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Previously used subsets used can be found on post 3.
2018 themes list can be found here.
Subset volunteers needed: 3
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Horror Films by year starting 1895
Pre-Horror Challenge 14: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)
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I’ll be a subset volunteer of course. And I won’t choose Slenderman. Wow, that was pretty awful.
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Anyway, that leaves us with 12 subset seats remaining.
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And we're down to 11 unoccupied subset spots remaining.
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As you can see from post #6 there's exactly 6 open spots remaining, which means the final round of voting for....
THE ELIMINATION ROUND
Order courtesy of Random.org.
Links on Post #5.
NEW THEMES
Vote for your top 7 (three will be a spare; just in case)
RETURNING THEMES
Vote for your top 2
THE ELIMINATION ROUND
Order courtesy of Random.org.
Links on Post #5.
NEW THEMES
Vote for your top 7 (three will be a spare; just in case)
- Pasties, G-Strings, & Chainsaws - Strip Club Horrors
- Fog-Infested Horror Films (needs combining w/ another theme)
- Modern Horror Films
- Dogs / Bogs / & Logs (aka "Canines, Swamps, & Cabins")
- Audience Vs. Critic (needs combining w/ another theme)
- Prison Horrors
- Cabins / Cottages in the Woods (needs combining w/ another theme)
RETURNING THEMES
Vote for your top 2
- Apocalyptic Horror
- Extraterrestrial Horror[/B]
Last edited by WillieMLF; 08-20-18 at 11:30 AM.
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The Purge: Season 1 (HD) is $3.99 at Amazon. Obviously a misprice so jump on it quick.
https://www.amazon.com/The-Purge-Season-1/dp/B07GK1MMNZ
https://www.amazon.com/The-Purge-Season-1/dp/B07GK1MMNZ
EDIT: I don't really watch too much television nowdays, and it seems this one hasn't even aired.
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I think The Purge has potential as a tv show but always found the premise to be a little too thin of a device to justify what ends up working well in theaters as a brain dead popcorn thriller clawing at the low hanging fruit of race and economic anxieties. Not sure how well that would translate to episodic content; since is suppose to be an annual event. I wish some more supernatural horror franchises would make a jump to tv and am curious to see what kind of reception Purge tv gets (seems like Annabelle/Conjuring could make interesting tv).
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 14: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checkl
As you can see from post #6 there's exactly 6 open spots remaining, which means the final round of voting for....
THE ELIMINATION ROUND
Order courtesy of Random.org.
Links on Post #5.
NEW THEMES
Vote for your top 7 (three will be a spare; just in case)
RETURNING THEMES
Vote for your top 2
THE ELIMINATION ROUND
Order courtesy of Random.org.
Links on Post #5.
NEW THEMES
Vote for your top 7 (three will be a spare; just in case)
- Pasties, G-Strings, & Chainsaws - Strip Club Horrors
- "Subjective Camera" Horror
- Fog-Infested Horror Films (needs combining w/ another theme)
- Live or Die? Make Your Choice - Mind Games
- The Five Colors of Death
- The Pen is Deadlier Than the Sword - Writers
- I Spit on Your Garage
- Modern Horror Films
- Studies in Terror
- Random Maniacal Mashup of Insane Indecisiveness 2 - TV Terrors / Late-Night Horror Hosts / Aerobics Craze / Casinos
- Dogs / Bogs / & Logs (aka "Canines, Swamps, & Cabins")
- Grief-Related Horror
- Deadly Exposure - Photographic Horror
- Audience Vs. Critic (needs combining w/ another theme)
- Prison Horrors
- Cabins / Cottages in the Woods (needs combining w/ another theme)
- Scarecrows Killed Mrs. King (needs combining w/ another theme)
RETURNING THEMES
Vote for your top 2
- Apocalyptic Horror
- Australia / New Zealand
- Cheesy '80s Horror
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Night...
- Extraterrestrial Horror
- Killer Robots / Evil Technology
- Teen Screams
- Creature Features / When Animals Attack
- Hammer / Amicus / Ealing / Black & Blue
- Meta Horror Films
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Pasties, G-Strings, & Chainsaws - Strip Club Horrors
Studies in Terror
RMMOII2
Live or Die?
Cabins/Cottages
Five Colors of Death
Modern Horror Films
Cheesy 80s Horror
Dark & Stormy night
Studies in Terror
RMMOII2
Live or Die?
