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#100HorrorMoviesIn92Days 2026 - Films 21-30

The next 10 films are here - films 21-30 of the challenge!

Cambodian Horror

Filipino Horror

Turkish Horror [all on YouTube]

Nigerian Horror

USA Horror

Vietnamese Horror

Thank you. welcome back to Eldritch Girl and

I have reached 30 films. I'm really getting through

them. So here we go with films 21 to 30. This

is actually quite fun because I watched a lot

of Turkish films and my husband doesn't watch

films. He doesn't like Western narrative techniques

that deliberately try and hook you into a narrative

or force you into you know force you into watching

that little bit more or he feels that that's

kind of like a dishonest way to tell a story

which is a really interesting perspective and

so he finds the cinema very stressful he finds

films very stressful he really doesn't like tv

series particularly ones that keep trying to

hook you into the very next episode and the next

episode he finds that really unpleasant to watch

So I don't. I really like that kind of storytelling,

but we have very different brains. So I put a

Turkish film on in the background because he

doesn't feel stressed when he's in Turkiye with

me because he doesn't need to keep track of everybody.

He doesn't need to know what they're saying.

He can just kind of tune it out. all the chaos

and the loud loud family stuff he was like oh

that was all fine you know I didn't mind it and

he loves listening to Turkish music with me he

really likes Turkish pop because you can't understand

what they're saying or he can't understand what

they're saying so he just likes the vibes and

so I thought oh well maybe because we never watch

films together for obvious reasons there's very

very few things that we ever can sit down and

watch together And so I was like, oh, would you

mind if I put a Turkish film on the background?

And hopefully it wouldn't bother you. And then

he started watching one with me and he got really

into it. And he said, you know, it was a Sijin

film. And he said, oh, it's not really a horror

film, is it? It's more like violent psychedelia.

I can do that and I was like oh cool so we actually

watched like a load of films and like like we've

been together over 10 years we have never ever

ever just watched films back to back before ever

in our lives and that was just such a really

special moment so I'm really pleased about that

um and I've got someone I can watch Turkish horror

with now so yeah Anyway, the 10 films that we

watched were as follows, or that I watched rather,

he only watched a few of them with me. So I watched

Posthouse 2025, directed by Nikolas Redd, written

by Nikolas Redd, Kenneth Dagatan and Jericho

Aguado. This is a good one. So I was quite interested

to watch this because I liked Lilim, which was

directed by Mikhail Redd and written by Nikolas

Redd. And I loved In My Mother's Skin. which

I watched for The Challenge last year, which

is directed and written by Kenneth Dagatan. So

I was really intrigued by this one for its director

and its writers. It's also the first film directed

by Nikolas Redd that I've seen. And I enjoyed

it. I found it a little bit, I don't know. didn't

quite do it for me I think maybe because I was

hoping for I don't know what I was hoping for

I don't know what I expected it it's really interesting

because it's about the silent film industry and

obviously it's about a fictional silent film

that was produced in the Philippines and it has

this evil spirit trapped inside that will get

you basically but the evil spirit is also kind

of a stand -in for the protagonist's relationship

with his father And that has a knock -on effect

on his relationship with his daughter. And it's

kind of about cyclical generational trauma, about

this idea of, oh, you know, we have to finish

the film together as father and daughter, this

obsession. Even though he is fully aware that

his dad, I think, either died or killed himself

before he could finish the film's restoration.

and it's very explicitly he gets this string

of very strange emails from his late father saying

basically you know i'm sorry it's yours now she

knows i'm watching she won't let me stop watching

and it's kind of the spirit that's stuck in this

silent film and as you watch the film uh it kind

of morphs and so you have the actors in the silent

film becoming the same actors who play the main

characters, mother and father, and the same child

actor that plays the protagonist when he was

a boy. So you can kind of see this haunted trauma

kind of playing out in that way. I'm not sure

how successful that was for me personally. I

liked it and I gave it three and a half stars.

