[Franky Family]

Welcome to the official thread for the 2023 Halloween Horror Movie Marathon Challenge. The challenge is simple — watch as many horror films as you can stomach; the minimum being thirty one in total. That's one movie per day for the entire month of October. Post a pic of the movie(s) watched and a summary if you choose to either in this thread or the Horror |OT| by @Explosive Zombie in the link below

Horror movies/series |OT|

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Have a safe and fun month of October, and Happy Halloween!

 

[teezzy]

I'm too busy watchin' Babylon 5

 

[Franky Family]

Never heard of Babylon 5. I don't know how people have the stamina to finish thirty one horror films but I'll try once again this year. Probably will fail for the third year in a row but it's a fun challenge even then. Will be posting in the official horror thread mostly but if I come across any great horror gems will post them here too

 

[Explosive Zombie]

Never heard of Babylon 5. I don't know how people have the stamina to finish thirty one horror films but I'll try once again this year. Probably will fail for the third year in a row but it's a fun challenge even then. Will be posting in the official horror thread mostly but if I come across any great horror gems will post them here too

Just for fun here's my Oct 2022...

Frankenhooker
Brain Damage
Return to Horror High
Perfect Blue
After Midnight
Project: Metalbeast
Within the Rock
Xtro 3: Watch the Skies
The Gallows
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Sissy
The Revenge of Frankenstein
To All A Goodnight
Hellraiser (2022)
Beyond Re-Animator
Sissy (re-watch)
Sole Survivor (re-watch)
Feeders
Legion
Hellraiser (2022 - rewatch)
New Year's Evil
Children of the Night
The Brain
Cameron's Closet
Mikey
Skeleton Man
Monster Dog
The Box
Halloween Ends x 2
Scanners II: The New Order
Scanners III: The Takeover
Scanner Cop
Absentia
Goodnight Mommy x 2 (it wasn't very good I just showed it to my mom on the 2nd time)
Audrey Rose
Hospital Massacre
Slice
Lurking Fear
The Unnamable
V/H/S/99
Deadstream
Race with the Devil
Surf Nazis Must Die
Night of the Werewolf
The Body
Dashcam
Abandoned
Barbarian
Aenigma
Barbarian (re-watch)
Hack-o-Lantern
Don't Listen
Eli
Barbarian (re-watch again)
Watcher
Terror Trips
Breeder
Assimilate
The Outside
The Autopsy
Pickman's Model
Blood Harvest
Lone Wolf
Biohazard
The Unkind
Archons
The Houses October Built
The Houses October Built 2
Retribution
The Open House
The Wicked City
Nope
Terrifier
Don't Say Its Name
Nope (re-watch)
Communion
FleshEater
Terrifier 2
The Gracefield Incident
Terrifier 2 (re-watch)

 

[teezzy]

Lol B5 is a 90s scifi show, not horror @Franky Family

Its good shit, i try and watch 1 episode a day

 

[HellforLeather]

Rewatched this one for the first time in a good long while. Not quite a horror movie but I think it still fits the spirit of the thread. This movie is great and deserves all the praise it gets. Its a bit grim dark but its still a classic. Freeman is excellent as always. Pitt is kind of an unlikeable piece of shit until the bar scene that really brings his character around.

Something I totally forgot is that R Lee Ermey is the police Captain and delivers what might be the only joke in the whole movie:

 

[Zeta Dragoon]

Edit - Moved to dedicated Horror thread.

Action/Horror
The Mummy

Classics
The Mummy (Original)

 

[Explosive Zombie]

Action/Horror
Sleepy Hollow
The Mummy
Van Hellsing
The Frighteners
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Hellboy
Dog Solders
Blade
Constantine
Pirates of the Caribbean (Undead pirates count as cool spooky shit).
Underworld

Creature Features
Godzilla
King Kong
Jurassic Park
The Thing
Alien
Aliens
Predator
Lake Placid
Tremors

Comedic
Young Frankenstein
Abbot and Costello Meet the Mummy
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Classics
The Mummy (Original)

Need to rewatch:
the 90s Addams Family movies

Cartoons
Scooby Doo on Zombie Island

Anime
Hellsing
Soul Eater though more a aesthetic and not quite a main focus. You do have witches as both antagonists and allies though. Medusa is one of the more vile villain's I've seen actually.

Games
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Resident Evil 4
Dead Space 2
F.E.A.R

You did all this yesterday and today?

