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11/31 Days of Halloween: Documentaries
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
Doc of the Dead
Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
I am Nancy
In Search of Darkness
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street
Wolfman’s got Nards
#31HaCo#okay some very long titles but also some very long docus#I Am Nancy is absolutely the weakest but my love for the NoES films... so yeah three different titles for that#I still don't like NoES2 as a film of the franchise but as the gay cult slasher it's fabulous (like Batman & Robin is great superhero camp)#watching Wolfman's Got Nards filled me with much joy because I never knew The Monster Squad had such a cult following#it was impossible to find this film here for the longest time hardly even met people who remembered it at all ;___;#the fact they announced a part 3 to In Search Of Darkness is exciting well if you like 80s horror XD#but really the four hours of the first In Search of Darkness fly by super fast and the people interviewed are so excited it's great#(Tom Atkins probably most of all - but while I hold the term Final Girl dear to my heart because it meant a lot I get why some of the women#reject it here and tell their side of the story about being the fucking protagonist and all)#I remember watching Going to Pieces when it came out in 2006 and it was fun - wish there was a sorta update for the past 15 years#(can you tell that I like slasher movies???)
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31/31 Days of Halloween: It’s Halloween!
Donnie Darko || Halloween || Halloween III: Season of the Witch || Hocus Pocus || Idle Hands || Night of the Demons || Satan’s Little Helper || Scary Stories to tell in the Dark || Trick 'r Treat
“It's almost time, kids. The clock is ticking. Be in front of your TV sets for the Horrorthon, followed by the Big Giveaway. Don't miss it. And don't forget to wear your masks. The clock is ticking. It's almost time.” (x)
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch
#31HaCo#and here we are it's Halloween!!!!!!! so yes Hocus Pocus has to be here I don't take criticism on that one#I know what I said about films from the same franchise - but Season of the Witch is the one without Michael Myers#and it absolutely deserves to be watched as its own fun Halloween-themed flick sssshhhhhh#(also I could have just switches Season of the Witch with The Crow from Day 30 technically)#and how poetic the last film mentioned in the meme is Trick 'r Treat one of the absolute and very best Halloween films#truly one for this holiday :3 :3 :3#I know Donnie Darko is more uneasy-mystery but the bunny suit costume is important and the vibe hits just right#and then there is utter trash like Satan's Little Helper muahahahahaha#anyway I had lots of fun doing this (it's mid-September right now XD) and maybe somebody did check out one of these films
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26/31 Days of Halloween: Musicals Grusicals
A Nightmare before Christmas || Anna & the Apocalypse || Cannibal! The Musical || Little Shop of Horrors || Phantom of the Paradise || Reefer Madness || Repo! The Genetic Opera || The Rocky Horror Picture Show || Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street
♪(o^0^)o♪
What’s This (x)
Turning my Life around (x)
Let’s build a snowman (x)
Dentist (x)
Old Souls (x)
Little Mary Sunshine (x)
Zydrate Anatomy (x)
Time Warp (x)
Pretty Women (x)
#31HaCo#huh look at that two perfect Christmas films on here...#making this list reminded me that I still haven't seen The Devil's Carnival (but right now it's mid-September so something to search)#Cannibal! by the South Park dudes......... it's the nostalgia for me and remembering when I got to see it
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18/31 Days of Halloween: TV Shows
American Horror Story || Ash vs Evil Dead || Friday the 13th || Harper’s Island || The Haunting of Hill House || Masters of Horror || Millennium || Tales from the Crypt || The Twilight Zone
“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.”
