This is a celebration, not homework, therefore as usual I will be listing movies as I see them, and not before - prefer a little more flexibility to rigidly locking in six weeks of horror viewing. (In the Comments I have a couple of posts to keep track of potential picks and where I'm finding them.)
QUICK EASY RULES (per the challenge here):
There must be 31 films - FINISHED
6 countries - Watch Me When I Kill (Italy), Saloum (Senegal), The Iron Rose (France), H (South Korea), Spare Parts (Canada), Twins of Evil (United Kingdom)
8 decades - Drácula (1930s), The Haunted Palace (1960s), Blood for Dracula (1970s), Evil Dead Trap (1980s), Nightbreed (1990s), Pulse (2000s), Demon (2010s), Barbarian…
This is a celebration, not homework, therefore as usual I will be listing movies as I see them, and not before - prefer a little more flexibility to rigidly locking in six weeks of horror viewing. (In the Comments I have a couple of posts to keep track of potential picks and where I'm finding them.)
QUICK EASY RULES (per the challenge here):
There must be 31 films - FINISHED
6 countries - Watch Me When I Kill (Italy), Saloum (Senegal), The Iron Rose (France), H (South Korea), Spare Parts (Canada), Twins of Evil (United Kingdom)
8 decades - Drácula (1930s), The Haunted Palace (1960s), Blood for Dracula (1970s), Evil Dead Trap (1980s), Nightbreed (1990s), Pulse (2000s), Demon (2010s), Barbarian (2020s)
2 insect centered films - The Wasp Woman, Genocide
1 horror film set in space or the future (relative to when it was released) - Creature
2 animated films - The Spine of Night, A Creepshow Animated Special
1 bloodthirsty old person/people film - Mother's Day
2 1970s regional US films (from this list by Sean Young) - Bog, Don't Go In The House
The worst horror sequel from the 1990s that you haven't seen and can access - Amityville: Dollhouse
1 German Silent
5 Films from Cronenberg, Ti West, Bill Rebane, Charles B. Pierce, William Grefé and/or Joy N. Houck Jr. - Scanners, Sting of Death, The Sacrament, Trigger Man, X
2 Christopher Lee films - Hercules in the Haunted World, Taste the Blood of Dracula
1 film with a musician or band in it - Bram Stoker's Dracula
1 Stephen King adaptation that is not the first go around - Carrie (2013)
1 Lon Chaney film - London After Midnight (2002 reconstruction)
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film) - Salem's Lot
***FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO DO EXTRA WORK: WATCH The Last Circus and Silent Madness. Like last year, there is a third film: Pennywise: The Story of It.
My variation: one qualifying film will be picked from the realm of kink/fetish/BDSM themed horror, to be watched on September 25th, the day of the Folsom Street Fair. (Spare Parts)
VIEWING BEGINS SEPTEMBER 15th<squeegee squeegee> SEPTEMBER 11th in anticipation of a busier schedule this year than previous.
