Category: October Horror Movie Challenge

By Scott Dorward The Lighthouse (USA, 2019) Over the past couple of years, a ludicrous number of people have told me to watch The Lighthouse. Everything I heard made it sound like exactly the kind…

By Scott Dorward Don’t Torture a Duckling (Italy, 1972) It is mandatory for my October Horror Movie Challenge to include something by Lucio Fulci. If I’ve scheduled too many serious, weighty films, I can always…

By Scott Dorward Sator (USA, 2019) If you asked, I probably say that my ideal horror film would be something slow and creepy, rooted in folk horror. My experiences this month are making me reconsider…

By Scott Dorward mon mon mon MONSTERS (Taiwan, 2017) mon mon mon MONSTERS was another random selection, plucked from my streaming subscriptions to flesh out this month’s list. I knew nothing about it beyond it…

By Scott Dorward Terror Train (USA, 1980) Stephen Graham Jones’s excellent novel My Heart is a Chainsaw recently made me realise how few slasher films I’ve actually seen. The home video boom of the early…