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Nicktoberfest 2014

#1

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

It's nearly October. My new annual tradition I started a few years ago rears its head again: NICKTOBERFEST.

For all of October, I plan on watching at least one horror flick every night. This will also include a smattering of shorter stuff like Halloween themed episodes of shows (like Buffy), and Disney cartoon shorts like The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Anyone have any suggestions for my list? So far, I've decided on:

-Hellraiser 1 & 2
-Slither
-Legend of Sleepy Hollow, as mentioned above
-Cabin in the Woods
-Killer Klowns From Outer Space
-Trick 'r Treat
-Scream (been a long, long time since I saw it)
-Insidious 1 & 2, since I dug those a lot
-The Stuff
-Black Sheep (the Australian horror movie, not the David Spade/Chris Farley comedy)
-Seven
-Fallen
-Young Frankenstein
-Bride of Frankenstein
-The Mangler
-Cube
-Maximum Overdrive
-The Thing
-Pontypool
-Halloween
-Psycho
-Critters (maybe 1 AND 2)
-In the Mouth of Madness
-The Exorcist
-Splice
-Jeepers Creepers
-Monster Squad
-Alien

Probably be watching some classic slasher stuff since that's my favourite sub-genre of horror. Not sure what, yet, since I wouldn't have time for ALL Nightmare on Elm St and ALL Friday the 13 movies and still have room for other good stuff.

Any suggestions? I'm probably not going to bother with stuff like The Saw movies or a lot of the crap teen horror flicks in recent years.


#2

Emrys

Emrys

Se7en


#3

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Emrys said:
Se7en
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Ooh, you know, I haven't seen that in a LONG time. Added. Also adding Fallen, with Denzel Washington, which used to be one of my favourite movies.


#4

Emrys

Emrys

ThatNickGuy said:
Ooh, you know, I haven't seen that in a LONG time. Added. Also adding Fallen, with Denzel Washington, which used to be one of my favourite movies.
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Invite me. I'll bring the popcorn.


#5

mikerc

mikerc

Halloween
The Thing
Evil Dead (original or remake - or both!)
The Descent


#6

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

mroosc1979 said:
Halloween
The Thing
Evil Dead (original or remake - or both!)
The Descent
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Huh. Been a long while since I've watched Halloween or The Thing. Added. I watched the Evil Dead remake earlier this year. Liked it, but not enough to watch it again so soon. I watched Evil Dead 2 last year, so might do Army of Darkness this year. Haven't seen The Descent in a long while, so that might be watched. Thanks. :)


#7

Celt Z

Celt Z

I know I've mentioned it before, but WPIX used to have "Shock-tober" around here where they'd play a different horror movie every night. I think that's how I started liking horror movies. For the sake of nostalgia, I'd probably watch Creepshow, Tales from the Darkside, and Cat's Eye.


#8

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Celt Z said:
I know I've mentioned it before, but WPIX used to have "Shock-tober" around here where they'd play a different horror movie every night. I think that's how I started liking horror movies. For the sake of nostalgia, I'd probably watch Creepshow, Tales from the Darkside, and Cat's Eye.
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All three of those were on last year's list. :D Loved all of them, but I want to try mixing it up a bit, ya know?


#9

Cheesy1

Cheesy1

The original Omen movies


#10

Frank

Frank

I see The Thing already mentioned so my work here is done.

Oh, also, try Phantasm. It's a pretty great cult classic.



I mean, shit, the main villain is the basis of Slender Man.



#11

Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Nightmare on Elm Street, and Wes Craven't New Nightmare, a.k.a the best two.


#12

DarkAudit

DarkAudit

I'll just leave this here. It's not a proper horror marathon without a proper horror host...

(Chilly Billy is still a Pittsburgh icon, 30-some years after Chiller Theater went off the air.)


#13

Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Since Shego might suggest it and she isn't here:

The Mist


#14

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Zero Esc said:
Since Shego might suggest it and she isn't here:

The Mist
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Aw man, love that movie. But I recently re-watched it only a few months ago.


#15

Covar

Covar

Jason X: he just wants his machete.


#16

Celt Z

Celt Z

Covar said:
Jason X: he just wants a hug.
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#17

PatrThom

PatrThom

Throw in some classic Hammer/Corman-era stuff, like Masque of the Red Death or The Death Wheelers (orig: Psychomania) or Pit and the Pendulum.

