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And with that, our October Horror Movie Challenge is done for another year. Whew!

Thanks for following along for those who did. And now as a little denouement on the year, we close out with what’s become kind of an end of Halloween tradition to celebrate.

32) Trick ‘r Treat (2007 - HBO Max)
Poster for Trick ‘r Treat showing Sam, the sack-masked, button-eyed little mascot for this movie, holding his sack of treats and standing next to a Jack o’lantern in front of a montage of images of characters from the anthology superimposed over a glowing orange background.
November 1, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Oops! Minor error! Turns out we didn’t watch the one before this which explains why I was a bit confused at the first few minutes. So we’re going to start our ACTUAL number 30 now then and return to the above one next.

30) Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (2023 - Shudder)
Poster for Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor showing the hollow eyed clown face from the previous movies floating over the titular manor. Tagline: Every Story Has an Origin
October 31, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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We’re settled in for the night with our candy and fast food to finish out the month in proper fat kid style.

First up? What is (I believe?) supposed to be the final installment of this franchise we started watching a couple years back.

30) Hell House LLC: Lineage (2025 - Shudder)
Poster for Hell House LLC: Lineage showing a spooky house with one glowing red window at the top and a clown-esque mask at the bottom with hollow blood dripping eyes. Tagline: A Blood Bond Rooted in Evil
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Getting suuuuper close to being done this year! Only a couple left to go…

Going back to another recent one this time.

29) Heretic (2024 - HBO Max)
Poster for Heretic. An out of focus bespectacled man’s face is in the background as his hand reaches out toward a pair of what appear to be crudely carved wooden dolls representing young women on a tabletop in the foreground. Tagline: “Question everything”
October 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Man I’ve been so bad at keeping this list up.

We started this one Sunday night and finished it last night. I had seen it before but it had been ages.

28) One Missed Call (2003 - Shudder)
Poster/ad for One Missed Call showing a young Japanese woman looking fearfully at the camera as behind her, a ghostly woman with long stringy hair approaches her upside down on the ceiling lit in green as if from a night vision camera. Similar green lit fingertips emerge from the darkness near a hand holding a flip phone.
October 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Forgot to post this yesterday. The next stop at j-horror station was one I could have sworn I had seen but turns out I hadn’t.

27) Noroi: The Curse (2005 - Shudder)
Poster for Noroi: The Curse showing a picture frame with a photo of a man and woman with a young girl. The eyes of each person are covered with a black bar. In the foreground of the poster are two rising streams of smoke as is from burning incense. The right column of smoke forms the tagline in Japanese script: みんな死んだ - Minna Shin Da - Everyone died.
October 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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I think we’re gonna keep the J-Horror train going today.

I’ve never actually gotten around to watching this one before or reading the Junji Ito manga it’s based on either. Time to fix that.

This also marks the first time this year we’re getting ahead of the curve!

26) Tomie (1998 - Shudder)
Poster for Tomie showing faces of various characters peering out from a dark background. In the foreground we see a red stained plastic shopping bag with a hole in the side. An eye can be seen peering out of the hole in the bag at the viewer.
October 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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First one today is a fairly recent Japanese offering I hadn’t heard of before until I stumbled onto it.

25) Best Wishes to All (2022 - Shudder)
Poster for Best Wishes to All showing the film’s protagonist - a young Japanese woman with bangs and long dark hair. She’s turned slightly toward the camera in front of an out of focus cloudy grey background. Her face is slightly dirty and her right eye is reddened with a line coming out of it like a teardrop perhaps?
October 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Started this one last night and forgot to log it.

24) Until Dawn (2025 - Netflix)
Cover image for Until Dawn showing an hourglass with a creepy house in the bottom half of the glass and a girl’s screaming face in the top.
October 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Pulling into the final week here… let’s go back to the found footage/documentary well with one I only heard about recently.

23) Butterfly Kisses (2018 - Prime, Tubi)
Promotional image for Butterfly Kisses showing a depiction of an eye with the colors washed out to blueish grey with the center of the eye replaced by a sketch of train tracks heading into a tunnel and a silhouetted figure at the end of the tunnel wearing a wide brimmed hat. Tagline: “The Camera Doesn’t Lie”
October 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Been meaning to watch this one for a long time now.

22) Pontypool (2008 - Shudder)
Poster for Pontypool showing a red splatter on a white background forming the image of a man with headphones on (the character Grant Mazzy, a radio DJ). The splatter makes it look as if his head is exploded. Tagline: “Shut up or die”
October 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Forgot to post that we started this one last night.

21) Seed of Chucky (2004 - Peacock)
Poster for Seed of Chucky showing Chucky leaning down and touching fingers with an outstretched baby’s hand rising up from out of a covered bassinet stroller. Light blooms where the fingers touch. Tagline: “Fear The Second Coming”
October 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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And tonight shifts back to a franchise we did earlier this month.

20) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986 - Tubi)
Poster for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 showing Leatherface and his family of weird cannibal freaks posing in a group shot for the camera as he raises a clenched fist in the back.
October 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Forgot to post this one last night. We kept this franchise going with the second installment.

19) Poltergeist 2: The Other Side (1986 - Tubi)
Poster for Poltergeist 2: The Other Side showing Carol Anne sitting and holding a phone reciever to her ear in a pool of light on a field of darkness. Tagline: “They’re Back”
October 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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We watched the 2015 remake of this classic a year or so back and I was already yearning for a rewatch of the original’s sequel. Turns out the original three are on streaming so why not rewatch the first two and finally watch the third, which I hadn’t seen?

18) Poltergeist (1982 - HBO Max)
Key set for Poltergeist showing a young girl sitting in front of a tv, its screen showing static and casting the room in blue-white light. She has her back to the viewer and her palms against the screen. Tagline: “It knows what scares you”
October 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Back to the grindstone again with one I’d never seen before yet.

17) Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984 - Pluto TV)
Poster for Silent Night, Deadly Night showing a Santa suit wearing arm coming out of a snow and icicle covered chimney on a snowy rooftop holding an axe. Taglines: “You’ve made it through Halloween, now try and survive Christmas” and “He knows when you’ve been naughty”
October 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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And for the second half…

16) The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025 - Theater)
Poster for The Conjuring: Last Rites showing Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as Ed and Lorraine Warren. Ed has his mouth partially open as if speaking or yelling and one hand extended toward the viewer. Loraine is behind him, looking concerned and upset. Tagline: “The Case That Ended It All”
October 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Forgot to post this earlier tonight but I’m at the drive-in for a double feature tonight. We got underway about an hour and a half ago with…

15) The Black Phone 2 (2025 - Theater)
Poster for The Black Phone 2 showing the leering devil-like mask of The Grabber smiling up from out of the snow and ice.
October 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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We’re behind yet again… ugh. But we have plans for the weekend to get caught up.

For now, it’s a remake that I haven’t seen since it originally came out.

14) The Blob (1988 - Shudder)
Poster for the 1988 remake of The Blob showing the titular creature having enveloped someone, with their hands and face pushing against the membrane, face in an expression of horror. Tagline: “Now, Terror has No Shape”
October 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Getting a late start today with the sequel to one we did last year.

Let’s see what Peach Fuzz has been up to…

13) Creep 2 (2017 - Netflix)
Poster for Creep 2 showing the main serial killer character played by Mark Duplass with his arms crossed across his chest looking down through some irregular aperture at the viewer. Stacks of what appear to be cut firewood are stacked behind him.
October 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Woof… that was kind of a hot mess. Sloppy execution all around with far too few bright spots (both literal and figurative) but they can’t all be winners, right?

Next up… returning to a classic I haven’t seen in forever.

12) The Howling (1981 - Tubi)
Movie poster for The Howling showing claws raking slashes through some sheet of thin material or paper. Clawed fingertips are visible through the slashes as well as a woman’s open screaming mouth. Tagline: Imagine your worst fear a reality.
October 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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I think we’re gonna go with a werewolf theme for today after that one.

Next up, one we had in theaters earlier this year. Man, Julia Garner had a busy year between Fantastic Four, Weapons and this one, huh?

11) Wolf Man (2025 - Prime Video)
Poster for Wolf Man (2025) showing two people walking down a path in the woods looking back over their shoulder. The older woman is holding a flashlight and the hand of the younger woman. The full moon shines through the trees overhead. Tagline: Protect Your Own
October 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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And today we return to a movie I haven’t seen since the late 80s. Oscar and I both read the book it was based on, The Cycle of the Werewolf, at an inappropriately young age…

10) Stephen King’s Silver Bullet (1985 - Pluto TV)
Movie poster for Silver Bullet showing a full moon peeking through tree cover. Tagline reads: It started in May In a small town. And every month after that, whenever the moon was full… it came back”
October 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Oh man I really messed up. Forgot to log day 9’s pick when we watched it. Oops. And then we lost two days to Oscar being out of town so today is gonna be us playing catch up.

But first, logging my missed entry, which I originally saw in theaters when it came out.

9) The Strangers (2008 - Netflix)
Poster for The Strangers showing Liv Tyler standing in a dimly lit house looking concerned while a man in a sack mask watches from behind, only his face visible in the dark hallway.
October 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Tonight is taking it easy. I’ve seen this one a million times but Oscar hasn’t seen it yet.

We’ve got vampires down in Mexico with…

8) From Dusk Till Dawn (1996 - Tubi, Peacock)
Movie poster for From Dusk Till Dawn showing George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino as Seth and Richie Gecko. Seth is pointing a smoking gun at the viewer. A bar at sunset is swarming with bats in the corner. Tagline: “One night is all that stands between them and freedom. But it's going to be one hell of a night.”
October 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM