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Reflections on my Universal Horror marathon

It is November 1st, 2023. As anyone can tell after being around me for, I don't know, five minutes, I am a huge horror queen. For my birthday this year, I got a big book on Universal horror, filled with production photos, background, trivia, actor bios, etc. I decided to use this book as a sort of guided reading list, where I would marathon all of the movies discussed in the book and read along. When I was first seriously doing a deep dive into horror in 2018, the classic 30s horror franchises were some of the first that I chose to get into, and so it had been five years or so since I had seen some of my old monster friends. (And many of the movies on this list I had not seen before!) I was excited for this project and decided to start it at 99 days until Halloween; I had found a Sam (1) "Countdown to Halloween" clock that counted from 99 days to 0 days last year, at the Spirit Halloween clearence sale. (2) So, 99 days to do a book's worth of movies—how hard could it be?

(1) from Trick r Treat, 2007

(2) He's currently sitting on my bedside table, at 0 days left!

Turns out, it was rather difficult! I hadn't expected the book to have so many entries in it.

The entire list of films that I did is as follows, broken down by chapter:

Silent Era (5 films): The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923, The Phantom of the Opera 1925, The Phantom of the Opera 1943, The Cat and the Canary 1927, The Man Who Laughs 1928

Dracula (5 films): Dracula 1931, Drácula 1931, Dracula's Daughter 1936, Son of Dracula 1943, House of Dracula 1945

Frankenstein (4): Frankenstein 1931, Bride of Frankenstein 1935, Son of Frankenstein 1939, Ghost of Frankenstein 1942

The Wolf Man (5): Werewolf of London 1935, The Wolf Man 1941, Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man 1943, House of Frankenstein 1944, She-Wolf of London 1946

The Mummy (5): The Mummy, The Mummy's Hand, The Mummy's Tomb, The Mummy's Ghost, The Mummy's Curse

The Invisible Man (5): The Invisible Man 1933, The Invisible Man Returns 1940, The Invisible Woman 1941, Invisible Agent 1942, The Invisible Man's Revenge 1944

The Gill Man (3): Creature From the Black Lagoon 1954, Revenge of the Creature 1955, The Creature Walks Among Us 1955

"Universal's Lesser Known Monsters" (3+3+6): Paula the Ape Woman—Captive Wild Woman 1943, Jungle Woman 1944, The Jungle Captive 1945; The Creeper—Pearl of Death 1944, House of Horrors 1946, The Brute Man 1946; The Inner Sanctum Mystery Series—Calling Dr Death 1943, Weird Woman 1944, Dead Man's Eyes 1944, The Frozen Ghost 1944, Strange Confession 1945, Pillow of Death 1945

Non-serial horror (14): The Old Dark House 1932, Murders in the Rue Morgue 1932, The Black Cat 1934, The Raven 1935, Black Friday 1940, Man-Made Monster 1941, Horror Island 1941, Night Monster 1942, The Mad Ghoul 1943, The Strange Door 1951, The Black Castle 1952, Tarantula 1955, The Mole People 1956, Monster on the Campus 1958

That's 68 movies in 99 days by my reckoning. I also only did these on the nights that Mack worked or was dancing, which further tightened the number of days that I had. Good thing they were each about 60 minutes. I could never do this in the modern era where everyone bloats their movies to an absurd degree.

See, I thought it would be something small, with like... 30 movies in 99 days. I didn't expect all of this! Maybe I should have checked how many movies that would be before solidly deciding to do this challenge, eh? And it's not even allll of the Universal horror movies—Lugosi and Karloff did like six "duet" movies like The Raven and The Black Cat, but the book only focused on two and briefly name-dropped the others. By the mid-October, when I was in the final chapter, I was doing two or three movies per night, and it was quite a stressful thing, not knowing how I'd get it all to line up before Mack took his Halloweek vacation!

But I did it. I'm extremely proud that I stuck to it. And also, I will absolutely not do it again! Perhaps in another five years I'll have a craving for the Universal horror movies again, and I'll do my favourite 30 or so, but this insanity will not be repeated, or at least not with this time scale.

