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I never participate in these because going strictly horror would knock me out of watching films like Ghostbusters, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, or Hocus Pocus -- movies that are appropriate for the Halloween season but not horror films. Also, some of the older horror movies don't qualify as horror by modern standards.

So far, I've watched the following:

1st - Horror of Dracula (1958)
2nd - Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
3rd - A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
4th - The VVitch: A New England Folktale (2016)
5th - Frankenstein (1931)

Some of the films I've seen prior to the start of October:

Dracula (1931), Freaky (2020), Black Phone (2022), The Wolf Man (1941), Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), The Mummy's Hand (1940), and The Mummy's Tomb (1942). These films were mostly in preparation of going to Universal's Halloween Horror Nights. The Blum House haunted house is divided into Freaky and Black Phone sections whereas Universal Monsters: Legends Collide had Dracula, the Wolf Man, and Kharis the Mummy. I meant to rewatch Halloween (1978) as well, but ran out of time.

It has been my tradition to begin the Halloween movies with Bela Lugosi's Dracula on October 1st. Since I went to haunted houses in Orlando in September, I watched that one early. I tend to start off with the classics and get closer and closer to modern horror as the season progresses.