Master List / Discussion Thread / Information Spreadsheet
Its time for the 5th "season" of the Spook-A-Doodle Bracketology Tournament & Movie Club! A big messy excuse for a bunch of friends to draw random horror films and watch them together while boasting about "wins" and crowning a "champion."
Feel free to join up. Feel free to vote. I'll update this every Sunday as a new set of matchups start.
Where We’re At:
The Championships!
3. Wes Craven’s My Soul to Take vs. 10. (Weapon X’s NYC Grime Connection) Joseph Zito’s Bloodrage
3. Wes Craven’s Scream vs. 10. (Weapon X’s NYC Grime Connection) Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case
3. Wes Craven’s Chiller vs. 10. (Weapon X’s NYC Grime Connection) Joseph Zito’s The Prowler…
Master List / Discussion Thread / Information Spreadsheet
Its time for the 5th "season" of the Spook-A-Doodle Bracketology Tournament & Movie Club! A big messy excuse for a bunch of friends to draw random horror films and watch them together while boasting about "wins" and crowning a "champion."
Feel free to join up. Feel free to vote. I'll update this every Sunday as a new set of matchups start.
Where We’re At:
The Championships!
3. Wes Craven’s My Soul to Take vs. 10. (Weapon X’s NYC Grime Connection) Joseph Zito’s Bloodrage
3. Wes Craven’s Scream vs. 10. (Weapon X’s NYC Grime Connection) Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case
3. Wes Craven’s Chiller vs. 10. (Weapon X’s NYC Grime Connection) Joseph Zito’s The Prowler
You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST Sept 23rd (or when I get to it)
Next Week!
HalloweeNIT!
Results
Svengoolie's Dungeon
- Sven's 15 Seed Play In: (Darth’s Team Fresh Styles) Mark Goldblatt’s Dead Heat def (Goat’s The REC Dudes) Paco Plaza’s Sister Death and Freddie Francis’s Tales From The Crypt
- Sven's 16 Seed Play In: (Darth’s Team Metro Noir Horror Anime) Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s Demon City Shinjuku def Andy Milligan’s Torture Dungeon and (mbd’s Team Eerie Eire) Jon Wright’s Tormented
- 13. (Kangra’s Puberty Sucks) Michael O’Shea’s The Transfiguration def 4. Ishirō Honda’s The H-Man vs.
- 5. (Sam’s #ThrowbackThursday) Adam Wingard’s Blair Witch def 12. (Weapon X’s Freddy’s Nightmares) Rachel Talalay’s A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting
- 3. Wes Craven’s Nightmare on Elm Street def 14. (Weapon X’s Game Over) Paul W. S. Anderson’s Event Horizon
- 11. (Kangra’s The Rage Virus) Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s 28 Weeks Later def 6. Dario Argento’s Jenifer
- 15. (Darth’s Team Fresh Styles) Jiri Sádek’s The Noonday Witch def 2. Ratno Timoer’s Revenge of the Ninja
- 7. (Goat’s Bracketology Redux) Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein def 10. (Sam’s TaBOO!) Harry Kümel’s Malpertuis
- 1. (Sam’s I Ain't Never Seen This Before) John Parker’s Dementia def 16. (Darth’s Team Metro Noir Horror Anime) Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s Wicked City
Sven's Second Round
- 8. (Goat’s Lewton Bus) Mark Robson’s Bedlam draw 9. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Sweet Home
- 3. Wes Craven’s Deadly Friend def 11. (Kangra’s The Rage Virus) Danny Boyle’s Trance
- 5. (Sam’s #ThrowbackThursday) Ti West’s The Innkeepers def 13. (Kangra’s Puberty Sucks) Paul Weitz’s Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant
- 9. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse def 1. (Samfucius’ I Ain't Never Seen This Before) Kyle Edward Ball’s Skinamarink and 8. (Goat’s Lewton Bus) Mark Robson’s The Seventh Victim
- 15. (Darth’s Team Fresh Styles) Bigas Luna’s Anguish def 7. (Goat’s Bracketology Redux) Steve Beck’s Thir13en Ghosts
Elvira's Dungeon
- Elvira's 16 Seed Play In: (Kangra’s Undying Love) Ben & Chris Blaine’s Nina Forever def (Darth’s Team Drowning in Atmosphere) Rodrigo Gudiño’s The Breach and (twernt’s The Return of the Bride of the Remake's Ghost!) Kimberly Pierce’s Carrie
- Elvira's 15 Seed Play In: M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit def (mod’s Life affirming Austrians) Michael Haneke’s Funny Games (2007) and Álex de la Iglesia’s Witching & Bitching
