mallratcal

I've been looking forward to this for months. I'm going to set my goal at 50 again this year, after finishing with a heartbreaking 49 last year.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Here's my movie list, in order and all previously unseen.

28 Days Later...
[Rec]
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
A Tale of Two Sisters
High Tension
Eyes Without a Face
Dead of Night
Drag Me to Hell
The Hands of Orlac
Don't Look Now
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
The Others
The Mist
The Spiral Staircase
The Black Pit of Dr. M
The Virgin Spring
The Most Dangerous Game
The Old Dark House
The House That Screamed
The Skull
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
The Lodger
Before I Die
Night of the Eagle
The Ring
The Uninvited - 1944
The Witch's Mirror
Mark of the Devil, Part 4: Tombs of the Blind Dead
The Case of Jonathan Drew
The Leopard Man
House with the Windows That Laugh
Not Against the Flesh
Last Tomb of Ligeia
Dust Devil
28 Weeks Later
The Black Room
The Hound of the Baskervilles - 1959
Curse of the Crying Woman
Bedlam
The Bad Seed - 1956
Sisters of Satan
Dressed to Kill
The Vampire
The Kiss of the Vampire
Slither
Cat o' Nine Tails
Sisters
In the Mouth of Madness
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 2007
Blind Beast
Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde
Black Cat from the Grove
Mark of the Vampire
The Queen of Spades
The Abominable Snowman
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Angel Heart
Magic
Hour of the Wolf
Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key
All the Colors of the Dark
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Strait-Jacket
Spirits of the Dead
The Gemini Twins
Vampire Circus
The Devils
Dead End
The Host
Inside
Deliverance
The Man Who Laughs
The Phantom of the Opera - 1962
The Haunted Palace
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Castle of Blood
Seconds
Asylum
The Orphanage
Whip and the Body
Q
30 Days of Night
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Day of Wrath
Viy
The Fourth Man
Premature Burial
The Cat and the Canary
The Mummy's Curse
The Vampire Lovers
Last Cannibal World
The Scarlet Claw
A Bell from Hell
The Grapes of Death
Frenzy
Pulse
The Strangers
The Penalty
Svengali
The Devil and Daniel Webster
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Countess Dracula
Paperhouse
The Church
Bug
A Warning to the Curious
Maléfique
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 1936
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Dead & Buried
In My Skin
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Venus in Furs
And Soon the Darkness
Dr. Cyclops
The Man and the Monster
The Evil Eye
The Flesh Eaters
Pretty Poison
Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Shutter
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Mother of Tears
The Mummy's Hand
Rabid Dogs
Three... Extremes
Werckmeister Harmonies
The Cremator
The Phantom Carriage

alfonsosoriano

Yesssssss can't wait!

asianxcore

I think my new schedule actually allows for me to watch movies in this challenge...I hope.

Excitement!

LPPU

I wanted to take part last year but couldn't. This year I want to take part and watch at least 31. I'm also in a DVD buying mood. Uh...any essentials to pick up?

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

What do you like?

acdcrocks1980

I played the last 2 years, started out strong for the first week, with about a flick a day... and then it all kinda had a downfall from there.

FantasticVSDoom

Maybe this year Ill just do unseen movies... With a few essential must sees.

Cardsfan111

Decided to satisfy my horror withdrawals by beginning to watch Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy. Really well done documentary.

Numes

Ahhh... Thanks for reminding me. I bought that after last year's challenge and will have to put that on my list. I plan on watching that and the Halloween documentaries this year.

I also thought I'd chime in that I really enjoy seeing this challenge expand to include shows and commentaries. I know for myself, I don't really have ~2 uninterrupted hours on weekdays to sit down and watch a movie, so things like Tales from the Crypt will be perfect for an after work viewing. As for commentaries, I've always put them on my list anyways (with bullets) so it will be nice to have those count. It is rare that you find a real dud and sometimes the commentary is better than the movie! I feel a bit lost when I am actually caught up on my commentaries.

Chad

I'm posting this now since it's fresh in my mind...

