Gabe's 100-Movie Bucket List Challenge

Hello once again, everyone! The next batch of movies is going to break from format a bit. So far, all of my movie reviews had been written in October of their respective year, as part of a 31-Movies-In-October ritual that started way back in 2016. In November 2021, however, for my birthday, a good friend gave me a poster of 100 Top Horror Movies where each movie is a little scratch-off box revealing some artwork for that movie. Seeing this as a fun challenge, I decided that over the coming year, I would watch and review every movie on the list, ending with the final 31 movies across the 31 days of October 2022!

This was a huge undertaking, of course (I've already talked in past blog posts about the sheer amount of time 31 movies take to watch and review, and although this isn't confined to one month, it's still 100 freaking movies) but my weekly podcast was about to end and I decided I should put that incoming free time to good use.

It's worth noting that I'd already seen many of these films (43 of them, to be exact), and not only that, but of those movies I'd seen, I already reviewed several of them as well. I was still committed to re-watching them all, and even in the cases where I'd already written reviews, most of the time I wrote an entirely new review (particularly if my previous review was several years old)- and for ones where the review was from 2020 or 2021, I still read over what I had written and in most cases made some small changes when I felt differently about something. I wouldn't blame anybody for skipping over any of the included movies that I'd already reviewed, but I am going to be including them again for completeness' sake.

It's also worth noting that the choice of films on this list are... somewhat perplexing in some cases, but I'll address those in the reviews themselves. And at the end of these 100 movies, I'll be providing a 100-movie list of my own in case anyone out there is up to the challenge themselves!

Enjoy the fruits of an entire year's worth of labor!

The movies I reviewed from the list, in order, are as follows:

1. The Conjuring (2013)

2. The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

3. We Are Still Here (2015)

4. The Lighthouse (2019)

5. Drag Me to Hell (2009)

6. The Mortuary Collection (2019)

7. Midsommar (2019)

8. The Endless (2018)

9. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

10. Spontaneous (2020)

11. The Love Witch (2016)

12. Upgrade (2018)

13. The Dark and the Wicked (2020)

14. Cam (2018)

15. In Fabric (2018)

16. Relic (2020)

17. Possessor Uncut (2020)

18. It Comes at Night (2017)

19. Shaun of the Dead (2004)

20. 28 Days Later (2002)

21. Zombieland (2009)

22. Dawn of the Dead (1978)

23. Host (2020)

24. Halloween (1978)

25. Halloween (2018)

26. Night of the Living Dead (1968)

27. Return of the Living Dead (1985)

28. A Quiet Place (2018)

29. Don't Breathe (2016)

30. Rosemary's Baby (1968)

31. Hereditary (2018)

32. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

33. Room 237 (2012)

34. It (2017)

35. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

36. The Evil Dead (1981)

37. Evil Dead II - Dead By Dawn (1987)

38. Color Out of Space (2019)

39. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

40. The VVitch (2015)

41. It Follows (2014)

42. Let the Right One In (2008)

43. Let Me In (2010)

44. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

45. Aliens (1986)

46. Ready or Not (2019)

47. Us (2019)

48. Get Out (2017)

49. The Curse of La Llorona (2019)

50. The Host (2006)

51. Hush (2016)

52. Young Frankenstein (1974)

53. The Wicker Man (1973)

54. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

55. The Babadook (2014)

56. Bone Tomahawk (2015)

57. Misery (1990)

58. The Invisible Man (2020)

59. The Loved Ones (2009)

60. Cronos (1993)

61. The Witches (1990)

62. Train to Busan (2016)

63. Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)

64. Harpoon (2019)

65. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

66. Re-Animator (1985)

67. Frankenweenie (2012)

68. Arachnophobia (1980)

69. The Vanishing (1988)

70. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

71. Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror (1922)

72. Phantom of the Opera (1925)

73. Dracula (1931)

Bonus Review: My Best Friend's Exorcism (2022)

74. Frankenstein (1931)

75. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

76. The Mummy (1932)

77. Freaks (1932)

78. King Kong (1933)

79. The Invisible Man (1933)

80. Island of Lost Souls (1933)

81. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

82. The Wolf Man (1941)

83. Dead of Night (1945)

84. House of Wax (1953)

85. Godzilla (1954)

86. The Fly (1958)

87. Horror of Dracula (1958)

88. Psycho (1960)

89. The Innocents (1961)

90. Eyes Without a Face (1962)

91. The Birds (1963)

92. Repulsion (1965)

93. Frenzy (1972)

94. Don't Look Now (1973)

95. Carrie (1976)

96. Suspiria (1977)

97. Eraserhead (1977)

98. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

99. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

100. The Fly (1986)