Anyway. Here are some things I wish to talk about:

Appreciating Silent Film

The silent era has always been one that I've wanted to get into, but I've never known how exactly to break into it. I've done a few silent movies before—if you're looking for a rec, Häxan from 1923 is a very disturbing and deeply effective look at medieval witchcraft—but I never felt like I had a sure footing in it.

And, well, the book starts at 1923 with Hunchback, no easing into it. And, turns out, it was mostly fine!

The 1925 Phantom was stunning. I love the tinted vibes of the silent era, and this film had a rare Technicolor sequence during the Masquerade bit where all the costumes were in colour, and it was amazing to see. There's a 19...29, I think?, scored version, which is what I watched, and the score pops off.

The 1927 Cat and the Canary ended up as one of my favourites of the whole marathon—there's no scoring option for this, but it's so fun I didn't care. The story revolves around a will reading on a dark and stormy night, a will reading, and a sudden heiress who has to prove her sanity as a condition of the will, all while an antagonistic family and a killer are loose in the mansion. It's a horror-comedy, and it is such a good time. I had rated it 5/5 on letterboxd years ago, but I had forgotten why, and I quickly rediscovered the reason!

So yeah, I got a couple silents to add to my résumé, next to stuff like Häxan and the typical Dr Caligari.

2. The Evolution of What Horror Is

One of my favourite things to think about and consider is what society's horror fixation is in a given era and how it all ties together in a sort of greater historiography.

This marathon covers the 20s through the late 50s, with most of it happening in the 30s and 40s. There's a pretty clear chain of where the focus goes in these—in the 20s, it's a lot of classic adaptations that have a gruesome element but which may not be yknow categorical Genre Horror as we recognise it and label it on a dvd box. The 30s explore the more typical folk myths and superstitions, such as vampires and werewolves; if there is science, it is either rather crude or primitive (Frankenstein using lightning bolts and sewing pieces of body together) or even has a mystical connection (Werewolf of London's Tibetan miracle flower—often this mysticism can unfortunately veer into Orientalist tropes :/). The 40s, and particularly around 1945 with the atomic bomb, the old superstitions lose steam and modern science begins to catch up, to the point that the 50s horror movies are, essentially, all a world away in terms of science—I mean, they try behavioural therapy on the Creature from the Black Lagoon in Revenge of the Creature! The later "Monster Mash" movies where all of the classic monsters join up have them turning to modern science to solve their problems—I believe it's in House of Dracula where the Wolf Man is legitimately ""cured"" by a cranial surgery based on some science, and Dracula gets cured by looking at the particulates in his blood and stuff. Anyway, continuing in the 50s, There's all this talk of atoms and radiation and such, and it's such a strong blend of science fiction and horror, such that the two genres are practically constant bedmates for this era. (Contrary to a popular tumblr post comparing Godzilla to 50s superhero comics, radiation actually did inspire a lot of monsters in America too; you just needed to know where to look, and it's here, in the giant Creature Features, where Godzilla would fit right in.)

I remember shortly after House of Dracula, I was talking to Mack, and I essentially launched into a ten minute lecture about this stuff, how it all ties into what was happening in society and whatnot. I have so much to say, but I won't word vomit it here.

3. These Movies Said, Continuity WHO?

One of the recurrent jokes I had while watching these movies is that the writers were clearly not interested in keeping continuity between films. There are two instances that I internally screamed at because of how insane they were—(1) In House of Frankenstein, Dracula is destroyed in the sunlight, The Wolf Man is shot by a silver bullet and dies, and the Frankenstein creature sinks into quicksand and disappears. Most of the plot of House of Frankenstein is quickly retold by the mad scientist character of House of Dracula; he leaves out the Wolf Man's death, probably because it would upset the Wolf Man, to whom he is speaking. Dracula is also back without explanation. (2) The Mummy's Ghost is set in Connecticut; they are very emphatic that they are in Connecticut. It is said over and over. At the end, the Mummy is chased into the swamp of Connecticut (yknow, the famous swamps of Connecticut) —at the very beginning of The Mummy's Curse, they point to a stretch of swampland, say that THIS is where Kharis sank all those years ago (it was 6 months in real time btw), and that he should still be there. This movie is set in the bayou of Louisiana, with a cheerful barkeep woman singing in French to evoke the whole "Cajun French" world. How Kharis went from Connecticut to "this is the exact spot where he fell" in Louisiana? Never mentioned.

Additionally, in one of the later Frankensteins, Ygor has his brain transplanted into the Frankenstein Monster in a scheme; Ygor-Frankenstein Monster triumphantly turns to the assembled characters and speaks to them, telling them how he tricked them and won. In the next movie, which I believe is Meets The Wolf Man, the Frankenstein Monster is a mute brute once more, and Ygor does not exist anymore. Now, the wildest thing is that this is not the writers cherrypicking what is canon and what is not—no, in the script the Frankenstein Monster-Ygor was to have deep conversations with the Wolf Man, and this was recorded. It was only in post-production that all of this was struck; all those scenes were either tossed or edited down. Apparently there are visuals of those scenes in the movie where you can watch the FM's mouth move, but the audio has been replaced with music or sound effects. Wild stuff.

There's more, plenty more, but you get the picture. I suppose in a world without home video, where your audience may not have seen the previous films or may not remember them well, you can convince them of anything and continuity matters less.

4. Some of these movies destroyed my will to go on (with the marathon)

Overall, I greatly enjoyed my time with this marathon. I found most of these movies to be very interesting and illuminating.

But there are two series in this that just crushed my spirit—The Mummy and Paula the Ape Woman. They were so awful that it made me not want to keep going.

The Mummy is just such a confused mess; the worst time I had was with The Mummy's Tomb. Tomb is the third movie in the series, so of course there's some catch-up that has to be done to get the audience up to speed. (They all do it, it's normal.) Now, this is a 60 minute movie. Tomb begins with a TWELVE MINUTE "recap" of the first two movies, using a flashback to show scenes from the old movies—all the while narrating them to construct a new story of what supposedly happened and wildly making up new stuff that directly contradicts what is visible on screen. TWELVE MINUTES out of SIXTY, one fifth of the movie, is just incredibly out of context scenes to do whatever the writers want.

And that's not even getting into the cultural sensitivity discussions around these movies, because girl........... girl. It's rough on that front, to say the least. (They reuse an Incan temple, if I remember right, as an Egyptian tomb in the last one, I think it was, and you can clearly see Mesoamerican imagery all over the walls, but they're yelling about pharoahs and stuff. And that's the tip of the iceberg.)

Paula the Ape Woman is about an ape who gets a brain and blood transplant and becomes a real woman, or at least temporarily. Now, audience, given that this an early 40s movie... do you think this uncontrollable, animalistic beast of a woman is going to be white or no? :////

The Paula movies just need to be forgotten. Not every Universal horror movie is a lost gem in the sands of time. Let's just say that.

5. James Whale, Lon Chaney Jr, and thoughts on recurring names and faces

With the studio system firmly in place for most of this marathon's concerned eras, there are many repeating names throughout the movies. It became something of a scavenger hunt to find "Gowns by Vera West" in the title credits of most movies—according to letterboxd, I think I hit 37 movies with her credited on wardrobe.

Some of these repeating names I grew to really like. James Whale really is among the greats, isn't he? Bride of Frankenstein is nothing short of a masterpiece, and his other work (especially The Old Dark House) is great. I would love to do a deeper dive just into his other works. He seems so fascinating! And he was gay, and apparently very very open about it.

A name I came to dislike, unexpectedly really, was Lon Chaney Jr, most known for The Wolf Man. I went in with a higher opinion of him, only knowing him from The Wolf Man; he eventually became a bit of a golden boy on the Universal horror sets, and so he got into a ton of different projects. And boy, did he ever only play one character across everything! He's extremely good at it, but he only ever played a sad, pathetic little man who is overwhelmed by the weight of the world! We get it, dude. Play a different character!

