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2016 Halloween Horror Movie Challenge

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It's time once again for the Halloween Horror Movie Challenge. I kicked y'alls ass last year. You gonna let me win again? Probably. Y'all are nothing but a bunch of L7s.

With all that, the copy and paste begins:

It's that time of year again! The 8th Annual Halloween Horror Movie Challenge!

The goal is to watch as many horror movies as you can during the month of October. If you're unsure what qualifies:

The IMDb is a good source to determine its potential horror movie status. If you're unsure, asking in the discussion thread is advised. Everything from horror-comedies, sci-fi horror, wretchedly bad horror, kiddie horror, creature features, erotic horror, Masters of Horror, silents, made-for-TV movies, etc. will count. Mini-series count as one despite the running time. LEGITIMATE STAND-ALONE DOCUMENTARIES ONLY. NO FLUFF - That refers to featurettes produced exclusively for the film's disc as supplemental material. For example, don't try and pass off the featurettes, interviews, making of and the like as part of your list.

Like last year, TV SHOWS ARE ALLOWED! This includes American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, True Blood, Tales from the Crypt or Darkside or ANY shows YOU deem worthy of the horror name! Simply name the show and list the episode(s) you watched underneath.

DON'T VIEW THE SAME FILM MORE THAN ONCE! This literally means, don't watch Tourist Trap on October 1, discuss it, and then watch Tourist Trap on October 31 and discuss it again! Once is enough! However, if you want to watch The Exorcist, and then watch The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen, go for it! They're different enough! I'm allowing it!

Finally, I'm pretty sure MOST of us here have Netflix accounts, so if you're able, feel free to post recommendations and/or updates for others to refer to so they can watch more movies instantly.

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Re: 2016 Halloween Horror Movie Challenge

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And I'm off!

