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Following in mbd’s example I’m gonna renominate Team Espana (Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza) The two created one of the more memorable international horrors of their era in REC and then separately not only worked on sequels but a whole host of other quality horror films. Individually either could be nominated solo, but given that they made REC together it feels right to team them up. And maybe giving them their country flag as a name this time around will give them a better chance to stand out in the seeding voting. I’ve seen about half a dozen films on this team and I’d say they’re all worth watching so I’m hopeful this one can sneak in this year. [REC] [REC]² Sleep Tight [REC]⁴ Apocalypse Fragile Darkness The Nameless Muse Veronica [REC]³ Genesis A Christmas Tale Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt Freddy The Grandmother
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STAC Goat posted:I kind of want to nominate Alfred Hitchcock straight up. He's only got 2 horrors listed on Letterboxd and when we tried to determine how many of his films counted last year we only had 5. But he's got 30 thrillers. And I feel like I've seen so many thrillers that don't strike me as horror at all get nominated that being picky with Hitchcock feels like punishing him for his success. Like we'd let it one director with 1 or 2 films or a director who just needs a couple of thrillers to meet the number. But the Master of Suspense is kept out? I do feel we should put Hitchcock in the rosters. Yeah, The Birds and Psycho are his big horrors, but he does have thrillers that are horror adjacent along with we have counted thrillers in the October Challenge. Just off the top of my head it'd be something like: 1) Psycho 2) The Birds 3) Rear Window 4) Trouble with Harry (horror comedy) 5) Rope 6) Frenzy 7) Dial M for Murder 8) Rebecca 9) The Lodger: A story of the London Fog 10) Stage Fright
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Wayyy overthinking my nomination - what's a team that I really want to see but that might not make it?
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I'd like to use my automatic bid for Dario Argento.
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Lucky McKee and Friends (Lucky McKee, Angela Bettis, Pollyanna McIntosh, Chris Sivertson, and Andrew van den Houten) Lucky McKee’s been in the tournament a couple of times and is still looking for his first win. But when you’re down you turn to your friends. So in come two of his favorite stars in Angela Bettis and Pollyanna McIntosh, his All Cheerleaders Die partner Chris Sivertson, and Andrew van den Houten who made the third film in the “trilogy” of McIntosh/Ketchum “The Woman” movies. Will this be enough to turn McKee’s luck around in the tournament? We’ll see. May The Woman All Cheerleaders Die I Know Who Killed Me The Lost Darlin' Roman Headspace Offspring
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In today's edition of opinions no one asked for, I'm going to rank each team, as far as I'm able to. Why should you care about my opinion? Well, stop being mean to me, I'm trying  S-Tier Steve's Monster Blockbusters (Steven Spielberg and Stephen Sommers) We're really looking at a collection of solid classic fun movies here, real crowd pleasers. Femme Fatale Returns (Amy Holden Jones, Antonia Bird, Julia Ducournau, Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Prano Bailey-Bond, Debra Brock, Nia DaCosta, Rose Glass, Coralie Fargeat,, and Lynne Ramsay) Fran returns with another collection of expertly and lovingly selected films. While a few of these will perhaps fair less well against other s-tier teams, they'll certainly hold their own. Team Rule Breaker (Ant Timpson, Jim Hosking, Harmony Korine, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Adam Egypt Mortimer) Neon Demon, Trash Humpers, and Greasy Strangler? Need I say more? Team Auteur (Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Bong Joon Ho, Park Chan Wook, and Edgar Wright) An annoyingly jam-packed team, combining the best of Western and Eastern horror. This is one to watch out for and dread. Revenge of Predation (Jonathan Demme, Taika Waititi, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña, Hideaki Anno, and Philip Kaufman) The return of the semi-finalist, with a team so stacked it's sure to give everyone another semi. Spooky Swinging Sixties (Herk Harvey, Brunello Rondi, Masaki Kobayashi, Ingmar Bergman, Terence Young, and Elio Petri) A collection of the best horror of the 60s? Yes, please! A-Tier Sumptuously Stupid (Michael Rymer, David S. Goyer, Tarsem Singh, Steve Beck, Fran Rubel Kuzui, Sylvain White, and Jan de Bont) Will these films win? Who cares, we're going to have a blast watching them. Do We Have to Stay for the Whole Drive-In Double Feature? (Phil Tucker, Paolo Heusch, Arch Hall, Sr, Vic Savage, Stephen C. Apostolof, Robert Gaffney, Harold P. Warren, Tom Hanso, Alex Stevens & Chester Fox, and Stu Segall) Watch out for snakes! Bon Appetit! (Marc Caro, Park Chul-soo, Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, György Pálfi, Peter Greenaway, Pier Paolo Pasolini) Another team of wonderful films that challenge as well as delight, there are a couple of films that may struggle against a difficult foe, but otherwise very solid. Family Friendly 2: (Hayao Miyazaki, Henry Selick, Nick Park, Barry Sonnenfeld, Sam Fell, Chris Butler, and Rankin/Bass) I imagine this team might cause some controversy regarding whether the horror here is within the story, or the aesthetic, but overall this is an extremely solid team that will stand as a threat against any opposition. It's also a returning heavy hitter, with perhaps its strongest film still intact. Team Vaginal Discharge (Jimmy ScreamerClauz, Flying Lotus, Stefan Lernous, and Phil Tippett) Debbie movies. What's more to say? Czech This Out (Jan Svankmajer, Juraj Herz and Jaromil Jires) Svankmajer and Herz, what's more to say? The Magical Muppet Wizardry of Jim Henson (and Friends) (Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Joe Dante, Kirk R. Thatcher, Jon Bristol, Karl Holt, Kevin Lewis, and Bill Watterson) Little Shop, need I say more? The Silver Spoons (Christopher Landon, Brandon Cronenberg, Jennifer Chambers Lynch, Luke Scott, and Panos Cosmatos) This is a team that is destined to go further than people expect, mark my words. Hey folks, it's folk horror! (Erik Blomberg, Georgiy Kropachyov, Konstantin Ershov, František Vláčil, Otakar Vávra, James MacTaggart, Ann Turner, Lukas Feigelfeld, Paul Urkijo, Rainer Sarnet, and Małgorzata Szumowska) This is one to watch for, there's a lot of stealth classics in here. Uplifting Austrian Filmmaking (Michael Haneke, Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala and Stefan Ruzowitzki) While Hankeke proved controversial last time, he's cemented himself as a heavy hitter in the tournament and needs to be respected. B-Tier Two Brits and A Kiwi (Clive Barker, Peter Jackson, and Nicolas Roeg) While there are multiple excellent films here, there are serious dud notes that risk the team's potential. Chucky and His Pals (Don Mancini, Tom Holland, Ronny Yu, and John Lafia) There are a lot of very solid films here, but none of them really stand out as silver bullets. I'd say this is a midrange pick, with very faint endgame potential. There's Something About the Military-Industrial Authority Complex (Pierre David, David Fincher, Andrzej Bartkowiak, Gary Shore, Roger Donaldson, Claudio Fäh, and William Lustig) Giving the quite shakey ground these films stand on, you might expect me to rate it lower, but I really love this theme, it's sure to inspire some incredible discussions. Low-Budget But Lovable (Fabrice A. Zaphiratos, Shinichi Fukazawa, Seth Landau, Dan Gildark, Damian Klaus, John Elias Michalakis, Harrison Atkins, Michael Dugan, Lew Lehman, and Jim Hickcox) A collection of films destined to not go very far against stiff competition, but definitely worth catching, especially Lace Crater and Soft Matter. Team Easy, Sleazy, Japanesey (Tetsuro Takeuchi, Gen Sekiguchi, Ujicha, Shinichiro Ueda, and Mika Ninagawa) This team isn't here for a long time, but it's here for a good time, showcasing as it does the weird side of Japanese horror. Horror Comedies (Stephen Sayadian, Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, Michael Lehmann, Martin Walz, James Gunn, Alex Winter and Tom Stern, Jim Hosking, Quentin Dupieux, and Ron Underwood) While possibly containing a few films that are very questionably horror, this is definitely a good-time team full of streamable movies (PM for deets  )Doomed Love (Lynne Stopkewich, Gregg Araki, Nikos Nikolaidis, Jerry Zucker, Amat Escalante, and David Del Rio) Rating this as a B-Team might perhaps be underestimating the inexhaustible charm of these idiosyncratic offerings, but they might struggle against more well-worn classics. Team Debbie Does Damnation (Eric Brummer, Fred