- The Twilight Zone
#31HaCo#please know I am extremely torn on this one I had Are You Afraid Of The Dark up here as well (sure it's a kids show but I love it)#it's the nice family friendly version of these great anthology stand-alone episode formats like Masters of Horror or Tales from the Crypt#but I remember chasing the tapes in various videostores to get them so I couldn't decide on only one#Twilight Zone is super fantastical and not every episode is horror but so many are and that is THE title for this format (I liked the la#test version btw and think it's a shame it got cancelled some fun stuff and S2 understood that shorter can be more effective)#well Millennium is the forgotten fucked up darker X-Files#I love slashers and thus Harper's Island absolutely delivers#even though I haven't even watched all seasons AHS brought horror back to some folks and when it hits IT HITS!!!#my love for THOHH is well known anyway and just finding all those ghosts... whoa...#and hey more love for the Evil Dead franchise from me!!! Bruce Campbell is a delight and he has a great cast by his side#and Friday the 13th was something I thought I'd never see again for a long time and suddenly it was on dvd *blessed*#(the German title Erben des Fluchs - Heirs of the Curse - is so much better though... but hey hunting cursed items count me in!!)#there is so much good horror tv and we currently have fun anthologies even.......
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10/31 Days of Halloween: Meta
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon || The Cabin in the Woods || The Final Girls || My Name is Bruce || Scream 4 || Wes Craven’s New Nightmare || What we do in the Shadows || You can’t kill Stephen King || You might be the Killer
“Where do they keep the chainsaws here?”
- “What?”
“We might wanna find out, right? Where they keep them? Because you never know when you might need a chainsaw.”
- “Why do we need a chainsaw for a slumber party?”
- The Final Girls
#31HaCo#I'm glad more and more people are coming around to realise how great Scream 4 is - with all the comments about reboots and remakes#and they did it when every halfway known slasher had gotten said treatment but for Scream the OGs came back hellyeah!!#it was ahead of its time much like NoES7#if you've never seen Behind the Mask and want to know about slasher movies watch it#Leslie Vernon wants to be the next big slasher and trains for it then invites a camera team to his big gig#but also The Cabin in the Woods oh man... I love the horror genre and that film is so great looking at all the well known tropes#it all has to happen in specific ways like a ritual oh yesyes XD
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4/31 Days of Halloween: Blood & Guts & Violence
Dead Snow || The Devil’s Rejects || Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn || Feast || Martyrs || The Loved Ones || PG: Psycho Goreman || Tokyo Gore Police || Wrong Turn
“The first passage will allow the demon to manifest itself in the flesh.”
- “Why the hell would we want to do that?”
- Evil Dead 2
#31HaCo#creating this list I had a sudden flashback to the time I watched the weirdest J-Splatter films... wow...#(that could easily be a them on its own... the things I've seen... but this is also the type of movie to enjoy most when you're too young)#will Martyrs ever stop haunting me? the answer is probably no#the first Wrong Turn isn't even the most goriest but I have fond memories of that night at the theatre with a friend
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21/31 Days of Halloween: Home Invasion
Cape Fear || Don’t Breathe || Funny Games || Hush || The Purge || Shut In || The Strangers || Straw Dogs || Them
“Why are you doing this to us?“
- “Because you were home.“
- The Strangers
#31HaCo#Shut In is the 2015 film directed by Adam Schindler not the 2016 one with Naomi Watts#it's also known as Intruders (the very German title is Deadly Home)#it's one of those films people should watch without having seen the trailer for maximum wtf-surprise-face XD#oh and Them is the French movie Ils#to this day I'm glad I didn't look at the poster for The Strangers and when the scene happened I had a freak-out moment FUN!!#with Cape Fear the actual home invasion part is kinda small - but it's a sorta classic thriller#and it's all about being on the edge between thriller and going into horror (bit of a stretch one again I know)
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8/31 Days of Halloween: Witches
The Craft || Hänsel & Gretel: Witch Hunters || The Love Witch || Sleepy Hollow || Snow White: A Tale of Terror || Suspiria || The VVitch || Witches || The Witches of Eastwick
“Witchcraft is just a way of concentrating energy. It can only work with what's already there.”
