Tell me about it! I've been looking for la Main du Diable for the past year. I believe there is a very tiny version on archive.org, but I don't think it has subtitles.

Ah, Gobear beat me to it....

I will set the DVR to a few on the TCM list. Thanks for posting.

I have HBO Max and I've seen the TCM, but it's curated titles not live. Not sure if they will put any of their Oct horror titles up there. One can hope!

I secured another sponsor this year: Each prize pack will come with a Shout!/Scream Factory offering, courtesy of that company's reps.

WOAH! Awesome

You da man!

The discussion thread is UP.

CHECKLIST CONSTRUCTION

Let's build this!

First off, I don't have near as many entries filled in as usual, but I wanted to go ahead and get this started regardless. The whole banner fiasco set me back a bit so I'm still working on getting some of the previous suggestions added. I'll let you know what we need as I'm updating. Thankfully we're doing exceedingly well on time, which means we don't have to rush it as usual, and I'll even have some extra time to work on the other remaining tasks as I do this.

The usual - Every entry from actors to writers is/will be updated with the exception of the permanent rotating actors (Karloff, Lee, Legosi, & Cushing). Anything beyond that point that's in red has been updated or is a completely new section. A few of last year's entries are still there (e.g. horror film tropes) but will eventually be updated.

Also a question from an earlier suggestion...

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Should we expand film composers, makeup effects artists, producers and writers to 10 options?

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As always, current progress can be found in the wiki link, which directs to this post.



Select 10 actors:
--- Asia Argento -
--- Peter Cushing -
--- Keith David -
--- Bruce Davison -
--- Patty Duke -
--- James Hong -
--- Boris Karloff -
--- John Karlsen -
--- Cameron Mitchell -
--- Radha Mitchell -
--- Hideo Murota -
--- Daria Nicolodi -
--- Christopher Lee -
--- Bela Lugosi -
--- Vincent Price -
--- Santo -
--- Michele Soavi -
--- Marianne Stone -
--- David Warbeck -
--- Chase Williamson -
--- Recently Deceased (insert actor) -

Select 5 directors:
--- Byeong-ki Ahn -
--- David Bruckner -
--- Jaume Collet-Serra -
--- Reginald Le Borg -
--- Antonio Margheriti -
--- Fred Olen Ray -
--- Peter Sasday -
--- Takashi Shimizu -
--- Yudai Yamaguchi -
--- Brian Yuzna -
--- Watch a Movie Directed By a Female Director, 2, 3 -

Select 2 film composers:
--- Tyler Bates -
--- Les Baxter -
--- Mark Korven -
--- Paul Zaza -

Select 2 makeup effects artists:
--- Franco Di Girolamo -
--- Robert Hall -
--- Yoshihiro Nishimura -
--- Jack Pierce -
--- Brian Wade -

Select 2 producers:
--- Roger Corman -
--- James Fler -
--- Aaron B. Koontz -
--- Travis Stevens -

Select 2 writers:
--- Everett de Roche -
--- Mary Shelley -
--- Kôji Shiraishi -
--- Ernesto Gastaldi -

