31 Days of Horror 5 |OT| The October Movie Marathon

So while I was looking up reviews of Murder-Rock: Dancing Death on the youtubes I came across Watercooler Films who has been doing his own "31 Horror Movies in 31 Days" for 8 years now with great little mini-review videos. Here's his highlight video from 2014 (censored nudity, but still NSFW warning).

Now I love Cinemassacre's Monster Madness, Red Letter Media and the little I've watched of Cinema Snob, but I think this guy might be my new fave. I'm surprised I've never heard of him before. His views aren't very high so he could use a little love.

Over the last couple of days I've already watched his 2014 season and have been going though the 2015 videos this afternoon, making notes of what I want to check out. Putting together next years' list is going to be murder. I have got to get Rock N Roll Nightmare in there though!

Plasticine said:
All the Colors of the Dark
Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
Strip Nude for Your Killer
The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh
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Nice little Edwige Fenech collection you have going there. I've been holding off on watching Your Vice and Mrs.Wardh (as well as 5 Dolls for an August Moon and The Case of the Bloody Iris) for this because I believe they're just mystery/thriller gialli and not horror, but I'm curious as to what you'll have to say about them.

I'll have to get to 'em eventually though. I can only resist the allure of Fenech for so long.
 
Ok, here's a list of some of the horror movies I can do. Bolded movies I have yet to see...


  1. Christine (1983) – Bluray
  2. Sorority House Massacre (1986) – Bluray
  3. Girly (1970) – Bluray
  4. Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2 (1986) – Bluray
  5. Saw (2004) - Bluray
  6. Saw II (2005) – Bluray
  7. Saw III (2006) – Bluray
  8. Saw IV (2007) – Bluray
  9. Saw V (2008) – Bluray
  10. Saw VI (2009) – Bluray
  11. Saw 3D The Final Chapter (2010) - Bluray
  12. Tales from the Darkside The Movie (1990) - DVD
  13. Tales from the Crypt Ritual (2002) - Bluray
  14. Tales from the Crypt Demon Knight (1995) - Bluray
  15. Tales from the Crypt Bordello of Blood (1996) - Bluray
  16. Night of the Living Dead (1968) - Bluray
  17. Trick ‘r Treat (2007) – Bluray
  18. Trick or Treats (1982) – Bluray
  19. Nail Gun Massacre (1985) – Bluray
  20. Voices from Beyond (1990) – Bluray
  21. Savage Streets (1984) – Bluray
  22. The House on Sorority Row (1983) – Bluray
  23. Audition (1999) – Bluray
  24. I Saw The Devil (2010) - Bluray
  25. Exorcist III (1990) – Bluray
  26. The Beyond (1981) - Bluray
  27. Inside (2007) – Bluray
  28. The Blob (1988) – Bluray
  29. The Blob (1958) - Bluray
  30. Pontypool (2008) – Bluray
  31. Amer (1982) – Bluray
  32. American Mary (2012) – Bluray
  33. Excision (2012) – Bluray
  34. It Follows (2014) – Bluray
  35. Night of the Demons (1988) - Bluray
  36. Night of the Demons 2 (1994) - Bluray
  37. Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988) – Bluray

Need to find:
  • A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) - ?
  • Them (2006) - ?
  • The Host (2006) ?
 
ThirstyFly said:
So while I was looking up reviews of Murder-Rock: Dancing Death on the youtubes I came across Watercooler Films who has been doing his own "31 Horror Movies in 31 Days" for 8 years now with great little mini-review videos. Here's his highlight video from 2014 (censored nudity, but still NSFW warning).

Now I love Cinemassacre's Monster Madness, Red Letter Media and the little I've watched of Cinema Snob, but I think this guy might be my new fave. I'm surprised I've never heard of him before. His views aren't very high so he could use a little love.

Over the last couple of days I've already watched his 2014 season and have been going though the 2015 videos this afternoon, making notes of what I want to check out. Putting together next years' list is going to be murder. I have got to get Rock N Roll Nightmare in there though!
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I'm watching a few here and there from every season and his production values definitely improve as he goes on. In proportion to that, his reviews improve tremendously in the later seasons whereas his first few are comprised of saying one or two sentences about the film, and then showing a minute or two of footage. It left a little to be desired, but he's getting better. I suppose one benefit to that style of review is that his videos remain spoiler free for the most part in contrast to Cinemassacre's series which tells us too much at times.