6. Conclusions

This is getting away from me, so I'll wrap this up. Thank you if you even skimmed this far!

I really did enjoy this marathon. It was stressful, a little, but a fun stress, all things considered.

Rapidshot overall favs: The Bride of Frankenstein, the Cat and the Canary, Revenge of the Creature, Dracula, The Old Dark House, Tarantula, 1925's Phantom of the Opera, the Raven.

Rapid boots: The Mummy franchise, Paula the Ape Woman series, She-Wolf of London, the Black Cat, Ghost of Frankenstein.

I love this era of horror: It's almost a cosy horror to me, with giant fog machines, goofy big analog science contraptions, and painted backdrops (you can see the painted backdrops and their flatness during the early 30s ones especially). I like that there are fewer cuts compared to the modern day: They hold the camera on the actors, and often the camera is not on a close-up, giving plenty of time for interesting physicality. It almost feels staged or traditionally theatrical in a way that modern movies do not. (Which makes sense, as the earlier writers and directors and actors all came from and routinely did theatre. Lugosi got Dracula after he did the stage version of it.) Many of them are very comfortable feeling, and they're short too!

I don't think I could do another grand tour like this again for years, at mininum,—and I won't revisit Paula and probably not The Mummy—but I do want to revisit it more than I have in the last few years. These monsters are my FRIENDS!

Anyway. Stan Boris Karloff, James Whale, and especially Elsa Lanchester

#my universal horror marathon #thank you to anyone who reads #i mostly just wanted to write this up for me

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The Infernal Cauldron (1903)

The Merry Frolics of Salem (1906)

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1908)

The Sealed Room (1909)

Frankenstein (1910)

The Inferno (1911)

The Werewolf (1913)

Fear (1917)

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (1920)

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)

The Death of Dracula (1921)

The Haunted Castle (1921)

Leaves For Satan's Book (1921)

The Phantom Carriage (1921)

Haxan (1922)

Nosferatu (1922)

Phantom (1922)

The Monster (1925)

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Wolf Blood (1925)

Faust (1926)

The Fall of the House of Usher (1926)

Sweeney Todd (1927)

Blackmail (1929)

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931)

Dracula (1931)

Frankenstein (1931)

M (1931)

Night Nurse (1931)

Freaks (1932)

Doctor X (1932)

The Mummy (1932)

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

Vampyr (1932)

White Zombie (1933)

The Ghoul (1933)

The Invisible Man (1933)

The Monkey's Paw (1933)

Death Takes A Holiday (1934)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Mad Love (1935)

The Raven (1935)

Werewolf of London (1935)

The Devil Doll (1936)

Tower of London (1936)

Black Friday (1940)

The Black Cat (1940)

The Wolf Man (1941)

The Corpse Vanishes (1942)

The Mad Ghoul (1943)

The Soul of a Monster (1944)

The Body Snatcher (1945)

Isle of the Dead (1945)

Bedlam (1946)

House of Horrors (1946)

She-Wolf of London (1946)

The Black Castle (1952)

House of Wax (1953)

Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)

Les Diaboliques (1955)

The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955)

The Bad Seed (1956)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Night of the Demon (1957)

The Deadly Mantis (1957)

The Blob (1958)

The Fly (1958)

Lake of the Dead (1958)

Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)

The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958)

Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)

Jack the Ripper (1959)

A Bucket of Blood (1959)

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

13 Ghosts (1960)

The Hands of Orloc (1960)

Tormented (1960)

Black Sunday (1960)

Eyes Without A Face (1960)

House of Usher (1960)

The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

Psycho (1960)

The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

Homicidal (1961)

Th Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

Carnival of Souls (1962)

The Birds (1962)

Black Sabbath (1963)

The Haunted Palace (1963)

The Raven (1963)

At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)

2000 Maniacs (1964)

Castle of the Living Dead (1964)

The Flesh Eaters (1964)

The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

Nightmare Castle (1965)

Planet of the Vampires (1965)

A Devilish Homicide (1965)

The Skull (1965)

A Study In Terror (1965)

Circus of Fear (1966)

Kill, Baby, Kill (1966)

