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twernt posted:Oh no! I thought I checked everything. Would anyone object if I nominated a completely different team in its place while I sort this out? You might still be able to salvage the team. Bergman also has Persona for example, which absolutely counts as horror to me.
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Franchescanado posted:It’s as much an anti-thriller or post-modern minimal thriller as it is a thriller, that I just didn’t really feel it fit in as “horror”. It IS scary in ways, and it’s absolutely horrific, but it also doesn’t get a horror label while Kevin does. I just realised that it would take your team over the 10 count too, and I don't want to break your team. Me raising this shouldn't be taken as an objection, your team is great and your reasoning for including one and not the other makes total sense
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Kwaidan appears to be eligible and Persona makes sense as an addition, so here's a second attempt. Spooky Swinging Sixties 1. Carnival of Souls (1962) by Herk Harvey 2. The Demon (1963) by Brunello Rondi 3. Kwaidan (1964) by Masaki Kobayashi 4. Persona (1966) by Ingmar Bergman 5. Wait Until Dark (1967) by Terence Young 6. Hour of the Wolf (1968) by Ingmar Bergman 7. A Quiet Place in the Country (1968) by Elio Petri 8. Kuroneko (1968) by Kaneto Shindō Thanks to everyone for being understanding with the new guy!
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Dec 5, 2021 17:04
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Team Double Bubble, a.k.a., Kids & Creations 1. The Babysitter (2017; dir. McG) 2. The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020; dir. McG) 3. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994; dir. Kenneth Branagh) 4. I, Frankenstein (2014; dir. Stuart Beattie) 5. Mikey (1992; dir. Dennis Dimster) 6. Milo (1998; dir. Pascal Franchot) 7. The Omen (1976; dir. Richard Donner) 8. The Omen (2006; dir. John Moore) 9. Unfriended (2014; dir. Levan Gabriadze) 10. Unfriended: Dark Web (2018; dir. Stephen Susco)
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From parts unknown Debbie adds Emiliano Rocha Minter's We Are The Flesh to Deb Tricks You Into Watching Porn taking it to 6 films and making it official. And from a cold New England village I nominate… All Hail Stephen King (Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, Ralph S. Singleton, Rob Reiner, Taylor Hackford, Fraser Clarke Heston, Bryan Singer, Andy Muschietti, and Lawrence Kasdan) My second Letterboxd co sponsored brand team is another obvious love of mine and built from 🎈All Hail Stephen King🪓 this was not an easy task. So many great King movies come from directors with wider horror filmographies like big ones like DePalma, Romero, Darabont, or more polarizing ones like Flanagan. And even lesser known directors like Lewis Teague or Tommy Lee Wallace having a couple of good Kings under their belt but a bunch of others. And of course Mick Garris is much too prolific. But there are a lot of King adaptions so given enough effort I put together a downright respectable Stephen King collection. I mean sure there might be a bad clown or toilet alien somewhere but it IS a King collection. 1. Maximum Overdrive by Stephen King 2. Graveyard Shift by Ralph S. Singleton 3. The Shining by Stanley Kubrick 4. Misery by Rob Reiner 5. Dolores Claiborne by Taylor Hackford 6. Needful Things by Fraser Clarke Heston 7. Apt Pupil by Bryan Singer 8. It by Andy Muschietti 9. It Chapter Two by Andy Muschietti 10. Dreamcatcher by Lawrence Kasdan I know there's some debate as to whether Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut or Clockwork Orange are horror. If anyone feels they should be added I'll ditch Kubrick. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Dec 5, 2021 |
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Trying to figure out my filipino team I came across Peque Gallaga who I would like to nominate just in case. Shake, Rattle & Roll (1984) Shake, Rattle & Roll 2 (1990) Shake Rattle & Roll III (1991) Shake Rattle & Roll IV (1992) Tiyanak (1988) Aswang (1992)
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Some house cleaning...Tarnop posted:I'd like to pick up Remi Weekes for Brutal Brits please. That will add His House to that team bringing it up to 6 You actually already had 6 since Wheatley released In The Earth last year and Marshall released The Reckoning. So Weekes takes the Brits to 7. twernt posted:Kwaidan appears to be eligible and Persona makes sense as an addition, so here's a second attempt. I regret to say that Kuroneko has also been played. But the team still has 7 so is good.
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STAC Goat posted:Some house cleaning... I'm happy to reduce the chance of The Reckoning getting drawn from 1/6 to 1/7 so I'll take it!
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Another nom: Team Vampires and Coke 1) The Hunger - Tony Scott 2) The Keep - Michael Mann 3) Vamp - Richard Wenk 4) My Best Friend is a Vampire - Jimmy Huston 5) Once Bitten - Howard Storm 6) Vampire's Kiss - Robert Bierman 7) To Die For - Deran Sarafian 8) Vampire in Venice - Augusto Caminito as well as these, which I have to include to be Bracketology-compliant 9) Wishcraft - Richard Wenk 10) Manhunter - Michael Mann 11) Final Exam - Jimmy Huston 12) Alien Predator - Deran Sarafian Basically I wanted to explore how many directors were making vampire films in the 80s, including a number of directors fairly early in their careers who'd go on to do lots of other things not necessarily vampire related. There were a bunch I would have liked to include (The 2 Fright Night films, Waxwork, The Lost Boys, Lair of the White Worm), but those directors also did a lot more horror films (though not really about Vampires), which I guess is also an example of what I'm talking about.
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At least Manhunter is in the vampire ballpark, kind of, if you squint a little
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Manhunter knocking out John Carpenter; do you see? Manhunter knocking out Wes Craven; do you see?
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The Berzerker posted:Have we had a Ted Nicolaou entry before? If not I nominate him. Even though I've only seen 2 of his movies and know nothing about him I just want to nominate somebody OK so here is a list of Ted Nicolaou's horror movies per Letterboxd. There are more than I thought but I guess they all qualify. TerrorVision Subspecies Subspecies 2: Bloodstone Subspecies 3: Bloodlust Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm Subspecies 5: Blood Rise The Dungeonmaster Bad Channels Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys Ragdoll DevilDolls I, Vampire The Vampire Journals The St. Francisville Experiment Don't Let Her In I've only seen TerrorVision and Bad Channels but I feel like nominating a clear jobber director is part of the fun. Many of these have <500 logs on LB. Hopefully this is enough info to put the nomination officially in.
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Something I think is very interesting so far this year is that while I think the teams last year largely were heavily curated teams or a director or two trying to get worked in (like Team David) this year everyone seems way more into fun gimmicks and "boutique" teams. I love that since it was my original design and how I built most of my teams. And I recognize that it can be kind of hard with the "no cherry picking" rule but I also think that rule is necessary for a lot of reasons so its just something we gotta work around. But I'm really excited that lots of people are trying. I'm also curious how long it takes for those guys like Team David to factor in. Maybe that comes after the "draft" portion when people don't have to prioritize their teams every 12 hours and can just throw up someone they think should get in? Just observations. I'm always in my head.. Tarnop posted:Manhunter knocking out John Carpenter; do you see? Why do you try and hurt me so much?
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Revising my losing team from last year. Muschetti's sister film is gone, so he's out. Sister Act 2 : Backing the Habit Kim Jee-woon A Tale of Two Sisters I Saw the Devil John Fawcett Ginger Snaps The Dark Oz Perkins The Blackcoat's Daughter aka February I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives In the House Gretel & Hansel And I know the girls in The Blackcoat's Daughter aren't sisters but the movie does have nuns in it. (The gimmick of this team is movies about sisters, directed by men, and they have one other film as a 'sister' to the first, although both Muschetti and his replacement have three films, so it's not perfect.) e: Just realized I stole Perkins from Goat's Daddy Issues, but I don't think they were re-nominated? Kangra fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Dec 5, 2021 |
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Speaking of gimmick teams, here's Satan Satan Satan Satan Good Satan, Great Satan Satan (1912) Luigi Maggi Satan (1974) Metin Erksan Satan (1991) Victor Aristov Satan (2006) Kim Chapiron Good Satan (2012) Sara Lohman Great Satan (2018) Everything is Terrible
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Kangra posted:Revising my losing team from last year. Muschetti's sister film is gone, so he's out. I didn't so its fair game (and I poached Muschetti from you). I was contemplating merging Daddy Issues with The Nephilim since they're basically the same thing but que sera sera. And I do think Blackcoat's Daughter and Gretal and Hansel fit that team theme well. married but discreet posted:Speaking of gimmick teams, here's Satan Satan Satan Satan Good Satan, Great Satan I feel like you missed a 666 joke here but I can't come up with either.
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STAC Goat posted:Why do you try and hurt me so much? Wes and JC gonna end up in a team together eventually and end their losing streak. Also, like Goat, I'm very excited for all these teams. Great job everyone!
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I put way more thought and time into the Satan team than I should have, ultimately I went for maximum Satan.
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OK, Goat, you talked me into it: Nominating the horror filmography of Alan Smithee.
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Darthemed posted:OK, Goat, you talked me into it: Nominating the horror filmography of Alan Smithee. I only just learned what this means. I'm iffy on it and leaning no. But I'll let the thread decide. It would probably be a funny "team". edit: Eh, I'm leaning yes. Whatever. I'm a pushover. Its a game. Its funny. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Dec 6, 2021 |
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I've got no objections to an Alan Smithee team.
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Alright, attempting another nomination. But what I really want to do is direct. 1. Play Misty for Me (1971) by Clint Eastwood 2. Beware! The Blob (1972) by Larry Hagman 3. High Plains Drifter (1973) by Clint Eastwood 4. Haunted Honeymoon (1986) by Gene Wilder 5. A Bucket of Blood (1995) by Michael McDonald 6. Man with the Screaming Brain (2005) by Bruce Campbell 7. My Name Is Bruce (2007) by Bruce Campbell 8. Lost River (2014) by Ryan Gosling 9. A Quiet Place (2018) by John Krasinski 10. A Quiet Place Part II (2020) by John Krasinski
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I think High Plains Drifter is kind of too much of a Western to fit in. I can kind of see it, but it's not really borrowing from horror so much as doing some of the same things in its own genre. Love the team idea, though. Kangra fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Dec 6, 2021 |
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From a chill place Debbie nominates… Horror Comedies 1. Stephen Sayadian - Dr. Caligari 2. Daniel Scheinert/Daniel Kwan - Swiss Army Man 3. Michael Lehmann - Heathers 4. Martin Walz - Killer Condom 5. James Gunn - Slither 6. Alex Winter/Tom Stern - Freaked 7. Jim Hosking - The Greasy Strangler 8. Quentin Dupieux - Deerskin 9. Quentin Dupieux - Rubber 10. Ron Underwood - Tremors And from picking myself up off the ground and giving it another shot I nominate… The One and Not Dones (Ernest R. Dickerson, Fede Alvarez, Robert Rodriguez, Ana Lily Amirpour, Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas, Joe Cornish, The Soska Sisters, Jason Eisener) In the fine legacy of Italian horror I’m gonna try and have success this go around by ditching what didn’t work last time and shamelessly copying the guy who won it all. No, they’re not directors who have made only one movie. They’re directors who have been in this tournament on one of my teams once already, a number of them even won their only matchup but got eliminated while on the bench. Some of them lost straight up. But they’re back together to make a run at this thing without all that dead weight and baggage. Ok, they’re not all killer movies but they are all coming for a fight. Guns loaded, weapons at the ready, its fatefully a collection of films that actually mostly feel like they fit together after all. It must be destiny… or an unexpected look into my tastes. But can this motley crew do better the second time around? 1. Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight 2. Don't Breathe 3. From Dusk Till Dawn 4. The Bad Batch 5. Hard Labor 6. Attack the Block 7. American Mary 8. See No Evil 2 9. Dead Hooker in a Trunk 10. Hobo with a Shotgun
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Sumptuously Stupid 1. Queen of the Damned (2002; dir. Michael Rymer) 2. Blade: Trinity (2004; dir. David S. Goyer) 3. The Unborn (2009; dir. David S. Goyer) 4. The Cell (2000; dir. Tarsem Singh) 5. Thir13en Ghosts (2001; dir. Steve Beck) 6. Ghost Ship (2002; dir. Steve Beck) 7. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992; dir. Fran Rubel Kuzui) 8. I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006; dir. Sylvain White) 9. Slender Man (2018; dir. Sylvain White) 10. The Haunting (1999; dir. Jan de Bont)
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I was looking at the master list to see what Forties movies have already been taken. Did we really not do Cat People already? I was going to moot non-Val Lewton movies, but now I’m thinking I want to use my guaranteed slot to do Lewton plus a couple related films if Cat People is really up for grabs. Like: Lewton Bus 1. Cat People (1942) - Jacques Tourneur 2. The Leopard Man (1943) - Jacques Tourneur 3. The Seventh Victim (1943) - Mark Robson 4. The Body Snatcher (1945) - Robert Wise 5. Isle of the Dead (1945) - Mark Robson 6. Night of the Demon (1957) - Jacques Tourneur 7. The Haunting (1963) - Robert Wise Edit: Ah, never mind. I see now that Tourneur and Wise have already been snatched up. Servoret fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Dec 6, 2021 |
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How about this for my guaranteed slot instead? Forties horror without Tourneur, Wise, or the Universal monsters: Top Forties 1. The Seventh Victim (1943) - Mark Robson 2. The Return of the Vampire (1943) - Lew Landers 3. The Uninvited (1944) - Lewis Allen 4. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) - Albert Lewin 5. Dead of Night (1945) - v/a 6. Isle of the Dead (1945) - Mark Robson 7. The Spiral Staircase (1946) - Robert Siodmak
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Kangra posted:I think High Plains Drifter is kind of too much of a Western to fit in. I can kind of see it, but it's not really borrowing from horror so much as doing some of the same things in its own genre. Thank you! I remember High Plains Drifter coming up in discussion about western horror, but I'd be happy to remove it if anyone else objects.
