Kudos to Chad on posting all the subset threads (in addition to all his challenge hosting), there's some classy looking poster art on display there.

I've included suggestions taken from the planning/discussion threads, added some old categories back and, most importantly, included the option of more choice. Still very much a work in progress. The checklist so far:


Select 10 actors:
--- Karen Black (R.I.P.) -
--- Elisha Cook Jr. -
--- Tina Krause -
--- Elissa Dowling -
--- Jessica Cameron -
--- Angus Scrimm -
--- Dee Wallace -
--- Fay Wray -or- Edward Van Sloan -
--- Jefferey Combs -
--- Ivan Rasimov -or- Robert Quarry -
--- Brinke Stevens -
--- Ray Milland -
--- Boris Karloff -
--- Ingrid Pitt -or- Virginia Wetherell -
--- Katherine Isabelle -
--- Bradford Dillman -or- Donald Sutherland -
--- Tony Todd -
--- Asia Argento -
--- Conrad Veidt -or- Dwight Frye -
--- Bruce Campbell -

Select 2 film composers:
--- Marco Beltrami -
--- Hans J. Salter -
--- Alan Howarth -

Select 5 directors:
--- Bert I. Gordon -or- William Girdler -
--- Jess Franco (R.I.P.) -
--- Brian Yuzna -
--- Mario Bava -
--- Freddie Francis -
--- Dario Argento -
--- Wes Craven -
--- Stuart Gordon -
--- Dan Curtis -or- Pete Walker -
--- Tobe Hooper -

Select 2 make-up effects artists:
--- Jack Pierce -
--- Amalgamated Dynamics -or- Rob Bottin -
--- John Chambers -or- Joe Blasco -

Select 2 producers:
--- Dino De Laurentiis -
--- Val Lewton -
--- Joel Soisson -

Select 1 writer:
--- Richard Matheson (R.I.P.)
--- Dardano Sacchetti -

Select 30 of the following sub-genres / types:
--- *3-D Film -
--- Anthology Film -
--- Appears on BFI's 100 European Horror Films List -
--- Appears on Video Nasties List -
--- Based on a Novel -
--- Cannibalism -
--- Cinema Inspired By: H.P. Lovecraft -
--- Cinematic Titanic / Horror Host / MST3K / RiffTrax -
--- Comedy / Spoof -
--- Criterion / Masters of Cinema Version Film -
--- Death by: Chainsaw -
--- Distributor / Studio: Shout! Factory / Scream Factory -
--- Documentary -
--- Extraterrestrial / Takes Place in Space -
--- Film and at Least Two of its Sequels -
--- Film and its Remake -
--- Found Footage -
--- Frankenstein -
--- Ghost / Haunting -
--- Giallo -
--- J-Horror -
--- Killer / Evil Animal -
--- Killer / Evil Child -
--- Killer / Evil Doll -
--- Made-for-TV Movie -
--- Monster / Creature Feature / Godzilla -
--- Mummy -
--- Musical / Rock ‘n Roll Horror -
--- Nation of Origin: Spain -
--- Nazi -
--- Psychological -
--- Rape / Revenge -
--- Slasher / Psycho / Homicidal Maniac -
--- Takes Place on a Holiday -
--- Takes Place on or Under the Sea -
--- Vampire -
--- Werewolf -
--- Witchcraft / Satanic / Religious -
--- With Commentary -
--- With Two or More Horror Legends -
--- Zombie -

Watch films in at least three formats:
--- First format, (insert format), (insert title).
--- Second format, (insert format), (insert title).
--- Third format, (insert format), (insert title).

Watch films in at least three languages:
--- First language, (insert language), (insert title).
--- Second language, (insert language), (insert title).
--- Third language, (insert language), (insert title).

Select 8 decades of film history:
--- 1890 -
--- 1900 -
--- 1910 -
--- 1920 -
--- 1930 -
--- 1940 -
--- 1950 -
--- 1960 -
--- 1970 -
--- 1980 -
--- 1990 -
--- 2000 -
--- 2010 -

Select 4 ratings:
--- G -
--- PG -
--- PG-13 -
--- R -
--- X / NC-17 -
--- Unrated -
--- M -
--- GP -

Attend a live event (convention, play, haunted house, ghost tour, etc.):
--- (insert event). OPTIONAL

Venture Into the Literary World:
--- Read a Horror Novel or Novella (insert title). OPTIONAL

Is there any rule for choosing actors, directors, writers and make-up artists?

I vote for Richard Matheson as one of the writers. (RIP)

Big ups to Chad for all his hard work; you make this challenge rock! and just to get folks in the mood:

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Other than trying to avoid repeats, not really. Of course it's always a good idea to get a good mixture of both the past and present.

Done.

And now there's only 3 left. Thanks for the heads up on this!

Also to anyone that enjoys a bit of hunting the 3 pack with Ice Cream Man and JF2: ROTMKS has recently been making the rounds at local Big Lots for $3.

