31 Days of Gore: The Unnecessary Reboot! (10th Anniversary)

I haven’t done 31 Days of Gore in years, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t do it again for the 10th anniversary. In search of the best gore flicks, I’ll feature one horror movie a day, every day, from October 1st to Halloween. In order to recapture the thrill of being a pre-internet kid with an unrestricted membership to a mom & pop video store, I’ll be choosing movies based solely on their covers. I have no clue which movies I’ll feature yet, but there are a few traditions during this pointless exercise in endurance:

1. A shot-on-VHS flick
2. A melt movie
3. An anthology film (usually several).
4. Italo-horror (my favorite).
5. Slasher films (often combined with Italo-horror).
6. Empire/Full Moon movies

Returning this year is The Gore Meter, which assigns each movie a rating between 1 and 4 based on the satisfaction level of the gore effects, as determined by yours truly. The ratings are rarely indicative of the movie’s overall quality as there have been plenty of movies I loved that ranked low on the meter. I know, it’s a strange (stupid) rating system, but the gore angle was the only thing that made this feature feel worthwhile as there are already several content creators doing 31-day movie challenges for the month of October (I imagine more than ever now).

In other news, I finally got a stupid Letterboxd. The reason I’ve avoided that site for so long is because Goodreads was like crack to me until I finally kicked the habit and deleted it (and promptly started a new account before deleting that one, too). At any rate, follow me on Letterboxd and I’ll follow your dorky ass back.

So mark your colanders, spaghetti-heads. 31 Days of Gore returns in thirty-one days and I already regret committing to this!