MONDAY HORROR FILMS
My friend, my partner, and I have a bi-weekly call where we watch a horror (or horror-adjacent) film together. The way it works is: we compile a huge list of films we'd like to watch, then on the night we spin a wheel to choose which one we're watching. When we're getting low on films, we make a new list - but that's only happened once so far.
It's a reliably excellent time (apart from when we watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre).
CURRENT LIST
- Raw (2016)
- Ghostwatch (1992)
- The Vourdalak (2023)
- It Follows (2014)
- Targets (1968)
- Videodrome (1983)
- Eraserhead (1977)
- Titane (2021)
- Halloween (1978)
The Birds (1963)
- "You're both unhinged, you're perfect for each other."
- World Apartment Horror (1991)
- A Field in England (2013)
Nosferatu (2024)- Rosemary's Baby (1968)
- The Wailing (2016)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- His House (2020)
- Men (2022)
The Substance (2024)
- "It really shouldn't be the case that I sympathise most with the guy manning the helpline."
- Cube (1997)
- The Lure (2015)
- American Werewolf in London (1981)
28 Days Later (2002)
- "As soon as I realised Christopher Eccleston was doing a Southern accent, I knew that guy was evil."
28 Years Later (2025)
- "This community is eerily white."
LIST ONE
Ranked by democratic voting on 11.8.2025.
- Us (2019)
- "I'm okay with most horror films because I'm not in that particular highly specific situation, but who in the first world doesn't have an uncomfortable relationship with the subaltern?"
- I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
- "Florence, are you okay?"
- Jennifer's Body (2009)
- Lake Mungo (2008)
- Nope (2022)
- Parasite (2019)
- In the Earth (2021)
- "It really is Annihilation but British."
- Heathers (1988)
- Get Out (2017)
- "The funniest bisexuality reveal of all time."
- The Others (2001)
- "It's essentially just a very long and involved ghost therapy session."
- The Devil's Backbone (2001)
- Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
- Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)
- "I don't trust the government to administer euthanasia in a way that isn't shitty, but I can get on board with this!"
- Train to Busan (2016)
- "Playing a zombie extra in this must have been so fun."
- Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
- Tragedy Girls (2017)
- "Judging it against the rest of the list feels wrong, it's just not playing the same game."
- Shivers (1975)
- "I liked the part where it was just a guy walking into various porn genres and hurriedly walking back out again."
- Crimson Peak (2015)
- "Unfortunately, I am not immune to a sad Tom Hiddleston."
- The Blair Witch Project (1999)
- Midsommar (2019)
- Saw (2004)
- "Who would've thought that the death traps guy would have death traps at his house?"
- Let the Right One In (2008)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
- "It's the only film in this list where I actually just want those hours of my life back."
- Bones and All (2022)
- "It's very Mormon in its cannibalism. It's art house Twilight."