Cabins/Cottages
Five Colors of Death
Modern Horror Films
Cheesy 80s Horror
Dark & Stormy night
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My votes are thus:
RETURNING THEMES:
*Apocalyptic Horror
*Teen Screams
NEW THEMES:
*Fog Infested Horror
*Cabins / Cottages in the Woods
*Scarecrows Killed Mrs. King
*Studies in Terror
*Modern Horror
*Dogs, Bogs & Logs
*I Spit on Your Grave
RETURNING THEMES:
*Apocalyptic Horror
*Teen Screams
NEW THEMES:
*Fog Infested Horror
*Cabins / Cottages in the Woods
*Scarecrows Killed Mrs. King
*Studies in Terror
*Modern Horror
*Dogs, Bogs & Logs
*I Spit on Your Grave
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For the PC gamers among us, this new Humble Bundle may be interesting.
https://www.humblebundle.com/spooky-horror-bundle-2018
https://www.humblebundle.com/spooky-horror-bundle-2018
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For the PC gamers among us, this new Humble Bundle may be interesting.
https://www.humblebundle.com/spooky-horror-bundle-2018
https://www.humblebundle.com/spooky-horror-bundle-2018
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 14: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checkl
While I'm making preparations for that other thread, if anyone wants to...
Please do.
- vote (theme voting ends 8/23 11:59 PM EST)
- give checklist suggestions
- share theme placement ideas
- volunteer for a subset (11 spots remaining)
- share ideas for possible theme combos
- give criterion/comedy subset crossover suggestions
- or just whatever
Please do.
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Criterion subset crossover suggestion: Cat People (1942)
Checklist suggestions:
Checklist suggestions:
- Based on an Ed and Lorraine Warren "investigation" (e.g. The Conjuring, The Amityville Horror, Annabelle, The Haunted, The Haunting in Connecticut)
- Features filming of a paranormal / other TV show (e.g. Grave Encounters, They're Watching)
- Features a personal phobia (e.g. I had recurring nightmares of my Charlie McCarthy ventiloquist doll trying to murder me with a butcher knife through most of my childhood, so I'd be watching something like Magic or Dead Silence...)
- Film you once disliked but now enjoy (or want to give a second chance)
- Features the line of dialogue (or title): "It's alive!" (e.g. Frankenstein, Rosemary’s Baby, It's Alive!)
- Takes place on a plane, train or automobile
- Killer Clowns
- SFX by KNB FX/Greg Nicotero
- Starring/Directed/Written by Siblings (Farmigas, Tillys, Soskas, Pangs, Duffers)
- Nation of origin: Canada
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NEW THEMES
Fog-Infested Horror Films
The Five Colors of Death
The Pen is Deadlier Than the Sword - Writers
Dogs / Bogs / & Logs (aka "Canines, Swamps, & Cabins")
Grief-Related Horror
Prison Horrors
Cabins / Cottages in the Woods
RETURNING THEMES
Apocalyptic Horror
Hammer / Amicus / Ealing / Black & Blue
Fog-Infested Horror Films
The Five Colors of Death
The Pen is Deadlier Than the Sword - Writers
Dogs / Bogs / & Logs (aka "Canines, Swamps, & Cabins")
Grief-Related Horror
Prison Horrors
Cabins / Cottages in the Woods
RETURNING THEMES
Apocalyptic Horror
Hammer / Amicus / Ealing / Black & Blue
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Criterion subset crossover suggestion: Pan's Labyrinth.
Had a hot date night in 2006, with the movie choices being either Pan's Labyrinth or Children of Men. Ended up seeing COM. Near the end of the movie, she ended up puking all over my leg, and the seats in front of her. The theater was pretty full and there was a couple who sat in those very chairs, but they moved before the movie started. Lucky them!
Had a hot date night in 2006, with the movie choices being either Pan's Labyrinth or Children of Men. Ended up seeing COM. Near the end of the movie, she ended up puking all over my leg, and the seats in front of her. The theater was pretty full and there was a couple who sat in those very chairs, but they moved before the movie started. Lucky them!
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Criterion Crossover Suggestions: Dressed to Kill, Sisters
Humor Crossover Suggestions: Dave Made a Maze, Frankenhooker
Checklist Suggestions:
Actors: Burgess Meredith, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Jamie Lee Curtis, the Anitas (Ekberg, Strindberg), Hayley Mills, Charles Durning, Sam Neill
Directors: Fulci, Sergio Martino, Polanski, Ron Howard
Writers: Poe, Cronenberg, Ira Levin
Sub-Genres:
* Scream Factory release
* Arrow release
* Appears in "50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen" (Shock Til You Drop documentary)
* Based on a novel (in last year's, but a classic)
* Set or partially set on an island
* Set or partially set in a hospital
* Blood ties - family related horror (eg Die, Die My Darling!, Psycho, The Hills Have Eyes, Anguish etc)
* Asia Extreme
* Made for TV movie
* Film From Someone Else's List You've Never Seen (from last year's list)
* Film From TCM's October Schedule (from last year's list)
* Has a nun or priest as a major character
* Has a major plot twist
* Features one or more horror icons: Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Barbara Steele
* Is subtitled
