2017 SKMB October Horror Movie Marathon!

[do1you9love?]

29) The Final Girls (2015) FTV – Thanks fushingfeef for the rec. This was quite good and as someone who watched all of the 80’s slashers in my teens, I did, indeed, love it! It was well done, and I particularly liked how they portrayed that they were trapped in the movie (ie: running away over and over again, the van driving by 92 minutes later!) 4/5

I almost made it to 31 this year! Woohoo!! My best so far! I could count 29 1/2 because Halloween 2 was on in the background while I was giving out candy, but I missed most of it.

My 2017 list:

1) Stir of Echoes (1999) - 3.5/5
2) Lights Out (2016) FTV - 3/5
3) Nosferatu (1922) FTV – 4/5
4) The Darkness (2016) FTV – 1.5/5\
5) Stir of Echoes 2: The Homecoming (2007) FTV – 1.5/5
6) Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985) – 3/5
7) Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) – 3.5/5
8) Ten:Murder Island (2017) FTV – 1/5
9) Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) – 2/5
10) AHS: Cult Ep 5 & 6 (2017) FTV – 5/5
11) House of the Witch (2017) FT – 3/5
12) The Sixth Sense (1999) – 4.5/5
13) John Carpenter’s Vampires (1998) FTV – 2/5
14) The Conjuring (2013) FTV – 4/5
15) Jennifer’s Body (2009) – 3/5
16) Maggie (2015) FTV – 5/5
17) The Hollow (2015) FTV – 1/5
18) Child’s Play (1988) – 4/5
19) The Sandman (2017 – FTV – 2.5/5
20) Emelie (2015) FTV – 3.5/5
21) Trick ‘R Treat (2007) FTV – 4.5/5
22) AHS:Cult – Ep 7 & 8 (2017) – 4.5/5
23) The Addam’s Family (1991) – 4.5/5
24) The Innocents (1961) FTV – 4/5
25) From Beyond the Grave (1974) FTV – 4/5
26) Maleficent (2014) – 4.5/5
27) Halloween (1978) – 5/5
28) Halloween Wars: Season 7 Ep 1-5 - (2017) – 3.5/5
29) The Final Girls (2015) FTV – 4/5

Thanks so much for hosting us again, Feef! It's been a blast!!

 

[cat in a bag]

My final list...

1. 1408
2. The Caretaker
3. Friday the 13th
4. Morgan
5. Freaks of Nature
6. Croc
7. Nocturne
8. The Hole
9. Murder in the Dark
10. Maggie
11. Cell
12. Shut In
13. The Funhouse Massacre
14. Return of the Fly
15. Creature From the Black Lagoon
16. Fear the Walking Dead (2 hr seas 3 finale)
17. 1922
18. Gerald's Game
19. The Mummy
20. The Curse of Frankenstein
21. From Beyond the Grave
22. The Innocents
23. Hocus Pocus
24. Beetlejuice
25. Hotel Transylvania
26. The Pact
27. Carnival of Souls
28. The Watcher in the Woods
29. Life
30. Split
31. Hotel Transylvania 2

So much fun, as always! Thank you, fushingfeef for hosting this tradition! My dvr always breathes a sigh of relief when October is done. I added The Final Girls this morning and taped a few old ones last night that I still want to watch, even though I won't get to count them.

 

[fljoe0]

Here is my final entry

28. Bates Motel (episode 1 & 2)

I got my five season blu-ray set a few weeks ago and decided to watch a little of it tonight. I have resisted watching any of the old episodes until the complete season came out on blu-ray. It was interesting watching these first couple of episodes again. There was a little mother-son murder bonding established in that first episode.
As I slowly make my way through the blu-ray set, I'm going to keep a body count on Norman (and Norma - she has a couple too). I'll report my findings in the Bates Motel thread as I go along.


28. Nipples Of Death 3

Not what I expected at all. I really didn't expect this to take place in a hardware store. The brass nipples in aisle 3 come to life and go on a rampage.

