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caligulathegod · 09-29-08, 07:55 PM

October 1:
1: 12:00a Ilsa She Wolf of the SS. The original. Surprisingly watchable if you actually watch it.
2: 2:00a Ilsa Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks.☼ More of the same. Never boring.
3: 4:00a Ilsa (Wanda) The Wicked Warden.☼ Technically unrelated, but it might as well be Ilsa. Women in Prison genre with torture. Some cute chicks.
4: 7:30a Nosferatu (1922). The new Kino special edition DVD looks incredible. Projected at camera speed, it seems creepier.

October 2:
5: 12:20a The Black Cauldron. Technically fantasy, but it's got quite a bit of Horror in it as the scariest canon Disney movie ever made. The Horned King reanimating dead soldiers is quite impressive. A friend of mine saw it in the theater and said when the Horned King appeared all the little kids started whimpering. That's good enough for me.
6: 3:00a He Knows You're Alone.☼ Psycho kills people getting married or close to those who are. Not particularly scary. Fairly mundane, actually. At least you get to know the characters before they are offed.

Spoiler:

I wish something more would have happened before the last 20 minutes, though.

7: 8:30a The Brute Man.☼ Oh, ugh. Just ugh. What a piece of shit. Just popped it in because it was short and I was sleepy

October 3:
8: 12:30a My Bloody Valentine. ☼ Ok, this one is better. We get to know the characters, and stuff actually happens all the way through. Some effective atmosphere, for an 80s slasher. Pleasantly surprised by the villain.
9: 12:00p Prophecy. MANBEARPIG!! Run for your lives! I'm super cereal! Fun throwback. Hadn't seen this since I was a kid. Gave me nightmares back then. Don't think so now.
10: 3:00p The Prophecy. "If you're and Angel from 'Heaven' why do you sound like you're from Brooklyn?"
11: 8:00p Ghostbusters. High Def. You know how some films are funny no matter how many times you've seen them, or a film you loved when it first came out and didn't see again till 24 years later is still funny? Well, this isn't one. Sigourney Weaver was hot, though.
12: 10:00p Suspiria The more I watch it, the more it makes sense. Is that wrong?

October 4:
13: WILD CARD #1 One hour with Lamberto Bava and Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni discussing his and his father Mario's films, and her films and 1:30 with grindhouse historian, 42nd Street Pete, and his panel of Grindhouse and Drive-In movie experts including David Friedman, Jeff Lieberman, and David Hewitt, for a panel on the glory days of Grindhouse and Drive-In movies. Taped them myself so it's on an actual media.

October 5:
14: 1:45a Squirm. Love this flick. Had to pop it in after seeing Jeff Lieberman. One day, I WILL be the worm face.
15: 1:00p Horror of Dracula. Classic.
16: 3:00p Little Shop of Horrors (1986) One of my all-time favorites. When it hit the single screen theater in my little town when I was in High School, I saw it 7 straight days. I've seen 4 different live productions.
17: 5:00p Diary of the Dead. Not bad little flick. A bit heavy handed and some messages were repeated to no good effect, but the overall thesis about how a world in which everything is recorded and shared on Youtube would react to a Dawn of the Dead scenario.

October 6:
18: 2:30a Final Exam. ☼

Spoiler:

19: 7:15a Shivers (They Came From Within). ☼ Don't know why I never got around to seeing this.
20: 7:00p Nothing But Night. ☼ Murder mystery with Chris Lee and Peter Cushing. Chris Lee's attempt at a "serious Horror film". A bit dull, but it did have kind of a cool ending.

October 7:
21: 1:15a The House on Sorority Row ☼ Wow. I'm not the biggest fan of the slasher genre, but I decided to hit several this time. This was one of the best yet. Very 70s/80s, but I was intrigued by the story. Not simply random co-eds getting slashed up at random. The girls are culpable and it's actually a bit suspenseful. Is this a great movie? No, but it's a great slasher.

