That trailer for The Hungry Snake Woman was...something.

I have always found that the trailers for movies like those are so much more fun than actually sitting down and watching the movies themselves. They show all the good stuff in the trailers and the movies themselves are usually dull. Not all but it seems the majoirty...at least in my experience.



Here is a Kickstarter post for you horror movie criticism book buffs out there. I have all three that have been produced so far and they are all fun. The Kickstarter for this one will be for their fourth book, Transgressive Horror Resurrected!

Yours truly even wrote the introduction for the essay on Somewhere In Time in the Fantastic Flops book (though they put it at the end of the essay for some reason). Various rewards are available!

Transgressive Horror Resurrected by Prof. Christopher McGlothlin — Kickstarter

Completely forgot to post discussion thread is UP.

List thread is UP.

CHECKLIST CONSTRUCTION

I'm still plugging in the new entries from suggestions, but I'll let you know what we need as I'm updating.

The usual - Every entry from actors to writers is/will be updated with the exception of the permanent rotating actors (Karloff, Lee, Legosi, Price & 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.

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



Select 10 actors:
--- Adrienne Barbeau -
--- Nicolas Cage -
--- Peter Cushing -
--- Larry Fessenden -
--- George "Buck" Flower -
--- Laura Gemser -
--- Clu Gulager -
--- Katherine Isabelle -
--- Boris Karloff -
--- Christopher Lee -
--- Bela Lugosi -
--- Derek Mears -
--- Maika Monroe -
--- Vincent Price -
--- Julie Strain -
--- Tak Sakaguchi -
--- Christian Slater -
--- Suzzanna -
--- Danny Trejo -
--- Recently Deceased (insert actor) -

Select 5 directors:
--- The Adams Family, 2 -
--- Terence Fisher -
--- Riccardo Freda -
--- Renny Harlin -
--- Lloyd Kaufman -
--- Colin Minihan -
--- Paco Plaza -
--- Jean Rollin -
--- M. Night Shyamalan -
--- Koji Shiraishi -
--- Pete Walker -
--- Watch a Movie Directed By a Female Director, 2, 3 -
--- Watch a Movie Directed By a Horror Director Icon (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ,6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Random) -

Select 2 film composers:
--- Marco Beltrami -
--- Steph Copeland, 2 -
--- Penka Kouneva -
--- Alexander Taylor -

Select 2 visual effects artists:
--- Daniel Carrasco -
--- Joe Colwell -
--- Denise Cronenberg -
--- Tony Gardner -
--- Steve Johnson -

Select 2 producers:
--- Jason Constantine, 2 -
--- Peter Block, 2 -
--- Emily Gotto -
--- Head Gear Films, 2 -
--- Tony Tenser -

Select 2 writers:
--- Jace Anderson -
--- Larry Cohen -
--- Gary Dauberman -
--- Marcus Dunstan -

