I was looking into theatrical horror movies this October season and it seems surprisingly few especially into October itself. Maybe Smile 2 is the only studio large scale release this October. Hopefully more get added.

September 6: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, The Front Room, Red Rooms
September 13: Booger, Speak No Evil
September 20: The Substance, Strange Darling
September 27: Never Let Go, Abruptio
October 4: Monster Summer
October 11: Terrifier 3
October 18: Smile 2, Flight Risk
October 22: Catnado! Unleashed [VOD, DVD - 'thanks' WillieMLF]
October 25: Your Monster, Venom: Last Dance
October 29: The Red

It looks like a bunch of stuff is getting dumped into theaters in August probably so it can be on streaming or physical media by October.

Don't forget Catnado! Unleashed on VOD and DVD on October 22, 2024.

Here's some subset pics, and the theme nights they would fit.

Zombeavers (2014)
Nightmare Cinema (2018)
Tragedy Girls (2017)
Dead In 3 Days (2006)
Kill Theory (2009)
All Cheerleaders Die (2013)
Satan's Little Helper (2004)
Candy Land (2022)
Mindhunters (2004)
Eye See You aka D-Tox (2002)
Underwater (2020)
All My Friends Are Dead (2020)
Fun Size (2012) - This is a teen party comedy that takes place on Halloween night. Not really horror. So it might only be good for the last two nights (Halloween & Comedy).


6. Creature Features - Underwater (2020), Zombeavers (2014)
8. Highway to Hell - Candy Land (2022)
9. Horror Anthologies - Nightmare Cinema (2018)
10. Within the Woods - Zombeavers (2014)
12. Coming of Age Horror - All Cheerleaders Die (2013), Tragedy Girls (2017), Satan's Little Helper (2004), Fun Size (2012)
16. Slashers - Tragedy Girls (2017), Dead In 3 Days (2006), Eye See You aka D-Tox (2002), Mindhunters (2004), Kill Theory (2009), All Cheerleaders Die (2013), Satan's Little Helper (2004), Candy Land (2022)
23. Zombies - Zombeavers (2014), All Cheerleaders Die (2013)
24. International Horror - Dead In 3 Days (2006), All My Friends Are Dead (2020)
26. Two Word Titles - Tragedy Girls (2017), Nightmare Cinema (2018), Kill Theory (2009), Candy Land (2022), Fun Size (2012)
28. Investigation Horror - Eye See You aka D-Tox (2002), Mindhunters (2004)
30. Demons & Witches - All Cheerleaders Die (2013)
31. Halloween - Fun Size (2012), Satan's Little Helper (2004)
32. Horror Comedy - Fun Size (2012), Zombeavers (2014), All My Friends Are Dead (2020), Satan's Little Helper (2004)

Here are some subset suggestions. If you need more, just let me know.

Peeping Tom - Have we really not done this one yet? I searched for it on that IMDB link, but it didn't pop up. It finally got a long awaited upgrade. (Slasher, boutique label, two word title, passport, stalker)
Hauntedween (slasher, Halloween, boutique label)
The Blackening (slasher, comedy, tropes)
M3GAN (slasher?, comedy, tropes)
Spree (comedy, first-person)
The Boxer's Omen (supernatural, passport, tropes, boutique label)

My subset picks:

American Psycho (2000) - Texas Chainsaw, Slasher/Serial Killer, Investigation, Two Word
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) - Stalker, Monsters
Old (2021) - First Person
Cabin Fever (2002) - Filming Location, Two Word
Vicious Fun (2020) - Highway to Hell, Two Word
Mine Games (2012) - Within the Woods, Two Word
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015) - Zombies
The Babysitter (2017) - Random Mashup (Dance the Night Away)

We covered it back in 2018.

I thought we had done it at some point. I can't seem to find it here: OHMC Subset Lists 2008-2023. It is listed on your full alphabetical list.

