Octoblur 2015 - It's Over!

I managed to watch 43 movies during Octoblur 2015 — just over 66 hours — a few shy of last year's total, but still enough horror to make the days blend into one giant swirl of perversion. Yet, even though Octoblur 2015 saturated me to the point of burn-out with ghoulish imagery, it still feels like I left out 20 (or more) movies I really wanted to get to. Some of them will have to wait until next year.

While this year I tried to focus mainly on horror movies I hadn't seen before — or so long ago my memories of them had faded — two of my favorites of the month were my Halloween night viewings of The Funhouse and Ringu. I became fond of several new titles over the last month, but this year just didn't have anything that matched last Octoblur's knockout discoveries of Hausu, A Tale of Two Sisters, and Mo (The Boxer's Omen). I'll have to pick my selections more shrewdly next Octoblur!

Here's the run-down from Octoblur 2015, in order from best to worst:

1. The Funhouse (1981)
   Dir.: Tobe Hooper
2. Onibaba (1964)
   Dir.: Kaneto Shindô
3. Ringu (1998)
   Dir.: Hideo Nakata
4. Goodnight Mommy (2014)
   Dir.: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
5. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
   Dir.: Jacques Tourneur
6. Ugetsu (1953)
   Dir.: Kenji Mizoguchi
7. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
   Dir.: Werner Herzog
8. The Loved Ones (2009)
   Dir.: Sean Byrne
9. Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
   Dir.: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
10. Prince of Darkness (1987)
    Dir.: John Carpenter
11. Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
    Dir.: Barbara Peeters & Jimmy T. Murakami
12. The Day of the Beast (1995)
    Dir.: Álex de la Iglesia
13. Nightmare City (1980)
    Dir.: Umberto Lenzi
14. The Prowler (1981)
    Dir.: Joseph Zito
15. The City of the Dead (1961)
    Dir.: John Llewellyn Moxey
16. Unfriended (2014)
    Dir.: Levan Gabriadze
17. Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (1972)
    Dir.: Brian Clemens
18. Viy (1967)
    Dir.: Georgi Kropachyov, Konstantin Yershov
19. The Cure (1997)
    Dir.: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
20. Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
    Dir.: John D. Hancock
21. Scanners (1981)
    Dir.: David Cronenberg
22. Suddenly in Dark Night (1981)
    Dir.: Young Nam Ko
23. Mad Love (1935)
    Dir.: Karl Freund
24. Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980)
    Dir.: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
25. Black Magic (1975)
    Dir.: Ho Meng-Hua
26. Bad Ronald (1974)
    Dir.: Buzz Kulik
27. Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
    Dir.: Brad Anderson
28. Pumpkinhead (1988)
    Dir.: Stan Winston
29. Beyond the Darkness (1979)
    Dir.: Joe D'Amato
30. The Burning (1981)
    Dir.: Tony Maylam
31. WNUF Halloween Special (2013)
    Dir.: Chris LaMartina
32. We Are Still Here (2015)
    Dir.: Ted Geoghegan
33. Ticks (1993)
    Dir.: Tony Randel
34. The Seventh Victim (1943)
    Dir.: Mark Robson
35. The Mummy (1959)
    Dir.: Terence Fisher
36. The Visitor (1979)
    Dir.: Giulio Paradisi
37. Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
    Dir.: Takashi Miike
38. Burn, Witch, Burn (1962)
    Dir.: Sidney Hayers
39. Annabelle (2014)
    Dir.: John R. Leonetti
40. Spookies (1986)
    Dir.: Eugenie Joseph
41. The Gate II: Trespassers (1990)
    Dir.: Tibor Takács
42. Deep Red (1975)
    Dir.: Dario Argento
43. The Final Girls (2015)
    Dir.: Todd Strauss-Schulson