Every October, I allow myself to get all of the horror, gore, and halloween-themed movie-watching out of my system. For literally no reason or benefit, I usually challenge myself to watch 31 such movies, one for each day of the month. This year is the first year I succeeded, likely due to a mixture of the pandemic limiting excursions, and also because horror movies are a light and breezy diversion from the real-life hellscape that is 2020.
So what did Trixter watch? Here’s the list, in chronological order of release date (this was not my viewing order, which is much less interesting):
| Title | Year |
| The Thing | 1951 |
| The Premature Burial | 1962 |
| Theater of Blood | 1973 |
| The Exorcist | 1973 |
| Haunted: The Ferryman | 1974 |
| Trilogy of Terror | 1975 |
| Halloween | 1978 |
| Alien | 1979 |
| Phantasm | 1979 |
| Humanoids from the Deep | 1980 |
| The Thing | 1982 |
| The Beast Within | 1982 |
| Cat People | 1982 |
| Aliens | 1986 |
| Invaders from Mars | 1986 |
| April Fool’s Day | 1986 |
| Predator | 1987 |
| Phantasm II | 1988 |
| Cellar Dweller | 1988 |
| Scarecrows | 1988 |
| Death Spa | 1989 |
| Dr. Giggles | 1992 |
| Leprechaun | 1993 |
| Phantasm III | 1994 |
| Ice Cream Man | 1995 |
| From Dusk ’til Dawn | 1996 |
| Phantasm IV | 1998 |
| Shaun of the Dead | 2004 |
| Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn | 2015 |
| Phantasm: Ravager | 2016 |
| Hubie Halloween | 2020 |
And a special bonus that I completed just now: Night of the Living Dead (1990) viewing party with three of lead actors, giving live commentary. Was very fun, first time I’ve ever done that.
Oldskooler Ramblings 