Select 30 of the following sub-genres / types:
--- *3-D Film -
--- Anthology Film -
--- Appears on Edgar Wright's 1,000 Favorite Movies List
--- Appears on They Shoot Zombies, Don't They - The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films -
--- Based on a True Story -
--- Based on a Novel -
--- Candy Cinema, 2 -
--- Cannibalism -
--- Cinema Inspired By: Edgar Allan Poe -
--- Cinematic Titanic / Horror Host / MST3K / RiffTrax -
--- Comedy / Spoof -
--- Coming-of-Age -
--- Criterion / Masters of Cinema Version Film -
--- Cryptid Cinema -
--- Death by: Throat-Slitting
--- Director or Writer Cameo in Own Film / Film Adaptation, 2
--- Distributor / Studio: Severin Films -
--- Documentary -
--- Dream Horror -
--- Drunk Horror -
--- Euro Horror -
--- Enzo Sciotti Art -
--- Extraterrestrial / Takes Place in Space -
--- Fan Film -
--- Film From Someone Else's 'Best of' List -
--- Film From Shudder's 61 Days of Halloween, 2 -
--- Film From TCM October 2022 Schedule -
--- Firearms -
--- Fog, 2 -
--- Folk Horror -
--- From a Basil Gogos Painting -
--- Found Footage -
--- Frankenstein -
--- Ghost / Haunting -
--- Giallo -
--- Hagsploitation -
--- Hypnosis -
--- J-Horror -
--- Kaiju / Giant Monster -
--- Killer / Evil Animal -
--- Killer / Evil Child -
--- Killer / Evil Doll -
--- Luchador -
--- Made-for-TV Movie -
--- Mad Scientist -
--- Mummy -
--- Musical / Rock ‘n Roll Horror
--- Name In Title -
--- Nation of Origin: Australia
--- Nonlinear Timeline -
--- Ouija Board -
--- Phobias -
--- Prison Horror -
--- Psychological -
--- Quarantine -
--- Random Horror Film -
--- Rape / Revenge -
--- Shot in Los Angeles -
--- Slasher / Psycho / Homicidal Maniac -
--- Slow Motion -
--- Split Personality -
--- Suicide -
--- Takes Place in a Basement -
--- Takes Place in a Junkyard -
--- Takes Place in a Forest -
--- Takes Place on a Beach -
--- Takes Place on a Boat -
--- Takes Place on a Military Base -
--- Three Installments in a Franchise -
--- Title Spoken By Character, 2 -
--- Trailer Compilation -
--- Travelogue -
--- Vampire -
--- Voice-Over Narration -
--- Voyeurism -
--- Werewolf -
--- Witchcraft / Satanic / Religious -
--- Wilhelm Scream -
--- With Commentary -
--- With Two or More Horror Legends -
--- Zombie -

Select 1 from the "Chronological Horror Years Faceoff":
--- 1922 (100th) -
--- 1947 (75th) -
--- 1972 (50th) -
--- 1997 (25th) –

Select 1 from the following anniversaries:
--- 10th Anniversary of Scream Factory -
--- 10th Anniversary of Vinegar Syndrome, 2 -
--- 15th Belated Anniversary of TCM Underground -
--- 20th Anniversary of Blue Underground -
--- 25th Anniversary of The Asylum -
--- 25th Anniversary of DVD -
--- 25th Anniversary of Netflix -
--- 40th Anniversary of Joe Bob Briggs -
--- 100th Birthday of Bert I. Gordon -
--- 100th Birthday of Sir Christopher Lee -

Select 3 from the following horror film tropes, 2:
--- Lullabies and rhymes that forewarn the terror -
--- Characters ignoring all the red flags -
--- Morticians eating on the job, 2 -
--- Toilet-based scares, 2 -
--- The harbinger of doom -
--- Heart ripped out while beating -
--- Ghost towns / Abandoned mines -
--- Ancient Indian burial ground -

Select 4 ratings:
--- G -
--- PG -
--- PG-13 -
--- R -
--- NC-17 -
--- X -
--- Unrated -
--- M -
--- GP -

​Select 6 decades of film history:
--- Pre-1930 -
--- 1930 -
--- 1940 -
--- 1950 -
--- 1960 -
--- 1970 -
--- 1980 -
--- 1990 -
--- 2000 -
--- 2010 -
--- 2020 -

Watch 1 film with a recently deceased personality:
--- Recently deceased list -

Watch a film shot on 1 of the following:
--- Video ,2 -
--- 8mm (Super 8) -
--- 16mm -

Watch 1 title from the OHMC "Favorites" list or the bad movie generator:
--- (insert title).

Watch a movie and its remake or two adaptations of the same source material back to back on the same day
--- Original -
--- Remake -

Watch 1 film from any Amityville, 2 or Bad Shark, 2 movie:
--- (insert title).

Watch films in at least three formats:
--- First format, (insert format), (insert title).
--- Second format, (insert format), (insert title).
--- Third format, (insert format), (insert title).

Watch films in at least three languages:
--- First language, (insert language), (insert title).
--- Second language, (insert language), (insert title).
--- Third language, (insert language), (insert title).