* Nation of Origin: Spain or Italy
* Takes place in the English countryside
* Rural or Folk Horror
* Madness/asylums
* Evil children/teens
* Involves Ouija boards, seances, or magic rituals
* Films with a question in the title (Whatever Happen to Aunt Alice? Who Slew Auntie Roo? What Happened to Solange? What's the Matter with Helen? etc)
Humor Crossover Suggestions: Dave Made a Maze, Frankenhooker
Checklist Suggestions:
Actors: Burgess Meredith, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Jamie Lee Curtis, the Anitas (Ekberg, Strindberg), Hayley Mills, Charles Durning, Sam Neill
Directors: Fulci, Sergio Martino, Polanski, Ron Howard
Writers: Poe, Cronenberg, Ira Levin
Sub-Genres:
* Scream Factory release
* Arrow release
* Appears in "50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen" (Shock Til You Drop documentary)
* Based on a novel (in last year's, but a classic)
* Set or partially set on an island
* Set or partially set in a hospital
* Blood ties - family related horror (eg Die, Die My Darling!, Psycho, The Hills Have Eyes, Anguish etc)
* Asia Extreme
* Made for TV movie
* Film From Someone Else's List You've Never Seen (from last year's list)
* Film From TCM's October Schedule (from last year's list)
* Has a nun or priest as a major character
* Has a major plot twist
* Features one or more horror icons: Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Barbara Steele
* Is subtitled
* Nation of Origin: Spain or Italy
* Takes place in the English countryside
* Rural or Folk Horror
* Madness/asylums
* Evil children/teens
* Involves Ouija boards, seances, or magic rituals
* Films with a question in the title (Whatever Happen to Aunt Alice? Who Slew Auntie Roo? What Happened to Solange? What's the Matter with Helen? etc)
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Criterion subset crossover suggestion: Cat People (1942)
Also voting for Dave Made a Maze; that's one strange witty film. [Assuming this is available streaming somewhere]
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give criterion/comedy subset crossover suggestions
Criterion: Vampyr
Comedy crossover: Turbo Kid
Criterion: Vampyr
Comedy crossover: Turbo Kid
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Here are my votes for top 7 new themes
NEW THEMES
[*]Pasties, G-Strings, & Chainsaws - Strip Club Horrors
[*]"Subjective Camera" Horror
[*]The Pen is Deadlier Than the Sword - Writers
[*]Studies in Terror
[*]Random Maniacal Mashup of Insane Indecisiveness 2 - TV Terrors / Late-Night Horror Hosts / Aerobics Craze / Casinos
[*]Dogs / Bogs / & Logs (aka "Canines, Swamps, & Cabins")
[*]Audience Vs. Critic (needs combining w/ another theme)
Here are my votes for 2 returning themes:
RETURNING THEMES
[*]Apocalyptic Horror
[*]Killer Robots / Evil Technology
NEW THEMES
[*]Pasties, G-Strings, & Chainsaws - Strip Club Horrors
[*]"Subjective Camera" Horror
[*]The Pen is Deadlier Than the Sword - Writers
[*]Studies in Terror
[*]Random Maniacal Mashup of Insane Indecisiveness 2 - TV Terrors / Late-Night Horror Hosts / Aerobics Craze / Casinos
[*]Dogs / Bogs / & Logs (aka "Canines, Swamps, & Cabins")
[*]Audience Vs. Critic (needs combining w/ another theme)
Here are my votes for 2 returning themes:
RETURNING THEMES
[*]Apocalyptic Horror
[*]Killer Robots / Evil Technology
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Also, 10/23 is TV Talk Show Host Day (Johnny Carson's b-day). Horrorspondents?
And I can't think of a theme, but 10/25 is Chucky, the Notorious Killer Doll Day!
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Checklist Suggestion:
Movies where they say the title of the movie in the film.
I guess that one is kind of easy but it would be fun to see people list stuff that isn’t overly obvious (like Frankenstein or Dracula where the names are mentioned over and over). Something like Scream (Matthew Lillard: “It’s a SCREAM, baby”.
Movies where they say the title of the movie in the film.
I guess that one is kind of easy but it would be fun to see people list stuff that isn’t overly obvious (like Frankenstein or Dracula where the names are mentioned over and over). Something like Scream (Matthew Lillard: “It’s a SCREAM, baby”.
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Some notable dates in October:
3rd Virus Appreciation Day
6th Mad Hatter Day (Madness)
19th Evaluate Your Life Day (Apocalypse)
26th National Mincemeat Day (Cannibals)
27th Navy Day (Aquatic)
3rd Virus Appreciation Day
6th Mad Hatter Day (Madness)
19th Evaluate Your Life Day (Apocalypse)
26th National Mincemeat Day (Cannibals)
27th Navy Day (Aquatic)
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[B]
Checklist suggestions:
Checklist suggestions:
- Based on an Ed and Lorraine Warren "investigation" (e.g. The Conjuring, The Amityville Horror, Annabelle, The Haunted, The Haunting in Connecticut)
- Features filming of a paranormal / other TV show (e.g. Grave Encounters, They're Watching)
- Features a personal phobia (e.g. I had recurring nightmares of my Charlie McCarthy ventiloquist doll trying to murder me with a butcher knife through most of my childhood, so I'd be watching something like Magic or Dead Silence...)
- Film you once disliked but now enjoy (or want to give a second chance)