Another nitpick is his Creepshow review. He pretty much shits on the film and states that he is embarrassed for the people involved, however the only real reasons he gives is that the tone of film doesn't really work for him despite talking about how the good the production values are. Come on man, it's Creepshow! This leads to next point where reviewing big studio horror films isn't one of his strengths. The best thing he's got going for him is his selection of movies. Instead of taking on the usual heavy hitters from horror he is most comfortable in the b movie genre. I mean, hell, he has watched every film in the Witchcraft, Howling, and Puppet Master franchises. He gets my respect just for enduring the self inflicted torture of doing that. Anyways, thanks for the recommendation, I'll be keeping up with his channel next month. His reviews are overall pretty fun, and I'm sucker for things like this and Cinemassacre's Monster Madness.
 
I want to do another Criterion week of horror/scary films and they have Dressed to Kill listed. May be more of a Basic Instinct type thriller rather than scary right?
 
I'm up for this, I have a backlog of horror DVDs and finally got myself a portable DVD player, which makes watching movies a lot easier in my current situation (living back with the folks has its advantages but private TV time isn't one of them!)

Watched Martyrs last night. Probably the bleakest film I've ever seen.

The Backlog:

Bubba Ho-Tep
Colin
Deadgirl
Eden Lake
Frontiers
I Spit On Your Grave (the original)
Orphan
Phenomena
Teeth
The Woman

Also, there was a thread here which listed a load of weird/creepy movies people have seen. I made it into a list on IMDb. Lots of horror on here if you're interested :)
 
Penguin said:
What are some of the best/worst horror movie remakes and reboots?

Think will be my theme for this year
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Here are some good/great ones: The Thing (1982)--although this is more of more of a re-adaptation of the short story, Dawn of the Dead, Let Me In, The Fly, The Ring, Nosferatu The Vampyre, The Hills Have Eyes

Bad ones: All the platinum dune stuff
 
Good call on Piranha, also don't forget the Hills Have Eyes remake: AJA-POWER

How about Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers from '93?

edit: whoops didn't see hills mentioned above
 
Fancy Clown said:
Here are some good/great ones: The Thing (1982)--although this is more of more of a re-adaptation of the short story, Dawn of the Dead, Let Me In, The Fly, The Ring, Nosferatu The Vampyre, The Hills Have Eyes

Bad ones: All the platinum dune stuff
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I'll add

Bad remakes:
Halloween (TV edit is actually better than the theatrical version)
Fright Night
J-horror remakes aside from The Ring
Black Christmas
Psycho
Prom Night
When A Stranger Calls
Last House on the Left
The Fog
The Wicker Man (hilarious though)
Carrie
House on Haunted Hill
The Wolfman
Day of the Dead
Village of the Damned
The Hitcher


Good/decent remakes:
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978
Evil Dead
Night of the Living Dead
Funny Games
Mother's Day
I Spit on Your Grave
The Blob
Maniac
Cape Fear
 
Anyone care to recommend me a few good, moody horror films, to get me started this weekend? Ones that aren't based on jump-scares but create a tense/eerie vibe, for headphone watching? I would consider a movie like Jacob's Ladder to fit this criteria.
 
Beefy said:
have any of you watched Open Grave?
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Just barely ok tbh...forgettable movie

JoJoShabadoo said:
Anyone care to recommend me a few good, moody horror films, to get me started this weekend? Ones that aren't based on jump-scares but create a tense/eerie vibe, for headphone watching? I would consider a movie like Jacob's Ladder to fit this criteria.
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-A tale of two sisters
-Let the right one in
 
JoJoShabadoo said:
Anyone care to recommend me a few good, moody horror films, to get me started this weekend? Ones that aren't based on jump-scares but create a tense/eerie vibe, for headphone watching? I would consider a movie like Jacob's Ladder to fit this criteria.
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Ti West's The House of the Devil and The Innkeepers are really slow building super tense movies. You might like those. I think The Innkeepers might have a jump scare or two but I am not sure.
 
Penguin said:
What are some of the best/worst horror movie remakes and reboots?

Think will be my theme for this year
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The Best:
The Thing
The Fly
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Maniac
Nosferatu the Vampyre

Watchable to Good, in no specific order:
Night of the Living Dead 1990
Dawn of the Dead
Piranha 3d
Let Me In
The Ring
Evil Dead
The Crazies
Fright Night
The Blob
My Bloody Valentine 3d (haven't seen it, going by reputation)
The Hills Have Eyes (same as above)

Edit: Everybody beat me to it, that's what happens when I reply to pages that I've left open on my phone.
 
