Here are my next 10 films for the horror movie challenge 2025… I only watched 69 and 70 tonight, so this was very close to the wire. I’ve got 30 to go, and 33 days to do it in!
(61) Bleed With Me (2020) dir. Amelia Moses. I really enjoyed this one, it’s my second film by Amelia Moses and I enjoyed the messed up psychological horror angle. I also enjoy how sapphic her work is.
(62) Schlitter / Schlitter: Evil in the Woods (2023) dir. Pierre Mouchet. So many plot holes in this one but that’s ok. It was a really decent horror-thriller, with some great moments and one pretty good kill.
(63) Lèvres de sang / Lips of Blood (1975) dir. Jean Rollin. I’m running out of new-to-me Rollin films for this challenge but this year it’s the usual twins appearing in Lips of Blood, and this one is… yeah. Teenage vampire dream and mother’s boy artist. A lot going on, culminating in a coffin for two on the beach.
(64) Mantra Surugana (2023) dir. Dyan Sunu Prastowo. This would be a good double-bill with Lilim, or Sister Death. I think this is quite fun. TW for suicide, but I found some of the scenes really moved me, and I also really liked the main character.
(65) Guna Guna Istri Muda (2024) dir. Razka Robby Ertanto. This was such a lot of fun. I really want to see the original 1970s film now. I enjoyed how messed up the dark magic was, and the bonkers showdown at the end! Very satisfying.
(66) பூமிகா / Boomika (2021) dir. R. Rathindran Prasad. Ok, I had a lot of thoughts on this. I’m not sure about the rep, but also I really connected with the idea of the earth itself being an autistic woman. I think I need more eco-horror where the nature spirits are explicitly autistic women who are over everyone’s shit.
(67) Santet Segoro Pitu / Curse of the Seven Seas (2024) dir. Tommy Dewo. This was a really good adventure-horror, but not one to watch if you have issues with children being killed horribly. (One child, by a curse). There is a quest element to it too, and a lot of mythology and battling shamans. I also really liked that it was set in the 1980s, and the idea that the bazaar is full of dark magic and people using magic for their own ends, mainly to make money, and stop their rival shopkeepers making money. That feels like the universal 1980s zeitgeist to be honest.
(68) Hermana Muerte / Sister Death (2023) dir. Paco Plaza. This does some interesting (to me) things with visions and faith, and the question of what visions are, and how to hold on to a child-like faith as you grow into adulthood with all the questions that brings. There is such a lot going on in this film, with many layers to it, especially around sight (physical, spiritual). It’s the prequel to Véronica, so it would be good to watch as a double bill with that film.
(69) La noche de Walpurgis / Werewolf’s Shadow / The Werewolf vs the Vampire Woman (1970) dir. León Klimovsky. This film apparently kicked off the Spanish horror boom in the 1970s. I can see why – it’s campy, but so much fun. You have the allure of the sapphic vampires, the hot (yes he is, shut up) werewolf guy who fights them and has his own castle. I liked when he stabbed that undead monk with a cross. Also, love triangle between final girl, werewolf castle owner, and policeman.
(70) El cadáver insepulto / The Unburied (2020) dir. Alejandro Cohen Arazi. I’ve wanted to see this one for a while, and saved it for the challenge. I’m glad I did. I’m always fascinated by takes on family dynamics and structures, especially with how people relate to death within those structures, as individuals and collectively, and how their reactions impact those dynamics. Also, the revisiting of childhood memories and the haunted by the past trope – that is my jam, and this had it in spades.
Countries A-Z – Films 61-70
Argentina
Belgium
Canada
France
India
Indonesia
Spain
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