Not sure if anybody really asked for this, but here is a list of movies to watch to understand the houses this year, ranked in order from most to least essential:
Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines
- Dracula’s Daughter (1936)
- The Mummy (1932)
- She-Wolf of London (1946)
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
A Quiet Place
- A Quiet Place (2018)
- A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Legacy of Leatherface
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
- Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
- Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
- Ghostbusters (1984)
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
- Ghostbusters II (1989)
Insidious: The Further
- Insidious: The Red Door (2023)
- Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
- Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
- Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
- Insidious (2010)
Terror Tram: Enter the Blumhouse
- M3GAN (2022)
- The Black Phone (2021)
- Freaky (2020)
- Happy Death Day (2017)
- The Purge (2013)
- Happy Death Day 2U (2019)