10.01 - Willow Creek - :1star:
10.01 - The Purge: Election Year - :3stars:
10.02 - Terrortory - :5stars:
10.02 - Tales from the Darkside: S01E01 - :2.5stars:
10.02 - The Final Project - :0.5stars:
10.02 - Open Grave - :2.5stars:
10.02 - Monsters - :2.5stars:
10.04 - The Exorcist: S01E01 - :3.5stars:
10.04 - The Evil Dead (1981) - :4.5stars:
10.04 - Evil Dead - :4stars:
10.04 - Army of Darkness - :4.5stars:
10.04 - Cat's Eye - :3.5stars:
10.07 - Tales from the Darkside: S01E02 - :2stars:
10.07 - Vamp - :2.5stars:
10.08 - Supernatural: S02:E19 - :3stars:
10.08 - Supernatural: S02:E20 - :3stars:
10.08 - Supernatural: S02:E21 - :4.5stars:
10.08 - Supernatural: S02:E22 - :4stars:
10.08 - Supernatural: S03:E01 - :4.5stars:
10.08 - Supernatural: S03:E02 - :5stars:
10.08 - From Dusk Till Dawn - :4stars:
10.09 - The Burning - :3.5stars:
10.09 - Supernatural: S03:E03 - :5stars:
10.09 - Supernatural: S03:E04 - :3.5stars:
10.09 - Supernatural: S03:E05 - :4.5stars:
10.11 - Exorcist: S01:E02 - :3stars:
10.11 - Exorcist: S01:E03 - :3stars: - Gets a half star bump for that bus scene. :lol:
10.12 - Supernatural: S03:E03 - :4stars:
10.13 - Slumber Party Massacre - :2.5stars:
10.13 - Silent Night, Deadly Night - :2.5stars:
10.13 - Leviathan - :2.5stars:
10.14 - Night of the Living Dead (1968) - :4.5stars:
10.14 - Tales from the Darkside: The Movie - :2.5stars: - If it weren't for the pretty cool cast, this movie would be super lame. :lol:
10.15 - The Neon Demon - :3stars:
10.16 - Cellar Dweller - :2.5stars: - This is like a 90 minute Tales from the Darkside episode.
10.22 - Jaws 2 - :3stars: - Work held me back a few days, but now I'm catching up. Teens and town leaders are dummies.
10.22 - Tenebre - :3.5stars:
10.22 - House of Wax - :3.5stars: - I watched this in 3D and it was neato.
10.22 - Waxwork - :3stars: - Ridiculous. Fun.
10.24 - Lights Out - :3.5stars: - This scared me. :(
10.28 - The Legacy - :2.5stars:
10.28 - Secret Window - :2.5stars:
10.28 - The Vampire Lovers - :3stars: - Ingrid Pitt is so pretty, it's almost painful to watch her.
10.29 - Salem's Lot - :3.5stars:
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10-1 The Faculty. Great cast. There was a revival of good teen horror movies in the 90's, and this was one of them.
10-2 Amityville 3-D. Odd cast. There was a revival of shitty horror movie sequels being made as 3D movies in the 80's, and this was one of them.
10-2 Invoked. A bunch of Irish kids break into an abandoned hotel, can't find the lights, get spooked.
10-3 The Blob (1988). Hell yeah. Bad ass wannabe Kevin Dillon and teen Shawnee Smith save the town while lame-assed sheriff Glenn from The Walking Dead sits around a diner and tries to pick up on the waitress. More bad ass than you'll ever be.
10-3 The Craft. This movie's still got it.
10-3 Poltergeist 2. Even after all these years, I'm still wondering wtf this movie is about and why any of them agreed to it.
10-6 AHS S5 Ep1
10-6 Scream Queens S2 Ep 1
10-6 Scream Queens S2 Ep 2
10-6 AHS S5 Ep2
10-7 AHS S5 Ep3
10-7 AHS S5 Ep4
10-7 AHS S5 Ep5
10-8 AHS S5 Ep6
10-8 AHS S5 Ep7
10-8 AHS S5 Ep8
10-8 AHS S5 Ep9
10-9 Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland. Bruce Springsteen's sister stars as gender bending Angela. Character actor Michael Pollard is pretty awesome in it.
10-9 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). This remake has a different flavor than the original, but is still top notch. I think it's a stellar example of how you can remake a film, change almost everything about it except for the core mythology, and it can be fantastic. I was only 8 when this came out, but I didn't hear my parents or their friends talk about how this remake "raped their childhood" like you pussies do today. I hope Trump grabs you.
10-10 AHS S5 Ep10
10-10 AHS S5 Ep11
10-11 The Invasion (2007). This remake has a different flavor than the original and is utter crap. I think it's a stellar example of how not to remake a film. I had hope for it, but as changes to the core mythology revealed themselves, it became clear this movie was a hellfest of turds. Overexplaining things, adding the idea of finding a cure, and the son are the main nails in the coffin here.
10-12 Scream Queens S2 E3
10-13 Scary Movie 2. This and the original are the only ones worth a damn. James Woods is great in this.
10-15 Evil Dead (remake). I have no idea what I just watched. It seemed bizarre and threatening.
10-16 Shockwave: Surviving North America's Biggest Disaster. This is a documentary, but I'm going to put it here anyway. Because it's about the Cascadia subduction zone that's off the coast from me and will likely kill me with a 10.0 quake when it goes next. Watching this, I got to see the city I go to when I go to the coast get destroyed by a tsunami over and over again with bad CGI.
10-16 Zombie. Always a classic. As an unintended coincidence, I was wearing my Zombie tshirt. Thinking on this statement as I write it, I realize I actually have 2 Zombie tshirts.
10-16 Contamination. I guess I'm having an Ian McCulloch double feature. This movie opens almost exactly the same as Zombie, right down to the captain of the ghost ship barelling into NYC being called a turkey. The main difference is in Zombie it's a sailboat, in Contamination it's a freighter. :lol:
10-16 Robot Holocaust. Holocaustastic.
