C. M. Rosens

I’ve been pacing myself this time, but I’ve got to double digits in the challenge. If you’re not sure what the challenge is, read my previous post here. Check out the tag #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days for all the posts I’ve made on this in the past.

This year’s Letterboxd list is here: 100-horror-movies-in-92-days-2025

1. 纸新娘 / Paper Bride (2023) dirs. Chen Siming, Jack Ye. Gothic Horror from China. More like Tumbaad than Incantation. Period drama/mystery meets a family curse, dark secrets, romantic tragedy, and dark and stormy nights at a haunted mansion… but is there a rational, rather than a supernatural, explanation?
   
2. The Stone Tape (1972) dir. Peter Sasdy. This one hasn’t aged well (remember when casual racism and misogyny was aired on TV? Ah, the ’70s…) I like the premise of it and see why it’s remembered as a good piece of weird fiction, but I think a better version is in there somewhere and didn’t quite emerge.
   
3. Malpertuis (1971) dir. Harry Kümel. Fever dream psychedelic Gothic fantasy but lowkey, about ageing gods trapped in a dreamscape manor house by a dying man, and the sailor Jan who is entangled in a series of waking nightmares. It’s slow, weird, Gothic dread, not jumpscares or anything remotely ‘scary’, but it’s definitely horror.
   
4. 女鬼橋 / The Bridge Curse (2020) dir. Lester Hsi. The first film in a Taiwanese duology (at the moment, possibly a trilogy, if they make a third one). I actually really liked the lore and the worldbuilding across both films.
   
5. 女鬼橋2：怨鬼樓 / The Bridge Curse: Ritual (2023) dir. Lester Hsi. The second film links in with the first one in ways I really liked, and it was a fun way to explore different urban legends and ghost beliefs.
   
6. Panggonan Wingit / The Haunted Hotel (2023) dir. Guntur Soeharjanto. I don’t like the way albino people are presented in films, and this one I was conflicted by, as I thought the film itself has a fun horror movie premise and then… yeah. Spoilers ahead:
   Expand Me

   It turns out the vengeful spirit is an albino woman from a rural community who flayed herself alive in a fit of prolonged self-loathing after being mistreated her whole life and having a doomed love affair with a guy who gets amnesia and forgets her and marries someone else. She ends up being a very sympathetic character in the sense that once her horrendous backstory is revealed, it’s like – good for you love. Kill everyone. Why not. But she’s still unhealed from her pain, and still killing everyone who sees her out of vengeance for that unhealed pain. It’s another ‘albinos can only live lives of horror and misery and then inflict it on others’ type trope.
   Anyway this is what albino people have to say about rep in movies:
   On Hollywood portrayals | On the Evil Albino trope itself
   
7. Jurnal Risa by Risa Saraswati (2024) dir. Rizal Mantovani. This didn’t go where I thought it was going, but it was fine. A possession film with cleansing rituals and some slipping in and out of ghost worlds and so on.
   
8. Un angelo per Satana / An Angel for Satan (1966) dir. Camillo Mastrocinque. A sort of proto-giallo Italian Gothic drama, with a cursed family, timey-wimey stuff, and evil (or is she?) Barbara Steele. It’s got all the nudity, chaos, and strung-out Gothic melodrama you could want for a quiet Sunday afternoon.
   
9. Due occhi diabolici / Two Evil Eyes (1990) dirs. Dario Argento, George A. Romero. A double-bill very loosely based on two of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic stories. They went hard on the body horror in this one. Romero got an animated corpse in there. The second one is a hard watch if you’re a cat lover, and had to have a disclaimer that no cats were actually harmed in the making of it, but I’m not sure. It was very angry.
   
10. Siccîn 4 (2017) dir. Alper Mestçi. Back to this franchise… I’ve seen and enjoyed a few films by Alper Mestçi, this franchise seems to have all his best ideas. Siccîn 1-3 are pretty good, and worth checking out in any order you like, as they are linked by the concept of jinn possessions and black magic, not by character or setting. Each film is based on a “true story” that happened somewhere in Türkiye. This film wasn’t my favourite of the 4 I’ve seen so far but it wasn’t bad.

So far my spread of countries is pretty good, in A-Z order I’ve got:

Belgium/France
China
Indonesia
Italy
Italy/USA
Taiwan
Turkey
U.K. (England)

Updating my Horror Movies Padlet map with these when I can.

If you want some inspiration for this year’s challenge, or just for whenever, there is a single curated list of all the films being watched and tagged “100HorrorMoviesIn92Days”, that you can check out: The Fellowship of 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days: 2025 Edition.

I’ll update later with my next 10 films.