Here are my subset picks:

The Invisible Man (2020) – The Stalker’s Guide to Abhorrent Behavior; Investigation Horror (Freevee)

The Visit (2015) – First-Person Shot 2: Electric Point of View (Max)

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) – Filming Locations Hell Camp (Oakley Court) (Plex)

A Quiet Place Part II (2020) – Monsters/Creature Features (Paramount+)

Carriers (2009) – Highway to Hell: Terrors on the Road

Creepshow 2 (1987) – Horror Anthologies (Prime, Roku, Hoopla, Tubi, PlutoTV)

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972) – The John Kenneth Muir Decades Trilogy (Tubi)

Scanners (1981) – The John Kenneth Muir Decades Trilogy (Max, Criterion)

Jacob’s Ladder (1990) - The John Kenneth Muir Decades Trilogy (PlutoTV)

Scream 3 (2000) - The John Kenneth Muir Decades Trilogy (Max)

Warm Bodies (2013) – Teenage Wasteland: Coming-of-Age Horror Cinema; Zombies

The Final Girls (2015) – Teenage Wasteland: Coming-of-Age Horror Cinema

The Hands of Orlac (1924) – Chronological Horror Years Faceoff XV: Ruby Red Edtion (Tubi, Kanopy)

The Queen of Spades (1949) – Chronological Horror Years Faceoff XV: Ruby Red Edtion (Kanopy)

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) – Chronological Horror Years Faceoff XV: Ruby Red Edtion (Kanopy)

Ringu 2 (1999) - – Chronological Horror Years Faceoff XV: Ruby Red Edtion (Shudder, Tubi)

Lisa Frankenstein (2024) – Zombies (Peacock)

Juan of the Dead (2011) – Zombies (Prime)

Bloody Hell (2020) – Two-Word Titles (Hoopla, Tubi)

Summoning Sylvia (2023) - Two-Word Titles; Supernatural (Shudder)

Life (2017) – The Centennial of Terrors Double Feature: Columbia Pictures (Netflix, Tubi)

Hotel Transylvania (2012) - The Centennial of Terrors Double Feature: MGM

It's there, too. I found it by switching the sort order to alphabetical. Yet another reason the new redesign is annoying is the waiting for new titles to load every time you scroll down, as opposed to having a set number per page. At least switching to grid or compact view speeds it up a bit by loading 50 more titles at a time.

And the IMDB list is the most complete at the moment. The other is missing four titles (579 vs 575).

Yep, Peeping Tom is #367 (with default sort order).

The infinite scroll thing is definitely annoying (IMDb: continuing their tradition of making things "better" by making them worse), but there are some other workarounds when looking for a particular title -- besides the aforementioned re-sorting:

• use the filters (blue button to the left of the sort options) -- e.g., if you know the approximate year it was released
• export (top right, below the imdb toolbar but above the list title) and open in Excel or other spreadsheet software
• use the advanced title search and then add "&lists=ls029042594" to the end of the results URL

Exports have also gotten weirder; instead of just immediately downloading a .csv file named the same as the list name, you're redirected to an exports page where you download a .csv named with a randomized string of letters and numbers (typical UUID format, for anyone who works with databases). But whatever. Exports now include both display title and original title for movies (whereas before they only included original title), which is a rare improvement.

Supposedly they are working on adding pagination and title search when viewing large lists -- they did already re-introduce pagination when editing large lists, which is good -- but I wouldn't count on it happening anytime soon.

I know a lot of people have already submitted their subset picks, but I have been working on creating IMDb lists for the themes so that people can use the advanced search feature to exclude past subsets / highlight not-yet-used TSZDT selections. I'll try to slap together what I've got so far later today, in case it's useful for people who haven't submitted picks yet, or for general reference.

Here are a few choices! I have not seen The Cell since it came out in theaters, and I'm pretty sure it's not the easiest to find. I hate to admit that I've never seen Rocky Horror

Investigations: Jaws 2 (1978), Annihilation (2018), Constantine (2005), The Cell (2000)

Dance the Night Away: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), As Above, So Below (2014), May (2002)

Werewolf: Viking Wolf (2022), Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), Werewolf of London (1935)

Films Shot at Windsor's Oakley Court: Nightmare (1964), Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly (1970), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)

Monsters: Arcadian (2023), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), The Descent: Part2 (2009)

