Freaky Friday #2: My ‘Little Book of Horrors’:

AKA Sharing the book where I write down horror movies I hear about, want to watch or loved. Including ratings on the ones i’ve seen so far.

Happy weekend to all ghouls, ghosts and primordial blobs reading this. I hope that, if you’re in Europe, you’re all enjoying this scorching weather! If you can, stop reading this and get yourself to a beach whilst it lasts. Knowing the UK it’ll probably hail tomorrow just to even things out, you never know. This week’s post is going to be all about lists. A few years ago – when my adoration for all things horror began – I started a notebook (I have notebooks for most things, I’m that kind of person) in which I started writing all the horror movies I researched, watched, heard about, loved etc. It started after I began researching lists on YouTube, like The Most Banned and Disturbing Horrors, My favourite horrors, Best French Extremist Films and realised I would always forget the ones I found out about. So I did, in one place. And since then I always write down classics I haven’t yet watched, films by new favourite directors etc. So, here I pass on the proverbial torch. Almost like i’m giving you my little black book of people i’ve dated…although, that actually would contain just as much horror. *Symbols*

Some Housekeeping:
-I apologise for how many classics I haven’t seen!
-These are in absolutely no particular order
-As always, when I say screams I don’t refer to how scary or horrifying they are, I just mean out of 5 stars)
-Some of the films in the list are not horror movies. This is because they’ve been banned in various countries, or they contain some very disturbing content or are psychological thrillers with horror tropes.
-In some cases, I’ve seen the original/remake of the film on the list but not the one listed and so don’t strike them through
-No, these are not all of the horrors i’ve EVER seen.

As there are so many in my book, I haven’t seen them all and I’m not going to rate them all or review them all. I’ll just rate the ones I have seen. So, in no particular order, here we go:

• Mother! (2017) ~ 3.5/5 screams
• Cannibal Holocaust (1980) ~ 2.5/5 screams
• Visitor Q (2001)
• A Clockwork Orange (1972) ~ 4.5/5 screams
• Rupture (2017) ~ Seeing as I barely remember watching it i’ll say 1.5/5 screams
• Pet (2016) ~ I was drunk when I saw this but I remember liking it: 4/5 screams
• The Last House on the Left (1972) ~ I’ve only seen the remake of this so far
• The Hills Have Eyes (2006) ~ 3.5/5 screams
• 120 Days of Sodom/Salo (1957) ~ 3/5 screams
• Caligula (1979)
• Baskin (2015)
• Audition (1999) ~ 3.5/5 screams
• Funny Games (Remake – 2007) ~ 3.5/5 screams
• May (2002)
• V/H/S (2012)
• August Underground (2001)
• Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
• 31 (2016) ~ 3.5/5 screams
• The Void (2017) ~ 3/5 screams
• Prevenge (2016)
• House of 1,000 Corpses (2003) ~ 3.5/5 screams
• Begotten (1990)
• Scrapbook (2000) ~ 3.5/5 screams
• Slaughtered Vomit Dolls (2006)
• Crimson Peak (2015)
• The Devil’s Rejects (2005) ~ 2/5 screams
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• Land of the Dead (2005) ~ 1.5/5 screams
• Scream (1996) ~ 4/5 screams
• The Possession (2012) ~ 3.5/5 screams
• Thirst (2009)
• I Saw the Devil (2010)
• A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
• Ringu (1998)
• The Eye (2002)
• Martin (1978)
• My Little Eye (2002)
• Red, White and Blue (2010) ~ 3.5/5 screams
• Aftermath (1994)
• Ichi the Killer (2001)
• Mexico Barbaro (2014)
• Carnage Park (2016)
• Teeth (2007) ~ 2/5 screams
• Hellraiser (1987) ~ 3.5/5 screams
• Irreversible (2002)
• Tokyo Gore Police (2008)
• Guinea Pig Series (1-7) (1985-1989)
• Taxidermia (2006)
• Eat (2014)
• The Final Girls (2015) ~ 3/5 screams
• Schramm (1993)
• Cat Sick Blues (2015)
• Hard Candy (2005) ~ 4/5 screams
• Dead Girl (2008) ~ 3/5 screams
• Victim (2010)
• X Gemu (2013)
• Missing (2009)
• Inside (2007) ~ 1.5/5 screams
• Deliverance (1972)
• Antichrist (2009)
• Videodrome (1983)
• The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
• Scanners (1981)
• Cujo (1983)
• The Omen (1976) ~ 4/5 screams
• The Fly (1986) ~ 4/5 screams
• From Dusk Til’ Dawn (1996)
• Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
• Final Destination (2000) ~ 3/5 screams, for what it is it’s good fun
• The Girl Next Door (2007) ~ 3/5 screams, solely for acting and being based on a very horrific true story
• Them (aka “ils”) (2005)
• Compliance (2012) ~ 3/5 screams
• Maniac (2012) ~ 3/5 screams
• Trick or Treat (2007)
• The Orphanage (2007)
• Behind the Mask (2006)
• Possession (1981)
• Grotesque (2009)
• Father’s Day (2012)
• Slenderman (2018) ~ 0/5 screams ~ Damn, we finally got a zero ya’ll
• The Bunny Game (2011)
• Veronica (2018)
• The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael (2005)
• Hereditary (2018)
• The Thing (1982) ~ 3/5 screams
• Identity (2003) ~ 2/5 screams
• Sleepaway Camp (1983)
• Dead Silence (2007)
• Slither (2006)
• Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994) ~ 3/5 screams, solely for the concept
• Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
• Annabelle: Creation (2017)
• Dark Water (2003)
• Urban Legends (2007-11)
• Piranha 3D (2010) ~ 0/5 screams, second one boys and girl, ooooooh
• This is the End (2013) ~ 2/5 screams
• Revenge (2017) ~ 5/5 *alarm bells ring, the crowd goes wild*
• The House That Jack Built (2018)
• The Wild Bunch (1969)
• Suspiria (Remake – 2018)
• Mullholland Drive (2001)
• Psycho (1960) ~ 5/5 screams, of course
• Carrie (1976) ~ 4/5 screams
• The Wicker Man (1973)
• All of the Halloween franchise (1978-2018) ~ still haven’t seen them all.
• Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)
• The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018)
• Pet Semetary (Remake – 2019)
• Heretiks (2018)
• Apostle (2018) ~ 2/5 screams
• Glass (2019) ~ 2/5 screams, if I were rating James McAvoy alone it would be 5/5
• The New Mutants (2019)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• Don’t Look Now (1973)
• In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
• Under the Shadow (2016)
• Pontypool (2008)
• Inside (2007)
• Re-animator: Directors Cut (1985)
• The Fly (Remake – 2019)
