Halfway through October - how you all getting on
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jimb14 — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 01:27 PM)
Probably will finish up tomorrow. My favorites so far are.
The Hidden- Do not know why it took me so long to see this.
We are Still Here - Excellent balance of atmosphere and creepiness with excessive gore added in.
Green Inferno - Not sure why this get so much hate. I thought it delivered. Could have used some nudity though.
Dracula (1979) - Great atmosphere in this one. One of the better Dracula adaptations.
The Penalty - Great performance by Chaney. Not sure it is horror but it is listed as on this site and it is on the top 500 IMDb Horror Board list.
"No matter where you go, there you are."
- Do not know why it took me so long to see this.
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BaseBallZombies — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 07:24 PM)
Not even close yetI'm only at 12 but my Cubbies playoff run and my annual trip to L.A. to visit my brother to attend Halloween Horror Nights have taken up much of my timeI'm going to try and make it to 31 but it could be tough
Some good stuff so farMy three favorite first time viewings are The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), The Abandoned (2006) and Frankenhooker (1990)Favorite repeat viewings include Near Dark (1987), The Shining (1980) and Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man (1943)
You idiots! These are not them. You've captured their stunt doubles! -
lost-in-limbo — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 12:17 AM)
Completed the 31 films on friday.
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls066032010/
So far some good films and a couple surprises, but mainly it's been middle ground stuff.
Faves so far;
Finally got around to watching these ones and really enjoyed them.
Dead Snow
The Boy (2015)
Greatful Dead - Completely agree with your thoughts on this one.
Gutterballs (2008)
The Surprises;
Cat Sick Blues
The Spirit is Willing
Observance (2015)
The Colour out of Space
Lake Nowhere (2015)
I wish i didn't;
Transformations (1988)
Some others I've got lined up; "The Wailing", "Spring", "Horsehead", "Scream Park" and "Neon Demon". -
buffalobenji — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 02:11 AM)
- It Follows (2014) First time view 6/10
- Goodnight Mommy (2014) FTV 5/10
- Feast (2005) FTV 5.5/10
- The Windmill Massacre (2016) FTV 5.5/10
- He Know's You're Alone (1980) ftv 5.5/10
- Don't Go Into the Woods (1981) FTV 5/10
- Cheerleader Camp (1988) FTV 3.5/10
- Trick r Treat (2007) FTV 6/10
- Necronimicon Book of the Dead (1993) FTV 6/10
- Pontypool (2008) FTV 6/10
- 31 (2016) FTV 3/10
- Open Graves (2009)FTV 3.5/10
- Fright Night 2 (1988) FTV 5/10
- Intruder (1989) FTV 5.5/10
- Night Warning (1982) FTV 6/10
- Stake Land (2010) FTV 6.5/10
- The Forest (2016) FTV 5/10
That is my progress so far. Haven't found a gem yet and watched some real stinkers such as 31 and Cheerleader Camp.
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Zombie_CPA — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 07:18 AM)
My focus is Atomic Age horror this year. I've had a great year. 43 movies through October 16th. All first time views.
The best:
1.
I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)- 8/10.
Not of This Earth (1957)
- 8/10.
Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)
- 7/10.
Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)
- 7/10.
It Conquered the World (1956)
- 7/10.
The worst:
Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
- 2/10.
Teenagers Battle the Thing (1958)
- 2/10.
The Naked Witch (1961)
- 3/10.
Corman appears on both lists. 2 on the best and 1 on the worst. I was surprised at how stupid Creature from the Haunted Sea was. It sounded like a fun monster movie parody, but it was awful.
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Schiz-Ke-Bab — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 07:30 AM)
Miserable. I had every of intention of doing the challenge this year, but have just been too busy. Looks like I just get a big fat DNP.
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masuka-fan — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 07:36 AM)
I'm not going to make it. I'm watching fairly regularly but I'm just not in the mood to watch
that
many movies. The upside to this is that there have only been a couple turkeys (one of which I'd seen before, a long long time ago.) I too watched
Greatful Dead
and enjoyed it. Favorite so far is probably
10 Cloverfield Lane
, a great companion piece to
Cloverfield
. I say "companion" rather than "sequel" because while it exists in the same world as that film, it tells a totally different story, and both films can be taken 100% independently. Highly refreshing. -
Hey_Sweden — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 07:54 AM)
Pretty good so far. All I try to do is put up similar numbers from year to year, and I'm pretty much on schedule. I have 25 first time viewings in so far, therefore needing only another six viewings to make it to the minimum of 31.
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klownz — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 07:58 AM)
Tag & Greatful Dead are both brilliant! Especially Greatful Dead!
My challenge is going perfect barring one film "Dark Cat" (Japan, 1991, anime) that was sh!t on every possible level but other than that i have liked every other film.
I binge watched loads of old USA films which has been the highlight so far & plan on mostly just watching Asian horror for the rest of the month.
One downside this year is where are the fooking new releases?- A Devilish Murder (S. Korea, 1965)
- Bio - Hunter (Japan, 1995, anime)
- Laughing Target (Japan, 1987, anime)
- Mermaid Forest (Japan, 1991, anime) < REWATCH
- Mermaid's Scar (Japan, 1993, anime) < REWATCH
- Dark Cat (Japan, 1991, anime)
- Don't Breathe (USA, 2016)
- The Pied Piper (Czechoslovakia, 1986, stop-motion animation)
- The Most Dangerous Game (USA, 1932)
- Strangler of the Swamp (USA, 1946)
- Invasion of the Animal People (USA, 1959)
- Mark of the Vampire (USA, 1935)
- The Leopard Man (USA, 1943)
- The Ghost Ship (USA, 1943)
- The Seventh Victim (USA, 1943)
- The Mask of Fu Manchu (USA, 1932)
- The Raven (USA, 1935) < REWATCH
- The Walking Dead (USA, 1936) < REWATCH
- The Old Dark House (USA, 1932)
- The Devil-Doll (USA, 1936)
- Mystery of the Wax Museum (USA, 1933)
- Black Moon (USA, 1934)
- The Man Who Changed His Mind (UK, 1936)
- The Black Room Mystery (USA, 1935)
- The Cat and the Canary (USA, 1939)
- The Devil Commands (USA, 1941)
- Phantasm: Ravager (USA, 2016)
- Hellish Love (Japan, 1972)
- A Thousand Year-Old Fox (S. Korea, 1969)
- Pisasu (India, 2014)
- Demonte Colony (India, 2015)
- Jail House Eros (Hong Kong, 1990)
- Encounters of the Spooky Kind (Hong Kong, 1980)
- Encounter of the Spooky Kind II (Hong Kong, 1990)
- I'm Sorry (Japan, 2011)
- Empire of Passion (Japan, 1978)
- Body Sob 19 (Thailand, 2007)
- Forbidden Siren (Japan, 2006)
- Nuns That Bite (Japan, 1977)
- Keramat (Indonesia, 2009)
- Takut: Faces of Fear (Indonesia, 2008)
- The Haunted Drum (Thailand, 2007)
- Demons (Japan, 1971)
- A Chinese Ghost Story (Hong Kong, 1987)
- A Chinese Ghost Story II (Hong Kong, 1990)
- A Chinese Ghost Story III (Hong Kong, 1991)
- A Chinese Ghost Story (Hong Kong, 2011)
- Scared (Thailand, 2005)
- Escape from Coral Cove (Hong Kong, 1986)
- Split of the Spirit (Taiwan, 1987)
- Suffocation (China, 2005)
- The Echo (Philippines, 2004)
- The Unborn (Thailand, 2003)
- Ghost Mother (Thailand, 2007)
- Roommates (S. Korea, 2006)
- The Vanished (Japan, 2006)
- Darkness (USA, 1993)
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box_a_hair — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 08:10 AM)
I did 31 FTVs, so now I'm just kickin' it to anything.
GREAT:
31, The Final Girls, The House on Sorority Row
GOOD:
Phantasm Ravager, Murder Party, The Woman, Arachnophobia, Silver Bullet, Sleepwalkers, The Hidden, The Girl Next Door
DECENT:
Misery, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Piranha 3DD, Q: The Winged Serpent, Sometimes They Come Back, Tourist Trap, Clown
MEDIOCRE:
Curtains, Desperation, The Neon Demon, Thinner, Lord of Illusion, House of Long Shadows, Asylum, The Gruesome Twosome, Count Dracula '70, The Night Flier, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
BAD:
Lights Out, Night of the Demons 3, The Witch
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RickyBetter — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 09:15 AM)
I've seen 21 films so far. You can view my ratings and read my brief synopses here ->
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls066581682/
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sdaveak47 — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 12:04 PM)
Really??? I guess it would be boring if we all liked the same stuff.
Other than the insanity of the whole project it didn't have much going for it. Have you seen Savage Harvest? I much prefer that as my people nearly being maimed on camera for entertainment fix
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dolemitesdick — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 01:20 PM)
I rated Savage Harvest as well as Roar 7/10 same as From The Dark (1995)
https://goo.gl/Hve7jp
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Errauko — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 10:24 AM)
I've been doing okay, but not as good as I expected. I figured since I'm unemployed right now I'd really be able to watch a lot, but I have been working on a project in my yard that has taken a lot of my time. The project was at a standstill for a while because I needed my brother in law's help to form and pour a retaining wall (he owns a concrete company, so he could lend me the forms and knew how to calculate volume and set up the pour and all) and it was only at the end of September that he freed up some time to do so. Since then I've stripped the forms, backfilled and levelled my yard by hand, pulled up the last few stumps, created a xeriscaped area at the back of my yard using all the rocks I dug up, made a few trips to the compost dump, built a fence, and cleaned up a bunch of other little things. I may not be working right now, but I've been doing a lot of work. Still, I'm a little ahead of where I would be if I were working regular hours.
The other thing is that I always watch movies more or less in chronological order. Last year I started with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari from 1919, and my objective was to at least reach Cannibal Holocaust from 1980. I reached that goal, but I skipped a number of movies from the '60s and '70s to do so. I thought I could burn through those movies in a few days and then start working through the '80s and onwards, but there's more of them than I thought. What's more, since I've mostly been working through the dregs from last year, they've mostly been repeat views and rather weak FTVs. This is made worse by the fact that I wanted to watch the Exorcist, Omen, and Halloween series in their entirety, but it turns out the Exorcist sequels were all pretty terrible. Working through them was such a chore that I decided to skip The Omen and its sequels for now. I've just started the Halloween series now, and as such, I haven't quite started in on the '80s yet.
Favourite FTVs so far have been An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe and The Comeback. The Poe piece was actually a TV special, but the combination of Poe's writing, Vincent Price's performance, and some good production values in the sets, costumes, music and sound effects made for a pretty unique and entertaining one man performance.
The Comeback was a film from the British director, Pete Walker that was included in a set of four of his films from Redemption Films. I enjoyed the performances and the sense of humour in this one.
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WeAintFoundShin — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 12:33 PM)
My list:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls066029673/
I'm at 29, two more to go, old or new, since I have 23 new now.
Though I always like to go for 31 new, so I've got 8 more FTVs for that.
And then of course I'll keep going.