100 Movies. 31 Days. The 11th Annual "October Horror Movie Challenge" (10/1 - 10/31)
10-04-15, 06:23 PM
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Decided that I want to work through that deluxe Halloween set this month; so might as well bend the TV movie thing to cover those cuts of the first two films and work them into today's theme.
And on the theme, I really enjoyed today's subset choice, Bad Ronald. The premise is amazing, and while done a few times over the years, this may have been the first.
Also watched that British series from 2008, Dead Set. I liked it, but probably would have appreciated it more if I watched it back then. I think a lot of zombie films and shows since then and overdone some of the film's elements since.
And on the theme, I really enjoyed today's subset choice, Bad Ronald. The premise is amazing, and while done a few times over the years, this may have been the first.
Also watched that British series from 2008, Dead Set. I liked it, but probably would have appreciated it more if I watched it back then. I think a lot of zombie films and shows since then and overdone some of the film's elements since.
10-04-15, 06:25 PM
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I doubt I'll get to one hundred but I've watched a couple VHS tapes so far to kick things off. Rewatched The House of the Devil and some cheesy made for TV movie called Nightmare on the 13th Floor so far. The House of the Devil is great and Nightmare on the 13th Floor was okay for what it was but nothing too memorable. I'm thinking of doing a marathon of the Nightmare on Elm Street films since I haven't watched them in a while. Might do a double feature of the first two tonight.
10-04-15, 06:42 PM
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Rise of the Zombies, Zombie Apocalypse, and Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies.
OK... so I didn't *expect* much from this trio of films from The Asylum and that's exactly what I got... not much. I purchased the set for Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies as I thought it had potential to be a real hoot. It *almost* is... the problem was they tried too hard to tie in many of the actual events/locations of the Civil War as well as The Gettysburg Address into the proceedings. It could have been good, cheesy, fun had they played it a bit more loose.
I knew I was in deep trouble when in Zombie Apocalypse one of our heros found a chainsaw in the bed of a pickup truck which he then used to dispatch a especially bad zombie, said "I wish I'd have found this earlier!" and then *leaves it in the truck bed!?!* Seriously! Just left it after proclaiming it would have been good to have.
Rise of the Zombies was easily the better of the three, although it wasn't any great shakes. It benefited from having several veteran cast members. Still... they deliver a baby from a woman who's turning into a zombie asking them to "Save my baby!" only for *it* to turn into a zombie right after birth (of course... don't these people know how zombies work?). The intercutting between a obvious doll and a real baby was simply some of the worst I've seen in a long time. Still... it was good enough to rewatch some time in the future.
At least I'd watched Let Sleeping Corpses Lie earlier in the day yesterday so I had seen *one* very good zombie movie.
10-04-15, 06:59 PM
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10-04-15, 07:00 PM
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Glad you liked it. I tried to pick something a little off the radar. I'm looking forward to watching it tonight.
10-04-15, 07:04 PM
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Peter Benchley's Creature is a lot of fun with an epic practical effects monster. It's got some pacing problems (I go into any TV miniseries expecting some fluff) and a cheesy 1990s feel that might not be "for" everyone (slow tribal beats, SEALs teams, etc) but I'm a sucker for it (and aquatic horror monsters are a favorite of mine). Occasionally Arrow UK has had promising webstore exclusive sales; these have been mostly UK region discs that you'd have to have shipped across seas (and be region free). I think the MSRP for Arrow UK discs has been cheaper than it has been for the US and to my knowledge there have been no Arrow US storefront sales. If memory serves some of the discs end up being around ~$15 shipped - I remember getting Vamp, The Beyond, Bay of Blood, etc for good prices but it's been a while (and recently Arrow had more strictly region locks).
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10-04-15, 07:08 PM
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You have to be very careful as some "Universal" titles are really Paramount titles MCA Inc. purchased in 1958 when Paramount sold 764 of its pre-1948 films. In the early 60s MCA Inc. took over Universal and was later sold with the MCA name being dropped in favor of calling the studio Universal Studios Inc....
I'd love to include Island of Lost Souls (1932) but it's a Paramount title, as is the wonderful The Cat & the Canary with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, as are The Uninvited, and The Unseen. There are quite a few more Paramount "horror" titles which could be included if I were not limiting my list to only those films produced by Universal.
While produced by Universal, The Monster & the Girl and The Cat Creeps, are Mystery...
I'd love to include Island of Lost Souls (1932) but it's a Paramount title, as is the wonderful The Cat & the Canary with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, as are The Uninvited, and The Unseen. There are quite a few more Paramount "horror" titles which could be included if I were not limiting my list to only those films produced by Universal.
While produced by Universal, The Monster & the Girl and The Cat Creeps, are Mystery...
And yes, several of the Sherlock Holmes films *could* be included as they actually have horror genre tags. But there's a part of me that just can't put those in a Universal Horror Film list. I struggled with including Tower of London as well as Night Key, but as I included others which are on horror film collections, as they are, I went ahead but added the qualifiers like on those other non-horror films I included.
I actually have a bit of a problem including the Inner Sanctum films *but*, in spite of them not feeling like horrors, they *do* have horror tags. Honestly, if I'm going to keep them I probably should add the Holmes films...
I actually have a bit of a problem including the Inner Sanctum films *but*, in spite of them not feeling like horrors, they *do* have horror tags. Honestly, if I'm going to keep them I probably should add the Holmes films...
10-04-15, 08:04 PM
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I was out of town for the weekend so no entries in the challenge the past couple of days. I'm way behind in this challenge. But I was never going to win this thing anyway. So i'll try and make up as much ground as i can. And move on from there.
10-04-15, 08:13 PM
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There's no way to win anyway, other than personal goals. If you have fun, you're a winner!!!
10-04-15, 08:25 PM
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Largely because of last night's TCM Underground lineup, today has become a day dedicated to when animals attack. I watched Rattlers, The Swarm and then The Long Weekend. Of the three, Long Weekend was clearly the best, but The Swarm is notable for its cast, which includes Michael Caine, Richard Widmark, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens, Fred MacMurray, José Ferrer, Henry Fonda, Richard Chamberlain, Patty Duke, Katharine Ross, and Lee Grant. That's quite a lineup!
10-04-15, 08:40 PM
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I found it hard to separate the originators when I tried to do my own list, and the genres are a tricky web. But... despite being Paramount Lost Souls was a Universal Horror VHS release alongside Monster/Girl, so I say for those two in particular: add them and put the same kind of qualifier/annotation.
As far as Holmes... I just checked the Universal Holmes catalog at IMDB *and* Allmovie. None have a horror tag although a few *do* have "thriller" attached at IMDB. But lots of detective and noir films have "thriller" as a genre - it's part of the overall type. The only Holmes film that is flagged as a horror title is The Hound of the Baskervilles and even then only the Hammer Films version has the horror genre tag. So... as far as I'm concerned, Holmes is off the table as well.
10-04-15, 08:56 PM
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Re: 100 Movies. 31 Days. The 11th Annual "October Horror Movie Challenge" (10/1 - 10/
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10-04-15, 09:00 PM
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I messed up the post and put The Monster & the Girl in the wrong place. It, too, is a Paramount production. My list is 100% Universal produced. Of course you're free to make your own version but in mine other studios are not welcome. If a film wasn't *produced* by Universal it doesn't belong no matter how good it might be or even if it were later distributed by Universal.
As far as Holmes... I just checked the Universal Holmes catalog at IMDB *and* Allmovie. None have a horror tag although a few *do* have "thriller" attached at IMDB. But lots of detective and noir films have "thriller" as a genre - it's part of the overall type. The only Holmes film that is flagged as a horror title is The Hound of the Baskervilles and even then only the Hammer Films version has the horror genre tag. So... as far as I'm concerned, Holmes is off the table as well.
As far as Holmes... I just checked the Universal Holmes catalog at IMDB *and* Allmovie. None have a horror tag although a few *do* have "thriller" attached at IMDB. But lots of detective and noir films have "thriller" as a genre - it's part of the overall type. The only Holmes film that is flagged as a horror title is The Hound of the Baskervilles and even then only the Hammer Films version has the horror genre tag. So... as far as I'm concerned, Holmes is off the table as well.
I don't fault your logic at all, I had naturally assumed - despite reading several lists that added in later Universal-acquired films - that anything branded by them as "UH" would be so.... obviously that was flawed thinking! Should have known after Paramount 100 and Warner celebrations got taken to task for claiming other studios' films as part of their company heritage...Murky.... "Thriller" is obviously often of those 'too good for "horror"' labels, but it would just seem odd having Holmes alongside the likes of the Wolf Man. Although his non-U Ripper films are fairly squarely in Horror territory and he did debut the Spider-Woman...
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10-04-15, 10:28 PM
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I might try and do this in a couple weeks, when I have a free weekend to myself. 24 Hours of Horror with Edgar Wright
10-04-15, 10:30 PM
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Saw several little trailers for this during the FTWD finale
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Looks like fun
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Looks like fun
10-04-15, 11:17 PM
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For today's theme, I watched The Day of the Triffids, a 1981 BBC miniseries. While the premise is very silly, I thought they did a good job creating a sense of doom and despair. There's also a lot of social commentary addressing how people act in a crisis.
I received Roger Corman's Tales of Terror in the mail today. It's an anthology film featuring loose adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's stories. All three segments star Vincent Price at his Vincent Price-iest - that is to say AMAZING! Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone also show up. It's currently on sale from Amazon for $12.98 - definitely worth it.
I received Roger Corman's Tales of Terror in the mail today. It's an anthology film featuring loose adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's stories. All three segments star Vincent Price at his Vincent Price-iest - that is to say AMAZING! Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone also show up. It's currently on sale from Amazon for $12.98 - definitely worth it.
10-04-15, 11:27 PM
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For today's theme I revisited Over the Garden Wall (2014), Cartoon Network's first mini-series. It's a fanciful tale wrapped in Autumn; material that deserves to be watched every October.
10-04-15, 11:38 PM
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I just had my first experience (I'm pretty sure anyways) with Andy Milligan... I'm not in any hurry for another.
10-05-15, 12:06 AM
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I think I'm going to join in the Challenge late this year.
I just started teaching at a Private School a month ago, so we'll see how many films I get to watch
I just started teaching at a Private School a month ago, so we'll see how many films I get to watch
10-05-15, 12:07 AM
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So question about those that study and watch movies about real life killers. I used to be so into them and fascinated by movies about Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Zodiac Killer, etc. However, with all the recent gun killings and mass murders, I'm thinking people like these should NOT be having movies and basically "worshipped" and placed on screen. They did horrible and unforgivable things and yet we are still drawn to watch their work and "learn" more about them. Anyone else get disturbed by this lately or is it just me?
10-06-15, 12:14 PM
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Waiting for my new Hammer bluray's to come in the mail So I can tear into them. Burnt Offerings too.
10-06-15, 03:16 PM
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Some people seem to be a bit confused about what the list is supposed to be, so just briefly; I was having trouble finding decent and long lists of horror films, I came up with an idea to compile all the lists I could find into a mega-list. It became this list. The website was a fun addition to provide some context to it. I don't expect anyone to take it too seriously, but it's a fun project for me and others seem to get some use out of it.