The "Horror Movie Challenge"

[Ezee E]

Cool thing on Facebook that can work for all of us here. Just share which movie applies for the day!

Feel free to catch up as needed.

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[Ezee E]

OCTOBER 1st - THE SHINING
OCTOBER 2nd - CUJO
OCTOER 3rd - PHANTOMS

and now, for OCTOBER 4th - SNOWBEAST (1977)
A Colorado ski resort is besieged by a sub-human beast that commits brutal murders on the slopes.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/X2otpDfQouI/maxresdefault.jpg
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/scifichannel/images/b/b2/Snow_Beast.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180215232503

[MadMan]

1. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
2. Manhunter (1986)
3. The Crazies (2010) kind of counts. Not too many horror films made in Iowa. Or movies in general.
4. Um...n/a for now.
5. American Psycho (2000)
6. Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)

[Ezee E]

OCTOBER 5th - THE BABADOOK
Horror movie directed by a female
https://plotandtheme.files.wordpress.c om/2015/09/babadook.jpg?w=1400


OCTOBER 6th - The Devil's Rejects
Horror movie with clowns
https://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/images/Spalding-President.jpg

[Skitch]

I'll do this next year. Already had a plan this year though. This is fun!

[transmogrifier]

I'll do this next year. Already had a plan this year though. This is fun!

Same here. Mine is to be swamped with work and spend my time envying having the work-life balance to watch a movie a day.

[Skitch]

Same here. Mine is to be swamped with work and spend my time envying having the work-life balance to watch a movie a day.

Its easy dude! Just skip sleep! I've been working 50+ weeks lately, chasing kids and sports, and still fitting in almost 2 a day.

I am really, really tired.

[Winston*]

Same here. Mine is to be swamped with work and spend my time envying having the work-life balance to watch a movie a day.

Not sure I've watched more than 5 movies at home this year.

[Ezee E]

I'm not watching any of these, mind you. Just playing along cause its fun.

[transmogrifier]

Its easy dude! Just skip sleep! I've been working 50+ weeks lately, chasing kids and sports, and still fitting in almost 2 a day.

I am really, really tired.

Seriously, when I'm genuinely tired, trying to watch a movie puts me to sleep immediately. And I've found it is action sequences that do it faster.

[transmogrifier]

Not sure I've watched more than 5 movies at home this year.

As a primary school teacher, I'm surprised you've managed five.

[Ezee E]

OCTOBER 7th - HORROR COMEDY
Gremlins 2: The New Batch

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[Spinal]

What I would watch if I were doing this:

Favorite: The Vanishing
Year I was born: The Wicker Man
Set in the state I was born: Phantasm
Features regional cryptids: Incident at Loch Ness
Female director: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Clowns: Poltergeist
Horror Comedy: Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn
Adapted from a Book: The Shining

[Dukefrukem]

My list if I were doing this

1. John Carpenter’s the Thing
2. Firestarter
3. Lords of Salem
4. Tremors
5. American Psycho
6. Killer Clowns from Outter Space
7. Cabin in the Woods
8. 30 Days of Night
9. I saw the Devil
10. Stung
11. The Howling
12. The Mangler
13. Children of the Damned
14. Army of Darkness
15. PASS!!!!!!!!!!
16. Marrowbone
17. Pyewacket
18. Southbound
19. April Fools Day
20. Dolls
21. Pandorum
22. Night of the Living Dead
23. Trick R Treat
24. Slender Man
25. PASS!!!!!!!!!!
26. Maniac
27. Maniac
28. High Tension
29. Backcountry
30. The Ruins
31. Halloween III: Season of the Witch

[transmogrifier]

For me (not necessarily the best film in each category, but the one I would most want to sit down and watch right now). I have tried to restrict it only to movies I have seen before (except the two *)