Indie/Arthouse Crossover: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 50th Anniversary: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
-----full list notes include titles that fit multiple categories
2. All the Colors of Giallo: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
3. The Stalker's Guide to Abhorrent Behavior
4. First-Person Shot 2: Electric Point-of-View: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
5. Filming Locations Hell Camp: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
6. Monsters / Creature Features: imdb search | minus already-used | on tszdt / imdb search | minus already-used | on tszdt
7. The OHMC Guide to Horror Film Tropes
8. Highway to Hell: Terrors of the Road: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
9. Horror Anthologies: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
10. Within the Woods: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
11. The John Kenneth Muir Decades Tetralogy: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
12. Teenage Wasteland: Coming-of-Age Horror Cinema: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
13. Saturday Schlock-fest Anniversary Showdown: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
14. Farewell to The King of Cult - R.I.P. Roger Corman: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
15. Chronological Horror Years Faceoff XV: Ruby Red Edition: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
16. Slashers / Supernatural Slashers / Serial Killers
17. Werewolves / Were-Creatures / Full Moon: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
18. The Joe Bob Briggs Halloween Special: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
19. 1980's Video Companies Spotlight: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
20. Boutique Label Bonanza: A Celebration of Physical Media: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
-----full list notes include titles that have been released by multiple labels
21. Textsploitation Terrors Triple Feature: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
22. The OHMC Unused Themes Day Featuring The No Wild Card Day
23. Zombies: imdb search | minus already-used | on tszdt
24. The OHMC Passport to Terror - Global Edition
25. The Centennial of Terrors Double Feature: Studios Edition: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
26. Two-Word Titles: imdb search | minus already-used | on tszdt
27. Mashup: Dance the Night Away / Stop Motion / Marriage Proposals / Psycho-Sexual Terrors: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
28. Investigation: Horror: full list | minus already-used | on tszdt
29. Supernatural / Quiet/Soft / Seances
30. Demonic Possession / Satanic / Witchcraft / Hell
31. Halloween / Samhain
Horror Comedies Crossover: imdb search | minus already-used | on tszdt

Then maybe it's something with the Android app. When I click on the link, it comes up with 250 results. I go to the bottom, and there's no choice to go to a second page and nothing else loads. I also don't get the option to sort alphabetically. I looked for that, too. Maybe it's in the settings somewhere.

^ Well, that sucks! Yeah, it must be the app. I don't think I've ever tried to browse/search a list on the app, so don't know if the 250-result limit is a new "feature" or an old one.

Speaking of truncated lists, the LB one for John Stanley's Creature Features (in the Textploitation theme) disappointingly peters out midway through the Bs. (Considering that's 200 horror movies from just the As and half the Bs, it must be a big book!) I couldn't find a complete list, and I can't stand to let that stand , so I ordered a cheap used copy of the book and should have it in a few days.

A close friend of mine hurt himself at work. He sent me a pic. It made me think of the group here. Enjoy.

Yikes.

I am still going through the categories. I didn’t pick Travelogue but I don’t think the linked list isn’t really horror Travelogue, seems like a lot of just picking movies from different countries and calling it travelogue.

A lot of the IMDB list came up broken for me.

THEME Suggestions

R.I.P. Roger Corman (1926 - 2024): Night Of The Cobra Woman
100 Years of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: Night Angel, After Midnight, Tentacles
Shout at the Devil - 20 Years of Shout! / Scream Factory: Elizabeth Harvest, The Resurrected, Tentacles, Zombie Fight Club
Boutique Label Bonanza: A Celebration of Physical Media

• Vinegar Syndrome - Dark Tower
• Severin Films - My Grandpa is a Vampire
• Wild Eye Releasing - Frankie In Blunderland
• Kino Lorber - Tentacles
• Code Red - Scream (1981)
• VHShitfest - The Birds 2: Land's End
• Blue Underground - The New York Ripper already used
• Troma - The Killer Condom
• 101 Films - AGFA Horror Trailer Show
• Terror Vision - Attack Of The Killer Refrigerator
• AGFA (American Genre Film Archive) - AGFA Horror Trailer Show
• Olive Films - Cinco De Mayo
• Vestron Video Collector's Series - Shivers
• Scream Team Releasing - The Barn
• Dark Force Entertainment - Fangs
• Culture Shock Releasing - Slashdance
• Cult Epics - Death Laid An Egg
• Drafthouse Films - The Greasy Strangler
• Garagehouse Pictures - Blood Stalkers

Horror Fight Club:- Zombie Fight Club (this list didn't work but the movie has Fight Club in the title so it's gotta be on there right?)