 

[Zeta Dragoon]

You did all this yesterday and today?

Cool that theres a dedicated thread though, that's where I would want to post that instead. For this it would just be the original Mummy and the Mummy (1999), one of the best adventure films, though it definitly has its share of horror.

 

[OuterSpace]

Double dose of "House" based oldies

The original '59 House on Haunted Hill with Vincent Price.

Super cheesy movie (It is by William Castle, afterall), doesn't actually make all that much sense and it won't even scare your grandma yet, it's still a fun watch and Price is in top form. There's only a scant few 50s horror movies I like but this is one of them.

The original '32 The Old Dark House

James Whale's forgotten movie from his "good period". Fun movie, slightly tongue in cheek, has that nice look you got from Frankenstein-era Whale and you even have Karloff and "Dr. Pretorius" involved for good measure. Super old fashioned, not scary but fun if you're into these and the constant rain throughout the movie has an asmr quality to it.

 

[Grinchy]

I still really like House of 1000 corpses. I dunno why people shit on Rob Zombie as a director so much. I've seen way, way worse movies than what he's put out.

 

[Glittertits McGee]

I started a bit early so @ogrebushi could watch some with me before I head out of town for the next month, so we started on the 29th. I like most horror, but Ogre's mostly a fan of slasher movies -- especially older ones with lots of boob, so we've been trying to select ones that we think will satisfy in that. (Not doing any re-watches yet but plan on some later in the month.) I also enjoy boob, so this is no hardship on me.


Watched
Jeepers Creepers -- meh creature feature. I didn't find it particularly scary; parts were unintentionally hilarious. Complete lack of boobs. 2/5

Psyched by the 4D Witch -- I think this was a project by a 70s film student with very little budget & too many drugs. Actors were escorts, all talking was done voice-over and it seemed at parts that it was a cold read. On the plus side a good amount of boob and even one penis, briefly. Plot was insane. Favourite part was the "sexual ritual with the snake" where the actress is clearly holding a rubber snake and making it "bite" her by hitting its head against her chest and neck. WTAF/5

Sleepaway Camp II -- I've never seen the first one but Ogre insisted we just skip to the second, which continues to twitch me. But regardless it was a fun slasher film! And one that could never be made today. Also, boobs. 5/5

The Slumber Party Massacre -- great film. Written as a parody of slasher flicks but filmed completely seriously, so it has equal bits creepy/scary parts and hilarious ones -- and the hilarious ones are sometimes intentional, sometimes not. Tons of nudity! Killer with a drill! Ridiculous jump scares! Pizza! 5/5

The Slumber Party Massacre II -- did not live up to its predecessor & ridiculous lack of boobs for the build up to the killing. 3/5

The House on Sorority Row -- an early I Know What You Did Last Summer plot. Not as much boob as I was expecting, it being in a sorority. Was mostly okay until the end, when the writers had to make the final girl do stupid shit in order for her to BE a final girl. 3/5

The Initiation -- also set in a sorority and also not as much boob as you'd expect, but the plot and acting in this one are solid. Princess Vespa (in her introductory role!) is a pledge in a sorority and she is having recurring nightmares about her parents, murder, and fire. She also has traumatic amnesia where she can't remember anything before age 9. As Hell Week progresses, a killer is slowly picking off people in Vespa's orbit. Leads to a showdown in her father's department store (after hours, site of her initiation prank) that reveals family secrets and more. 4/5


Planned
Sleepaway Camp
Sleepaway Camp III
She Came From the Woods
Don't Let Her In
The Doll
Blackwater
Tales from Halloween
The Descent Part 2
Teeth
Fever Lake
Hell Night
X-Ray
Nothing Underneath
The Centerfold Girls
Killer Nun
Honeymoon of Horror
A Bay of Blood
The Blood on Satan's Claw
Vampire Ecstasy
Season of the Witch (1972)
Isle of the Snake People
Crypt of Dark Secrets
The Ladies of the House
Double Exposure
Embrace of the Vampire
Arabella Black Angel
The French Sex Murders
Tulpa
Tamara
Creepshow III
Nightmare on Elm Street 2--5 + Freddy's Dead & New Nightmare (some of these are a re-watch but I don't think I ever saw Freddy's Dead or New Nightmare)
Friday the 13th 1--10 (as above, some a rewatch, but many for the first time)
Freddy vs. Jason (rewatch)

And probably more. Will see how the marathon goes.

