I’ve made it to the 20s! My first 10 films are here. The next 10 I watched are a mixed bunch, but I’ve ended up with a lot of films I really liked, or that really worked for me.
Here’s the full list: 100-horror-movies-in-92-days-2025
Films 11-20
(11) Discopathe / Discopath (2013) dir. Renaud Gauthier. This one was a fun Canadian slasher / Canuxploitation flick about a repressed man in the 1970s who becomes a serial killer when he hears disco music.
(12) It Lives Inside (2023) dir. Bishal Dutta. Religious (Hindu) Horror, but also Emigration Horror, about a Desi family who emigrated from India to the USA but get caught up in a supernatural horror that another family in their community brought with them. I really liked this one.
(13) Ms. Kanyin (2025) dir. Jerry Ossai. New-to-me Nollywood horror, another Madame Koi-Koi flick. I really liked this one. The boarding school drama kept me entertained without the supernatural escalation, and when that kicked in, it was really enjoyable and had a decent ending.
(14) The Moogai (2024) dir. Jon Bell. Post-natal horror featuring racial tensions and stolen generation trauma in Australia. Really tough watch for me, and there was one moment in particular my heart actually stopped (as did the MC’s I think), and that was really well done. That wasn’t the supernatural part. Loads of child peril, and touches on post-natal psychosis, and the way Black mothers are treated.
(15) Den Stygge Stesøsteren / The Ugly Stepsister (2025) dir. Emilie Kristine Blichfeldt. This was a really tough watch as well, full on cosmetic surgery horror, and every time my stomach gurgles I think of that fucking tapeworm and all its disgusting friends. It does a really good job of highlighting the horrendous things girls do to themselves when encouraged to see each other as competition, and to value someone else’s beauty standards above their own self-worth.
(16) 死国 / Shikoku (1999) dir. Shunichi Nagasaki. I haven’t watched much J-horror and so this year I’m trying to rectify that. I liked this one – loads of folk horror and religious horror elements. This one had one of my favourite horror themes: an adult’s return to a childhood past, only to discover that those memories are of friendships that never were, and the connection is too slight to prevent locals who knew you only as a child to see you as more than a familiar stranger. Also, pilgrimage as ritual.
(17) Incubus (1966) dir. Leslie Stevens. This is the only horror film in Esperanto starring William Shatner. There is something quintessentially ’60s about that.
(18) オーディション / Audition (1999) dir. Takashi Miike. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any Miike films? I liked this one. I really enjoyed the first half, and the slow family drama feel of it, the sad lonely widower looking for someone who understands him, the close, supportive relationship between father and son, and the descent from this world into the dark and painful one of Asami.
(19) 蛇娘と白髪魔 / The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch (1968) dir. Noriaki Yuasa. I really enjoyed this – the unreliable, fantastical viewpoint of the child MC, the family melodrama, and the effects. The dream sequences were so much fun.
(20) Rita (2024) dir. Jayro Bustamante. Magical realism in a similar vein to Vuelven / Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017) dir. Issa López, about stolen childhood innocence in a society that holds so many dangers. In this case, however, it’s sexual assault and paedophilia. This is my first Guatemalan horror film. I watched Bustamante’s La Llorona after this for film (21) but my next 10 films will include it!
Countries (A-Z)
- Australia
- Canada
- Guatemala
- Japan
- Nigeria
- Norway
- USA
The padlet link: horror-films-i-ve-seen
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