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)
02 Into the Wilderness
03 Food Fight
04 Costumed Creeps
05 Animals
06 Clown Town
07 Dolls, Living or Otherwise
08 This Actor Is Too Good For This Movie
09 Fancy Draculas
10 Scary Books
11 Silent Movie
12 The Sequel
13 Giant Monster
14 Religious Horror
15 A Scarrel of Laughs
16 “It’s a trap!”
17 Art-House Horror
18 Meh Movie, Great Soundtrack
19 Space: the Scary Frontier
20 Queer Horror
21 J-Horror (or K-Horror)
22 The Monster Is The Protagonist
23 ’80s Kids
24 Evil Children
25 Under de Sea
26 The Threequel
27 Beep beep! Cars/trucks/campers
28 The Only Way to Win (Video Games)
29 Sports Horror
30 Before They Were Famous
31 The Scariest Film I Know