Vogel, and Chester Novell Turner) Suck my girl dick if you think this is a bad team. Team Erotic Thrillers (Michael Caton-Jones, Ken Russell, Phillip Noyce, John Dahl. Lilly Wachowski/Lana Wachowski, and Irvin Kershner) Simply put, these aren't horrors films, this is a team that exploits the thriller grey area, but they're definitely solid films, and by extending our reach out to thrillers we welcome back the King, Ken Russell, that has to be worth something, right? Neue Deutsche Filme (Till Kleinert, Akiz, Nikias Chryssos, Tilman Singer, Fatih Akin, and Kevin Kopacka) While I've unfortunately not seen most of these films, the ones I have have me very excited. Lewton Bus (Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise, and Mark Robson) This should perhaps by an A or S-tier team, but B&W films tend to fare poorly. All Hail Stephen King (Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, Ralph S. Singleton, Rob Reiner, Taylor Hackford, Fraser Clarke Heston, Bryan Singer, Andy Muschietti, and Lawrence Kasdan) Having the Kubrick Shining really sends a strong message. As Seen on V/H/S (Radio Silence - Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, and Chad Villella, Ti West, David Bruckner, and Various Artists) There's a lot of fun to be had here. Team Universal (James Whale, Jack Arnold, Arthur Lubin, and Charles Barton) A team of extremely talented heavy hitters marred only slightly by the b&w curse. C-Tier Working for the Weekend (Franco Steffanino. David Wellington, Andrew Lane, Paul Norman, Robert Malenfant, Tripp Norton, Kevin Greene, and Adam Johnson, Emil Hyde, and Jean Veber) While certainly lacking in star quality, the solid theme here really elevates it. While I wouldn't want this to steal the spot of a more prominent team, it's a welcome addition to the tournament. Tales From the Necronomicon (Michele Soavi, Stuart Gordon, and Sam Raimi) Another team of big names who are really more duds than homeruns at this point, but definitely films you wont regret watching. Team Double Bubble aka Kids & Creations (McG, Kenneth Branagh, Stuart Beattie, Dennis Dimster, Pascal Franchot, Richard Donner, John Moore, Levan Gabriadze, and Stephen Susco) The theme here is a little shakey, a little tenuous, but there's definitely some films here that are worth their time in the sun. The NYC Grime Connection (Frank Henenlotter & Abel Ferrara) This is barely a Ferrara team at this point, as he only has Driller Killer left, a film that casts a long shadow but not exactly a pleasant one. The Henenlotter films are mainly excellent, but there are two duds. Depending on the draws this could go early or late, but it's going to say go at some point. Team Deb Tricks You Into Watching Porn (Bruce LaBruce, Alain Guiraudie, Walerian Borowczyk, Carlos Atanes, and Emiliano Rocha Minter) This is a team that's destined to go out before the third round, but you wont forget any of these films, in fact you might say that they'll leave a scar. Horror Musicals (Jerome Sable. Trey Parker, Jim Sharman, Kenny Ortega, and John McPhail) Will this team win? No. Will it be fun to watch? Of course. Team Quite Good Directors That I Enjoy (Bigas Lunas, Paul Bartel, Peter Strickland, Peter Strickland, and Robert Aldritch) While this team loses points due to the unimaginative theme, it's definitely a collection of wonderful films that deserve to be seen. Ladies Night XX (Anna Biller, Karyn Kusama, Emerald Fennell, Natalie Erika James, Jill Gevargizian, Natalia Leite, Małgorzata Szumowska, and Natasha Kermani) I was really pulling for this team in the last tournament, and I still am today, but it doesn't quite have the fizzle necessary to go all the way unfortunately. Knockoffs of the Living Dead (Dan O’Bannon, Tom Savini, Zack Snyder, Mike Schneider, Krisztian Majdik and Zebediah De Sotoand, Milan Konjević and Milan Todorović, Tor Ramsey, and Hèctor Hernández Vicens) Another wonderful Goat special, with a mix of trash and treasure. Winning isn't his thing, but I wouldn't love him any other way. Team YA (Catherine Hardwicke, Harald Zwart, Richard LaGravenese, Katja von Garnier, Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie, Mark Waters, Paul Weitz, and Scott Hicks) While this is a team that's destined to strike out, this is a genre that is deeply in need of love and respect and exposure, and hopefully this will be the beginning of several love affairs with YA horror. Agents Provocateur (Brian De Palma & Paul Verhoeven) A few of my favourites straddled with