3rd Annual Horror Film Every Day October
Declaring overall project a tentative success. I started Horror Film Every Day October to toughen myself up; I was convinced that horror films were good art, that I was missing out on by being soft. Not soft anymore. Granted nonzero I just picked weak films this year, but I don't think it's the films. It's me. I am tougher. It is harder for a film to hit me with the Mike Tyson punch of fear now; I may never watch something and be afraid of the dark for a week ever again and I gotta stop being disappointed by that. Gotta make a point of evaluating horror films based on more than their raw ability to terrify/disgust me. Unfortunately didn't realize this until late in the month. Most of my notes on the below films are something to the effect of 'not raw; failed to terrify'; pretty much everything (especially the older 'classic' stuff) deserves a rewatch with a more calibrated state of mind.
Also, film every day is a lot. Kinda burns me out on cinema after the month is over.
Film list:
- 10/29: In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
- 10/28: Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
- 10/27: [REC]² (2009)
- 10/27: [REC] (2007)
- 10/26: Event Horizon (1997)
- 10/25: Excision (2012)
- 10/25: Splinter (2008)
- 10/24: Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)
- 10/23: The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
- 10/22: The Borderlands (2013)
- 10/22: Little Monsters (2019) -DNF
- 10/21: Fingers (2019) -DNF
- 10/19: The Alchemist Cookbook (2016)
- 10/18: Terrifier (2016)
- 10/17: Halloween (1978)
- 10/16: To Your Last Death (2019)
- 10/16: Orphan: First Kill (2022)
- 10/15: Orphan (2009)
- 10/14: Hellraiser (1987)
- 10/13: The Queen of Black Magic (2019)
- 10/12: Suspiria (1977)
- 10/08: The Conjuring (2013)
- 10/07: Frontier(s) (2007)
- 10/06: The Exorcist (1973)
- 10/05: Nope (2022)
- 10/04: The Shining (1980)
- 10/03: The Blair Witch Project (1999)
- 10/02: The Evil Dead (1981)
- 10/02: The Devil’s Rejects (2005)
- 10/01: House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
- 9/30: Host (2020)