- 4. (Goat’s Ladies Night) Mimi Cave’s Fresh def 13. Lloyd Kaufman’s Return to Nuke Em High Volume 1
- 5. (Goat’s The Enemies of Horror) Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson’s Synchronic def 12. (Dansk Buds) Johannes Nyholm’s Koko-Di Koko-Da
- 14. (Samfucius’ Cloverfield +1) Babak Anvari’s Under the Shadow def 3. Takashi Miike’s The Great Yokai War: Guardians
- 6. Roger Corman’s Tomb of Ligeia def 11. (Weapon X’s Teamsidious) Leigh Whannell’s Insidious: Chapter 3
- 15. M. Night Shyamalan’s Sixth Sense def 2. (twernt’s Wyrd Woods and Macabre Magick) Paul Urkijo Alijo’s Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil
- 10. (Weapon X’s NYC Grime Connection) Joseph Zito’s The Prowler def 7. Kôji Shiraishi’s Grotesque
- 1. (mbd’s Older Than America) Georgina Lightning’s Older Than America def 16. (Kangra’s Undying Love) Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die
- 8. (Kangra’s A Crate of Crichton Fright Freight) Barry Levinson’s Sphere def 9. Larry Fessenden’s Beneath
- 5. (Goat’s Enemies of Horror) Amy Seimetz’s Sun Don’t Shine def 4. (Goat’s Ladies Night) Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman
- 6. Roger Corman’s The Wasp Woman def 14. (Sam’s Cloverfield +1) Julius Onah’s The Cloverfield Paradox
- 8. (Kangra’s A Crate of Crichton Fright Freight) Frank Marshall’s Arachnophobia def 1. (mbd’s Older Than America) Jeff Barnaby’s Blood Quantum
- 10. (Weapon X’s NYC Grime Connection) Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case def 15. M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass
Joe Bob's Drive In
- Joe Bob's 15 Seed Play In: John Carl Buechler’s Deep Freeze def (mbd’s Czech This Out) Juraj Herz’s The Ninth Heart and (Darth’s Low-Budget But Lovable) Damian Klaus’ Future Kick
- Joe Bob's 16 Seed Play In: (Darth’s Team Australian Aberration) Sean Byrne’s The Devil’s Candy def (Weapon X’s Empire International Pictures All-Stars) Luca Bercovici’s Dark Tide and (mbd’s Neue Deutsche Filme) Michael Bartlett’s The Berlin Bride
- 4. Tobe Hooper’s The Mangler def 13. Renny Harlin’s Exorcist: The Beginning
- 5. (Goat’s Team Zombie aka the New and Improved Knockoffs of the Living Dead) Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead def 12. (Sam’s Argenterror) Demián Rugna’s Terrified
- 3. (Goat’s Horror Noire) Ernest R. Dickerson’s Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight def 14. (Basebf’s Always Back The Drac) Édouard Molinaro’s Dracula and Son
- 11. Lucio Fulci’s Voices from Beyond def 6. (Weapon X’s In Space No One Can Hear You Stream) Jason Eisener’s Hobo With A Shotgun
- 2. (Weapon X’s The Zombie Brothers) Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses def 15. John Carl Buechler’s Cellar Dweller
- 10. (Basebf’s Monsters, Monsters, and More Monsters) Nathan Juran’s The Deadly Mantis def 7. (C3KS’ Chucky and His Pals) Tom Holland’s We All Scream for Ice Cream
- 1. (Basebf’s Steve's Monster Blockbusters) Stephen Sommer’s Van Helsing def 16. (Darth’s Team Australian Aberration) Alan Madden’s Mushrooms
- 8. (Weapon X’s 100% Found Footage) Josh Trank’s Chronicle def 9. Terence Fisher’s The Mummy
- 3. (Goat’s Horror Noire) Jordan Peele’s Nope def 11. Lucio Fulci’s The House by the Cemetery
- 5. (Goat’s Team Zombie aka the New and Improved Knockoffs of the Living Dead) Dan O’Bannon’s Return of the Living Dead def 4. Tobe Hooper’s Djinn
- 1. (Basebf’s Steve's Monster Blockbusters) Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park def 8. (Weapon X’s 100% Found Footage) Joseph & Vanessa Winter’s Deadstream
- 10. (Basebf’s Monsters, Monsters, and More Monsters) John Frankenheimer’s Prophecy def 2. (Weapon X’s The Zombie Brothers) Rob Zombie’s Halloween
MST3K's Satelite
- MST3K's 15 Seed Play In: Dan Curtis’ Trilogy of Terror def (twernt’s Tamil Terrors) Karthik Subbaraj’s Pizza and (Darth’s Team Ladies Love Cruel Jams) Jackie Kong’s The Being
