Darthemed posted:

F13 rankings are old and tired, ranking the Scooby-Doo movies is where it’s at now.

BrownPepper posted:

What's the best horror film by a director who is mostly known for working outside of the genre. The Exorcist is the easy answer, but I'm sure there are a lot of interesting picks I'm too dumb to think of. Alien I think would count.

Chris James 2 posted:

It's me, the dummy still excited for these schlocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF-oyCwaArU

Phy posted:

I always find the Warrens as depicted in the Conjuring to be a Little Much. Like, we get it, guys, you love eachother and God very much, let's get back to the spookies, yeah?

Zwabu posted:

I haven’t watched Joe Bob in quite some time. Just looked over the listings and wow they have shown some bangers. Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane? Housebound? Posession? I have to get caught up on rewatching some of these.

edit - actually looking over all the seasons they have covered a TON of thread favorites.

PKMN Trainer Red posted:

Deadite posted:

Who else in this thread owns the special necronomicon edition of the Evil Dead DVD?

Basebf555 posted:

You should wrap the ziploc in some barb wire and then stash it under the floorboards just to gently caress with whoever finds it.

Basebf555 posted:

OCTOBER CHALLENGE ANNOUNCEMENT

Hard to believe, but we're less than 3 months away from another October Challenge. As I've mentioned before, Fran has passed the torch to me at least for this year, so I'm trying to get my ducks in a row with as little procrastination as possible. I've never done anything like this before, so we're going back to our roots with a more traditional set of challenges, not the Spooky Bingo of recent years. I hope everyone is ok with that and it's not too much of a bummer for those that enjoyed Spooky Bingo.

That said, I do want to try to put a little bit of a different spin on things in a few ways. I'll spoiler tag the specifics just in case there are people who like to be surprised by these things when October rolls around.

First, we're going to incorporate more opportunities to complete the challenges with rewatches. Rewatching old favorites is something I always do a lot of in October, and allowing for more of that seemed like a popular idea when I brought it up in the May Challenge thread.

Second, we're going to take a cue from gey muckle mowser's challenge in May and do some overlapping challenges, i.e. a subset of the challenges will be able to be used in combination with other challenges so that if you plan things out you can kill two birds with one stone.

So, the overall format I was thinking about was 13 rewatch-eligible challenges, 13 new-to-you challenges, and then 5 of the meta/overlap challenges(these will be the broader challenges, for example gey muckle mowser put the geographical challenge in this category). With 31 total challenges, the prize drawing would be based on tiers where you can earn 4 possible entries. One entry for just watching 31 movies, and then one entry for completing a certain # of challenges(maybe one entry per 10 challenges completed?)

As always the "prizes" won't really be the motivating factor here, we're doing this for Halloween spirit, but there will be prizes in the form of horror digital codes. So I guess my main question right now is about the number of challenges. Too many? I feel like erring on the side of too many is probably the way to go for October, people like challenges but we don't want it to feel overwhelming to complete them either.

All that said, my PMs are open and I'm looking for suggestions for the specific challenges. We'll be using some of the old mainstays of course, and I've come up with a few of my own already but we're gonna need fresh ideas before this is all said and done. Thanks in advance for not being a dick as I try to not ruin the legacy of this great challenge!

Mover posted:

I’ll be contrarian as I do feel like 31 challenges are too many—while it’s all optional, I anticipate quite a few less prolific challenge posters or new people who might otherwise try for their first October seeing that and either noping out right away or burning out quickly, or, worst of all, finishing all of it but not having a good time watching horror movies.

Along with that, with so many challenges are a good chunk of them just going to be so open ended that they won’t actually encourage you to seek out something you might not have watched? Is it just a bunch of checkboxes you can fit stuff you were going to watch anyway into? Then we reach a “what’s the point” phase for me.

WHY BONER NOW posted:

Nope, turns out it was this movie, haha:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7dofHBCfzo

Crescent Wrench posted:

I feel like I have to agree because I like this one so much I own it.



(This is the only thread on the forums where anyone might get a kick out of it, so I just had to.)

Lumbermouth posted:

Killer Klowns was already mentioned so I’m gonna say the Return of the Living Dead version of Partytime

https://youtu.be/0Ly4611uL6Q

Phy posted:

How's the second and third hell house llc movies?

