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October 2025 Horror Movie Marathon!
YOU'VE BEEN INVITED! It's that time of year again! Welcome back to the 2025 October Horror Movie Marathon!
Here's how it works:
Watch scary/horror movies in October...whatever YOU think is horror (or scary) is fine!
Talk about them here (or at least list the title).
At the end of the month, tally up how many horror movies you watched.
1-12 movies: Bangor Buddies
13-18 movies: Tet-Mates
19-30 movies: Horrorslingers
31 movies or more: Ultimate Kings of Horror!
Even if you only watch one or two scary movies, this is a great thread for horror movie enthusiasts to share their finds and talk some horror!
Here's how it works:
Watch scary/horror movies in October...whatever YOU think is horror (or scary) is fine!
Talk about them here (or at least list the title).
At the end of the month, tally up how many horror movies you watched.
1-12 movies: Bangor Buddies
13-18 movies: Tet-Mates
19-30 movies: Horrorslingers
31 movies or more: Ultimate Kings of Horror!
Even if you only watch one or two scary movies, this is a great thread for horror movie enthusiasts to share their finds and talk some horror!
Comments
I know. It’s not time. But this is probably the best thing I’ll have seen for the marathon by the time I’m done.
*denotes first time viewing
2025 list
1. The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon*— Bev’s Board
2025 list
1. The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon*— Bev’s Board
2. The Hand — Tubi
1. The Black Phone
2. Archive 81
1. Nosferatu (2024) 4/5
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002) 2,5/5 This is a british movie (mostly scottish cast) headed by John Hannah as Hyde/Jekyll. This is not really a monster movie since they look exactly alike and much of the horror is psychological. Hannah does a very fine job as a man battling with himself. There are some brutal murders there but the movie focus on the psychological struggle and not on blood or gore. I cant recall how true it is to the source material since it is many decades since i read Stevensons book but it held my interest.
1. Nosferatu (2024) 4/5
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002) 2,5/5
3. The Long Walk (2025) 4,5/5 Wow. This is a dystopic movie where hope is absent and the horror is all the more present for it. The two leads Garraty and McVries are both very good. Despair hangs like a heavy blanket over the whole thing. Who had thought that a long walk for 95 minutes could be captivating? Not me but it is. Well done. Liked the ending too, a little different.
1) "Source Code" - 2011 (FTV)
"Colter Stevens, an army officer who is hired for a secret operation, finds himself in the body of a stranger. Soon, he is on a mysterious trail to track down the bomber of a commuter train in Chicago."
I really enjoyed this and a bonus.. David Bowie's son Duncan Jones directed it.
A recently widowed woman living with her two children on a remote farm is menaced by a dark cloaked woman.
Oh yay, yet another horror movie dealing with grief and mental illness. I was initially drawn by the film's central premise, a mysterious woman in the front yard, which seemed full of possibilities. Alas, the film is terminally uninteresting, and commits the sin of making the main character the least interesting (not to mention most unlikeable) one. In addition, she is the character who seems to have the least agency; in fact she seems determined to make sure that nothing happens. Any time her far more proactive son suggests a course of action, he is blocked by her. The entire plot is set up by conveniences: location, power outage, phones don't work, car won't work either. It's as if the writers didn't want anything that might realistically happen from getting in the way of shoving their clumsy (not to mention obvious) themes down our throat.
Performances aren't bad. Given the limited location and budget, the film is decently photographed. I believe the film had good intentions. But it goes from being a slow slog to a muddled mess.
Watch The Babadook instead.
2 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2024 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Woman in the Yard 2/5 (FTV)
it’s the one with Donald Pleasence about grave robbers, Burke and Hare. Not bad.
2025 list
1. The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon*— Bev’s Board
2. The Hand — Tubi
Grad student in 1995 NYC gets bitten by a vampire and must deal with the fallout.
This movie completely escaped my radar in 1995 and I only found out about it when Arrow Video did a restoration and release on 4k UHD. Directed by Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant, King of New York) in striking black and white, The Addiction aims for something higher than the usual genre fare, with uneven results. Sure, given the title it's easy to see this is a metaphor for addiction, but it's also about the HIV scare, social climbing, the hypocrisy of academia, and sexual paranoia in the big city. These themes work well within the vampire story but don't always cohere as a whole. Far too often characters are saying things that no person would ever say in normal conversation, and I guess we're expected to understand every philosophy reference that's being made to get some deeper meaning. Maybe that's true, but often I felt like I was at a party where everyone gets the joke but me.
The mid-90s vibe is nicely captured, particularly the hip-hop heavy soundtrack. Lily Taylor is onscreen nearly every scene and acquits herself admirably enough. But it's Christopher Walken who really steals the show during an all-too-brief scene as an elder vampire who's trying to retain his humanity and beat the blood addiction. I wish we'd gotten to see more of his journey.
Vampire's Kiss, but more arty and not funny.
3 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2024 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Woman in the Yard 2/5 (FTV)
2. The Addiction 3/5 (FTV)
Brimstone and Treacle is a 1976 BBC television play by Dennis Potter. Originally intended for broadcast as an episode of the series Play for Today, it remained untransmitted until 1987. The play was made into a film version (released in 1982) co-starring Sting. Both versions also star Denholm Elliott.
2025 list
1. The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon*— Bev’s Board
2. The Hand — Tubi