--Patrick


#18

HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Children of the corn.
Outbreak


#19

AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Trick R Treat (Otherwise known as the best Halloween anthology movie ever)


#20

GasBandit

GasBandit

Killer Klowns from Outer Space.


#21

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

You guys know those are both near the top of my list?


#22

Emrys

Emrys

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

For when you need to cleanse your mental palate after the serious stuff.


#23

fade

fade

Frank said:
I see The Thing already mentioned so my work here is done.

Oh, also, try Phantasm. It's a pretty great cult classic.



I mean, shit, the main villain is the basis of Slender Man.

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My parents let me watch that when I was like 8. I was terrified of those damn balls for years. It actually holds up pretty well, too.

I did find out later why the balls move so realistically. They hired a professional baseball pitcher to throw them.


#24

GasBandit

GasBandit

ThatNickGuy said:
You guys know those are both near the top of my list?
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Wierd, I tried to look for it, I dunno how I missed it.


#25

AshburnerX

AshburnerX

GasBandit said:
Wierd, I tried to look for it, I dunno how I missed it.
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Same.


#26

Dave

Dave



#27

fade

fade

Bleh, Let Me In ripped the heart out of Let the Right One In.


#28



BErt

Do a Tim-Curry-a-thon of IT, Clue, Rocky Horror, and The Worst Witch.


#29

Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

GOJIRAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! What better way to celebrate Halloween than with the mother fucking king of the monsters?


#30

Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

Here's my list from what I have lying around or is on Netflix:


American Psycho
Anaconda
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Carrie (1976)
Carrie (2013)
Children of the Corn
Cropsey
Dead Silence
Detention
Drag Me To Hell
Eraserhead
Escape From Tomorrow
Event Horizon
Friday the 13th (2009)
Fright Night (1984)
From Dusk Till Dawn
From Dusk Till Dawn (TV Series)
Grave Encounters
Halloween
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers
Halloween: Ressurection
Harper's Island (TV Series)
House on Haunted Hill
I Frankenstein
Let Me In
Let The Right One In
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Night of the Living Dead
Nightmare on Elm Street
NOES 2 - Freddy's Revenge
NOES 3 - The Dream Warriors
NOES 4 - The Dream Master
NOES 5 - The Dream Child
NOES 6 - Freddy's Dead
Phantoms
Pi
Piranha (2010)
Poltergeist
Rosemary's Baby
Scream
Scream 2
Scream 3
Scream 4
See No Evil
Seven
Shutter Island
Silent Hill
Silent Hill: Revelation
Texas Chainsaw (2013)
The Act of Killing
The Addams Family
The Birds
The Blair Witch Project
The Cabin in the Woods
The Craft
The Crow
The Elephant Man
The Evil Dead (2012)
The Frighteners
The Host
The House of the Devil
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Prophecy
The Raven
The Sacrament
The Silence of the Lambs
The Skeleton Key
Twin Peaks (TV Series)
Under the Skin
Urban Legends: Final Cut
VHS
VHS 2


#31

Fun Size

Fun Size

I'll once again out Lake Mungo out there as a surprising little treat done not as found footage, but as a documentary. Effectively clever and creepy, although a bit subdued.


#32

Frank

Frank

Dave said:
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No one should watch Cannibal Holocaust. It's really, really vile. There's nothing like scene after scene of brutal animal cruelty to really RAMP up the horror.


#33

DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Phantom of the Paradise. Winnepeg's favorite. :)


#34

PatrThom

PatrThom

Emrys said:
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

For when you need to cleanse your mental palate after the serious stuff.
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Don't forget Return of the Killer Tomatoes. John Astin is fantastic in that. Also how can you turn down George Clooney's first plum role?

Also, it has one of the best boomerang moments in cinema.

--Patrick


#35

Piotyr

Piotyr

CLUE. It's totally a horror flick...I mean it...


#36

drawn_inward

drawn_inward

Charlie Don't Surf said:
Here's my list from what I have lying around or is on Netflix:
Pi
Shutter Island
The Elephant Man
Twin Peaks (TV Series)
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You consider those horror? At best they would be thrillers. The Elephant Man is drama (unless you are being ironic).

