Darth Maher

My votes:


NEW THEMES
Vote for your top 4 (two will be a spare; just in case)

• Flashback Horror
• The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen
• Audience vs. Critic (probably needs pairing up w/ another theme)
• Fog-Infested Horror Films

RETURNING THEMES
Vote for your top 3 (one will be a spare; just in case)

• Babysitters/Nannies/Governors
• Retail Establishment
• Horror Parties
  

PCBreakdown

NEW THEMES
Vote for your top 4 (two will be a spare; just in case)

• Confined to One Room
• The Willies: Severed Penis Cinema
• Fog-Infested Horror Films
• The Four Seasons of Death - Winter / Spring / Summer / Autumn

RETURNING THEMES
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• Infection/Epidemic/Viral
• Retail Establishment
• Horror Parties

DaveyJoe

New:

Flashback horror
The 50 Best horror movies you've never seen
Mountains of Madness
Four Seasons


Returning:

Road Terrors
Extraterrestrial
Apocalyptic horror

Chad

Fixed. Again. Honestly don't know what's going on there.

Also added the automatics - Donald Pleasence 100th and R.I.P. Larry Cohen.

orlmac

New Themes:

The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen
Fog-Infested Horror Films
Mountains of Madness
The Four Seasons of Death - Winter / Spring / Summer / Autumn

Returning Themes:

Hammer/Amicus/Ealing
Infection/Epidemic/Viral
Apocalyptic Horror

Chad

Assigned a few more dates to themes. See post 7.

Just added Litterboxd / Devil Dogs to 10/29 (Tuesday), which is National Cat Day 2019 (sorry, dog day is 8/27). If for whatever reason another theme needs to occupy that spot we can move it to 10/27 - National Black Cat Day (not to be confused with 'Black Cat Appreciation Day' on 8/17). Unfortunately National Litter Box Cleaning Day was in May.

Attached Heavy Metal Movies to The Mass Marathon of the Damned on 10/26 (Saturday). Parties would also be a good fit if chosen, but they were already paired up in 2017.

WillieMLF

NEW THEMES
Vote for your top 4 (two will be a spare; just in case)

• The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen
• The Horror of War
• Starlog Presents: The 40th Anniversary of Fangoria Magazine
• Mountains of Madness

RETURNING THEMES
Vote for your top 3 (one will be a spare; just in case)

• Extraterrestrial
• Infection/Epidemic/Viral
• Apocalyptic Horror

mallratcal

NEW THEMES
Vote for your top 4 (two will be a spare; just in case)

• The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen
• Starlog Presents: The 40th Anniversary of Fangoria Magazine
• The Willies: Severed Penis Cinema
• The Four Seasons of Death - Winter / Spring / Summer / Autumn

RETURNING THEMES
Vote for your top 3 (one will be a spare; just in case)

• Road Terrors
• Retail Establishment
• Horror Parties

Darkgod

NEW THEMES

• The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen
• The Horror of War
• Fog-Infested Horror Films
• The Four Seasons of Death - Winter / Spring / Summer / Autumn

RETURNING THEMES

• Hammer/Amicus/Ealing
• Retail Establishment
• Horror Parties

numbercrunch

New Themes

The Horror of War
Mountains of Madness
Audience vs Critic
Fog Infested Horror

Returning Themes
Hammer / Amicus
Road Terror
Horror Parties

JAX036

NEW THEMES

• The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen
• Starlog Presents: The 40th Anniversary of Fangoria Magazine
• Flashback Horror
• Audience vs. Critic

RETURNING THEMES

• Retail Establishment
• Horror Parties
• Babysitters/Nannies/Governors

I'll volunteer for a subset pick if you fail to make numbers. I am unsure how much of the challenge I will be able to complete this year with baby no 2 due the start of October. I will be squeezing in as much horror as I can - I have a huge horror to watch pile

Undeadcow

Congratulations on the baby! That's exciting. Our second kid seemed like a lot more to handle at first but once my oldest (3.5 years older) adjusted more it worked well and today they end up entertaining each other some. Good luck.

SterlingBen

NEW THEMES

• Flashback Horror
• The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen
• Starlog Presents: The 40th Anniversary of Fangoria Magazine
• The Four Seasons of Death - Winter / Spring / Summer / Autumn

RETURNING THEMES

• Retail Establishment
• Apocalyptic Horror
• Horror Parties

Chad

Because three wasn't enough...

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Chad

One final reminder. Theme voting ends on Thursday night (8/8) at 11:59 PM EST, and subset construction will kick-off soon after.

Also another reminder we still need 10 subset volunteers. We've been stuck there for awhile.

TheBigDave

JAX036

Thank you. My first munchkin turns 2 at the end of October, so I will definitely have my hands full!!!

Chad

Just under 2½ hours left to vote...

Chad

The winners of the elimination round...

NEW
Fog-Infested Horror Films
The 50 Best Horror Films You've Never Seen

RETURNING
Horror Parties
Retail Establishment

Another year of unexpected outcomes. There were no tie-breakers this time that had to be settled via Random.org. Horror Parties was the highest vote-getter, and that's despite me initially forgetting to include it. 50 Best and Fog-Infested were a tie for the top spot (in new), and barely edged out The Four Seasons of Death.

And if you're unhappy The 40th Anniversary of Fangoria didn't make the cut, it'll still be on the anniversary category of the checklist. Same goes for any of the others.

Chad

I'll have this year's theme list up tomorrow for comments. I also hope to have the subset construction up and going by Friday (or Saturday at the latest) so we can jump right into that.

Once again, and I realize I'm starting to sound like a broken record -- we still need 10 subset volunteers.

JAX036

Hey Chad.

I'd said I would volunteer as a back up for a subset if numbers weren't achieved. Would be more than happy to step up though. Wish it were challenge time already!

JAX036

Thought this might be useful:

If the letterboxd link is correct for the 50 Horror Movies You've Never Seen (and there's no human error on my part) - then there are 33 movies that have not been previously used as subset picks.

Alice Sweet Alice (1976)
Alone in the Dark (1982)
Alone With Her (2006)
Audition (1999)
Basket Case (1982)
Beast Within, The (1982)
Black Christmas (1974)
Brides of Dracula, The (1960)
Burnt Offerings (1976)
Castle Freak (1995)
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)
Feast (2005)
Food of the Gods, The (1976)
Fury, The (1978)
Grace (2009)
Hard Candy (2005)
Hatchet (2006)
Humanoids From the Deep (1980)
Hunger, The (1983)
Joshua (2007)
Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)
May (2002)
Near Dark (1987)
Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
Prophecy (1979)
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Slither (2006)
Slumber Party Massacre, The (1982)
Valentine (2001)
Visiting Hours (1982)
When a Stranger Calls (1979)
Wishmaster (1997)
Wrong Turn (2003)

Undeadcow

I'e been trying to sort my watch list into theme nights that match, but my watch list has way too many items (over 180, how'd that happen?) so I'm just going to try to quit being organized.

Mondo Kane

I'll volunteer for a subset

Darth Maher

I stopped trying to be organized YEARS ago. I never watched what I had set aside and missed out on several planned theme nights and subset picks. Being busy season at work doesn't help matters as I don't always know when I'll be able to watch something. Sometimes its just a 30 minute window so I'll turn on a Halloween related TV show from my DVR. At least I FEEL like I'm participating that way and getting into the Halloween spirit.