[Movies] Halloweenathon

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LittleSin

LittleSin

It's October! Time to watch Halloweeny movies from now until the 31st!

I've started off with a classic, Dracula. It was my first time seeing it and I was very impressed with how atmospheric the movie is. It made me realize how modern movies fill every instnace of silence with music and noise...the lack of wither in this made me realize how much more errie silence is.

I think this has been a good start to my month. :p
 
Tress

Tress

I've always meant to do something like this, but I never get around to it. You've inspired me to change that this year.

Tonight's showing: Night of the Living Dead. Really, what could be a better choice than that?
 
Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

Note of Advice for marathons like this:

Plan out at least one week ahead of time on what movies you're going to watch. Spur of the moment works for a week or two but as it continues you start scrambling last second for something decent and end the month with a few you missed that you'll be upset about missing.
 
WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

I like rewatching the old Friday the 13th (nothing past 5 or 6) and Halloween movies. Plus It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! I'm nostalgic during this time of year because it's my favorite holiday.
 
LittleSin

LittleSin

Gilgamesh said:
Note of Advice for marathons like this:

Plan out at least one week ahead of time on what movies you're going to watch. Spur of the moment works for a week or two but as it continues you start scrambling last second for something decent and end the month with a few you missed that you'll be upset about missing.
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I have a small list of movies I want to get to. Some i haven't seen before, others are ones I like. You'll find I never get to gory or really "realistic" as I am person that's given to fright. In other words, I can't do the Paranormal Activity movies because they feel to 'real'...also, I believe my house is kinda haunted and I don't want to give it ideas.

Any ways my list:

Frankenstein (original)
Wolfman (orig.)
Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness
Wicker Man (orig.)
Tremors
Alien
Aliens
Predator
Nightmare Before Christmas
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Jaws
Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
Hellboy
Hellboy 2
The Amazing Screw On Head
Re-Animator
Gojira
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters 2
Beetlejuice
Shaun of the Dead
Corpse Bride
Interview with a Vampire
Jesus Christ Superstar
TrickrTreat
The Cabin in the Woods
Scream
Zombieland
Night of the Living Dead
Dusk til Dawn
Dracula: Dead and Loving it
Scary Movie
Creature from the Black Lagoon
An American Werewolf in London
Nosferatu
Psycho
Dunwich Horror

More then 31 on the list mainly because I may not be able to get some of the movies on Netflix or the rental places.

I wish I knew of more Lovecraft movies.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

LittleSin said:
I have a small list of movies I want to get to. Some i haven't seen before, others are ones I like. You'll find I never get to gory or really "realistic" as I am person that's given to fright. In other words, I can't do the Paranormal Activity movies because they feel to 'real'...also, I believe my house is kinda haunted and I don't want to give it ideas.

Any ways my list:

Frankenstein (original)
Wolfman (orig.)
Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness
Wicker Man (orig.)
Tremors
Alien
Aliens
Predator
Nightmare Before Christmas
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Jaws
Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
Hellboy
Hellboy 2
The Amazing Screw On Head
Re-Animator
Gojira
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters 2
Beetlejuice
Shaun of the Dead
Corpse Bride
Interview with a Vampire
Jesus Christ Superstar
TrickrTreat
The Cabin in the Woods
Scream
Zombieland
Night of the Living Dead
Dusk til Dawn
Dracula: Dead and Loving it
Scary Movie
Creature from the Black Lagoon
An American Werewolf in London
Nosferatu
Psycho
Dunwich Horror

More then 31 on the list mainly because I may not be able to get some of the movies on Netflix or the rental places.

I wish I knew of more Lovecraft movies.
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Where the fuck is Hocus Pocus?



My own list is actually just zombie movies, cause I don't own a whole lot of horror. So I go
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead remake
Diary of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead
Zombieland
Alien
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters 2

Add in whatever is on TV when I go home (Hocus Pocus) for Thanksgiving.

I can probably expand the list this year thanks to Netflix, though...
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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Tried to explain Evil Dead to my colleagues. Failed. They started talking about the Grateful Dead.

