100 Movies. 31 Days. The 11th Annual October Horror Movie Challenge (Oct 1-31) Pt 2
10-05-15, 01:37 PM
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Cutting out an image and doing a google image search on it?
The checklist has an item of "With Two or More Horror Legends". What is that exactly? Is it two actors that have starred in a bunch of horror films? If so, how many films is the magic number to turn them into a legend?
Or is it 2 legends, like a movie where candy is poisoned or the decoration in someone's yard of someone hanging turns out to not be a decoration but a real person that committed suicide?
The checklist has an item of "With Two or More Horror Legends". What is that exactly? Is it two actors that have starred in a bunch of horror films? If so, how many films is the magic number to turn them into a legend?
Or is it 2 legends, like a movie where candy is poisoned or the decoration in someone's yard of someone hanging turns out to not be a decoration but a real person that committed suicide?
10-05-15, 01:50 PM
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Cutting out an image and doing a google image search on it?
The checklist has an item of "With Two or More Horror Legends". What is that exactly? Is it two actors that have starred in a bunch of horror films? If so, how many films is the magic number to turn them into a legend?
Or is it 2 legends, like a movie where candy is poisoned or the decoration in someone's yard of someone hanging turns out to not be a decoration but a real person that committed suicide?
The checklist has an item of "With Two or More Horror Legends". What is that exactly? Is it two actors that have starred in a bunch of horror films? If so, how many films is the magic number to turn them into a legend?
Or is it 2 legends, like a movie where candy is poisoned or the decoration in someone's yard of someone hanging turns out to not be a decoration but a real person that committed suicide?
Also something like a Hammer Dracula film that has both Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
10-05-15, 02:00 PM
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I think Google may have improved it since then, unless you were using Yahoo, in which case I dunno.
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10-05-15, 02:41 PM
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Saw some people talking about Burying the Ex and Odd Thomas. I watched Burying the Ex this morning mostly because I enjoyed Yelchin in Odd Thomas and enjoyed it a good bit. Will probably check out Life After Beth as a result. Are people considering Odd Thomas horror? I thought IMDB didn't list it as such, but it does feel as much like it fits as a lot of horror movies.
EDIT: I went ahead and "wildcarded" it. I guess I need to check IMDb before watching films, and not rely on Netflix genre classifications.
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10-05-15, 02:59 PM
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I put it on my list. I see IMDB and allmovie don't call it "horror," but Netflix had it listed as "horror" and TMDB has "horror" listed under "Plot Keywords" (but not genre). I'm with you; I thought it fit the definition, but if people don't think it's horror-y enough (even with all the dead people and murders and monsters), I can "wildcard" it, or I'll take it off my list if it really offends anyone.
EDIT: I went ahead and "wildcarded" it. I guess I need to check IMDb before watching films, and not rely on Netflix genre classifications.
EDIT: I went ahead and "wildcarded" it. I guess I need to check IMDb before watching films, and not rely on Netflix genre classifications.
10-05-15, 03:10 PM
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Re: 100 Movies. 31 Days. The 11th Annual October Horror Movie Challenge (Oct 1-31) Pt
Good lord! That is some kinda prize pack!!!
Dumb question on the trivia challenge: If there is an image that may be altered or is a general character or item, do you have to name the exact film it was taken from or just name the series?
Dumb question on the trivia challenge: If there is an image that may be altered or is a general character or item, do you have to name the exact film it was taken from or just name the series?
I was wondering the same thing (how tough the grading is going to be for these). I bet I'm looking at the same image as Spiderbite ... a super-small, super-general image specific to a horror franchise. This image is in pretty much every poster and video cover for all the movies in the franchise. So am I going to be marked wrong if I answer (an example, not the movie in question here) Frankenweenie, but it turned out that particular image came from the Croatian poster for Frankenweenie 7?
I've browsed though so many posters while assembling these banners that I know 'em like the back of my hand.
The checklist has an item of "With Two or More Horror Legends". What is that exactly? Is it two actors that have starred in a bunch of horror films? If so, how many films is the magic number to turn them into a legend?
Or is it 2 legends, like a movie where candy is poisoned or the decoration in someone's yard of someone hanging turns out to not be a decoration but a real person that committed suicide?
Or is it 2 legends, like a movie where candy is poisoned or the decoration in someone's yard of someone hanging turns out to not be a decoration but a real person that committed suicide?
