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The fact that October 30th and 31st are a Friday and Saturday is gonna be great. I'll probably do like an overnight marathon on the 30th into the 31st, then nap for a few hours and do another marathon all day.
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gey muckle mowser posted:Van Wilder is horror because it's about the horror of being tricked into eating dog semen Wait so do the Garfield movies count if the horror part was done in the strip?
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Sep 22, 2020 16:07
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There's prizes???
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Sep 22, 2020 16:08
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:There's prizes??? Sometimes. Like, last year we all got the gang tags.
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Sep 22, 2020 16:08
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Basebf555 posted:we all got the gang tags.  
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Sep 22, 2020 16:11
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Here's now Kvlt! can get a gang tag: 1. Go into the October Challenge thread 2. Watch Lords of Salem and post something like this: Lords of Salem: Rob Zombie is my favorite director, we're best friends in real life. I love Lords of Salem, it's a really interesting direction for Rob and I hope he makes more movies like it in the future. Great performance by Sherri in this one! 3. Rinse and repeat 30 more times.
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Sep 22, 2020 16:13
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Basebf555 posted:Here's now Kvlt! can get a gang tag: FINE FINE ILL DO IT IM IN
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Sep 22, 2020 16:15
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Kvlt! posted:FINE FINE ILL DO IT IM IN Yessss To be clear you can't just watch Lords of Salem 31 times in a row.
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Sep 22, 2020 16:16
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it can be just any 30 horror movies right
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Sep 22, 2020 16:17
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gey muckle mowser posted:Last year a bunch of people counted Joker for the challenge, so I don't think the rules are very strict Imo that was silly Kvlt! posted:it can be just any 30 horror movies right Yurp Fran does awesome things like coming up with specific challenges as well, but those are voluntary.
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Sep 22, 2020 16:19
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Kvlt! posted:it can be just any 30 horror movies right You need a total of 31, but yea it's totally your choice. Some people limit themselves to only movies they haven't seen before, but I don't like to do that. For me October is all about nostalgia so typically like half of my selections are the same every single year.
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Sep 22, 2020 16:21
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Since when has it been 31? I've always just set my limit to 13, then extended for as much as I wanted.
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Sep 22, 2020 16:31
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married but discreet posted:Since when has it been 31? I've always just set my limit to 13, then extended for as much as I wanted. I've always thought that 13 is for the May Challenge, because it's not October so we're trying to keep things more relaxed. October is 31.
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Sep 22, 2020 16:34
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you have to watch 31, 31 times
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Sep 22, 2020 16:44
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Spatulater bro! posted:I watched Random Acts of Violence and Color Out of Space recently. You're right about Random Acts. Pretty lame. A true OP has returned. You were missed Now if only slasherfan were still around
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Sep 22, 2020 17:02
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NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:What a great movie, I wish I could go back and see that for the first time again. It was a wild ride, which was what I was expecting but a lot of it was different to how I was expecting it. Definitely a film of two halves for me, and personally I preferred the first half where you're wondering if her delusions have caused her to mess up and target the wrong people, how they were going to get out of the situation, discovering she wasn't in fact wrong and then having a whole new set of questions... but almost immediately we're then thrown into a secret cabal plot with "reasoning" and ehhhh I'm always disappointed when it's a cabal thing. Like, I get it - the film was barely an hour in and it needed to do something big to keep going, and at least the cabal stuff had more purpose and idea than most do. During the torture scenes I felt like they were just running down the clock and showing me things I didn't really need to see, as I already knew the results which were horrifying enough. But I quite liked the actual ending, so I can't complain. Yeah I doubt I'll bother with the remake, I read the plot overview on Wiki and I know it was generally despised by everyone who saw it. That's enough for me.
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Sep 22, 2020 17:14
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Basebf555 posted:I've always thought that 13 is for the May Challenge, because it's not October so we're trying to keep things more relaxed. October is 31. You can set your own goal. I think I did 31 once, but I'm more likely to aim for 13 while promising to watch at least one movie.
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Sep 22, 2020 17:22
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Yeah I started early, without really meaning to but then it became a conscious effort, because 1. the mood took me and it's the same way as dieting and saying "I'll start tomorrow" and now it's been 3 years and I'm still fat, and 2. I know I'm away a ton in October so I won't make a particularly big dent in my list if I left it til then. Here's my pool/watches so far, I added the Hooptober criteria in so I'll be adding to the pool to cover those but I'm not going to do the reviews because I'm super lazy. https://letterboxd.com/jayx/list/october-horror-film-pool-and-hooptober-attempt/
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Sep 22, 2020 17:28
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If you're not watching The Third Day on HBOmax you are missing out on some good folk horror. It's only 3 episodes long so its more of a movie , but its got real Wicker Man etc.. vibe to it. Very good so far.
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Sep 22, 2020 18:14
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Basebf555 posted:Technically no but nothing is really stopping you from watching movies now and logging them after the thread goes up. I don't start watching movies until I see the thread's gone live. I will start looking for poster art once I've started making my viewing list so if someone reviews a movie I'm also doing, I can use a different poster than what they use. This go since I'm also going to be reviewing some silents, while I have them on DVD, those might be out of print so I'm tracking down if they're also online to include a link if people want to watch them too. Basebf555 posted:I've always thought that 13 is for the May Challenge, because it's not October so we're trying to keep things more relaxed. October is 31. 13 for the May Challenge because it's the halfway point to Octoberpalooza which is 31. NUMBER 1 FULCI FAN posted:There's prizes??? Gang tags are the most recent one, another time it was t-shirts.
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Sep 22, 2020 18:42
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It's been a while since it's been mentioned but Lovecraft Country is really a remarkable show.
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Sep 22, 2020 19:21
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graventy posted:It's been a while since it's been mentioned but Lovecraft Country is really a remarkable show. it's got some pacing issues, but yea, great show.
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Sep 22, 2020 19:44
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The thing I like about Lovecraft Country is that the horror is really wide variety from body horror to cosmic its just all around great. This latest episode was also fantastic with some spooky spiritual horror.
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Sep 22, 2020 21:12
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I think the thing I love about Lovecraft Country is that so much is that so much prestige TV just spin their wheels and really don't shake up the status quo until the series finale.And then even then, often revert back to the status quo by the end of the series premiere. Each episode of Lovecraft Country feels like an individual movie where they really go for it. Like there is a moment towards the end of the second episode (I'm going to talk very, very vaguely, but spoiler just in case) in which a character does something that you think will put the characters in stalemate for a few episodes. But nope the show doesn't just rip through and burn everything to the ground.
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Sep 22, 2020 21:29
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I try and wait until October 1st because September isn't October. But I'm always tempted away. I'm keeping the Bracketology stuff separate and hopefully that feeds my horror itch while I watch non-horror to cleanse the palette and not burn out. If I do get the itch maybe I'll hit up Lovecraft Country or finally watch The Outsider or The Terror S2 or something.
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Sep 22, 2020 21:30
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I'm slowly ramping up my horror intake. In the past I've gotten the urge as early as August and burned myself out by mid-October but I have my To Do List handy. But I'm ready.
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Sep 22, 2020 21:37
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MacheteZombie posted:Do movies like Threads and Where the Wind Blows count for the October Challenge? Threads is for-sure horror, Where the Wind Blows is a dark historical drama, as mentioned, so it shouldn't count. gey muckle mowser posted:Last year a bunch of people counted Joker for the challenge, so I don't think the rules are very strict I let Joker slide because, while it's more actiony-than-psychological, it's still a thriller, it still has a lunatic dressing up in a costume to terrorize people, and it incorporated enough gun horror. It was recent and topical, so I let it slide. Sometimes seeing people justify how a movie is actually a horror movie is interesting; sometimes it's interesting to see people say "It wasn't really horror related and I wish I had watched something else", cuz I get to do a  "I told you so" to myself.Basebf555 posted:Sometimes. Like, last year we all got the gang tags. And I raffled off Arrow's Limited Edition An American Werewolf in London blu ray from a list of everyone that completed the challenge. married but discreet posted:Since when has it been 31? I've always just set my limit to 13, then extended for as much as I wanted. Prizes like the raffle and gang tags are always gonna be for people who watched a minimum of 31 movies. Even before I inherited the Challenge thread, it was 31 movies. But we also clearly always let people make their own goals and minimums, with knowing they just probably won't get in on a prize. M_Sinistrari posted:Gang tags are the most recent one, another time it was t-shirts. I actually really hosed that one up and never got it to work out. I had a deal to get a bunch made and shipped and then the deal fell through. I still get hot in the face with embarrassment when I remember it got hosed up.
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Sep 22, 2020 21:38
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Joker is a psychological horror movie about mental illness.
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Sep 22, 2020 22:10
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no its just a remake of taxi driver with some batman references slapped in so nerds will go see it
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Sep 22, 2020 22:26
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It's a spook a doodle.
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Sep 22, 2020 22:33
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I haven't seen it because its not a spookadoodle, I think that's all the proof you need.
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Sep 22, 2020 22:42
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Does stuff like the British A Ghost Story for Christmas tv movies from the 70s count for the challenge? Because they're generally only about 30-40 minutes long so I'm guessing they don't.
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Sep 22, 2020 22:45
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Kvlt! posted:no its just a remake of taxi driver with some batman references slapped in so nerds will go see it Nah, it's very blatantly The King of Comedy, which is better in every way. Except I guess it doesn't tell Batman's origin story for the 20th time.
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Sep 22, 2020 22:55
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graventy posted:
I guess you didn’t see the movie....
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Sep 22, 2020 22:57
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FreudianSlippers posted:Does stuff like the British A Ghost Story for Christmas tv movies from the 70s count for the challenge? Yeah, it has to crack an hour at the very least.
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Sep 22, 2020 23:13
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Bruce is in the movie pre-Batman, and it does set up tension between Joker and the Waynes. You could argue then that it's a Batman's origin's origins story.
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Sep 22, 2020 23:15
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I never really know what to do come October because I watch horror and horror related stuff year round, and I'm really bad about jumping on something as soon as it releases, so putting together a list of things I haven't seen is difficult.
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Sep 22, 2020 23:18
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:Bruce is in the movie pre-Batman, and it does set up tension between Joker and the Waynes. You could argue then that it's a Batman's origin's origins story. Batman’s parents die lol
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Sep 22, 2020 23:32
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CelticPredator posted:Batman’s parents die lol Teen Titans Go to the Movies did it best.
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I got the complete wrong end of the stick of that conversation, I misread doesn't as does. I did forget that they died though, and I only watched the film a couple of months ago.
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