Favorite: Battle Royale
Year I was born: House
Set in the country I was born: Brain Dead
Features regional cryptids: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Female director: Near Dark
Clowns: Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Horror Comedy: Gremlins 2
Adapted from a Book: Audition
Serial/masked killer: Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Insects/pest: Arachnophobia
Werewolves: What We Do in the Shadows
Technology gone wrong: Pulse
Killer kiddos: Joshua
Romantic horror: Don't Look Now
Found footage: Paranormal Activity
Haunting or possession: Hereditary
Never seen before: The Slumber Party Massacre*
Vampires: Thirst
Holiday horror: Black Christmas
Killer dolls: Child's Play
Sci-fi horror: Coherence
B&W: The Innocents
Anthology: Three... Extremes
<20% RT: The Wicker Man*
Zombies: Seoul Station
Remake: Dawn of the Dead
Original: Dawn of the Dead
Foreign: Bedeviled
Killer animals: Jaws
Nature gets revenge: Final Destination II
"Halloween" in title: Halloween (1978)

[Spinal]

Features a serial killer or masked killer: seems like a good place to add Halloween.

[dreamdead]

Not sure where I'd place it in the challenge, but we watched Terrifier late last week, after the trailer made the killer come off as legitimately unnerving. And honestly, the actor playing Art the Clown--a professional mime--imbues the silent character with real discomfort. Unfortunately, the film never bothers to invest us in any of the female leads, who all have the flattest of one-dimensional traits and then suffer through some absolute brutality, with the script moving us across characters without any real purpose. There's an almost-Psycho moment where the film resets our protagonist, but it doesn't come off as a helpful move, and instead feels like a decent short that's pushed to (barely) feature length (which I think it was).

[Ezee E]

OCTOBER 8th: Adapted from a book or graphic novel
https://horrornews.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/From-Hell-2001-movie-The-Hughes-Brothers-2.jpg

I remember really digging this at one point. I have a feeling a revisit would not be a good thing.

[Ezee E]

OCTOBER 9th:
Features a serial killer or masked killer

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-YJPDfpgs-w/maxresdefault.jpg

Can this be considered horror?

[Ezee E]

OCTOBER 10th:
Features insects or pests

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One of my faves as a kid. The end scene with a massive spider taking on Jeff Daniels could only be enjoyable to a kid, right?

[Winston*]

OCTOBER 8th: Adapted from a book or graphic novel
https://horrornews.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/From-Hell-2001-movie-The-Hughes-Brothers-2.jpg

I remember really digging this at one point. I have a feeling a revisit would not be a good thing.

It's bad. Great comic though.

[Dead & Messed Up]

OCTOBER 8th: Adapted from a book or graphic novel
https://horrornews.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/From-Hell-2001-movie-The-Hughes-Brothers-2.jpg

I remember really digging this at one point. I have a feeling a revisit would not be a good thing.

I saw it before I read the graphic novel, and it seemed... fine?

Then I read the graphic novel, which is one of the best comics ever written.

So it may be best to leave well enough alone...

...and watch Craven's Swamp Thing instead!

[Dukefrukem]

Oh was I supposed to post a movie daily? and not my list all at once?

[Spinal]

Insects/Pests: The Fly

Either one, I suppose.

[Ezee E]

Oh was I supposed to post a movie daily? and not my list all at once?

Daily opens up for discussion I guess.

[Ezee E]

With that, has anyone watched Arachnophobia in adulthood? Everyone that I've enjoyed it with hasn't seen it pre-2000 basically.

Just picturing a full movie climax with a spider seems funny now.

[Skitch]

With that, has anyone watched Arachnophobia in adulthood? Everyone that I've enjoyed it with hasn't seen it pre-2000 basically.

Just picturing a full movie climax with a spider seems funny now.

Showed it to my 13-year-old on blu-ray. Serves her right for smack talking horror movies. She got real quite towards the end of it :D.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Favorite: Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Year of Birth: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
State of Birth: The Crazies (Iowa) (2010)
Cryptid: Beneath (2013)
Female-Directed: Near Dark (1987)
Clowns: IT (2017)
Horror-Com: Evil Dead II (1987)
Adaptation: The Innocents (1961)
Serial Killer: Halloween (1980) or The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Insects/Pests: The Fly (1986)

Thereabouts, anyway.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Werewolf: The Howling (1981)

[My favorites are American and Wolf Man, the latter mostly for Claude Rains, so this one would be due for a rewatch out of all of them.]

[Peng]

Catching up:

Favorite: Alien (1979)
Year of Birth: Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Country of Birth: Laddaland (Thailand) (2011)
Cryptid: Troll Hunter (2010)
Female-Directed: Pet Sematary (1989)
Clowns: Poltergeist (1982)
Horror-Com: Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2010)
Adaptation: Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Serial Killer: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Insects/Pests: The Fly (1986)
Werewolves: An American Werewolf in London (1981)

And today, technology gone wrong: Pulse (2001), which I suspect I will like even better today than I mildly did back then, but I remember having to pause the screen a couple of times in a scene where someone is looking at a screen which shows a spooky figure stumbling closer and closer.

[transmogrifier]

And today, technology gone wrong: Pulse (2001), which I suspect I will like even better today than I mildly did back then, but I remember having to pause the screen a couple of times in a scene where someone is looking at a screen which shows a spooky figure stumbling closer and closer.

Enjoy! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0FTKqEnGKI)

[Spinal]

Werewolves: An American Werewolf in London
Technology Gone Wrong: Ringu

[Dead & Messed Up]

I'd say Pulse, but I'm gonna zag and ask a question:

Do any of you consider The Terminator to be a horror film (in whole or in part)? I always slot it away as "action," but there's a lot of horror style to its Michael Myers implacability.

[Ezee E]

October 11th - Features werewolves
Dog Soldiers
https://bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/dog-soldiers-1311.jpg

I've realized I actually don't like a single werewolf movie.

[Ezee E]

October 12th - Technology Gone Wrong
The Lawnmower Man

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I think this is something that could be remade and would actually work.

[Dukefrukem]

October 12th - Technology Gone Wrong
The Lawnmower Man

http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/17/03/640x320/landscape-1484918424-the-lawnmower-man-4-new-line-cinema.jpg

I think this is something that could be remade and would actually work.

AGREED!

[Skitch]

I've realized I actually don't like a single werewolf movie.

Not even American Werewolf in London?

I also would love a remake of Lawnmower Man, and with King remakes being all hot shit right now I don't think thats impossible.

[transmogrifier]

There are no good werewolf movies.

[Dead & Messed Up]

There are no good werewolf movies.

It's that kind of no-frills absolutism that makes for riveting film discussion. ;)

I've liked most of the werewolf movies I've seen.

An American Werewolf in London, The Howling, The Wolf Man, Dog Soldiers, Ginger Snaps. Heck, I even though that Wolf flick with Jack Nicholson had its merits, as did Werewolf of London. AAWiL is my favorite; I really latched onto the combination of genuine suspense, schlock silliness, and melancholy. That's the kind of mix I'd like to be able to write.

Teen Wolf was lame, a waste of a decent premise. Some people go to bat for Silver Bullet, but I don't think its cornball silliness quite makes up for how dull it is otherwise. The Underworld flicks and Van Helsing sucked.

That's been my experience with werewolves.

[Spinal]

Maybe he meant there are no good movies with a predominantly werewolf artistic team.

[transmogrifier]

AAWIL and The Howling are two of the most overrated horror movies of all time, Dog Soldiers was bland. Everything else I have seen that has been centered around werewolves has sucked. That's the reason why I chose What We Do in the Shadows, a vampire movie, for the werewolf category. Because it is (a) contains werewolves for a couple of scenes and (b) doesn't suck.

[transmogrifier]

Maybe he meant there are no good movies with a predominantly werewolf artistic team.

Well, I can't speak to that. Did Robin Williams, Hugh Jackman, Zach Galifianakis and Dan Hedaya ever make a movie together?