Hey everyone. I haven't really been on the site at all in the last year but I wanted to make sure I came back for this challenge. Just felt like saying how much this thing has meant to me and my family over the years. Halloween was always our favorite time of the year and this challenge has been something we've done together for years. It became something we really looked forward to doing. I'd usually start out with a movie that my wife criminally missed out on, like Jaws one year, and then we'd just kind of barrel through all the stuff we had, discovering new favorites. We even had moments that still stand out to me such as when we decided to drag out the fold-able bed to the living room and spend the night marathoning the Blind Dead movies. Between all the movies, there was also all the decorations, pumpkin patches, the chill in the air and the leaves falling, it was always so magical, and also why we got married on Halloween. Last year, about a week into the challenge, my wife went in to the hospital because of what would turn out to be her final turn in her cancer. She ended up passing away about a month later. Between that and Hurricane Sandy, obviously last year wasn't so good for me. I've spent the last year or so struggling and eventually had to quit my job to move back to Oregon from New York where I can have help taking care of my four year old son. Now I'm on unemployment, trying to find work in a place that basically has only garbage jobs while my school loans just defaulted and my son and I have to live in a room that's a quarter of the size of even the worst studio apartment I could have had back in NY.

Obviously, I haven't felt like doing much of my usual interests but this challenge is the first thing in a long time to actually excite me and have me looking forward to something. I'm hoping this will help me get out of the shell I've created, and I think my wife would have wanted us to stay with it since it was so important to us. And I still want Halloween to be important to my son so I'm trying to keep it as fun for him as possible. Plus at least I'm back to where I can actually get to my entire collection, even if it's in a storage room. While I can't say for sure how involved I'll be this year on the boards (at this point, I wouldn't be surprised to suddenly wake up one morning as a bean-field worker in New Mexico), I hope to be as engaged as possible and as always enjoy the discussion this challenge always brings out. And if I'm slow on updating the list on here, I'm pretty OCD about updating my Letterboxd so that'll always stay up to date. Thanks everyone. And sorry if I rambled. I just felt like letting those of you that put so much time and effort into this how much it really did mean to us and truly appreciate all you guys do.

For film composer, Howard Shore, Albert Glasser, or Robert O. Ragland would all be good.

For actor, has Elisha Cook been used yet? What about Edward Van Sloan?

For makeup effects, I suggest Rob Bottin and/or Joe Blasco and/or John Chambers and/or Jack Pierce.

For director, how about William "One Shot" Beaudine? Dan Curtis? Freddie Francis? My earlier suggestion, Pete Walker? And how can we forget Jess Franco (R.I.P)?

And might I, once again, respectfully request that the "killer/evil _____" items be dropped? They've been on the checklist for a long while. Before removing them, and after the new additions, there's gonna be ~80 items on the checklist, which seems a bit much. Again, though, I'm just throwing it out there; I'll go along with whatever the majority want. I'm all about some democracy.

I am so sorry for your loss... I hope you have fun doing this again to be able to step away for a brief moment.

Sorry for your loss, dcrw6. I'm glad that this challenge can assist in bringing you some happiness and some normalcy back into your life. By continuing to participate, it sounds like a great tribute to your wife who obviously shared your enthusiasm for horror movies. If you ever need to step away from it for a while for whatever reason, I'm sure everyone here will understated and welcome you back with open arms.*








* unless you count E.T. on your list.

I'm sorry for your loss dcrw6. And I second what Darth Maher said about this challenge being a nice tribute.

This. Welcome back dcrw6. Praying that you and your son continue to heal and that you focus on the good memories.

Just found out there's a new DTV Chucky film. Adding that to my Killer Doll queue.

So sorry to hear about the rough times, dcrw6. But as others have said, I think your wife would want you to keep the tradition alive. Healing through horror. Maybe it could be a future self-help book.

But in all seriousness, you should know that we're here for discussion and support.

Maybe we could add Brian Yuzna and Wes Craven to the director's list?

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As for actresses, I would like Danielle Harris if she hasn't been done before.

I thought that this might help everyone in making checklist suggestions--here are all of the people that have appeared on previous checklists (alphabetically by category):

Actors:

Composers:

Directors:

Make-up effects:

and lastly, the lone writer so far...

Jimmy Sangster

Mario Bava and Jess Franco are two more directors that we have never done.

We've never done Argento, either? I'm sort of surprised by that.

I was surprised at several omissions, but then I realized that most of the people that I thought had been on the checklist had actually had a theme night dedicated to them. It's up to Chad, but I wouldn't think that would disqualify them from being a checklist item.

We should put Joel Soisson down for producer, there's a bunch of horror sequels and cheap cash-ins he's been responsible for (recent Hellraiser films, Feast, Children of the Corn, Mimic 2, Maniac Cop III, Piranha 3DD, later installments of The Prophecy, etc).

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@dcrw6 - I am humbled to hear of your loss and offer my condolences. Hopefully the challenge can remain fun for you and not become a further reflection of your grief and loss, this could be a chance to reaffirm your interest in enjoying life and just have a blast. Best wishes. If you have a behavioral health degree I'm hiring in Houston, TX. Jess Franco should definitely make the list this time considering his death this past year.

I'll add Jessica Cameron, indy scream queen. We all want new movies to watch, so I'm sure there's quite a bit of new movies people can watch with her in it.

Well said, sorry for your loss dcrw6 and hope you are able to enjoy the challenge in honor of your wife and bring on the tradition with your son .

Thanks help to have it all in one place. Some ideas for actors could be: Bette Davis, Anthony Hopkins, Jack Nicholson, and Dee Wallace. I think the ideas for using Wes Craven, Dario Argento, and Mario Bava are good for directors. I'd add Tobe Hooper and/or Stuart Gordon too for a director.