Temporarily Ordinary Content has been removed in order to instead host our individual DVDtalk October Horror Movie Challenge. Feel free to join in! The blog can be found at:
Mini-Reviews provided for the Horror Movie Challenge
Because of the nature of this challenge I’ll be writing mini-reviews of the titles I view. I won’t be delving into the extras on the dvd (assuming it’s a dvd, I’ll be watching many yet to be released films) and will often refer to actors by characters, instead of character names or actor names. After this is over I do plan on going back and fill in the gaps with who played which character etc. So for the time being if I say that the landlady was exceptional that doesn’t mean that I don’t have respect for who played the landlady or her name, it simple means that in the moment that I was writing the mini-review I wasn’t taking the time to look up the facts.
October 1st:
3. You'll Find Out
This is a fairly typical early 40’s haunted house comedy, a genre I generally don’t enjoy, but it has a few differences...
2. House of Long Shadows
I hadn’t watched this in probaby 10 years easily, and my memory was always negative.
I don’t know, maybe it was because Peter Cushing and Vincent
1. Basket Case
Basket Case could be written off as just another low-budget direct-to-video attempt of it’s era, but instead it winds up as a fun and whimsical horror comedy that has held it’s own through the years.
It’s the story of a siamese twin surgery gone wrong
The Final
Countdown
Starting October 1st at 12:00am I will be joining with many other members are
DVDtalk.com in order to attempt the October Horror Movie Challenge, a challenge
to watch 100 horror movies in 31 days.
My personal goal is 200, but I believe that 250 is entirely possible. At first I toyed with the thought of 300, but the more I’ve thought about that figure the less possible it seemed, so I’m crossing my fingers and hoping for 250.
I will be blogging my experience of devoting 31 days and nights to the horror genre, and with a lot of luck, I won’t go insane in the meantime. The preperation has been odd at times. There’s a sub-challenge that involves watching particular films on particular days, so I’ve had to round those up. A sub-sub-challenge that deals with a checklist, I imagine I’ll accomplish everything within that checklist except for 1890’s and 1900’s, I do love classic film, but I don’t own any films from those decades and don’t intend to seek them out. The challenge also allows 6 wild cards, encouraging people to watch such seminal classics as It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie brown,undoubtedly some will abuse this break from feature films to watch short You Tube videos, so be it. Rules don’t need to be too harsh however, it should be a personal challenge instead of a competition, cheating at this is like cheating at solitaire, what good does that do anyone?
Initially I was planning on themed days, and had made lists and was excited about those lists. I believe I’ve decided instead to watch what I feel like in the moment and only use the lists as guides if I can’t decide.
I encourage everyone to watch horror films in the month of October, and if you don’t think you can do 100 (or 250) make a personal goal. 31, 12, or 2, whatever, just please be honest about your choices and HAVE FUN!
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