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The 20th Annual "October Horror Movie Challenge" (10/1 - 10/31) ***The List Thread***
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Re: The 20th Annual "October Horror Movie Challenge" (10/1 - 10/31) ***The List Thread***

Check out my list of comic books seen in horror movies.
Totals & Links for My 19 Previous Lists:
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9/30/24 (dusk to midnight)
1) Vamps (2012) [tubi] - Horror comedy about two female vampires in New York City. It was on tubi's "leaving soon" list, so I figured I'd check it out - it wasn't bad.
2) April Fool’s Day (2008) [tubi] - A year after a woman dies at a party, someone starts killing people. This one was also on tubi's "leaving soon" list. I wish I had let it leave unseen.
3) American Cannibal (2018) [OtherWorlds TV] - Three small town girls, celebrating their last night in town before leaving for college, steal a car and end up being held prisoner by a loquacious cannibal. Could've been worse, I guess.
10/1/24
4) Hush (2016) - A deaf-mute author, living alone in the woods, is terrorized by a homicidal intruder. Nothing special.
5) The Portal (2010) [OtherWorlds TV] - An old painting makes people's heads explode. Somehow, the people who made this movie were able to make exploding heads boring.
6) Butchers (2020) [OtherWorlds TV] - After their car breaks down, four random, generic "city kids" wind up as prisoners of a backwoods cannibal family. Could have been an okay movie, if I had cared about a single character in it.
7) The Ghost Snatchers (1986) - Horror comedy about two bumbling security guards and a witch who battle ghosts in a Hong Kong office building.
8) Watcher (2022) - After moving into a new apartment, a woman starts to believe a neighbor is watching her.
9) The Demented (2013) [YouTube] - Six people have their vacation interrupted by a biological weapon attack.
10/2/24
10) Killer Rack (2015) [tubi] - A woman receives a new pair of massive murderous mammaries bent on world domination.
11) Videoverse (Cassex) (2021) [tubi] - A woman digging around in the backyard of her new home finds an old camera and a VHS tape that magically transports people to a porn star's private "sex dimension."
12) Fever Lake (1997) [tubi] - Six college kids spend a weekend at a lake house.
13) The Devil's Candy (2015) - An artist and his family move into a farmhouse.
14) Scream Baby Scream (1969) [tubi] - An artist abducts women and "sculpts" their faces using a mad scientist's experimental plastic surgery techniques.
10/3/24
15) Night of Horror (1981) [tubi] - Two half-brothers slowly travel to Virginia in an RV to visit the rural cabin they inherited from their late father. This wasn't checked on icheckmovies or Letterboxd, but I know I've seen it before.
16) The Butterfly Murders (1979) [tubi] - Martial artists investigate a series of deaths caused by poisonous butterflies.
17) The Beast from the Beginning of Time (1965) [tubi] - Archeologists dig up a perfectly preserved caveman that reanimates during thunderstorms.
18) Host (2020) - People conduct a seance on a Zoom call.
10/4/24
19) A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) - When aliens invade NYC, a woman heads out for some pizza.
10/5/24
20) Baron Blood (1972) [tubi] - A young man goes to Austria to meet his relatives and visit his ancestral home. While there, he reads an incantation that resurrects a homicidal forebearer who goes on a killing spree.
21) Simon, King of the Witches (1971) [tubi] - After he's arrested for vagrancy, a homeless guy who lives in a storm sewer starts moving through the city's hippie community, gaining wealth and power along the way.
22) Erotomaniac (2022) [B-Movie TV] - A strange girl starts stalking a mortuary assistant after he posts a selfie of himself with the mutilated corpse of a C-list celebrity.
23) Creature Features: "Mothman (2010)" [OtherWorlds TV] - A reporter goes back to her hometown to report on it's annual Mothman fest just as the Mothman decides to start killing people again.
10/6/24
24) Beyond Terror (1980) - Three small-time thieves, fleeing a botched diner robbery with two hostages in tow, wind up at an abandoned church, rumored to contain a treasure hidden in its catacombs.
25) Lake Mungo (2008) - Family members are interviewed about a teenage girl who drowned.
26) Devil Monster (1946) [OtherWorlds TV] - A sailor sets out through oceans of stock footage searching for a guy named Jose.
27) HauntedWeen (1991) [tubi] - A college fraternity in need of cash reopens a haunted house attraction that was closed down twenty years earlier following a murder.
10/7/24
28) Terror on Tape (1985) [B-Movie TV] - Video store proprietor Cameron Mitchell shows clips from movies to customers. I had seen it before, but I was looking for something to watch and it was coming on, so I figured I might as well watch it again.
29) Dead Birds (2004) - Six bank robbers hide out in a deserted plantation house after stealing a Confederate gold deposit.
30) The Eerie Midnight Horror Show (Enter the Devil) (1974) [tubi] - An Italian art student becomes possessed by a demonic force after working on an old statue purchased from a deconsecrated church. Watching Terror on Tape last night reminded me that I had never actually watched this, so I did.
31) Hell House LLC (2015) - Five people open a haunted house attraction in an old hotel with a history.
32) V/H/S/Beyond (2024) [YouTube] - Interviewees talk about UFOs, and we see five found footage stories (mostly about aliens). "Stork" - Cops raid a building and battle zombie-like creatures, "Dream Girl" - Two photographers stalk a Bollywood star. "Live and Let Dive" - A skydiver fights to survive after his plane collides with a UFO. "Fur Babies" - A woman who runs a pet-sitting service in her home hides a strange secret in her basement. "Stowaway" - A young woman investigates UFO sightings in the Mojave Desert.
10/8/24
33) Bewitched (1981) - A businessman vacationing in Thailand meets a secretary he mistakes for a prostitute. They spend time together, and she falls in love. After he spurns her, she hires a magician to curse him, causing the man to kill his daughter. When the detective investigating the murder recruits a monk to battle the magician, the magician retaliates by cursing the detective.
34) In a Violent Nature (2024) - A bald guy ambles aimlessly through the woods and occasionally kills somebody.
35) Deadstream (2022) - A YouTuber livestreams as he spends a night in an old, abandoned house. This was surprisingly not terrible.
36) The Green Inferno (2013) - When a group of student activists fly to the rain forest, their plane crashes in the jungle, and they are captured by cannibals.
37) After Hours Cinema: "The Wampus Cat (2024)" [The Monster Channel] - Recent animal attacks may be the work of a cryptid. Whatever it was, it sucked.
10/9/24
38) Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel (2018) - Investigative journalists (who, conveniently for a found footage film, "never stop filming"), and a psychic (with his own "never stop filming" camera guy), go to the hotel to retrieve evidence of the original owner's crimes.
39) Sally, The Zombie Cheerleader School of Horror: "The Ghosts of Johnson Woods (2005)" [The Monster Channel] - Joe Bob's obese, unemployed son, who looks like a fatter, skeevier Dan Schneider, befriends a much younger, self-centered teenage girl, and they decide to make a horror movie together.
10/10/24
40) Skinamarink (2022) - Kids wake up to find their parents gone, so they watch PD cartoons. Are we watching a dream? Is the boy going through some near-death experience after falling down the stairs in the dark? Maybe it's all some sort of a commentary on Gen X (or latchkey kids in general). I don't know what it was supposed to be, but I do know it wasn't entertaining or interesting.
41) Wrong Turn (2021) - Six idjits go hiking the Appalachian Trail and end up hunted by bloodthirsty savages living in the woods.
42) The Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022) - Soon after a family moves to a small town that goes all out for Halloween, the daughter finds an old Jack O' Lantern, which, when lit, brings the town's copious Halloween decorations to life to wreak havoc.
43) Shrooms (2007) [tubi] - Five idjits go to Ireland to hunt for mushrooms.
44) The Greasy Strangler (2016) - A fat goofball lives with his dad who he suspects may be the killer who has been terrorizing the city.
10/11/24
45) The Dark Side of the Womb (2017) [B-Movie TV] - A large woman gives birth to a head, causing her boyfriend to fall and suffer a massive cranial injury. Doctors transplant the head onto his body. After he recovers from the surgery, he becomes a killer clown. Meanwhile, the woman meets a little person, falls in love, and gets married. The killer clown ex-boyfriend tracks her down, and then things somehow manage to get even weirder.
10/12/24
46) The Monster Mash (2022) [Fandango Free With Ads] - Horrror anthology designed to play like an old-school "Creature Features" TV show, complete with a host (Dr. Freudstein) who introduces the three stories while participating in mad doctor shenanigans. "Whispering Hollow Road" - A serial killer, who likes to film his kills with a Super 8 camera, gives a ride to a woman stranded on the side of the road. "The House" - A young couple looking to buy a home go look at a secluded old house owned by a werewolf. "Homebound Horror" - A war vet returns home, is killed by gangsters, has his body resurrected by an alien creature, and goes on a killing spree.
47) The Third Saturday in October (2022) [tubi] - On the eleventh anniversary of his crimes, a spree killer survives his execution and goes on another killing spree.
48) Ghost Stories: Graveyard Thriller (1986) [tubi] - People tell stories in a cemetery. That's it. They just stand (or sit) there talking (until the final moments of the final tale).
49) Zombie Night (2013) - Zombies mildly harass some townspeople.
50) Trick (2019) - A detective becomes obsessed with stopping a masked serial killer who strikes on Halloween.
10/13/24
51) 4 Dead Girls: The Soul Taker (The Rental) (2012) [OWTV Vault] - Four young ladies rent a house, unaware that the landlord is a voyeuristic, soulsucking demon.
52) Beast No More (2019) [OWTV Vault] - To help her cope with the death of her son, an Australian lepidopterist goes camping, looking for bugs, but finds a feral child.
53) Evil Little Things (2019) [OWTV Vault] - A woman takes her son into a collectibles shop to buy him a gift. They meet the proprietor and he proceeds to tell them two stories about dolls in his shop: "Blood for Gold" - On Halloween, a woman finds an ugly leprechaun doll on her front porch and decides to keep it, for some reason. "Be Careful What You Wish For" - A young woman with a facial scar collects disfigured dolls.
10/14/24
54) The Ghost Train (1941) [OWTV Vault] - A motley crew of gits are stranded overnight at an isolated train station where a ghost train is said to haunt the tracks nearby.
55) A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973) [OtherWorlds TV] - A young woman goes to a castle for the reading of her late father's will, nudity ensues.
56) The Legend of Jack and Jill (Jack and Jill) (2021) [OtherWorlds TV] - A group of young people go hiking and camping in the hills and run into a pair of homicidal siblings.
57) Night of the Demon (The Touch of Satan) (1971) [OtherWorlds TV] - A young man driving around the U.S. stops to eat lunch next to a pond on a random stranger's farm and meets a mysterious young woman who the locals believe is a witch. I have seen this one "riffed" on MST3K a few times, but I don't count that as actually watching a movie.
58) Without a Body (2017) [OtherWorlds TV] - A writer who debunks ghost stories moves into a purportedly haunted farmhouse.
59) The Devil’s Machine (2019) - A man and a woman travel to a manor house to authenticate a reputedly cursed antique automaton.
10/15/24
60) I Saw the TV Glow (2024) - A kid (who's apparently too stupid to program a VCR) becomes obsessed with a TV show.
61) MaXXXine (2024) - Sometime in the 1980s, Maxine, from the first movie, is trying to cross over into legitimate films, but a serial killer is murdering young women in Hollywood, and a sleazy detective is threatening to expose what happened in the first film.
62) Abigail (2024) - Six misfits kidnap a young girl who turns out to be more than they bargained for. The whole crooks trapped in a spooky old house with a
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63) The Bone Jangler: Halloween Explosion 2018 - Frankestein el vampiro y compañía (Frankenstein, the Vampire and Co. (1962)) [The Monster Channel] - Mexican horror comedy about two goofball deliverymen who run into a mad scientist and a few monsters. Unfortunately, there were no subtitles, so I had to guess at most of what was being said. Fortunately, it wasn't difficult to follow along because they liberally swiped scenes from Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, which I have also seen.
64) Eerie Tales (1919) [YouTube] - After a German bookstore closes for the night, three portraits on the wall come to life and harass the shop owner for a few moments, then they read some stories (which we see acted out on screen). "The Apparition" - A man saves a woman who is being assaulted in a park. They board a train, and she tells him her ex-husband is insane, and that he keeps trying to kill her. They check into a hotel, but the woman disappears during the night. "The Hand" - After one of a woman's two suitors slays the other, the dead man's ghostly hand haunts him. "The Black Cat" - When an abusive drunk suspects his wife is cheating on him, he kills her and seals her up behind a wall in his basement. "The Suicide Club" - A man finds a note someone threw out of a vacant building's window. He goes into the building and meets a group of men who call themselves "The Suicide Club," and they tell him he is now a member of the club, and that he must take a chance and draw a card (like the rest of them) to see if he dies that night at midnight. "The Spectre" - A nobleman romances another gent's wife.
10/16/24
65) Dark Harvest (2023) - Teenage boys compete in a deadly annual hunt for a local boogeyman.
66) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) - A mysterious carnival appears overnight outside a small town.
67) You Might Be the Killer (2018) - When someone starts killing camp counselors, the guy who runs the camp calls his horror-movie-nerd friend for advice.
68) Cut (2000) [tubi] - A group of Australian film students try to complete an unfinished, cursed 1980's horror film.
10/17/24
69) Hell Night (1981) - Four college kids spend a night in an old house.
70) The Third Saturday in October Part V (2022) [tubi] - "The fourth sequel from 1994." The unstoppable killer returns to kill Alabama football fans.
71) The Collector (2009) - A burglar breaks into a large, isolated house, only to discover that a masked killer has taken the family hostage and booby trapped the building.
72) It's What's Inside (2024) - A group of friends gather before a wedding. This was another film which reminded me of a different film I've seen. That one had the group of friends hooked up to a machine which sent them all into a virtual reality game where they battled zombies (I don't remember the title). It wasn't very good, and I think the memory of that movie kept me from enjoying this one as much as I could have.
10/18/24
73) Possessed II (1984) [B-Movie TV] - After a young couple and their daughter move into a haunted apartment, the woman and the girl are possessed by evil spirits.
10/19/24
74) The Wailing (2016) - Random people in a small village suddenly become violent and murder their families. Police suspect they accidentally ingested hallucinogenic mushrooms, but one policeman suspects a strange man who lives in the nearby forest is responsible.
75) Vampire Trailer Park (1991) [B-Movie TV] - A vampire moves into a trailer park in Florida on the same day the park's owners get an offer for the land from a theme park operator (provided they can get rid of their senior citizen tenants).
10/20/24
76) Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) - Obnoxious trust fund kids play a party game during a storm.
77) The Slaughterhouse Killer (2020) [OtherWorlds TV] - A slovenly abattoir employee and his trainee start taking their work home with them.
78) Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) - An unemployed loser gets a job as a security guard watching an old pizza arcade populated by haunted animatronic characters.
10/21/24
79) Dracula Exotica (1980) - Dracula travels to America and falls in love.
80) Teen-Age Strangler (1964) [The Monster Channel] - Someone is killing teenage girls. Police investigate. I had seen this before, but IMDb calls it "horror," and I kinda enjoy the way this channel plays old commercials during breaks on their 4:30 Movie (it almost feels like watching movies on local TV back in the early '70s), so I figured, why not?
81) Jeepers Creepers (2001) - Two college kids, driving home on a lonely highway, are harassed by a supernatural killer driving a large, rusty truck.
82) Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) - I think this takes place right after the first one. The creature from the first movie sabotages a bus, leaving a high school football team stranded, fighting to survive. I thought I had seen this before, but none of it was familiar, so I'm counting it as a first-time watch.
10/22/24
83) Werewolves Within (2021) - A mild-mannered forest ranger starts a new job in a small Northern town populated by a dozen weirdos. One of whom is a werewolf.
84) Compound Fracture (2013) [OtherWorlds TV] - Dude visits his dad... in a haunted house.
85) American Poltergeist (2015) [OtherWorlds TV] - Five vacationing college kids rent rooms... in a haunted house.
86) A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell (Dark Fortress) (1990) [OtherWorlds TV] - A woman in a fur bikini fights to survive amid stop-motion animated monsters in a lush, post-apocalyptic forest.
87) Jeepers Creepers 3 (2017) - I think this one is a prequel (which makes no sense). The creature is back again, following one of his hibernation periods, and this time he remembered he had a truck in the first movie (which appears to have had a few upgrades, or maybe they were always there, and we just didn't get to see them in the first film).
88) Jeepers Creepers: Reborn (2022) - In this reboot, a young couple go to a horror convention, and become the targets of a group of Creeper cultists who want to feed them to the new low-budget, knock-off Creeper.
10/23/24
89) The Werewolf and the Yeti (Night of the Howling Beast) (1975) [tubi] - Paul Naschy heads to the Himalayas in search of the Abominable Snowman. I had seen at least part of this one before, years ago, so I'll call it a rewatch.
90) Night Fright (E.T.N.: The Extraterrestrial Nastie) (1967) [B-Movie TV] - A NASA rocket crashes to earth, and over aged teenagers start dying. I had seen this one before, but didn't remember much of it other than John Agar, and some of the locations and cars, so, another rewatch.
91) Haunt (2019) - On Halloween, six friends happen upon a haunted house attraction out in the boonies, and decide to check it out. The first in a series of bad decisions.
92) M3GAN (2022) - After her parents die in a vehicle accident, a young girl goes to live with her aunt, who is an electronic toys designer. Pressed for time at work and unable to spend much time with her niece, the aunt gifts the girl with a toy she has been working on, M3GAN, the Model 3 Generative Android, an experimental AI android that looks like a little girl.
93) Naked You Die (1968) [tubi] - Someone is killing people at a girls' school. Police investigate.
10/24/24
94) Porno Holocaust (1981) - People go to an island to investigate reports of huge animals, possibly mutated by radioactivity from atomic bomb testing in the Fifties, and find "a horny, mutant, cannibalistic zombie!"
95) Motel Hell (1980) - Following a motorcycle crash, a young woman winds up living with Farmer Vincent and his sister Ida who run a small motel/farm/smoked meat business.
96) The Devil (1972) - A man named Jakub escapes from a jail during some kind of uprising, goes on the run with a nun, and has odd, sometimes sleazy, sometimes deadly, encounters with assorted nuts.
10/25/24
97) The Wolf Girl (1974) [B-Movie TV] - A woman carrying her newborn twin daughters is frightened by wolves, and falls off a cliff and dies. The two babies survive. One is found and raised by a woman who lives nearby, and the other is raised by the wolves.
98) The Fly (1958) - A bug in a scientist's matter transmitting device brings about a pernicious result.
10/26/24
99) Return of the Fly (1959) - Set fifteen years after the first film, the scientist's son decides to follow in his father's footsteps.
100) B-Movie Enema: The Series: "The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978)" [OtherWorlds TV] - Planes, reusing parts from another plane that crashed in the Everglades, are haunted by the ghost of Ernest Borgnine, who died in the crash.
101) Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (Piranha II: The Spawning) (1982) - Genetically modified flying fish eat people at an island resort.
10/27/24
102) Night of the Sorcerers (1974) - Zoologists, working for a magazine, travel to a generic African jungle, where they encounter vampire leopard women.
103) Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007) - An earthquake awakens a Japanese Urban Legend, allowing her to escape from a closet, seek validation from strangers, and kidnap children.
104) The Ghosts of Kagami Pond (1959) - A shop clerk, who expects the store to be left to him one day, goes on a killing spree after he overhears his boss say he is going to give it to a different clerk instead.
10/28/24
105) The Whispering Man (2019) [OtherWorlds TV] - Hungarian found footage flick about a YouTuber who inherits a cursed painting.
106) The Naked Wytche (1970) [OtherWorlds TV] - A mysterious woman invites a young couple to stay in her castle.
107) Blind Beast vs Dwarf Killer (2001) - Confusing SOV mess involving a detective, a dead girl, a blind killer, and a little person.
108) The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946) [OtherWorlds TV] - A woman starts her new job as a companion and caretaker for a mysterious blind woman who lives in an isolated old dark house.
10/29/24
109) Creeping Death (2023) [tubi] - Middle aged teenagers tick off a Halloween monster.
110) Night Terror (1989) - A mental patient suffering from recurring nightmares experiences the nightmares of other patients. First, a libertine is seduced by a mysterious woman, then a real estate developer sees the same carnival barker wherever he goes, and finally, three thugs kill a toystore owner during a robbery.
111) Old Mother Riley's Ghosts (1941) - Mother Riley meets a young man in the park, and invites him home for supper, where he meets her lodger, with whom he shares an interest in alternative fuel engines. Eventually, a solicitor shows up and informs her that she has inherited an old castle, so they all go there to work on the engine.
112) B-Movie Enema: The Series: "Island of the Dead (2000)" [B-Movie Enema: The Channel] - People stranded on a small island (used as a potter's field by New York City) are attacked by flies.
10/30/24
113) Orgasmo Nero (1980) - While studying native culture on an island somewhere, Richard Harrison's promiscuous wife becomes very friendly with a young woman, and takes her back home with her.
114) Orphan: First Kill (2022) - A "mutant grifter" escapes from an asylum in Estonia and assumes the identity of a missing American girl, only to have her con discovered and to become part of a larger conspiracy.
115) The Sinister Doctor Orloff (1984) - The son of Orloff kidnaps young women, hoping to use their nude bodies to reanimate his mother.
10/31/24
116) Zombie High (1987) - A young woman is one of the first females to attend a prestigious prep school where faculty members secretly perform mind-altering surgery on the students.
117) Amityville Job Interview (2023) [OtherWorlds TV] - Mediocre music videos are interrupted by scenes of a woman at a job interview, a YouTuber discussing how to get a job, and some bald guy droning on about the music industry. It's another failed film re-released with "Amityville" slapped on it, hoping someone (other than those who worked on it) might watch it.
118) Amityville in Space (2022) [OtherWorlds TV] - The Amityville house is transported into space during an exorcism
119) Amityville Poltergeist (2020) [OtherWorlds TV] - A young man gets a job housesitting a haunted house.
120) Amityville Karen (2022) [OtherWorlds TV] - A city employee steals a bottle of wine from a local winery, drinks some of it, and goes on a killing spree.
121) Death Bitch (2024) [B-Movie TV] - Four San Pedro police detectives are searching for a vigilante and a serial killer who are both killing people in the city.
122) Teen Monster (Big Monster on Campus) (2000) - A high school nerd transplants a killer's brain into a dead classmate, and brings him back to life as Van Wilder.
11/1/24
123) The New Kids (1985) - After their parents are killed, a brother and his sister are sent to live with relatives in a small community in Florida, and end up fighting against a gang of high school bullies.
Total Movies Watched: 123
First Time Viewings: 111 (90.2%)
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By decade:
1910s - 1 - 0.81%
1940s - 4 - 3.25%
1950s - 3 - 2.44%
1960s - 6 - 4.88%
1970s -12 - 9.76%
1980s -18 -14.63%
1990s - 4 - 3.25%
2000s -13 -10.57%
2010s -27 -21.95%
2020s -35 -28.46%
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DVD Talk Gold Edition
Re: The 20th Annual "October Horror Movie Challenge" (10/1 - 10/31) ***The List Thread***
10-1 Dracula (1931) 4K
10-2 Frankenstein (1931) 4K
10-3 The Mummy (1932) 4K
10-4 The Invisible Man (1933) 4K
10-5 The Black Cat (1934) Blu Ray
Werewolf of London (1935) Blu Ray
10-6 The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 4K
10-7 Dracula's Daughter (1936) Blu Ray
10-8 Son of Frankenstein (1939) Blu Ray
10-9 The Invisible Man Returns (1940) Blu Ray
10-10 The Invisible Woman (1940) Blu Ray
10-11 The Mummy's Hand (1940) Blu Ray
10-12 The Wolf Man (1941) 4K
10-13 The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) Blu Ray
10-14 Invisible Agent (1942) Blu Ray
10-15 The Mummy's Tomb (1942) Blu Ray
10-16 Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) Blu Ray
10-17 Phantom of the Opera (1943) 4K
10-18 Son of Dracula (1943) Blu Ray
10-19 House of Frankenstein (1944) Blu Ray
10-20 The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) Blu Ray
10-21 The Mummy's Ghost (1944) Blu Ray
10-22 The Mummy's Curse (1944) Blu Ray
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) YouTube
Terrifier (2016) 4K
Terrifier 2 (2022) 4K
10-23 House of Dracula (1945) Blu Ray
10-24 Terrifier 3 (2024) Theater
She-Wolf of London (1946) Blu Ray
10-25 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) Blu Ray
10-26 Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) Blu Ray
10-27 Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) 4K
10-28 Revenge of the Creature (1955) Blu Ray
10-29 Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) Blu Ray
10-30 The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) Blu Ray
10-31 Salem's Lot (2024) 4K
Alien: Romulus (2024) 4K
MaXXXine (2024)
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10-2 Frankenstein (1931) 4K
10-3 The Mummy (1932) 4K
10-4 The Invisible Man (1933) 4K
10-5 The Black Cat (1934) Blu Ray
Werewolf of London (1935) Blu Ray
10-6 The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 4K
10-7 Dracula's Daughter (1936) Blu Ray
10-8 Son of Frankenstein (1939) Blu Ray
10-9 The Invisible Man Returns (1940) Blu Ray
10-10 The Invisible Woman (1940) Blu Ray
10-11 The Mummy's Hand (1940) Blu Ray
10-12 The Wolf Man (1941) 4K
10-13 The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) Blu Ray
10-14 Invisible Agent (1942) Blu Ray
10-15 The Mummy's Tomb (1942) Blu Ray
10-16 Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) Blu Ray
10-17 Phantom of the Opera (1943) 4K
10-18 Son of Dracula (1943) Blu Ray
10-19 House of Frankenstein (1944) Blu Ray
10-20 The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) Blu Ray
10-21 The Mummy's Ghost (1944) Blu Ray
10-22 The Mummy's Curse (1944) Blu Ray
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) YouTube
Terrifier (2016) 4K
Terrifier 2 (2022) 4K
10-23 House of Dracula (1945) Blu Ray
10-24 Terrifier 3 (2024) Theater
She-Wolf of London (1946) Blu Ray
10-25 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) Blu Ray
10-26 Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) Blu Ray
10-27 Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) 4K
10-28 Revenge of the Creature (1955) Blu Ray
10-29 Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) Blu Ray
10-30 The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) Blu Ray
10-31 Salem's Lot (2024) 4K
Alien: Romulus (2024) 4K
MaXXXine (2024)
38 watched.
Last edited by mike7162; 11-01-24 at 01:35 AM.
#78
DVD Talk Ultimate Edition
Re: The 20th Annual "October Horror Movie Challenge" (10/1 - 10/31) ***The List Thread***
October 1st
1. All Hallows' Eve (2013) (7:35am) *
October 2nd
2. Halloween (2007) (Theatrical Cut) (8:00am)
3. The Mouse Trap (2024) (9:45am) *
4. Hollow Man (2000) (2:45pm)
October 3rd
None Today
October 4th
4. Stay Out of the F**king Attic (2021) (10:30am) *
5. Night of the Comet (1984) (3:50pm)
October 5th - October 8th
None These Days
October 9th
6. The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) (7:30am)
7. You Can't Kill Stephen King (2012) (8:55am) *
8. Psycho (1960) (10:45am)
October 10th
9. WNUF Halloween Special (2013) (10:05am) *
October 11th
10. Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987) (8:05am)
October 12th
11. Hocus Pocus (1993) (4:50am)
12. Swimfan (2002) (6:50am)
13. Terrifier 3 (2024) (7:00pm) *
October 13th
14. Slumber Party Massacre II (1987) (3:40am)
15. The Toxic Avenger (1984) (9:35am)
October 14th - October 15th
None These Days
October 16th
16. Don't Open Till Christmas (1984) (8:15am) *
17. Misery (1990) (10:10am)
October 17th
18. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) (2:20am)
19. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) (3:45am)
20. A Nightmare om Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) (5:20am)
21. Carnival of Souls (1962) (6:45am)
October 18th
None Today
October 19th
22. Planet Terror (2007) (3:20pm)
October 20th - October 22nd
None These Days
October 23
23. The Shining (1980) (8:15am)
October 24th
24. Better Watch Out (2016) (7:45am)
25. Old (2021) (9:25am)
October 25th
26. Ginger Snaps (2000) (4:35pm)
October 26th
27. Rosemary's Baby (1968) (4:05am)
28. Smile 2 (2024) (10:00am) *
29. Hollow Man (2000) (2:45pm)
October 27th
30. Ernest Scared Stupid (1991) (9:30am)
October 28th
None Today
October 29th
31. Night of the Living Dead (1968) (7:30am)
October 30th
32. Urban Legend (1998) (7:30am)
33. Scream 4 (2011) (10:15am)
34. Maniac Cop (1988) (3:05pm)
October 31st
35. Halloween (1978) (7:10am)
36. Halloween II (1981) (7:25pm)
* = First Time Viewing
1. All Hallows' Eve (2013) (7:35am) *
October 2nd
2. Halloween (2007) (Theatrical Cut) (8:00am)
3. The Mouse Trap (2024) (9:45am) *
4. Hollow Man (2000) (2:45pm)
October 3rd
None Today

October 4th
4. Stay Out of the F**king Attic (2021) (10:30am) *
5. Night of the Comet (1984) (3:50pm)
October 5th - October 8th
None These Days

October 9th
6. The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) (7:30am)
7. You Can't Kill Stephen King (2012) (8:55am) *
8. Psycho (1960) (10:45am)
October 10th
9. WNUF Halloween Special (2013) (10:05am) *
October 11th
10. Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987) (8:05am)
October 12th
11. Hocus Pocus (1993) (4:50am)
12. Swimfan (2002) (6:50am)
13. Terrifier 3 (2024) (7:00pm) *
October 13th
14. Slumber Party Massacre II (1987) (3:40am)
15. The Toxic Avenger (1984) (9:35am)
October 14th - October 15th
None These Days
October 16th
16. Don't Open Till Christmas (1984) (8:15am) *
17. Misery (1990) (10:10am)
October 17th
18. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) (2:20am)
19. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) (3:45am)
20. A Nightmare om Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) (5:20am)
21. Carnival of Souls (1962) (6:45am)
October 18th
None Today

October 19th
22. Planet Terror (2007) (3:20pm)
October 20th - October 22nd
None These Days

October 23
23. The Shining (1980) (8:15am)
October 24th
24. Better Watch Out (2016) (7:45am)
25. Old (2021) (9:25am)
October 25th
26. Ginger Snaps (2000) (4:35pm)
October 26th
27. Rosemary's Baby (1968) (4:05am)
28. Smile 2 (2024) (10:00am) *
29. Hollow Man (2000) (2:45pm)
October 27th
30. Ernest Scared Stupid (1991) (9:30am)
October 28th
None Today

October 29th
31. Night of the Living Dead (1968) (7:30am)
October 30th
32. Urban Legend (1998) (7:30am)
33. Scream 4 (2011) (10:15am)
34. Maniac Cop (1988) (3:05pm)
October 31st
35. Halloween (1978) (7:10am)
36. Halloween II (1981) (7:25pm)
* = First Time Viewing
Last edited by The Monkees; 10-31-24 at 07:32 PM.
#79
#80
New Member
Re: The 20th Annual "October Horror Movie Challenge" (10/1 - 10/31) ***The List Thread***
VINZ CLORTHO'S 2024 OCTOBER HORROR MOVIE CHALLENGE
October 1:
00.25) ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?: S01E01 - The Tale of the Phantom Cab (Ron Oliver | 1992)
00.50) ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?: S01E02 - The Tale of Laughing in the Dark (Ron Oliver | 1992)
00.75) ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?: S01E03 - The Tale of the Lonely Ghost (D.J. MacHale | 1992)
01.00) ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?: S01E04 - The Tale of the Twisted Claw (D.J. MacHale | 1992)
October 2:
01.25) ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?: S01E05 - The Tale of the Hungry Hounds (D.J. MacHale | 1992)
October 3:
01.50) ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?: S01E06 - The Tale of the Super Specs (Ron Oliver| 1992)
-- I unfortunately have to tap out this year. As much as I want, it's just not in the cards. --
Color Key:
A note about this year's OHMC:
October 1:
00.25) ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?: S01E01 - The Tale of the Phantom Cab (Ron Oliver | 1992)
00.50) ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?: S01E02 - The Tale of Laughing in the Dark (Ron Oliver | 1992)
00.75) ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?: S01E03 - The Tale of the Lonely Ghost (D.J. MacHale | 1992)
01.00) ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?: S01E04 - The Tale of the Twisted Claw (D.J. MacHale | 1992)
October 2:
01.25) ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?: S01E05 - The Tale of the Hungry Hounds (D.J. MacHale | 1992)
October 3:
01.50) ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?: S01E06 - The Tale of the Super Specs (Ron Oliver| 1992)
-- I unfortunately have to tap out this year. As much as I want, it's just not in the cards. --
Color Key:
Spoiler:
A note about this year's OHMC:
Spoiler:
Last edited by Vinz Clortho; 10-09-24 at 09:51 AM.
#81
Re: The 20th Annual "October Horror Movie Challenge" (10/1 - 10/31) ***The List Thread***
Fist o' Doom Jr's 2024 Horror Challenge
Sept. 30
1. Poltergeist (2015) *
2. Friday the 13th: The Series, "The Inheritance", "The Poison Pen"
3. The Mutilator (1984)
Oct. 1
4. Polaroid (2019) *
5. Poltergeist (1982)
6. The Wolfman (2010) *
7. Friday the 13: The Series, "Cupid's Quiver", "A Cup of Time"
8. South of Hell, "Demons Are Forever", "Dinner and a Movie"
Oct. 2
9. Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
10. Wolf Creek (2005) *
11. 28 Days Later (2002) *
12. 28 Weeks Later (2007) *
13. Friday the 13th: The Series, "Hellowe'en", "The Great Montarro"
Oct. 3
14. Re-Animator (1985)
15. South of Hell, "Judge and Fury", South of the Border"
16. Poltergeist III (1988)
Oct. 4
17. The Amityville Horror (1979)
18. Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
19. South of Hell, "Take Life Now", "The One That Got Away"
Oct. 5
20. Foreclosure 2 (2024) *
21. Haunt (2019) *
Oct. 6
21.5. South of Heaven, "White Noise"
22. Tremors: The Series, "Feeding Frenzy"
23. Amityville 3-D (1983)
Oct. 7
24. Immaculate (2024) *
Oct. 14
25. The Hitcher (1986)
26. It Follows (2015) *
Oct. 18
27. House (1985) *
28. House (1977) *
Oct. 26
29. Us (2019) *
Oct. 27
30. Curve (2015) *
Oct. 28
31. Messengers 2: The Scarecrow (2009) *
Oct. 30
32. The Dentist (1996) *
33. The Dentist 2 (1999) *
* First time viewing (movies only)
Sept. 30
1. Poltergeist (2015) *
2. Friday the 13th: The Series, "The Inheritance", "The Poison Pen"
3. The Mutilator (1984)
Oct. 1
4. Polaroid (2019) *
5. Poltergeist (1982)
6. The Wolfman (2010) *
7. Friday the 13: The Series, "Cupid's Quiver", "A Cup of Time"
8. South of Hell, "Demons Are Forever", "Dinner and a Movie"
Oct. 2
9. Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
10. Wolf Creek (2005) *
11. 28 Days Later (2002) *
12. 28 Weeks Later (2007) *
13. Friday the 13th: The Series, "Hellowe'en", "The Great Montarro"
Oct. 3
14. Re-Animator (1985)
15. South of Hell, "Judge and Fury", South of the Border"
16. Poltergeist III (1988)
Oct. 4
17. The Amityville Horror (1979)
18. Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
19. South of Hell, "Take Life Now", "The One That Got Away"
Oct. 5
20. Foreclosure 2 (2024) *
21. Haunt (2019) *
Oct. 6
21.5. South of Heaven, "White Noise"
22. Tremors: The Series, "Feeding Frenzy"
23. Amityville 3-D (1983)
Oct. 7
24. Immaculate (2024) *
Oct. 14
25. The Hitcher (1986)
26. It Follows (2015) *
Oct. 18
27. House (1985) *
28. House (1977) *
Oct. 26
29. Us (2019) *
Oct. 27
30. Curve (2015) *
Oct. 28
31. Messengers 2: The Scarecrow (2009) *
Oct. 30
32. The Dentist (1996) *
33. The Dentist 2 (1999) *
* First time viewing (movies only)
Last edited by Fist of Doom Jr; 10-30-24 at 05:26 PM.
#82
Re: The 20th Annual "October Horror Movie Challenge" (10/1 - 10/31) ***The List Thread***
Title in BLACK = From my personal DVD/Blu Ray collection.
Title in RED = Seen on YouTube.
Title in PURPLE = Seen on a streaming service.
Title in BLUE = Seen in movie theater during its current run.
Title in GREEN = Seen during regular broadcast TV programming.
October 1
1. Viy (1967) Russian folk horror movie, a fantastic ending!
2. Hellboy (2004) Still holds uo even if some of the dialogue is corny as hell, and we have Guillermo del Toro to thank for that because he wrote the screenplay as well as directed.
3. Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024) Though I appreciate the more serious tone and horror leanings, this movie's just a mess.
October 2
4. Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) The set pieces and design are amazing, the movie looks great. But the story is so clichéd and the dialogue so cringy that it doesn't really hold up.
October 3
5. Hellboy (2019) A reboot of sorts being at the same time grittier and sillier. I appreciated the inclusion of the Hellboy in Mexico bit at the beginning of the movie.
6. Psycho (1960) Still holds up, but the end scene where the doctor explains Norman Bates' psicosis now seems needless. Seen in a local movie club screening.
October 4
7. Shadow of Fear (1979) Not horror at all but this Wonderful World of Disney movie has a slight supernatural element. A boy can astral project out of his own body and also into the bodies of animals. He tries to protect a pack of wild dogs from being killed by the game warden.
8. The Innocents (1961) Classic atmospheric ghost story.
October 5
9. The Babadook (2014) Psychological horror for all it's worth. Great movie and fantastic performances.
10. Apartment 7A (2024) Prequel to Rosemary's Baby, but it pretty much tells the same story. Interesting nonetheless.
11. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (2018) Filmed stage production by Bethany Lutheran College.
October 6
12. Candyman 3: Day of the Dead (1999) Donna D'Errico's perky boobs carry this whole movie.
13. Nightmare at the End of the Hall (2008) Very low-key ghost story set in a school.
October 7
14. Conjuring: The Book of the Dead (2020) A slew of C-listers populate this The Ninth Gate rip-off. However, there's a scene with Lysette Anthony in a push-up bra so I'm satisfied.
October 8
15. Stranger With My Face (2009) Made-for-TV supernatural thriller. Very low-key but hits all the right notes.
October 9
16. The Devil's Rain (1975) Holy smoke! This satanic movie goes all in even by having real life satanist Anton Lavey as consultant. An all star cast of 70's familiar faces (William Shatner, Ernest Borgnine, Eddy Albert). Cheesy at times but with an element of true evil throughout.
October 10
17. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Seen in a local movie club screening.
October 11
18. Trouble Every Day (2001) An experiment gone awry makes people's sex drive go into cannibalistic mode. Very slow and hard to comprehend at times.
19. The Accursed (2021) An old gypsy curse comes back to haunt a family.
20. Interview with the Vampire, Part II (2024) Episodes: What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned / Do You Know What It Means to be Loved by Death
October 12
21. Los Sin Nombre (The Nameless Ones) (1999) A cult kidnaps children in an attempt to harness evil itself. Based on a novel by Ramsey Campbell.
22. Interview with the Vampire, Part II (2024) Episodes: No Pain / I Want You More Than Anything in the World.
October 13
23. Interview with the Vampire, Part II (2024) Episodes: Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape / Light the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light
24. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1999) Though released in 1999, this is NOT the version directed by Tim Burton. It's a Hallmark TV movie that really gives the feeling of old New England and sticks much closer to the original story.
October 14
25. Interview with the Vampire, Part II (2024) Episodes: I Could Not Prevent It / And That's the End of It. There's Nothing Else.
October 15
26. The Monster (2016) A movie as minimalistic as its title but very effective. Excellent performance by the child actor Ella Ballantine.
27. Turistas (2006) From the "don't go to third world countries" genre. A group of young travelers who want to experience the "real" Brazil get more than they bargained for. A simple premise but effectively done with some scenes of real tension. Also, all the women, especially Melissa George, Olivia Wilde and Beau Garret look amazing in skimpy bikinis.
28. The Mummy (2017) Oh what could have been! If only Tom Cruise wasn't in this movie it might have been halfway decent.
29. The Damned AKA These Are The Damned (1962) I had never seen nor even heard of this early Hammer film. A couple stumble upon an island where a government group experiments on children. Oliver Reed co-stars.
October 16
30. Supernatural (1977) No, not the WB's series but a much classier British series from the 70's drenched in gothic atmosphere. Episodes: Lady Sybill / Mr. Nightingale
October 17
31. Smile 2 (2024) A worthy follow up to the first one. Doesn't try to replicate the first movie beat for beat and puts in some nice twists.
October 18
32. Deep Red (1975) Giallo thriller directed by Dario Argento. It goes on a bit too long but still pretty damn good.
33. Sometimes They Come Back (1991) Made for TV movie based on a Stephen King Short story. This movie is so pedestrian that it seems an overly long (and boring) episode of Goosebumps.
October 19
34. Le Vourdalak (2023) Vampire story based on the Aleksey Tolstoy novel. This french film uses a marionette to represent the vampire.
October 20
35. The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (1971) Episodes 1 & 2. Since I didn't see this when I was a kid there's no nostalgia factor involved and it's pretty hard to take the awful jokes. A standout is Vincent Price doing spooky rhymes years before Michael Jackson's Thriller.
36. Hellraiser: Revelations (2011) Perhaps the lowest point in the Hellraiser series. Thankfully it's only and hour and 15 minutes.
October 21
37. 'Salem's Lot (2004) Episodes 1 & 2. Hard to believe it's been 20 years since this adaptation which most people have completely forgotten about. Though not excellent, it's not bad either and it has some very good character moments. Also this is one of the very few that manages to capture Stephen King's narrative voice and feel.
October 22
38. Gallows Hill (2013) A simple premise but done very well. A demon possessed girl found in a secluded house in Colombia. Fighting the demon is not so simple because there is a clever caveat to exactly how it can possess you which makes things much more interesting.
39. Pet Sematary (2019) Worthy remake that is very aware of the original and throws in some twists.
October 23
40. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1979) Jeff Goldblum does a good Ichabod Crane and it's always nice to see the beautiful Meg Foster but this version leans more into the uninteresting townie drama and less on the supernatural aspects.
October 24
41. Portal (2019) Saw this because Heather Langenkamp (Nightmare on Elm Street) is in it, unfortunately she's only in the last part of the movie. The rest of the flick is generic AF.
42. The Wind (2019) Very low-key and sparse folk horror set in the American Old West. Husband and wife settlers inhabit an isolated cabin in the prairie, but when the woman is left alone she encounters strange visions and phenomena that may or may not be in her head. Loved it.
43. The Evil Dead (1981) Seems pretty dated nowadays, but still enjoyable. Seen at a local movie club screening.
October 25
44. X (2022) A great example of revisiting old tropes and doing something fresh with them. The best of the Mia Goth trilogy.
45. The Eternal AKA Evil Sleeps AKA Trance (1998) An alcoholic couple go to Ireland on family business, there they encounter Christopher Walken (at his most Christopher Walken-iest) who is trying to revive a centuries old witch. The film tries to be very intellectual, but just doesn't hit the mark.
October 26
46. A Return to 'Salem's Lot (1987) It's just unbelievably bad. That's all I'll say.
47. 'Salem's Lot (2024)Remake that adds nothing. I'll stay with the first two versions.
October 27
48. Children of the Stones (1977) British TV mini series with some folk horror elements. Episodes: Into the Circle / Circle of Fear / Serpent in the Circle / Narrowing Circle
49. Children of the Stones (1977) Episodes: Charmed Circle / Squaring the Circle / Full Circle
50. WILDCARD 1: Caddo Lake (2024) More of a thriller with some time-travel elements. Pretty good.
October 28
51. Más Negro Que la Noche (Darker than the Night) (1975) Mexican horror movie that's considered a classic, but it does seem somewhat dated even for 1975. It plays more like a very tame 1940's ghost story. This, along with the two others listed below were written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada and are considered classics of Mexican horror.
52. Hasta el Viento Tiene Miedo (1968)
52.25 It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (1966) A classic that never gets old.
53. The Frightening Pagan History of Halloween (2024) History Channel documentary
October 29
54. El Libro de Piedra (1969)
55. Más Negro que la Noche (2014) Remake of the 1975 Mexican horror classic. Updates it with annoying characters and modern tropes.
56. Torture Garden (1967) Peter Cushing, Jack Palance and Burgess Meredith among others star in this Amicus anthology film. Two of the four tales are winners, one is filler and the other just OK. Even so, worth it just to see Cushing and Palance chewing scenery like no others.