October 8:
22: 9:00a The Raven (1935). ☼ One of the better Lugosi/Karloff efforts. Pretty subversive with the torture stuff.
23: 4:00p Inseminoid AKA Horror Planet. ☼ POS.
24: 6:00p Homebodies. (1974) What a great film. Pretty obsure, never released on DVD. City tries to evict some elderly tenants so they can build high-rises. The old people don't want to leave and are willing to murder to do it.

October 9:
25: 4:30p Multiple Maniacs. John Waters' masterpiece of Horror. If you can sleep after this, you are already dead. Just kidding. I love John Waters, but this is a POS. It's got a charm and the weirdest rape scene in cinema history. The only film where Divine and Mink are on the same side.

October 10:
26: 12:30a The Dorm that Dripped Blood. ☼ POS. Kind of a cool ending, but I didn't care by that point.
27: 2:30a Return to Sleepaway Camp. ☼ Angela's pretty hot, actually.
28: 3:55a Return to Horror High. ☼ Meh.
29: 5:40a Pieces.
30: 11:30p Ilsa Tigress of Siberia ☼

October 11:
31: 2:00p The Burning. ☼ Not bad little camp slasher. Better than it probably deserved to be.
32: 5:00p Dawn of the Dead

33: 7:30p Day of the Dead

October 12:
34: 12:30p Land of the Dead.

Where's my Night of the Living Dead Blu-Ray?
Not counted, but you need to see this: Religulous

October 13:
35: 1:00a Don't Look in the Basement! ☼ Not bad low budget psychological horror. You'll guess the twist early on, but it's still better than expected thanks to the surprisingly good acting. Was originally on a double bill with Last House on the Left.
36: 4:00a Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell. ☼ Jess Franco's lost masterwork. Nah, just kidding. Probably the worst "film" I've had the displeasure to force myself to watch because I wasn't smart enough to shut it off before I wasted too much time with it. it's basically little more than one of those old Playboy playmate videos, where they just kind of pose in fantasy settings to music. IMDB assures me that it is Horror. Oh god, the Horror...the horror...
37: 8:00a Frontière(s) ☼

October 14:
38: 9:30p Dracula (1931)
39: 10:45p Frankenstein (1931)

October 15:
40: 12:00a Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
41: 2:00a Werewolf of London (1935)
42: 3:20a Dracula's Daughter (1936)
43: 4:30a Son of Frankenstein (1939)

October 16:
44: 12:30a The Mummy (1932)
45: 1:45a The Mummy's Hand (1940) ☼
46: 3:15a The Wolf Man (1940)
47: 4:30a Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
48: 5:40a The Mummy's Tomb (1942) ☼

October 17:
49: 12:00a Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
50: 1:15a Son of Dracula (1943)
51: 2:40a House of Frankenstein (1944)
53: 3:54a The Mummy's Ghost (1944) ☼
54: 5:00a House of Dracula (1945)
55: 8:00a Wild Card #2 Carrie the Musical. ☼ Yes, THAT Carrie the Musical. Actually, it wasn't that bad. Cheesy 80s music and costumes, but I like cheesy 80s music. The story is straight forward recreation of the movie told almost entirely through song. Betty Buckley wasn't as creepy as Piper Laurie but her voice is always good. The actress who played Carrie was good, also, with a pleasant voice. My copy was from a 20 year old VHS so the picture was blurry, but watchable. The sound was kind of bad, but I found the lyrics online and was able to follow along.
56: 1:00p Return of the Living Dead 3 uncut
57: 5:00p John Carpenter's The Thing

Always liked this one. Neat seeing it in HD.

October 18:
58: 7:00a The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. Great flick. Jodie Foster had a heck of a year in 1976.
59: 8:55a Wicked Wicked. ☼ Bizarre slasher filmed in DuoVision Split screen. Odd technique sometimes works, sometimes is a distraction. Worth a checking out once, though.
60: 10:35a Alice Sweet Alice. ☼
61: 12:20p The Bride. High Def.
62: 8:00p Young Frankenstein.
63: 10:00p The Tripper. ☼ High Def.

October 19:
64: 3:00p Fall of the House of Usher.

