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The full list of characters in the Bracket!

The full list of characters who made it into the tournament are listed under the readmore.

Ada Paige- Rhythm Doctor

Adam Parrish- The Raven Cycle

Adora- She-Ra

Aki Hayakawa- Chainsaw man

Alfred Pennyworth- Batman

Almond Cookie - Cookie Run

Angela- Lobotomy Corporation

Anthy Himemiya- Revolutionary Girl Utena

Arthur Lester- Malevolent

Aymeric De Borel- Final Fantasy

Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce- MASH

Bucky Barnes- Marvel

Buffy Summers- Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Burgerpants- Undertale

Carmen Sandiego- Carmen Sandiego

Carol Hathaway- ER

Charlie Magne Morningstar- Hazbin hotel

Chip Revvington- Toontown: Corporate Clash

Cliopher "Kip" Mdang- The Hands of the Emperor

Commander Peepers- Wander Over Yonder

Dana Scully- The X Files

Danny Fenton- Danny Phantom

David Jacobs- Newsies

DC/GOV- Welcome to the table

Dean Winchester- Supernatural

Dick Gumshoe- Ace attorney

Doppo Kannonzaka- Hypnosis Mic

Dot Campbell- The Wilds

Dr Charlotte Dubois- Falsettos

Emma Perkins- The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals

Five Pebbles- Rain World

Ford Pines- Gravity Falls

Fu Hua- Honkai Impact 3rd

George Karim/Cubbins - Lockwood and Co

Gilgamesh "Gil" Wulfenbach- Girl Genius

Gordon Michael Schwinn- A New Brain

Gregor Samsa- The Metamorphosis

Guillermo de la Cruz- What We Do In The Shadows

Harrowhark Nonagesimus- The Locked Tomb

Hera- Wolf 359

Homura Akemi- Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Hunter- The Owl House

Isabelle - Animal Crossing

Izzy Hands- Our Flag Means Death

Jaehee Kang- Mystic Messenger

Jafar- Twisted

Jamil Viper- Twisted Wonderland

Jean Gunnhildr - Genshin Impact

Jeremie Belpois- Code Lyoko

Jess Jordan- Succession

Jonathan Harker- Dracula

Jonathan Sims- The Magnus Archives

Jotaro Kujo- Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure

Keito Hasumi- Ensemble Stars!

Kento Nanami- Jujutsu Kaisen

Kevin Kandy- Spooky Month

Kim Dokja- Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint

Kim Kitsuragi- Disco Elysium

Kiyotaka Ishimaru- Danganronpa

Kunikida Doppo- Bungo Stray Dogs

Kurapika- Hunter x Hunter

Kusuo Saiki - The disastrous life of saiki k

Laerryn Coramar Seelie- Critical Role

Lamplighter/plight- OneShot

Larry- Pokemon

Larry Needlemeyer - The Amazing World of Gumball

Ling Wen- Tian Guan Ci Fu (Heaven Official’s Blessing)

Link- The Legend of Zelda

Lisa Cuddy- House M.D

Lisa Wilbourn- Worm

Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Loid Forger/Twilight- Spy x Family

Lucifer- Obey Me!