Someone brought up Jack Palance earlier. Personally I wouldn't consider him a horror legend. If you think otherwise then by all means count him.
10-05-15, 03:21 PM
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Spoiler:
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10-05-15, 03:27 PM
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For my first viewing of this evening's marathon, I chose an episode of 100 Years of Horror, about giants, both human, and animal.
10-05-15, 03:58 PM
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The best way I've found of 'cracking' the banner trivia is become familiar with the banner then just browse Wrong Side of the Art under 'Horror' posters. There are a ton of cool posters you'll run across and eventually enough matches will pop out at you.
10-05-15, 04:00 PM
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That image was flipped horizontally.EDIT: Apparently trying the properly flipped version doesn't help.
10-05-15, 04:09 PM
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I think the idea that movies/books about real life killers constituting 'worship' or affirmative praise is invalid. Most of the celebrity killers seem to become oddly devoid of identity and morph into a sort of generic boogeyman, especially after whatever creative liberties the screen takes with any real life fact (usually they are not presented sympathetically); essentially people enjoy these movies in part because of what they say about general human nature and anyone's capability to become a 'villain' archetype. While I see your logic I'd argue that it makes no difference if we 'worship'/watch Freddy Krueger or Jeffrey Dahmer since they have both come to represent ghastly evils in similar form on the screen and it's the acts not the people that are most impactful. I don't think, for example, Jack the Ripper or even Charles Manson derive any personal satisfaction from embellishments of their life (and I suspect many true crime movies are so far removed from the source) because by the point they become infamous they have been stripped of most control/agency by death or imprisonment.
If you consider that the basis for horror (or story) is to tell tales that give real life lessons (like morality plays, now gone haywire) it makes sense to see movies/books/etc about true crime. Considering how impossible it would be to have a neutral and entertaining fact based examination I think most "based on a true story" films, regardless of if they name a specific criminal or not, are just marketing ploys for the same general shlock just with different branding (so any harm in watching these would not be specific to true crime horror); I think the real problem is if people mis-understand fiction\"non-fiction" and take it for literal fact but there's no known basis for exposure to crime facts making someone a criminal (certainly we don't know of any challenge participants going evil and knocking off people - yet).
Personally I prefer supernatural horror elements myself. The serial killer stuff seems too straight forward or played for shocks that it mostly seems dulls aside from stylish touches (which can sometimes make for epic movies, like with many giallos).
If you consider that the basis for horror (or story) is to tell tales that give real life lessons (like morality plays, now gone haywire) it makes sense to see movies/books/etc about true crime. Considering how impossible it would be to have a neutral and entertaining fact based examination I think most "based on a true story" films, regardless of if they name a specific criminal or not, are just marketing ploys for the same general shlock just with different branding (so any harm in watching these would not be specific to true crime horror); I think the real problem is if people mis-understand fiction\"non-fiction" and take it for literal fact but there's no known basis for exposure to crime facts making someone a criminal (certainly we don't know of any challenge participants going evil and knocking off people - yet).
Personally I prefer supernatural horror elements myself. The serial killer stuff seems too straight forward or played for shocks that it mostly seems dulls aside from stylish touches (which can sometimes make for epic movies, like with many giallos).
I think you are running close to a slipper slope of censorsism here.
I am not super into serial killer movies but do enjoy a them rarely from time to time. But I think the part about your statement that is the most disturbing is the between the lines "we should ban these movies" idea.
There will alway be people who try to blame crazies on things they don't like, look at that case in the UK where they tried to blame the reason for a murder on a family's renting of Child's Play 3 (of all fucking things).
Living in a revisionist history, censored, thought police society is way worse than Henry the serial killer biopics or dramatizations.
I am not super into serial killer movies but do enjoy a them rarely from time to time. But I think the part about your statement that is the most disturbing is the between the lines "we should ban these movies" idea.
There will alway be people who try to blame crazies on things they don't like, look at that case in the UK where they tried to blame the reason for a murder on a family's renting of Child's Play 3 (of all fucking things).
Living in a revisionist history, censored, thought police society is way worse than Henry the serial killer biopics or dramatizations.