Rated R for male and female threads

I was reading through the posts and discovered I left out the best part of my joke. I was all jacked up on Halloween candy and couldn't focus. Here's what I forgot: Rated R for male and female threads and scenes of graphic coupling.

Thank you muskrat for Nipples Of Death 3

 

[Baby Blue]

Here's my final list. PHEW!

#1 Gerald's Game
#2 The Bye Bye Man
#3 The Good Neighbor
#4 Return to House on Haunted Hill
#5 Mother's Day
#6 The Wolves at the Door
#7 The Diabolical
#8 Patient 7
#9 The Dark Half
#10 Cube
#11 Happy Death Day
#12 Shadow People
#13 Carrie
#14 Freddy vs. Jason
#15 It Follows
#16 Hostel
#17 The Society
#18 Pet Sematary
#19 The Shining
#20 The Veil
#21 Shark Lake
#22 We Are Still Here
#23 The Forgotten
#24 Teeth
#25 - 1922
#26 - Nightmare Emporium
#27 - Demonic
#28 - Suburbicon
#29 - Poltergeist (2015)
#30 - The Other Side of the Door
#31 - Intruder

 

[grin willard]

1.) House (1985)

2.) Let's Scare Jessica To Death (1971)

3.) From Beyond the Grave (1973)

4.) The Pack (1977)

5.) Scooby Doo Meets Batman (1972)

6.) Halloween with (The New) Addams Family (1977)

7.) City of the Living Dead (1980)

I eked out seven. About 13 hours of my life all told. Nice Halloweeny numbers. My picks skewed fairly old skool, it seems. I may still watch The Ghost & Mr. Chicken!

If you haven't seen it, (it's on youtube) Halloween with (The New) Addams Family (1977), was fantastic, and a nice farewell to the old series. Shot on videotape, it's quite surreal. John Astin was/is a genius! A word I don't bandy about that often.

Lurch, that's French! Stop the car!


City of The Living Dead (1980) capped off my 2017 Hallows-een of scares. Christopher George was a genius! Well, you be the judge.


Oh how I love this film. This was the first in Lucio Fulci's unofficial trilogy of spaghetti horror which includes The Beyond and House by the Cemetery. During a séance the gates of hell get opened -- Mary, one of the attendants falls dead. Later, reporter Peter Bell (Chris George, aging but still studly at fiddy, who would tragically pass away 3 yrs later) visits here grave and this iconic scene takes place.


Yow! Oddly enough, afterward she is fine. You'd think being buried alive would make you nuts. But not this gal. Later, her & Chris George roadtrip -- oh how I love readtrip movies -- and even join in teasing sexual banter! She recovered nicely. Ha! Now that I've whetted your appetite, watch it! It's on youtube. The last scene is not to be believed. But first, this happens.

Spoiler

You opened my spoiler? You are a plucky one! Brace yerself.

Chris George gets his brain pulled out from the back of his head. Nice teeth!

 

[Mr Nobody]

My final list for this year:

1) Gerald's Game
2) Dead Rising: Watchtower
3) The Thing (1982)
4) Area 51
5) Piranha (1978)
6) Quarantine
7) Lights Out
8) Viral
9) Black Lake
10) Cat's Eye
11) Plan Z
12) Alien: Covenant
13) Pandorum
14) Blair Witch
15) The Black Room (2017)
16) Dog Soldiers
17) Friday the 13th (2009)
18) Maximum Overdrive
19) Navy SEALS: The Battle for New Orleans (aka Navy SEALS vs Zombies)
20) It Follows
21) Alien
22) I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House
23) Silent Hill
24) What We Become
25) 1922
26) Psycho (1960)
27) Stranger Things/ST2
28) Children of the Corn
29) Outpost
30) Insidious
31) An American Werewolf in London
32) Halloween (1978)

Significantly fewer than I managed last year (43, if memory serves), but I struggled to find stuff a bit this time out, and I had a number of nights where I just wasn't in the mood besides.