Select 30 of the following sub-genres / types:
--- *3-D Film -
--- Aerial Camera Shot -
--- Anthology Film -
--- Appears on 100 Obscure Horror Trash! list -
--- Appears on 1000 Women in Horror -
--- Appears on Edgar Wright's 1,000 Favorite Movies List
--- Appears on They Shoot Zombies, Don't They - The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films (Random - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) -
--- Art -
--- Based on a True Story -
--- Based on a Novel -
--- Blaxploitation -
--- Candy Cinema -
--- Cannibalism -
--- Cinema Inspired By: Stephen King -
--- Cinematic Titanic / Horror Host / MST3K / RiffTrax -
--- Comedy / Spoof -
--- Coming-of-Age, 2 -
--- Criterion / Masters of Cinema Version Film -
--- Cryptid Cinema -
--- Cult -
--- Death by: Hanging
--- Director or Writer Cameo in Own Film / Film Adaptation, 2
--- Distributor / Studio: Umbrella Entertainment -
--- Documentary -
--- Dream Horror -
--- Drunk Horror -
--- Euro Horror -
--- Enzo Sciotti Art -
--- Expedition -
--- Extraterrestrial / Takes place in Space -
--- Fake Documentary -
--- Fan Film -
--- Featured In: Horror Films of the 1970s -
--- Featured In: In Search of Darkness Trilogy -
--- Film From Grampa Presents -
--- Film From Someone Else's 'Best of' List -
--- Film From Shudder October 2024 Schedule -
--- Film From TCM October 2024 Schedule -
--- Firearms -
--- Fog, 2 -
--- Folk Horror -
--- From a Basil Gogos Painting -
--- Found Footage -
--- Frankenstein -
--- Ghost / Haunting -
--- Giallo -
--- Hagsploitation -
--- Horror-Adjacent, 2 -
--- Hypnosis -
--- In Media Res, 2 -
--- Investigation -
--- J-Horror -
--- Kaiju / Giant Monster -
--- Killer / Evil Animal -
--- Killer / Evil Child -
--- Killer / Evil Doll -
--- LGBT -
--- Liminal Horror -
--- Luchador -
--- Made-for-TV Movie -
--- Mad Scientist -
--- Mummy -
--- Musical / Rock ‘n Roll Horror
--- Name In Title -
--- Nation of Origin: Great Britain, 2 -
--- National Film Registry -
--- Nonlinear Timeline -
--- Nu Metal Cinema -
--- Ouija Board -
--- Painting -
--- Period Piece -
--- Phobias -
--- Prison Horror -
--- Psychological -
--- Quarantine -
--- Random Horror Film -
--- Rape / Revenge -
--- Shot in Los Angeles -
--- Slasher / Psycho / Homicidal Maniac -
--- Slow Motion -
--- Social Media -
--- Split Personality -
--- Suicide -
--- Takes place in or around a lighthouse -
--- Takes place in a bowling alley -
--- Takes place in a haunted house attraction -
--- Takes place on a ranch -
--- Takes place on a marina -
--- Takes place on or around water -
--- Three Installments in a Franchise -
--- Title Spoken By Character, 2 -
--- Trailer Compilation -
--- Travelogue -
--- Vampire -
--- Voice-Over Narration -
--- Voyeurism -
--- War -
--- Werewolf -
--- Witchcraft / Satanic / Religious -
--- Wilhelm Scream -
--- With Commentary -
--- With Two or More Horror Legends -
--- Zombie -

Select 1 from the "Chronological Horror Years Faceoff":
--- 1924 (100th) -
--- 1949 (75th) -
--- 1974 (50th) -
--- 1999 (25th) -

Select 2 from the following anniversaries:
--- 15th Anniversary of WB Archive -
--- 20th Anniversary of Shout / Scream Factory -
--- 35th Anniversary of Tales from the Crypt, 2 -
--- 35th Anniversary of USA Up All Night -
--- 40th Anniversary of The Criterion Collection -
--- 50th Anniversary of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre -
--- 50th Anniversary of Troma Films -
--- 70th Anniversary of Godzilla -
--- 90th Anniversary of Hammer Films -
--- 100th Anniversary of Columbia Pictures, 2, 3 -
--- 100th Anniversary of Metro-Goldwyn Mayer -

Select 3 from the following horror film tropes, 2:
--- The Ankle Drag -
--- The Creepy House -
--- The Cursed Book, 2 -
--- The Maze / Labyrinth Conundrum -
--- The Sinister Conspiracy -
--- Trapped In a Room Together -
--- The Dangerous Key Fumble -
--- The Buried Alive Dilemma -

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:
--- (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 unseen entry from a horror franchise:
--- (insert title).

Watch 1 film from any Alienploitation or Aquatic Horror 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 Tilly or Farmiga sister - Jennifer / Meg / Vera / Taissa -
--- Features cats -
--- Was made in the 1990s -
--- Features a freeze frame ending -
--- Was written by a Master of Horror (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12A, 12B, 13) -
--- Features a music box -
--- Has a scene in a basement -
--- Was shot in Big Bear Lake -
--- Is listed in HORROR! The Definitive Companion to the Most Terrifying Movies Ever Made -
--- Takes place in a boiler room -
--- Death by: Machete, 2
--- Title includes the word horror -

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

On checklist, maybe this is due to rotate out anyway but, may we please change 'watch a film you've never seen before' that 'Was written by Wes Craven' to something like 'Was written by a Master of Horror' since many of us have probably seen Wes' films before (it might be nice to ensure possible 100% checklist completion if anyone is game for it)? Anything to open that item up a bit more could help.
Thanks to Chad for all the organization.
Master of Horror reference link: https://thescriptlab.com/features/th...ers-of-horror/

Now the real fun begins!

And another reason to hate the IMDB. You may have noticed some of the directors, composers, producers, etc. entries have really high numbers. That's due to there being no current option for 'job type', which disappeared after the advanced search redesign. That's why Clive Barker has 50(!) entries when he only directed 3 [feature] films, and they even include "special thanks" titles that he didn't work on. If you go to the main page you can click 'director' under the credits section, but you can't link to it. They're apparently aware of the issue and have been working on it for at least 4 months. So I guess I'll just switch to Letterboxd links for those available because who knows when it'll be fixed.

Yeah, that’s been such a pain since the revision of the website. Happy to hear they’re at least aware that a fix is needed.

I noticed the first entry in the cast section, Daniel Carrasco, is also in the VFX section. I think that might be a mistake? He doesn’t have any cast credits that I can see.

Having my yearly fun of planning everything! 🥳 Thanks for all the work you do! This is definitely the thing I look forward to every year.

^Yeah, he's VFX only. Thanks.

And I forgot to say if anyone has checklist suggestions to give 'em. That goes for anything.

Vincent Schicchi has 10 credits for make-up, including the original Strangers and Bodies Bodies Bodies. Speaking of the Strangers, does Strangers: Chapter 1 qualify as part of a franchise? I think so but I thought I would check.

Some actor possibilities for the checklist (# of horror credits, prior use on checklist):
Frank Welker (27, never used)
Robin Sydney (26, never used)
Sally Kirkland (22, never used)
Tak Sakaguchi (13, never used)
Patty Shepard (12, never used)
Jennifer Rhodes (11, never used)
Silvia Solar (11, never used)
Julie Strain (43, used 1x in 2016)
Adrienne Barbeau (29, used 1x in 2014)
Katharine Isabelle (20, used 1x in 2013)
Traci Lords (16, used 1x in 2015)
Ingrid Pitt (15, used 1x in 2013)
Giancarlo Esposito (only 5 but 2 are on this year's subset list, never used)

A couple composers:
Steph Copeland
Penka Kouneva

And a producer:
Emily Gotto

(And yes, agreed, another effect of the IMDb revamp that I hate...)

Wow. Looking through Robin Sydney's filmography I see Barbie & Kendra Crash Joe Bob’s Drive-In Jamboree! According to reviews it's the fourth in the series with only 10 or so minutes of actual footage shot. The bulk of it is other movies with dubbed audio, like FM did for Corona Zombies. Sounds awful and I wanna see it.

Definitely. It's just a reboot or reimagining of the franchise that's part of a planned trilogy.

Chad, I noticed that the link for the 40th anniversary of the Criterion Collection doesn't work for me.

Christian Slater and Val Kilmer are two options for actors that have letterboxd lists (with a few more choices on IMDB).

