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Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 17: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Have we ever had a Female Killer theme night?

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls031962008/

Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 17: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

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Originally Posted by T-bone22 (Post 13959349)

Have we ever had a Female Killer theme night?

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls031962008/

Either way I dig that suggestion.

Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 17: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

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Originally Posted by T-bone22 (Post 13959349)

Have we ever had a Female Killer theme night?

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls031962008/

No, the closest we've had is a female directed theme in 2017.

Here's a couple links courtesy of Letterboxd and IMDB, and I'm sure there's quite a few duplicates between the two:

https://letterboxd.com/kjtenorman/list/heres-to-the-ladies-who-kill-female-killer/detail/genre/horror/ (138 titles)
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/...&genres=Horror (130 titles)

Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 17: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Time to dust off American Psycho 2?

Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 17: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

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Originally Posted by T-bone22 (Post 13959349)

Have we ever had a Female Killer theme night?

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls031962008/

I like this but maybe needlessly worry about spoilers; I guess 'female' isn't too big of a clue or too modern a twist.

Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 17: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

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Originally Posted by Chad (Post 13957699)

The Carpenter 'apocalypse trilogy' prompted this one...

Unofficial Horror Sequels & Trilogies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...l_sequel_films (21 titles)
https://www.ranker.com/list/unoffici...els/jodi-smith (15 titles)
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls00389728..._=ttls_ref_gnr JJ (14 titles)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Casa_(film_series) (7 titles) (57 total titles)

EDIT: I misread that last one, those are two completely different things. Here's a list of...

In Name Only Sequels:
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls06270849..._=ttls_ref_gnr (48 titles)

Both added to post 6.

I also like the idea of Continuous Sequels as a theme (where a followup picks up right where a previous film ended); but cannot find a great source on that.

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Some more theme suggestions...

Karate Horror Films (maybe combine with Bollywood or Asian horror if too thin)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...s_horror_films

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls003146633/

https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comm...ng_fu_martial/

Explosions

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?t...ords=explosion

Extreme Extremities (thinking long fingers but that’s limited so may include severed hands and also feet so like also strange/creepy walking as well as big foot and cryptids)

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.p...epyLongFingers

https://www.horror.land/12-creepy-se...nds-in-cinema/

https://serialkillershop.com/blogs/h...ie-spider-walk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bigfoot_films

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego...about_cryptids

Ecological Horror (includes animal attack subgenre +; not sure if/when done before)

https://beside.media/atelier/a-guide...horror-movies/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eco-horror_films

https://thesciencesurvey.com/arts-en...ange-concerns/

Arthouse / Experimental / Psychedelic Horror Films (probably done before)

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls047233174/

https://www.allhorror.com/style/arthouse

Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 17: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

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Originally Posted by SterlingBen (Post 13959740)

Time to dust off American Psycho 2?

Needs the RiffTrax treatment. Psycho II got one but not this.

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Originally Posted by Undeadcow (Post 13960017)

I also like the idea of Continuous Sequels as a theme (where a followup picks up right where a previous film ended); but cannot find a great source on that.

I think they're called 'immediate sequels', at least that's what some of the trope sites call them.

Army of Darkness
Phantasm II
Aliens
Halloween II...

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Originally Posted by Undeadcow (Post 13960021)

Martial arts is on the suggestions list but will tack on that IMDB link to it. Eco was covered as 'Natural Horror Films', and it's due for a comeback as a returning theme as it's only been covered once back in 2010. Same for arthouse in 2012. And 'Bigfoots, Yetis & Tiny Terrors' in 2015. Some of these are under so many different names it's hard to tell what we have/haven't done.

Added explosions to post 6.

For 'Extreme Extremities' here's the long fingers list from the tvtropes.org list since there's no way to link the examples section...
Black Swan
Frankenstein (1910)
The Babadook
Nosferatu
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Subspecies
Dracula
Alien
John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)
The Witches (1990)
Pan's Labyrinth
The Howling
Fright Night
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Shadow of the Vampire
Blade II
Bram Stoker's Dracula
A Nightmare on Elm Street
30 Days of Night
Daybreakers
Van Helsing
They
Vampire's Kiss
Subspecies
House of the Wolf Man
Dracula Untold
What We Do in the Shadows
From Dusk Till Dawn
Blood Of Dracula
Blood Red Sky

And just because ...'finger cut off'...
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/...&genres=Horror (78 titles)

Long Fingernails...
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/...&genres=Horror (12 titles)
Of course Coffin Joe is there.

Will keep this one in maintenance mode for awhile. :up:

Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 17: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

I’m in for a subset pick.

Gialli - separate
Optional - keep

Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 17: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

I'm in for a subset pick if someone can remind me what that is. Is it where you pick a specific movie that fits the day's theme?

Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 17: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

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Originally Posted by Fist of Doom Jr (Post 13960211)

I'm in for a subset pick if someone can remind me what that is. Is it where you pick a specific movie that fits the day's theme?

Yep, that's it!

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Oh snap it is that time of year again, almost. Man do I have some great stuff saved up to watch.

My office shelf is groaning with potential prize titles. ;)

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Hey Chad, I'll pick a subset

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Should gialli be separated from slashers in the 'Slashers / Gialli / Serial Killers' theme and made into its own?

a) Yes.
b) No.
c) Other.

I vote yes on this.

Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 17: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Theme Suggestion: Hooded & Cloaked Figures
https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/...=hooded-figure

If not a theme; also a checklist idea.

Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 17: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Back after a brief hiatus that was extended after a 36 hour internet outage...

16 subset spots down, 15 to go.

Hooded & Cloaked Figures is on post 6 and still working on that last batch of suggestions. I'll be posting all the 'new for 2021' suggestions up to this point in here soon as well as a theme voting date.

We're also a little short on anniversaries with just the two so far. Christopher Lee's 100th isn't until next year. Yeah, I got nothing. Please share if you have something because we'll also be using them as checklist entries.

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So I don't usually start beer shopping for the challenge this early but I ran across this and it looked perfect:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...47b06144b3.jpg

Alas I didn't read the box close enough and:

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...bd878d16a7.jpg

Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 17: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Time to get inspired!

Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 17: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Looks like an opportune time to post this already hyperlinked suggestion that just went up on post 6...

SterlingBen's Fermentation of Fear - Bars / Drunks / Beer / Drinking / Pubs / Ale (1,302 total titles)

Bar - 432 titles
Drunkeness - 348 titles
Drinking - 207 titles
Pub - 96 titles
Ale - 4 titles

Might be a few more alterations coming.

BTW, let me know if you don't want me using your username, just seemed appropriate. ;)

Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 17: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

Me now:

I would be honored.

Edit: (This might have been a drunk reply)

2nd Edit: Rejected personal banner item

Spoiler:

Re: Pre-Horror Challenge 17: Building of the Optional Lists (Themes, Subset, & Checklist)

A couple of announcements...

Theme Voting starts Wednesday (July 28).
Gotta keep moving. We're already at last year's new suggestion number of 25, and that's not even including the few that haven't been posted yet. Those will go up soon. Continue sharing if you have any more. Don't forget reminders are always in the wiki.

Gialli and Slashers are now officially separated!
It was unanimous.

Also added Streaming Originals & Exclusives and Extreme Extremities to post 6. With the former it's hard to add 'originals' from Arrow and other labels without turning it into a boutique label theme, and we'll have the crossover theme anyway. The latter (and others) that have lists compiled will have better links if they make the cut.

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I'll do a subset again.