Lucretia- The Adventure Zone

Luisa Madrigal- Encanto

Maedhros Feanorian- The Silmarillion

Mafuyu Asahina- Project Sekai/Colorful Stage

Marinette Dupain-Cheng- Miraculous Ladybug

Marsh- Mistborn

Matthew Venn- The Long Call

Merlin- BBC Merlin

Miles O’Brien- Star Trek

Miss Pauling- Team Fortress 2

MK- Lego Monkie Kid

Molly Blyndeff- Epithet Erased

Mrs Doyle- Father ted

Munkustrap- Cats 1998

Nicholas Benedict- The Mysterious Benedict Society

Nishida- Yakuza

Obi-Wan Kenobi- Star Wars

Olruggio- Witch Hat Atelier

Pandemonica- Helltaker

Parsley Botch- Smile for Me

Peppino Spaghetti- Pizza Tower

Percy Jackson- Percy Jackson

Peregrine Mendicant- Homestuck

Ponder Stibbons- Discworld

Raphael Walt/Sirius Dieke- My Next Life as a Villainess

Ratchet- Transformers

Reagan Ridley- Inside Job

Reim Lunettes- Pandora Hearts

Retsuko- Aggretsuko

Riza Hawkeye- Fullmetal Alchemist

Robin- Smash Legends

Rory Williams- Doctor Who

Ryotaro Dojima - Persona

Sara Chidouin- Your Turn To Die

SecUnit- The Murderbot Diaries

Shang Qinghua - Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

Shota Aizawa- My Hero Academia

Sips- Fool’s Gold

Squidward Tentacles- Spongebob Squarepants

Stanley- The Stanley Parable

Steven Alen Starphase- Blood Blockade Battlefront/Kekkai Sensen

Steven Universe- Steven Universe

Super Mario Bros.- Mario Series

Susan Taxpayer- Susan Taxpayer

The Cabbage Merchant- Avatar the Last Airbender

The Captain- BBC Ghosts

The Elsen- Off

The Manager- The Hotel Podcast

Touta Matsuda- Death Note

Trafalgar Law- One Piece

Twilight Sparkle- My Little Pony

Vera Oberlin- Monster Prom

Walter Pensive- Hello from the Hallowoods

Will Graham- Hannibal

William T Spears- Black Butler

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New Release - Parasite by Ridley Harker

New Release – Parasite by Ridley Harker

Ridley Harker has a new gay horror book out (with a romantic subplot): Parasite. And there’s a giveaway. Seventeen-year-old Jack Ives is used to being unlucky. His only friend has just moved away to college, his parents are alcoholics, and he’s relentlessly bullied by the town psychopath. All that begins to change with the arrival of a handsome but quirky new student, Lucien, who wants to be more…

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Universal Monsters fancast(Redo)

Redoing my Universal Monsters fancast

Adam Driver as Count Dracula

Peter Capaldi as Abraham Van Helsing

Daisy Ridley as Mina Murray Harker

Benedict Cumberbatch as Victor Frankenstein

Emilia Clarke as Elizabeth Lavenza Frankenstein

Peter Dinklage as Igor

Javier Bardem as Frankenstein’s Monster

Angelina Jolie as The Bride Of Frankenstein

Oscar Isaac as The Wolf Man/Lawrence Talbot

Riz Ahmed as The Mummy/Imhotep

Cillian Murphy as Dr. Jack Griffin/The Invisible Man

Doug Jones as Gillman/The Creature From The Black Lagoon

Andy Serkis as Dr Henry Jekyll/Mr Hyde

Bill Skarsgard as The Phantom/Erik

Lars Mikkelsen as Count Orlock

Mark Hamill as Professor Edward C. Burke

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The League of Extraordinary Gentle(wo)men (part one)

Helen Mirren as Allegra Quatemaine

Rachel Weisz as Mina Harker

Jodie Comer as Erika, the Phantom

Margot Robbie as Christine Daae

Eva Green as Henrietta Jekyll / Edwina Hyde

Priyanka Chopra Jonas as Janni Dakar

Amy Manson as Annie Oakley

Gal Gadot as Irene Adler

Daisy Ridley as Alice Liddell

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It’s two o’ clock in the morning.

The 96th Annual Hunger Games has been concluded for five weeks. Summer is trickling away at the end of August, leading into the interchanging weather patterns of September. Almost every house in Victor’s Village is quiet. Barely any lights are on through the windows. Everything is somehow peacefully quiet.

So much so that not even the Peacekeepers noticed the shadowy figures lurking in the darkest parts of the Village -- strangers that no one knows, faces unseen, with cans of paint hidden inside of their attire as they turn to the back of the Victor’s mansions. With their quick work, they work quietly and tirelessly for an hour to do what they needed to do, their message facing both sides of the Capitol on different back doors of different mansions. A way for the shadowed figures to speak for their quieted, bullied Victors, imprisoned in a cell they never wished for. 

Then the clock strikes three o’ clock and every television in the country flares to life in bright, loud static, startling every home with one awake. No face appears on the screen. Just the continuous static, and a haunting, distorted voice comes through.

