Halloween Countdown 2025: It's coming for you.
Prepare for spine-tingling cinematic scares all month long.
October has returned and along with it the 2nd Annual R-Rated Movie Club Halloween Countdown. In 2024, I wrote 6 essays on 17 scary movies that ended up being a mini-movie festival of frights. This year, I’ll have a few new essays, lists of movies I’ve watched, and a subscriber giveaway.
I’m excited to know if you like scary movies and if so, which are your favorite? Leave a comment and let’s get recommendations out there. My goal is to watch at least 31 scary movies in October, perhaps even one a day if possible. That may be a stretch on some days, but we’ll see what happens. What about you?
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Not sure where to start? A few ideas:
Make a list of the top 10 scariest movies you’ve ever seen. Are you brave enough to revisit at least one of them this month?
Hundreds of users have created horror movie lists at Letterboxd to inspire your next watch. Not only, that, some have gone so far as to make lists by type of horror, from pyschological to slasher.
Make a free account at JustWatch to add which streaming subscriptions you have and enter movie titles to see what you can watch out there.
Consider these essays on theology and horror from The Christian Century.
Read up on 10 horror stories in the Bible from Christianity.com.
Your turn!
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I’ll be back at the beginning of October with a sneak preview of where we’re going. In the meantime, I hope to hear about you and scary movies. What’s your favorite?
Glad you’re here today, Dear Reader. God’s peace and good movies to you!
Because it was so scary for me as a child, mine is Aliens by James Cameron. I watched that movie when I was about 9 years old. Freaked me out!