10-18 Don't Blink. This movie was pretty good until you get to the end and it doesn't actually end, the movie just stops with nothing explained and you're just left kind of being WTF did I just waste all my time on? NO STARS. :hitler:
10-18 Phenomena. The Richard Wagner School for Girls :lol:
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10/1 - Se7en (1995) View trailer
10/1 - The X-Files: Home (1996) View trailer
10/1 - American Horror Story: Freak Show (Season 4, Episode 1) (2014) View trailer
10/1 - American Horror Story: Freak Show (Season 4, Episode 2) (2014) View trailer
10/2 - The Crooken Man (2016) View trailer
10/5 - American Horror Story: Roanoke (Season 6, Episode 4) (2016) View trailer
10/5 - Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) View trailer
10/6 - American Horror Story: Hotel (Season 5, Episode 11) (2016) View trailer
10/6 - American Horror Story: Hotel (Season 5, Episode 12) (2016) View trailer
10/7 - American Horror Story: Hotel (Season 5, Episode 7) (2015) View trailer
10/7 - American Horror Story: Hotel (Season 5, Episode 9) (2015) View trailer
10/7 - American Horror Story: Hotel (Season 5, Episode 10) (2015) View trailer
10/7 - Carrie (2013) View trailer
10/7 - Crimson Peak (2015) View trailer
10/12 - American Horror Story: Roanoke (Season 6, Episode 5) (2016) View trailer
10/13 - Supernatural: Keep Calm and Carry On (Season 12, Episode 1) (2016) View trailer
10/14 - Ghostbusters (2016) View trailer
10/15 - Bride of Chucky (1998) View trailer
10/18 - American Horror Story: Roanoke (Season 6, Episode 6) (2016) View trailer
10/21 - Supernatural: Mamma Mia (Season 12, Episode 2) (2016) View trailer
10/21 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do The Time Warp Again (2016) View trailer :mad:
10/26 - American Horror Story: Roanoke (Season 6, Episode 7) (2016) View trailer
10/27 - Supernatural: The Foundry (Season 12, Episode 3) (2016) View trailer
10/28 - Poltergeist (1982) View trailer
10/28 - Thir13en Ghosts (2001) View trailer
10/29 - The Lost Boys (1987) View trailer
10/30 - Hocus Pocus (1993) View trailer
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10/2 - The Exorcist: "Chapter Two: Lupus in Fabula " (2016) [tv series] - :1.5stars:
10/10 - The Exorcist: "Chapter Three: Let 'Em In" (2016) [tv series] - :1.5stars:
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10.01 - Psycho (1960) :5stars:
10.01 - The Red Spectre (shot) (1907) :3stars:
10.02 - The Whip and the Body (1963) :2.5stars:
10.02 - Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) :4.5stars:
10.02 - Alléluia (2014) :3.5stars:
10.05 - We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011) :3stars:
10.06 - The Beyond (1981) :3stars:
10.08 - The Blob (1958) :3stars:
10.11 - Shin Godzilla (2016) :3stars:
10.12 - Eraserhead (1977) :4stars:
10.15 - Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) :3.5stars:
10.15 - Geometria (short) (1987) :3stars:
10.15 - The Itching (short) (2016) :3.5stars:
10.15 - Zombie Holocaust (1980) :2.5stars:
10.15 - Torso (1973) :3stars:
10.15 - Dead Line (1972) :3.5stars:
10.15 - Street Trash (1987) :1.5stars:
10.16 - Another Evil (2016) :2.5stars:
10.16 - Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) :2stars:
10.19 - Blood Feast (1963) :2stars:
10.19 - I Am a Ghost (2012) :2stars:
10.20 - The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror V (1994) :3.5stars:
10.20 - The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror VI (1995) :3.5stars:
10.20 - The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror VII (1996) :3stars:
10.22 - Evil Waves (short) (2016) :3stars:
10.22 - Play Dead With Me (short) (2016) :2stars:
10.22 - Axel Crow (short) (2016) :1star:
10.22 - Bloodspray (short) (2016) :2.5stars:
10.22 - Buzzkill (short) (2016) :3stars:
10.22 - Evil Waves (short) (2016) :3.5stars:
10.22 - I Love Lucy (short) (2016) :3.5stars:
10.22 - Whoa, I'm Dating a...Werewolf (short) (2016) :3stars:
10.22 - Netflix & Kill (short) (2016) :1star:
10.22 - Pay Your Respects (short) (2016) :3.5stars:
10.22 - Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pride (1925) :3stars:
10.22 - House of Frankenstein (1944) :2.5stars:
10.22 - Black Sunday (1960) :4stars:
10.22 - House by the Cemetery (1981) :2.5stars:
10.22 - Shivers (1975) :4stars:
10.22 - Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives (1986) :3stars:
10.24 - The Walking Dead, S7E1 "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" (2016) :3.5stars:
10.28 - Repulsion (1965) :4.5stars:
10.30 - White Zombie (1932) :2stars:
10.30 - 28 Days Later (2002) :3stars:
10.30 - 28 Weeks Later (2007) :3stars:
10.31 - The Phantom of The Opera (1925) :4stars:
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10/1 - Trilogy of Terror (1975) (just the Amelia segment) - :4.5stars:
10/1 - Are You Afraid of the Dark? (The Tale of Laughing in the Dark) - :4stars:
10/2 - Curtains (1983) - :3.5stars:
10/2 - Are You Afraid of the Dark? (The Tale of the Whispering Walls) - :2.5stars:
10/2 - Tales from the Crypt (The Switch) - :3.5stars:
10/4 - The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - :4.5stars:
10/8 - Are You Afraid of the Dark? (The Tale of the Pinball Wizard) - :3stars:
10/9 - Sleepaway Camp (1983) - :4.5stars:
10/9 - Goosebumps (The Werewolf of Fever Swamp) - :4.5stars:
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