guests on to talk about

films also because i think it's going to be boring

listening to me most of the time so i also get

bored listening to me um so i'd like to hear

from other people and see what their favorite

films have been in the challenge and what they've

been watching so yeah look out for some of those

but that's it for now i think those are my first

10 films if i had to pick my favorite one that

is going to fluctuate i think depending on my

mood um because with hindsight They're all sort

of growing on me, even the ones that I gave quite

low ratings to, like low for me. Yeah, The Wolf

House is the one that I think about the most,

I think. Wekufe. I just really enjoyed the premise.

I just really liked it. Demonia, I think about

that. I think about the imagery, but the film

itself, I'm not sure. I'm not sure how good.

that one is for me compared to something like

dark waters um which does evil nuns well they're

not evil but they're trying to keep evil at bay

really really well i did like monster of the

opera there was a lot of things i liked about

that but i just didn't get on with some of the

dream sequences in that and the vampire with

a pitchfork i don't know that didn't do it for

me particularly i'm very invested in the snake

girl um sakobi the snake girl i really would

want to see part two of that and i really want

to know how it ends um i have a feeling i know

how it's going to end but also like i just want

um i want the world for his ex -wife like can't

believe he ditched her for a cobra woman i like

the seventh grave but it doesn't again it's it's

a very it's a wild ride gothic but it doesn't

I don't know, it doesn't do a lot for me, that

one. Again, I was surprised I didn't like it

more. But I definitely liked Seven Deaths in

the Cat's Eyes more than I liked The Seventh

Grave. I guess because that one's just got everything

I like. It's got the romance part of it and it's

got the guy in a gorilla suit because I guess

they couldn't get a real pet gorilla. Clout,

I really like Clout. There was so much to like

about that. I just wish that the plot had been

a little bit more tied together. but yeah overall

i've got to say i think yeah wekufe the wolf

house are my top two and then i don't know the

third one is just gonna change depending on my

mood like is it sakobi the snake girl is it monster

of the opera is it bhooth bangla is it demonia

i don't know i'm gonna go with bhooth bangla actually

because it's funny and it and again like it took

two hours 45 minutes and i have adhd and i was

i was very much locked in for that so i think

that's yeah that's very good i think those those

three with sakobi the snake girl is like a you

know a hot runner -up so there we go if i had

to choose that would be my choice and i will

see you next time bye for now

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