- The Love Witch
#31HaCo#witches deserve a big comeback I feel like there still hasn't been a defining cinema moment for them#(the Hammer films with tortured women accused of witchcraft don't count)#and yet that's the vibe The VVitch went for... I'm a bit torn about that film tbh#also I don't care what other people say Hänsel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is my kind of enjoyable nonsense#I'd still be here for the sequel (well Gemma Arterton should be in it though)#(confession time looking at that Suspiria poster - I never watched Inferno or Mother of Tears... sorry Argento :/ )#I did debate if I should put Practical Magic up here but I'm already stretching the whole horror-thing very thin on this one especially
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19/31 Days of Halloween: Remakes
2001 Maniacs || The Crazies || Dawn of the Dead || The Fly || Halloween || House on Haunted Hill || The Last House on the Left || The Ring || The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
“I smell bullshit.”
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
#31HaCo#remake doesn't mean it has to be bad or unoriginal or boring it can be fun or at least interesting#I don't think we needed Rob Zombie's Halloween and wow the language can get on your nerves so fast#but I especially like seeing adult Michael and wondering how he lives without the mask on#(in the second Laurie should have been killed to shock the audience and also make Annie the focus because she was the better character...)#anyway look The Fly - definitely a classic in its own right!! remakes can be good#and yes I do believe the US version of The Ring works because they took the time to translate it all into US culture#I know 2000 Maniacs is by Herschell Gordon Lewis the Godfather of Gore (you could say the Wizard of Gore XD )#but come on the remake is a fun romp with terrible confederate cannibal ghosts let by Robert Englund#also Dawn of the Dead is probably Snyder's best film - it's an action oriented version of people-hide-from-zombies-in-a-mall it works#(shout out to a remake I like not many people do - Tobe Hooper's Invaders from Mars#it's because of the ties to a childhood memory watching it...)
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1/31 Days of Halloween: Slasher
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors || Bride of Chucky || Cold Prey || Fear Street, Part 2: 1978 || Friday 13th. Part VII: The New Blood || Halloween H20 || I know what you did last Summer || Scream || Sleepaway Camp
“What’s your favorite scary movie?”
- Scream
#31HaCo#please know all of these are in alphabetical order because I don't do ranked lists#and yet did I manufacture this whole thing to start with NoES3? maybe...#Fear Street is new and the overall hype is a bit much but 1978 captures the type of slasher perfectly#(I'm pretty sure you could fill this complete list with 80s slashers only - all the Massacres and Terror-titles and the forgotten schlock)
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28/31 Days of Halloween: Stephen King
1408 || Carrie || Children of the Corn || Christine || IT || Misery || The Mist || Needful Things || The Shining
“I'm your number one fan. There's nothing to worry about. You're going to be just fine. I will take good care of you. I'm your number one fan.”
- Misery
#31HaCo#I was born in the 80s I liked to read I liked horror of course I had a very strong Stephen King phase#books and movies but I started staying away from books if I liked the movie at some point#the first King novel I read was actually The Eyes of the Dragon#it was during a family holiday and I had finished my book so I read what my brother had with him#I haven't picked up any of his work in ages... maybe I should get back to it#I was wondering if I really should put The Shining here - I know King hates the adaptation and Kubrick made it a nightmare set#but there is so much I like about the movie (I did see King's tv two-parter really nice with the hedge animals)#and actually it's one of the books I started to read but dropped out of (same with The Stand tbh)#my fav book is pretty much still The Girl who loved Tom Gordon - and I'm a big fan of his short story collections#(Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile are superb films but I wanted to stay a bit more with his usual brand of horror)
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9/31 Days of Halloween: Zombies
28 Days Later || Dawn of the Dead || Dead Rising: Watchtower || Fido || The Girl with all the Gifts || Little Monsters || Pontypool || Return of the Living Dead 3 || Train to Busan
“Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills! The people it kills get up and kill!”
- Dawn of the Dead
#31HaCo#the main guy in Little Monsters got on my nerves so much I had to take a break#BUT Lupita Nyong'o in that yellow dress getting blood stains on it and fighting zombies with a shovel?? would watch again!!!!!!#and yeah I'm a mainstream girl I saw Train to Busan and all I can say is that yes it got hyped for a reason it really is THAT good#the last decade has been so oversaturared with zombie flicks but there are still cool stories and fun gimmicks#(plus the same tropes getting used with infected loved ones and that scene where it feels like impossible to cross a place where a horde#roams around - that's somewhat comforting)
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6/31 Days of Halloween: Werewolves
An American Werewolf in London || The Company of Wolves || Dog Soldiers || Ginger Snaps || Howl || The Howling || Silver Bullet || Werewolves Within || The Wolfman
“Little girls, this seems to say / Never stop upon your way
Never trust a stranger friend / No-one knows how it will end
As you're pretty, so be wise / Wolves may lurk in every guise
Now as then, 'tis simple truth / Sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth.”