I would add:
Dead Alive/Brain Dead
28 Days Later


#37

Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

Shutter Island is pretty horrific. I haven't seen Pi or Elephant Man, but I put them on reputation? The latter for being David Lynch (also Twin Peaks)


#38

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Charlie Don't Surf said:
Shutter Island is pretty horrific. I haven't seen Pi or Elephant Man, but I put them on reputation? The latter for being David Lynch (also Twin Peaks)
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I'd call all of those dramas before I ever called them horror. Shutter Island is a dark noir film, if anything. Which is, you know, Stephan Lehane's bread and butter.


#39

GasBandit

GasBandit

I know it's not horror, but I feel no october film festival is complete without Ghostbusters 1 and 2.


#40

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

GasBandit said:
I know it's not horror, but I feel no october film festival is complete without Ghostbusters 1 and 2.
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It's comedy-horror (stronger leaning on comedy, obviously). Been awhile since I watched those. Think I might add them. Though the list is getting pretty filled now.


#41

Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Pi isn't anything of a horror movie, though it is an excellent movie.


#42

AshburnerX

AshburnerX

My viewing list so far:

- The Halloween Tree
- Coraline
- Paranorman
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Monster Squad

I'll be looking for some of the old claymation specials too. I seem to remember one about a pig guy going to his dead relative's castle to get his inheritance and it's basically full of monsters partying. Then he finds a monster like Frankenstein and an elixer that makes it grow for terrible results. Can't remember what it's called though.


#43

fade

fade

Jacob's Ladder


#44

Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

If you want to see something truly horrifying there's only one answer- MONSTER HIGH! An unoriginal premise, atrocious CG, forced tolerance messages that make X-men seem subtle, and much much more! You want to look away but can't, its basically the animated equivalent of a car crash


#45

PatrThom

PatrThom

AshburnerX said:
I seem to remember one about a pig guy going to his dead relative's castle to get his inheritance and it's basically full of monsters partying. Then he finds a monster like Frankenstein and an elixer that makes it grow for terrible results. Can't remember what it's called though.
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Searched for "Claymation Horror" and it was in the top 10 results.

--Patrick


#46

Just Me

Just Me

Peter Jackson's The Frigtheners

Just for Jeffrey Combs alone :)


#47

Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

here's a tentative schedule I threw together, super subject to change obviously based on my whims, giving up, or changing up the order

10/1 Poltergeist
10/2 The House of the Devil
10/3 The Sacrament
10/4 VHS
10/5 VHS 2
10/6 Texas Chainsaw (2013)
10/7 The Evil Dead (2012)
10/8 Carrie (1976)
10/9 Carrie (2013)
10/10 Let The Right One In
10/11 Let Me In
10/12 Nightmare on Elm Street
10/13 NOES 2 - Freddy's Revenge
10/14 NOES 3 - The Dream Warriors
10/15 NOES 4 - The Dream Master
10/16 NOES 5 - The Dream Child
10/17 NOES 6 - Freddy's Dead
10/18 From Dusk Till Dawn
10/19 From Dusk Till Dawn (TV Series)
10/20 Harper's Island (TV Series)
10/21 The Blair Witch Project
10/22 Eraserhead
10/23 The Elephant Man
10/24 Twin Peaks (TV Series)
10/25 The Nightmare Before Christmas
10/26 Dead Silence
10/27 Under the Skin
10/28 Detention
10/29 The Cabin in the Woods
10/30 Grave Encounters
10/31 Halloween


#48

Frank

Frank

You guys sleeping on Phantasm. It's so great for how weird and inventive it was. Sequel's actually pretty good too. I've never seen the third or fourth films.


#49

Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Yoshimickster said:
If you want to see something truly horrifying there's only one answer- MONSTER HIGH! An unoriginal premise, atrocious CG, forced tolerance messages that make X-men seem subtle, and much much more! You want to look away but can't, its basically the animated equivalent of a car crash
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I think Nick's looking for stuff that's supposed to be scary, otherwise we could throw in Son of the Mask.


#50

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Zero Esc said:
I think Nick's looking for stuff that's supposed to be scary, otherwise we could throw in Son of the Mask.
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Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!! *sobs, crawls into a foetal position*

Also, I may actually add at least the first Phantasm to the list, @Frank. Honestly never seen it. No idea why.[DOUBLEPOST=1411911386,1411911336][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, you should add Trick 'r Treat into that list somewhere, @Charlie Don't Surf, especially if you've never seen it.


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