This grouping together movies/shows/documentaries/extras into themes is all part of the DVD experience, the collecting, the obsession, the need to categorize...the FUN.

Get some mates round, break out the beer, the chips n dips, pizza. Hold an all-nighter (or several all-nighters). Your collection is worth zilch if you can't share your enthusiasm.

All you have to do is suggest a movie theme night, 3 (or 4) movies of a related subject matter/genre/thread. Only stipulation: they must be on DVD (so don't move to Movie Section, powers-that-be).

Perhaps you could suggest a whole 2 or 3-day extravaganza for the weekend.

Here's a batch of Home Film Festivals for starters...




Rural Hell Weekend

Friday
Deliverance
The Wicker Man
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Saturday
The Beguiled
Blair Witch Project
Straw Dogs

Sunday
Misery
Southern Comfort
?


States of Mind

Friday: F***ed up Memory Night Part I
Angel Heart
Dark City
Memento

Saturday: Identity Crisis Night
Suzhou River
Seconds
Suture

Sunday: F***ed up Memory Night Part II
Mullholland Drive
Lost Highway
Jacob's Ladder


Someone's Out To Get Me

Friday: Paranoia Night 1
Clean, Shaven
Abre Los Ojos
Fallen

Saturday: Conspiracy Theory
The Manchurian Candidate
The Conversation
Parallax View
Arlington Road

Sunday: Paranoia Night 2
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Klute
Rosemary's Baby

great gore fests
dead alive
evil dead
final destination 2

Well . . . I'm a rulebreaker. My sister and I have this film fest planned for sometime this summer:

Ed Wood (VHS)
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Glen or Glenda

Wow, coincidence, tasha. I held a similar FilmFest a couple of months ago.



Ed Wood Night


Ed Wood
Plan Nine from Outer Space
Pie Plates Over Holywood (doc)

There's also a documentary DVD which I think is called The Haunted World Of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (which contains a commentary), which would also be a contender for such a theme night. Check it out.



and similarly...



Beyond Frankenstein Night

Gods & Monsters
Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein

I'm about to hold the PT Anderson Screening Festival here.

Hard Eight
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
Punch Drunk Love

In Appreciation of Takashi Miike Night:

Ichi the Killer
Visitor Q
Happiness of the Katakuris.

For the Love of Zombies Night:

Dawn of the Dead
Junk
Zombi 2
28 Days Later (R2)

Does it matter that I can only fit 4 people (5 if those on couch are skinny enough) in my living room to watch the tv?

Not at all. Just you and a friend - or a partner, or the family - is suffice.

I regularly watch with just two other people. We take turns in picking the theme of the evening. Sometimes - for extra fun - the others have to guess the choser's theme (the first movie is often a red herring).

Growing Pains

Ginger Snaps
Secretary
Virgin Suicides
Gummo

This thread is really about similar movies, not similar DVDs. Moving to Movie Talk.

Great minds think alike. I'm really looking forward to the cemeteries with rug-grass and cardboard tombstones, the flying saucer strings and all the other great special effects that I've heard so much about.

tasha

Thanks for your constructive criticism (which you apparently deleted), but your explanation was incorrect. You're basically talking about movie festivals... these could occur on the DVD format, the VHS format, or even on the big screen. This isn't a DVD-related topic.

A good rule of thumb is this: If DVDs didn't exist, could I discuss this topic? If so, then it belongs in Movie Talk.

Topics about DVD special features, release dates, transfers, etc., could not be discussed if the DVDs didn't exist, so they belong in DVD Talk. However, if you're just grouping movies together, then that thread belongs in Movie Talk.

Lastly, if you have a problem with the way we moderate, try sending us an an e-mail and asking for clarification that way instead of insulting us. I doubt that you'd appreciate me coming onto your forum and telling you how to run it.

Back on topic.

I'm sorry, static, but it is annoying, this constantly having threads moved on a whim. I actually stipulated that the movies HAD to be on DVD to be suggested, and went to some lengths to explain that this 'movie night' phenomenon was part and parcel of the DVD experience. DVDs have allowed us access to movies like no other medium.

I would never hold Theme Nights without DVDs - VHS and Big Screen movies have no part here - and this thread is devoted solely to DVDs.

DVDs are about lists and groupings and categorizing. If my enthusiasm about them fails to ignite, I'm sorry...

I was hoping that posting my reasoning on the thread move would show that the thread move wasn't a whim. Look, people have had movie nights with VHS tapes and film festivals on a big screen (Cannes, Sundance, etc.). In the end, you're talking about grouping different films together.

And personally, I think DVDs are about watching.

And DVD Theme Nights aren't?

I apologised, gave my reason for objecting, and you act clever. Never mind.

Remember this is not just about movies but the extras too, hence the inclusion of a Ed Wood documentary on the Ed Wood Night.

Back to topic. Theme Nights in our homes comprising of movies, tv shows, and movie-related stuff, on DVD.

The Films Of Jeff Kanew Marathon I held back in 1998

Eddie Macon's run
Revenge Of The Nerds
Tough Guys
Troop Beverly Hills
Gotcha!
V.I. Warshawski

Wal-Mart 5.88 night?

I got an idea... How about a Kevin Smith night!?

Clerks
Mallrats
Dogma
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

there might be more, but this is all I can think of right off hand

Femme Fatale Night:

Body Heat
Bound
The Last Seduction

I've always wanted to run a night of

Yojimbo
Fistfull of Dollars
Last Man Standing

Don't forget Chasing Amy son!

As a companion to the Rural Hell Weekend, here's...




Urban Hell

Don't Look Now
The Tenant
Taxi Driver

Boy, I could do this all day...

= Not on DVD in Region 1
= Not on DVD anywhere

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
All That Heaven Allows (Criterion)
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (Criterion)
Far From Heaven

Boating For Dummies
Knife In The Water (Criterion)
Dead Calm
Jaws

Ain't Suburbia Grand?
Happiness
The Ice Storm
American Beauty

1971: Rated X for eXtreme Violence
Straw Dogs (Criterion)
Roman Polanksi's MacBeth
A Clockwork Orange
The Devils

Movies About Movies
8 1/2 (Criterion)
The Stunt Man
Day For Night
Beware A Holy Whore
Contempt (Criterion)

Gettin' Medieval On Yo' Ass
Excalibur
Dragonslayer
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Andrei Rublev (Criterion)

Cinema WTF?
Eraserhead
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Forbidden Zone

Far East Creepfest
Ringu
Audition
Juon
The Eye
Tell Me Something

Is This A Widescreen I See Before Me?
Throne Of Blood
Orson Welles' MacBeth
Roman Polanski's MacBeth

Be Kind, Rewind
Memento
Irreversible
Donnie Darko

Get Your Punk Rock On
The Filth And The Fury
The Decline Of Western Civilization
Suburbia
Repo Man
Rude Boy

Patience, Patience
Satantango
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Decalogue

Cinema Deja Vu
Rashomon (Criterion)
Groundhog Day
Run Lola Run
Run Lola Run
Groundhog Day
Rashomon (Criterion)

Do The Maths
Pi
A Beautiful Mind
Chris Malry's Own Double Entry

Magic Realism
Amelie
Chocolat
Wings of Desire

Strange Loops
Donnie Darko
The Tenant
Run Lola Run

Bizarre Love Stories
May
Harold & Maude
Punch-Drunk Love
Boxing Helena

Red
Don't Look Now
Marnie
The Sixth Sense

The Stitches of Time (unpicked)
The Sticky Fingers of Time
12 Monkeys
Irreversible
Following

Death's Dark Design
Final Destination 1 & 2
The Omen