Here are some more checklist suggestions:

Actors
Larry Fassenden (Brooklyn 45, Maxxxine, Dashcam, Isolation, Spine of Night, Jakob's Wife, Depraved, Sadistic Intentions, Habit, etc etc): https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0275244/...ttfc_fc_cl_t25
Keith David (The Thing, Nope, They Life, Pitch Black, Horizon Line, You Might Be the Killer, Smiley, etc): https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?t...role=nm0202966

Producer
Jason Constantine (Midnight Meat Train, Saw, Texas Chainsaw, Daybreakers, Haunting in Connecticut, Ginger Snaps 2-3, Blair Witch, etc : https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?t...role=nm0176065
Warp Films (Snowtown, Hush, Deadman's Shoes, Berberian Sound Studio, Kill List, Donkey Punch, Ghost Stories, etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp_Films
Joseph Wolf (Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween 2-3, Hell Night, Fade to Black, Parasite, etc): https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?g...role=nm0937810

Visual Effects
Steve Johnson FX, Inc. / Edge FX (Pet Semetary 2, Species 1-2, Lord of Illusions, Fear Clinic, Blade 2, Howling 4/6, Poltergeist 2, Predator, Night of the Demons, Fright Night, etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_...effects_artist)
Denise Chronenberg (Dawn of the Dead remake, The Fly, Dead Silence, eXistenZ, Dead Zone, Resident Evil: Afterlife, The Guardian, Bless the Child, etc): https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?t...role=nm0188725
David A. Brooke (Dead Silence, Quarantine, Tales of Halloween, Night of the Demons 2009, The Burrowers, The Boy, etc): https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?t...role=nm1583458

Writer
Jace Anderson (Mother of Tears, Tales of Halloween, Fertile Ground, Night of the Demons remake, Autopsy, Toolbox Murders remake, Crocodile 1-2): https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0026829/?ref_=tt_ov_wr

Film Composer
Alan Howarth (cowrote the Silver Shamrocks jingle with John Carpenter for Halloween III, The Thing, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Poltergeist, Gremlins, Planet Terror, etc etc): https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?g...role=nm0397697
Anna Drubrich (Barbarian, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Fear Street 3, Werewolves Within, Sting): https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?g...role=nm4844181

^I was literally about to put Steven Johnson on the list after seeing a YouTube clip of him and his then wife Linnea Quigley doing makeup bits for Horror Hall of Fame II.

And it doesn't look like Letterboxd is always a good IMDB replacement as some cast/crew have some missing entries. For some of the people I'll link the IMDB profile page for the person, and you can narrow it down to horror in the 'credits' section for their desired profession, but you have to manually do it after you click the link. A bit inconvenient but better than nothing.

That guy is a legend.
Really looking forward to the challenge this year.

I'm pumped for this thing to start already. Food Network has started the Halloween Baking Championship, and watched that last night.

I couldn't get either checklist link for Candy Cinema to work, here is a possible alternative one: https://letterboxd.com/colehomevideo.../genre/horror/
Also for 'Coming of Age' here are some alternative links: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies...-horror-movies or https://creepycatalog.com/45-dark-co...horror-movies/

Lloyd Kaufman has 16 horror movies he directed, he has a letterboxd list of them

Marco Beltrami is a composer with 38 horror movies on his letterboxd list.

We haven't done a death by hanging or features a hanging. There are 336 horror movies with hanging as the keyword.

Here's the theatrical, VOD, streaming and physical media titles for the Theatrical / VOD / Virtual Cinema Showing subset/theme thread. As always, the sources used are both UpcomingHorrorMovies and the IMDB since the latter usually has a few the former doesn't. A couple releases from the IMDB don't list specifics as to how they're being released, which might indicate the release date is wrong. Let me know if I'm missing anything or have more information on the two mystery titles.

Down Below
Tue, Oct 1, 2024 (VOD)

Butchers Book Three: Bonesaw
Tue, Oct 1, 2024 (VOD)

Hauntology
Tue, Oct 1, 2024 (DVD)

The Deserving
Tue, Oct 1, 2024 (VOD)

Salem's Lot
Thu, Oct 3, 2024 (Max)

House of Spoils
Thu, Oct 3, 2024 (Amazon)

Hold Your Breath
Thu, Oct 3, 2024 (Hulu)

The Legend of Johnny Jones (2024)
Thu, Oct 3, 2024 (???????)

