31 Days of Horror

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

To celebrate Halloween this year I'm going to try watching a Horror/Sci-fi movie and/or TV show each day of the month. So far all I have planned to watch is Project Metal Beast, Barracuda, Hemlock Grove and a few other odds and ends that are on Netflix.

Any suggestions on what to watch? I'll probably watch a few Friday the 13th movies as well and maybe a few of the Halloween movies that I have yet to see such as H20 and Resurrection.

[jellydonut25]

Last year I watched every installment of the following film series:
Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Child's Play, Scream, Leprechaun, Hellraiser, Candyman, Psycho, Hannibal, Hills have Eyes, Saw, and Amityville Horror

I wouldn't recommend it...but Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Psycho II and III, Candyman I and II, TCM II, and Hellraiser II seem to be GENERALLY underseen and underappreciated.

That's assuming of course, you've seen the first entries into all of these series, since most of them are pretty solid.

[lhb412]

I'm not gonna do one for every 31 days, but I do plan to watch a lot of classic horror: have already purchased the Universal Monster Blu-Ray set and I hope to get the Vincent Price set that comes out later this month. Of course, TCM will be showing some great stuff, too.

Also plan to read some horror comics, some classic horror short stories, and I've already started re-reading Dracula.

[jellydonut25]

I'm thinking of checking out some stuff I've never seen:
Return of the Living Dead films aside from 1.
Re-Animator films aside from 1.
Children of the Corn films.
Demonic Toys.
Howling films aside from 1.
Pumpkinhead films aside from 1.
Cube films.
Tomie films.
Phantasm films aside from 1.
Wrong Turn films.
Puppet Mast films after 3.

So, that's quite a list of films from which to choose, in addition to my regulars (Halloween and other Carpenter films, Monster Squad, Simpsons Treehouse of Horror), some old classics I'm thinking of re-visiting (Evil Dead series, Little Monsters), and some new or new-to-me films (new Evil Dead, Behind the Mask, and though it's not Halloween-y, Pacific Rim hits blu ray this month).

[klen7]

[jellydonut25]

[klen7]

I saw the first Return of the Living Dead films last year so I'd be curious to check out the rest...

[lhb412]

[MekaGojira3k]

I've got some stuff I've never seen that I'm going to check out.
Abominable Mr. Phibes
Lake of Dracula
The Devil Rides Out
The Stone Tapes (TV drama, but still)

I'm also going to watch some favorites, but I dunno if I'll manage a movie a day. I'll try. I was going to try and delve into things like the Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare series but I'm sort of meh about that given I'm on a Doctor Who rewatch.

[eabaker]

My honeymoon is going to keep me from being able to watch a horror movie per day this month. However, every night on my shift reports at work, I include some kind of quote with a different theme each month (for instance, this month it's been To Kill A Mockingbird). for October (well, the nine days of October that I'll be working), I'm going to do a little review/recommendation every day of a little-seen horror movie. So far, the ones I have in mind are:

The Old Dark House
Mad Love
Kill, Baby, Kill
Martin
Stagefright
Vampire Circus/Captain Kronos- Vampire Hunter (I'll do this one as a double, to cover off-beat Hammer vampires as a theme)
Matango

Any other suggestions?

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

Jelly be warned that The Howling series quickly goes down hill FAST. The Howling II looks like it could be a decent sequel but just gets messed up quick. Howling III is one of those movies that its so bad it's good. The Howling IV is basically a remake of The Howling. Howling V I don't remember all to well. Howling VI is pretty bad. The less said about The Howling VII the better and finally the recent reboot had potential but fell short.

[lhb412]

100 plus years later, and the constant blood-transfusions in Stoker's Dracula still freaks me the #@&% out!

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

Started my marathon with Project Metal Beast. Bleh what a terrible movie that I almost fell asleep during.

Tonight an episode of Hemlock Grove and the same tomorrow.

[MekaGojira3k]

I've not watched ANY films yet, but I've been watching some Dark Shadows. I'm somewhere around episode 715. I love how bizarre and clunky this show is. I wish somebody would revive it and add modern day narrative polish and sort of streamline the story arcs.

[lhb412]

I started a bit earlier last month with Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein ("Oh, that's too bad. I was hoping to get in on the excitement!"), The Evil Dead ("Shut up, Linda!"), Evil Dead II ("That's right, who's laughing now?") and my first October viewing was Dracula (1931) last night.

If you've seen Dracula before you can appreciate just how great the restoration is on this Blu-Ray. I wish someone finds the missing epilogue by Van Helsing one of these days... anyway, I like this movie a lot. It gets a lot of flak because it's not as good as the Universal films that followed, but you just gotta enjoy it on its own terms, you know? It's my third favorite Dracula film after Horror of Dracula and Nosferatu.

[Silver Kamen]

White Zombie is a great classic, give it a watch!

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

I might watch Dracula I haven't watched it in awhile I never got to it when I did this a couple of years ago. I should just pick up the BD set but I have a feeling they'll do BDs of the Legacy collections shortly after I buy it.

[jellydonut25]

Does working a 15-hour day count for 31 Days of Horror?

[lhb412]

^
"Well that's gonna cost you overtime because I'm a union man and I work only sixteen hours a day."
"A union man only works eight hours a day!"
"I belong to two unions!"

[Russzilla]

[lhb412]

^Well, it has one sequel (Bride).

They look fantastic. These are movies from the '30s, and as such won't look like brand new movies, but they probably haven't looked this good since they were released. The print of Dracula had suffered the most, so it's been extensively restored.

[Russzilla]

[MekaGojira3k]

Watched some more Dark Shadows, Dracula, Lake of Dracula, and the Abominable Dr. Phibes.

[TreverT]

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

I've been catching up on Hemlock Grove the past few nights due to having earlier shifts at work so I've been trying to get to sleep at a decent hour. Tonight I watched This is the End which fits well into a Halloween movie. Probably will watch another episode of Hemlock Grove before bed then tomorrow start getting more into movies.