OCTOBERMAS 2025

October is looming just around the corner and I have to admit I have already purchased several bags of candy. Maybe four…And I don’t get a single trick or treater at my door. 

But I can’t help myself. I love everything about Halloween - so much so that a mere day or two of celebrating is simply not enough for me. I call for an entire month. 

Thus, what I call Octobermas was born. For the last two years, I planned at least one Halloween related activity for every day of the month. And for the last two years, I have failed. Work bullshit, or illness, or some other dumb thing has come up, and I failed in my quest for consistency.

But this year, in the year of our Lord, 2025, I refuse to fail. October 2025 needs to come out in a blaze of glory, because the world is dumb and sad, and we all deserve a little bit of happiness right now. 

I have carefully mapped out and revised my Octobermas 2025 map a few times now, and I think it is finally ready to announce. The map would be full of three movies per day, but sadly, I must work around library land. Somebody has to earn the cat food. You’ll find a weird combination of childhood favorites, adult favorites, a few movies I would like to revisit, along with some newer movies I desperately need to catch up on. And yes, my activities include lego and coloring, because I am a child wrapped inside a hobbit body. 

OCTOBERMAS 2025

Sunday, September 28

• Decorate the house

• The Village

• Signs

• Sixth Sense

Monday, September 29

• Evil Dead (1981)

• Evil Dead (2013)

Tuesday, September 30

• Nightmare on Elm Street

Wednesday, October 1

• Monster House

• Tower of Terror

• Under Wraps (1997)

Thursday, October 2

• The Others

Friday, October 3

• Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein 

Saturday, October 4

• Hocus Pocus 

• Hocus Pocus Lego set 

Sunday, October 5

• Halloween shop

• Practical Magic 

Monday, October 6

• Get Out

• Nope

• Us 

Tuesday, October 7

• Babadook

Wednesday, October 8 

• Twitches

• Twitches 2

Thursday, October 9

• Cabin in the Woods 

Friday, October 10

• Casper

• Casper Meets Wendy

Saturday, October 11

• Cozy Nightmare coloring book

• Alien Marathon

Sunday, October 12

• Halloween Shop

• Phantom of the Megaplex

• Mom’s Got a Date with a Vampire

• Don’t Look Under the Bed 

Monday, October 13

• The Exorcist

• Drag Me to Hell

• The Descent 

Tuesday, October 14

• Ready or Not 

Wednesday, October 15

• Nosferatu (1922)

• Nosferatu (2024)

Thursday, October 16

• The Lighthouse

Friday, October 17

• Cider Mill

• Piggy 

Saturday, October 18

• Carve Pumpkins

• Beetlejuice

• Beetlejuice 2

Sunday, October 19

• Horror Museum

• 28 Days Later

• 28 Weeks Later

• 28 Years Later

Monday, October 20

• The Witch

• Pearl

• High Tension 

Tuesday, October 21

• What We Do in the Shadows

Wednesday, October 22

• Hereditary

Thursday, October 23

• Late Night with the Devil 

Friday, October 24

• The Addams Family

• The Addams Family Values

Saturday, October 25

• Goosebumps coloring book

• Goosebumps (2015)

• Goosebumps 2

Sunday, October 26

• Halloween shop

• Barbarian 

• Weapons

Monday, October 27

• Scream Team

• Haunted Mansion (2003)

• Haunted Mansion (2023)

Tuesday, October 28

• The Substance

Wednesday, October 29

• Talk to Me

• Bring Her Back

Thursday, October 30

• Halloweentown Marathon

Friday, October 31

• Halloween (1978) in theaters

• Halloween marathon 

I spent this last Sunday binge watching M. Night Shyamalan’s best while cursing over tangled orange string lights, and I had an absolute blast. As I type this, I am watching the original Evil Dead, in all its glorious gore. Completing Octobermas is a lot of work (and money!), but this way I’m guaranteed to love every day of my favorite month. 

A lot of people and events are sucking ass right now, but your holiday retreat doesn’t have to.