The 2nd Annual Shocktober Helloween Spooktacular Extravaghoulza Skelebration and Film Festerval (or Movie Marrowthon) 2025

from the delightfully bonkers Lady Terminator, one of last year's picks

Welcome to my 2nd Annual Shocktober Helloween Spooktacular Extravaghoulza Skelebration and Film Festerval (or Movie Marrowthon)! I know its a mouthful, but I paid the Cryptkeeper to come up with a name and that desiccated dick charged me by the word, so we’re keeping it.

Last October I actually fulfilled all my self-challenges and watched an absurd number of horror movies, but it didn't leave me time to review a lot of them. See last year's reviews here. These goals are to challenge me to go outside my comfort zone and watch a larger variety of horror movies, and also to help narrow down my viewing decisions when I get paralyzed by options. This time I will try to update my progress on this post. I was hoping to to write more full reviews this year, but it looks like I will be working 7 days a week thru October so I will just be linking my shorter reviews on letterboxd below.

Any movie I watch can count once in each of these three categories to make this workable.

A Hundred Years of Horror - Watch at least one horror movie from every decade:

1920s

1930s - Mad Love (1935)

1940s

1950s

1960s - Black Sunday (1960)

1970s - Countess Dracula (1971)

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s - The Moth Diaries (2011)

2020s

Subgenre Sampler, watch at least one horror movie from each of the following subgenres:

Action

Body

Comedy

Giallo

Monster

Psychological

Sci-Fi

Slasher

Universal monster classic

Hammer horror - Countess Dracula (1971)

Watch three each of the following:

Anthologies

Sequels

European Horror

1. Black Sunday (1960)

Asian Horror

International Horror (from outside of the usual countries)