 

[fushingfeef]

33. The Void (2016) (FTV)
Hospital is besieged by white-cloaked hooded murderous cultists intent on opening a passage between the worlds of the living and the dead. I really enjoyed this movie, which very much felt like I was watching a lost John Carpenter movie from the 80's, without being an outright homage. By all appearances, the special effects were 100% real practical effects, and even the backgrounds appeared to be mattes rather than CGI. This film was something between Hellraiser and The Thing, and the tension was high and the gore plentiful. The last minutes are a bit vague and mysterious so if you're looking for a simple pat ending, you might be scratching your head. But I think the weirdness and mystery worked for it rather than took away from it. Great finale for Halloween night!

4 out of 5 stars.

Bob's October 2017 Horror Movie List
FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Addams Family 3.5/5
2. Dead & Breakfast 4/5 (FTV)
3. It Comes at Night 2.5/5 (FTV)
4. I Didn't Come Here To Die 3.5/5 (FTV)
5. Train to Busan 4/5 (FTV)
6. Wendigo 3/5 (FTV)
7. Goodnight Mommy 4/5 (FTV)
8. Little Evil 3/5 (FTV)
9. The Stuff 3/5 (FTV)
10. The Atoning 2.5/5 (FTV)
11. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 3/5 (FTV)
12. The Driller Killer 3/5 (FTV)
13. Child's Play 4/5
14. The Babysitter 3.5/5 (FTV)
15. The Others 4.5/5
16. The Girl With All The Gifts 4/5 (FTV)
17. Halloween III: Season of the Witch 3.5/5
18. Raw 4/5 (FTV)
19. It's Alive 3.5/5 (FTV)
20. Inbred (2011) 3.5/5 (FTV)
21. Tales of Halloween 4/5 (FTV)
22. Beyond the Gates 2.5/5 (FTV)
23. Beetlejuice 4/5
24. Rings 1.5/5 (FTV)
25. Plague Town 3.5/5 (FTV)
26. Sleepy Hollow 4/5
27. Kiss of the Tarantula 3/5 (FTV)
28. Annabelle: Creation 3.5/5 (FTV)
29. The Apparition 3/5 (FTV)
30. Gurotesuku (Grotesque) (2009) 2/5 (FTV)
31. The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad 4/5
32. The Final Girls 4/5 (FTV)
33. The Void (2016) 4/5 (FTV)

 

[fushingfeef]

Thanks again everyone for participating! You make invaluable contributions by sharing your great lists and recommendations! I'll be referring back to this thread all year to catch up on all these great horror movies! It's also cool sharing company with others who have the same interests and tastes, but I guess that's what the SKMB has always been about!

I'll wait a couple days for everyone to catch up posting their final counts, and then I'll try to get some final tallies together.

 

[Kurben]

KURBENS FINAL LIST!!!!

1. The Blob (the 1988 version). FTV
2. Splinter (2008). FTV
3. The Triangle (2009). FTV
4. Lights Out (2016). FTV
5. Wer (2013) FTV
6. The Skin I Live In (2011) FTV
7. The Innocents (1961) FTV
8. The Lords of Salem (2012) FTV
9. Ginger Snaps (2002) FTV
10. Ginger Snaps 2 (2004) FTV
11. Battle Royale (2000) FTV
12. Final Destination (2008) FTV
13. Battle Royale 2 (2002) FTV
14. Creepshow (1982) rewatch
15. Nosferatu - The Vampire (1979) rewatch
16. Thinner (1996) FTV
17. The Dark Half (1993) FTV
18. Carriers (2009) FTV
19. Dawn of the Dead (2004) FTV
20. Ginger Snaps Back (2005) FTV
21. The Mummy (1999) FTV
22. Pulse (2007) FTV
23. The Girl With All The Gifts (2016) FTV
24. World War Z (2013) FTV
25. The Final Girl (2015) FTV
26. The Void (2016) FTV
27. Don't Breathe (2016) FTV
28. The Dark Tower (2017) FTV
29. The Hallow (2015?) FTV
30. Geralds Game (2017) FTV
31. Halloween (1978) rewatch.
32. The Witch (2015) FTV
33. The Purge (2012?) rewatch
34. The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
35. The Purge: Election day (2016) FTV
36. IT (2017) FTV
37. Raw (2016) FTV
38. Black Death (2000) FTV

