Back for round 2 after having such a great time last year! For the full introduction see Cinemonster's post. As last year, all of these will be new watches for me.
(*Swapped Pitch Black for As Above, So Below, and Doctor Sleep for Funny Games to add a couple more foreign films. Swapped Pearl for Smile as the former wasn't showing near me. Swapped Fresh for Chopping Mall because I happened to watch it and it felt right.)
Rules:
31 horror films between Sep 15th and Oct 31st.
6 countries
(USA, UK, Japan, Germany, Canada, France, Austria, Spain, Greece)
8 decades
(1920s, 50s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 10s, 20s)
2 insect centered films
(Them!, The Swarm)
1 horror film set…
Back for round 2 after having such a great time last year! For the full introduction see Cinemonster's post. As last year, all of these will be new watches for me.
(*Swapped Pitch Black for As Above, So Below, and Doctor Sleep for Funny Games to add a couple more foreign films. Swapped Pearl for Smile as the former wasn't showing near me. Swapped Fresh for Chopping Mall because I happened to watch it and it felt right.)
Rules:
31 horror films between Sep 15th and Oct 31st.
6 countries
(USA, UK, Japan, Germany, Canada, France, Austria, Spain, Greece)
8 decades
(1920s, 50s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 10s, 20s)
2 insect centered films
(Them!, The Swarm)
1 horror film set in space or the future (relative to when it was released)
(Crimes of the Future, Event Horizon)
2 animated films
(ParaNorman, Perfect Blue)
1 bloodthirsty old person/people film
(Homebodies)
2 1970s regional US films
(The Last House on the Left, Alice, Sweet Alice, The Town that Dreaded Sundown)
The worst horror sequel from the 1990s that you haven't seen and can access
(Candyman: Day of the Dead)
1 German Silent
(The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)
5 Films from David Cronenberg, Ti West, Bill Rebane, Charles B. Pierce, William Grefe and/or Joy N. Houck Jr.
(Crimes of the Future, Blood Harvest, The Town that Dreaded Sundown, Mako: The Jaws of Death, The Innkeepers)
2 Christopher Lee films
(Dracula (1958), Horror Express)
1 film with a musician or band in it (A real life musician or band)
(Dracula (1992) - Tom Waits)
1 Stephen King adaptation that is not the first go around
(It (2017))
1 Lon Chaney film (NOT JR.)
(The Phantom of the Opera (1925))
And 1 Tobe Hooper Film (There must ALWAYS be a Hooper film)
(The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2)