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)
- "If I hadn't read in the blurb that this was a vet school, I would be extremely confused right now."
- Ghostwatch (1992)
The Vourdalak (2023)It Follows (2014)- "If it's transfer of bodily fluids then what you need to do is spit on a mouse and then ship it to the other side of the world."
- "What happens if you pass it to an astronaut who then goes to space? Does it just stand there sadly looking at the sky?"
- Targets (1968)
- Videodrome (1983)
Eraserhead (1977)
- "I'm torn between 'I don't find this guy's sexual neuroses very interesting' and 'but it's funny when he suffers'."
- 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)
- As the credits are rolling: "Wait, did neither of you realise that all of them were played by Rory Kinnear?!"
The Substance (2024)
- "It really shouldn't be the case that I sympathise most with the guy manning the helpline."
Cube (1997)"I see we're handling disability with the sensitivity and deftness I've come to expect from this film."
"If you're only half paying attention, this seems like it might mean something."
"You would not be able to make those marks on metal with a plastic button." "THAT'S your problem with this?!"
The Lure (2015)
- "Ah, the agony of being the Little Mermaid's lesbian best friend."
- "I feel like I understood the film as a whole but didn't understand anything that was happening in any given moment."
American Werewolf in London (1981)The Ugly Stepsister (2025)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."