“People of Panem,” it begins, deep and crackling. “To those who stand with us, we are your champions. To those who stand against us, we are your nightmare. You have allowed imprisonment of our country’s greatest treasures, barring them from the homes that made them who they are, making them into puppets and actors for entertainment. The blood they spilled from their bodies and ripped from innocent children have not been in vain.

“Tonight, we have shown our first marks. The Crownless Games has meaning. It means the Capitol can bleed. It means that the people of Panem have the power to show them we have control over them. Those who have died for our cause will live on forever in the fear of what the Capitol loses. 

Fear your Victors, President. Fear the power of the Mockingjay. The Mockingjay will live on forever.”

The transmission ends, the static and the noise replaced by silence and a red mockingjay symbol on each screen, stuck and unable to be changed no matter which channel they turn to. 

On the back of six random houses in the Village, the same symbol is painted on each back door with the words THE MOCKINGJAY LIVES. 

As dawn breaks, Peacekeepers and Capitol authorities descend upon the Village for interrogation, to see who had seen what and who had anything to do with it. The Victors, randomly chosen by a generator, are the ones with houses that have the symbol:

Alexander Knight of District 2 Lucus Terran of District 7 Valor Rosier-Archer of District 1 Carina Minuet of District 1 Aspen Fields of District 9 Ridley Harker of District 4

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SURPRISE! Welcome to our first event drop! The players above we selected by a random generator. This will happen with each event drop that involves the homes or people in the Game, so there will be opportunities for other players to have their names drawn for an event to have more participation. The other players not listed above may still be interrogated, but in a less intense way, due to their houses not having been graffitied. 

If you are wanting the interrogation to have a little bit more intense effects, please let the admin team know before you do it so we can approve it. If it involves excessive violence or like incidences, this needs to be run by the admins to make sure it fits into the story. 

If you have any questions, contact the main!

Happy event day!

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Release Blitz, Excerpt & Giveaway: Listen The Sound Of Fear Anthology

Release Blitz, Excerpt & Giveaway: Listen The Sound Of Fear Anthology

Title: Listen: The Sound of Fear Author: R.B. Thorne, Lauren Jane Barnett, E.E.W. Christman, Eule Grey, Ridley Harker, Jon James, T.S. Mitchell, Alex Silver, A.R. Vale, Edited by Elizabetta McKay Publisher: NineStar Press Release Date: 09/20/2022 Heat Level: 3 – Some Sex Pairing: Male/Male, Female/Female, M/NB Length: 75300 Genre: Horror Anthology, LGBTQIA+, historical, US circa 1800s, romance,…

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New Release Blitz: Listen: The Sound of Fear by R.B. Thorne, Lauren Jane Barnett, E.E.W. Christman, Eule Grey, Ridley Harker, Jon James, T.S. Mitchell, Alex Silver, A.R. Vale, Edited by Elizabetta McKay (Excerpt & Giveaway)

New Release Blitz: Listen: The Sound of Fear by R.B. Thorne, Lauren Jane Barnett, E.E.W. Christman, Eule Grey, Ridley Harker, Jon James, T.S. Mitchell, Alex Silver, A.R. Vale, Edited by Elizabetta McKay (Excerpt & Giveaway)

Title:  Listen: The Sound of Fear Author: R.B. Thorne, Lauren Jane Barnett, E.E.W. Christman, Eule Grey, Ridley Harker, Jon James, T.S. Mitchell, Alex Silver, A.R. Vale, Edited by Elizabetta McKay Publisher:  NineStar Press Release Date: 09/20/2022 Heat Level: 3 – Some Sex Pairing: Male/Male, Female/Female, M/NB Length: 75300 Genre: Horror Anthology, LGBTQIA+, historical, US circa 1800s, romance,…

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Ridley Harker is here to tell us about Parasite, Horror, LGBTQ Romance. He's also hosting a great giveaway. ________________ Parasite ...