Best movie: Tie between Halloween and Nosferatu 5/5 and some extra points for excellence.
Worst movie: The Lords Of Salem I'll give it 2/5 and thats kind.

 

[Dana Jean]

Thanks again everyone for participating! You make invaluable contributions by sharing your great lists and recommendations! I'll be referring back to this thread all year to catch up on all these great horror movies! It's also cool sharing company with others who have the same interests and tastes, but I guess that's what the SKMB has always been about!

I'll wait a couple days for everyone to catch up posting their final counts, and then I'll try to get some final tallies together.

Be sure and ask your final questions: Best we watched, worst we watched, stuff like that.

 

[Neesy]

33. The Void (2016) (FTV)
Hospital is besieged by white-cloaked hooded murderous cultists intent on opening a passage between the worlds of the living and the dead. I really enjoyed this movie, which very much felt like I was watching a lost John Carpenter movie from the 80's, without being an outright homage. By all appearances, the special effects were 100% real practical effects, and even the backgrounds appeared to be mattes rather than CGI. This film was something between Hellraiser and The Thing, and the tension was high and the gore plentiful. The last minutes are a bit vague and mysterious so if you're looking for a simple pat ending, you might be scratching your head. But I think the weirdness and mystery worked for it rather than took away from it. Great finale for Halloween night!

4 out of 5 stars.

Bob's October 2017 Horror Movie List
FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Addams Family 3.5/5
2. Dead & Breakfast 4/5 (FTV)
3. It Comes at Night 2.5/5 (FTV)
4. I Didn't Come Here To Die 3.5/5 (FTV)
5. Train to Busan 4/5 (FTV)
6. Wendigo 3/5 (FTV)
7. Goodnight Mommy 4/5 (FTV)
8. Little Evil 3/5 (FTV)
9. The Stuff 3/5 (FTV)
10. The Atoning 2.5/5 (FTV)
11. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 3/5 (FTV)
12. The Driller Killer 3/5 (FTV)
13. Child's Play 4/5
14. The Babysitter 3.5/5 (FTV)
15. The Others 4.5/5
16. The Girl With All The Gifts 4/5 (FTV)
17. Halloween III: Season of the Witch 3.5/5
18. Raw 4/5 (FTV)
19. It's Alive 3.5/5 (FTV)
20. Inbred (2011) 3.5/5 (FTV)
21. Tales of Halloween 4/5 (FTV)
22. Beyond the Gates 2.5/5 (FTV)
23. Beetlejuice 4/5
24. Rings 1.5/5 (FTV)
25. Plague Town 3.5/5 (FTV)
26. Sleepy Hollow 4/5
27. Kiss of the Tarantula 3/5 (FTV)
28. Annabelle: Creation 3.5/5 (FTV)
29. The Apparition 3/5 (FTV)
30. Gurotesuku (Grotesque) (2009) 2/5 (FTV)
31. The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad 4/5
32. The Final Girls 4/5 (FTV)
33. The Void (2016) 4/5 (FTV)

Thanks! That was fun - did not know if I could manage it as we were on the road the first 10 days but it was a good excuse to find horror movies in hotel rooms
This monkey is supposed to have a remote control (the best I could do!)

 

[fljoe0]

My favorite first time viewing - Lights Out

My favorite (first time viewing) anthology movie - xx

Funniest - The story from xx called The Birthday Party

Best Muskrat recommendation - Nipples Of Death 3

 

[fushingfeef]

Okay, time to recognize the sheer amount of participation we had this year (and this was one of the best, I believe), here are the totals I have, using the best available posting information on the thread.

Please correct me if I'm wrong on any of these, and please don't take it personally if I accidentally left anyone out! It was tough to keep track of everyone. And for some people, I don't have a clear number or wasn't sure if they were participating, but they were posting here about movies they watched so I included them!

Bangor Buddies (1-12 movies)
xville 4
grin willard 7
TayG 8
Zone D Dad 12

Tet-mates (13-18 movies)
Mr. Cranky 15
recitador 16

Horrorslingers (19-30 movies)
fljoe0 28
do1you9love? 29.5

Ultimate Kings of Horror (31 or more movies)
Baby Blue 31
cat in a bag 31
Scratch 31
king family fan 31
Neesy 31 (or 32?)
Mr Nobody 32
Tery 32
fushingfeef 33
Spideyman 33
skimom2 33
Kurben 38
Dana Jean 41
morgan 70

Thread Participants, total number of films not stated or unclear
not_nadine
GNTLGNT
muskrat
carrie's younger brother
Doc Creed
Sundrop
ghost19
CoriSCapnSkip
swiftdog2.0
FlakeNoir

So in all, we had at least a solid 586 movies in all watched! Assuming an average running time of 100 minutes, that represents 58,600 minutes of viewing time which represents nearly 41 solid days of horror movies being viewed!

Special congrats to morgan who watched a staggering 70 movies, or nearly 5 solid days in October watching movies! Hope you have a comfortable movie watching seat!

Now I just need to work on my "best of" lists...if you feel like joining, here are some of the categories I have used in prior years (feel free to add your own!)
Most welcome return
Best foreign film
Funniest
Most fun
Scariest
Goriest/Grossest
Best discovery of an old film
Best bad film
Ones to avoid
Best new movie
Best overall
Honorable Mentions

 

[morgan]

(Oooops!!)

 

[morgan]

morgan's list

1.) Gerald's Game (2017) *
2.) Demonic (2015/2017 U.S.) *
3.) Maggie (2015)
4.) Bug (2006)
5.) Stephen King's Rose Red (2002 Part 1 ) *
6.) Dracula 2000 (2000)
7.) Curve (2015) *
8.) American Horror Story: Roanoke (episodes 1 & 2) (2016) *
9.) American Horror Story: Roanoke (episodes 3 & 4) *
10.) American Horror Story: Roanoke (episodes 5 & 6) *
11.) American Horror Story: Roanoke (episodes 7 & 8) *
12.) Dear Dracula (animated film) *
14-1.) The Walking Dead Season 7 (episodes 11 & 12) (2016) *
14.) The Invitation (2015) *
15.) What Lies Beneath (2000)
16.) Edward Scissorhands (1990)
17.) The Stepford Wives (1975)
18.) The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
19.) The Dark Half (1993)
20.) Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
21.) Stephen King's Rose Red - Part 2 (2002) *
22.) The Green Mile (1999)
23.) Salem's Lot (1979)
24.) BTK Killer (2005) *
25.) Vampire Academy (2014) *
26.) Kiss the Girls (1997)
27.) The Little Shop of Horrors (1986) *
28.) The Last Witch Hunter (2015) *
29.) The Walking Dead (Season 7 episodes <*the # that comes after 12*> and 14) *
30.) Rings (2017) *
31.) The Mummy (1999) *
32.) American Horror Story: Roanoke (episodes 9 & 10) *
33.) The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
34.) Hannibal (2001)
35.) The Reaping (2007) *
36.) The Walking Dead Season 7 (episodes 15 & 16) *
37.) The New Daughter (2009) *
39.) Hide and Seek (2005)
40.) Blair Witch (2016) *
41.) Lord of the Flies (1990)
42.) The Skeleton Key (2005)
43.) 1922 (2017) *
44.) The Disappointments Room (2016) *
45.) Jawbreaker (1999)
46.) The Craft (1996)
47.) Heathers (1988)
48.) The Exorcist (TV series FOX - 2016) (episodes/chapters 1 & 2 ) *
49.) The Exorcist (TV ep. 3 & 4) *
50.) The Exorcist (TV series ep. 5 & 6) *
51.) Frankenstein (1994)
52.) 11.22.63 (2016) (episodes The Rabbit Hole & The Kill Floor) *
53.) The Exorcist (TV series) (episodes 7 & 8) *
54.) The Exorcist (ep. 9 & 10) *
55.) Flowers in the Attic (2014 TV movie) *
56.) Amish Witches: The True Story of Holmes County (Lifetime TV movie 2016) *
57.) 11.22.63 (episodes Other Voices, Other Rooms & The Eyes of Texas) *
58.) Stranger Things (Season 1 Chapters 1 & 2) *
59.) Black Butterfly (2017) *
60.) Little Evil (2017) *
61.) Stranger Things (episode 8) and Stranger Things 2 (ep. 1) *
62.) Stranger Things 2 (ep. 2 & 3) *
63.) Stranger Things 2 (ep. 4 & 5) *
64.) Teeth (2007)
65.) Supernatural (episodes 1 & 2) *
66.) Queen of the Damned (2002)
67.) 11.22.63 (ep. 5 & 6) *
68.) Supernatural (episodes 3 & 4) *
69.) Signs (2002)
70.) Knock Knock (2015) *
71.) Train to Busan (2016 - forgot to list this one!) *

 

[Tery]

Damn! I vote Morgan wins

 

[Neesy]

Ultimate Kings of Horror (31 or more movies)
Baby Blue 31
cat in a bag 31
Scratch 31
king family fan 31
Neesy 31 (or 32?)
Mr Nobody 32
Tery 32
fushingfeef 33
Spideyman 33
skimom2 33
Kurben 38
Dana Jean 41
morgan 70

Ummm - yeah - you're right - it was only 31, not 32! I told you I was bad at math

But since I watched Thinner twice, maybe I got more out of it the second time? That was when I saw the clown's face in the blood on the windshield

 

[Neesy]

Damn! I vote Morgan wins

I second that motion - wow - 70 is a lot of movies!

 

[Mr Nobody]

Objection, yo' honuh! Some of Morgan's should be re-listed as one thing, e.g. American Horror Story: Roanoke.

(Either way, that is some serious dedication to TV!)

 

[Zone D Dad]

Sorry folks - late to chime in due to being, as Bill Murray says in Stripes: "unavoidably detained"...
I didn't get anywhere near 31, which is a bit of a let down, but I guess there's always next year (as a Cub fan, I can pull that phrase out faster than my wallet).

However, I did manage to sneak a couple in just before and during the 31st:

13) The Devil's Rejects: I'm not really a fan but it happened to be on and I figured since I had just watched House of 1,000 Corpses, I should try this one again. I don't care how Roger Ebert rated it, this is an ugly film. At least its predecessor has an element of fun to it. This one is satisfied to just be revolting. Is it better made from a technical aspect? Yes, I'll concede on that. I assume Rob Zombie is going for a Last House on the Left kind of experience here, but jeez. The movie is a joyless experience. 4/10 as at least the cast is solid.

14) Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Meyers: It might be the weakest of the entire franchise and a person could lose their mind trying to keep up with the continuity, but what the hell, it happened to be on AMC at the time so I watched it again anyway. The opening moments are reasonably effective, and I always love Donald Pleasance, even though he seems exhausted in a "where in the hell is my check?" sort of way. It's crap, but it's still Halloween, so I'll take it. And it's more fun than the Devil's Rejects. 5/10 only if you love the franchise, otherwise it's probably more like a 3.

I started A Cure for Wellness on Halloween night, but it got too late so I haven't finished it yet. So far so good. I also finished the season of Mindhunter, which is a damn sight scarier than most horror films.