I'll try again tomorrow. I think I wanna watch the riff of Drag me to Hell for Halloween.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

LittleSin said:
I have a small list of movies I want to get to. Some i haven't seen before, others are ones I like. You'll find I never get to gory or really "realistic" as I am person that's given to fright. In other words, I can't do the Paranormal Activity movies because they feel to 'real'...also, I believe my house is kinda haunted and I don't want to give it ideas.

Any ways my list:

Frankenstein (original)
Wolfman (orig.)
Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness
Wicker Man (orig.)
Tremors
Alien
Aliens
Predator
Nightmare Before Christmas
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Jaws
Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
Hellboy
Hellboy 2
The Amazing Screw On Head
Re-Animator
Gojira
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters 2
Beetlejuice
Shaun of the Dead
Corpse Bride
Interview with a Vampire
Jesus Christ Superstar
TrickrTreat
The Cabin in the Woods
Scream
Zombieland
Night of the Living Dead
Dusk til Dawn
Dracula: Dead and Loving it
Scary Movie
Creature from the Black Lagoon
An American Werewolf in London
Nosferatu
Psycho
Dunwich Horror

More then 31 on the list mainly because I may not be able to get some of the movies on Netflix or the rental places.

I wish I knew of more Lovecraft movies.
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Don't think I didn't notice that missy...
 
LittleSin

LittleSin

Yesterday: Nightmare Before Christmas. Still cool. The music will be with me forever.

Today: Corpse Bride. Meeeeeeh. I was never too hot on this movie and time hasn't improved it for me. It's just so dark compared to NBC, both visually and thematically. I like the story but it feels rushed and cluttered.

Also, the music fucking sucks.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

LittleSin said:
Yesterday: Nightmare Before Christmas. Still cool. The music will be with me forever.

Today: Corpse Bride. Meeeeeeh. I was never too hot on this movie and time hasn't improved it for me. It's just so dark compared to NBC, both visually and thematically. I like the story but it feels rushed and cluttered.

Also, the music fucking sucks.
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I have a soft spot for the song telling the Corpse Bride's past, even though I know Danny Elfman really didn't want to sing it and actually hurt his throat in the process.

As for me, finished Walking Dead, now watching Godzilla vs The Thing (Mothra), probably my favorite Godzilla movie. I love how during the opening credits there's a "this is a work of fiction" disclaimer, despite being a Godzilla movie. You'd think it'd be obvious.
 
LittleSin

LittleSin

Okay. Here we go.

Saturday I watched Ghostbusters. Awesome as always. It's one of my favorite movies and has a very special place in my heart because after my Mom died it and Blues Brothers were the only things that comforted me.

Sunday I didn't have much time as it was Thanksgiving...so Jet and I watched The House of Mouse Halloween special. The 'new' animation for the between bits was terrible but the shorts. both older and modern, were great.

Today we all went and saw Hotel Transylvania. It was our first time taking Jet to the movies..and it was great! I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I wouldn't mind seeing it again.
 
LittleSin

LittleSin

I skipped yesterday. :( I just couldn't make myself sit down and watch a movie.

Today I watched the original Wolf Man. Unlike Dracula this was filled with moody music that, for some reason, reminded me of the score in the more sombre moments of A New Hope. The story was very straight forward and simple...yet it felt tense. I started off hating the main character only to feel very sorry for him by the end and sympathize with his confusion and fear. It was a lot more fast paced than Dracula was and held my attention the whole time. The acting also wasn't very campy as in other films I've watched from the same era.

I'd highly recommend it.
 
LittleSin

LittleSin

Ghostbusters 2: ...I...I actually like Ghostbusters 2 better than the original. I KNOW, okay? I've been taking flak for that my whole life. Don't judge me!