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Ok so I think I've caught up on the teams already nominated but forgive me if this either of these guys are taken already. This is a team I wanted to use last time but Spielberg ended up on another team: Steve's Monster Blockbusters Jaws(Steven Spielberg) Jurassic Park(Steven Spielberg) The Lost World(Steven Spielberg) Duel(Steven Spielberg) Something Evil(Steven Spielberg) Deep Rising(Stephen Sommers) The Mummy(Stephen Sommers) The Mummy Returns(Stephen Sommers) Van Helsing(Stephen Sommers) Odd Thomas(Stephen Sommers)
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I love how so many teams this time around have absolute standout movies next to total garbage.
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I'm happy with the teams being nominated. I don't have ideas or inspiration to make more beyond my Femme Fatale and Rule Breakers, but I love seeing what y'all are coming up with.
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married but discreet posted:I love how so many teams this time around have absolute standout movies next to total garbage. Me too. The luck of the draw was always a factor but this time around I expect to see some really wild upsets.
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You want Jaws and Jurassic Park in the tournament? gently caress you, you also have to take Van Helsing and The Mummy Returns.
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Yeah, I'm pumped most people seem to be going for the fun theme teams and filling most of their 10 slots. It makes for a lot more rando movies and a ton of random draw potential.Franchescanado posted:I'm happy with the teams being nominated. I don't have ideas or inspiration to make more beyond my Femme Fatale and Rule Breakers, but I love seeing what y'all are coming up with. Heads up, Team Rule Breakers only have 5 films. Unless I missed something you'll still need to add something to it to make it eligible. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Dec 6, 2021 |
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STAC Goat posted:Heads up, Team Rule Breakers only have 5 films. Unless I missed something you'll still need to add something to it to make it eligible. Ooh, good to know. Is Daniel Isn't Real by Adam Egypt Mortimer still available? We may also have to include his film Some King of Hate (2015), which is cool with me.
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Are we still letting people nominate teams? I had this idea kicking around for the last one but didn't get a chance to nominate anything before it was over. Chucky and His Pals 1) Child's Play - Tom Holland 2) Fright Night - Tom Holland 3) Bride of Chucky - Ronny Yu 4) Freddy vs. Jason - Ronny Yu 5) Child's Play 2 - John Lafia 6) Man's Best Friend - John Lafia A team effort consisting of people who have worked on the Child's Play series, plus some of their own horror work. (I'm not including series creator Don Mancini because he has only directed Chucky movies, and I wanted this team to branch out from that a bit more. If you wanted to, you could let in Mancini and then literally just run the whole Chucky franchise through here, more or less.) You could also pull in other options for the 3 directors here, like Thinner for Holland or The Bride with White Hair for Yu, if you needed more than 6 options. Also, I know I'm shooting myself in the foot with Man's Best Friend in there, but I remember enjoying it as pure, dumb schlock the one time I watched it, so maybe others here will get a kick out of it too.
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Class3KillStorm posted:Are we still letting people nominate teams? I had this idea kicking around for the last one but didn't get a chance to nominate anything before it was over. Hell yeah, nominations are open until 14th of December! Keep em coming!
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Servoret posted:How about this for my guaranteed slot instead? Forties horror without Tourneur, Wise, or the Universal monsters: I love this team and had something very near to identical queued up. But its missing some of the director's movies based on the "no cherry picking" rule. They're not all 40s movies but thems the rules. Mark Robson Daddy's Gone A-Hunting Lew Landers The Raven The Boogie Man Will Get You Terrified Robert Siodmak Son of Dracula That would take you to 12 and slightly over the limit but I'd allow it as long as noone objects. But also might I humbly suggest I forfeit my Wise/Tournier team to you for your original Val Lewton themed team with Robson and allow both teams? I'm happy to do that. Your call. Class3KillStorm posted:Are we still letting people nominate teams? I had this idea kicking around for the last one but didn't get a chance to nominate anything before it was over. Yeah, rule say we have to use the other movies from the directors. So that's Holland Thinner We All Scream for Ice Cream *Two-Fisted Tales (anthology you can skip) Rock, Paper, Scissors Tom Holland's Twisted Tales Lafia Monster! Rats Yu The Trail The Occupant Bless This House *Family Man (TV movie under an hour you can skip) Skipping the two * films that brings you to 15 that's over the limit but if no one objects I'd allow it since it holds your theme together and all the adds are obscure films and some might be hard to find and skipped. Hell I'd suggest Mancini being let in would be cool even though that would jack the team to a massive 18 films but up the odds of drawing a Chucky movie. Unless anyone objects. Your call. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Dec 6, 2021 |
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Franchescanado posted:Ooh, good to know. Is Daniel Isn't Real by Adam Egypt Mortimer still available? We may also have to include his film Some King of Hate (2015), which is cool with me. That does the job. You're good.
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