In progress checklist going up soon.

Working on it. And if expanded to include those not from the same director we can include stuff like 'The Sleazy Trifecta' - Maniac / The New York Ripper / Pieces. I also found a Reddit post with some interesting ideas that'll up the offerings quite a bit.

Only question is would everyone's preference be to include it on the lower section with a requirement to watch the entire trilogy as part of checklist completion or as an optional entry with the 'select 30' section?

Continuing my obsession with randomly generated links - here's the subset entry I mentioned in the other thread using Spiderbite's recently added subsets-by-year Letterboxd lists, as well as alyxstarr's master list.

Watch 1(?) title from the OHMC Subset lists:
--- (insert title). (Master List 2008 - 2024) (Random Title Master List 2008 - 2024) (Random year)
(Random title by year - 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
(Pick your own by year - 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

Three films? I vote putting it in the "Select 30" section.

CHECKLIST CONSTRUCTION

I'm still plugging in the new entries from suggestions while working on everything else that needs doing before October hits currently, so it's going a little slower than expected. But keep the suggestions coming.

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 Strong 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.

The text only checklist tables 2007 - 2024. / Some previously used rotating entries.

As always, current progress can be found in the wiki link (in all three threads), which directs to this post.



Select 10 actors:
--- AJ Bowen -
--- Colleen Camp -
--- Peter Cushing -
--- Sybil Danning -
--- Kyle Gallner -
--- Trent Haaga -
--- Lon Chaney Jr. -
--- Boris Karloff -
--- Christopher Lee -
--- Bela Lugosi -
--- Carla Mancini -
--- Bill Moseley -
--- Vincent Price -
--- Lili Taylor -
--- Tom Towles -
--- Mary Woronov -
--- Joey Wang -
--- Chrissie Wunna -
--- Grace Zabriskie -
--- Recently Deceased (insert actor) -

Select 5 directors:
--- Bert I. Gordon -
--- Gigi Saul Guerrero -
--- Erle C. Kenton -
--- Steven Kostanski -
--- Kiyoshi Kurosawa -
--- Ngai Choi Lam -
--- Patrick Lussier -
--- Takashi Miike -
--- Bruno Mattei -
--- Don Sharp -
--- Jim Wynorski -
--- 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:
--- Simon Boswell -
--- Tangerine Dream -
--- Bruno Nicolai -
--- Paul Sawtell -

Select 2 visual effects artists:
--- Olivier Afonso -
--- George Blackler -
--- Everett Burrell -
--- Roger George -
--- Eleanor Sabaduquia -
--- Randomly chosen from OHMC Guide to Visual Effects Artists -

Select 2 producers:
--- Roy Lee -
--- Richard P. Rubinstein -
--- Jennifer Scudder Trent -
--- Robert Zemeckis -
--- Vertigo Entertainment -

Select 2 writers:
--- Clive Barker -
--- Kuang Ni -
--- Edgar Allan Poe -
--- George A. Romero -
--- Randomly chosen from OHMC Guide to Screenwriting -

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: Richard Matheson -
--- Cinematic Titanic / Horror Host / MST3K / RiffTrax -
--- Comedy / Spoof -
--- Coming-of-Age, 2 -
--- Criterion / Masters of Cinema Version Film -
--- Cryptid Cinema -
--- Cult -
--- Death by: Shotgun -
--- Director or Writer Cameo in Own Film / Film Adaptation, 2
--- Distributor / Studio: The Criterion Collection -
--- 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 2025 Schedule -
--- Film From TCM October 2025 Schedule -
--- Film From ThrillerVideo - Hosted by Elvira / All -
--- Firearms -
--- Fog, 2 -
--- Folk Horror -
--- From a Basil Gogos Painting -
--- Found Footage -
--- Frankenstein -
--- Ghost / Haunting -
--- Giallo -
--- Hagsploitation -
--- Home Invasion -
--- 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 -
--- Made-for-TV Movie -
--- Mad Scientist -
--- Mummy -
--- Musical / Rock ‘n Roll Horror
--- Name In Title -
--- Nation of Origin: Argentina, 2 -
--- National Film Registry -
--- Nonlinear Timeline -
--- Nu Metal Cinema -
--- OHMC "Favorites" Title -
--- 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 a small town -
--- Takes place in a desert -
--- Takes place in a pit -
--- Takes place in a castle -
--- Takes place in a mall -
--- Takes place in or around a swamp -
--- Three Installments in a Franchise -
--- Title Spoken By Character, 2 -
--- Trailer Compilation -
--- Travelogue -
--- Unofficial Trilogies -
--- 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":
--- 1925 (100th) -
--- 1950 (75th) -
--- 1975 (50th) -
--- 2000 (25th) -

Select 2 from the following anniversaries:
--- 10th Anniversary of Shudder -
--- 10th Anniversary of Terror Vision -
--- 20th Anniversary of HorrorHound Magazine -
--- 20th Anniversary of Third Window Films -
--- 50th Anniversary of Jaws, 2, 3, 4 -
--- 50th Anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show -
--- 100th Anniversary of The Phantom of the Opera -

Select 3 from the following horror film tropes, 2:
For entries from TVtropes.org click "Films — Live-Action".
--- I'm Going to the Bathroom -
--- The Ominous Music Box Tune -
--- Night Swim Equals Death -
--- The Haunted House Historian -
--- The Artifact of Death -
--- The Kiss of the Vampire -
--- Quarantine with Extreme Prejudice -
--- The Meaningful Background Event -

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 Subset lists:
--- (insert title). (Master List 2008 - 2024) (Random Title Master List 2008 - 2024) (Random year)
(Random title by year - 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
(Pick your own by year - 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