October 30
57. Flight 7500 (2014) Low-key supernatural thriller that moves along nicely to a twist ending.
October 31
58. Stage Fright (2013)
58.25 The Legend of Beaver Dam (2010) This 12 minute musical short horror film is included as a bonus disc on the Stage Fright DVD. Kids around the campfire hear the story of Stumpy Sam.
59. Bewitched (1964) Season unknown, Special Halloween episode.
60. Cabin in the Woods (2011) A lot funnier than I remember it being.
Title in RED = Seen on YouTube.
Title in PURPLE = Seen on a streaming service.
Title in BLUE = Seen in movie theater during its current run.
Title in GREEN = Seen during regular broadcast TV programming.
October 1
1. Viy (1967) Russian folk horror movie, a fantastic ending!
2. Hellboy (2004) Still holds uo even if some of the dialogue is corny as hell, and we have Guillermo del Toro to thank for that because he wrote the screenplay as well as directed.
3. Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024) Though I appreciate the more serious tone and horror leanings, this movie's just a mess.
October 2
4. Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) The set pieces and design are amazing, the movie looks great. But the story is so clichéd and the dialogue so cringy that it doesn't really hold up.
October 3
5. Hellboy (2019) A reboot of sorts being at the same time grittier and sillier. I appreciated the inclusion of the Hellboy in Mexico bit at the beginning of the movie.
6. Psycho (1960) Still holds up, but the end scene where the doctor explains Norman Bates' psicosis now seems needless. Seen in a local movie club screening.
October 4
7. Shadow of Fear (1979) Not horror at all but this Wonderful World of Disney movie has a slight supernatural element. A boy can astral project out of his own body and also into the bodies of animals. He tries to protect a pack of wild dogs from being killed by the game warden.
8. The Innocents (1961) Classic atmospheric ghost story.
October 5
9. The Babadook (2014) Psychological horror for all it's worth. Great movie and fantastic performances.
10. Apartment 7A (2024) Prequel to Rosemary's Baby, but it pretty much tells the same story. Interesting nonetheless.
11. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (2018) Filmed stage production by Bethany Lutheran College.
October 6
12. Candyman 3: Day of the Dead (1999) Donna D'Errico's perky boobs carry this whole movie.
13. Nightmare at the End of the Hall (2008) Very low-key ghost story set in a school.
October 7
14. Conjuring: The Book of the Dead (2020) A slew of C-listers populate this The Ninth Gate rip-off. However, there's a scene with Lysette Anthony in a push-up bra so I'm satisfied.
October 8
15. Stranger With My Face (2009) Made-for-TV supernatural thriller. Very low-key but hits all the right notes.
October 9
16. The Devil's Rain (1975) Holy smoke! This satanic movie goes all in even by having real life satanist Anton Lavey as consultant. An all star cast of 70's familiar faces (William Shatner, Ernest Borgnine, Eddy Albert). Cheesy at times but with an element of true evil throughout.
October 10
17. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Seen in a local movie club screening.
October 11
18. Trouble Every Day (2001) An experiment gone awry makes people's sex drive go into cannibalistic mode. Very slow and hard to comprehend at times.
19. The Accursed (2021) An old gypsy curse comes back to haunt a family.
20. Interview with the Vampire, Part II (2024) Episodes: What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned / Do You Know What It Means to be Loved by Death
October 12
21. Los Sin Nombre (The Nameless Ones) (1999) A cult kidnaps children in an attempt to harness evil itself. Based on a novel by Ramsey Campbell.
22. Interview with the Vampire, Part II (2024) Episodes: No Pain / I Want You More Than Anything in the World.
October 13
23. Interview with the Vampire, Part II (2024) Episodes: Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape / Light the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light
24. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1999) Though released in 1999, this is NOT the version directed by Tim Burton. It's a Hallmark TV movie that really gives the feeling of old New England and sticks much closer to the original story.
October 14
25. Interview with the Vampire, Part II (2024) Episodes: I Could Not Prevent It / And That's the End of It. There's Nothing Else.
October 15
26. The Monster (2016) A movie as minimalistic as its title but very effective. Excellent performance by the child actor Ella Ballantine.
27. Turistas (2006) From the "don't go to third world countries" genre. A group of young travelers who want to experience the "real" Brazil get more than they bargained for. A simple premise but effectively done with some scenes of real tension. Also, all the women, especially Melissa George, Olivia Wilde and Beau Garret look amazing in skimpy bikinis.
28. The Mummy (2017) Oh what could have been! If only Tom Cruise wasn't in this movie it might have been halfway decent.
29. The Damned AKA These Are The Damned (1962) I had never seen nor even heard of this early Hammer film. A couple stumble upon an island where a government group experiments on children. Oliver Reed co-stars.
October 16
30. Supernatural (1977) No, not the WB's series but a much classier British series from the 70's drenched in gothic atmosphere. Episodes: Lady Sybill / Mr. Nightingale
October 17
31. Smile 2 (2024) A worthy follow up to the first one. Doesn't try to replicate the first movie beat for beat and puts in some nice twists.
October 18
32. Deep Red (1975) Giallo thriller directed by Dario Argento. It goes on a bit too long but still pretty damn good.
33. Sometimes They Come Back (1991) Made for TV movie based on a Stephen King Short story. This movie is so pedestrian that it seems an overly long (and boring) episode of Goosebumps.
October 19
34. Le Vourdalak (2023) Vampire story based on the Aleksey Tolstoy novel. This french film uses a marionette to represent the vampire.
October 20
35. The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (1971) Episodes 1 & 2. Since I didn't see this when I was a kid there's no nostalgia factor involved and it's pretty hard to take the awful jokes. A standout is Vincent Price doing spooky rhymes years before Michael Jackson's Thriller.
36. Hellraiser: Revelations (2011) Perhaps the lowest point in the Hellraiser series. Thankfully it's only and hour and 15 minutes.
October 21
37. 'Salem's Lot (2004) Episodes 1 & 2. Hard to believe it's been 20 years since this adaptation which most people have completely forgotten about. Though not excellent, it's not bad either and it has some very good character moments. Also this is one of the very few that manages to capture Stephen King's narrative voice and feel.
October 22
38. Gallows Hill (2013) A simple premise but done very well. A demon possessed girl found in a secluded house in Colombia. Fighting the demon is not so simple because there is a clever caveat to exactly how it can possess you which makes things much more interesting.
39. Pet Sematary (2019) Worthy remake that is very aware of the original and throws in some twists.
October 23
40. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1979) Jeff Goldblum does a good Ichabod Crane and it's always nice to see the beautiful Meg Foster but this version leans more into the uninteresting townie drama and less on the supernatural aspects.
October 24
41. Portal (2019) Saw this because Heather Langenkamp (Nightmare on Elm Street) is in it, unfortunately she's only in the last part of the movie. The rest of the flick is generic AF.
42. The Wind (2019) Very low-key and sparse folk horror set in the American Old West. Husband and wife settlers inhabit an isolated cabin in the prairie, but when the woman is left alone she encounters strange visions and phenomena that may or may not be in her head. Loved it.
43. The Evil Dead (1981) Seems pretty dated nowadays, but still enjoyable. Seen at a local movie club screening.
October 25
44. X (2022) A great example of revisiting old tropes and doing something fresh with them. The best of the Mia Goth trilogy.
45. The Eternal AKA Evil Sleeps AKA Trance (1998) An alcoholic couple go to Ireland on family business, there they encounter Christopher Walken (at his most Christopher Walken-iest) who is trying to revive a centuries old witch. The film tries to be very intellectual, but just doesn't hit the mark.
October 26
46. A Return to 'Salem's Lot (1987) It's just unbelievably bad. That's all I'll say.
47. 'Salem's Lot (2024)Remake that adds nothing. I'll stay with the first two versions.
October 27
48. Children of the Stones (1977) British TV mini series with some folk horror elements. Episodes: Into the Circle / Circle of Fear / Serpent in the Circle / Narrowing Circle
49. Children of the Stones (1977) Episodes: Charmed Circle / Squaring the Circle / Full Circle
50. WILDCARD 1: Caddo Lake (2024) More of a thriller with some time-travel elements. Pretty good.
October 28
51. Más Negro Que la Noche (Darker than the Night) (1975) Mexican horror movie that's considered a classic, but it does seem somewhat dated even for 1975. It plays more like a very tame 1940's ghost story. This, along with the two others listed below were written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada and are considered classics of Mexican horror.
52. Hasta el Viento Tiene Miedo (1968)
52.25 It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (1966) A classic that never gets old.
53. The Frightening Pagan History of Halloween (2024) History Channel documentary
October 29
54. El Libro de Piedra (1969)
55. Más Negro que la Noche (2014) Remake of the 1975 Mexican horror classic. Updates it with annoying characters and modern tropes.
56. Torture Garden (1967) Peter Cushing, Jack Palance and Burgess Meredith among others star in this Amicus anthology film. Two of the four tales are winners, one is filler and the other just OK. Even so, worth it just to see Cushing and Palance chewing scenery like no others.
October 30
57. Flight 7500 (2014) Low-key supernatural thriller that moves along nicely to a twist ending.
October 31
58. Stage Fright (2013)
58.25 The Legend of Beaver Dam (2010) This 12 minute musical short horror film is included as a bonus disc on the Stage Fright DVD. Kids around the campfire hear the story of Stumpy Sam.
59. Bewitched (1964) Season unknown, Special Halloween episode.
60. Cabin in the Woods (2011) A lot funnier than I remember it being.
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Re: The 20th Annual "October Horror Movie Challenge" (10/1 - 10/31) ***The List Thread***
* Indicates First Time Viewing
Underlined Indicates Seen Theatrically
01) * Us (2019) D: Jordan Peele (10/01)
02) eXistenZ (1999) D: David Cronenberg (10/02)
03) * Eyes Of A Stranger (1981) D: Ken Wiederhorn (10/02)
04) * Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) D: Todd Phillips (10/03)
05) * The Devil-Doll (1936) D: Tod Browning (10/03)
06) Island Of Lost Souls (1932) D: Erle C. Kenton (10/03)
07) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Episodes: "What You Need", "Probe 7, Over and Out", "Third From the Sun"
08) * Butcher's Crossing (2023) D: Gabe Polsky (10/04)
09) Talk To Me (2023) D: Danny and Michael Philippou (10/04)
10) * The Picture Of Dorian Grey (1945) D: Albert Lewin (10/05)
11) * ‘Salem’s Lot (2024) D: Gary Dauberman (10/05)
12) * The Twilight Zone Eps: "The New Exhibit", "A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain", "90 Years Without Slumbering" (10/06)
13) Psycho (1960) D: Alfred Hitchcock (10/06)
14) Psycho (1997) D: Gus Van Sant (10/06)
15) * The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) D: Joseph Green (10/06)
16) * Single White Female (1992) D: Barbet Schroeder (10/07)
17) * Murders In The Rue Morgue (1932) D: Robert Florey (10/07)
18) * The Walking Dead (1936) D: Michael Curtiz (10/07)
19) * Son Of Godzilla (1967) D: Jan Fukuda (10/08)
20) * Destroy All Monsters (1968) D: Ishirō Honda (10/08)
21) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Eps: "Caesar and Me", "A World Of Difference", "The Jeopardy Room" (10/08)
22) * Devil's Due (2014) D: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett (10/09)
23) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Eps: "Stop-Over in a Quiet Town", "Long Live Water Jameson", "The Encounter" (10/09)
24) The Mask (1994) D: Chuck Russell (10/10)
25) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Eps: "Nick of Time", "The Howling Man", "A Most Unusual Camera" (10/10)
26) Terrifier 3 (2024) D: Damien Leone (10/11)
27) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Eps: "Eye of the Beholder", "The Lateness of the Hour", "Four O'Clock" (10/11)
28) Martin (1977) D: George A. Romero (10/11)
29) Martin DVD Commentary (1977) D: George A. Romero (10/11)
30) * Empire Of Passion (1978) D: Nagisa Ōshima (10/12)
31) Sisters (1972) D: Brian De Palma (10/12)
32) Psycho III (1986) D: Anthony Perkins (10/12)
33) Psycho III DVD Commentary (1986) D: Anthony Perkins (10/12)
34) * Les Affamés (Ravenous) (2017) D: Robin Aubert (10/13)
35) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Eps: "Trouble With Templeton", "Back There", "Night of the Meek" (10/14)
36) Ghostbusters (Work Print) (1984) D: Ivan Reitman (10/14)
37) * Friday The 13th (2009) D: Marcus Nispel (10/14)
38) Poltergeist (1982) D: Tober Hooper (10/15)
39) Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) D: Brian Gibson (10/15)
40) Poltergeist III (1988) D: Gary Sherman (10/15)
41) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Ep: "Mr. Dinkle The Strong", "Penny For Your Thoughts", "Dust" (10/16)
42) * Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1990) D: Ron Oliver, Peter R. Simpson (10/16)
43) Friday The 13th (1980) D: Sean S. Cunningham (10/16)
44) Friday The 13th DVD Commentary (1980) D: Sean S. Cunningham (10/16)
45) Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998) D: Steve Miner (10/17)
46) * Halloween: Resurrection (2002) D: Rick Rosenthal (10/17)
47) Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later DVD Commentary (1998) D: Steve Miner (10/17)
48) * The Devil Bat (1940) D: Jean Yarborough (10/18)
49) It Follows (2015) D: David Robert Mitchell (10/18)
50) Maximum Overdrive (1986) D: Stephen King (10/18)
51) The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror (1990 - 2004) Ep I , V, XXV (10/19)
52) * The Fan (1981) D: Edward Bianchi (10/19)
53) Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter (1985) D: Joseph Zito (10/19)
54) White Zombie (1932) D: Victor Halperin (10/20)
55) Basket Case (1982) D: Frank Henenlotter (10/20)
56) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Ep: "The Hitchhiker", "Twenty-Two", "Hocus Pocus and Frisby" (10/20)
57) * Midsommar (2019) D: Ari Aster (10/21)
58) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Ep: "Night Call", "Long Distance Call", "The Hunt" (10/21)
59) * Smile 2 (2024) D: Parker Finn - I disliked the original, but found this one much more engaging and creepy. Strong ending, which I find most horror movies have trouble pulling off. (10/22)
60) * Isle Of The Dead (1945) D: Mark Robson (10/22) - Buried alive is always chilling. (10/22)
61) Halloween III: Season Of The Witch (1982) D: Tommy Lee Wallace - I have to laugh during the experiment scene, where the parents seem to be more horrified by the invading bugs and snakes than they are the death of their child. (10/22)
62) Halloween (1978) D: John Carpenter - I'd like to re-colour all the nighttime scenes to black-and-white as an experiment. The way it is lit, I think it would translate well. (10/23)
63) A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) D: Jack Sholder - My favorite version of Freddy in the entire series. Most disturbing make-up, completely malevolent and villainous. (10/23)
64) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Ep: "Nightmare As A Child", "Little Girl Lost", "Static" - The episode "Little Girl Lost" must have been a huge influence of POLTERGEIST. (10/23)
65) * The Body Snatcher (1945) D: Robert Wise - The rain storm and Karloff's half naked cadaverous body makes for an unforgettable ending. (10/24)
66) A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warrior (1987) D: Chuck Russell - Perfect mid-point of the series, balancing scary Freddy with goofy Freddy. (10/24)
67) A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) D: Renny Harlin - The cockroach dream is the most grotesque sequence in the entire series. The effects throughout are incredible. (10/24)
68) The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror (1991 -1996) Ep II, IV, VII (10/24)
69) * Dr. Crippen (1963) D: Robert Lynn - Pretty restrained story of henpecked husband who murders his wife and runs off with his mistress. For some reason, TCM can never broadcast THE BROOD in Canada, so this was the re-placement for their Creepy Cinema double-feature. (10/25)
70) * Godzilla King Of The Monsters! (1956) D: Terry Morse, Ishirō Honda - Although I find this inferior to the Japanese version, I was impressed by how well Raymond Burr was edited into the movie. (10/25)
71) * Demon Seed (1977) D: Donald Cammell - Pretty dull. Missed opportunity to be a fun bad movie. (10/25)
72) The Lair Of The White Worm (1988) D: Ken Russell - Great performance by Amanda Donohoe, makes the movie. (10/26)
73) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Ep: "The Dummy", "Showdown With Rance McGrew", "A Piano In The House" (10/26)
74) The Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror (1992 - 2001) Ep III, VII, X (10/26)
75) A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) D: Renny Harlin - Even though I just watched this the day before, my friend really wanted to watch it, so I took one for the team and watched it again. (10/26)
76) Cat People (1942) D: Jacques Tourneur - The sounds of the high heels clacking down the street during the stalking scene creates intense dread and suspense. (10/27)
77) * The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D (2013) D: John Luessenhop - Biggest waste of time I'll see this year. (10/27)
78) * Maniac (1980) D: William Lustig - Been waiting for years to be in the right mood to watch this. So grimy and vile, I didn't have an appetite for the rest of the night. Joe Spinell's finest hour. (10/27)
79) Cape Fear (1962) D: J. Lee Thompson - Oddly, the original's "wholesome happy ending" feels more honest than the ending of the 1990s remake. (10/28)
80) * Scary Movie 4 (2006) D: David Zucker - Wish they'd parodied more movies instead of focusing on just four. (10/28)
81) 28 Day Later (2002) D: Danny Boyle - Wow, even better than I remember this being 22 years ago. A great film, regardless of genre. (10/28)
82) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Ep: "The Gift", "Steel", "The Last Rites Of Jeff Myrtlebank" (10/29)
83) * I Walked With A Zombie (1943) D: Jacques Tourneur - The first trip to the voodoo ceremony is mesmerizing. The visuals and the music work in tandem to create an unforgettable sensation. I can't wait to watch this again. (10/29)
84) The Exorcist (1973) D: William Friedkin - 51 years old, and still ferocious. (10/29)
85) * Val Lewton: The Man In The Shadow (2007) - Documentary about the producer. Interesting to me since I watched about five of his films during this challenge. (10/29)
86) Cat's Eye (1985) D: Lewis Teague - This was my first exposure to Stephen King, seeing this at the drive-in during the summer of '85 when I was 7. It's such a fun movie. James Woods in his prime. Two of the best adaptations of King's work. (10/29)
87) Horror Of Dracula (1958) D: Terence Fisher - I love Christopher Lee's physicality playing Dracula, from his long, thin body, to the way he springs into action, running, leaping. (10/30)
88) Sleepy Hollow (1999) D: Tim Burton - Incredibly atmospheric. This feels the most "Halloween" of anything I've watched this month. This might be my choice for Tim Burton's finest hour. (10/30)
89) The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow (1949) - Watched this dozens of times as kid. Find the first half doesn't hold up, but the second half remains spooky. (10/30)
90) The Exorcist III (1990) D: William Peter Blatty - I always remembered this as being quite good, but boy has my opinion changed. Despite a couple of great touched here and there, I thought this was a complete mess, and a real slog to get through. (10/30)
91) * The Seventh Victim (1943) D: Mark Robson - Fascinating in that I can't quite point my finger at what made me feel so unnerved watching this, yet I found the movie effective. The Satanists being so milquetoast made the club more disturbing than if they'd been overtly evil. (10/31)
92) The Fog (1980) D: John Carpenter - The opening camp fire ghost story is a great beginning. Certainly Carpenter's classiest film, and I wonder why he decided to give himself a small role in this one. (10/31)
93) Creepshow (1982) D: George A. Romero - Even though it's not officially a Tales From the Crypt adaptation, they capture the look and vibe of those EC comics spectacularly. (10/31)
94) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Ep: "The Fugitive", "Person or Persons Unknown", "The Old Man In The Cave"
95) Frankenstein (1931) D: James Whale - I first saw this on the 8 o'clock movie when I was 5 years old, and my life-long fascination with the Frankenstein story commenced. Seemed the perfect choice to close out the holiday. (10/31)
Checklist:
Underlined Indicates Seen Theatrically
01) * Us (2019) D: Jordan Peele (10/01)
02) eXistenZ (1999) D: David Cronenberg (10/02)
03) * Eyes Of A Stranger (1981) D: Ken Wiederhorn (10/02)
04) * Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) D: Todd Phillips (10/03)
05) * The Devil-Doll (1936) D: Tod Browning (10/03)
06) Island Of Lost Souls (1932) D: Erle C. Kenton (10/03)
07) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Episodes: "What You Need", "Probe 7, Over and Out", "Third From the Sun"
08) * Butcher's Crossing (2023) D: Gabe Polsky (10/04)
09) Talk To Me (2023) D: Danny and Michael Philippou (10/04)
10) * The Picture Of Dorian Grey (1945) D: Albert Lewin (10/05)
11) * ‘Salem’s Lot (2024) D: Gary Dauberman (10/05)
12) * The Twilight Zone Eps: "The New Exhibit", "A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain", "90 Years Without Slumbering" (10/06)
13) Psycho (1960) D: Alfred Hitchcock (10/06)
14) Psycho (1997) D: Gus Van Sant (10/06)
15) * The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) D: Joseph Green (10/06)
16) * Single White Female (1992) D: Barbet Schroeder (10/07)
17) * Murders In The Rue Morgue (1932) D: Robert Florey (10/07)
18) * The Walking Dead (1936) D: Michael Curtiz (10/07)
19) * Son Of Godzilla (1967) D: Jan Fukuda (10/08)
20) * Destroy All Monsters (1968) D: Ishirō Honda (10/08)
21) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Eps: "Caesar and Me", "A World Of Difference", "The Jeopardy Room" (10/08)
22) * Devil's Due (2014) D: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett (10/09)
23) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Eps: "Stop-Over in a Quiet Town", "Long Live Water Jameson", "The Encounter" (10/09)
24) The Mask (1994) D: Chuck Russell (10/10)
25) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Eps: "Nick of Time", "The Howling Man", "A Most Unusual Camera" (10/10)
26) Terrifier 3 (2024) D: Damien Leone (10/11)
27) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Eps: "Eye of the Beholder", "The Lateness of the Hour", "Four O'Clock" (10/11)
28) Martin (1977) D: George A. Romero (10/11)
29) Martin DVD Commentary (1977) D: George A. Romero (10/11)
30) * Empire Of Passion (1978) D: Nagisa Ōshima (10/12)
31) Sisters (1972) D: Brian De Palma (10/12)
32) Psycho III (1986) D: Anthony Perkins (10/12)
33) Psycho III DVD Commentary (1986) D: Anthony Perkins (10/12)
34) * Les Affamés (Ravenous) (2017) D: Robin Aubert (10/13)
35) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Eps: "Trouble With Templeton", "Back There", "Night of the Meek" (10/14)
36) Ghostbusters (Work Print) (1984) D: Ivan Reitman (10/14)
37) * Friday The 13th (2009) D: Marcus Nispel (10/14)
38) Poltergeist (1982) D: Tober Hooper (10/15)
39) Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) D: Brian Gibson (10/15)
40) Poltergeist III (1988) D: Gary Sherman (10/15)
41) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Ep: "Mr. Dinkle The Strong", "Penny For Your Thoughts", "Dust" (10/16)
42) * Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1990) D: Ron Oliver, Peter R. Simpson (10/16)
43) Friday The 13th (1980) D: Sean S. Cunningham (10/16)
44) Friday The 13th DVD Commentary (1980) D: Sean S. Cunningham (10/16)
45) Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998) D: Steve Miner (10/17)
46) * Halloween: Resurrection (2002) D: Rick Rosenthal (10/17)
47) Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later DVD Commentary (1998) D: Steve Miner (10/17)
48) * The Devil Bat (1940) D: Jean Yarborough (10/18)
49) It Follows (2015) D: David Robert Mitchell (10/18)
50) Maximum Overdrive (1986) D: Stephen King (10/18)
51) The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror (1990 - 2004) Ep I , V, XXV (10/19)
52) * The Fan (1981) D: Edward Bianchi (10/19)
53) Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter (1985) D: Joseph Zito (10/19)
54) White Zombie (1932) D: Victor Halperin (10/20)
55) Basket Case (1982) D: Frank Henenlotter (10/20)
56) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Ep: "The Hitchhiker", "Twenty-Two", "Hocus Pocus and Frisby" (10/20)
57) * Midsommar (2019) D: Ari Aster (10/21)
58) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Ep: "Night Call", "Long Distance Call", "The Hunt" (10/21)
59) * Smile 2 (2024) D: Parker Finn - I disliked the original, but found this one much more engaging and creepy. Strong ending, which I find most horror movies have trouble pulling off. (10/22)
60) * Isle Of The Dead (1945) D: Mark Robson (10/22) - Buried alive is always chilling. (10/22)
61) Halloween III: Season Of The Witch (1982) D: Tommy Lee Wallace - I have to laugh during the experiment scene, where the parents seem to be more horrified by the invading bugs and snakes than they are the death of their child. (10/22)
62) Halloween (1978) D: John Carpenter - I'd like to re-colour all the nighttime scenes to black-and-white as an experiment. The way it is lit, I think it would translate well. (10/23)
63) A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) D: Jack Sholder - My favorite version of Freddy in the entire series. Most disturbing make-up, completely malevolent and villainous. (10/23)
64) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Ep: "Nightmare As A Child", "Little Girl Lost", "Static" - The episode "Little Girl Lost" must have been a huge influence of POLTERGEIST. (10/23)
65) * The Body Snatcher (1945) D: Robert Wise - The rain storm and Karloff's half naked cadaverous body makes for an unforgettable ending. (10/24)
66) A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warrior (1987) D: Chuck Russell - Perfect mid-point of the series, balancing scary Freddy with goofy Freddy. (10/24)
67) A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) D: Renny Harlin - The cockroach dream is the most grotesque sequence in the entire series. The effects throughout are incredible. (10/24)
68) The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror (1991 -1996) Ep II, IV, VII (10/24)
69) * Dr. Crippen (1963) D: Robert Lynn - Pretty restrained story of henpecked husband who murders his wife and runs off with his mistress. For some reason, TCM can never broadcast THE BROOD in Canada, so this was the re-placement for their Creepy Cinema double-feature. (10/25)
70) * Godzilla King Of The Monsters! (1956) D: Terry Morse, Ishirō Honda - Although I find this inferior to the Japanese version, I was impressed by how well Raymond Burr was edited into the movie. (10/25)
71) * Demon Seed (1977) D: Donald Cammell - Pretty dull. Missed opportunity to be a fun bad movie. (10/25)
72) The Lair Of The White Worm (1988) D: Ken Russell - Great performance by Amanda Donohoe, makes the movie. (10/26)
73) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Ep: "The Dummy", "Showdown With Rance McGrew", "A Piano In The House" (10/26)
74) The Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror (1992 - 2001) Ep III, VII, X (10/26)
75) A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) D: Renny Harlin - Even though I just watched this the day before, my friend really wanted to watch it, so I took one for the team and watched it again. (10/26)
76) Cat People (1942) D: Jacques Tourneur - The sounds of the high heels clacking down the street during the stalking scene creates intense dread and suspense. (10/27)
77) * The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D (2013) D: John Luessenhop - Biggest waste of time I'll see this year. (10/27)
78) * Maniac (1980) D: William Lustig - Been waiting for years to be in the right mood to watch this. So grimy and vile, I didn't have an appetite for the rest of the night. Joe Spinell's finest hour. (10/27)
79) Cape Fear (1962) D: J. Lee Thompson - Oddly, the original's "wholesome happy ending" feels more honest than the ending of the 1990s remake. (10/28)
80) * Scary Movie 4 (2006) D: David Zucker - Wish they'd parodied more movies instead of focusing on just four. (10/28)
81) 28 Day Later (2002) D: Danny Boyle - Wow, even better than I remember this being 22 years ago. A great film, regardless of genre. (10/28)
82) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Ep: "The Gift", "Steel", "The Last Rites Of Jeff Myrtlebank" (10/29)
83) * I Walked With A Zombie (1943) D: Jacques Tourneur - The first trip to the voodoo ceremony is mesmerizing. The visuals and the music work in tandem to create an unforgettable sensation. I can't wait to watch this again. (10/29)
84) The Exorcist (1973) D: William Friedkin - 51 years old, and still ferocious. (10/29)
85) * Val Lewton: The Man In The Shadow (2007) - Documentary about the producer. Interesting to me since I watched about five of his films during this challenge. (10/29)
86) Cat's Eye (1985) D: Lewis Teague - This was my first exposure to Stephen King, seeing this at the drive-in during the summer of '85 when I was 7. It's such a fun movie. James Woods in his prime. Two of the best adaptations of King's work. (10/29)
87) Horror Of Dracula (1958) D: Terence Fisher - I love Christopher Lee's physicality playing Dracula, from his long, thin body, to the way he springs into action, running, leaping. (10/30)
88) Sleepy Hollow (1999) D: Tim Burton - Incredibly atmospheric. This feels the most "Halloween" of anything I've watched this month. This might be my choice for Tim Burton's finest hour. (10/30)
89) The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow (1949) - Watched this dozens of times as kid. Find the first half doesn't hold up, but the second half remains spooky. (10/30)
90) The Exorcist III (1990) D: William Peter Blatty - I always remembered this as being quite good, but boy has my opinion changed. Despite a couple of great touched here and there, I thought this was a complete mess, and a real slog to get through. (10/30)
91) * The Seventh Victim (1943) D: Mark Robson - Fascinating in that I can't quite point my finger at what made me feel so unnerved watching this, yet I found the movie effective. The Satanists being so milquetoast made the club more disturbing than if they'd been overtly evil. (10/31)
92) The Fog (1980) D: John Carpenter - The opening camp fire ghost story is a great beginning. Certainly Carpenter's classiest film, and I wonder why he decided to give himself a small role in this one. (10/31)
93) Creepshow (1982) D: George A. Romero - Even though it's not officially a Tales From the Crypt adaptation, they capture the look and vibe of those EC comics spectacularly. (10/31)
94) * The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) Ep: "The Fugitive", "Person or Persons Unknown", "The Old Man In The Cave"
95) Frankenstein (1931) D: James Whale - I first saw this on the 8 o'clock movie when I was 5 years old, and my life-long fascination with the Frankenstein story commenced. Seemed the perfect choice to close out the holiday. (10/31)
Checklist:
Spoiler:
Last edited by Crocker Jarmen; 11-01-24 at 01:32 AM.