Persona (1966)

Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)

Island of Terror (1966)

Tonight I'll Possess Your Corpse (1966)

The Blood Demon (1967)

Fear Chamber (1968)

The Living Skeleton (1968)

Beserk! (1968)

The Devil Rides Out (1968)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

The Exquisite Corpse (1969)

Horrors of the Malformed Man (1969)

And Soon the Darkness (1970)

The Beast in the Cellar (1970)

Flesh Feast (1970)

The Wizard of Gore (1970)

Scream and Scream Again (1970)

The Vampire Lovers (1970)

House of Dark Shadows (1970)

The Devils (1971)

Night of Dark Shadows (1971)

The Night God Screamed (1971)

See No Evil (1971)

Straw Dogs (1971)

Hands of the Ripper (1971)

Werewolves on Wheels (1971)

Willard (1971)

Asylum (1972)

Beast of the Yellow Night (1972)

Last House on the Left (1972)

Tales From the Crypt (1972)

Ben (1972)

Garden of the Dead (1972)

Lisa and the Devil (1972)

The Thing With Two Heads (1972)

Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1973)

The Exorcist (1973)

From Beyond the Grave (1973)

Horror Hospital (1973)

Black Christmas (1974)

Frightmare (1974)

The Hand That Feeds the Dead (1974)

Madhouse (1974)

Silent Night, Bloody Night (1974)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

The Killer Must Kill Again (1975)

Legend of the Werewolf (1975)

Satanic Pandemonium (1975)

Alice, Sweet, Alice (1975)

Blood Sucking Freaks (1976)

Carrie (1976)

The House With Laughing Windows (1976)

The Omen (1976)

Demon Seed (1977)

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

Suspiria (1977)

Are You In The House Alone (1978)

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

The Grapes of Death (1978)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

The Legacy (1978)

Halloween (1978)

My Bloody Valentine (1978)

Martin (1978)

The Amityville Horror (1979)

Human Experiments (1979)

Screams of Winter (1979)

When A Stranger Calls (1979)

Beyond Evil (1980)

The Changeling (1980)

Demented (1980)

Friday the 13th (1980)

Inferno (1980)

Maniac (1980)

Night of the Demon (1980)

Prom Night (1980)

The Shining (1980)

The Watcher In the Woods (1980)

An American Werewolf In London (1981)

Deadly Blessing (1981)

Final Exam (1981)

Evil Dead (1981)

Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)

The Funhouse (1981)

Galaxy of Terror (1981)

Possession (1982)

Basket Case (1982)

Creepshow (1982)

Days of Hell (1982)

Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)

Hospital Massacre (1982)

The Living Dead Girl (1982)

Parasite (1982)

Poltergeist (1982)

The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

The Thing (1982)

Christine (1983)

Cujo (1983)

The Deadly Spawn (1983)

The Demons of Ludlow (1983)

The Hunger (1983)

A Night to Dismember (1983)

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

Children of the Corn (1984)

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

The Initiation (1984)

A Nightmare of Elm Street (1984)

Day of the Dead (1985)

The Doctor and the Devils (1985)

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)

Fright Night (1985)

The Mutilator (1985)

Re-Animator (1985)

Silver Bullet (1985)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

Chopping Mall (1986)

Critters (1986)

The Fly (1986)

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

Invaders From Mars (1986)

Neon Maniacs (1986)

Slaughter High (1986)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

Berserker (1987)

Blood Diner (1987)

Bloody New Year (1987)

Creepshow 2 (1987)

Demon of Paradise (1987)

Dolls (1987)

Evil Dead II (1987)

Hellraiser (1987)

The Lost Boys (1987)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

Child's Play (1987)

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)

Maniac Cop (1988)

Night of the Demons (1988)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Master (1988)

Pumpkinhead (1988)

Watchers (1988)

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

Pet Sematary (1989)

Vampires Kiss (1989)

The Women in Black (1989)

Beyond Darkness (1990)

Brain Dead (1990)

Bride of Re-Animator (1990)

Child's Play 2 (1990)

Flatliners (1990)