I think I'll try to include at least one film from each decade this year. I guess I could just marathon every horror film from the 1890s/1900s (that isn't lost), since there aren't a lot and they're all short - each of those decades would basically be one movie. They don't technically "count" for the marathon, but I'll hopefully be watching more than 31 movies anyway.

There's also sort of a gap in my interest when it comes to horror from roughly the late 30s to the early 50s; a little heavy on the cheap creature features, and those have never really been my bag. I enjoy Tourneur/Lewton stuff and Dead of Night, and that's about all I can think of. So that's a period I definitely need to educate myself in.

JoJoShabadoo said:
Anyone care to recommend me a few good, moody horror films, to get me started this weekend? Ones that aren't based on jump-scares but create a tense/eerie vibe, for headphone watching? I would consider a movie like Jacob's Ladder to fit this criteria.
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Vampyr (1932) and Carnival of Souls (1962) are both sort of pioneers in that "phantasmagoria" type of horror film. Vampyr is a legitimate horror masterpiece in my opinion, and while Carnival of Souls has a number of flaws as a result of its somewhat amateurish production, it also has some brilliantly eerie scenes that still hold up well today. Not to mention it's extremely influential, most notably on George Romero.
 
JoJoShabadoo said:
Anyone care to recommend me a few good, moody horror films, to get me started this weekend? Ones that aren't based on jump-scares but create a tense/eerie vibe, for headphone watching? I would consider a movie like Jacob's Ladder to fit this criteria.
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The Fog is a good one, full of atmosphere.
 
Starting up tomorrow. Sleepaway Camp 3 and Bay of Blood since they're expiring on Netflix. Also watching Texas Chainsaw Masscre 1 & 2 on Thursday.
 
Makes me happy seeing everyone choosing The Blob as a good remake. It's shocking that it didn't get as much love considering what it's Chuck Russell and Frank Darabont who did the remake.
 
What's the deal with The Green Inferno? Is it both in theaters and for sale already? And was apparently made years ago?
 
Fancy Clown said:
Here are some good/great ones: The Thing (1982)--although this is more of more of a re-adaptation of the short story, Dawn of the Dead, Let Me In, The Fly, The Ring, Nosferatu The Vampyre, The Hills Have Eyes

Bad ones: All the platinum dune stuff
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Divius said:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a great remake. I watched the original and remake back to back in one of the prior months and had a lot of fun with them.

Also intersting remakes that are not great but not terrible either: The Crazies, Fright Night, Piranha 3D, Let me In.
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BioHazard said:
Good call on Piranha, also don't forget the Hills Have Eyes remake: AJA-POWER

How about Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers from '93?

edit: whoops didn't see hills mentioned above
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Violence Jack said:
I'll add

Bad remakes:
Halloween (TV edit is actually better than the theatrical version)
Fright Night
J-horror remakes aside from The Ring
Black Christmas
Psycho
Prom Night
When A Stranger Calls
Last House on the Left
The Fog
The Wicker Man (hilarious though)
Carrie
House on Haunted Hill
The Wolfman
Day of the Dead
Village of the Damned
The Hitcher


Good/decent remakes:
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978
Evil Dead
Night of the Living Dead
Funny Games
Mother's Day
I Spit on Your Grave
The Blob
Maniac
Cape Fear
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Jal said:
Well aside from ratings here's a list of 103 movies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Horror_film_remakes
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mariachi507 said:
The Best:
The Thing
The Fly
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Maniac
Nosferatu the Vampyre

Watchable to Good, in no specific order:
Night of the Living Dead 1990
Dawn of the Dead
Piranha 3d
Let Me In
The Ring
Evil Dead
The Crazies
Fright Night
The Blob
My Bloody Valentine 3d (haven't seen it, going by reputation)
The Hills Have Eyes (same as above)

Edit: Everybody beat me to it, that's what happens when I reply to pages that I've left open on my phone.
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Thanks for the recommendations

Going to try to do a mixture of good and bad remakes, and happy to see plenty to choose from.
 
mariachi507 said:
I'm watching a few here and there from every season and his production values definitely improve as he goes on. In proportion to that, his reviews improve tremendously in the later seasons whereas his first few are comprised of saying one or two sentences about the film, and then showing a minute or two of footage. It left a little to be desired, but he's getting better. I suppose one benefit to that style of review is that his videos remain spoiler free for the most part in contrast to Cinemassacre's series which tells us too much at times.

Another nitpick is his Creepshow review. He pretty much shits on the film and states that he is embarrassed for the people involved, however the only real reasons he gives is that the tone of film doesn't really work for him despite talking about how the good the production values are. Come on man, it's Creepshow! This leads to next point where reviewing big studio horror films isn't one of his strengths. The best thing he's got going for him is his selection of movies. Instead of taking on the usual heavy hitters from horror he is most comfortable in the b movie genre. I mean, hell, he has watched every film in the Witchcraft, Howling, and Puppet Master franchises. He gets my respect just for enduring the self inflicted torture of doing that. Anyways, thanks for the recommendation, I'll be keeping up with his channel next month. His reviews are overall pretty fun, and I'm sucker for things like this and Cinemassacre's Monster Madness.
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I caught up on the 2015 videos so I went back and watched a few of the 2013 videos at random. I guess I'm working backwards now.

Yeah, he definitely honed his style with the 2014 season and continues on in 2015. The videos are concise and funny and he has some pretty good running gags throughout them. His continued reviews of the Children of the Corn series that then spilled over into another movie was hilarious. I wish I could write reviews as short and to the point as that. I feel I tend to ramble on.

I really like how he makes a conscious effort to not be too spoilery - though there's still a few things I think he could have left out of some videos. He's good about not giving endings away or just summarizing the entire movie. A problem I find James still has with Monster Madness even after doing it for 8 years. I only watch his videos of movies I've already seen because he's gotten me with the "and then the movie ends with..." too many times.

The 2013 videos I've watched so far are mostly okay, but it is too much raw footage, not enough talking about the movie like you mentioned. The Slashdance video was painful to sit though. He did make a comment about the quality of his older videos in one of the 2014 ones (I think Leviathan?) where he was re-reviewing it because the old one was done when it wasn't really a requirement to be "good" on Youtube, so I don't know how far back I'm going to watch.

I'm kind of surprised he didn't like Creepshow though. I haven't watched that review yet.
 
Mortimer Brewster said:
Makes me happy seeing everyone choosing The Blob as a good remake. It's shocking that it didn't get as much love considering what it's Chuck Russell and Frank Darabont who did the remake.
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Just in case anyone didn't make the connection, the logo for this year's thread is inspired by The Blob remake.

Great movie.
 
I think I'm going with this list. Just going to keep checking off more films from the top 500 list that I posted, a good mix of giallo, and some well-known films that I never got around to.

1. Murder-Rock: Dancing Death (FTV)
2. A Cat in the Brain (FTV)
3. The Serpent and the Rainbow (FTV)
4. Don't Torture A Duckling
5. What Have You Done To Solange (FTV)
6. Stage-Fright: Aquarius (FTV)
7. I Walked With A Zombie (FTV)
8. Onibaba (FTV)
9. Creature From The Black Lagoon (FTV)
10. Ringu (FTV)
11. Witchfinder General (FTV)
12. Martin (FTV)
13. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (FTV)
14. I Walked with a Zombie (FTV)
15. The Body Snatcher (FTV)
16. The Masque of the Red Death (FTV)
17. Eraserhead (FTV)
18. The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) (FTV)
19. Santa Sangre (FTV)
20. The Phantom of the Opera (1925) (FTV)
21. The Beyond
22. Prince of Darkness
23. Lord of Illusions
24. Kill, Baby.... Kill (FTV)
25. The Whip and the Body (FTV)
26. You're Next (FTV)
27. Mother's Day (2010)
28. Blood and Black Lace
29. Hellraiser
30. Halloween (1978)
31. Crimson Peak (FTV)
32. Bay of Blood
33. Torso (1973)
34. Lizard in a Woman's Skin
35. From Beyond
36. Re-Animator
 
My list so far in no particular order:

Cannibal ferox
Cannibal holocaust
Lost boys
Last house of the left
The editor
Hammer Frankenstein
Hills have eyes
It
It follows
Green inferno
Don't look now
The brood
Blind woman's curse
Contamination
The happiness of katakuris
Society
Final exam
Night of the creeps
Nightbreed
 
JoJoShabadoo said:
Thanks everyone for the recommendations.



I'm going to safely assume you are referring to the Carpenter version? Somehow I didn't know this existed. Will definitely check out.
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Yes sir, it may have a couple of things that hold it back from being a great horror flick, but Carpenter sets one hell of a mood in it.
 
I've seen a shitload of horror but somehow nothing Italian except Argento's Dracula, which was unbelievably bad, lol.
Marathon time.
 
ThirstyFly said:
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Nice little Edwige Fenech collection you have going there. I've been holding off on watching Your Vice and Mrs.Wardh (as well as 5 Dolls for an August Moon and The Case of the Bloody Iris) for this because I believe they're just mystery/thriller gialli and not horror, but I'm curious as to what you'll have to say about them.

I'll have to get to 'em eventually though. I can only resist the allure of Fenech for so long.
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Thank you. Unfortunately I don't have Your Vice yet. It's included in the Arrow Edgar Allan Poe's Black Cats set, but it's been bumped to 10/27. I might have to replace it with something else, because I don't trust Arrow to make that date. Not with the way all the other bumped titles seem to free fall down their release schedule. If I replace that, I might remove Mrs. Wardh as well, due to the same concern. We'll see.
 
I cobbled together a list that includes 25 straight horror films and 6 animated films. They're not straight horror but I've seen some people list them as appropriate to watch around Halloween. If that's a problem, I can certainly find substitutes. But for now my list is:

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
5. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
6. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
7. New Nightmare
8. Freddy vs. Jason
9. A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
10. The Blair Witch Project
11. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
12. It Follows
13. Insidious
14. Insidious: Chapter 2
15. Insidious: Chapter 3
16. The Conjuring
17. Annabelle
18. Unfriended
19. The Strangers
20. Halloween
21. Halloween II
22. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
23. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
24. Sleepy Hollow
25. The Cabin in the Woods
26. Corpse Bride
27. Coraline
28. ParaNorman
29. Monster House
30. Frankenweenie
31. Hotel Transylvania

Hoping I can watch most of these. It's a decent mix of movies I've seen and not seen.
 
Penguin said:
I may check the list a bit and watch Nightmare on Elm St today since being removed from Netflix tomorrow

also, here's my tentative list

Divided into "Good" remakes and potential "drinking" games

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UUA_blh_XxrHhZyihQPI5t5y8J6t88-UAHVH3xHNYUk/edit?usp=sharing
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Heh, I was thinking the same. I'd scheduled it for later in the month, but Netflix might force my hand.

I mean, 10pm the night of the 30th is close enough to October, right?
 
Can't decide what to watch at midnight, I'm thinking Rosemary's Baby (1968) to start this thing off. I got no set order for my list, I should maybe group similar vibe films together.
 
Time to bring back an old tradition!

Film for October 1: This seventh annual 70s-flavored marathon will kick off in bombastic fashion with one of the decade's biggest hits in The Omen. One of the few true major studio horror productions, it was also Richard Donner's big mainstream theatrical breakthrough, as well as host to one of Jerry Goldsmith's most memorable scores. While I've seen bits and pieces of it, I've never once sat through its entirety, which makes it a great film to start with, and at the risk of spoiling the schedule ahead of time, makes for a good front bookend for the entire month.
 
Ridley327 said:
Time to bring back an old tradition!

Film for October 1: This seventh annual 70s-flavored marathon will kick off in bombastic fashion with one of the decade's biggest hits in The Omen. One of the few true major studio horror productions, it was also Richard Donner's big mainstream theatrical breakthrough, as well as host to one of Jerry Goldsmith's most memorable scores. While I've seen bits and pieces of it, I've never once sat through its entirety, which makes it a great film to start with, and at the risk of spoiling the schedule ahead of time, makes for a good front bookend for the entire month.
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An absolute great film, and one of the only films to ever scare me ever since I grew out of adolescence. I look forward to hearing your impressions.

Question for everyone: Is Little Shop of Horrors (80's) horror-y enough to include on my list this month. If so, Theatrical or Director's cut?

horror-y, heh.
 
Zombine said:
Kicking off my #1 a little early with Mama. I haven't seen it yet so I'm hoping I find it enjoyable.
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I wanted to like this but the cg ruined it for me, now i've heard it was initially done with practical effects. I don't know if it's true but i'd love to see that version.
 
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