HK5000 posted:

Did anybody catch the season finale of Joe Bob Briggs on Friday? Day of the Dead, my favorite (non-comedy) Zombie of all time. My favorite horror comedy is without a doubt Return of the Living Dead

Now I know maybe there's a few of you here who don't like JBB because a few of the comments he's made over the years. I'm not here to defend those. However I believe his commentary on Romero's final great move is excellent and should be heard. It's relevant. If you haven't seen Day of the Dead (the OG.... there's a remake floating out there) it's about the institutions that run our current society breaking down. Those institutions. The Military industrial industrial complex specifically. Shudder is a great investment of your money for a streaming service (that's the end of my plug for them), but I'll be dammed if Day of the Dead doesn't get better with each re-watch. And yes Dawn of the Dead is phenomenal too but in our world run with politics what they are I think it's relevance has faded.

Just do it for nothing else if you like excellent kills and don't buy into the shade that some people throw onto the film as it's the rising star in the trilogy for many.

alf_pogs posted:

Event Horizon is a better haunted house movie than 13 Ghosts is

PKMN Trainer Red posted:

Shrecknet posted:

I think "rewatch" is a nebulous term. I watched all the SCREAMs this year to prep for SCREAM VI, so rewatching them again in October feels like a cheat. Meanwhile, I haven't seen THE FRIGHTENERS since I saw it in theaters in 1997. Maybe a 20 year grace period or something similar would be acceptable?

Shrecknet posted:

The average regdate of the top 20 posters in this thread is 2008.3 ( ), meaning they're at least 33 (assuming they regged the day they turned 18). We're old now lol.

Crescent Wrench posted:

You'll watch Ernest Scared Stupid every day for 31 days and you'll LIKE it.

Xiahou Dun posted:

I watched a lot of the major pillars of the horror genre by the time I was 15, and I don't think that's rare in this thread. I could stand to rewatch some classics that didn't jive with dumb teen me. Like some of the later Texas Chainsaws.

Basebf555 posted:

One challenge that's already been suggested that I think might be good is Rewatch a movie that scared you as a kid that you haven't seen in a long time(the longer the better) OR if you didn't watch horror movies as a kid then rewatch one of the movies that first got you into the horror genre

So that would be one particular challenge, not a general rule.

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

The gulf between the two is so huge is hilarious, I've gone back since thinking maybe it was just surprise that Chapter One was decent that I rated it so highly but no, it really is absurd how bad Chapter Two is. One thing I am 100% certain of, though, is that Chapter One has tons of sequences shot for 3D and this would have been perfect in that format.

Hollismason posted:

Okay so far I've got uh Cast a Deadly Spell, The Mothman Prophecies, Exorcist 3. All rewatches but I'm still looking for investigative horror movies.

Chris James 2 posted:

https://twitter.com/FreddyInSpace/status/1687115423375073281?s=20

Zwabu posted:

On the topic of franchises.. focusing on the original movie from each franchise, which do you think are relatively weak or not all time classics?

Like most films that kick off franchises are all time classics, that is why the studios kept chasing that dragon making more films.

So Halloween, ANOES, The Exorcist, Hellraiser and Scream are examples of originals that are clear cut classicss IMO.

Even though I am fond of it, I think the original Friday the 13th is a tier or two down from these although it does have that scene with Kevin Bacon going for it.

(I saw Halloween, F13, and ANOES in the theaters as a teen during their original runs and had a great experience at all of them.)

There often seems to be little correlation between the quality of the original film and the franchise it spawned. Hellraiser is a great example with an original that is one of the greats IMO but clearly one of the worst franchises past the second film.

MariusLecter posted:

Going to be watching Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum tonight.

Soon I'm gonna go pick up some popcorn and something to drink. Any recommendations?

Darthemed posted:

What are some horror movie posters/box art you think are great, for whatever reason of appeal?



I dig a lot about this design.
Skeleton as a containment unit? Rad.
The extra-pulpy art look of the woman framed in an open coffin? Great.
The way the skeleton's lifting of its crimson robe makes it look like it has an amazing shoulder-pad suit from the '80s?

Halloween Jack posted:

It's kinda surprising how little gothic rock is actually featured in horror movies. The real standouts are Return of the Living Dead (prominently featuring 45 Grave, plus other goodies on the soundtrack) and Bauhaus popping up in The Hunger. Doomsday's use of Siouxsie's "Spellbound" is another memorable one.

feedmyleg posted:

It's me, the Malignant Not-Liker

Way too long, ugly as hell, dumb as rocks. It certainly has good moments and their heart was in the right place, though. Not bad, but forgettable.

dorium posted:

https://twitter.com/BDisgusting/status/1691480913467592704?s=20

Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:

:VHS:
:8MM: