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Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Old 08-15-19, 12:21 AM
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Originally Posted by JAX036
Just seeking some clarification on the horror movies in horror movies theme. Is it confined to just the movies watched in the horror movie? Or is it the movie itself that features another horror movie? Or both? Also do you have to see footage of the movie or could it just be mentioned?

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Hmmm. Good question.
I figured it was like Halloween being shown on the TV in Scream. But would you count Halloween or Scream? I'd assume Scream is the qualifier here.
Yeah, I'd say the movie itself. Since last year's NOTLD theme was specifically for that film we accepted the title being a play on words, characters talking about the film, etc. to up the list count. Since this one covers any film, well, the entries are already considerable higher, and the list compiled by alyxstarr focuses on the featured film.

And just my opinion. I'll be happy to put it up for vote if need be.
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Originally Posted by Chad
Yeah, I'd say the movie itself. Since last year's NOTLD theme was specifically for that film we accepted the title being a play on words, characters talking about the film, etc. to up the list count. Since this one covers any film, well, the entries are already considerable higher, and the list compiled by alyxstarr focuses on the featured film.

And just my opinion. I'll be happy to put it up for vote if need be.
So in the Scream / Halloween scenario the movie that fits the theme is Halloween, right?
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

10. Film Crew - Anaconda - imdbtv
11. parties - killer party(2017) - prime
12. joe bob briggs - bride of the monster - dailymotion
13. werewolf - frankensteins bloody terror - dailymotion. paul naschy
14. Buechler - The Prey - yputube
15. horror movies in horror movies - blood =y new year - daily motion and youtube
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Looks like my choice of The Fan would also work for playground theme. I don't remember the scene but it's on the list linked for that theme.
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Originally Posted by JAX036
So in the Scream / Halloween scenario the movie that fits the theme is Halloween, right?
No, Scream. The feature presentation, not the film within the film.
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

16. Home invasion - he's out there - netfix
17. strippers - american nightmare(1983) youtube
18. larry cohen - full moon high - prime, youtube
19. thorn/EMI - Spasms - youtube
20. vampire - eat locals - prime
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Some options:
Videodrome - Criterion Crossover
Critters - Family Friendly Horror
Death Spa - Random Maniacal Mashup of Insane Indecisiveness 2 - Aerobics Craze
Basket Case - The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Originally Posted by Chad
No, Scream. The feature presentation, not the film within the film.
Sweet thank you!
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

21. playgrond - prevenge - on shudder
22. pranks - the burning - on tubi
23. fog - The Fog(2005) - vudu, tubi
24. 50 best - Valentine - vudu
25. slashers - slumber party massacre 2 - shudder, prime, tubi
26. heavy metal - rock and roll nightmare - no streams
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Just added Peter Fonda to the R.I.P. list.

I already had Spasms and The Harvest Blu-rays in my OHMC15 to watch pile, but might revisit Race with the Devil and Spirits of the Dead now.
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

4. Stranded - Don’t Torture a Duckling

6. Family-Friendly Horror - Beetlejuice

11. Horror Parties/Horror Comedies - Return To Horror High

16. Home Invasion Horror - Odd Thomas

19. 1980's Video Companies Spotlight: Video Stores - Disconnected

27. Supernatural, 2, 3 & Quiet/Soft - The House Where Evil Dwells

28. Australia / New Zealand - Howling 3
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

As of right now we still need 8 more subset volunteers.

And still waiting on 9 volunteers out of the current 23 to give their picks. It's going good so far; I just need some suggestions from people who have yet to give any before I can share what themes I need picks from.
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Also feel free to share any Criterion or comedy crossover nominations.

So far we have one representing comedy...

Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Comedy-Hell Baby Tubi
Home Invasion-13 Cameras Netflix
Australia-Nightmares (1980) Amazon
Pasties,G-Strings,Chainsaws-Cam Netflix
Stranded-Dead End Tubi
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Things have been a bit too busy and I've finally got a few picks down. I'm planning on submitting more but here's a few for now.
The Criterion Collection Crossover – Pan’s Labyrinth, Godzilla
Stranded - Wolf Creek (2005)
Werewolves / Were-Creatures On A Full Moon - Wer (2013)
Home Invasion Horror - Don't Breathe (2016)
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One thing to consider with Pan's Labyrinth and the Criterion Crossover day is that there is a ultra high definition (4K) release of Pan's Labyrinth on October 1, 2019 which I am sure will be a sight to behold but taunting us in being just one day too late for the Criterion Crossover date. It might be better to hold off on that one so it can be properly enjoyed as a subset film in the highest resolution possible.
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Updated picks here: https://forum.dvdtalk.com/dvd-talk/6...l#post13597616


Retail Establishment - Hide and Go Shriek


The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen -
Black Christmas (1974)


Slashers, 2, 3 / Giallos, 2, 3, 4 / Serial Killers - Manhunter

The Criterion Collection Crossover - Videodrome


R.I.P. John Carl Buechler (1952 - 2019) - Hatchet 2, Mausoleum


Playgrounds of the Damned - Cat's Eye


Litterboxd
/ Devil Dogs (Cats & Dogs) - Man's Best Friend, Strays (1991), The Uncanny

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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

My subset suggestions:

Criterion Crossover - Eraserhead
Zombies - Dead Snow 1 and 2, World War Z
Stranded - The Island of Dr Moreau 1977
100th Birthday Donald Pleasance - The House of Usher 1989
Family Friendly - Something Wicked This Way Comes
TV Terrors - The Ring
Retail Establishment - Nail Gun Massacre
Til Death Do Us Part - The Man Who Laughs 1928
Frights, Camera, Traction - White Dog
Horror Parties - The Food of the Gods
The Return of Job Bob - Hell High or Opera
Werewolves - Fury of the Wolfman
RIP John C Buechler - Troll
Horror Movies in Horror - Bloody new Year
Home Invasion - I am Not a Serial Killer
Pasties, G-Strings - Strip to Kill
RIP Larry Cohen - Uncle Sam
1980s Video/ThorneEMI - Video Violence or Scars of Dracula
Vampires - Mark of the Vampire
Playgrounds of the Damned - The Tenant 1976
April Ghouls Day - Final Exam
Fog Infested Films - The Woman in Black 2
50 Best Horror Films - Prophecy 1979
Slashers/Giallo - Torso or the Pyjama Girl Case
10th Annual Mash marathon - All the Colors of the Dark
Supernatural - Midnight Meat Train
Australia/New Zealand - Boar
Litterboxd/ Devil Dogs - Demonia 1990 or Zoltan Hound of Dracula
All Hallows Eve - The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Horror Comedies - The Frighteners
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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 15: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

So, for the first time in my many years of doing this, I have compiled my list on something I've wanted to do since year one. Basically, if I had to look through the history of horror films and pick only 100 that would best explain the genre, cover multiple aspects,themes, fears, monsters, etc. while making sure each decade is pretty well covered. After giving it a good think here is what I think my list is going to be:

1800s-1929

1. Le Manoir du Diable (1896)

2. Frankenstein (1910)

3. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

4. The Golem: Or How He Came Into the World (1920)

5. Nosferatu (1922)

6. Häxan (1922)

7. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

8. Faust (1926)

9. The Cat and the Canary (1927)

1930s

10. M (1930)

11. Dracula (1931)

12. Frankenstein (1931)

13.Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931)

14. Freaks (1932)

15. The Old Dark House (1932)

16. The Mummy (1932)

17. The Invisible Man (1933)

18. King Kong (1933)

19. The Black Cat (1934)

20. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

21.The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

1940s

22. The Wolf Man (1941)

23. Cat People (1942)

24. I Walked With a Zombie (1943)

25. The Body Snatcher (1945)

26. Dead of Night (1945)

27. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

28. The Spiral Staircase (1946)

29. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

1950s

30. The Thing from Another World (1951)

31. House of Wax (1953)

32. Gojira (1954)

33. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

34. Les Diaboliques (1955)

35. Night of the Hunter (1955)

36. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

37. The Blob (1958)

38. Dracula (1958)

39. A Bucket of Blood (1959)

40. House on Haunted Hill (1959)

1960s

41. Black Sunday (1960)

42. Eyes Without a Face (1960)

43. Psycho (1960)

44. Peeping Tom (1960)

45. The Innocents (1961)

46. Carnival of Souls (1962_

47. The Brids (1963)

48. The Haunting (1963)

49. Blood Feast (1965)

50. Night of the Living Dead (1968)

51. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

1970s

52. The Exorcist (1973)

53. Don’t Look Now (1973)

54.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

55. Black Christmas (1974)

56. Jaws (1975)

57. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

58. The Omen (1976)

59. Susperia (1977)

60. Carrie (1976)

61. Dawn of the Dead (1978)

62. Halloween (1978)

63. Alien (1979)

1980s

64. The Shinning (1980)

65. Friday the 13th (1980)

66. The Changeling (1980)

67. An American Werewolf in London (1981)

68. The Evil Dead (1981)

69. Poltergeist (1982)

70. The Thing (1982)

71. Videodrome (1983)

72. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

73. Re-Animator (1985)

74. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

75. Hellraiser (1987)

76. Child’s Play (1988)

1990s

77. Jacob’s Ladder (1990)

78. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

79. Braindead (1992)

80. Candyman (1992)

81. Seven (1995)

82. Scream (1996)

83. Ringu (1998)

84. Audition (1999)

85. The Sixth Sense (1999)

86. The Blair Witch Project (1999)

2000s

87. 28 Days Later (2003)

88. Saw (2004)

89. Shaun of the Dead (2004)

90. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

91. Trick ‘r Treat (2007)

92. Cloverfield (2008)

93. Let the Right One In (2008)

2010s

94. The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

95. The Conjuring (2013)

96. What We Do In the Shadows (2014)

97. The Babadook (2014)

98. Get Out (2017)

99. It (2017)

100. Halloween (2018)

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That's a great list!!!
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Criterion - The Blob (1958)
Horror Comedy - The 'Burbs (1989) - Amazon Prime, Hulu
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Good stuff. Reminds me I need to break out some of my recent Universal, Bava, Hammer, and Val Lewton Blus.
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I can only assume that those of you who are suggesting The Uncanny as a subset pick have never actually SEEN The Uncanny.

There's a good reason that it never got a theatrical release in the US.

Also, ViewAskewbian's list is certainly one to ponder. It did remind me of this, however (the pertinent part begins at about nineteen seconds in):

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Interesting list Viewaskewbian; solid choices. Thanks for sharing.
I wonder about the new Pennywise / 'It' franchise and how emblematic that will be of 2010s horror; or the new Halloween since those both seem like rehashes to me but I'm not sure what I would put in 2010s instead. Maybe Hereditary, The VVitch, Train to Busan, or Insidious stand out as unique forces in horror film.
Cool list with some food for thought.
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I'm always late joining this thread. Happy Challenge 15!

I'll be glad to take a Subset pick. I'll spend some time perusing the thread, but in the meantime sign me up.

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