[Peng]

Enjoy! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0FTKqEnGKI)

Eeeeeek! But watching this I must have conflated two scenes together, this and one other that involves a character actually looking at a screen. It's been more than a decade.

[Peng]

October 13th (killer kids) - Village of the Damned (1960)

The kids in this are absolute creepfests -- right down to even when they are toddlers. Kudos to the casting team for making this such a shivery good time.

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[Ezee E]

Even American Werewolf in London I don't like.

Maybe it's because it feels like the same story many a times, and the makeup/transformation is generally pretty awful. Dog Soldiers being a great example. I've never really believed any of the changes and I've never really cared for the old lore of it either. It's very much like Gremlins 2 where people make fun of the logic of the Gremlins.

[TGM]

ITT, people who clearly didn’t like Breathe. >_>

[Grouchy]

There are plenty of good werewolf movies. All of those mentioned and the Hammer and Universal films are pretty solid, too. There's a pretty weird but interesting one called Wolfen, too.

EDIT: Oooooh and In the Company of Wolves.

[Skitch]

I really like Joe Johnston's The Wolfman.

[Spinal]

Killer Kiddos: The Exorcist

[Ezee E]

Saturday, October 13th - Killer Kiddos
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/let-the-right-one-in-1024x576.jpg?quality=95


Sunday, October 14th - Romantic Horror
THIRST
https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/wire/legacy/images/Thirst_onesheet_thumb2.jpg

[Ezee E]

On the other end, I apparently really like vampire lore and stories.

[Spinal]

Romantic Horror: Let the Right One In

[Dukefrukem]

Romantic horror: Army of Darkness :)

[Peng]

October 14th (Romantic horror) - Spring (2014)

A sprinkle of horror images and chills here and there, but it's first and foremost a romance, kind of a supernatural Before Sunrise.

https://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/9700/SS.spring.jpg

[Spinal]

Found Footage: The Blair Witch Project

Obvious choice, but I still have affection for this one.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Killer Kids: The Bad Seed

Romantic Horror: Bride of Frankenstein

Found-Footage Horror: REC

[transmogrifier]

Found Footage: The Blair Witch Project

Obvious choice, but I still have affection for this one.

Oh, I hate that movie. So bad.

[Dukefrukem]

Oh, I hate that movie. So bad.

Curious, did you see in theaters?

[Skitch]

I know I'm fairly alone, but I dig all the blair witch movies.

[transmogrifier]

Curious, did you see in theaters?

Yes. Rewatched it last year at home. Still shrill, annoying, amateurish and more crucially not scary

[Dead & Messed Up]

REC is one of the few films in the past 10-15 years to really, seriously creep me out. I can think of only a couple others, and most of them are cult movies. The Invitation, Kill List, "Safe Haven." Something about people who have total faith in the inane really gets to me.

[Ezee E]

Monday, October 15th - Found footage film
BLAIR WITCH (not Blair Witch Project)

Tuesday, October 16th - Based on a haunting or possession
EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE



All Exorcism movies are more or less the same at this point, but I usually enjoy them unless they're just overloaded with jump scares.

[Dukefrukem]

REC is one of the few films in the past 10-15 years to really, seriously creep me out. I can think of only a couple others, and most of them are cult movies. The Invitation, Kill List, "Safe Haven." Something about people who have total faith in the inane really gets to me.

It's also one of the few movies where the American remake is of equal quality. Let the Right One in also comes to mind.

[transmogrifier]

The Ring (US) is better than the Japanese version, The Departed is better than Infernal Affairs, Vanilla Sky > Open Your Eyes. That's all I've got.

[Dukefrukem]

I have a deep hatred for the Ring, but I saw the American version before the original. I hated the ending to that movie so much.

[Grouchy]

Of all the remakes mentioned only The Departed is better. In every other case the original is clearly superior.

[Spinal]

Haunting or Possession: Hausu
Haven't Seen Before: I think my most egregious unseen horror is the 70s remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers

[Morris Schæffer]

Yes. Rewatched it last year at home. Still shrill, annoying, amateurish and more crucially not scary

Yes, yes yes.