- The Company of Wolves
#31HaCo#most werewolf movies are super trashy by nature and we have to live with that...#Werewolves Within gets a mention because it's set in winter and werewolves+snow is the perfect combo#(that's like the one thing they got right making that Red Riding Hood film - which I desperately want a remake of I HAVE NOTES!!!)#big shout-out to Wes Craven's Cursed I understand why people dislike it so much but I love it#but in the end it was either that or Silver Bullet and I think that film deserves a tiny bit more recognition
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17/31 Days of Halloween: Is it purgatory or are we in hell yet?
Dead End || The Descent || The Endless || Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 || The Ritual || Silent Hill || Triangle || The Void || Yellowbrickroad
“You'd be surprised at the things you find when you go looking...“
- The Void
#31HaCo#this is about the whole road to hell (with Hellraiser as the endpoint right after Silent Hill)#I know The Descent is the like least fantastical but just the women going underground it's all so claustrophobic before the monsters show up#and overall this is a feeling of being uneasy something is wrong the normal world left behind being trapped in different ways#a list about actual films featuring hell would look very different - I just put Hellraiser here to completely escalate#although the things found in The Void........ not that far off......#Yellowbrickroad is very by the numbers and there is something missing but the overall atmosphere hits just right#where The Ritual also knows how to bring the story to a glorious WTF ending
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30/31 Days of Halloween: Movies I need to mention somewhere, but I’m running out of space...
A Chinese Ghost Story || The Babysitter || The Crow || Deadly Friend || Dr Giggles || It follows || May || Night of the Comet || The Thing
“A building gets torched, all that is left is ashes. I used to think that was true about everything, families, friends, feelings. But now I know, that sometimes if love proves real, two people who are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.”
- The Crow
#31HaCo#I'm having a meltdown because less than 300 horror films is NOTHING#there is so much stuff I haven't touched upon like *takes a deep breath*#FinaldestinationRe-animatorUnderwaterHishouseTheyliveThehunttTeinvisiblemanDon’tlooknowPossessionFrombeyondPhantasmAmityvilleVideodromeAngel#heartBadtasteHouseMidnightmeattrainSlumberpartymassacreUrbanlegendAnatomieThedentistGatePuppetmasterMorganBabysitterwantedV/H/S#I could go on and on and on...#I enjoyed the The Thing prequel very much#Night of the Comet is another of those films I later found out has this cult following - I had an old tv recording I held very dear#I used to watch A Chinese Ghost Story so often (oh when Xena paid hommage to THAT KISS I freaked out) the poem is burned into my brain#well German dub of course though 'verlorene Zeit mein Haar wird grau' etc#so many movies so many memories so much fun to be had...
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15/31 Days of Halloween: black-and-white
Bride of Frankenstein || Eraserhead || Freaks || The Haunting || House on Haunted Hill || The Innocents || Invasion of the Body Snatchers || Night of the Living Dead || Psycho
“Psychic phenomena are subject to certain laws.”
- “And just what are these laws? “
”You won't know until you break them.”
- The Haunting
#31HaCo#yes Eraserhead defies any genre but let me put it here because Eraserheadbaby... well........#and then there is this debated status of Freaks as a horror film because yes people were repulsed but the 'freaks' are shown as human beings#yet thinking about the revenge they get in the end and Cleopatra's fate... yeah it is horror#(and I think the casting is important in overall film-history)#please know I have a very nice BD box set with all the Universal Monsters (Dracula Frankenstein Wolfman Invisible Man etc)#could just be them but well Bride of Frankenstein it is - love love love
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