Watch 2 films with similar plots:
--- Film #1 -
--- Film #2 -

Watch 3 films that you've never seen before that:
--- Stars a Karen - Karen Black / Karen Strassman / Karen Lorre / Karen Cliche / Karen Gilan / Karen Allen -
--- Features a character repeating someone else's dialogue -
--- Was made in the 2000s -
--- Features a flashlight -
--- Was written by Dean R. Koontz -
--- Features a foot chase -
--- Has a scene in an abandoned building -
--- Was shot in Argentina -
--- Is listed in Heavy Metal Movies -
--- Takes place at / around a nuclear power plant -
--- Features an impalement -
--- Title includes the word blood, 2 -

Attend a live or virtual event (convention, play, haunted house, ghost tour, etc.):
--- (insert event). OPTIONAL

--- Listen to a horror movie soundtrack - OPTIONAL

Venture Into the Literary World:
--- Read a Horror Novel or Novella (insert title). OPTIONAL
--- Read a Horror Comic Book or Graphic Novel (insert title). OPTIONAL
--- Read a Horror Magazine (insert title). OPTIONAL

I vote no more expansions. I find the checklist to be too unwieldy as is..

Besides Cushing, Lee, Karloff, and Legosi, I would add Vincent Price as a permanent list fixture. It's not Halloween to me if I don't watch a Vincent Price movie.
Similarly (though probably more controversially), I would add Stephen King permanently to the list of writers (even if that means expanding the list by one).

I'd vote for expanding producer, writer, composer, and make-up artist to have more selections. If not 10, perhaps to 6 or 8? Or adding a few permanent fixtures to those lists that have a wide oeuvre.

Voting no on expansion, every years it's fun to think or plan that I can maybe 100% the checklist as it is but adding more 'optional' stuff would throw me off.

[Originally posted this in general discussion but think it belongs here so reposting in correct spot]

Actor suggestions:
Asia Argento (16 titles)
Sean Bean (9 titles)
Bruce Davison (53 titles)
Jake Gyllenhaal (7 titles)
Anthony Hopkins (13 titles)
Dennis Hopper (24 titles)
Milla Jovovich (11 titles)
Vince Vaughn (4 titles)

Director suggestions:
Eli Roth (196 titles)
David Brucker (or writer) (21 titles)
Alex Garland (9 titles)
David Lynch (61 titles)
Jordan Peele (63 titles)
George Romero (200+ titles)

Writer:
Jim Mickle (11 titles)

Ah. I suppose there is a natural pull between those who want to do the minimum on the checklist and want to work in the films they want to see into the criteria -- in which case, more options are better-- and those who want to do 100% of the checklist, in which case fewer options are preferred. I'm still working on the They Shoot Zombies list, so prefer more options that might fit films I'm already hoping to watch in October. But I am now reminded that some try to do 100%.

I originally wanted more options until I was reminded that some do 100% of the list so I vote no to more options for producer, writer, composer, and make-up artists. I would like to see the rest of the list remain with potentially more things added that Chad or others think of. I think the checklist is great right now.

I'm glad to see that others understand the fun of taking movies that you want to see and trying to fit them into the criteria of the checklist. To me, that is half the fun of this challenge. I llove the movies (I must to try to watch 100 movies in one month) but it is also enjoyable to have the direction of the checklist to help mold your movie list. I particularly enjoy the Horror challenge because Chad (with the help of others) is great at changing things up each challenge. I wish I was someone who could do 100% of the checklist but I'm just not able to watch that many movies in October. Maybe some year I will give it a shot or even try to finish it in November. It is something I need to think about.

Yes, it is half the fun. Last year I think there were only about 4 or 5 films I "had" to watch to finish the checklist that I otherwise wouldn't have. Most of the time I can fit the films I want to see in somewhere. But, ya know, it's good to be pushed to watch some flicks here and there. That's *always* the case with the subset list. I think I've watched all of the subset picks every year I've participated, and some of those I would definitely never have been viewed otherwise. There are some on this year's subset list too. Expanded horizons!

Composers: Tyler Bates Don't think he's been used before and has a lot of options. Or Geoff Barrow not as many entries though.