 

[OuterSpace]

I still really like House of 1000 corpses. I dunno why people shit on Rob Zombie as a director so much. I've seen way, way worse movies than what he's put out.

Cause most of his movies are weak. He's very strong on visuals & atmosphere and I like that he allows his actors a lot of leeway to perform but he squandered a lot of his potential by Tim Burton'ing himself into same-y output within his comfort zone (And the increasingly lower budgets haven't helped). As far as horror goes I wouldn't mind him attempting another slowburn Italian throwback like Lords of Salem. Maybe let someone else write the script for once though. =S

And I still want to see his original cut of ...1000 Corpses. Even if it's worse, it remains a curiosity I need satiated.

 

[HeresJohnny]

Started off with Christine (has it really been 40 years?) and American Werewolf in London (John Landis masterpiece).

Going to rewatch The Conjuring films, The Annabelle series, and The Nun films next.

 

[HE1NZ]

Double dose of "House" based oldies

The original '59 House on Haunted Hill with Vincent Price.

Super cheesy movie (It is by William Castle, afterall), doesn't actually make all that much sense and it won't even scare your grandma yet, it's still a fun watch and Price is in top form. There's only a scant few 50s horror movies I like but this is one of them.

The original '32 The Old Dark House

James Whale's forgotten movie from his "good period". Fun movie, slightly tongue in cheek, has that nice look you got from Frankenstein-era Whale and you even have Karloff and "Dr. Pretorius" involved for good measure. Super old fashioned, not scary but fun if you're into these and the constant rain throughout the movie has an asmr quality to it.

Dark House is kinda disappointing, but a lot of Bride of Frankenstein DNA in there.

 

[Franky Family]

Overall Rating = 8.7/10
Fright Factor = 59/100

 

[OuterSpace]

Razorback. Aussie horror from 84 about some killer giant boar. All I knew going in was that it would have striking visuals, otherwise your mileage may vary. And yeah, generally strong visuals(Some much better than others) and a nice moody synth score but otherwise, not so great.

I liked that it's strangely mean-spirited and you get those weirdo characters that seem to always show up in Australian flicks but I just didn't find it to be a very engaging watch and it became painfully clear their giant monster boar prop couldn't do, well, anything. They try the Jaws trick for awhile but come the ending no amount of editing could hide that they basically had a stationary prop that could only move it's mouth, somewhat. To make matters worse the uncut version is only on VHS so I had to deal with a cut experience too. Still, much better than Dark Age...

 

[Eneru]

I'm (re)watching all the saw flicks.

Wanted to watch them in chronological order so I googled what the best way to watch it was. Rotten tomatoes recommended starting with jigsaw. Don't understand at all why they recommend this one as the one to begin with. He was already dead in the movie?!

Anyway we already watched jigsaw - saw - saw 2 - saw 3.

Jigsaw clearly was the shittiest out of the ones I watched. Saw 1 being the best one.

Saw 1 > saw 2 > saw 3 >>>>> jigsaw.

After saw 1 you only watch for the gore and nothing else. What bothers me is that some of the "players" can't win by their own and rather depend on the decision of the main player. That's the weakest part of the movies.

I like the jigsaw actor. He's great.

 

[HE1NZ]

What horror series should I marathon? I'm thinking either Halloween or Elm Street. Or something else?

 

[Franky Family]

What horror series should I marathon? I'm thinking either Halloween or Elm Street. Or something else?

Hell House LLC (1-3)
The Conjuring (multiple, spinoffs)
Creep (1, 2)
Insidious (multiple)
V/H/S (multiple)
Scream "
Friday the 13th "
Nightmare on Elm Street "
Grave Encounters (1, 2)
The Houses October Built (1, 2)
Halloween
Jeepers Creepers (1, 2, 3 sucks)

 

[HE1NZ]

Hell House LLC (1-3)
The Conjuring (multiple, spinoffs)
Creep (1, 2)
Insidious (multiple)
V/H/S (multiple)
Scream "
Friday the 13th "
Nightmare on Elm Street "
Grave Encounters (1, 2)
The Houses October Built (1, 2)
Halloween
Jeepers Creepers (1, 2, 3 sucks)

Ok let's watch Hell House.

 

[HE1NZ]

Hell House LLC (1-3)

Dumb but has couple of good scares. Found footage tropes always deliver.