[Spinal]

Vampires: Vampyr

[Skitch]

The Ring (US) is better than the Japanese version, The Departed is better than Infernal Affairs, Vanilla Sky > Open Your Eyes. That's all I've got.

I'll back this.

[Ezee E]

Wednesday, October 17th - Horror Film I've Never Seen Before
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[Ezee E]

Thursday, October 18th - Features Vampires
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51APVD3GRWL._SY445_.jpg

Friday, October 19th - Holiday Horror (except Halloween)
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x8bWLrmk3kE/maxresdefault.jpg lol.

[Spinal]

Holiday Horror: April Fool's Day

[Dead & Messed Up]

Based on a haunting or possession: The Conjuring Part II (I assume this means based on a documented haunting/possession)

Never seen: The Phantom Carriage

Vampire: Nosferatu (1922)

Holiday (not Halloween): I've never seen Silent Night Deadly Night, so that.

[Spinal]

Killer Dolls: May
Sci-Fi Horror: Under the Skin

[Spinal]

Black and White: Eraserhead

[Dead & Messed Up]

Features Killer Dolls: Dead of Night (1945)

Sci-Fi Horror: I mean, Alien all day, but also, uh... recently, Circle (2015)

Black and White: I Walked With a Zombie

It's funny how narrow/broad these categories can be. Like, "black and white." Oh, cool, that's a thousand horror movies. (Not really, but you know what I mean.)

[Dukefrukem]

Black and White is so Night of the Living Dead I can't stand it.

[Spinal]

Anthology film? Errrrrr ...

I guess I would try a film I hadn't seen before for this one: Kwaidan

[Dead & Messed Up]

Anthology film? Errrrrr ...

I guess I would try a film I hadn't seen before for this one: Kwaidan

Ooooh, that's a high recommend from this boy. Kwaidan would've been my choice too, and I've watched it twice, IIRC. Even better than the storytelling is just the beauty of the damn thing.

[Spinal]

Guess I'll keep doing this, although I'm not exactly sure why.

Lower than 20% on Rotten Tomatoes: Tough one since I don't tend to enjoy the experience of watching bad movies for the sake of laughing at their stupidity. I guess I've always been a little curious about The Exorcist II and how it went so wrong. I typically enjoy Boorman and Burton, but have never attempted to watch this one.

Zombies: Lots of options, but I'd rewatch Land of the Dead to see if it holds up. Haven't heard it discussed in a long time.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Zombies: Lots of options, but I'd rewatch Land of the Dead to see if it holds up. Haven't heard it discussed in a long time.

It's amazing how watchable the film is, to me, despite somtimes being not all that good. It's fast, its fascination with new kinds of gore gags and "hero" zombies bears Romero's imagination and empathy, and it's prescient as hell. If anything, the film came out too soon. Romero modeled Hopper's Kaufman on both Rumsfeld and Trump, but it's Trump who shines through now: a capitalist magnate turned leader keeping undesirables on the other side of a wall, and fleecing a common man like Cholo into thinking that his good-faith hard work will result in an aspirational climb up the social ladder. Also, I just really like some of those shots of the zombies massing. It feels epic, but also epic toward a purpose, which I didn't get so much with the 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake.

[Ezee E]

Saturday, October 20th - Features Killer Dolls
Dolly Dearest
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Sunday, October 21st - Sci-Fi Horror
The Thing
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Monday, October 22nd - Filmed in Black & White
Nosferatu
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Tuesday, October 23rd - Anthology Film
Three... Extremes
https://niizk.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/saam-gaang-yi_01.jpg

Wednesday, October 24th - Has lower than 20% RT score
The Forest
https://media.giphy.com/media/xsA9iZ9TxQ7Dy/giphy.gif

Thursday, October 25th - Features Zombies
[REC]
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[Ezee E]

Doing this at least reminded me of Three...Extremes and how a different kind of horror can stick with you for much longer than many other traditional horror movies.