Horror Films with Investigations: Black Sheep, The Killer Condom

Two-Word Titles: - Black Sheep The Barn, Night Angel, After Midnight, Elizabeth Harvest, The Resurrected, Blood Shakers, The Grudge, Rush Week, Killer Workout, Blood Games

Nevermore Frightening - Ravens & Birds in Horror Cinema: Polaroid

The Monster Show:House Of Wax

The Horror of War: Hard Rock Zombies

Deathball: Sports + Horror: - Blood Games

Shock Value - Shivers

Death By Pepperoni! - Pizza Night Slayings: - Lisa Frankenstein (if we think it's going to go on sale here before October)

Dance Horror: - Killer Workout

Dear Diary: - The Resurrected

Shot in Bronson Canyon: - Terror Within II

Candy Cinema: (The link for this is broken but with a clearer transfer I think Killer Tongue would be on this list)

Legacy Horror Sequels:- Firestarter 2: Rekindled (gotta be better than than remake, right?)

Indie/Arthouse Crossover - Tentacles

Joe Bob Briggs, 2 - Repossessed, Jessie James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

Zombies, 2 I am a Hero, Gangnam Zombies

Chronological Horror Years Faceoff -1924(Platinum)Vs.1949 (Diamond) Vs. 1974 (Gold) Vs. 1999 (Silver) - Fangs 74

Horror Anthologies, 2, 3, 4 - VHS 99

Slashers, 2, 3 / Serial Killers - Madman, Cinco De Mayo, Rush Week

All the Colors of Giallo, 2, 3, 4 - Death Laid An Egg

Supernatural, 2, 3 / Quiet/Soft / Seances - The Grudge (Remake remake)

Demonic Possession / Satanic / Witchcraft / Hell - The Laughing Dead

Shorter Version:




Here are some subset suggestions:

Indie/Arthouse: Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), The Lair of the White Worm (1988), Alice, Sweet Alice (Communion) (1976)
Comedies: The Final Girls (2015), Totally Killer (2023)

Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) - Centennial (Columbia) ~ Tetralogy (70s) ~ Slasher
Master Minds (1949) - Chrono ~ Two-Word
The Turn of the Screw (1974) - Chrono
The Haunting of Hell House (1999) - Chrono ~ Supernatural
The Final Girls (2015) - Slasher ~ Wasteland
The Hands of Orlac (Orlacs Hände) (1924) - Chrono
Race with the Devil (1975) - Devil ~ Road ~ Tetralogy (70s)
Alone (2020) - Road
The Lair of the White Worm (1988) - Road ~ Tetralogy (80s)
Alice, Sweet Alice (Communion) (1976) - Tetralogy (70s) ~ Textsploitation (JSCF)
Wishmaster (1997) - Tetralogy (90s)
Totally Killer (2023) - Halloween ~ Slasher ~ Wasteland
Nightwatch (Nattevagten) (1994) - Passport ~ Slasher ~ Tetralogy (90s) ~ Textsploitation (RM)
Ghost Story (1981) - Supernatural ~ Tetralogy (80s) ~ Two-Word
The Grudge (2004) - Supernatural ~ Tetralogy (2000-2009)
The House at the End of Time (La casa del fin de los tiempos) (2013) - Passport
Good Manners (As Boas Maneiras) (2017) - Passport ~ Werewolves
The Belko Experiment (2016) - Centennial (MGM)

if you go into Letterboxd and search the basic gist of the theme, lists usually pop up

Themes list is now updated and in working order ...as of this post.

I also updated all to "include adult titles" because the IMDB occasionally lists them as adult when they're not.

The suggestions page is still a work in progress.

Wow, I didn't even notice it in the rush to get everything up. I have the (I think) second edition, and it's 12 pages shorter according to the Amazon description.

But are you absolutely sure you wanna do that? It's not organized by genre, which means you'll be encountering quite a few Sci-Fi and Fantasy films along the way. Let me know if you decide otherwise and I'll just switch it out with another book on the suggestions page.

More forthcoming, but I just got home from vacation yesterday and had an internet outage all night last night.

But for October 1, so far I have The Town That Dreaded Sundown. Either the 1976 or 2014 versions, as they are both available on Tubi. At least at the time of this writing.

For some of you Challenge maniacs out there, here is the poster for you!

Plus you may find some suggestions here (though likely most have been used before since a lot of these are pretty common).

A couple more possibilities: For Giallo, I did not see the remake of Suspiria (2018), and found it available to stream on FreeVee. For POV, I did not see Predator, which while not available for free, is on Prime Video, Hulu and Disney+. More forthcoming soon.

I meant to post this yesterday. Normally I don't reveal subsets before the official release date, but just wanted to give a heads up that this is a potential one with a very good chance of making the cut. Hamilton does have it for a similar price, albeit without the limited slip. It's also streaming on Shudder.