October 20:
65: 4:00p Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Spencer Tracy)

October 21:
66: 8:00a The Burning Hell. Religious scare flick trotted around churches in the 70s to scare people away from Hell.
67: 3:30p Rituals. ☼ Canadian "Deliverance-esque" slasher. Not too bad.
68: 5:30p All The Boys Love Mandy Lane ☼ Meh. It really is OC slasher.
69: 8:30p The Happening. ☼ Kind of interesting until it got preachy.
70: 10:30p The Howling. High Def. on FearNet

October 22:
71: 9:00a Hard Candy. High Def. ☼
72: 11:00a Right At Your Door. High Def. ☼
73: 5:00p Chopping Mall. ☼
74: 6:20p Bride of the Monster.

October 23:
75: 4:00p Island of Lost Souls.

October 25: HORROR MARATHON
76: Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas.

77: [*REC]. ☼
78: The Ruins. ☼

79: Wild Card #3: ☼ 4 hours of various trailers and short films including Forklift Driver Klaus, Elevated, Daughter, Bagman: Profession-Murderer, Superjail: Cold Blooded, A Day with the Boys, Crack Dog, and as part of a running joke All Women Have Periods

October 26:
80: The Mist. ☼
81: The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1998). ☼

October 27:
82: Dans Ma Peau.(In My Skin) ☼ Chick cuts herself. Very disturbing.
83: Diary of a Madman. ☼

October 28:
84: 12:00a The Mummy's Curse. ☼
85: 1:15a She Wolf of London. ☼
86: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.
87: Genuine. ☼
88: Don't Go in the House. ☼

October 29:
89: The Prowler. ☼
90: Eyes of a Stranger ☼
91: Dr. Butcher MD (Zombie Holocaust) ☼
92: The Video Dead ☼

October 30:
93: Nightmare City. ☼
94: Parasite. ☼
95: Beyond the Door. ☼
96: The Strangers. ☼

October 31:
97: The Deadly Mantis. ☼
98: Exorcist 2:The Heretic ☼
99: SAW
100: SAW 2
101: SAW 3
102: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

103: Halloween.

104: Spider Baby. YAY! Beat last year's total!
105: Bram Stoker's Dracula

106: The Innocents ☼

First time viewing ☼ Blu-ray

(Some films, I might have seen as a child, but no longer remember them)

I didn't even look at the Bingo list until October 29th and just checked to see how I did while making no effort towards it whatsoever. Not too bad.

Spoiler:

09-29-08, 07:55 PM	#99
caligulathegod DVD Talk Gold Edition Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Grove City OH Posts: 2,274	Caligula's 2008 Horror Challenge List October 1: 1: 12:00a Ilsa She Wolf of the SS. The original. Surprisingly watchable if you actually watch it. 2: 2:00a Ilsa Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks.☼ More of the same. Never boring. 3: 4:00a Ilsa (Wanda) The Wicked Warden.☼ Technically unrelated, but it might as well be Ilsa. Women in Prison genre with torture. Some cute chicks. 4: 7:30a Nosferatu (1922). The new Kino special edition DVD looks incredible. Projected at camera speed, it seems creepier. October 2: 5: 12:20a The Black Cauldron. Technically fantasy, but it's got quite a bit of Horror in it as the scariest canon Disney movie ever made. The Horned King reanimating dead soldiers is quite impressive. A friend of mine saw it in the theater and said when the Horned King appeared all the little kids started whimpering. That's good enough for me. 6: 3:00a He Knows You're Alone.☼ Psycho kills people getting married or close to those who are. Not particularly scary. Fairly mundane, actually. At least you get to know the characters before they are offed. Spoiler: I wish something more would have happened before the last 20 minutes, though. 7: 8:30a The Brute Man.☼ Oh, ugh. Just ugh. What a piece of shit. Just popped it in because it was short and I was sleepy October 3: 8: 12:30a My Bloody Valentine. ☼ Ok, this one is better. We get to know the characters, and stuff actually happens all the way through. Some effective atmosphere, for an 80s slasher. Pleasantly surprised by the villain. 9: 12:00p Prophecy. MANBEARPIG!! Run for your lives! I'm super cereal! Fun throwback. Hadn't seen this since I was a kid. Gave me nightmares back then. Don't think so now. 10: 3:00p The Prophecy. "If you're and Angel from 'Heaven' why do you sound like you're from Brooklyn?" 11: 8:00p Ghostbusters. High Def. You know how some films are funny no matter how many times you've seen them, or a film you loved when it first came out and didn't see again till 24 years later is still funny? Well, this isn't one. Sigourney Weaver was hot, though. 12: 10:00p Suspiria The more I watch it, the more it makes sense. Is that wrong? October 4: 13: WILD CARD #1 One hour with Lamberto Bava and Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni discussing his and his father Mario's films, and her films and 1:30 with grindhouse historian, 42nd Street Pete, and his panel of Grindhouse and Drive-In movie experts including David Friedman, Jeff Lieberman, and David Hewitt, for a panel on the glory days of Grindhouse and Drive-In movies. Taped them myself so it's on an actual media. October 5: 14: 1:45a Squirm. Love this flick. Had to pop it in after seeing Jeff Lieberman. One day, I WILL be the worm face. 15: 1:00p Horror of Dracula. Classic. 16: 3:00p Little Shop of Horrors (1986) One of my all-time favorites. When it hit the single screen theater in my little town when I was in High School, I saw it 7 straight days. I've seen 4 different live productions. 17: 5:00p Diary of the Dead. Not bad little flick. A bit heavy handed and some messages were repeated to no good effect, but the overall thesis about how a world in which everything is recorded and shared on Youtube would react to a Dawn of the Dead scenario. October 6: 18: 2:30a Final Exam. ☼ Spoiler: I liked how it started off. I like how they foreshadowed the random nature of the killings by invoking Charles Whitman and then the "terrorist attack". Then there's an hour where nothing happens before we are introduced to the killings. Just some boring hazing crap. Not the worst slasher, but not the best, either. 19: 7:15a Shivers (They Came From Within). ☼ Don't know why I never got around to seeing this. 20: 7:00p Nothing But Night. ☼ Murder mystery with Chris Lee and Peter Cushing. Chris Lee's attempt at a "serious Horror film". A bit dull, but it did have kind of a cool ending. October 7: 21: 1:15a The House on Sorority Row ☼ Wow. I'm not the biggest fan of the slasher genre, but I decided to hit several this time. This was one of the best yet. Very 70s/80s, but I was intrigued by the story. Not simply random co-eds getting slashed up at random. The girls are culpable and it's actually a bit suspenseful. Is this a great movie? No, but it's a great slasher. October 8: 22: 9:00a The Raven (1935). ☼ One of the better Lugosi/Karloff efforts. Pretty subversive with the torture stuff. 