 

[Franky Family]

Currently watching Oculus, going to finish it tonight. It's been great, watched 66 minutes and still have 38-39 minutes left so we'll see where this goes

Dumb but has couple of good scares. Found footage tropes always deliver.

I liked all three, but for different reasons. The second HH LLC shifted a bit more towards the kind of stuff that I was hoping to get into. Big fan of found footage as well, first one I ever saw was The Blair Witch Project once it hit cable television and it scared me for years

 

[HE1NZ]

Currently watching Oculus, going to finish it tonight. It's been great, watched 66 minutes and still have 38-39 minutes left so we'll see where this goes


I liked all three, but for different reasons. The second HH LLC shifted a bit more towards the kind of stuff that I was hoping to get into. Big fan of found footage as well, first one I ever saw was The Blair Witch Project once it hit cable television and it scared me for years

Bits where something is slowly crawling in the background always work.

 

[Franky Family]

Finished Oculus directed by Mike Flanagan and the next watch is The Fog directed by John Carpenter currently thirty minutes into that one. I'll give my thoughts on Oculus probably later today in EZ's thread

These three movies will be reserved for Halloween, all of which I've never seen: V/H/S 99, V/H/S 85, Suspiria

 

[OuterSpace]

Two popular part 4's. Watched Friday the 13th Part 4 and Elm Street 4 with some people who never saw them before.

F13 part 4 everyone seemed to enjoy but were baffled by Corey Feldman's um..."tactics" at the end. Crispin Glover's dance scene remains legendary. Still a fun movie; the best F13? Maybe. Shame all the kills are cut to shit. Though with this one the uncut kill footage is available and if I wasn't such a fuck I'd spend the time to edit those back into the movie.

Elm Street 4 I always recognized as fluff but it really hammers it home when you're with people who hadn't seen if before. It's full of stuff that you as a longtime fan have since accepted but for an uninitiated adult, is total nonsense. Even super basic questions like how does/did Freddy come back and how exactly was he even defeated at the end, cannot be answered. Just let the movie do it's thing over a series of special effect sequences and then move on when it's over. =S Still had fun with it, so all good.

And ended with a modern movie 'Talk to Me', which was "fine". One of those you quickly figure out where the movie is going and by the last half hour you're hoping it surprises you with an ending other than the obvious, which doesn't happen. The concept and premise really could have used a more ambitious follow-through. Also, didn't really want to watch it in the first place but was never bored during it, so that's something.

 

[OuterSpace]

Waxwork from 1988

Rich yuppie Billy Peltzer and his friends (Which includes Bobby from Twin Peaks) go to a wax museum where the late-great-David Warner sacrifices them via the horror themed wax displays in order to bring about the end of the world or something wacky like that. Sloppy but fun movie. The concept of the cast being portaled into these wax displays which results in us watching these almost mini-movies is a fun concept that's executed fairly well and the whole thing eventually becomes a giant monster fest. Although the version I watched was unrated, you could tell the gorey scenes were still cut down from something longer and it'd be nice if we could ever see those fully uncut(I'm going to assume they're lost). Nonetheless, enjoyable movie that's worth your time. The sequel though...not so much.

 

[Glittertits McGee]

Planned
Sleepaway Camp
Sleepaway Camp III
She Came From the Woods X
Don't Let Her In
The Doll
Blackwater
Tales from Halloween
The Descent Part 2
Teeth
Fever Lake
Hell Night
X-Ray
Nothing Underneath
The Centerfold Girls
Killer Nun
Honeymoon of Horror
A Bay of Blood
The Blood on Satan's Claw
Vampire Ecstasy
Season of the Witch (1972)
Isle of the Snake People
Crypt of Dark Secrets
The Ladies of the House
Double Exposure
Embrace of the Vampire
Arabella Black Angel
The French Sex Murders
Tulpa
Tamara
Creepshow III
Nightmare on Elm Street 2--5 + Freddy's Dead & New Nightmare (some of these are a re-watch but I don't think I ever saw Freddy's Dead or New Nightmare)
Friday the 13th 1--10 (as above, some a rewatch, but many for the first time)
Freddy vs. Jason (rewatch)

And probably more. Will see how the marathon goes.

She Came From the Woods disappeared off Tubi before I got a chance to watch it, so that's a no.