a few of my more loathed films, it's going to be emotional. The Brutal Brits (Ben Wheatley, Neil Marshall, and Remi Weekes) Not my personal taste, but a worthy contender. Not of This Earth! (Michael Rae, Giulio Paradisi, Douglas McKeown, Stephen Herek, Stephen Chiodo, Jeffrey Scott Lando, Victor Bornia, Chris Gorak, Jason Richard Miller, and Michael Ricks) A ton of fun films and a few stinkers, here for a good time, if not a long time. D-Tier Well, The Poster/Box Looked Good! (John Flynn, Robert Scott, Larry Stewart & Peter Crane, Drew Goddard, Ronald W. Moore, Jim Sotos, Joseph Mangine, Robert Collector, and Xan Cassavetesa) While I adore the concept of this team, please don't make me actually watch these duds. Team Guinea Pig (Satoru Ogura, Hideshi Hino, Masayuki Kusumi, Hajime Tabe, Kazuhito Kuramoto, Stephen Biro, Poison Rouge, and Marcus Koch) One of the mods of this very forum stated that they were not going to watch this team. Clearly standards have been slipping since Debbie stood down. Team Quite Fun Directors That I Enjoy (Steve Rudzinski, William Kersten, Zach Gayne, and Michael Bartlett) While I personally love all of these films, it's clearly a team that's not destined for greatness, but they will be fun films to stream at the very least. Team Vampires and Coke (Tony Scott, Michael Mann, Richard Wenk, Jimmy Huston, Howard Storm, Robert Bierman, Deran Sarafian, and Augusto Caminito) While this is a wonderful and richly thematic team, I do see it unfortunately struggling against the heavy hitters. GdT’s Creature Features (Guillermo del Toro, André Øvredal, Troy Nixey, Scott Cooper, JA Bayone, and Rahi Anil Barve) The more of del Toro's oeuvre I see, the more I realise that I don't actually like him as a director. F-Tier Silent Scream (FW Murnau, Robert Wiene, Teinosuke Kinugasa, and Giuseppe de Liguoro, Francesco Bertolini, & Adolfo Padovan) Unfortunately silent films don't fare well in these tournaments, even when the quality is extremely high. This is destined to go out by the second round, but I wish it had a chance of making the quarter-finals at least. Team Blacklist (John Landis & Roman Polanski) A child molester and a child murderer. This team just plain hates children. Cats In The Cradle (David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Ridley Scott, and George Cosmatos) Goat viciously strangled Cronenberg and Lynch by saddling them with that hack Ridley Scott. Power has clearly gone to his head. Unrated - Basically teams that I'm not knowledgeable about. Team Vulgarity / Relationships Are Hard (Dave Jackson, Jean-Luc Syndikas, Richard Bates, Jr., Richard Robinson & David Worth, Bryan Johnson, Robert Parigi, and Lewis Jackson) Team Tomie (And Pals) (Tomohiro Kubo, Shun Nakahara, Fujiro Mitsuishi, Toshiro Inomata, and Ataru Oikawa) Embarrassingly, even as a big fan of Tomie, I haven't seen many films based on her, so this is a bit of a mystery for me. Sister Act 2 : Backing the Habit (Kim Jee-woon, John Fawcett, and Oz Perkins) Weird Tales of Dan O'Bannon (Christian Duguay, Gary Sherman, Douglas Cheek, and Gerald Potterton) War is Horrifying Everywhere (Antti-Jussi Annila, Babak Anvari, Elem Klimov, Kristijan Milic, and Kong Su-chang) Kangra is just making a fool of me with these deep cuts. Satan Satan Satan Satan Good Satan, Great Satan (Luigi Maggi, Metin Erksan, Victor Aristov, Kim Chapiron, Sara Lohman, and Everything is Terrible) Fearsome Filipinos (Efren C. Piñon, Mark Reyes, Jade Castro, Antoinette Jadaone, and Celso Ad. Castillo) Indonesian Insanity (Joko Anwar and H. Tjut Djalil) Top Forties (Victor Fleming, Maurice Tourneur, Robert Siodmak, Lewis Allen, and Various Artists) The One n Not Dones (Ernest R. Dickerson, Fede Alvarez, Robert Rodriguez, Ana Lily Amirpour, Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas, Joe Cornish, The Soska Sisters, and Jason Eisener) Despite a few classics here, I'm really stumped on some of these films. Team K🖕ng (Mick Garris and Mike Flanagan) Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix (John Mickle, Jenn Wexler, Ana Asensio, Robert Olsen & Dan Berk, and Mickey Keating) The Enemies of Horror (Aaron Moorehead & Justin Benson, Jeremy Gardner, Amy Seimetz, and Brea Grant) The Vicious Brothers & Vicious Extended Family (Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz, Kurtis David Harder, and Brandon Christensen) Lost & Found (Erik Kristopher Myers, Elliot Goldner, Phil Guidry, Simon Herbert, and David Whelan, Zachary Donohue, Joel Anderson, & Christopher