23: 4:00p Inseminoid AKA Horror Planet. ☼ POS. 24: 6:00p Homebodies. (1974) What a great film. Pretty obsure, never released on DVD. City tries to evict some elderly tenants so they can build high-rises. The old people don't want to leave and are willing to murder to do it. October 9: 25: 4:30p Multiple Maniacs. John Waters' masterpiece of Horror. If you can sleep after this, you are already dead. Just kidding. I love John Waters, but this is a POS. It's got a charm and the weirdest rape scene in cinema history. The only film where Divine and Mink are on the same side. October 10: 26: 12:30a The Dorm that Dripped Blood. ☼ POS. Kind of a cool ending, but I didn't care by that point. 27: 2:30a Return to Sleepaway Camp. ☼ Angela's pretty hot, actually. 28: 3:55a Return to Horror High. ☼ Meh. 29: 5:40a Pieces. 30: 11:30p Ilsa Tigress of Siberia ☼ October 11: 31: 2:00p The Burning. ☼ Not bad little camp slasher. Better than it probably deserved to be. 32: 5:00p Dawn of the Dead 33: 7:30p Day of the Dead October 12: 34: 12:30p Land of the Dead. Where's my Night of the Living Dead Blu-Ray? Not counted, but you need to see this: Religulous October 13: 35: 1:00a Don't Look in the Basement! ☼ Not bad low budget psychological horror. You'll guess the twist early on, but it's still better than expected thanks to the surprisingly good acting. Was originally on a double bill with Last House on the Left. 36: 4:00a Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell. ☼ Jess Franco's lost masterwork. Nah, just kidding. Probably the worst "film" I've had the displeasure to force myself to watch because I wasn't smart enough to shut it off before I wasted too much time with it. it's basically little more than one of those old Playboy playmate videos, where they just kind of pose in fantasy settings to music. IMDB assures me that it is Horror. Oh god, the Horror...the horror... 37: 8:00a Frontière(s) ☼ October 14: 38: 9:30p Dracula (1931) 39: 10:45p Frankenstein (1931) October 15: 40: 12:00a Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 41: 2:00a Werewolf of London (1935) 42: 3:20a Dracula's Daughter (1936) 43: 4:30a Son of Frankenstein (1939) October 16: 44: 12:30a The Mummy (1932) 45: 1:45a The Mummy's Hand (1940) ☼ 46: 3:15a The Wolf Man (1940) 47: 4:30a Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) 48: 5:40a The Mummy's Tomb (1942) ☼ October 17: 49: 12:00a Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) 50: 1:15a Son of Dracula (1943) 51: 2:40a House of Frankenstein (1944) 53: 3:54a The Mummy's Ghost (1944) ☼ 54: 5:00a House of Dracula (1945) 55: 8:00a Wild Card #2 Carrie the Musical. ☼ Yes, THAT Carrie the Musical. Actually, it wasn't that bad. Cheesy 80s music and costumes, but I like cheesy 80s music. The story is straight forward recreation of the movie told almost entirely through song. Betty Buckley wasn't as creepy as Piper Laurie but her voice is always good. The actress who played Carrie was good, also, with a pleasant voice. My copy was from a 20 year old VHS so the picture was blurry, but watchable. The sound was kind of bad, but I found the lyrics online and was able to follow along. 56: 1:00p Return of the Living Dead 3 uncut 57: 5:00p John Carpenter's The Thing Always liked this one. Neat seeing it in HD. October 18: 58: 7:00a The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. Great flick. Jodie Foster had a heck of a year in 1976. 59: 8:55a Wicked Wicked. ☼ Bizarre slasher filmed in DuoVision Split screen. Odd technique sometimes works, sometimes is a distraction. Worth a checking out once, though. 60: 10:35a Alice Sweet Alice. ☼ 61: 12:20p The Bride. High Def. 62: 8:00p Young Frankenstein. 63: 10:00p The Tripper. ☼ High Def. October 19: 64: 3:00p Fall of the House of Usher. October 20: 65: 4:00p Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Spencer Tracy) October 21: 66: 8:00a The Burning Hell. Religious scare flick trotted around churches in the 70s to scare people away from Hell. 67: 3:30p Rituals. ☼ Canadian "Deliverance-esque" slasher. Not too bad. 68: 5:30p All The Boys Love Mandy Lane ☼ Meh. It really is OC slasher. 69: 8:30p The Happening. ☼ Kind of interesting until it got preachy. 