It (1990)

Mirror, Mirror (1990)

Misery (1990)

Night of the Living Dead (1990)

Children of the Night (1990)

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

The People Under the Stairs (1991)

Candyman (1992)

Bram Stokers Dracula (1992)

The Lawnmower Man (1992)

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

Leprechaun (1993)

The Tommyknockers (1993)

The Crow (1994)

In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

Needful Things (1994)

Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)

Blood and Donuts (1995)

Demon Knight (1995)

Village of the Damned (1995)

The Craft (1996)

The Frighteners (1996)

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Jack Frost (1996)

Scream (1996)

Thinner (1996)

The Uninvited (1996)

An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)

Cube (1997)

Scream 2 (1997)

Bride of Chucky (1998)

Carnival of Souls (1998)

The Faculty (1998)

Ring (1998)

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Camp Blood (1999)

The Haunting (1999)

The Haunting of Hill House (1999)

Lake Placid (1999)

American Psycho (2000)

Depp In the Woods (2000)

Dial D For Demons (2000)

Final Destination (2000)

Scream 3 (2000)

Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)

Children of the Living Dead (2001)

Cradle of Fear (2001)

How to Make A Monster (2001)

Jason X (2001)

Jeepers Creepers (2001)

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunters (2001)

The Others (2001)

There Is A Secret In My Soup (2001)

28 Days Later (2002)

Cabin Fever (2002)

Wolves of Wall Street (2002)

Final Destination (2003)

Freddy Vs Jason (2003)

House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

Willard (2003)

The Grudge (2004)

House of Voices (2004)

Madhouse (2004)

One Missed Call (2004)

Saw (2004)

Seed of Chucky (2004)

The Village (2004)

2001 Maniacs (2005)

Hard Candy (2005)

An American Haunting (2005)

Boogeyman (2005)

Dark Water (2005)

Demon Hunter (2005)

The Devil's Reject (2005)

The Exorcism of Emily's Rose (2005)

Hostel (2005)

House of Wax (2005)

The Red Shoes (2005)

Saw II (2005)

The Descent (2005)

Black Christmas (2006)

Final Destination 3 (2006)

Bug (2006)

Hatchet (2006)

The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

The Host (2006)

The Omen (2006)

Saw III (2006)

Silent Hill (2006)

Slither (2006)

Them (2006)

28 Weeks Later (2006)

30 Days of Night (2006)

Black Water (2007)

Dead Silence (2007)

Hostel 2 (2007)

The Orphanage (2007)

Saw IV (2007)

Teeth (2007)

Vacancy (2007)

Let The Right One In (2008)

The Midnight Meat Train (2008)

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

Saw V (2008)

The Strangers (2008)

Case 39 (2009)

The Collector (2009)

The Descent 2 (2009)

Drag Me To Hell (2009)

The Final Destination (2009)

The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

Orphan (2009)

Saw VI (2009)

Splice (2009)

Thirst (2009)

The Crazies (2010)

Insidious (2010)

My Soul to Take (2010)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

Saw 3D (2010)

Shelter (2010)

The Wolfman (2010)

Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2011)

Final Destination 5 (2011)

Fright Night (2011)

Scream 4 (2011)

The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

The Lords of Salem (2012)

Sinister (2012)

The Conjuring (2013)

Mama (2013)

Insidious Chapter 2 (2013)

Annabelle (2014)

The Babadook (2014)

Creep (2014)

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014)

Tusk (2014)

Sinister 2 (2015)

The Witch (2015)

The Anatomy of Jane Doe (2016)

The Belko Experiment (2016)

The Conjuring 2 (2016)

Morgan (2016)

Raw (2016)

Train to Busan (2016)

Creep 2 (2017)

Happy Death Day (2017)

Get Out (2017)

It (2017)

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

Halloween (2018)

A Quiet Place (2018)

Happy Death Day 2U (2019)

It Chapter 2 (2019)

Midsommar (2019)

Pet Sematary (2019)

Us (2019)

Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

#movie recs #movie recommendations #film recs #film recommendation #as always I went way overboard

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