IT’S BAAAACCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!
I’m SO happy to be bringing this year’s October Horror Movie Fest back for its 9th edition. It’s so wild thinking how long I’ve kept this tradition around, but at this point we’re too far gone to stop.
If you’re new here (which I’m sure you are)….
About OHMF
October Horror Movie Fest has been a tradition I’ve been doing since 2016. I’m a huge horror fan and I thought it would be a really cool idea to watch one horror movie a night for 31 nights just for the hell of it.
That year, I curated the first-ever OHMF list of movies to watch from Oct. 1st through to the 31st. It wasn’t a serious thing when I made it and I never posted it anywhere, it was just for me and my enjoyment (and it’s remained so to this day). Just recently, however, I’ve started sharing my lists because I love recommending horror movies I vibe and don’t vibe with to anyone who wants to hear my opinion.
I try to switch up the list every year in as many ways as I can with different movies and different theme weeks (although some films tend to make more than one appearance in consecutive years because they’re classics or staples).
Two things I’ve always done every October is start the month watching all 8 instalments of the Saw franchise and end the month watching The Nightmare Before Christmas every Halloween night. Previous years have included Slasher Week during the last week of October, featuring films with your fave five slasher killers: Ghostface, Leatherface, Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and Michael Myers (but of course there are many more famous slashers). For 2022, I paid homage to the legend of horror Wes Craven, by watching a few of his hidden gem films that go far beyond Nightmare on Elm and Scream.
Last year’s list was an interesting one to compile, and I opted NOT to watch all the Saw movies in the first week of the month like I’ve done since I started this. This was so that I could diversify the list as much as possible and also accomplish watching as many movies as I could within that first week.
As I say every year, I genuinely cannot believe that I’m still at this, especially with this year being year 9. I never would’ve imagined that I’d end up taking this as seriously as I do, but I look forward to October every year strictly because of the films below and the plethora of hidden gems horror carries and the new films that continue to shape genre today.
This will be the 6th time I’ve ever publicly shared my watchlist (RIP to the iPhone note screenshots that would end up on my Snapchat story).
With that being said, let the scary szn begin 😉
Oct. 1: Blink Twice (2024)
Oct. 2: Saw X (2023)
Oct. 3: Train to Busan (2016)
Oct. 4: Talk to Me (2022)
Oct. 5: The Perfection (2019)
Oct. 6: Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Oct. 7: Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Oct. 8: Suspiria (1977)
Oct. 9: Psycho (1960)
Oct. 10: The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Oct. 11: 28 Weeks Later (2007)
Oct. 12: Dead Ringers (1988)
Oct. 13: I Saw The TV Glow (2024)
Oct. 14: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Oct. 15: The Thing (1982)
Oct. 16: Ready or Not (2019)
Oct. 17: Eyes Without A Face (1960)
Oct. 18: Dead of Night (1945)
Oct. 19: Hereditary (2018)
Oct. 20: Midsommar (2019)
Oct. 21: Skinamarink (2022)
Oct. 22: Drag Me To Hell (2009)
Oct. 23: Evil Dead Rise (2023)
Oct. 24: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Oct. 25: Malignant (2021)
Oct. 26: The Invisible Man (2020)
Oct. 27: 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Oct. 28: Hush (2018)
Oct. 29-30: Halloween (1978 & 2018 Remake)
Oct. 31: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
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