October Challenge 2022
by Gymnopedies | created - 01 Oct 2022 | updated - 6 months ago | Public"October is upon us – the challenge is simple: at least 31 horror films must be watched during the month of October. 16 of these must be FTVs (first time viewings). The challenge will begin at 00:00 hours on October 1st in your time zone. Runtime is 45 minutes minimum. If unsure on whether a movie is "horror" or not, please refer to the usual suspects: IMDb, Wiki, Letterboxd, etc. Documentaries (non-feature length) and TV shows will not be accepted. Kiddy-friendly "Halloween themed" movies will be permitted as long as there is some element of horror, i.e. A Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline, Goosebumps, Hubie Halloween, etc."
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1. The Stand (2020–2021)
TV-MA | 57 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
After the world is in ruins, due to a man-made plague, a battle of Biblical proportions ensues between the survivors.
Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgård, James Marsden, Odessa Young
Votes: 30,141
2. The Prowler (1981)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An unknown killer, clad in World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small California town, bent on reliving a 35 year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual graduation dance.
Director: Joseph Zito | Stars: Vicky Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Lawrence Tierney, Farley Granger
Votes: 13,008
3. Sleep Tight (2011)
Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Cesar, a miserable man who works as an apartment concierge, takes a special interest in an attractive woman who lives there. He goes to great lengths to trouble her.
Director: Jaume Balagueró | Stars: Luis Tosar, Marta Etura, Alberto San Juan, Petra Martínez
Votes: 46,713
4. Madman (1981)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
A legendary psychopathic murderer stalks a summer camp.
Director: Joe Giannone | Stars: Gaylen Ross, Tony Nunziata, Harriet Bass, Seth Jones
Votes: 6,746
5. The Willies (1990 Video)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A harmless backyard camp out becomes an unforgettable night of chills and thrills for three young boys as they share their favorite scary stories.
Director: Brian Peck | Stars: Sean Astin, Jason Horst, Joshua John Miller, James Karen
Votes: 2,007
6. Memento Mori (1999)
R | 97 min | Horror, Romance, Drama
In this second installment of the Whispering Corridors series, a young girl finds a strange diary, capable of arousing hallucinations, kept by two of her senior fellow-students who seem to have an unusually close bond.
Directors: Kyu-dong Min, Kim Tae-yong | Stars: Kim Gyu-ri, Park Yejin, Lee Yeong-jin, Jong-hak Baek
Votes: 3,612
7. Inside (2007)
R | 82 min | Horror
Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury | Stars: Alysson Paradis, Jean-Baptiste Tabourin, Claude Lulé, Dominique Frot
Votes: 44,724
8. A Bucket of Blood (1959)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A dimwitted busboy at a beatnik cafe passes off a cat he accidentally killed and covered in plaster as a sculpture, prompting a demand for more art that compels him to commit murders.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone, Julian Burton
Votes: 7,903
9. Eskalofrío (2008)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
Santi, a young high-school student with a serious physical reaction to sunlight, is forced by his health to move with his single mother to a shadowy, isolated village in the mountains of ... See full summary »
Director: Isidro Ortiz | Stars: Junio Valverde, Francesc Orella, Mar Sodupe, Jimmy Barnatán
Votes: 3,483
10. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
TV-MA | 117 min | Drama
In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti
Votes: 65,869
11. The Comedy of Terrors (1963)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Horror
Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson
Votes: 7,034
12. The Evil Eye (1963)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
A mystery novel-loving American tourist witnesses a murder in Rome, and soon finds herself and her suitor caught up in a series of killings.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: John Saxon, Letícia Román, Valentina Cortese, Titti Tomaino
Votes: 5,370
13. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Not Rated | 67 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover
Votes: 70,087
14. The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966)
Unrated | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Woman seeks to avenge her father's death by using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Estella Blain, Mabel Karr, Howard Vernon, Fernando Montes
Votes: 1,190
15. Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
Zombified chickens attempt to kill the fast-food workers that cook them in a restaurant built on an ancient burial ground.
Director: Lloyd Kaufman | Stars: Jason Yachanin, Kate Graham, Allyson Sereboff, Robin L. Watkins
Votes: 9,189 | Gross: $0.02M
16. Thesis (1996)
R | 125 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Xabier Elorriaga
Votes: 42,492
17. Paranoiac (1963)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell, Maurice Denham
Votes: 3,292
18. Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When Mr. Harrigan dies, Craig, the teen who befriended and did odd jobs for him, puts his smart phone in his pocket before burial. When the lonely youth sends his dead friend a message, he is shocked to get a return text.
Director: John Lee Hancock | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Jaeden Martell, Joe Tippett, Colin O'Brien
Votes: 38,201
19. Old People (2022)
101 min | Horror
A woman travels home with her two kids for her sister's wedding but finds herself defending her family against blood-seeking pensioners.