Haunt Season
Fri, Oct 4, 2024 (Limited)

It's What's Inside
Fri, Oct 4, 2024 (Netflix)

The Platform 2
Fri, Oct 4, 2024 (Netflix)

Krazy House
Fri, Oct 4, 2024 (VOD)

The Forest Hills
Fri, Oct 4, 2024 (Limited)

Operation Blood Hunt
Fri, Oct 4, 2024 (VOD)

Little Bites
Fri, Oct 4, 2024 (VOD)

Haunt Season
Fri, Oct 4, 2024 (Limited)

Frankie Freako
Fri, Oct 4, 2024 (Limited)

It's What's Inside
Fri, Oct 4, 2024 (Netflix)

The Radleys
Fri, Oct 4, 2024 (VOD)

Monster Summer
Fri, Oct 4, 2024 (Theaters)

Monster Summer
Fri, Oct 4, 2024 (Theaters)

Things Will Be Different
Fri, Oct 4, 2024 (Theaters)(VOD)

Subservience
Tue, Oct 8, 2024 (DVD)

Exhuma
Tue, Oct 8, 2024 (DVD)

MaXXXine
Tue, Oct 8, 2024 (DVD)

Slasher
Tue, Oct 8, 2024 (VOD)

The Unraveling
Tue, Oct 8, 2024 (VOD)

Caddo Lake
Thu, Oct 10, 2024 (Max)

Terrifier 3
Fri, Oct 11, 2024 (Theaters)

Seven Cemeteries
Fri, Oct 11, 2024 (VOD)

Daddy's Head
Fri, Oct 11, 2024 (Shudder)

9 Windows
Tue, Oct 15, 2024 (VOD)

Smile 2
Fri, Oct 18, 2024 (Theaters)

Die Alone
Fri, Oct 18, 2024 (VOD)

I Will Never Leave You Alone
Fri, Oct 18, 2024 (VOD)

Woman of the Hour
Fri, Oct 18, 2024 (Netflix)

Children of the Pines
Fri, Oct 18, 2024 (VOD)

All You Need is Blood
Sat, Oct 19, 2024 (Kino Studio)(VOD)

Oddity
Tue, Oct 22, 2024 (DVD)

Cuckoo
Tue, Oct 22, 2024 (DVD)

In a Violent Nature
Tue, Oct 22, 2024 (DVD)

In a Violent Nature
Tue, Oct 22, 2024 (DVD)

Family Pack
Wed, Oct 23, 2024 (Netflix)

Detour 95
Thurs, Oct 24, 2024 (???????)

Your Monster
Fri, Oct 25, 2024 (Theaters)

Don’t Move
Fri, Oct 25, 2024 (Netflix)

Venom: The Last Dance
Fri, Oct 25, 2024 (Theaters)

The Zombie Wedding
Fri, Oct 25, 2024 (DVD)

Amityville: Where The Echo Lives
Tue, Oct 29, 2024 (VOD)

Time Cut
Wed, Oct 30, 2024 (Netflix)

Director's Cut
Thu, Oct 31, 2024 (Limited)

Just went down a brief but interesting rabbit hole for those two mystery films...

Both of them are from Angry Troll Studio. I went to their website to see if they had any info up about the releases, and got curious when the site didn't load. The top google result for the studio is this reddit post. Judging by that, I think chances are pretty slim that either movie will be released in any form this October...

(For extra lulz, check out their Yelp page, with a single 1-star review for failing to produce a sign they'd been commissioned to do. The profile pic touts their "all time high STARmeter" in the 7 millions. STARmeter is IMDb's popularity contest where, of course, the lower your number, the more popular you are.)

ExistenZ had it's premiere in Spain at the Sitges Film Festivel on October 6, 1999.