The premise is an editor and his daughter work

to restore a family heirloom, an old silent horror

film, unaware that each frame inches them closer

to a dark spirit. The next film I watched was

an interesting one as well, They Will Kill You,

2026, directed by Kirill Sokolov, written by

Kirill Sokolov and Alex Litvak. So... This director

is a Russian who also directs films in Russian,

but he is setting this one and directing this

one from like a USA perspective. And I always

find that really interesting when you get perspectives

on the US from outside the US or from diaspora

or like, you know, I found that, okay, that was,

that kind of interested me. But the actual film

itself feels like it belongs in the Ready or

Not universe. So a woman answers a help -wanted

ad to be a housekeeper in a mysterious New York

City high -rise, unaware that she is entering

a community that has seen a number of disappearances

over the years and may be under the grip of a

satanic cult. I mean, it says unaware. She kind

of is aware because she's looking for her sister.

And that's kind of revealed quite early on. There

are so many like quite good twists in it as well,

but it's very fast paced and I didn't feel that

the twists had time to land. Perhaps for me,

I just enjoyed the roller coaster I was on, but

it just kind of didn't let up from start to finish.

You weren't eased in at all. It was just like

bang, bang, bang, you know. and that's cool like

i liked it but i think i also felt that that

made it lack a little bit of something structurally

that would have i don't know maybe enjoy it a

bit more um yeah i gave it three and a half stars

anyway i did like it so the next film was a cambodian

film um this is one of the very, very few Khmer

films that I've seen. So I found that really

interesting. I've seen The Spell, which I didn't...

I think I liked a little bit more than the other

one. I can't remember what the other one was

called. But I think that's a total of three films

I've seen from Cambodia now. I'll have to check

the Padlet, which is not accurate and I need

to update it. So this is The Hand, 2025, directed

by Mak Pichjuli and written by Ngouey Bunrath. This

one is on Letterboxd, but with the bare minimum

of detail. I found more information on IMDb,

but I did log it on Letterboxd. And IMDb has

a summary of the film, which Letterboxd does

not. It's got some really good moments. I really

like the hand -severing obsession of the ghost

when she possessed multiple people. I liked the

concept and I thought it got kind of a little

bit sapphic, but not... We didn't quite get there.

So the premise of the film is this. Bopha, a beautiful

and talented dancer, is found dead in an eerie

manner with one of her hands missing. Her death

becomes the centre of a chilling mystery, believed

to be connected to a jilted lover. As strange

events unfold around her death, including eerie

ghostly sightings and inexplicable occurrences,

Nara, a police officer, begins investigating.

Mr. Chak, a wealthy man who collects ancient

artifacts, unknowingly brings home a statue with

Bopha's missing hand trapped inside. After the

statue is placed in his home, the haunting intensifies

and suspicions arise. As the haunting escalates,

Nara must uncover the truth behind Bopha's tragic

death before it is too late. But the truth may

be more terrifying than anyone could imagine.

I watched that one on YouTube. i very much liked

it it didn't quite i mean it's it's i think it's

quite low budget it's got some good moments like

i say i think yeah it didn't quite make it as

a highlight for me but nevertheless very enjoyable

three stars then we went back to nigeria i found

another nigerian film i wanted to watch the 90s

nollywood classics i guess So this is Haunted,

directed by Chiko Ajiro. I think also written

by him, but I couldn't find the writer information.

But that was 1998. This one, sadly, was not really

for me. I like the drama of it. I always love

the drama in Nigerian films. I think they are

banging. I love the dynamics, but the audio quality

of the version I watched, which was on YouTube.

really spoiled it for me it was it was like a

very grainy VHS upload you know and it was obviously

a very well -loved well -watched VHS so I mean

that's great but like yeah it didn't quite work

because I couldn't really hear anything I kept

having to turn the music down and the speaking

up and like I was just like This is just very

annoying. And it kind of took away from the ability

to just watch it and enjoy it. I do not think

it's a bad film. I think there's a lot of nostalgia

and love for this one. Totally appreciate it.

It's also quite wild. So the premise is that

a guy called Bobby, who is a man who has it all,

is suddenly diagnosed with leukemia and told

he has only three months left to live. While

he deals with this news, dark secrets become

uncovered as several supernatural forces begin

to appear in his life. And I gave it three stars.