Director: Andy Fetscher | Stars: Jolene Andersen, Adolfo Assor, Betsy Baker, Louie Betton
Votes: 6,658
20. Encounter with the Unknown (1972)
PG | 90 min | Horror, Mystery
Three eerie tales based on actual events are enacted in this film. First, three college students play a prank on a geeky classmate, who is accidentally shot and killed. His vengeful mother ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Thomason | Stars: Rod Serling, Robert Ginnaven, Gary Brockette, John Leslie
Votes: 676
21. Hellraiser (2022)
R | 121 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites.
Director: David Bruckner | Stars: Odessa A'zion, Jamie Clayton, Adam Faison, Drew Starkey
Votes: 48,828
22. Devil in Ohio (2022)
TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When a psychiatrist shelters a mysterious cult escapee, her world is turned upside down as the girl's arrival threatens to tear her own family apart.
Stars: Emily Deschanel, Sam Jaeger, Gerardo Celasco, Madeleine Arthur
Votes: 19,317
23. The Watcher (2022– )
TV-MA | 332 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A married couple moving into their dream home are threatened by terrifying letters from a stalker, signed - "The Watcher."
Stars: Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale, Mia Farrow, Terry Kinney
Votes: 79,557
24. The Midnight Club (2022)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
At a hospice for terminally ill young adults, eight patients come together every night at midnight to tell each other stories - and make a pact that the next of them to die will give the group a sign from the beyond.
Stars: Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone
Votes: 35,192
25. The Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022)
TV-14 | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A teenage girl, who accidentally releases an ancient and mischievous spirit on Halloween which causes decorations to come alive and wreak havoc, must team up with the last person she'd want to in order to save their town - her father!
Director: Jeff Wadlow | Stars: Marlon Wayans, Priah Ferguson, Kelly Rowland, John Michael Higgins
Votes: 12,035
26. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A modern revival of the classic science fiction horror anthology show The Outer Limits (1963). Episodes often have twist-endings and involve aliens. Sometimes, a story from one episode continues in a later episode.
Stars: Kevin Conway, Alex Diakun, Eric Schneider, Garvin Cross
Votes: 13,785
27. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
A newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.
Director: Jim Sharman | Stars: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien
Votes: 167,011 | Gross: $139.88M
28. The Devil's Men (1976)
PG | 88 min | Horror
Tourists are kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult, and a priest tries desperately to save them. A gruesome tale of the devil and human sacrifice.
Director: Kostas Karagiannis | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Peter Cushing, Luan Peters, Kostas Karagiorgis
Votes: 1,818
29. The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Horror
A clumsy young man working at an impoverished flower shop discovers that the strange plant he has been nurturing has an insatiable appetite for blood, forcing him to kill to feed it.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller
Votes: 19,569 | Gross: $1.40M
30. Suicide Club (2001)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Mai Hosho, Tamao Satô
Votes: 22,228
31. Evil (2019–2024)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A skeptical clinical psychologist joins a priest-in-training and a blue collar contractor as they investigate supposed abnormal events, including, demonic possession, and other extraordinary occurrences to see if there's a scientific explanation or if something truly supernatural's at work.
Stars: Katja Herbers, Mike Colter, Aasif Mandvi, Michael Emerson
Votes: 32,561
32. Lovecraft Country (2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young African-American travels across the U.S. in the 1950s in search of his missing father.
Stars: Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Courtney B. Vance, Michael Kenneth Williams
Votes: 47,339
33. Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (2022)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in a visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.
Stars: Lize Johnston, Kevin Keppy, F. Murray Abraham, Peter Weller
Votes: 56,579
34. My Encounter with Evil (2022– )
45 min | Documentary, Horror
A chilling story about how three women, their relatives and friends face evil; its protagonists testify about their experiences of possession, infestation and exorcisms.
Stars: Frank Gerrish, Olivia Cane, Rob Saladino, Cristal Aparicio
Votes: 256
35. Prom Night (1980)
R | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
At a high-school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years previously.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens, Anne-Marie Martin
Votes: 20,940 | Gross: $14.80M
36. Hellhole (2022)
TV-MA | 91 min | Horror, Mystery
In 1987 Poland, a police officer investigating mysterious disappearances infiltrates a remote monastery and discovers a dark truth about its clergy.
Director: Bartosz M. Kowalski | Stars: Piotr Zurawski, Olaf Lubaszenko, Sebastian Stankiewicz, Lech Dyblik
Votes: 7,879
37. Meet the Blacks (2016)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Horror
As Carl Black gets the opportunity to move his family out of Chicago in hope of a better life, their arrival in Beverly Hills is timed with that city's annual purge, where all crime is legal for twelve hours.
Director: Deon Taylor | Stars: Mike Epps, Zulay Henao, Alex Henderson, Bresha Webb
Votes: 37,880 | Gross: $9.09M
38. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Teenager Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a vampire. After a series of events, Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque du Freak, becoming a creature of the night.
Director: Paul Weitz | Stars: Chris Massoglia, John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, Josh Hutcherson
Votes: 48,088 | Gross: $14.05M
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