Ladies and gentlemen, we’re back.

We’ve made it to October, but more importantly, we’ve made it to this year’s October Horror Movie Fest for its 10TH EDITION. 10 bloody editions of this tradition I’ve kept alive since 2016, and next year will be 10 years since I started the whole thing. It’s still so wild to me, but at this point (as I said last year) 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 fun idea (as a 16-year-old who despised school and would do anything to put off doing homework) 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 are start the month watching all *8 instalments of the Saw franchise and end the month watching The Nightmare Before Christmas every Halloween night (but have recently stopped doing Saw week to open the month because there are waaaayyy too many Saw films now). Previous years have included Slasher Week during the last week of October, featuring films with your fab 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 Street and Scream.

This year, to mark the 10th edition, the watchlist kicks off with films that are also celebrating their 10th anniversary in 2025. Some films have made their way onto my watchlists before in OHMF years past, and some are making appearances for the first time.

I still genuinely cannot believe that I’m still at this, especially with this year being year 10. I never would’ve imagined that I’d still be doing something like this, but this is the reason I look forward to October every year. Because of the films below, the plethora of hidden gems the horror genre carries, and the new films that continue to shape the genre today.

This will be the 7th 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 😉

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