So, I did not watch the Sijin films in order.

Most of the ones left now on this list are Turkish

films and one Vietnamese film. We'll get to that.

But basically, I've already seen Sijin 1 -4.

So we went in with Sijin 8 and then we did 7

and then we did 5 and 6. So we kind of did it

in a weird order. But yeah, I'll go through them

in the order that they were released. So Sijin

5, 2018, directed by Alper Mestçi, written by

Alper Mestçi. This one is a proper family drama

tangled web of tragedy and deceit. You've got

Azra. Her brother is... He's disappeared. He's

a fugitive. He killed his father over a house

sale and vanished 12 years ago. Azra now lives

with her mum, her sister -in -law and her young

niece Hale. Hale is a sickly albino girl possessed

by jinn who are owed a sacrifice and the sacrifice

is Azra. Azra wants to marry Selim and she is

friends with Selim's sister Ebru. Selim starts

seeing things. Ebru starts seeing things. All

of the things are warnings for Selim not to marry

Azra. Shit generally hits the fan. It's very

convoluted. But it kind of all centres on Hale

and her possession. And it's like, you know,

just beware of like child cruelty and stuff.

I always get like, I don't trust Alper Mestçi with

like... child protagonists because he kills off

this child really early on in sijjin 2 and i was

just like no so um yeah but nothing yeah so this

one was okay for me to watch though um so hale's

father disappeared before she was born and never

seen again hale sees a nightmare of a terrible

night her father whom she never saw invites her

to an old and uncanny home that's what the description

is on Letterboxd, and that does not do it justice.

I think my description does it more justice,

but possibly is more confusing. I actually like

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

Sijin 6, 2019. He churns them out, this guy.

Directed by Alper Mestçi and written by Alper

Mestçi. This is the one where Orhan, who's played

by Adnan Koç, comes back into the series properly,

so... He was in Sijin 4 as well. He was introduced

to us in Sijin 3, which is all about him. So

he's the guy who's into like alchemy and mysticism

and all that kind of stuff. And he's the guy

in Sijin 3 who basically steals a djinn from

djinn world, I suppose, brings her into our world

and gets her to possess the corpse of his dead

wife because he can't. resurrect his wife and

then he tries to make this jinn believe that

she is his dead wife and then like so basically

he's got this he's got a zombie in his basement

basically and like it's just insane like that's

the wildest i actually love that one highly recommend

you go in because like you don't need to know

what so the citizen franchise is not really linked

by anything except concept of Jin really so when

you get to Sijin you could just watch Sijin 3

as a standalone Sijin 4 or Han helps out somehow

I can't really remember it's been ages since

I watched it but I think he helps the family

out when they have a possession so he hasn't

been he wasn't in Sijin 5 and I think they decided

oh actually he's quite a good character to have

as you know, the person who's going to come and

sort this out. And it would also be quite a good

character arc for him to atone for what he did

in Sijin 3. So that was kind of really explicit

in Sijin 6. The point of this is that the djinn

are kind of like, we are not going to listen

to you because you did this terrible thing. And

he then has to atone in some way for the terrible

thing that he did so yeah that that just adds

a bit of um that just adds a bit of drama i suppose

on his side which is quite cool and it's a very

different take to the christian demons taunting

the priest for his lack of faith you know it's

not that they don't taunt him for his lack of

faith they taunt him because he has committed

this terrible sin and this is his opportunity

then to say well you know don't fear me fear

god and it's nothing to do with him or his faith

or you know how much faith he has or it's literally

just god does it you know and i really like that

approach to exorcism i i think that's a really

interesting take on his character He's an interesting

person to have as the guy that comes and sorts

things out. So you have Gönül Ürer, who appears

as the late Hacer, mostly a photo of her, but

also as a ghost. And she gets to shine in later

entries to the franchise. Gönül Ürer is a really

good actress who basically plays possessed grannies

incredibly well. Also, this is the one with the

haunted soup where she's like picking razor blades

out of the soup and they have like letters on

them. When I say she, I mean the mum of the family

who's doing that. Yeah, I can't even get into

the plot because I just we watched too many of

them back to back and they all just merged into

one. And I was like, I know I can't watch any more.