MacBride) But what I really want to do is direct. (Clint Eastwood, Larry Hagman, Gene Wilder, Michael McDonald, Bruce Campbell, Ryan Gosling, and John Krasinski) Not one I have a lot of experience with, but don't sleep on Eastwood as a horror director! Romantic Comedy-Horror with Occasional Music (David Gebroe, Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass, Jonathan Levine, Marjane Satrapi, Jeff Baena, Ben Blaine and Chris Blaine, Burr Steers, Antonio Tublén, and Michael Matthews) Scandi Scares (Erlingur Thoroddsen, Jonas Åkerlund, Henrik Möller, Pål Sletaune &Tony Spataro, Valdimar Jóhannsson, Johannes Nyholm, Jarand Herdal, and Roar Uthaug) Buggin' Out (Edward Ludwig, Fritz Böttger, Frank Marshall, Lorenzo Doumani, Josh Olson, Jason Wulfsohn, Mark A. Lewis, Kenneth Cran, Barry Levinson, and Just Philippot) Team Sharksploitation (Danny Lerner, Misty Talley, John Hijiri, Jerry Dugan, and Cole Sharpe) It's the End of the World as We Know It (Mick Jackson, Geoff Murphy, Àlex Pastor & David Pastor, John Hillcoat, Ruben Fleischer, Thomas S. Hammock, Trey Edward Shults, Dominique Rocher, and Il Cho) The Mexecutioner's Song (Rogelio A. González and Carlos Enrique Taboada) I Never Meta Documentary I Didn't Enjoy (Jeff McQueen, Andrew Monument, Rob Kuhns, Jason Baker, Gary Doust, André Gower, Simone Scafidi, Xavier Burgin, Roman Chimienti &Tyler Jensen, and Kier-La Janisse) The Return of the Bride of the Remake's Ghost! (Glen Morgan, Breck Eisner, Craig Gillespie, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., Kimberly Peirce, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, and Luca Guadagnino) Terror in the Pews (Robert Resnikoff, Gregory Widen, Greg Spence, Camilo Vila, Kari Skogland, Bill Paxton, Francis Lawrence, Emilio Portes, and Gareth Evans) Dracula.co.jp. (Michio Yamamoto, Toyoo Ashida, Hiroyuki Kitakubo, Chris Nahon, Shunji Iwai, and Mai Suzuki) I don't know whether to laugh or die (George Marshall, Fred Dekker, James Signorelli, Jonathan King, Eli Craig, Gerard Johnstone, and Josh Ruben) Twernt is just out here flexing on me. Thai Terror! (Sophon Sakdaphisit, Ping Lumpraploeng, and Banjong Pisanthanakun) French Charcuterie Board (Christophe Gans and Pascal Laugier) Team Espana (Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza) Scumfuck Princess fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Dec 13, 2021 |
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Tremendous list! King of F Tier! I’m dumping Romola Garai’s Amulet from Ladies Night XX and replacing it with Mitzi Peirone’s Braid. Also maybe my last team… Sex, Drugs, & Bubblegum (Sam Levinson, Joseph Kahn, Sean Byrne, Mitzi Peirone, Tara Subkoff, David Nutter, Darren Stein, Suzi Yoonessi, Joey Stewart, and Daniel Goldhaber) I don’t entirely know what this team is. Inspired by 💕 Bubblegum Horror 💕 - a list not my own but one I like - I’ve been shuffling movies on and off this list for a week unsure of what exactly fits or what exactly this is. This is kind of a vibe I guess. That adolescent kind of chaos energy and maybe a heavy dash of feminine flavor and pink. I don’t really know. But I kind of like it. Assassination Nation Detention The Loved Ones The Devil's Candy The Final #Horror Disturbing Behavior Jawbreaker Daphne & Velma Cam
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Sick at home today, so here's (probably) my last couple of nomination teams. Team Funny Folks 1. Harlequin (1980; dir. Simon Wincer) 2. The Laughing Dead (1989; dir. Somtow Sucharitkul) 3. Clown (2014; dir. Jon Watts) 4. Bad Milo! (2013; dir. Jacob Vaughan) 5. Funny Man (1994; dir. Simon Sprackling) 6. Eat and Run (1987; dir. Christopher Hart) 7. Dr. Giggles (1992; dir. Manny Coto) 8. Playroom (1990; dir. Manny Coto) 9. The Erotic Circus (1969; dir. Henri Pachard) 10. You'll Find Out (1940; dir. David Butler) Team Cream Clots 1. The Sadist (1963; dir. James Landis) 2. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010; dir. Jalmari Helander) 3. J.D.'s Revenge (1976; dir. Arthur Marks) 4. Shredder Orpheus (1990; dir. Robert McGinley) 5. Office Killer (1997; dir. Cindy Sherman) 6. The Witches (1966; dir. Cyril Frankel) 7. Incubus (1966; dir. Leslie Stevens) 8. The Devil's Advocate (1997; dir. Taylor Hackford) 9. Ed and His Dead Mother (1993; dir. Jonathan Wacks) 10. Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings (2011; dir. Jade Castro)
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I'm nomming William Castle because someone should.