I'm not mentioning censorship here nor am I saying because we watch something, it affects us to be like that person or make us do certain acts. And I think the big difference between say, Jack the Ripper and Freddy, is that Freddy is false, cannot be real, and just an IDEA while Jack the Ripper actually did these evil things. I guess I like something like Texas Chainsaw Massacre as it isn't a real true story and just based around things while not giving the man who did these evil acts a worshipping stance. Because, let's be honest, a guy like Manson is actually worshipped and the focus is more on the actual killer than the victims (where the victims should be the ones to be remembered and thought about). But a lot of movies, they do worship the killer (the true real life killer) and make it about them.
I put it on my list. I see IMDB and allmovie don't call it "horror," but Netflix had it listed as "horror" and TMDB has "horror" listed under "Plot Keywords" (but not genre). I'm with you; I thought it fit the definition, but if people don't think it's horror-y enough (even with all the dead people and murders and monsters), I can "wildcard" it, or I'll take it off my list if it really offends anyone.
EDIT: I went ahead and "wildcarded" it. I guess I need to check IMDb before watching films, and not rely on Netflix genre classifications.
EDIT: I went ahead and "wildcarded" it. I guess I need to check IMDb before watching films, and not rely on Netflix genre classifications.
10-05-15, 04:22 PM
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I don't mind marking it as a wildcard, since we get three and I'm not likely to need it for anything else.
10-05-15, 04:26 PM
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...I think the big difference between say, Jack the Ripper and Freddy, is that Freddy is false, cannot be real, and just an IDEA while Jack the Ripper actually did these evil things. I guess I like something like Texas Chainsaw Massacre as it isn't a real true story and just based around things while not giving the man who did these evil acts a worshipping stance... a guy like Manson is actually worshipped... where the victims should be the ones to be remembered and thought about).
I suspect the element you call "worship" also implies the killers actions are so far distorted they may as well be entirely fictional like Freddy Krueger or Jack the Ripper (myth > the man at this point). I get that there's a popular culture that's into people like Manson, but suspect you may be over inflating perceived benefits after mass murder - even if musicians like Marilyn Manson or films/books like Helter Skelter glorify the killer, it's not likely Charles is living it up. Also, I'm suggesting the elements of serial killers that do get glorified are not factual but inventions/distortions for entertainment.
I think even factual true crime movies have a necessary element of empathy with the victims, watching them try to stick it to the killer.
10-05-15, 04:34 PM
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To be clear, I brought it up to see if other people agree with it because I want to watch it, not because I want to question anyone else's watching it. I don't care about anyone else's list(except when it comes to browsing to find titles I'm not familiar with), I just have a weird OCD about following rules/opinion for my own list. I won't be using a lot of wildcards, so I'm fine wildcarding it myself.
10-05-15, 04:34 PM
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So what's everyone watching for today's LGBTQ theme? The subset choice was ok, and I really enjoyed shadokitty's suggestion of Cursed. Somehow, I had never seen that Wes Craven film before.
10-05-15, 04:54 PM
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If not, I'm sure some Franco or Rollin titles would fit the bill.
10-05-15, 05:08 PM
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The only thing in my collection on the lists provided that I haven't watched are Wrong Turn 2 and 4. Are either worth a viewing? I haven't watched anything beyond the first, and honestly don't remember whether I liked it or not.
If not, I'm sure some Franco or Rollin titles would fit the bill.
If not, I'm sure some Franco or Rollin titles would fit the bill.
For todays theme i watched cannibal
10-05-15, 05:10 PM
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I've been looking forward to watching Cursed. But I'm saving it for either the Wes Craven day or the Werewolf day.
10-05-15, 05:19 PM
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To be clear, I brought it up to see if other people agree with it because I want to watch it, not because I want to question anyone else's watching it. I don't care about anyone else's list(except when it comes to browsing to find titles I'm not familiar with), I just have a weird OCD about following rules/opinion for my own list. I won't be using a lot of wildcards, so I'm fine wildcarding it myself.
I'm sorry if it sounded like I was pointing the finger at you, or something. I decided to use the wildcard in case someone else were to question me listing it, not because of what you posted (other than you bringing it to my attention that it wasn't classified as horror on IMDb or allmovie).
10-05-15, 05:25 PM
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Day 4 coverage is up! http://celluloidterror.blogspot.com/...015-day-4.html Nothing too exciting here to be honest.
10-05-15, 05:54 PM
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The Hunger and Hellbent.
10-05-15, 06:06 PM
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