#85
DVD Talk Special Edition
Re: The 20th Annual "October Horror Movie Challenge" (10/1 - 10/31) ***The List Thread***
s -- indicates a subset film
ss -- indicates a subset film on the correct day
October 01:
01. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) France, West Germany - German language version - my DVD (Anchor Bay Werner Herzog / Klaus Kinski box set)
October 03:
02. Christine (1983) - my Blu-ray
October 04:
03. Arachnophobia (1990) - my DVD
October 05:
04. Salem's Lot (2024) - Crave
05. Salem's Lot part 1 (1979) - my Blu-ray
October 06:
06. The Substance (2024) - VIP theatre
07. Salem's Lot part 2 (1979) - my Blu-ray
October 07:
s 08. eXistenZ (1999) Canada, UK - owned on DVD but streamed in HD on Crave
October 08:
s 09. Targets (1968) - my DVD
October 10:
10. Abby (1974) - my DVD
October 15:
11. Suspiria (1977) - my 40th Anniversary Blu-ray
October 16:
12. Cold Ground (2017) France - my DVD (Werewolf Attack Pack)
October 18:
13. Terrifier 2 (2022) - Crave
October 19:
14. Caddo Lake (2024) - Crave
15. Smile (2022) - Crave
October 20:
16. Abigail (2022) - Amazon Prime
October 21:
17. Bay Cove (aka Bay Coven) (1987) - TV movie - my DVD (10 American Horror Stories)
18. Cat People (1943) - my DVD (A Val Lewton Horror Double Feature)
October 25:
19. Slumber Party Massacre (1981) - Crave
October 26:
20. Smile 2 (2024) - theatre
October 27:
21. Nosferatu (1922) - Germany - Kanopy
October 28:
s 22. Mute Witness (1995) - UK, Russia, Germany - I own this on DVD but watched on Shudder
October 29:
23. Nekromantik (1988) - West Germany - streamed from Arrow
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ss -- indicates a subset film on the correct day
October 01:
01. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) France, West Germany - German language version - my DVD (Anchor Bay Werner Herzog / Klaus Kinski box set)
October 03:
02. Christine (1983) - my Blu-ray
October 04:
03. Arachnophobia (1990) - my DVD
October 05:
04. Salem's Lot (2024) - Crave
05. Salem's Lot part 1 (1979) - my Blu-ray
October 06:
06. The Substance (2024) - VIP theatre
07. Salem's Lot part 2 (1979) - my Blu-ray
October 07:
s 08. eXistenZ (1999) Canada, UK - owned on DVD but streamed in HD on Crave
October 08:
s 09. Targets (1968) - my DVD
October 10:
10. Abby (1974) - my DVD
October 15:
11. Suspiria (1977) - my 40th Anniversary Blu-ray
October 16:
12. Cold Ground (2017) France - my DVD (Werewolf Attack Pack)
October 18:
13. Terrifier 2 (2022) - Crave
October 19:
14. Caddo Lake (2024) - Crave
15. Smile (2022) - Crave
October 20:
16. Abigail (2022) - Amazon Prime
October 21:
17. Bay Cove (aka Bay Coven) (1987) - TV movie - my DVD (10 American Horror Stories)
18. Cat People (1943) - my DVD (A Val Lewton Horror Double Feature)
October 25:
19. Slumber Party Massacre (1981) - Crave
October 26:
20. Smile 2 (2024) - theatre
October 27:
21. Nosferatu (1922) - Germany - Kanopy
October 28:
s 22. Mute Witness (1995) - UK, Russia, Germany - I own this on DVD but watched on Shudder
October 29:
23. Nekromantik (1988) - West Germany - streamed from Arrow
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Re: The 20th Annual "October Horror Movie Challenge" (10/1 - 10/31) ***The List Thread***
Brainee's 2024 DVDTalk Horror Movie Challenge List
Previous challenge totals:
2008: 100
2010: 100
2011: 53
2013: 54
2014: 36
2015: 56
2016: 106
2017: 101.25
2018: 70
2019: 121
2020: 71
2021: 110
2022: 56
2023: 60
Goal: 31
Total: 64
First Time Views: 53
☼ = first time viewing
Movies rated out of 5 stars (*****) based solely on my personal enjoyment.
My Viewing List:
October 2nd
1. ☼ All My Friends Are Dead (2020): Shallow and stupid but it kept my attention. Opening with the aftermath was a really good move since I kept watching trying to think how things could possibly get to that point during the party. Without that I may have bailed since the characters were so aggressively horrible (although I liked the missionary and his buddy Jesus). So how many bullets does that gun hold anyway?
***
October 3rd
2. ☼ The Boxer's Omen (1983): 30 years ago I probably would've loved this (and would've spend a lot of effort getting a bootleg VHS). Now ... it's kind of tedious. Yeah, it's crazy as all hell but I need something in the way of story. **
3. ☼ Longlegs (2024): Probably the best of Oz Perkins' movies ... certainly the most entertaining. This has a great foreboding atmosphere, even if the story got silly. ***1/2
4. ☼ In a Violent Nature (2024): I liked this more than I thought I would. A "Jason Walking Simulator" sounded dull, but the movie used the gimmick to make things really tense. And I get why yoga girl didn't run backwards ... but why didn't she even try to run to the sides? ***1/2
October 4th
5. The Spider Labyrinth (1988): I've seen this before, but it's been so long the only thing I remember is the giant spider monster. Fun weird little movie that's a mix between a giallo and Lovecraft. ***1/2
6. ☼ Ghost Stories (2017): I missed this one when it was new, but thought it was really good with a powerful kicker. ****
7. ☼ Trap (2024): The best parts (with a serial killer dad trying to escape a teenybopper pop concert) was mostly spoiled by the trailers. It just went on and on, getting more laughable by the minute. M Night is on record saying he wanted this to be to his daughter what Purple Rain was to Prince. He did not succeed. **1/2
October 5th
8. ☼ Superstition (1982): Cheap looking but manages to be entertaining with lots of surprisingly gory kills. I appreciate when horror movies have the stones to kill kids ... let's you know as a viewer that all bets are off. **1/2
9. ☼ The Watchers (2024): Without planning on it, I did back to back nights of an M Night nepo baby movie! I enjoyed this a lot more than most seemed to. It looked good, and there were interesting ideas about mixing in fairies and halflings into a modern horror movie setting. ***1/2
10. ☼ Salem's Lot (2024): I thought this was ok, if a bit by-the-numbers (maybe I'm just too familiar with the story, having read the book and watched Tobe Hooper's mini-series multiple times). I liked the glowing crosses and how they seemed to blow away vampires like leaf blowers. King's original ending was a bit anti-climactic, but I'm not sure making it into a giant action set-piece at the Drive-In made things better. Is a hiding place for vampires in car trunks under the sun really the best plan? ***
11. ☼ Fatal Games (1984): A mediocre slasher that managed to miss me in the 80s. At first a javelin killer seemed cool, but after a while I was hoping they'd mix it other with other Olympic-themed kills. Shot put ... discus ... archery ... death by curling stone! And how did the swimmer not notice the killer at the bottom of the pool? It's not like it's a murky lake or something. **
October 7th
12. ☼ Ash vs the Evil Dead (2015): S1E01-3.
October 8th
13. ☼ Beyond Terror (1980): I thought this could shape into a fun sleazy grindhouse watch. But the characters were all so awful, the story thin, and there just wasn't enough horror payoff to make it worthwhile. *1/2
October 9th
14. ☼ The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973): It's nice to still be able to stumble upon 70s Euro horror that I've never seen before. This looks great (didn't know Spain was so rainy) though my attention started to wander when after an opening murder we get over an hour of love-triangle melodrama. And then ... it got my attention again with a couple of really effective horror sequences in the last 30 minutes. ***
15. ☼ Arcadian (2024):Nic Cage but in subdued mode (and sadly off-screen for most of the second half). Like A Quiet Place, but not so quiet, much goofier-looking alien monsters, and much more teenage angst. **1/2
October 10th
16. ☼ The First Omen (2024): It was very well made, although I found myself caring less as the story got closer to the inevitable lead-in to the original Omen. **1/2
17. ☼ Strange Darling (2023): Second new movie I've watched this month (after In a Violent Nature) that takes a creative spin on the familiar serial killer story. Stylistically blew me away (loved the songs!). And very refreshing to follow up a prequel where I knew where everything was going with a movie I was just going along for a wild ride not knowing what was coming next. I want to taste what the old hippie breakfast was like! ****
October 11th
18. ☼ V/H/S/Beyond (2024): Another solid entry in this series, with an alien theme. I think my favorites were the last two, which did something different besides "alien(s) run around killing people" with the story. ***
19. ☼ Wounds (2019): I had hopes for this since the director's previous movie (Under the Shadow) was so good, and I enjoyed the short story collection from which this was taken. Despite making good use of seedy New Orleans, this was far too vague for its good and a big missed opportunity for what could've been a great creepy cosmic horror story. **
20. ☼ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024): While not up to the imaginative level of the first movie, still a lot of fun to revisit this world. Monica Belluci did seem a bit underused though. Great use of a truly terrible hit song (Mcarthur's Park). ***1/2
21. ☼ Oddity (2024): A masked killer, a creepy insane asylum, ghosts, curses, psychics, a wooden golem, and a spooky house in the rainy Irish countryside ... what more could you want? I hope the bellboy is going to do more than stand around and wait for someone to give him luggage. ****
22. ☼ Castlevania (2017): S1E1-4.
October 12th
23. ☼ Def by Temptation (1990): The early 90s were a vibe, weren't they?
Kadeem Hardison usually grates on me, but I thought he was good in this. Weird that he pops up in a Troma horror movie in the middle of his run on A Different World. I didn't care so much for the movie though, which was surprisingly talky. I'm seeing this had a $5 million budget, which I'm not seeing in the movie at all. **
24. ☼ You'll Never Find Me (2023): Ultra small scale movies (very limited number of characters in one room) challenge my attention ... while I'm sure they're easy to make, I think they're hard to pull off. This does pretty well, thanks to a great job by the two actors. I liked how you could hear the rain and wind at all times. ***
25. ☼ Blackout (2023): A new horror movie by Larry Fessenden, and like the others this isn't going to appeal to a lot of horror fans. His style is indie-drama, and his movies are too slow and talky for many horror fans but too weird and bloody for many indie-drama fans. Having the werewolf look like Lon Chaney Jr.'s (fuzzy face and hands makeup, and generally running around in jeans and a shirt) is a choice. The last name of the actor didn't click until they included an old photo of the character with his father ... William Hurt. ***
October 13th
26. ☼ Psycho Cop Returns (1993): Another one that I'm sure I would've loved if I saw this back in the day as a kid. The question is ... who wins: Maniac Cop vs Psycho Cop. I think Robert Z'Dar's Maniac Cop takes it by the jaw. **
27. ☼ MaXXXine (2024): Cool how Ti West has made each movie in the trilogy with a different visual style (70's grindhouse, 50's Technicolor, 80's). This was more about the journey than the destination, and I like the giallo vibes it had with the murders. ***1/2
28. ☼ Cuckoo (2024): What a great movie to go into blind, since it had me trying to figure out what was going on. ****
October 14th
29. Predator (1987): How did I forget that the "muscle arms" meme came from this movie? This movie is so manly! To quote Blane, watching it makes me feel like a sexual Tyrannosaurus! Then it ends and I'm just me
****1/2
October 15th
30. The Ring (2002): I prefer the Japanese movie, which is less slick and more stream-lined. This is still solid, although it falls well short of the hype of "scariest movie ever". You have to wonder how badly it will date being dependent on VHS technology (which was already on the wane in the early 2000's). ***1/2
October 16th
31. ☼ Castlevania (2018): S2E1-4.
October 17th
32. ☼ Night of the Howling Beast (1975): Paul Naschy ... all the women want him ... all the men want to be him! This wasn't good, but I enjoyed watching it in an MST3K kind of way. Paul Naschy movies would've been perfect for that show if not for all the nudity and blood. **1/2
October 18th
33. ☼ Blood Games (1990): Rape-revenge horror really isn't my thing, although fortunately this didn't dwell on that aspect as much as it could have. It seemed older than a movie made in 1990 (like a 70s grindhouse movie). Maybe I could've enjoyed this more if they weren't so many people like the guys in this where I live. **
34. ☼ Alien: Romulus (2024): It's another alien movie, but this brought 3 new things to the plate: lots of face huggers, specifics about what Weyland-Yutani actually wanted with the xenomorphs, and whatever the hell that thing at the end was. ****
35. ☼ Stopmotion (2023): It was pretty clear where this was going, but the creepy stop-motion makes this stand out. ***1/2
October 19th
36. ☼ New Life (2023): It's low-key approach to zombie apocalypse (possible) outbreak won't be for everyone (it's halfway through until there's even a sign it's a horror movie). But I liked the thoughtful character-study drama approach. One side note: I know they talked about it in the movie. But seriously ... if you're sending a field agent to stop a zombie apocalypse, do you really send someone with ALS? ***1/2
37. ☼ Good Boy (2022): Well, that was something else. Hard to feel too bad for the lead woman. If you don't see your new boyfriend keeping a man dressed as a dog locked in his house as a red flag, then you deserve what's coming to you. ***
38. ☼ MadS (2024): Another day 1 zombie apocalypse movie (and I shouldn't complain, but I've wanted to see more of this side the story than when everything's broken down). Really made fresh by the "one take" style which gave the movie a propulsive energy. ****
39. ☼ Immaculate (2024): Even though I don't buy Sydney Sweeney as a nun, I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. The "evil" Catholics' plan makes more sense here than in the similar The First Omen. And what a ballsy ending! ***1/2
40. ☼ Clock (2023): I should've listen to my gut which said the subject matter of this is not something I want to see a movie about. I sympathize with the message (again the notion that women can only be fullfilled by having babies, an idea we hear way too much about these days) but this was far too heavy handed. **
October 20th
41. ☼ Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023): A cute movie that's a nice change of pace from all the other things I've been watching this month. ***1/2
42. ☼ Teacup (2024): S1E1-3.
October 21st
43. Humanoids from the Deep (1980): Big fan of this stupid movie. Moves so fast ... kills a kid and a dog in under 10 minutes. Baron the dog deserved better. Jackie the kid had it coming. ***1/2
October 22nd
44. ☼ Don't Deliver Us From Evil (1971): Considering all the positive comments I've heard about this, I'm disappointed I didn't like it more. Maybe a mistake to watch this on a weekend night (when I'm tired from work), but aside from a handful of scenes this mostly bored me. **
October 23rd
45. ☼ Castlevania (2018): S2E5-8.
