First Kills: Our best first-time horror watches of 2022

Originally published on Letterboxd’s Journal.

Horrorville editor Brett Petersel invites the Letterboxd crew to revisit their favorite classic and current first-time horror watches of 2022.

LIST: Our crew’s favorite first-time horror watches of 2022.

Here at Letterboxd, we (really) love horror films. So much so that, two years ago, we launched a dedicated HQ page just for the genre. Since then, Horrorville has published 700-plus lists, shared countless stories from actors, directors and musicians from all fields of the genre, grown the page to more than 45,000 followers, and, most importantly, kept the scares going year-round.

Our goal at Horrorville is to bring Letterboxd’s community together around a shared love of everything horror-related. Terror may be what tears our souls apart, but horror also brings us together. The wide-ranging genre is meant to be approached and interpreted in many different ways, and we continue to learn this from our members. Whether it’s a small debate about the best film ever (I enjoy throwing Nightbreed into the ring every chance that I get) or why a specific film is missing from a “best of” list (many of you are tired of seeing Halloween and The Shining get all of the glory), we enjoy reading your comments and engaging with every member who leaves a film suggestion.

In the final quarter of 2022 it’s safe (if anything is anything safe) to say…