Here's a few taken from both threads. Apologies if I overlooked any previous suggestions.

Fire away.

Giallo should be a separate theme night apart from slashers. It's a distinct enough genre and there are plenty of titles to choose from. Just a thought.

Agreed, and there's plenty to chose from in each, even when separated.

Get ride of optional checklist items (read, attend a live event, etc). It'd be great for people to note if they do these things (kind of like how someone does beer reviews) but having them on a checklist feels like clutter.
I'm going full force on my illiterate slob purge of horror movies and don't need some checklist asking me if I'd like to read or go out instead, maybe eat my vegetables too.

I thought the same when I would edit my list. If we keep them, then give them a real use, like able to substitute for another item on the checklist.

I feel like I mentioned this before but maybe not. It might be near impossible to do, but I've thought it would be funny to do a horror movies that aren't horror night. Using a source like IMDB, movies like Jaws, Silence of the Lambs, and Black Swan don't have horror tags. Extend that to other movies that we've counted in the past and you've got ones like Hocus Pocus, Frenzy, Rebecca, I Married a Witch, ParaNorman, Coraline, and Serial Mom. We could even go the other way and use movies that have a horror tag but you can't figure out why or ones that scare you but aren't really horror. Like I said, it might not be doable, but every September and October, I can't help but dwell some on what really makes something horror and what a thin line it can be.

I'll be a voice of dissent on this one and say I like having the optional items in the checklist. Using the beer reviews as a counterexample, I personally feel like interspersing them within his main list makes it a lot harder to see what SterlingBen actually watched (and makes for more scrolling), while checklists are typically tucked away under spoiler tags, and the optional stuff is at the end. (Not trying to get you to change, SterlingBen! I'm not the boss of you or your list. )

And given that we're talking about optional items, I would think people who aren't interested in them could just lop them off the end of their copy of the checklist in their list post, and nobody would mind/care.

I think this got added as a theme suggestion partway through this year's planning -- a "no wildcard needed" day, for anything borderline or debatable. I would be in favor of seeing it on the theme list again!

Et tu Brute?

I did separate them out one year in another post but it didn’t seem to really resonate with people.

Also I am a bit of a fan of variety in the lists. I counted going to see Evil Dead the musical one year and going to a horror con to meet Joe Bob another year, looking back those are some of my most interesting entries, well to me at least. I guess the lists are a bit of a time capsule for me really.

A spelling and grammatical error riddled time capsule. On a side not does anyone else feel compelled to fix mistakes when looking over old lists. I have to stop myself all the time from editing so that it doesn’t show a recent edit time stamp on a 7 year old list...

All the time!!!

RIP Producer David Giler, a force behind the Alien franchise and Tales from the Crypt.
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A bump for the annual head's up announcement that I plan on posting the pre-challenge thread in a week (Saturday, 7/10), so same as last year. As always if you have any suggestions you can share them in here and I'll carry them over, or just wait for the other to go up. I'm hoping the lack of posts in this thread is not indicative of what's to come in the actual challenge, although that's probably due to the old thread repeatedly being bumped over this one. This thread, well, not so popular.

Anyway, to whet your appetite a sampling of 2021 theme suggestions include ...some cheesy rap songs, shitty film posters, yet another book-related theme, honoring an event that's 100 years old tomorrow, the next step up from SOV, a motorcycle-riding televangelist, an anniversary tribute to a legend and some Tarantino-esque foot fetishes. This year's event is uncaged.

One idea is horror movies that are on the "cancel culture" hit list. Might want to get them watched before their gone!

How about a 'malevolent machine' theme night. That covers a lot of territory. Off the top of my head --

Kronos (1957)
Saturn 3 (1980)
Hardware (1990)
Colosus: The Forbin Project (1970)
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
The Car (1977)
The Lift (1983)
Gog (1954)
Demon Seed (1977)
Killdozer (1974)
Laserblast (1987)
Christine (1983)
The Mangler (1995)

Odd that I couldn't think of anything from the Sixties...plenty to choose from this century too.

a Streaming Exclusive: Between Shudder, Netflix, prime, Hbo Max... many exclusive horror films.

40th anniversary of Evil Deads release

Is the 100 year Anniversary the shining?

Thinking about discontinuing the beer reviews and switching to Pumpkin Spice rum this year... maybe... it would be healthier, yeah? Less calories.

Yeah, but I took it in a slightly different direction that probably isn't expected.

Oy! There's a beer-related suggestion this year, FYI.

Only kinda joking. I have been craving a beer lately. Like horror movies I usually abstain the 4-6 months prior to the challenge.