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 IT'S THE MAY HORROR MOVIE CHALLENGE As of this post, we are half-way to Halloween!  Usually CineD celebrates horror movies with an October Horror Movie Challenge. During the month of October, we torture ourselves with a personal challenge to see how many horror movies we can watch before the witching hour of All Hallow's Eve (many aim for a goal of 31 Horror movies). We talk about the movies we watch, rate them, recommend new horror movies, and talk about how great horror movies are. It's a hell of a good time. What is this hell?October's the best, but it's a busy month looking for costumes, going to parties, decorating, trick 'r treating, etc. Horror movies are also a little harder to come by (many streaming services lose their horror licenses because  , DVDs and Blu-Rays are expensive) but pop back up during Spring & Summer. So why wait for October to dig into that horror backlog? Are there Rules?Set a personal goal for how many horror movies you're going to watch. The idea is to aim for at least 13 movies (but, again, this is a loose rule). They can be favorites or first-time views, it's your call. The challenge officially ends June 1st, 6AM (EST). Also, don't be afraid to discuss movies here or to go off-topic a little bit. This thread is not intended to be half a dozen pages of just movie reviews, it's to watch and enjoy horror movies and talk about them with goons. .   Where can I watch these "horror movies"?Shudder: The best horror streaming service. They have an excellent catalog of well-known greats to obscure gems. They offer a free trial and can be streamed through the website, apps for tablets, or through Amazon Prime (and Amazon streaming apps) Netflix/Amazon Prime/Hulu: Check the second post for movies available on streaming  What should I watch?Feel free to REQUEST A WILD CARD! Instead of wasting your time trying to pick something for yourself, leave your fate in the hands of goons. The horror regulars know their stuff and will most certainly throw you an interesting movie. (If you have any triggers, I'd mention that too. You wouldn't want to be given Belladonna of Sadness if you can't handle rape, or Cannibal Holocaust if you love animals)  Are there buh-buh-buh-bonus points??!Absolutely! This year, you get bonus points for watching *Day-time Horror - movies that mainly take place during the day or brightly lit (Shaun of the Dead, Ravenous, etc.) *Horror Camp - Summer camp horror or camping trip horror (The Edge, ) *Horror Gone Wild! - Horror movies that take place during Spring Break! *May (2002) *Possession(1981) *The Silence of the Lambs(1991) *Beloved(1998) When does it begin? RIGHT NOW!!!From the beginning of this posting, any horror movie counts. Thanks to MacheteZombie for the thread title! Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 16:00 on May 2, 2017 |
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Multiple Services An American Werewolf In London ! The Babadook ! Cabin Fever Cloverfield From Dusk Till Dawn Gremlins Hannibal The Last Exorcism Monkey Shines Tucker & Dale vs Evil ! Netflix A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night A Nightmare On Elm Street ! The Awakening Baskin The Blair Witch Project Dead Silence Dead Snow Deathgasm The Eyes of My Mother !! Extraordinary Tales The Fury Hellraiser ! Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 Housebound Hush I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives In the House The Invitation It Follows ! Late Phases The Legend of Hell House ! Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy ! The Omen Ravenous ! The Shining ! Stage Fright Tales From The Darkside: The Movie Trollhunter Under the Shadow We Are What We Are Wes Craven's New Nightmare VHS Amazon Prime Afflicted Borderland Bride of Re-Animator Burn Witch Burn Chopping Mall Dead and Buried The Devil Bat Green Room ! Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer ! House on Haunted Hill I Am A Ghost Killer Klowns From Outer Space The Mist The Monster Neverlake Nightmare Castle Night Watch Nosferatu Opera ! Season of the Witch Sleepy Hollow Street Trash Texas Chainsaw Massacre ! The Woman In Black The Witch ! HULU The Devil's Rejects Eraserhead Event Horizon Friday the 13th Ginger Snaps House of the Devil High Tension The Innkeepers Rosemary's Baby The Silence of the Lambs Vampire's Kiss Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Apr 28, 2017 |
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Apr 28, 2017 04:55
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If you don't post Possession as one of the movies to watch , the horror thread will disown you. Put me down for 12 movies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_OUDpUhle8 edit: I'll change my challenge to 13. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Apr 29, 2017 |
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Apr 28, 2017 05:04
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Setting my goal at 13 can't possibly be asking for trouble.  Going to aim for some thinning of my Amazon and Netflix watch lists. And Event Horizon to see if it's as good as child me vaguely remembers from a partial hotel cable viewing.
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Apr 28, 2017 06:07
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I will watch 13 films this coming month without breaking my X-files marathon, because I am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb8nP0pNrEY
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Apr 28, 2017 07:30
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I'm in. 13 sounds like a reasonable goal. Looking forward to starting this weekend!
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Apr 28, 2017 13:46
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I can do 13, probably.