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Parasite

Parasite

by Ridley Harker Genre: Horror, LGBTQ Romance  https://animoto.com/play/dJtJ1Jea8tV7afagHj00xg Parasite by Ridley Harker Genre: Horror, LGBTQ Romance Some teenagers are a little more monstrous than others. Seventeen-year-old Jack Ives is used to being unlucky. His only friend has just moved away to college, his parents are alcoholics, and he’s relentlessly bullied by the town psychopath. All…

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Listen: The Sound of Fear (A NSP Anthology)

Listen: The Sound of Fear (A NSP Anthology)

Title: Listen: The Sound of Fear Author: R.B. Thorne, Lauren Jane Barnett, E.E.W. Christman, Eule Grey, Ridley Harker, Jon James, T.S. Mitchell, Alex Silver, A.R. Vale, Edited by Elizabetta McKay Publisher: NineStar Press Release Date: 09/20/2022 Heat Level: 3 – Some Sex Pairing: Male/Male, Female/Female, M/NB Length: 75300 Genre: Horror Anthology, LGBTQIA+, historical, US circa 1800s, romance,…

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Book Tour Featuring *Parasite* by Ridley Harker @RidleyHarker @sdsxxtours #giveaway

Book Tour Featuring *Parasite* by Ridley Harker @RidleyHarker @sdsxxtours #giveaway

Parasite by Ridley Harker Genre: Horror, LGBTQ Romance Some teenagers are a little more monstrous than others. Seventeen-year-old Jack Ives is used to being unlucky. His only friend has just moved away to college, his parents are alcoholics, and he’s relentlessly bullied by the town psychopath. All that begins to change with the arrival of a handsome but quirky new student, Lucien, who wants to…

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The Greatest Year in Horror Film History Part III: 1979

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The Greatest Year in Horror Film History Part III: 1979

Imagine you are in a restaurant. You sit in a dark corner booth and check out the menu. The faint smell of cigarettes smoked long ago fills your nostrils and Thelonious Monk tickles your eardrums. Now, this isn’t some posh bistro in Paris or somewhere “Midwest fancy” (like an Arby’s) it’s just a no-name corner spot in a no-name town. At this restaurant, you order yourself the classic three-course meal of an appetizer, entree and dessert. You have done this hundreds of times in your life, but this time is different. This meal just so happens to start off with THE BEST chicken wings you’ve ever eaten. That’s followed up by THE BEST cheeseburger you’ve ever had, and you end the meal with THE BEST piece of apple pie you’ve ever tasted. Using basic logic, that would make this the greatest restaurant you’ve ever been to, right? So what does this have to do with the greatest year in horror film history?

Now imagine that this restaurant represents 1979, the number one year in horror film history. We can call it the greatest because it features three best-of-all-time films in their sub-genre, all packed within one magical year. Within its 365 days, this year gave us the best vampire, zombie and science-fiction horror films that have ever been made. Some may try to debate these claims, but luckily for us, we have the math to back us up.

Over the past few weeks, we have examined the #2 (1986) and #3 (2017) best years in horror film history. This week, as a final gift from me in 2017, we will be looking at the films that make 1979 the greatest year in horror film history. For those of you unfamiliar with our process, here’s a quick refresher:

OUR METHODOLOGY OR: HOW WE LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE EXCEL

We took a look at all of the horror films from 1970 to 2017. (The early 1970’s were a starting point for us because A) We needed one and B) The frequency of quality and iconic horror films really picked up during this time).

To determine a “score” for each year, we took a look at 5 different rating sources-

Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer Score

RT Critic’s Average Rating

RT Audience Score

RT Audience Average Rating

IMDB Viewer Ratings

– These ratings were averaged to find the “Fiend Score” for each film. We then combined the Fiend Score of the top three horror films from each year to give that year a total. I admit, the selection of the top three films was sometimes difficult. It was necessary to take other factors into account, such as the size of release, box office total and iconic status to determine which films were included in the top three. These three films were totaled and given an official number which we are calling its “NOFS Score”. These NOFS Scores ranged anywhere from 142 (Ouch) to 255.

So, without further ado, The Greatest Year in Horror Film History is:

Part III- 1979

NOFS Score- 255

The 1970’s were a tumultuous time in the United States and abroad. This was especially true at the end of the decade, where marginalized groups struggled to find their place in society and were denied basic rights from the newly galvanized conservative movement. This directly led to an influx of horror cinema across the country, packing small-town theaters with those wishing to escape. The 1970’s produced some of the finest horror films ever made, like The Exorcist (1973), Halloween (1978) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). Everything culminated in 1979, however, and we were given the greatest year in horror film history.