70: 10:30p The Howling. High Def. on FearNet October 22: 71: 9:00a Hard Candy. High Def. ☼ 72: 11:00a Right At Your Door. High Def. ☼ 73: 5:00p Chopping Mall. ☼ 74: 6:20p Bride of the Monster. October 23: 75: 4:00p Island of Lost Souls. October 25: HORROR MARATHON 76: Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas. 77: [REC]. ☼ 78: The Ruins. ☼ 79: Wild Card #3: ☼ 4 hours of various trailers and short films including Forklift Driver Klaus, Elevated, Daughter, Bagman: Profession-Murderer, Superjail: Cold Blooded, A Day with the Boys, Crack Dog, and as part of a running joke All Women Have Periods October 26: 80: The Mist. ☼ 81: The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1998). ☼ October 27: 82: Dans Ma Peau.(In My Skin) ☼ Chick cuts herself. Very disturbing.* 83: Diary of a Madman. ☼ October 28: 84: 12:00a The Mummy's Curse. ☼ 85: 1:15a She Wolf of London. ☼ 86: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. 87: Genuine. ☼ 88: Don't Go in the House. ☼ October 29: 89: The Prowler. ☼ 90: Eyes of a Stranger ☼ 91: Dr. Butcher MD (Zombie Holocaust) ☼ 92: The Video Dead ☼ October 30: 93: Nightmare City. ☼ 94: Parasite. ☼ 95: Beyond the Door. ☼ 96: The Strangers. ☼ October 31: 97: The Deadly Mantis. ☼ 98: Exorcist 2:The Heretic ☼ 99: SAW 100: SAW 2 101: SAW 3 102: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 103: Halloween. 104: Spider Baby. YAY! Beat last year's total! 105: Bram Stoker's Dracula 106: The Innocents ☼ First time viewing ☼ Blu-ray (Some films, I might have seen as a child, but no longer remember them) I didn't even look at the Bingo list until October 29th and just checked to see how I did while making no effort towards it whatsoever. Not too bad. Spoiler: Watch one film from every decade of film history. --- 1890 – Execution of Mary Queen of Scots --- 1900 - --- 1910 – Cabinet of Dr Caligari --- 1920 - Nosferatu --- 1930 - Frankenstein --- 1940 - The Wolfman --- 1950 - Creature From the Black Lagoon --- 1960 - Diary of a Madman --- 1970 - Don't Look in the Basement --- 1980 - JC's The Thing --- 1990 - Return of the Living Dead 3 --- 2000 - The Ruins Watch a film for each rating: --- Unrated Frankenstein --- G - --- PG - Ghostbusters --- PG-13 - Little Shop of Horrors --- R - John Carpenter's The Thing --- NC-17 - Frontiers --- X (not porn; several horror films were rated X) - Ilsa She Wolf of the SS --- Unrated (post-MPAA) - Dans Ma Peau Watch a film starring: --- Bela Lugosi - Dracula --- Lon Chaney Sr. - --- Boris Karloff - Bride of Frankenstein --- Lon Chaney Jr. - Wolfman --- Vincent Price - Diary of a Madman --- Peter Cushing - Nothing but Night --- Christopher Lee - Horror Of Dracula --- Robert Englund - --- Bruce Campbell - --- Jamie Lee Curtis - Halloween Watch films in at least two languages other than English. --- First language, (Spanish), [REC]. --- Second language, (French), (Dans Ma Peau). Watch a film in each of the following subgenres/types: --- Vampire - Dracula --- Frankenstein - Frankenstein --- Werewolf - The Wolfman --- Mummy - The Mummy --- Invisible Man - --- Ghost/haunting - Ghostbusters --- Witchcraft/satanic/religious - Suspiria --- Zombie - Dawn of the Dead --- Slasher/psycho/homicidal maniac - The Burning --- Monster/creature feature/Godzilla - Prophecy --- Documentary - --- Musical - Little Shop of Horrors --- Spoof/comedy - Young Frankenstein --- Revenge - The Burning --- Killer/evil doll - --- Killer/evil animal - Prophecy --- Killer/evil child - Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane --- Giallo - --- J horror - --- MST3K/rifftrax/CT - --- film and its remake - Bride of Frankenstein, The Bride --- based on a video game - --- based on a novel - Dracula --- directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis or Uwe Boll or Ulli Lommel - --- won an Academy Award -- any category - --- silent film - Nosferatu --- Criterion version film - --- with commentary – Cabinet of Dr Caligari --- film and at least two of its sequels - Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, --- anthology film - --- takes place on a holiday - My Bloody Valentine --- takes place in space - Inseminoid --- takes place on or under the sea - Creature From the Black Lagoon --- animated film - Nightmare before Xmas --- called "Night of the ..." - --- called "Return of the ..." - --- called "Revenge of the ..." - Revenge of the Creature --- called "Attack of the ..." - --- with the words "Living Dead" in the title - Return of the Living Dead 3 __________________ 2009 Horror Challenge list. 2008, 2007,2006 "I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." 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