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Apr 28, 2017 13:52
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I'll probably end up watching more than 13 because I'm insane. For those that have Shudder and may be watching a few Rob Zombie films, consider giving House of 1000 Corpses another shot even if you didn't like it years ago. I think its really aged well and I like it a little bit more each time I see it.
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Apr 28, 2017 14:07
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13 will be a breeze. Btw you need to add The Eyes of My Mother to the Netflix list.
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Apr 28, 2017 14:18
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Daveski posted:I'm in. 13 sounds like a reasonable goal. Looking forward to starting this weekend! May 1st isn't until Monday, are you going to cheat?!?
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Apr 28, 2017 14:25
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Spatulater bro! posted:13 will be a breeze. Btw you need to add The Eyes of My Mother to the Netflix list. drat you right. Drunkboxer posted:May 1st isn't until Monday, are you going to cheat?!? It's not cheating, it's a head start for everybody. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Apr 28, 2017 |
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Apr 28, 2017 14:25
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Franchescanado posted:drat you right. Ok, good because I was going to cheat/take a head start as well.
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Apr 28, 2017 14:29
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Drunkboxer posted:May 1st isn't until Monday, are you going to cheat?!? I'm definitely gonna cheat. I never have the will power to wait in October either, my marathons always end up starting the week before. One year I even did September AND October and I watched over 50 horror movies.
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Apr 28, 2017 14:29
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It may be worth noting too that YouTube has a lot of horror movies. Someone in genchat (sorry I can''t recall who, probably one of you guys) put together a list of all the films on the They Shoot Zombies Don't They list available on YouTube. If someone can dig that up it might be a useful resource.
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Apr 28, 2017 14:53
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13 ain't nothing, put me down for 50. https://tubitv.com/category/horror also has a pretty decent selection if you don't mind commercials.
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Apr 28, 2017 14:55
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edit: I'm going to steal MacheteZombie's idea and  myself for 13 movies. If I don't get through at least 13 please tear my soul apart (or probate me until October).For a bit more accountability and organization I'm going to post my watchlist here. I'll be going through these in order. My goal is to get through at least 13, but my real goal is to finish the whole list by June: Some of the "better" Hellraiser films after part 2: 1. Hellraiser 3 2. Hellraiser Bloodline Stuff I own on Blu-ray but haven't seen yet: 3. Bride of Re-Animator 4. The Uninvited (1944) 5. The Blob (1958) 6. Hex 7. Mystery of the Wax Museum 8. Phantom of the Opera (1943) 9. Five Dolls for an August Moon 10. The Bloodstained Shadow More gialli: 11. Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key 12. Torso 13. Short Night of Glass Dolls 14. Perfume of the Lady in Black 15. All the Colors of the Dark Some essentials I feel embarrassed for having not seen: 16. The Howling 17. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) 18. They Live 19. Prince of Darkness 20. Fright Night More Lucio Fulci: 21. The Black Cat 22. Cat in the Brain 23. Lizard in a Woman's Skin 24. The Psychic More Jean Rollin: 25. The Rape of the Vampire 26. Living Dead Girl 27. Requiem for a Vampire Spatulater bro! fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Apr 28, 2017 |
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Apr 28, 2017 15:19
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Spatulater bro! posted:Some essentials I feel embarrassed for having not seen: I'm extremely jealous that you get to watch these for the first time. I have a few like that on my list for this challenge as well: Rabid Fright Night The Devil's Backbone Cannibal Ferox Although I don't think any of these will be as fun as the lineup you've got going on. I'll probably watch Prince of Darkness again just for the hell of it.
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Apr 28, 2017 15:35
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Basebf555 posted:Fright Night poo poo, I still need to see this too. I'm gonna squeeze it in there.
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Apr 28, 2017 15:41
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Aww yeah, my title suggestion made the cut! So I am going to myself for 13 movies. If I don't get to 13 by the end of May our beloved mod may probate me until October.I'm going to post my planned 13 movies, with a few that I hope I can get this thread to select for me. These will all be first time watches. 1. Pieces - movie where I got the name of the thread from. 2. The Asphyx 3. Street Trash 4. Graveyard Shift 5. Serial Mom 6. Tombs of the Blind Dead 7. The Vampire Lovers 8. Black Sabbath 9. Lizard in Woman's Skin For my final selections, I thought it would be fun to let the thread decide my Hammer fate. I realized earlier this year that a huge gap in my horror viewing exists. I haven't seen most of the Hammer films. So to help correct this, here's a short list of ones I haven't seen and if enough people suggest a few those will make it onto my list. e: going to make this a tracking section for votes. 10-13: Dracula Has Risen From the Grave- 1 Taste the Blood of Dracula- Brides of Dracula- 1 Dracula AD 1972- Curse of the Werewolf- The Mummy- 2 The Devil Rides Out- 1 Horror Express(not technically a Hammer film, but everyone tells me it might as well be)- 2 MacheteZombie fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Apr 28, 2017 |
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Apr 28, 2017 15:47
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MacheteZombie posted:Aww yeah, my title suggestion made the cut! I'm loving the TOXX idea. Anyway I suggest: Horror Express (duh), Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, Brides of Dracula, and The Mummy.
