C. M. Rosens

I’ve reached my first 10 films of the 2026 challenge, and I wanted to find as many as I could from different countries. You can listen to this post on my podcast: the RSS feed is below, have a browse of the latest episodes.

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My first 10 films were a very mixed bag, and I’m glad I watched all of them. Where women are on the crew as directors or writers, I’ve put a symbol. This will hopefully help me to track that as a metric!

First of all, I got into some Nigerian cinema with a range of three horror films. The first film was an indie found footage film made by college students, which looked like they really had fun making it. The second was a classic 1990s film which came in 2 parts (so far I’ve only see Part 1), which I really enjoyed. The third was the longest, and the most recent.

• Clout (2021) dir. Bobby Emmanuel Okoye, written by Bobby Emmanuel Okoye and Promise Okoli. No-budget found-footage horror. Suffers from shaky handheld cam in parts and a plot that’s not always cohesive, but they clearly enjoyed making it and give it 110%, so that’s a full extra star. Six friends embark on a journey to investigate the mysteries of the Ozalia Forest in Nigeria. Watch on YouTube. {Nigeria}

• Sakobi: The Snake Girl (1998) dir. Zeb Ejiro, written by Zeb Ejiro and Ken Oghenejabor. A classic – this is Part 1 of 2, and I’m so invested, I want to know how Part 2 goes. A man wishes to be wealthy, so he gives up his only daughter as a sacrifice, flubs that part, then ends up divorcing his wife to marry a cobra-woman like a dick. Watch on YouTube. {Nigeria}

• Araromire / The Figurine: Araromire (2009) dir. Kunle Afolayan, written by Kemi Adesoye. This one is a bit long for me. I didn’t know what to expect, but it’s more of a slice of life soap opera drama that goes slowly downhill with a twist at the end, and I’m into that. This one actually plays with the ideas in Obsession (not quite the same) – what happens when you realise you’re only the pregnant wife of the love of your life because he has an idol that made it so? Or is that even what’s happening at all? Two buddies and a girl, down on their luck, have their lives changed when one of them discovers a mysterious figurine in an abandoned shrine which, according to legend, bestows seven years of good luck. But no one told them about the next seven years… Watch on YouTube.
  {Nigeria}

• La settima tomba/The Seventh Grave (1965) dir. Garibaldi Serra Caracciolo, written by Alessandro Santini, Antonio Casale, and Garibaldi Serra Caracciolo. When the English title card appeared as “Old Scotland” at the start, I knew I was in for a treat with this Italian Gothic. Set in the 1800s, an American family travels to Scotland for the reading of Sir Reginald Thorne’s last will and testament—not expecting that the trip will lead them to black magic séances, mad doctors, escaped lepers, and giallo-style killings! Missing for a half-century, Garibaldi Serra Caracciolo’s THE SEVENTH GRAVE is a fascinating twist on THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1927 USA-made silent Horror, remade under that title in 1939 [USA] and 1978 [UK]) that ranks as one of the rarest and strangest Italian Gothic films ever made. Watched on YouTube.
  {Italy}

• Il mostro dell’opera/The Monster of the Opera (1964) dir. Renato Polselli, written by Giuseppe Pellegrini, Ernesto Gastaldi, and Renato Polselli. If you love weird dream sequences, extended dance numbers, and jaded musical theatre performers winding each other up and getting off with each other, this is the one. There’s also a vampire. A theatre troupe’s young, energetic leader has secured an old theatre in which to produce his new production. The theatre’s elderly caretaker urges the group to leave at once. A vampire is awakened and discovers that one of the troupe is the reincarnation of the woman who he once loved. Watched on YouTube. {Italy}

• Demonia (1990) dir. Lucio Fulci, written by Piero Regnoli and Lucio Fulci. Professor Malcolm Evans leads his archaeological expedition into the Valley of Temples in southeast Sicily. His companion and former student, Liza Harris, is looking forward to her very first dig. But Liza feels a strange sympathy with the valley and her recurring nightmares seem strongly tied to the nearby ruins. She is drawn to the remains of a 16th Century convent and its grisly legend of crucifixion. The local villagers rise to protect the entombed secrets of their ancestors, as Liza’s obsession with uncovering the truth takes her deeper into the forbidden ruins and further from sanity! {Italy}

• Wekufe: El origen del mal/Wekufe: The Origin of Evil (2016) dir. Javier Attridge, written by Javier Attridge. A student travels with her boyfriend to Chiloé, remote Patagonia island in southern Chile, to investigate the link that exists between the high number of sexual related crimes and the myths and legends that surround this mysterious place. {Chile}

• La casa lobo/Wolf House (2018) dirs. Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña, written by Cristóbal León, Alejandra Moffat, and Joaquín Cociña. Framed as a propaganda film to promote The Colony (La Colonia Dignidad) founded by paedophile Paul Shafer, with former Nazis and trafficked children, this is a stopmotion animated nightmare of a girl who escapes, is chased by a wolf, and finds shelter in a strange house that changes and distorts along with the two little pigs she finds there. It’s a disturbing origin story for the colony which is also an amazing piece of art. {Chile}

• भूत बंगला / Bhooth Bangla (2026) dir. Priyadarshan, written by Rohan Shankar, Priyadarshan, and Abhilash Nair. Hindi horror-comedy, 2hrs45min runtime, in two parts with a musical interlude. I wasn’t bored. The set up is also a fun drama with some romantic overtures, and then we get into the demon action. A man inherits a palace in rural Mangalpur and plans his sister’s wedding there, but strange supernatural events and panicked locals force him to investigate the property’s mysterious past. {India}

• Junglemahal: The Awakening (2023) dir. Arunava Chowdhury, written by Arunava Chowdhury. I really wanted to like it, but it didn’t hold my attention well enough. The effects are not the best but also not the worst. It is interspersed with footage but it’s not a found footage film. Loosely based on real incidents in the monsoon of the mid-1980s during the uprising of Naxalites in eastern Ghat range. A group of travellers head through the deep forests to reach the rescue camps. A series of mysterious incidents starts taking place around them, as the place is not what it seems. {India}

It’s definitely looking like the Horror films from Chile are my standouts from this batch of 10!