clckworang

But it was my understanding that it still counts as a stand-alone wildcard, meaning it doesn't need anything extra to go with it to make it a full entry.

Shack

Yes, I think that's the case. As I recall, it used to be the exception to the full-length rule, and grew into the wildcard idea in the early years of the challenge. Chad will clarify, as always.

I never use all my allowed wildcards, so I think I just got in the habit of using it as one.

jholmes

That's what I rated it too. 3/10. It just was not my cup of tea at all.

Darkgod

My wife bought me some Vestrons for Christmas and one had no slip. It wasnt a big deal to her.. to me it was.

Darkgod

Day 15

Chad

Yeah, like Trevor said it's the original wildcard, and to my recollection we never had any more voting since the first back in '06 saying otherwise. So count it without it.

I prefer watching it on television over that "4K" set I wasted money on last year. Next airing is Friday 10/26, FYI.

WillieMLF

Tried watching Bats on Comet, but the same commercial repeated 10 times was a bit much. Also getting these strange pauses in the movie with a 'Back Now' banner popping up every 15 minutes or so....

Gave up after an hour and ate dinner. May try and find Bats tonight, as it was pretty entertaining.

clckworang

It doesn't look right on UHD? I've almost purchased it a few times but have decided to stick to the Blu-ray until a steeper price drop.

wackyblacky

Watched a decent zomedy called Ahockalypse (2018). Its low budget mayhem with a hockey team doing battle with the walking dead.

Mondo Kane

Along with ads pausing while they’re playing, that’s when this challenge can really get grueling.

Btw, when I last watched GREAT PUMPKIN on TV (It was either last year or the year before) they edited out the part with Snoopy crying over the piano. Time constraints for a 25-minute show? WTactualF????

Gobear

There really should be more vintage Halloween variety specials, like the Paul Lynde Halloween Special which I watch every year. There are a bazillion old TV specials from the 60s and 70s for Christmas, but Halloween? Bupkes.

I saw this on Youtube and thought it would be fun to share:

WillieMLF

Do y'all remember watching Hush last year as a theme for the challenge? I just rewatched it on Netflix this evening and I seem to remember a different ending from last year, or I'm mixing it up with another movie. Does anyone remember this movie? I'm not seeing anything for an alternate ending, but I must be imagining a different ending of some other movie. This is really weird!

jholmes

Some of my highlights this week were Firestarter (1984), Lake Mungo (2009), and Venom (1981) with Oliver Reed. I haven't seen Firestarter since it first released. It held up well and looked great on blu ray. Venom was much better than I expected. I love Oliver Reed. The film has a maid and chauffeur who plan to kidnap the family's rich kid for a ransom, but they end up trapped in the house with a black mamba and the cops outside. I really enjoyed it.

Undeadcow

Rewatching Predator in UHD/4K and it looks much better than I've ever seen it before. Predator is probably the first R-rated movie I'd seen, at a friend's house.

It's kind of a shame there's not been a big trend towards action horror movies like Predator in recent years (other than the recent Predator sequel). Dog Soldiers, End of Days, and Blade II are other ones that stands out as favorites in action horror.

I've seen Hush twice now and don't remember it having any alternate endings; although it's ending is kind of meta and maybe open to interpretation

WillieMLF

Man, how have I never seen Bats? This is what I would have wanted Frogs to be. Love this one!

Venom with Oliver Reed is great! I read that Kinski and Reed really didn't get along, and Reed just tried to piss off Kinski the entire movie. I recognized the lead detective as playing Merlin on Boorman's Excalibur. I don't know where they got that cover for the BU disk.....

I've heard so many good things about Mungo, but have never been able to find it.

MysterioMan007

Glad to see I'm not the only that appreciates End of Days.

Undeadcow

I've been trying to decide/remember what three zombie movies are favorites of mine. Dawn of the Dead is one but I feel like using it would be 'cheating.' The ones that immediately come to mind other than the classics are:

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Dead Within
What We Become

WillieMLF

Land of the Dead's always been a favorite of mine. I need to think about this one, but I'm sure one of the 28 Days Later is going to be one of them.

SethDLH

The Autopsy Of Jane Doe... well acted and really had me engaged but I think once the spooky stuff started it went downhill a bit. It was fine but I was hoping for something better than what it ended up being. Worth a watch though

Chad

One of the scariest things about Incubus is the fact John Cassavetes' facial expression doesn't change throughout the entire film. Gonna squeeze in one more tonight and go from Incubus to Succubus with Night Angel.

I'm probably being a little harsh; just didn't find the upgrade over the Blu-ray that significant. It's definitely worth it if you can find it at a reasonable price considering you get nine of the specials and for the audio upgrades.

Gobear

If you liked Bloodthirsty Bastards in previous challenges, you'll like The Night Watchmen on Shudder. It's about a quartet of fumbling night watchmen in a newspaper building who have to fight off a wave of vampires created by vampire clowns. It's rude, it's gory, it's funny, it's really dumb, and a lot of fun. I enjoyed it a lot.

Undeadcow

I just finished Night Watchmen (which is also on Amazon Prime) and enjoyed it. Better than average indie fare with a squad of security guards running against a effectively scary looking vampire clowns who infects an office group into fast moving fiends. It is really dumb but also so fast paced and apocalyptic that even if a horror trope or joke fails it's off to the next two. There are so many fart jokes it's practically a meta joke in itself (not constant, like every 15 minutes) but the pacing and vampire mayhem is so efficient it kept me locked in - it's rare to find a movie so dumb and yet so much more than it's dumb jokes, it's got an infectious spirit of dark fun (many jokes land better) and the vampires swarms are well done.

Gobear

There's a British vampire flick that I've been trying to track down, but it's just not available, especially now that my naughty sites have all disappeared. It's called Fanged Up (like "banged up," Britslang for going to jail). It's a Shaun of the Dead-style horror comedy about a nonviolent offender who is sent to a prison that turns out out to be an AB- storehouse for the vampires who run it. I can't find it on iTunes or Amazon or Netflix or Hulu. I tried to rent it from Amazon UK, but there appear to be rights issues that prevent US-based IPs from accessing it, and I don't fancy spending more money on a VPN to access UK sites. It will likely get a Scream Factory release down the road, but that doesn't help me now.

numbercrunch

Saw Halloween 2018 last night. All I will say is - Go See it!

SethDLH

Third vote for The Night Watchmen. It was pretty standard but it was exactly what I was looking for when I watched it - something new but familiar.