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Apr 28, 2017 15:53
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The Devil Rides out is, from what I understand, excellent. But I haven't been able to find it anywhere and it's like $40 on blu ray. Is it available on youtube? For sure watch The Mummy and Horror Express though. Both feature Lee and Cushing and Horror Express in particular is one that I'm sure there will be a parade of people in here lobbying for. It rules.
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Apr 28, 2017 15:53
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I edited my other post but I want to make sure everyone sees it: I'm going to steal MacheteZombie's idea and myself for 13 movies. If I don't watch 13 please probate me.
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Apr 28, 2017 16:02
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Basebf555 posted:The Devil Rides out is, from what I understand, excellent. But I haven't been able to find it anywhere and it's like $40 on blu ray. Is it available on youtube? If a movie becomes impossible to procure I reserve the right to swap it out. But I'm hoping I can track it down should it make the cut. e: Spatulater bro! posted:I edited my other post but I want to make sure everyone sees it: I'm going to steal MacheteZombie's idea and 
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Apr 28, 2017 16:03
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I'll list a handful of titles I definitely want to watch and leave a couple spaces for filler as friends may have ideas. One hard rule that all counted titles must be first time viewings: 1. Hellraiser 2. The Eyes of My Mother 3. Train to Busan 4. Thinner 5. [Rec] 4 if you all think it can work as a standalone having seen none of the series 5 (alternate). free space 6. The Windmill 7. The Blair Witch Project 8. Late Phases 9. P 10. The Neon Demon 11. Starry Eyes
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Apr 28, 2017 16:25
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I'm amazed you guys haven't seen Fright Night, it's my go-to for Fun Vampire Movie
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Apr 28, 2017 16:34
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Franchescanado posted:I'm amazed you guys haven't seen Fright Night, it's my go-to for Fun Vampire Movie The only excuse I can really think of is that I ended up seeing the remake first, which maybe took some of the appeal out of the original for me. Sometimes that happens, the fact that I already know the basic outline of the story makes the original less enticing.
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Apr 28, 2017 16:52
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They are different enough to stand on their own, in my opinion. Different tone, characterization, plotting, etc. They are the same in premise, character names and basic structure
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Apr 28, 2017 17:12
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Also the theme for the original Fright Night is very kick rear end. https://youtu.be/re_IEpPFdmA TheKingslayer fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Apr 28, 2017 |
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Apr 28, 2017 18:22
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TheKingslayer posted:Also the theme for the original Fright Night is very kick rear end. RIP J. Geils
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Apr 28, 2017 18:51
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I'm in.
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Apr 28, 2017 21:26
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Does anyone have Shudder UK? I don't want to sign up to something that has an empty shell of options, but if I can find 13 horrors to watch in May I will do it quite happily! Maybe split my usual October Horrorthon into two parts and do one now as studying and trying to watch a horror a day is a bit of a pain in the arse.
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Apr 29, 2017 01:43
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I'm sorry, I'm not very familiar with how CineD does their movie challenges, but if I understand this correctly, I only have to watch 13 horror movies during May? Then I would have to rate them, write a little bit about them, and keep going?
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Apr 29, 2017 05:12
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Yep! And if you fall short of 13, we drop you in a greased pit and film you starving to death.
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Apr 29, 2017 05:14
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Sign me up. Here's a prelim list of what I'm gonna try to get to this month (assuming all are somewhere streaming, including amazon rental): The Void The Asphyx The Eyes of My Mother The Lobster Ghostwatch Frailty Black Devil Doll from Hell I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House Contamination The Wailing Ouija: Origin of Evil The Visit From Beyond All of those would be first time, excepting From Beyond (I was planning on watching that again soon anyways so might as well do it now)
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Apr 29, 2017 05:58
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Spatulater bro! posted:
A good selection but really you should add Fascination ..
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Apr 29, 2017 06:05
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alansmithee posted:Sign me up. Here's a prelim list of what I'm gonna try to get to this month (assuming all are somewhere streaming, including amazon rental): More than half are on Netflix and Amazon
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Apr 29, 2017 06:23
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Does watching Fright Night 13 times count? Just need some clarification.
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Apr 29, 2017 06:29
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Of course it does, just alternate between original, sequel and remake.
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Apr 29, 2017 07:30
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I've been meaning to watch Targets. Does that count as a horror movie?
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Wow, we got Stickied. The October challenge doesn't even get stickied. Last night was my birthday, so no horror movies. Tonight I'm watching Raw and maybe The Void at my local theater.
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