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 Bill (that's not Bill Moseley) - Bill Obersk Jr. / Bill(y) Zane / Bill Paxton / Bill(y) Drago / Bill Skarsgård / Bill Murray -
--- Features a parasite -
--- Was made in the 1930s -
--- Features an underwater scene -
--- Was written by a Master of Horror (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12A, 12B, 13) -
--- Features a Halloween party -
--- Has a scene with a yacht -
--- Was shot in Georgia, 2 -
--- Is listed in Hidden Horror: A Celebration of 101 Underrated and Overlooked Fright Flicks -
--- Takes place while opera is played -
--- Death by: Electrocution
--- Includes a deal with the devil -

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

Here're a few suggestions for the checklist:

Actor:
John Carradine (hasn't been used since '21)
George Zucco (hasn't been used since '15)
Lon Chaney, Jr. (hasn't been used since '11) (!)
Evelyn Ankers (never used before)

Director:
Erle C. Kenton (never used before)
Don Sharp (hasn't been used since '15)

That's all I've got at the moment; I scanned the previous checklist entries pretty quickly, so I could definitely be off on some of the years that a person last appeared on the checklist. Ankers and Kenton both have limited horror filmographies, so they may need to be paired up with someone else.

And if you haven't noticed, I'm all about the OG horror films this year.

Some cast ideas:

Grace Zabriski (15 - never used)
Kyle Gallner (14 - never used)
Samara Weaving (7 - never used)
Jessica Harper (6 - never used)
James Ransone (10 - never used)
Lili Taylor (8 - never used)
Stephen Dorff (9 - never used)
Kevin McCarthy (13 - last used 2014)

Some actor possibilities:
- Carla Mancini (40 - never used)
- Mary Woronov (21 - never used)
- Colleen Camp (15 - never used)
- Frances Bay (13 - never used)
- Rutanya Alda (13 - never used)
- Joey Wang (12 - never used)
- Alice Krige (11 - never used)
- Harriet Medin (10 - used 1x in 2015)

Directors:
- Bruno Mattei (26 - never used)
- Gigi Saul Guerrero (13 - never used)
- Patrick Lussier (11 - never used)
- Jim Wynorski (44 - used 1x in 2016)
- Bert I. Gordon (14 - used 1x in 2013)
- Edward L. Cahn (10 - used 1x in 2015)

Composers:
- Jim Williams (12 - never used)
- Tangerine Dream (7 - never used)
- Bruno Nicolai (31 - used 1x in 2016)
- Simon Boswell (29 - used 1x in 2011)

Visual effects:
- Everett Burrell (44 - never used)
- Roger George (37 - never used)
- Eleanor Sabaduquia (29 - never used)
- Thomas R. Burman (20 - never used)

Writers:
- Edgar Allan Poe (136 - never used)
- George A. Romero (27 - never used as writer)
- Kuang Ni (15 - never used)
- Clive Barker (31 - used 1x in 2015)

And for the tropes, maybe this is too overwhelming to use as a source, but TVTropes of course has a bunch of good ones in their horror index here:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.p...n/HorrorTropes

Hey Chad, did you mean Bruno Mattei for director? He only has four credits for actor and 18 for director.

^I did. It's fixed. Thanks. That's what I get for attempting to do four things at once.

Yeah, I've gotten quite a few from them over the years. My only complaint is you can't directly link the 'Films — Live-Action' section, which also doesn't let you confine it to horror only. That's why I do the compendium posts in the other thread.

So, I added an entry to the 'Select 30' section for ThrillerVideo that has movies hosted by Elvira. Well, it's a mixture of movies and episodes of Hammer House of Horror and Thriller, and only 24 out of the 42 titles are hosted by her. According to the Wikipedia article she "declined to be associated with slasher movies and films involving animal cruelty".

The Elvira hosted episodes are on the Elvira Vault YouTube Channel and on Archive.org.

Nation of Origin: Argentina

Just caught that recommendation for Tangerine Dream as composers and heartily back it up. Not sure how many horror titles they did, if any, though.

A few more sugestions:

Thomas Burnham - makeup - 15 movies, never used before
A.J. Bowen - actor - 26 movies, never used before
Edgar Allan Poe - Cinema inspired by - because he's only lused twice and has a lot of movies in TSZDT
Scene with a boat - 432 movies
underwater scene - 396 movies

The Keep (1983), at least. And plenty of other genre movies, like Legend (1985) and Blade Runner (1982), for example. Not a lot of horror though. Goblin would be more apropos in that regard, I think.

They did the scores to Near Dark, Strange Behavior, and Firestarter as well.

Do I need to move the OHMC "Favorites" to the optional 'select 30' section? I'm only asking because there's a total of 29 with just two new ones having been recently added from last year. I wasn't sure if people are getting tired of those or not.

Please please please move it...please?

A few more suggestions:

Title includes the word death
Takes place in a graveyard
Includes a deal with a devil
Takes place in a desert
Takes place in a castle
Takes place in a pit
Takes place while opera is played
Stars Linnea Quigley (to complete the trilogy)

Might it work to expand 'OHMC Favorites' to 'watch a previous subset film' or even 'watch and comment on a previous subset film in the subset film thread' (building on Spiderbite's list)?
I like that item as standalone even if it is a little limited.

Chad, any thoughts on the prior Horror Film Club titles I talked about in the other thread?

Chad, I am building the prize packs as you read this. Reach out to you via email soon.

Sticking with a weekend date, Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf was shown at the Fantasmagoría - Festival de Cine Fantástico y de Terror de Medellín in Columbia on October 11, 2024. If you wanted a weekday date, on October 9, 1986 Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version debuted. For something having four movies this is a tough one.

Two more dates:

Shudder 10th year anniversary - October 19th is the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2025 live premiere
It was a dark and stormy night - on 10/10/18 Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida as a category 5 hurricane, one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded

Need some more feedback on this.