October is right around the corner which means it’s nearly time for one of my favourite annual events, #31HorrorFilms31Days! For those who aren’t familiar with it, #31HorrorFilms31Days is an online challenge that runs from October 1st – October 31st and asks participants to watch 31 horror films in those 31 days. You can read a little more about #31HorrorFilms31Days here.
I would absolutely love it if you decide to watch along with me! I’ll be tweeting each day in October about the challenge and the movies I’m watching on @Pop_Reader using the hashtag #31HorrorFilms31Days! I’ll be watching the movies in the order you see listed in this post, so you can know what I’ll be watching on any given day in October and join me, if you want to. I really hope you will!
Starring Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy, Rita Tushingham
A group of friends think they find an easy score at an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the owners, an elderly couple, come home early, the tables are suddenly turned.
Starring Sidse Babett Knudsen, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Julian Barratt
A haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store and follows the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences..
Starring Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, Joel McHale
A teenager’s weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.
Starring Dora Madison, Tru Collins, Rhys Wakefield
A brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles.
Starring Jeremy Gardner, Brea Grant, Henry Zebrowski
When his girlfriend suddenly disappears, leaving a cryptic note as her only explanation, Hank’s comfortable life and his sanity begin to crack. Then, from the woods surrounding his house, something terrible starts trying to break in.
Starring Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone
Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it’s too late.
Starring Madeline Brewer, Imogen Waterhouse, Sarah Hay
Two wanted women decide to rob their wealthy psychotic friend who lives in the fantasy world they created as children; to take the money they have to take part in a deadly perverse game of make believe.
Starring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody
A newly possessed high school cheerleader turns into a succubus who specializes in killing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?
Starring Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella
A young woman, studying to be a vet, develops a craving for human flesh.
Starring Olga Kurylenko, Kevin Janssens, Joshua Wilson
Matt and Kate buy an isolated house. While moving, they discover a strange room that grants them an unlimited number of material wishes. But, since Kate has had two miscarriages, what they miss the most is a child.
StarringMichael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck
The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi’kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.
Starring Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Possessor follows an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies – ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients.
Starring Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Denden, Asuka Kurosawa
The lives of a bored suburban couple are changed forever when a seemingly nice old man gives their daughter a job at his fish store, and soon his gruesome hobbies are brought to light.
Starring Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, Alice Krige
A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
Starring Kaitlyn Dever, Olivia Colman, Walton Goggins
Set deep in the wilds of Appalachia, where believers handle death-dealing snakes to prove themselves before God, a pastor’s daughter holds a secret that threatens to tear her community apart.
Starring Aisling Franciosi, Michael Sheasby, Maya Christie
Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
Starring Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin, Bella Heathcote
A daughter, mother and grandmother are haunted by a manifestation of dementia that consumes their family’s home.
Starring Jules Willcox, Marc Menchaca, Anthony Heald
A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
Starring Azura Skye, Bryce Pinkham, Ashley Bell
Holly seems to have it all: two kids, a nice house, a good job as a teacher, and a husband with his career on the way up. But there are troubling signs that all is not right in her world…
Starring Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh
A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé’s two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.
Starring Jun Kunimura, Jung-min Hwang, Do-won Kwak
Soon after a stranger arrives in a little village, a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman, drawn into the incident, is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
Starring Munro Chambers, Christopher Gray, Emily Tyra
Rivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tension emerge when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean desperate for survival.
Starring Liana Liberato, Noah Le Gros, Jake Weber
A romantic getaway for two troubled college sweethearts turns into a struggle for survival when unexpected guests – and the surrounding environment – exhibit signs of a mysterious infection.
Starring Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen
A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.
Starring Stacy Chbosky, Ben Messmer, Samantha Robson
In an abandoned house in Poughkeepsie, New York murder investigators uncover hundreds of tapes showing decades of a serial killer’s work.
Starring Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity whilst living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Starring Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that’s stalking them.
Starring Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer
When Cecilia’s abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
Starring Crystal Reed, Mylène Farmer, Anastasia Phillips
A mother of two who inherits a house is confronted with murderous intruders on the first night in their new home and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later when the daughters reunite at the house, things get really strange.
Starring Carla Juri, Alec Secareanu, Imelda Staunton
An ex-soldier, living homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for her, he cannot ignore his suspicion that something sinister is going on.
Starring Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe, Blake Baumgartner
After a pair of amateur criminals break into a suburban home, they stumble upon a dark secret that two sadistic homeowners will do anything to keep from getting out.