Dracula Dead and Loving it: I hadn't seen this in years. Perhaps not since junior high! It still holds up well and I get most of the jokes being older and having read/seen other Dracula related things. It was wonderful. It went over the top but not in the same idiotic way that a lot of modern day parody movies do. I had a good time. :)
 
LittleKagsin

LittleKagsin

Halloween (the original)

As far as horror movies go, I liked it in that aspect. But this reminds me of those 'time and place' movies where if you don't watch it at the time or place...it loses some impact. This just screams quintessential halloween movie to me. All of the elements are there.

Personally, I wasn't the biggest fan. I do like it MUCH better than other halloween movies we've watched so far. I'm pretty new to watching scary/slasher/horror movies, so..the logic in this just made me shake my head. I enjoyed Meyers as a villian, I liked that he doesn't speak really. And I'm glad I watched this with friends because his creeping in the background all of the time was starting to get to me by the end of the movie.

I am pretty excited to be watching the classics finally. But yeah, I don't have much else to say.
 
SpecialKO

SpecialKO

The last couple of years, I've actually gone out of my way to watch Halloween/horror movies that I am specifically unfamiliar with or missed entirely in theaters, based purely on what is available on Netflix.

Granted, there have been quite a few stinkers, but thanks to this method, I ended up seeing:

Triangle
Pontypool
Outpost
Berlin Undead
R-Point
Death Watch
Isolation
The Objective
Trick R Treat
The Last Exorcism
REC

All of these were at least enjoyable, and REC and Pontypool are all around spectacular, and Triangle and Trick R Treat are extremely solid.
 
LittleSin

LittleSin

Lost speed on my halloweenathon. Mainly had trouble ginfing time to watch a movie every day.

Here's what I have watched.

Scary Movie: A lot funnier than I remember. It still holds up pretty well.

Scary Movie 2: This...did not hold up well. It still got a few laughs out of me but I feel it was to reliant on referencing other things WAY outside the horror genre. It's strange to me that, once upon a time, I thought this movie was much funnier than the original and now the opposite is true.

The Mummy: Original with Boris Karloff. My dear Blue blessed me with his presence for this after refusing to watch Dradula and The Wolf Man because they were "old". He found that he really enjoyed this and so did I.

Evil Dead: I love this movie...but it is still kinda intense. Maybe a bit goofy...but it gets so loud, the camera jerks so fast and the violence goes from being cringe worthy, to laughable and come right back around to being uncomfortable. You feel a bit like you may be going a bit mad just watching it because nothing makes since after a while. I hope the remake can capture that.
 
Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

I'm a huge fan of the classic horrors and having you remind me of the original Mummy has prompted me to get a copy and watch it tonight. Thank you.
 
LittleSin

LittleSin

Gilgamesh said:
I'm a huge fan of the classic horrors and having you remind me of the original Mummy has prompted me to get a copy and watch it tonight. Thank you.
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I can't find a copy of Frankenstein to finish my 1930s part. :( There's only two video store around here now (that I can easily reach) and they don't have it (to old). Netflix has Dracula, Wolf Man and The Mummy but not Frankenstein. I'm either going to have to Download it or buy it.
 
strawman

strawman

It doesn't look like it's here, but there are many versions of frankenstein out of copyright you can find here, including edisons 1910 silent film version:

http://archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype:"movies" AND (Frankenstein)[DOUBLEPOST=1351179974][/DOUBLEPOST]Or you could just replace it with another apparently good but not well known 1930's horror film:

http://archive.org/details/TheGhoul

The Ghoul is a 1933 British Horror film starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger and Ralph Richardson, whose debut film this was. The plot centres around a Professor (Karloff) who is to be buried with an Egyptian jewel in order to attain eternal life. When the jewel is stolen by his servant, the professor rises from the dead to reclaim it.

The film, based on the play and novel by Dr. Frank King and Leonard J. Hines, was once considered to be a lost film since the original nitrate negative had succumbed to decomposition and no prints of the film were known to exist. However, an incomplete and partly decomposed Czech release print was discovered which was the only available print for several decades. Then, finally, an excellent quality print was discovered in the archives of the British Film Institute.
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Can't go wrong with Boris Karloff.
 
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