The horror films of 1979 are an amalgamation of the societal fears and attitudes toward authority the population felt all through the decade. Although horror has been an effective mirror for society throughout history, this is especially true for 1979. Here are the films with the top three Fiend Scores from that year:

  #3- Nosferatu the Vampyre

Written and Directed By: Werner Herzog Starring: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz

Fiend Score- 82

Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre is the best adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula that has ever been made. Officially, it’s an adaptation-of-an-adaptation, but either way it far surpasses any other attempt at the story. Nosferatu (1922), directed by F.W. Murnau is gorgeous and iconic, but Herzog’s direction, cast and setting puts his version above the original. It is, quite simply, one of the most beautiful horror films ever produced.

Bruno Ganz, a man that has somehow found a way to look like Javier Bardem but talk like Tommy Wiseau, plays Jonathan Harker, a man sent to Count Dracula to sell a house. He and his beloved Lucy, played with an angelic ethereality by Isabelle Adjani, are thrust into harm’s way as the Count makes his way to town to set up shop. They are fine representations of their characters but are ultimately overshadowed by the performance of Kinski as Dracula.

He is not an attractive man who just happens to enjoy dark castles and dope capes. You cannot walk past him on the street and mistake him for yet another aristocratic gentleman. He is an animal, an apex predator than needs to hunt. Kinski plays the character with a hunger and a pent-up power that is unrivaled in the Dracula filmography. Herzog lights his sets so perfectly that even his bright-white complexion can be hidden from you if he so chooses. It is shown in several scenes that Dracula is capable of forcing you to do as he wishes. Harker is twice attacked and is unable to fully resist or remember it in the morning. Kinski’s vampire doesn’t resort to glamour or hypnosis, however, as he chooses to take what he wants and stare directly into your eyes as he takes it. The scenes where he enters the bedchambers of both Harker and Lucy are so chilling because of the hunger in Kinski’s eyes. It bores into the screen and creates an uneasiness in the viewer, almost as if he has triggered our prehistoric fight-or-flight response.

Nosferatu the Vampyre is required viewing for fans of vampires or horror in general. The film begins with actual mummified corpses from Mexico and only gets darker from there. Herzog fills every frame with a physical weight, forcing the audience to gasp to keep from asphyxiating. The scenery surrounding Harker as he journeys to Dracula’s castle, in any other film, would be gorgeous. In Herzog’s hands, however, every crag and rock looks like it is trying to keep Jonathan from finding the way. The wet trail would rather make it’s hiker slip and die than reach their destination. For to reach the castle they seek is a fate far, far worse than death.

#2- Dawn of the Dead

Written and Directed By: George A. Romero Starring: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reininger

Fiend Score- 84

I remember the first time that I ever saw this film. I was way too young to be watching it, but when you’re in grade school and home alone sick with the flu, you watch whatever VHS tapes are at your disposal. Feeling OK (maybe I was just playing hookie? I can’t remember, but I wouldn’t put it past me), I made myself some lunch and popped in Dawn of the Dead. Many of the film’s central themes went way over my head, but the gore definitely did not. I distinctly remember feeling physically sick after watching the movie. So, I may have been faking my illness at first, but I was most definitely ill afterwards.

The film seems almost tame by today’s standards, but in 1979 it was a gore-fest unlike anything else in theaters. George A. Romero took what shocked audiences in his classic Night of the Living Dead (1968) and turned those scenes up to 11 and shot them in living color. Tom Savini, now regarded as one of the finest effects artists in horror film history, was still a young Vietnam War Veteran when tabbed for this film. His practical gore effects have gone down in history as some of the finest ever filmed, even with the crazy-bright fake blood that he hated so much.

The blood and guts made the film stood out for 8-year-old me, but its central theme of commercialism and the dehumanization of its survivors are what make the film so special today. Everyone knows that setting the film in a shopping mall was no accident, and Romero wanted to make a statement about how the need to buy material things turns us into inhuman beings. That message still works today, only you can now replace the shopping mall with the endless shelves of online shopping experiences. We stare at our screens and drool over (BRAINS!) digital images of things we absolutely must have or else we will surely perish. I like nice things, so I don’t really care what Romero has to say about my shopping habits, but the hedonism and greed that the survivors show is what interests me.