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My council vote goes to Uplifting Austrian Filmmaking
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This is my final nomination. The cleverly named Mixed Doubles: 1. Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971) by Aldo Lado 2. Late Night Trains (1975) by Aldo Lado 3. The X from Outer Space (1967) by Kazui Nihonmatsu 4. Genocide (1968) by Kazui Nihonmatsu 5. Outcast (2010) by Colm McCarthy 6. The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) by Colm McCarthy 7. Legend of the Mountain (1979) by King Hu 8. Painted Skin (1993) by King Hu 9. Revenge of the Zombies (1943) by Steve Sekely 10. The Day of the Triffids (1962) by Steve Sekely Aldo Lado was on MBD's Top Giallo Schmorgasboard team, but it looks like he never got drawn.
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I'll give my council vote to The NYC Grime Connection (Frank Henenlotter & Abel Ferrara) Also I think Hitchcock should be in, idk if that got resolved
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Hitch is in the pool. No one objected and it feels like mutually assured destruction to nitpick the eligibility of thrillers.
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12 hours left. Nominations lock at noon EST Dec 14th. And council members' auto bid picks lining up. Basebf555 Franchescanado married but discreet MacheteZombie: Don Coscarelli TrixRabbi Tarnop: Uplifting Austrian Filmmaking (Michael Haneke, Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala and Stefan Ruzowitzki) twernt: Dario Argento The Berzerker: The NYC Grime Connection (Frank Henenlotter & Abel Ferrara) Servoret: Lewton Bus (Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise, and Mark Robson) HalloweeNIT: Roy Ward Baker
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Tarnop posted:My council vote goes to Uplifting Austrian Filmmaking Aw yea, y'all gonna have a great, wholesome time with this team! twernt posted:
Happy to have my old team members remembered - I really didn't do the giallos justice this time around. I suppose I'll go the easy route and vote for John Carpenter
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More double/triple whatever posts to submit my last few teams. Here's another country-based team, Eerie Eire with Lorcan Finnegan (strong), Conor McMahon (ehhh) and Liam Gavin (unknown to me). I'd say as far as team name goes it's pretty good, and there's at least two movies in there that can give a lot of entries a run for their money. Vivarium (2020) Lorcan Finnegan Without Name (2017) Lorcan Finnegan From the Dark (2014) Conor McMahon Stitches (2012) Conor McMahon Dead Meat (2004) Conor McMahon A Dark Song (2016) Liam Gavin
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And another one that might actually be a quite high tier entry - Never Going to Australia, with Australian New Wave talents Colin Eggleston and Peter Weir, who later went on to direct Dead Poets Society, Truman Show, Master and Commander. Note that I left out a lot of good Australian movie making like Wake In Fright, which is incredible but also contains horrific scenes of real animal death - I know that's a weak spot for a lot of bracketologists and I don't actually want to traumatize them. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Peter Weir The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) Peter Weir The Plumber (1979) Peter Weir The Last Wave (1977) Peter Weir Long Weekend (1978) Colin Eggleston Cassandra (1986) Colin Eggleston Innocent Prey (1984) Colin Eggleston The Wicked (1987) Colin Eggleston
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My autobid is Femme Fatale Returns because it IS an S-tier team (as confirmed by Needs More Goop) and everyone else so far has nominated mostly men. I would also like to nominate Jean Rollin as a director. Most of the movies listed for him still are good and interesting, and his films received a lot of (surprising) praise. I would also like to nominate Team Muddled By Mo-Cap Tim Burton, Robert Zemeckis, Gil Kenan Beetlejuice Death Becomes Her Mars Attacks! What Lies Beneath Corpse Bride Monster House Beowulf Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Dark Shadows Poltergeist (2015) The Witches (2020) Some notes on the team: The films are listed chronologically, to emphasize the shift from physical effects to CGI and mo-cap, from original ideas to adaptations and remakes/reboots. I have added Beowulf to Zemeckis's list, since I think it has enough horror imagery and ideas to qualify. Adding Beowulf makes it an 11 film team. I think this actually hinders it more than gives it an advantage, and since others have been given grace on certain gluttonous team-builds, I would also like an exception and for it to qualified.
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I'm going to use my automatic bid on Terence Fisher. Looking over the spreadsheet I was struck by now much good stuff he still has left. I always like to see Hammer represented in these things, even if their house style seems to be divisive enough to prevent guys like Fisher from being true contenders.
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Basebf555 posted:I'm going to use my automatic bid on Terence Fisher. Looking over the spreadsheet I was struck by now much good stuff he still has left. I always like to see Hammer represented in these things, even if their house style seems to be divisive enough to prevent guys like Fisher from being true contenders. I also considered this, but I felt it more appropriate for you or someone else to call it.
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Ok, noms are locked. I'm recovering from booster sickness so I'm running a little slow but I'll have everything updated soon. Basebf555: Terence Fisher Franchescanado: Femme Fatale Returns (Amy Holden Jones, Antonia Bird, Julia Ducournau, Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Prano Bailey-Bond, Debra Brock, Nia DaCosta, Rose Glass, Coralie Fargeat,, and Lynne Ramsay) married but discreet: John Carpenter MacheteZombie: Don Coscarelli TrixRabbi Tarnop: Uplifting Austrian Filmmaking (Michael Haneke, Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala and Stefan Ruzowitzki) twernt: Dario Argento The Berzerker: The NYC Grime Connection (Frank Henenlotter & Abel Ferrara) Servoret: Lewton Bus (Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise, and Mark Robson) HalloweeNIT: Roy Ward Baker I sent TrixRabbi a PM last night and another Dec 1st with no response, and they haven't posted in this thread yet or on the board in a week. So if I don't hear from them today I'll either pick a new council member or just go with what we have. As I said, I need a little time to get caught up anyway and we have until after Christmas for voting. But I'll have something together by tomorrow.
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Dec 14, 2021 18:36
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This "Needs More Goop" person seems like they might be a good choice for the automatic bid, don't know anything about them but my instincts say they are really cool.
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Dec 14, 2021 18:42
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Basebf555 posted:This "Needs More Goop" person seems like they might be a good choice for the automatic bid, don't know anything about them but my instincts say they are really cool. 
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Dec 14, 2021 18:46
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That's very kind and sweet of you both, Goat also approached me privately. If anyone, for any reason, thinks I shouldn't have a pick please feel free to talk, or message Goat privately. I won't hold it against anyone. I truly value your trust, and I don't want my presence to be a sour note for anyone. With that said, my nomination is: Spooky Swinging Sixties (Herk Harvey, Brunello Rondi, Masaki Kobayashi, Ingmar Bergman, Terence Young, and Elio Petri)
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Dec 14, 2021 19:50
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Very happy to have you on board! I'm still gonna give Trix the rest of the day to respond (Goop's pick is valid regardless) but I'll have the vote up before I go to bed. Basebf555: Terence Fisher Franchescanado: Femme Fatale Returns (Amy Holden Jones, Antonia Bird, Julia Ducournau, Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Prano Bailey-Bond, Debra Brock, Nia DaCosta, Rose Glass, Coralie Fargeat,, and Lynne Ramsay) married but discreet: John Carpenter MacheteZombie: Don Coscarelli TrixRabbi Tarnop: Uplifting Austrian Filmmaking (Michael Haneke, Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala and Stefan Ruzowitzki) twernt: Dario Argento The Berzerker: The NYC Grime Connection (Frank Henenlotter & Abel Ferrara) Servoret: Lewton Bus (Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise, and Mark Robson) HalloweeNIT: Roy Ward Baker Needs More Goop: Spooky Swinging Sixties (Herk Harvey, Brunello Rondi, Masaki Kobayashi, Ingmar Bergman, Terence Young, and Elio Petri)
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Dec 14, 2021 19:55
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Needs More Goop posted:That's very kind and sweet of you both, Goat also approached me privately. If anyone, for any reason, thinks I shouldn't have a pick please feel free to talk, or message Goat privately. I won't hold it against anyone. I truly value your trust, and I don't want my presence to be a sour note for anyone. With that said, my nomination is: My instincts also tell me this person is cool and has very good taste.
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Dec 14, 2021 20:16
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Goop is Good!!!
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Dec 15, 2021 03:01
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I'm calling it. If Trix shows up I'll remove their pick from the pool. But not sure it makes much sense to wait. Mental notes for next year: - 12 hour clock becomes 12 hour rounds - Set a deadline for auto bids same as noms. Ok, lets get voting. https://forms.gle/ibJcMVPumoYGTZhn6 You can edit your votes. Last year you had 40 votes. This year i upped it to 50 but I did a test ballot and ran out way early. So gently caress it, you have 70 votes. Thats over half the field so hopefully its enough but not so much this gets complicated. Like more votes should just spread around more? I dunno. If someone understands the math and sees me making a mistake let me know. Until then I guess I'm going wild. Vote locks Dec 26th noon EST. Tell you friends. All votes are welcome. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Dec 15, 2021 |
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Dec 15, 2021 04:25
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Note: I messed up the form and had an extra section that thanked you but you still had to hit "submit". So I removed that unnecessary and confusing step. If you voted before this post just go back and make sure you completed the form.
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Dec 15, 2021 04:54
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So many choices, so many good teams!
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Dec 15, 2021 08:14
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I think I messed up with the 70 vote thing. I'm seeing basically everyone tied. Its a mess. I think I'm gonna have to scrap this poll and start over. I'm gonna try and sleep on it. I'm really sorry. Its been a weird and drugged out last few days. Hopefully this is just exhausted amd drugged out me panicking.
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Dec 15, 2021 11:21
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STAC Goat posted:I think I messed up with the 70 vote thing. I'm seeing basically everyone tied. Its a mess. I think I'm gonna have to scrap this poll and start over. I'm gonna try and sleep on it. I'm really sorry. Its been a weird and drugged out last few days. Hopefully this is just exhausted amd drugged out me panicking. It's been up for six hours. Just relax, bud. We have 11 days still. If a week goes by and the numbers still look hosed, we can do another vote. We love to vote, re-voting is fine. I'm planning on sending it to a few friends who are most likely to have to watch some of these with me, and I assume there will be others doing something similar.
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Dec 15, 2021 14:16
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Yea if you're worried about people being annoyed with potentially having to re-vote, don't be. I woke up this morning looking forward to sitting down with the list and a cup of coffee and it's just a lot of fun deciding who to vote for, I'd happily do it again.
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Dec 15, 2021 15:18
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Just a heads up. I'm more of a visual person rather than a spreadsheet person, so I am making a letterboxd list of EVERY FILM BEING VOTED ON, organized in the order of the voting sheet, so people can easily look and see who they're interested in. Teams will be listed in the notes of each film. It's gonna take me a while, but here's the link to follow it for now: https://letterboxd.com/franchescanado/list/spook-a-doodle-2022-contenders/
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Dec 15, 2021 15:41
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Found an indiscretion with teams that hasn't been resolved. married but discreet drafted Zombadings 1: Patayin sa shokot si Remington (2011) Jade Castro for Fearsome Filipinos on page 4 of the thread. Darthemed also drafted Zombadings 1 for Team Cream Clots (disgusting name) on this page (Page 7). Both made it to the spreadsheet. Someone's gotta give.
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Dec 15, 2021 15:56
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I plan to vote for the first 70 on the list so don't sweat it
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Dec 15, 2021 16:33
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Franchescanado posted:Found an indiscretion with teams that hasn't been resolved. Thanks for picking that up. I was definitely getting sloppy the last couple of days. mbd was first and Darth's team is still valid so easy enough fix. And yeah, I think I was just having some kind of sleep deprived panic attack or something last night. I'm sorry you all had to see that. I'll leave it be fr a bit and see how it shapes out.
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Dec 15, 2021 17:11
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M_Sinistrari posted:I do feel we should put Hitchcock in the rosters. Yeah, The Birds and Psycho are his big horrors, but he does have thrillers that are horror adjacent along with we have counted thrillers in the October Challenge. I think Shadow of a Doubt deserves a slot on the list. It’s a serial killer thriller with some chilling sociopathic moments with Joseph Cotten’s character. Strangers on a Train deserves a look too. Another creepy sociopath movie. I think both of them belong ahead of Dial M for Murder and maybe Stage Fright if space is a consideration.
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Dec 15, 2021 19:46
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Servoret posted:I think Shadow of a Doubt deserves a slot on the list. It’s a serial killer thriller with some chilling sociopathic moments with Joseph Cotten’s character. Strangers on a Train deserves a look too. Another creepy sociopath movie. I think both of them belong ahead of Dial M for Murder and maybe Stage Fright if space is a consideration. When Hitchcock was first nominated (in the first tourney) the council ruled against it, but times have changed and I think it would get in today if it came to it. But you can see that basically all of his films are included on the nominations tab of the spreadsheet, which is the official source on which film is in or out. As for the voting, I kind of like the large number allowed. I basically voted for all the entries I liked, then hit submit, expecting to have to pare it down - and then didn't. It turns out I chose 69 on my first go, and I'm not sure if I even want to add one more vote now.
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Yeah Hitchcock was a holdover from Season 1 when we had a tighter lease. So it just felt right to me that his whole thriller oeuvre be let in and if he draws a film people don't think is horror he'll lose.
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