I have to spread them out. So the premise of

this one, a girl is haunted by an evil spirit

in her family home. Several bad things begin

to happen around her house and her family members.

An old character rises back and tries to save

the family from their doomed fate. So that's

three stars I gave that one. Sijin 7, 2024, directed

and written by Alper Mestçi. This one is a middle

-aged lady main character called Meral. played

by Funda Eskioğlu, who you'll also find in Dabbe

6. And she literally has one job and she does

not do it. Okay, the job was to bury a kid alive,

but she accidentally chose a kid that was part

of a crime syndicate and they had sold him to

a doctor. And so she didn't know that. She just

took him off the street and then she did this

ritual with him. Then she had to bury him alive.

But the other kids from the crime syndicate,

because it's like, I don't know, like some sort

of like an Oliver Twist outfit going on. I'm

not sure. But they found out. And so they told

the doctor and the crime boss and they went and

rescued this kid. So the kid did not get buried

alive. So Miral could not fulfill her obligations

to the spirits that she was conjuring with this

witch. Right. So. she goes to this family um

that she's cursed and she then has to try and

like make it right kind of so the premise is

the description literally is just a woman intent

on fulfilling conditions of a ritual insinuates

herself into a family home and you're like but

why is she there what's the point of this then

you find out how the little girl is connected

to the boy and so on so very good and Gönül Ürer,

once more, plays the unsettling elderly woman,

knocking the role out of the park. Orhan is back,

played by Adnan Koç, of course. I think the

only ones he isn't in are 1, 2 and 5, actually.

He's in all the others. And he takes his sweet

time, but he gets there in the end. Sijin 8,

2025, last year, directed and written again by

Alper Mestçi. This one, again. Lovely performance

from Gönül Ürer as the grandmother. This was probably

one of the better entries of the franchise. So

Fatih, who lives with his family in his mother

Gönül's house, so the same name as the actress,

cannot stand the pressure of his wife Berna and

puts his beloved mother in a nursing home. However,

the silence that descends on the house after

this decision is a harbinger of an approaching

storm rather than peace. The house is no longer

under their control. A dark force has insidiously

surrounded every corner. As the paranormal events

become increasingly frightening, Fatih's guilty

conscience weighs heavily on his shoulders. Finally,

he decides to bring his mother back from the

nursing home. But it is no longer his mother

who returns home. Every secret comes with a price,

and secrets written in blood never go to the

grave. So drama! This one is the most drama,

I think. It's also kind of like the zenith of

Orhan's arc because, you know, at the end he

gets to stand on a cliff looking all dramatic.

He's got a sword now for some reason. There's

some weird philosophy that's, well, not weird,

but it's like, you know, you have to shed your

ego and look into the light, you know, that kind

of stuff. And I thought, yeah, no, it's... It

was lovely. It's like domestic melodrama dialled

up to 11, basically. So the premise is granny

goes into a nursing home and in that nursing

home, there's an old lady whose daughter killed

herself because of Fatih. And then, so this woman

then does this knot of torment curse. which unfortunately

to get the one that you want to get you have

to take five other lives so you curse the whole

family basically and then it also gets you um

so i'm like well surely it's not worth that but

she thinks it is so anyway yep so we get orhan

coming in at the last minute swooping in doing

all of his you know spiritual warfare stuff very

good very fun Yeah, very satisfying, I thought.

Then, staying in Turkey, I saw Ölü Kontesin Laneti,

Curse of the Dead Countess, 2025, directed and

written by Ahmet Arpacı, an indie film with a

very low budget. It wasn't great quality, so

one star for effort. 10 out of 10 for effort

one star for the singer with a guitar because

that kid will go far i really liked his voice

and i liked the way he played the guitar he's

like one of these teens in like a i don't know

just being a teenager and playing guitar so i

quite like that we had a little musical interlude

that was fun and also one star for the evil dead

ripoff plot really like that i also okay and

you know maybe Part of that star is also because

it's about a cursed amulet and not about djinn

possession. Now, as we know from Dabbe Çin Çarpmazı,

one in every five people these days are possessed

by djinn. That's a true statistic. Look it up.

So this one is a rare Turkish horror movie that

is not about that one person. This is about that

one in, I don't know, 10 people who get possessed

by a cursed amulet. Tutkum, a university student,

is researching an old necklace for her thesis.

She's an archaeologist, obviously. Guided by

her professor, she will visit another professor

to hear about past events related to the necklace.

So there's a beautiful attempt at medieval times

in a flashback. where the Countess has beautifully

dyed and straightened blonde hair with some roots

showing. And I don't know what her costume's

doing, but fair play. And you also have somebody

playing a crusader and all the rest of it, which

I did enjoy because it's always fun to see that

from the Turkish side, you know? Like, all power

to Seljuk Turks there, you know? um so that's

quite fun uh yeah it's not a great film genuinely

not a great film i should really have given it

like maybe two stars but i enjoyed it and i did

like the singer and i thought you know what they

tried so that's the three and also i don't like

i don't like it when films that are competently

made they're not you know you i've seen worse

and evidently they're made by people who enjoyed

making them ultimately that's key for me and

they're just rated really low and it looks like

people are rating them low because they're not

blockbusters they don't have that kind of quality

and i'm like well it's a bit unfair i don't know

anyway i give it three stars to balance it all

out so the last film of the challenge is a vietnamese

film I can't speak Vietnamese, so I can't pronounce

the Vietnamese title. The English title is Hollow.

It came out in 2014, directed and written by

Ham Tran. And I was not expecting this to be

a freaky, lucky plant type horror, but here we

are. Basically, Stepdad has an egg. It has this

plant, and if it doesn't get an egg every day,

bad things happen. and it like hollows things

out you just put it near the plant and then it

goes hollow and also you need to give it like

blood so a chicken or something if you want a

big thing but that's kind of a by the by uh so

the actual story is where a young girl falls

into a river and drowns when her body is found

in a remote village along the river her uncle

arrives to claim her body only to find she is

very much alive. But when she returns to her

family, unexplainable occurrences lead them to

believe she is possessed. So I think you could

go in expecting a changeling type film if you're

used to that sort of Western folklore. It's not

that. It is very much a ghost story. I loved

the way the family are bound together. And I

think this is very much more... a story about

the anxieties of a pregnant teenager and first

-time mum than it is a possessed child story.

I really like the way that the characters of

the mother, the teen daughter, her unborn child

and the six -year -old little sister are kind

of at the core of this and they're mirroring

and foiling one another and she, the teenage

mum, finds her mirrors i suppose in the dead

teenage mothers that um there's there's a crime

syndicate involved in their deaths and other

things like that and she's trying to figure out

why you know why this is happening to her little

sister who could have possessed her little sister

what's going on you know so it's kind of like

that and it reminded me a bit of the doll franchise

you know the indonesian indonesian film series

i can't remember who directed it that's another

indie series you know sabrina is in part of that's

doll 123 and sabrina but it's where in a lot

of those the secrets of the man in the family

lead to the vengeful hauntings and there's a

connection with something that he's done and

it's very similar here because you get the sense

that the stepdad is maybe not on the level because

he's very secretive about what he does for work

and where he gets his money from and then he

has this weird lucky plant that he feeds eggs

and chickens and shit to and then gets his dead

daughter back so it's his biological daughter

and the teenager is his stepdaughter yeah so

i found that really interesting so yeah four

stars i gave that i'm still on the hunt for my

five star watch so of those 10 Only Hollow is

four stars for me, but I did give Post House,

They Will Kill You and Sijin 5 three and a half

stars. So there we go. Those are the last 10

films I watched, films 21 to 30. I hope I've

given you some ideas. Maybe you can add some

of these to your list. I would love to know what

you're watching and I'm hoping to interview a

few people about that soon. So yeah, stay tuned

and I'll see you next time. Bye for now.

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