After a few years of playing along with a horror podcast’s horror-movie-every-day October horror challenge, we’ve homebrewed one for 2024, along with my sister-in -law and horror-fiend niece.
The idea is that there’s a theme per day, but we don’t tell people what to watch — they fill in the blanks based on their interpretation of the sometimes-quite-loose, sometimes-very-directive themes.
2024’s list:
Horror Challenge October 2024
01 Final Girl(s) – Happy Death Day
02 Into the Wilderness – The Watchers
03 Food Fight – The Stuff
04 Costumed Creeps – The Banana Splits Movie
05 Animals – Night of the Lepus
06 Clown Town – Killer Klowns from Outer Space
07 Dolls, Living or Otherwise – Oddity
08 This Actor Is Too Good For This Movie – Tentacles
09 Fancy Draculas – Salem’s Lot
10 Scary Books – A Dark Song
11 Silent Movie – Haxan
12 The Sequel – Nightmare on Elm St. 2: Freddy’s Revenge
13 Giant Monster – Tremors
14 Religious Horror – Tumbbad
15 A Scarrel of Laughs – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
16 “It’s a trap!” – Trap
17 Art-House Horror – Eyes Without a Face / Company of Wolves
18 Meh Movie, Great Soundtrack – The Keep
19 Space: the Scary Frontier – V/H/S Beyond
20 Queer Horror – Jennifer’s Body
21 J-Horror (or K-Horror) – One Cut of the Dead
22 The Monster Is The Protagonist – Black Out
23 ’80s Kids – The Watcher in the Woods
24 Evil Children – Z (2019)
25 Under de Sea – Lake of Death
26 The Threequel – Nightmare on Elm St. 3 – The Dream Warriors
27 Beep beep! Cars/trucks/campers – Maximum Overdrive (or Titane)
28 The Only Way to Win (Video Games) – Brainscan (or Stay Alive)
29 Sports Horror – 5150, rue des ormes
30 Before They Were Famous
31 The Scariest Film I Know