The ending of the film is almost inconsequential. It is the behaviors shown by the survivors of the worldwide epidemic that is what makes this film so powerful. The actions of the initial survivors and the stupid desperation of the motorcycle gang shaped what zombie films and television eventually became. At a certain point, it’s no longer about the reanimated dead, but how we interact with one another as survivors that makes zombie cinema so interesting. Without Dawn of the Dead, the zombie genre would have died out long ago and the horror genre as a whole would not be the same.

  #1- Alien

Directed By: Ridley Scott Written By: Dan O’Bannon Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt

Fiend Score- 89

Priority one: Insure return of organism for analysis. All other considerations secondary. Crew expendable.

So reads Special Order 937 from the fine folks at Weyland-Yutani. These fourteen words are the central driving force for an entire franchise that has now reached an incredible 8 films. It is also indicative of a sentiment many people felt in 1979. The government and corporations cannot be trusted and will do anything to further their reign and expand their power.

The film itself is a perfect horror movie. Some have called it a slasher film in space, likening the Xenomorph to everyone’s favorite terrestrial killing machine, Michael Myers. They have even compared the Nostromo to a haunted house. While this is completely valid, I have recently run across a point of view that paints the film in an entirely different light. You see, Alien isn’t a slasher, its a possession film.

The haunted house is not the freighter Nostromo, but instead the planet LV-426 where the crew encounters the abandoned alien spacecraft. They are sent to the ship because of a mysterious beacon, luring them in even though some may see it as a warning. The crew investigates the ship, then something attaches itself to Kane (Hurt). The others rush him back to the mother ship, which only allows it to spread and evolve, putting everyone else on the crew at risk. The Nostromo represents a host body, and the Xenomoph a possessing entity. Once invited in by the foreign agent Ash (here an android, but in other films shown as a demon or Satan himself), the entity systematically destroys everything that made the host unique and independent. As the final battle between Ripley and the beast showed us, the only way to survive a possession film is through exorcism.

Whatever lens you choose to view the film through, Alien remains one of the finest horror films ever made. It is tied with Silence of the Lambs (1991) as the film with the highest Fiend Score we calculated, and it launched the careers of Scott and Weaver. Although the on-board “computer” looks a little silly by today’s standards, the rest of the film holds up and is just as terrifying today as it was in 1979. Scott’s ability to film in tight, dark spaces is unparalleled, and the creature design by H.R. Giger is still regarded as the finest in horror film history. The bio-mechanical quality of the Xenomorph makes it difficult, especially when the ship’s lights begin to strobe, to distinguish what is ship and what is alien. This forces the audience to stay on edge and to constantly search behind the characters and down the dark hallways for the creature. It is a masterclass in film-making and suspense-building, and it led the way in making 1979 the greatest year in horror movie history.

Honorable Mentions:

We’ve determined that 2017, 1986 and 1979 were the top three years in horror film history, but what was the top decade? According to our calculations, the 1970’s carry the highest average NOFS Score at 224. Even though the current decade started poorly, 2016 (224) and 2017 (234) may be a sign of what’s to come in the next few years and it may push the 2010’s over the top.

Even though it is considered an all-time classic (for some reason), 1979’s The Amityville Horror didn’t quite crack the top-3 for the year. It finished with a lowly Fiend Score of 50.

1979 also gave us David Cronenberg’s The Brood (Fiend Score– 71), Phantasm (Fiend Score– 69) and When a Stranger Calls (Fiend Score– 52). Not all of these are are earth-shatteringly good films, but all have become iconic movies that are must-watches for horror fans.

Although it was only a made-for-TV miniseries, Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot also premiered in 1979. I mention this exclusively for the bedroom window scene. I still have nightmares about that one.

Dis-Honorable Mentions:

Whenever you are crunching the numbers, looking to find the “Best Of” anything, you inevitably discover the “Worst Of”. Here are the worst years in horror film history-

Although 2015 gave us The Babadook (and we say thankya), the year as a whole came in as the #3 worst year of all time with an NOFS Score of only 152. The other films from that year were poorly received, including Annabelle (Fiend Score– 44) and Ouija (Fiend Score– 31).