October 24th
46. ☼ The New Kids (1985): How did I miss seeing (or even hearing about) this in the 80s? James Spader is such a great slime bag.And I was glad to see Eric Stoltz's character not end up in the friend zone (which I was sure was going to happen early on). ***1/2
October 25th
47. ☼ The 'Burbs (1989): Another "how did I not see this before" movie. It's certainly a fun little movie that right in Joe Dante's wheelhouse. ***1/2
48. The Mummy's Tomb (1942): Really lazy sequel that spends the first 20% of the running time with highlight clips from The Mummy's Hand. It does move briskly after that, and I liked how all of the officials and press 100% believe that a murderous mummy is on the lose. **1/2
49. ☼ Woman of the Hour (2023): I guess technically you'd have to use a wildcard for it since it's not listed as horror anywhere. But it's a serial killer thriller/drama and is more like a horror movie than many things with that tag I've seen. I'd never heard of the "Dating Game Killer" but that's really creepy. And how could the show let him on when he already did time for rape and assault? **** Wildcard #1
50. ☼ Dream Scenario (2023): What an original and damn uncomfortable movie to watch. For the first half you'd be wondering how this is listed as a horror movie ... but it comes. Fantastic performance by Nicholas Cage. People give him grief for his wacky unhinged roles, but when you see things like this you're reminded he still has Oscar-winning level skill in him too. ****
October 26th
51. Jaws 2 (1978): Nowhere near the level of the first one ... but then few movies are. Still far above most of the other monster movies that came out in the wake of Jaws. While they lost Spielberg, keeping a lot of the original cast and getting John Williams to come back for the score is big. ***1/2
52. The Mummy's Ghost (1944): I thought the mummy burned up at the end of the last movie? I guess getting past that is super-easy, barely an inconvenience, when you have more Tana leaves. Pretty standard stuff except a rare downer of an ending for movies from this time period. **1/2
53. ☼ Out of Darkness (2022): Setting a movie in the stone age is a great idea. Normal life must've been terrifying then, not to mention what happens when you throw a monster into the mix. About the "monster" ... that's definitely a let-down, and a lot of the earlier parts of the movie don't seem to be consistent with the "reveal". **1/2
54. ☼ Exhuma (2024): This was a fun one that mixes mystery with South Korean folklore and mysticism. I'm not sure I followed everything that was happening, but it stayed entertaining through its long running time. ***1/2
October 27th
55. ☼ Teacup (2024): S1E4-5; ☼ Ash vs the Evil Dead (2015): S1E04
56. The Mummy's Curse (1944): "Da devil's on da loose and he's dancin' wit da mummy!" says Goobie, our incredibly offensive racial stereotype. Ho hum, but it does have one fantastic scene when the princess Ananka rises crusty and muddy from the swamp, looking like something out of a much later zombie movie. Sadly, the movie doesn't follow up ... she washes in a pond and her hair and make-up are immediately perfect. **1/2
57. The Mummy (1999): Still a lot of fun, although some of the CGI hasn't aged so well. When we people learn that if you find an ancient Book of the Dead DON'T READ FROM IT!!! ****
October 28th
58. ☼ It's What's Inside (2024): Another movie filled with ultra-privileged 20-somethings acting like jerks. Maybe it was my frame of mind, but I just wasn't in the mood for their crap. It's got a clever central concept but the film-making came across as really smug to me. But it has over 70% critic and audience score at Rotten Tomatoes so lots of people like it. It did keep my attention for the 100 minute running time. Although it's listed as horror at several places, it didn't seem like a horror movie to me. **1/2
October 29th
59. ☼ Here for Blood (2022): Just a fun and funny low budget horror comedy. Shawn Roberts has an easy-going charisma that makes it easy to root for his character. Would not have realized Dee Snyder was in the movie if not for the credits. ***1/2
October 30th
60. ☼ Azrael (2024): I saw Azrael described somewhere like accidentally starting in season 2 for a show you never watched before. So many questions ... so few answers. It was short and moved briskly though, and I didn't see the ending coming. ***
Halloween
61 ☼ Teacup (2024): S1E6; ☼ Ash vs the Evil Dead (2015): S1E05. Wildcard #2
62. ☼ The Substance (2024): Not many movies manage to physically gross me out anymore ... so, well done I guess. ****
63. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992): I always thought having the "Bram Stoker's" in the title was odd. It's not like he personally was involved in this version as opposed to all the other movies. Still a visual treat and fun to watch. Unfortunately Keanu Reeves' and Winona Ryder's performances (and accents) haven't gotten any better with time. I forgot how much of a blunt asshole Van Helsing was in this. ****
64. Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955): It's Klaris, not Kharis! If you were hoping for "mummy vs mommy" jokes you won't be disappointed. ***
Previous challenge totals:
2008: 100
2010: 100
2011: 53
2013: 54
2014: 36
2015: 56
2016: 106
2017: 101.25
2018: 70
2019: 121
2020: 71
2021: 110
2022: 56
2023: 60
Goal: 31
Total: 64
First Time Views: 53
☼ = first time viewing
Movies rated out of 5 stars (*****) based solely on my personal enjoyment.
My Viewing List:
October 2nd
1. ☼ All My Friends Are Dead (2020): Shallow and stupid but it kept my attention. Opening with the aftermath was a really good move since I kept watching trying to think how things could possibly get to that point during the party. Without that I may have bailed since the characters were so aggressively horrible (although I liked the missionary and his buddy Jesus). So how many bullets does that gun hold anyway?
***October 3rd
2. ☼ The Boxer's Omen (1983): 30 years ago I probably would've loved this (and would've spend a lot of effort getting a bootleg VHS). Now ... it's kind of tedious. Yeah, it's crazy as all hell but I need something in the way of story. **
3. ☼ Longlegs (2024): Probably the best of Oz Perkins' movies ... certainly the most entertaining. This has a great foreboding atmosphere, even if the story got silly. ***1/2
4. ☼ In a Violent Nature (2024): I liked this more than I thought I would. A "Jason Walking Simulator" sounded dull, but the movie used the gimmick to make things really tense. And I get why yoga girl didn't run backwards ... but why didn't she even try to run to the sides? ***1/2
October 4th
5. The Spider Labyrinth (1988): I've seen this before, but it's been so long the only thing I remember is the giant spider monster. Fun weird little movie that's a mix between a giallo and Lovecraft. ***1/2
6. ☼ Ghost Stories (2017): I missed this one when it was new, but thought it was really good with a powerful kicker. ****
7. ☼ Trap (2024): The best parts (with a serial killer dad trying to escape a teenybopper pop concert) was mostly spoiled by the trailers. It just went on and on, getting more laughable by the minute. M Night is on record saying he wanted this to be to his daughter what Purple Rain was to Prince. He did not succeed. **1/2
October 5th
8. ☼ Superstition (1982): Cheap looking but manages to be entertaining with lots of surprisingly gory kills. I appreciate when horror movies have the stones to kill kids ... let's you know as a viewer that all bets are off. **1/2
9. ☼ The Watchers (2024): Without planning on it, I did back to back nights of an M Night nepo baby movie! I enjoyed this a lot more than most seemed to. It looked good, and there were interesting ideas about mixing in fairies and halflings into a modern horror movie setting. ***1/2
10. ☼ Salem's Lot (2024): I thought this was ok, if a bit by-the-numbers (maybe I'm just too familiar with the story, having read the book and watched Tobe Hooper's mini-series multiple times). I liked the glowing crosses and how they seemed to blow away vampires like leaf blowers. King's original ending was a bit anti-climactic, but I'm not sure making it into a giant action set-piece at the Drive-In made things better. Is a hiding place for vampires in car trunks under the sun really the best plan? ***
11. ☼ Fatal Games (1984): A mediocre slasher that managed to miss me in the 80s. At first a javelin killer seemed cool, but after a while I was hoping they'd mix it other with other Olympic-themed kills. Shot put ... discus ... archery ... death by curling stone! And how did the swimmer not notice the killer at the bottom of the pool? It's not like it's a murky lake or something. **
October 7th
12. ☼ Ash vs the Evil Dead (2015): S1E01-3.
October 8th
13. ☼ Beyond Terror (1980): I thought this could shape into a fun sleazy grindhouse watch. But the characters were all so awful, the story thin, and there just wasn't enough horror payoff to make it worthwhile. *1/2
October 9th
14. ☼ The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973): It's nice to still be able to stumble upon 70s Euro horror that I've never seen before. This looks great (didn't know Spain was so rainy) though my attention started to wander when after an opening murder we get over an hour of love-triangle melodrama. And then ... it got my attention again with a couple of really effective horror sequences in the last 30 minutes. ***
15. ☼ Arcadian (2024):Nic Cage but in subdued mode (and sadly off-screen for most of the second half). Like A Quiet Place, but not so quiet, much goofier-looking alien monsters, and much more teenage angst. **1/2
October 10th
16. ☼ The First Omen (2024): It was very well made, although I found myself caring less as the story got closer to the inevitable lead-in to the original Omen. **1/2
17. ☼ Strange Darling (2023): Second new movie I've watched this month (after In a Violent Nature) that takes a creative spin on the familiar serial killer story. Stylistically blew me away (loved the songs!). And very refreshing to follow up a prequel where I knew where everything was going with a movie I was just going along for a wild ride not knowing what was coming next. I want to taste what the old hippie breakfast was like! ****
October 11th
18. ☼ V/H/S/Beyond (2024): Another solid entry in this series, with an alien theme. I think my favorites were the last two, which did something different besides "alien(s) run around killing people" with the story. ***
19. ☼ Wounds (2019): I had hopes for this since the director's previous movie (Under the Shadow) was so good, and I enjoyed the short story collection from which this was taken. Despite making good use of seedy New Orleans, this was far too vague for its good and a big missed opportunity for what could've been a great creepy cosmic horror story. **
20. ☼ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024): While not up to the imaginative level of the first movie, still a lot of fun to revisit this world. Monica Belluci did seem a bit underused though. Great use of a truly terrible hit song (Mcarthur's Park). ***1/2
21. ☼ Oddity (2024): A masked killer, a creepy insane asylum, ghosts, curses, psychics, a wooden golem, and a spooky house in the rainy Irish countryside ... what more could you want? I hope the bellboy is going to do more than stand around and wait for someone to give him luggage. ****
22. ☼ Castlevania (2017): S1E1-4.
October 12th
23. ☼ Def by Temptation (1990): The early 90s were a vibe, weren't they?
Kadeem Hardison usually grates on me, but I thought he was good in this. Weird that he pops up in a Troma horror movie in the middle of his run on A Different World. I didn't care so much for the movie though, which was surprisingly talky. I'm seeing this had a $5 million budget, which I'm not seeing in the movie at all. **24. ☼ You'll Never Find Me (2023): Ultra small scale movies (very limited number of characters in one room) challenge my attention ... while I'm sure they're easy to make, I think they're hard to pull off. This does pretty well, thanks to a great job by the two actors. I liked how you could hear the rain and wind at all times. ***
25. ☼ Blackout (2023): A new horror movie by Larry Fessenden, and like the others this isn't going to appeal to a lot of horror fans. His style is indie-drama, and his movies are too slow and talky for many horror fans but too weird and bloody for many indie-drama fans. Having the werewolf look like Lon Chaney Jr.'s (fuzzy face and hands makeup, and generally running around in jeans and a shirt) is a choice. The last name of the actor didn't click until they included an old photo of the character with his father ... William Hurt. ***
October 13th
26. ☼ Psycho Cop Returns (1993): Another one that I'm sure I would've loved if I saw this back in the day as a kid. The question is ... who wins: Maniac Cop vs Psycho Cop. I think Robert Z'Dar's Maniac Cop takes it by the jaw. **
27. ☼ MaXXXine (2024): Cool how Ti West has made each movie in the trilogy with a different visual style (70's grindhouse, 50's Technicolor, 80's). This was more about the journey than the destination, and I like the giallo vibes it had with the murders. ***1/2
28. ☼ Cuckoo (2024): What a great movie to go into blind, since it had me trying to figure out what was going on. ****
October 14th
29. Predator (1987): How did I forget that the "muscle arms" meme came from this movie? This movie is so manly! To quote Blane, watching it makes me feel like a sexual Tyrannosaurus! Then it ends and I'm just me
****1/2October 15th
30. The Ring (2002): I prefer the Japanese movie, which is less slick and more stream-lined. This is still solid, although it falls well short of the hype of "scariest movie ever". You have to wonder how badly it will date being dependent on VHS technology (which was already on the wane in the early 2000's). ***1/2
October 16th
31. ☼ Castlevania (2018): S2E1-4.
October 17th
32. ☼ Night of the Howling Beast (1975): Paul Naschy ... all the women want him ... all the men want to be him! This wasn't good, but I enjoyed watching it in an MST3K kind of way. Paul Naschy movies would've been perfect for that show if not for all the nudity and blood. **1/2
October 18th
33. ☼ Blood Games (1990): Rape-revenge horror really isn't my thing, although fortunately this didn't dwell on that aspect as much as it could have. It seemed older than a movie made in 1990 (like a 70s grindhouse movie). Maybe I could've enjoyed this more if they weren't so many people like the guys in this where I live. **
34. ☼ Alien: Romulus (2024): It's another alien movie, but this brought 3 new things to the plate: lots of face huggers, specifics about what Weyland-Yutani actually wanted with the xenomorphs, and whatever the hell that thing at the end was. ****
35. ☼ Stopmotion (2023): It was pretty clear where this was going, but the creepy stop-motion makes this stand out. ***1/2
October 19th
36. ☼ New Life (2023): It's low-key approach to zombie apocalypse (possible) outbreak won't be for everyone (it's halfway through until there's even a sign it's a horror movie). But I liked the thoughtful character-study drama approach. One side note: I know they talked about it in the movie. But seriously ... if you're sending a field agent to stop a zombie apocalypse, do you really send someone with ALS? ***1/2
37. ☼ Good Boy (2022): Well, that was something else. Hard to feel too bad for the lead woman. If you don't see your new boyfriend keeping a man dressed as a dog locked in his house as a red flag, then you deserve what's coming to you. ***
38. ☼ MadS (2024): Another day 1 zombie apocalypse movie (and I shouldn't complain, but I've wanted to see more of this side the story than when everything's broken down). Really made fresh by the "one take" style which gave the movie a propulsive energy. ****
39. ☼ Immaculate (2024): Even though I don't buy Sydney Sweeney as a nun, I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. The "evil" Catholics' plan makes more sense here than in the similar The First Omen. And what a ballsy ending! ***1/2
40. ☼ Clock (2023): I should've listen to my gut which said the subject matter of this is not something I want to see a movie about. I sympathize with the message (again the notion that women can only be fullfilled by having babies, an idea we hear way too much about these days) but this was far too heavy handed. **
October 20th
41. ☼ Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023): A cute movie that's a nice change of pace from all the other things I've been watching this month. ***1/2
42. ☼ Teacup (2024): S1E1-3.
October 21st
43. Humanoids from the Deep (1980): Big fan of this stupid movie. Moves so fast ... kills a kid and a dog in under 10 minutes. Baron the dog deserved better. Jackie the kid had it coming. ***1/2
October 22nd
44. ☼ Don't Deliver Us From Evil (1971): Considering all the positive comments I've heard about this, I'm disappointed I didn't like it more. Maybe a mistake to watch this on a weekend night (when I'm tired from work), but aside from a handful of scenes this mostly bored me. **
October 23rd
45. ☼ Castlevania (2018): S2E5-8.