• Creature of the Black Lagoon (1954)
• It (1990) ~ 1/5 screams
• The Orphanage (2007)
• The Birds (1963)
• Wolf Creek (2005) ~ 4/5 screams
• The Howling (1981)
• The Howling II (1985)
• My Bloody Valentine (2009)
• Hatchet Series (2006-2017)
• Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
• Annihilation (2018) ~ 3.5/5 screams
• The Endless (2018)
• Hellraiser: Judgement (2018)
• Lowlife (2018)
• Downrange (2018)
• Goijiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)
• The Toxic Avenger (1984)
• City of the Living Dead (1980)
• Evil Dead (1981)
• The Beyond (1981)
• Death Proof (2007)
• The Dead (2011)
• The Horde (2009) ~ 2/5 screams
• Rammbock: Berlin Undead (2010)
• Unsane (2018) ~ 3/5 screams
• Upgrade (2018)
• Ghost Stories (2018) ~ 4/5 screams
• The Pack (2013)
• Battle Royale (2001)
• Society (1989)
• Wildling (2018)
• Mandy (2018)
• Bug (2007)
• The Wailing (2016)
• Bad Match (2017)
• Climax (2018)
• Carriers (2009)
• Pyewacket (2017)
• The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) ~ 5/5 screams
• Rampo Noir (2005)
• Strange Circus (2005)
• Gozu (2003)
• Shutter (2004)
• Three Extremes (2004)
• Zombie (1979)
• The Wizard of Gore (1970)
• Suicide Club (2001)
• High Tension (2003)
• The Witch (2015)
• Happy Death Day (2017) ~ 2/5 screams
• Orphan (2009) ~ 3.5/5 screams, it would have been higher but the ending is rubbish, in my opinion.
• Cockhammer (2009)
• Slasher House (2012)
• The Devil’s Music (2008)
• Absentia (2011)
• Us (2019)
• Stalled (1994)
• Colin (2008)
• The Battery (2012)
• I Spit on Your Grave (Remake – 2010) ~ 3/5 screams
• I Spit on Your Grave 3 (2015) ~ 2.5/5 screams
• All Hallow’s Eve (2013)
• Wolf Creek 2 (2014) ~ 3/5 screams
• Howl (2015) ~ 3.5/5 screams, I know the special effects are terrible but I just love this film, it’s so very very British.
• Splinter (2008) ~ 2.5/5 screams
• 13 Eerie (2013) ~ 2/5 screams
• Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
• 47 Metres Down (2017) ~ 2/5 screams
• A Quiet Place (2018) ~ 3.5/5 screams
• Silent House (2011)
• We Are What We Are (2013)
• Train to Busan (2016) ~ 5/5 screams
• We’re Still Here (2015)
• Stakeland (2010)
• I Spit on Your Grave (1978) ~ 3/5 screams, unpopular opinion: I prefer the remake.
• Aliens (1986)
• Alien 3 (1992)
• Frontiers (2007)
• Livid (2011)
• Eyes Without a Face (1960)
• Terrifier (2016)
• The Similiars (2015)
• Conjuring Spirit (2015)
• Cold Skin (2017)
• Murder Party (2007)
• Office (2015)
• Eremmentari (2017)
• The Poughkipsie Tapes (2007)
• Lake Mungo (2008)
• The Vanishing (2018)
• Megan is Missing (2011)
• The Last Broadcast (1998)
• The Borderlands (2013)
• Sightseers (2012)
• In Fear (2013)
• Wake Wood (2009)
• Peeping Tom (1960)
• The Hallow (2015)
• 12 Feet Deep (2017) ~ 2.5/5 screams
• Kuso (2017)
• ABC’s of Death (2012) ~ 4/5 screams
• Jeepers Creepers (2001)
• Let the Right one in (2008)
• Frailty (2001)
• Black Christmas (1974)
• Zone of the Dead (2010)
• Roadkill (2001)
• Patchwork (2017) ~ 3/5 screams, sick and stupid but very enjoyable
• The Lesson (2016) ~ 2.5/5 screams
• Bodies (2016) ~3/5 screams
• Sawney – Flesh of Man (2013)
• Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero (2014) ~ 2.5/5 screams
• Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) ~ 3/5 screams
• Baby Blood (1990)
• What We Become (2017)
• The Corpse of Anna Fritz (2015) ~ 4.5/5 screams
• Wilderness (2006)
• Cheap Thrills (2014)
• Rabies (2010)
• Ibiza Undead (2018) ~ 0/5 screams
• Ruin Me (2018)
• Wither (2012)
• Hounds of Love (2017) ~ 4/5 screams
• The Untamed (2016)
• The Reef (2010) ~ 2/5 screams
• Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009) ~ 2.5/5 screams
• The Gore Gore Girls (1972)
• Trouble Every Day (2001)
• Mom & Dad (2018)
• Ginger Snap (2000)
• Noroi: The Curse (2005)
• Cold Prey (2006)
• The Shrine (2010) ~ 1/5 screams

S0, there we are. My ‘Little Book of Horrors’. All billion of them (253). I’m, currently, on 70/253. How many of this spread have you all seen? Let me know in the comments below and I’ll see you next Friday!

And, in case you’re bored or interested or both – here a a few of the original pages: