Gabe Reviews Horror

Hello again, everyone! Hopefully you've had an uneventful year so far. It's almost that time, and you know what that means- 31 more horror reviews! A few years back (2020, it feels like a million years ago) I chose four movie franchises- Halloween, Hellraiser, Jeepers Creepers, and A Nightmare on Elm Street- and reviewed (practically) all of the movies in those franchises. This year I'm doing something similar- I've chosen three franchises I'm going to watch in full (except for a couple entries I've already reviewed), and then I'm going to round the month out by watching a few entries from the previous set of franchises that I didn't get to last time (mostly because they hadn't released yet). Here is the list of movies I'll be reviewing this month: 1. Saw (2004) 2. Saw II (2005) 3. Saw III (2006) 4. Saw IV (2007) 5. Saw V (2008) 6. Saw VI (2009) 7. Saw 3D (2010) 8. Jigsaw (2017) 9. Spiral (2021) 10. Saw X (2023) 11. Paranormal Activity (2007) 12....

Once more, I subjected myself to 31 horror films in 31 days! As usual, I considered not doing it in 2021 but as usual, I had several friends tell me they love reading my reviews so I went ahead. I didn't come up with a theme until literally halfway through October 1st, and it took some time to finalize a list (several of the films I originally wanted to cover weren't easily watchable so I had to swap them out) but in the end I decided that 2021 would be the year where I watch 31 zombie movies. (As it turned out, I'd only ever seen a small handful, and certainly none of the classics!) There was a brief period where I was traveling and so I couldn't watch the movies I had planned (hence why two of the movies are decidedly NOT zombie films) but overall I covered a huge portion of the spectrum of what a zombie film could be. (Also, I honestly don't think I realized that I had already reviewed Pontypool; as a result, this is a completely new review. Fair warning, there w...

In the years so far, the plan was usually to watch movies based around the fact that they were available on streaming platforms. (The first year it was literally just a list someone posted online of streamable horror films, with alternates if you didn't own a subscription to a particular platform.) In 2020, I decided to move away from the "random assortment of stuff people recommended" motif and instead start planning my viewing around a particular theme. (Will I keep this as a requirement in years to come? Stick around and find out!) For this year I decided that I really wanted to get caught up on the various horror franchises that I'd spent my whole life hearing about. I never really watched much horror as a kid, and apart from a few choice selections I'd never really seen many other franchise horror films. So I picked out a few (particularly, Halloween, Hellraiser, and A Nightmare on Elm Street, with Jeepers Creepers thrown in for good measure) and watched (bas...

So, remembering back to when I started doing these reviews, I feel like every year after the first I threatened to stop doing it. (It's a LOT of work, not just setting aside 1.5 hours out of the 24 we all get to sit down and watch a movie EVERY DAY, but also writing a review for each one, which can itself take an additional hour or more.) But I felt like every time I expressed an interest in not doing it that year, everyone within earshot would tell me that they really enjoyed reading my reviews so I should keep going. So I'm incredibly surprised to see that I don't seem to have a single review written for 2018, which I can only take to mean I just didn't do it that year. But the important thing is that I picked it back up in 2019, and boy did I come back full-force! While I hadn't yet started choosing movies along a particular theme (I'm pretty sure these were just movies that had been recommended to me) my reviews appear to be WAY more fleshed-out from this pe...

After several people told me they enjoyed my reviews the first year and expressed disappointment at the idea of me not doing it in 2017, I decided to go ahead and subject myself to another month of movie reviews. Looking back at my posts, it seems I played it a bit fast and loose with my picks this time around- some of the movies I reviewed were still in theaters, and many of the others were ones I'd had on my Netflix watch list and I was just trying to clear them out. Also, either Facebook has lost some of my reviews, or I skipped numerous days this month, because there a bunch of days unaccounted for- altogether I was only able to find 22 reviews from October 2017 (and one of them was only a single sentence but I'm counting it anyway). Also, I was as shocked as anybody else to notice this, but apparently I didn't write any reviews for 2018? I've always talked about possibly skipping a year (it's a lot of work, after all) but I didn't realize I'd actually d...

 Hello, everyone! My name is Gabe, and I'm a writer, gamer, builder, and horror enthusiast. Since 2016, every October, I've been watching 31 horror films and writing reviews for them. At first I just posted my reviews on my personal Facebook, and I got a positive enough response that I started branching out and posting them on a few other venues- but there was never a centralized location where someone could find all of them. So, as a gift to my wife (who always wanted to share them with her friends but never had a good way to do so), I've decided this year to start compiling all of my reviews on a blog, and that's where you are! So, the purpose of this blog is twofold: it's a place for me to re-post the reviews I've already written (nearly three hundred of them), and a place for me to write new reviews in the future. Primarily my new reviews will be posted every October, but now that I have a dedicated space for them, I may end up writing more in the off-season...