Wanted to chime in and agree with orlmac and jholmes about how much value the checklist adds to watching movies during the challenge; years ago I was skeptical but it's been a surprisingly interesting/enjoyable even if it led me to watching Boardinghouse a second time for the accursed Diary item. Each year I go through the previous challenges for some ideas and find a lot in people's checklist (which gives me a checklist checklist of options hopefully better than Boardinghouse).

I like that I can't complete the checklist just from what might already be on my watchlist -- I think it should be a little challenging, take a little effort/focus/planning to complete. And I also love that -- like the subset list -- it encourages horror-viewing diversity (variety of eras, subgenres, budgets/"quality" of films), and love-slash-hate that it forces me outside of my comfort zone sometimes, to watch things I never would have otherwise. My personal opinion is that the checklist is at a pretty good size/level currently, and I wouldn't be too keen on expanding further if the primary goal would be to make it easier to complete. (Besides, making it larger might in fact bring about the demise of tarfrimmer, who "100%, all unique"s the checklist pretty much every year. )

I'm actually juuust about done with phase one of a little data project I've been working on here and there, involving checklist data. Just have to finish QCing the IMDb IDs, and then I can spit out some random statistics/"fun facts" for anyone who might be interested. (Just me? Probably just me. ) So far it's just the "person" sections of the checklists (actors, directors, etc.) -- did you know that, over the 15 years that the checklist has been part of OHMC, we've collectively checked off close to 10,000 "person" entries? That involves about 130 different participants (there are a few who literally checked off a single person entry in one year), over 600 unique names (including recently deceased and female directors in recent years), and over 2,000 unique film titles.

I'd wager that if we took an informal poll on the difficulty of last year's checklist it would be labeled overwhelmingly easyier, at least compared to previous years. In a followup question asking whether or not you'd consider that a positive or negative attribute it would probably be split down the middle. Here's hoping we can find a good middle ground for this year's.

Anyway, here's this year's unfiltered RIP list. I will remove the under 5 entries for the official post in the main thread that the checklist entry will direct to.

David Warner (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (25 titles)

Clu Gulager (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (24 titles)

Alan Ladd Jr. (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (17 titles)

Veronica Carlson (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (16 titles)

Kenneth Welsh (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (14 titles)

Declan O'Brien (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (11 titles)

Gilbert Gottfried (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (11 titles)

Bo Hopkins (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (11 titles)

Massimo Morante (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (10 titles)

Martha De Laurentiis (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (9 titles)

Paul Sorvino (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (9 titles)

Art LaFleur (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (8 titles)

Laurence Dane (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (8 titles)

Anne Heche (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (7 titles)

Ivan Reitman (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (7 titles)

Dean Stockwell (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (7 titles)

Meat Loaf (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (6 titles)

Fred Ward (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (6 titles)

Philip Baker Hall (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (6 titles)

Lenny von Dohlen (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (6 titles)

James Caan (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (5 titles)

L.Q. Jones (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (5 titles)

Peter Bogdanovich (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (4 titles)

Sally Kellerman (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (4 titles)

Mitchell Ryan (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (4 titles)

Akira Takarada (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (4 titles)

James Olson (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (4 titles)

Vangelis (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (4 titles)

William Hurt (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...2CtvMiniSeries (4 titles)

Nichelle Nichols (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...ovie%2CtvMovie (4 titles)

Joe Turkel (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...tle_type=movie (4 titles)

John Aylward (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (3 titles)

Anne Rice (R.I.P.):
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror (3 titles)


Let me know if I missed anyone.

Nichelle Nichols (6)
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror

Joe Turkel (10)
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror

William Hurt (7)
https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?ex...&genres=Horror

I wanted to add Ray Liotta, but he only has 1 horror film on his resume according to IMDB.

Lawrence Dane could be added to the R.I.P. list. He passed in March.

Also how do you guys sort an actor/director, etc. by genre?

Type in an actor's name at IMDB, click on the result, scroll down to Filmography. On the right is a drop-down box that says Show By. Click on it, then click on Genre. A box will pop up with the various film genres of the actor's films, and you click on how you want to sort them.

Great thanks!