- MST3K's 16 Seed Play In: (Weapon X’s Astron-6 Squad) Steven Kostanski’s Leprechaun Returns def Hideo Nakata’s The Forbidden Play and Sergio Martino’s The Fishmen and Their Queen
- 4. Lamberto Bava’s Demons def 13. Roy Ward Baker’s The Vampire Lovers
- 12. (mbd’s A Special Person Made This) Andrew Getty’s The Evil Within def 5. (Goat’s All Hail Stephen King) John Lee Hancock’s Mr. Harrigan’s Phone
- 3. Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur def 14. (mbd’s Adams Family Values) Toby Poser and John Adams’ The Shoot
- 6. (Goat’s Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities) Guillermo Navarro’s Lot 36 def 11. Charles Band’s Barbie & Kendra Save the Tiger King
- 15. Dan Curtis’ Burnt Offerings def 2. (Goat’s The Magical Muppet Wizardry of Jim Henson and Friends) Lisa Ovies’ Puppet Killer
- 7. (twernt’s Directors who are also responsible for various 1990s Jean Claude Van Damme action movies) Roland Emmerich’s Making Contact def 10. (Kangra’s Koreans Gone Global) Yeon Sang-ho’s Seoul Station
- 16. (Weapon X’s Astron-6 Squad) Steven Kostanski’s Psycho Goreman def 1. (Darth’s Team Japanese Whimsy) Hajime Ohata’s Henge
- 9. (Weapon X’s Acolytes of Corman) James Cameron’s Aliens def 8. (Goat’s Scream Queens) McG’s The Babysitter
- 3. Alfred Hitchcock’s Downhill def 6. (Goat’s Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities) J. A. Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- 12. (mbd’s A Special Person Made This) Fred Durst’s The Fanatic def 4. Lamberto Bava’s The Torturer
- 9. (Weapon X’s Acolytes of Corman) Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula def 16. (Weapon X’s Astron-6 Squad) Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy’s The Editor
- 7. (twernt’s Directors who are also responsible for various 1990s Jean Claude Van Damme action movies) Tsui Hark’s The Butterfly Murders def 15. Dan Curtis’ Curse of the Black Widow
Sweet Sixteen
- 3. Wes Craven’s Invitation to Hell def 15. (Darth’s Team Fresh Styles) Harrison Atkins’ Lace Carter
- 9. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Creepy def 5. (Sam’s #ThrowbackThursday) Adam Wingard’s Death Note
- 10. (Weapon X’s NYC Grime Connection) Abel Ferrara’s Siberia def 6. Roger Corman’s Frankenstein Unbound
- 8. (Kangra’s A Crate of Crichton Fright Freight) Michael Crichton’s Westworld def 5. (Goat’s The Enemies of Horror0 Amy Seimetz’s She Dies Tomorrow
- 5. (Goat’s Team Zombie aka the New and Improved Knockoffs of the Living Dead) Edgar Wright’s The World’s End def 1. (Basebf’s Steve's Monster Blockbusters) Steven Spielberg’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park
- 3. (Goat’s Horror Noire) Rusty Cundieff’s Tales from the Hood def 10. (Basebf’s Monsters, Monsters, and More Monsters) Jon Wright’s Grabbers
- 3. Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy def 7. (twernt's s Directors who are also responsible for various 1990s Jean Claude Van Damme action movies) Tsui Hark’s Missing
- 9. (Weapon X’s Acolytes of Corman) Curtis Hanson’s Sweet Kill def 12. (mbd’s A Special Person Made This) Chester Novell Turner’s Tales from the Quadead Zone
Elite Eight
- 3. Wes Craven’s The Serpent and the Rainbow def 9. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Retribution
- 8. (Kangra’s A Crate of Crichton Fright Freight) Barry Levinson’s The Bay def 10. (Weapon X’s NYC Grime Connection) Joseph Zito’s Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
- 5. (Goat’s Team Zombie aka the New and Improved Knockoffs of the Living Dead) George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead def 3. (Goat’s Horror Noire) Paul Maslansky’s Sugar Hill
- 3. Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes def 9. (Weapon X’s Acolytes of Corman) James Cameron’s Piranha II: The Spawning
Final Four
- 3. Wes Craven’s Scream 2 def 3. Alfred Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain
- 8. (Weapon X’s NYC Grime Connection) Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case 2 def 5. (Goat’s Team Zombie aka the New and Improved Knockoffs of the Living Dead) George Romero’s Survival of the Dead
Championship