October 24th
46. ☼ The New Kids (1985): How did I miss seeing (or even hearing about) this in the 80s? James Spader is such a great slime bag.And I was glad to see Eric Stoltz's character not end up in the friend zone (which I was sure was going to happen early on). ***1/2
October 25th
47. ☼ The 'Burbs (1989): Another "how did I not see this before" movie. It's certainly a fun little movie that right in Joe Dante's wheelhouse. ***1/2
48. The Mummy's Tomb (1942): Really lazy sequel that spends the first 20% of the running time with highlight clips from The Mummy's Hand. It does move briskly after that, and I liked how all of the officials and press 100% believe that a murderous mummy is on the lose. **1/2
49. ☼ Woman of the Hour (2023): I guess technically you'd have to use a wildcard for it since it's not listed as horror anywhere. But it's a serial killer thriller/drama and is more like a horror movie than many things with that tag I've seen. I'd never heard of the "Dating Game Killer" but that's really creepy. And how could the show let him on when he already did time for rape and assault? **** Wildcard #1
50. ☼ Dream Scenario (2023): What an original and damn uncomfortable movie to watch. For the first half you'd be wondering how this is listed as a horror movie ... but it comes. Fantastic performance by Nicholas Cage. People give him grief for his wacky unhinged roles, but when you see things like this you're reminded he still has Oscar-winning level skill in him too. ****
October 26th
51. Jaws 2 (1978): Nowhere near the level of the first one ... but then few movies are. Still far above most of the other monster movies that came out in the wake of Jaws. While they lost Spielberg, keeping a lot of the original cast and getting John Williams to come back for the score is big. ***1/2
52. The Mummy's Ghost (1944): I thought the mummy burned up at the end of the last movie? I guess getting past that is super-easy, barely an inconvenience, when you have more Tana leaves. Pretty standard stuff except a rare downer of an ending for movies from this time period. **1/2
53. ☼ Out of Darkness (2022): Setting a movie in the stone age is a great idea. Normal life must've been terrifying then, not to mention what happens when you throw a monster into the mix. About the "monster" ... that's definitely a let-down, and a lot of the earlier parts of the movie don't seem to be consistent with the "reveal". **1/2
54. ☼ Exhuma (2024): This was a fun one that mixes mystery with South Korean folklore and mysticism. I'm not sure I followed everything that was happening, but it stayed entertaining through its long running time. ***1/2
October 27th
55. ☼ Teacup (2024): S1E4-5; ☼ Ash vs the Evil Dead (2015): S1E04
56. The Mummy's Curse (1944): "Da devil's on da loose and he's dancin' wit da mummy!" says Goobie, our incredibly offensive racial stereotype. Ho hum, but it does have one fantastic scene when the princess Ananka rises crusty and muddy from the swamp, looking like something out of a much later zombie movie. Sadly, the movie doesn't follow up ... she washes in a pond and her hair and make-up are immediately perfect. **1/2
57. The Mummy (1999): Still a lot of fun, although some of the CGI hasn't aged so well. When we people learn that if you find an ancient Book of the Dead DON'T READ FROM IT!!! ****
October 28th
58. ☼ It's What's Inside (2024): Another movie filled with ultra-privileged 20-somethings acting like jerks. Maybe it was my frame of mind, but I just wasn't in the mood for their crap. It's got a clever central concept but the film-making came across as really smug to me. But it has over 70% critic and audience score at Rotten Tomatoes so lots of people like it. It did keep my attention for the 100 minute running time. Although it's listed as horror at several places, it didn't seem like a horror movie to me. **1/2
October 29th
59. ☼ Here for Blood (2022): Just a fun and funny low budget horror comedy. Shawn Roberts has an easy-going charisma that makes it easy to root for his character. Would not have realized Dee Snyder was in the movie if not for the credits. ***1/2
October 30th
60. ☼ Azrael (2024): I saw Azrael described somewhere like accidentally starting in season 2 for a show you never watched before. So many questions ... so few answers. It was short and moved briskly though, and I didn't see the ending coming. ***
Halloween
61 ☼ Teacup (2024): S1E6; ☼ Ash vs the Evil Dead (2015): S1E05. Wildcard #2
62. ☼ The Substance (2024): Not many movies manage to physically gross me out anymore ... so, well done I guess. ****
63. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992): I always thought having the "Bram Stoker's" in the title was odd. It's not like he personally was involved in this version as opposed to all the other movies. Still a visual treat and fun to watch. Unfortunately Keanu Reeves' and Winona Ryder's performances (and accents) haven't gotten any better with time. I forgot how much of a blunt asshole Van Helsing was in this. ****
64. Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955): It's Klaris, not Kharis! If you were hoping for "mummy vs mommy" jokes you won't be disappointed. ***
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#87
DVD Talk Gold Edition
Re: The 20th Annual "October Horror Movie Challenge" (10/1 - 10/31) ***The List Thread***
Back for another year.
Oct 1st
1. The Substance (new) - in theater
Oct 3rd
2. The Mummy - digital copy
Oct 4th
3. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (new) - in theater
Oct 5th
4. Smile (new)
5. Tremors
Oct 6th
6. 30 Days of Night
7. Salem's Lot (new) - HBO MAX online
8. Shaun of the Dead
9. Stir of Echoes
10. Paranormal Activity
Oct 7th
11. Margaux (new) - Netflix
12. Tarot (new) - Netflix
13. Saw
Oct 8th
14. Underwater
15. They (new)
Oct 9th
16. Malevolent (new)
17. Apartment 7A (new) - Paramount+
18. Fright Night
19. Talk to Me
Oct 10th
20. The Craft
21. American Psycho
Oct 11th
22. Infinity Pool (new) - Hulu
23. The Purge
24. The Purge: Anarchy
Oct 12th
25. Wallace & Grommit: Curse of the Were-Rabbi
26. Terrifier (new)
27. The Purge: Election Year
28. Para-Norman - Blu-ray
Oct 13th
29. Return to Oz - digital copy
30. Trap (new) - Amazon Prime rental
31. Lake Placid - Blu-ray
32. Perfect Getaway - Blu-ray
Oct 14th
33. There's Someone Inside Your House (new)
34. Misery
35. Single White Female
Oct 15th
36. You're Next
37. Scream
38. The Descent - digital copy
39. The Descent 2 - digital copy
40. Scream 2
Oct 16th
41. Scream 3
42. Vacancy
Oct 17th
43. Scream 4
Oct 18th
44. Scream (#5)
Oct 19th
45. It Part 1
46. It Part 2
47. Fright Night
Oct 20th
48. Dawn of the Dead
49. The Hitcher
50. Immaculate (new)
Oct 21st
51. The Strangers
Oct 22nd
52. Anaconda
Oct 23rd
53. Thanksgiving
Oct 24th
54. Trick r Treat
55. Countdown (new)
Oct 26th
56. Death Proof
57. First Omen (new)
58. Ghostbusters
59. Final Destination
Oct 27th
60. Grave Encounters
61. Final Destination 2
62. X
Oct 28th
63. Eight Legged Freaks
64. The Wolf-man
65. Gremlins
Oct 29th
66. Urban Legend
67. Drag me to Hell
68. Final Destination 5
Oct 30th
69. Frankenweenie
70. Coraline
Oct 31st
71. Young Frankenstein
72. The Tingler
Oct 1st
1. The Substance (new) - in theater
Oct 3rd
2. The Mummy - digital copy
Oct 4th
3. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (new) - in theater
Oct 5th
4. Smile (new)
5. Tremors
Oct 6th
6. 30 Days of Night
7. Salem's Lot (new) - HBO MAX online
8. Shaun of the Dead
9. Stir of Echoes
10. Paranormal Activity
Oct 7th
11. Margaux (new) - Netflix
12. Tarot (new) - Netflix
13. Saw
Oct 8th
14. Underwater
15. They (new)
Oct 9th
16. Malevolent (new)
17. Apartment 7A (new) - Paramount+
18. Fright Night
19. Talk to Me
Oct 10th
20. The Craft
21. American Psycho
Oct 11th
22. Infinity Pool (new) - Hulu
23. The Purge
24. The Purge: Anarchy
Oct 12th
25. Wallace & Grommit: Curse of the Were-Rabbi
26. Terrifier (new)
27. The Purge: Election Year
28. Para-Norman - Blu-ray
Oct 13th
29. Return to Oz - digital copy
30. Trap (new) - Amazon Prime rental
31. Lake Placid - Blu-ray
32. Perfect Getaway - Blu-ray
Oct 14th
33. There's Someone Inside Your House (new)
34. Misery
35. Single White Female
Oct 15th
36. You're Next
37. Scream
38. The Descent - digital copy
39. The Descent 2 - digital copy
40. Scream 2
Oct 16th
41. Scream 3
42. Vacancy
Oct 17th
43. Scream 4
Oct 18th
44. Scream (#5)
Oct 19th
45. It Part 1
46. It Part 2
47. Fright Night
Oct 20th
48. Dawn of the Dead
49. The Hitcher
50. Immaculate (new)
Oct 21st
51. The Strangers
Oct 22nd
52. Anaconda
Oct 23rd
53. Thanksgiving
Oct 24th
54. Trick r Treat
55. Countdown (new)
Oct 26th
56. Death Proof
57. First Omen (new)
58. Ghostbusters
59. Final Destination
Oct 27th
60. Grave Encounters
61. Final Destination 2
62. X
Oct 28th
63. Eight Legged Freaks
64. The Wolf-man
65. Gremlins
Oct 29th
66. Urban Legend
67. Drag me to Hell
68. Final Destination 5
Oct 30th
69. Frankenweenie
70. Coraline
Oct 31st
71. Young Frankenstein
72. The Tingler
Last edited by beebs; 11-01-24 at 01:55 AM.
#88
Re: The 20th Annual "October Horror Movie Challenge" (10/1 - 10/31) ***The List Thread***
Well shoot I wasn't sure I'd be in this year but luckily (?) I got sick and laying on the couch lends itself to movie binges!
1. Terrifier*
2. Terrfier 2*
3. The Void
4. Kiss of the Vampire
5. 31*
6. Thanksgiving*
7. Babadook*
8. Barbarian*
9. City of the Dead
1. Terrifier*
2. Terrfier 2*
3. The Void
4. Kiss of the Vampire
5. 31*
6. Thanksgiving*
7. Babadook*
8. Barbarian*
9. City of the Dead
Last edited by GoldenWheels; 10-29-24 at 11:07 AM.
#89
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Re: The 20th Annual "October Horror Movie Challenge" (10/1 - 10/31) ***The List Thread***
Horror 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023
OBJECTIVES
✓ At least five from my digital library||||
✓ At least five from my physical library||||
✓ At least one from each of my paid subscription services |||
MY LIST
OBJECTIVES
✓ At least five from my digital library
✓ At least five from my physical library
✓ At least one from each of my paid subscription services |||
MY LIST
- 10/02 Dracula
- 10/02 Frankenstein
- 10/05 Friday the 13th
- 10/06 Friday the 13th Part 2
- 10/06 Friday the 13th Part III
- 10/06 Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
- 10/07 Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
- 10/07 Friday the 13th, Part VI Jason Lives
- 10/08 Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood
- 10/08 Friday the 13th Part VIII - Jason Takes Manhattan
- 10/10 Viy
10/10 Satan Triumphant
10/10 The Queen of Spades
10/10 The Portrait - 10/11 Broken Lizard's Club Dread
10/12 Broken Lizard's Club Dread Audio Commentary from director/writer/star Jay Chandrasekhar and writer/star Eric Stolhanske
10/13 Broken Lizard's Club Dread Audio Commentary from writers/stars Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Kevin Heffernan - 10/17 Dracula
10/18 The Revamping of Dracula
10/18 Dracula Feature Commentary with Director John Badham - 10/19 Unmasked Part 25
10/22 Unmasked Part 25 Audio Commentary by director Anders Palm, moderated by journalist David Flint
10/22 Unmasked Part 25 Audio Commentary by producer Mark Cutforth, moderated by Peter Kuplowsky and Justin Decloux of Laser Blast Film Society - 10/25 Dario Argento's Dracula 3D
- 10/27 Haunting of the Queen Mary
- 10/29 The Faculty
- 10/30 House
- 10/30 What's the Matter with Helen?
- 10/31 Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
- 10/31 Mad Monster Party?
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Last edited by Travis McClain; 11-01-24 at 03:49 AM. Reason: Mad Monster Party?
#90
DVD Talk Ultimate Edition
Re: The 20th Annual "October Horror Movie Challenge" (10/1 - 10/31) ***The List Thread***
LIST FINAL - 238 Films - Subset, Theme, and Checklist minimums completed - 16th year - Thanks everyone
Summary Post
Reviews Part I Here
Reviews Part II (Below)
Favorites: Thale, Bell From Hell, Sea Fever, Hostile Dimensions, Downrange, The Sender, No One Will Save You, Never Let Go, The Substance, The Strange Possession of Mrs Oliver, Hatching, Looker, Totally Killer, Satanic Hispanics
Duds: Dashcam, Kill Her Goats, The Conference, Greasy Strangler, Piranha 3DD, Monster Summer, Hex, Autopsy, Hanky Panky, John & the Hole, Clock, Night Teeth, Sister Death, Umma, Kill Your Lover
Stats & Other Highlights
Week Four [October 21- October 27]:
Week Five [October 28 - November 1 at Sunrise]:
Summary Post
Reviews Part I Here
Reviews Part II (Below)
It Came From the Revenge of
Undeadcow's 16th October Horror Movie Challenge 2024

2023 list [232 films] | 2022 list [186 films] | 2021 List [141 films] | 2020 List [228 films] | 2019 List [210 films] | 2018 List [226 films |2017 List [197 films]
2016 List [179 films] | 2015 List [179 films] | 2014 List [177 films] | 2013 List [163 films] | 2012 List [136 films] | 2011 List [116 films] | 2010 List [127 films] | 2009 List [108 films]
Undeadcow's 16th October Horror Movie Challenge 2024

2023 list [232 films] | 2022 list [186 films] | 2021 List [141 films] | 2020 List [228 films] | 2019 List [210 films] | 2018 List [226 films |2017 List [197 films]
2016 List [179 films] | 2015 List [179 films] | 2014 List [177 films] | 2013 List [163 films] | 2012 List [136 films] | 2011 List [116 films] | 2010 List [127 films] | 2009 List [108 films]
1st = first time viewing | Theme = theme day related | Subset = subset discussion film
List/Reviews (238 total films):Favorites: Thale, Bell From Hell, Sea Fever, Hostile Dimensions, Downrange, The Sender, No One Will Save You, Never Let Go, The Substance, The Strange Possession of Mrs Oliver, Hatching, Looker, Totally Killer, Satanic Hispanics
Duds: Dashcam, Kill Her Goats, The Conference, Greasy Strangler, Piranha 3DD, Monster Summer, Hex, Autopsy, Hanky Panky, John & the Hole, Clock, Night Teeth, Sister Death, Umma, Kill Your Lover
Stats & Other Highlights
Spoiler:
Week Four [October 21- October 27]:
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Week Five [October 28 - November 1 at Sunrise]:
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