- You may have noticed that some of the prize giveaways this year will be done through random trivia questions. Well, in the interest of fairness, they'll be held during the weekend since obviously not everyone has access to DVDTalk at the workplace. And I'll make an effort to always give a heads up a day in advance.

- Be getting your ideas ready for the 31 Days Subset and the checklist because we'll be doing that soon.

- I have this year's Theme Nights near completion and it'll probably be up within a couple of days. Even if you have no desire in participating whatsoever, you should still check it out because there's 43 links worth of good info attached.


That's all I can recall for now.

Palpadious

I'll give it a try for the first time. Sounds like fun.

ThePhantomGoat

Can't wait.... last year, I hit 107, so i guess that my goal is 108 this year.

mike07

I was always too busy to join this challenge last year, but seeing how I was laid off this year I expect to have a lot of free time on my hands. My personal goal will be 62 (figuring 2 titles per day - assuming I can dig up enough horror flicks from storage). Let the fun begin!

TheGooser

Can't wait. Unfortunately this year I'm rocking a full time job and there is no way i'm gonna close to last years. Goal is 100 though

BobO'Link

In looking over TCM's list of horror titles for October I see both the 1923 and 1939 versions of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"! Seriously?!? Horror?!?

Melodrama/Romantic Drama/Unrequited Love/Historical Drama sure... but horror? I don't see it unless it's solely based on the visage of the grotesquely deformed Quasimodo.

In spite of that faux pas on the part of TCM, I'm in! I may even watch "Hunchback", in spite of my reservations as to its' inclusion, as it's on their list and it's one of my all-time favorite films.

I had lots of fun with the SF challenge and have been holding off watching any horror titles in anticipation! Current number in unwatched pile = 65+

LickTheABCs

You know me. I'm in.

Darkgod

We're counting TV this year? why?

ororama

Theater 80/St. Marks used to classify The Man Who Laughs, which is also based on a Victor Hugo novel, as grotesque, but that's a limited and obscure genre, so horror seems close enough. Actually, the abuse of Quasimodo might make it a horror movie. Neither version dwells on the torture, but they don't shy away from showing it either. Sometimes the monsters aren't the ones with the physical deformities.

Travis McClain

I'll never come close to 100; baseball is the only sport I follow and I gorge on the post-season (and for once, it looks like my Reds will actually be part of it!). But I'm hoping to at least use this challenge as impetus to whittle down the Unwatched Pile...which isn't being given so much as a second glance this month as I try my hand at the Criterion Challenge.

dcrw6

I'm in again. It's the main thing that gets me active on the forum anymore, but that it something I'm trying to change and show up more. I actually tried holding off from horror for most of the year since the last challenge just for this one, but a string of horrible luck made go back and go on my own horror super-challenge for the rest of the year, which I've been keeping track of on my blog. To make the October portion special, I've been holding off on any movie from the 80's or the 90's that feels like I would have watched it on tv in my childhood. I'm looking forward to recreating that warm feeling I had watching all of these movies on TBS, TNT, and USA as the leaves are falling and the cold creeps in.

EdTheRipper

I'm actually sitting this year out. I've been involved in a personal dvd-related challenge all year so I'm going to continue with that.

Cardsfan111

I'm with you, MinLShaw. Though it looks like I'll have more time to devote to the horror challenge this year.

We'll miss you, Ed. Perhaps you've mentioned it elsewhere and I missed it--what's the personal challenge you're doing? Not that it's any of my business...

EdTheRipper

Not a problem. It did come up briefly in a thread here but I'll be damned if I can find it. Essentially, what I'm doing is trying to watch one previously unwatched dvd for each day of the year. I know that I could throw horror into the mix but I don't want to handcuff myself to one genre. This is more of a leisurely thing for me. I've made it this far so I'm gonna finish it up.

I will still be here looking on from the sidelines.

DRG

Excited for this. Last year I cleared 50 but never managed to finish the expanded checklist.

Just wanted to throw in a reminder, last year I posted this list: http://forum.dvdtalk.com/dvd-talk/56...ml#post9804300
of potential changes to the expanded list, for discussion, if you were interested in implementing any of these ideas.