Have now seen the following:

Crypt of Dark Secrets
Shark Exorcist
Nightmare on Elm Street 2
Nightmare on Elm Street 3
Inseminoid
Leprechaun

(Yes, I'm quite clearly way behind; I have to have a marathon on my next day off if I wanna make 31. Too many distractions/busy-ness in my life right now.)

Crypt of Dark Secrets was a 70s "horror" film about an ancient Aztec (??) guardian who can turn into a snake, guarding over an island in the bayou and waiting for a prophesied one to join her in eternity/the afterlife. Production values were higher than Psyched by the 4D Witch, but the acting and script were only marginally better. There were some really nice tits for a bit, so that was nice, and I like snakes so seeing a bunch made me happy. No crypt though, so that was misleading. 3/5 sneks

Shark Exorcist is about a demonic nun who summons Satan in the form of a Great White Shark in the middle of an inland lake. Absolutely hilarious and quite terrible. Highly recommended if you like bad horror films. 10 crosses out of 13 shark portals.

Nightmare 2 + 3 were re-watches for me. I'd forgotten how incredibly gay #2 is (I mean that not as bad, as in homoerotic. INTENSE GAYNESS). #3 is the on that always sticks in my head when I think of Nightmare so it was nice to refresh my memory of it. I really like Dream Warriors actually. 3/5 and 4/5 caffeine pills.

Leprechaun. What do I say about it? I'm pretty sure it actually lowered my IQ by 10 points. If I keep watching the series I'll probably become (more) retarded. (I'm going to keep watching the series. How can I pass up "Leprechaun in Space"???? Or BACK 2 DA HOOD???? I can feel the retardation happen already.)

Big problems include 1. there are no tarantulas in North Dakota so WTF was one doing in the basement???? also fuck you for making me look up tarantula range; 2. low body count and none of the core team get killed. I mean I figured Jennifer Aniston would Final Girl it but NONE of the dudes she was with got murdered! Just peripheral townsfolk, like a coin dealer and a cop. WTF.

Also I feel like the true story is the Leprechaun didn't actually follow the dude who stole his gold to America, but instead was kicked out of Ireland for being an annoying stereotype that the other leprechauns couldn't fucking stand. 2/5 potatoes.

Inseminoid was surprisingly good, because I forgot what year it came out when I went into it and it's a decent 1960s sci fi horror film. Of course, it's from the 80s, so that's probably why it gets panned so much. It has that distinct patina of "BBC Production Values" over it. Kinda reminded me of Lair of the White Worm though they're quite different (though both still only 1 degree of separation from Dr. Who). But a very enjoyable infection/possession sci-fi horror with the most tasteful alien rape scene I've ever seen. Also shows the dangers of allowing people to fail upwards, like Commander Holly. 4/5 ovipositors.

 

[Franky Family]

Currently watching Horror Hotel. This is the funniest movie I've seen since Napoleon Dynamite in 2004

 

[OuterSpace]

Got a few more in.

Night of the Creeps from 1986. Everyone seems to like this movie and while you get a lot of enjoyable practical effects and Tom Atkins having fun with a hammy performance, I just didn't really like it very much. Comedy was mixed too as I liked it initially when it was low-key with a wink but by the end they were leaning hard into "It's a joke on these kind of movies, ya get it!?" Also Euro Vacation version of Rusty sucks as a lead. People seem to love this movie, so I'm sure I'm in the minority on this.

Night of the Demons from 1988. Seen this movie several times. At least half the movie is filler(More if you're watching the extended) and has a dumb ending but I still can't help but enjoy it for some reason and it's fully Halloween themed, which helps. It's amusing with the demons somehow warping reality to remove the gated entrance, effectively walling the cast into the area, yet didn't make that wall 10 feet higher so our heroes couldn't just climb over it and escape. Still, guilty pleasure, the lipstick scene remains memorable and you gotta like that opening theme which sounds like something from the Turbografx CD.

And then Demons from 1985. One of my favorites and still holds up well enough. A trapped in a single location with monsters flick(In this case a theater) and borderline a zombie movie with the "infection" from being bitten or scratched and all that, except they're demons instead. Yeah, nothing about the premise makes any sense (Though if you watch a lot of these 80s Italian horrors then you're probably used to that), the occasional headscratching scene and a couple parts where the pacing could be tightened but in light of every it does right, those are minor qualms. And unlike Night of the Creeps, this one has a good build up into utter insanity. Fun movie, good effects, great 80s synth rock score. Worth a watch.

 

[Explosive Zombie]

Night of the creeps rules