The number two worst year in horror film history was 1989, which finished with an NOFS Score of 149. The top-three films for that year ended up being Pet Sematary (Fiend Score– 58), Puppet Master (Fiend Score– 48) and A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (Fiend Score– 48).

Last and definitely least, the worst year in horror film history was 1995! Demon Knight (Fiend Score– 55), Species (Fiend Score– 45) and Village of the Damned (Fiend Score– 41) were the top three films of the year, totaling an NOFS Score of only 142.

Join the Discussion:

So, there you have it! 1979 is officially the greatest year in horror film history. What do you think about our findings? Head over to our Official Facebook Group and let us know! Where would you rank these years? What do you think makes the 1970’s the best decade for horror? Do you think the 1980’s should be above it? Put on your thinkin’ caps and tell us your opinions!

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Dracula fancast(New)

After realizing that Karyn Kusama will be directing the new Dracula movie, I think it’s time to do a new Dracula fancast!

Adam Driver as Count Dracula

Daisy Ridley as Mina Murray Harker

Daniel Radcliffe as Jonathan Harker

Jodie Comer as Lucy Westenra

Peter Capaldi as Professor Abraham Van Helsing

Joe Keery as Quincey Morris

Domhnall Gleeson as Arthur Holmwood

James McAvoy as Dr John Stewart

Andy Serkis as Renfield

Eva Green, Margot Robbie & Ana de Armas as the Brides Of Dracula

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ACCEPTED // RIDLEY HARKER

19 years old, 94th Hunger Games, FC: Jack Mulhern

Haunted, mercurial, incisive, conniving, aloof

tw: death, drowning, murder, violence

THE ARENA

 a rocky, near-uninhabitable archipelago

BIOGRAPHY

There’s a certain loneliness that comes from being one of the poorest families in one of the richer districts.  You suffer, you know you do, but you know it could be worse.  you’re told you should be thankful you were born in district four, and not in a district where you’d starve.  Sure, you have to work harder for what comes naturally to so many others, but that will just make you all the better for it.

Ridley was born to a couple not quite ready to have a child.  They struggled a lot for the early years of his life, his father a fisherman and his mother working to become a chef.  Just as they were finally getting on their feet, tragedy struck — his mother’s younger brother, Jackson, was reaped at the age of fourteen.  He was killed in the bloodbath, and his family watched it on live television.  Ridley’s mother never recovered, and his father was now trying to put food on the table for three.  So against his wishes, Ridley signed up for tesserae for the three of them as soon as he turned twelve.  He knew what this meant, but his mother was still a shell of her former self and his dad was working himself to the bone.  Ridley trained for the games, as most kids in district four did, but most of his time was spent doing odd jobs to make some extra money for his family. 

Life carried on as normally as it possibly could until he was reaped.  At seventeen, his name was in the bowl too many times to not matter.  He was old enough and big enough and strong enough that nobody was chomping at the bit to volunteer in his place.  His fate was sealed, and all he could do was try to make it further than his uncle had.  His training score of nine painted a target on his back, but promised him sponsors.  He found himself in the typical career alliance before the games even started, and while Ridley wasn’t keen on any of them as people, he was thankful to have someone to watch his back, if only temporarily.  and temporary it was — the arena was brutal.  On top of the initial bloodbath, a couple tributes drowned trying to make it to shelter.  Ridley and the other surviving careers dominated for the next few days, until the other tribute from his district, Lyra, was killed by the male tribute from nine.  Ridley immediately killed him in retaliation.  He became paranoid, as there were now only three tributes outside their pack remaining.  That night, he set his devious plan in motion.  While they slept, he killed the other two male (districts one and two) tributes, drowning one and bashing the other’s head into the rocky beach.  Their female counterparts awoke to the screams.  Ridley stabbed the district two girl before he had to escape, the district one girl shooting an arrow into his back as he dove into the water.  By morning, it was down to two tributes.  The district five girl and district ten boy killed each other over a loaf of bread, and the district three girl set the district one girl’s shelter on fire, unaware she was the only career in there.  She was shocked to see Ridley alive the next morning, where they fought to the death.  Sword and knife eventually gave way to bare hands, and after what felt like an eternity (and was surely entertainment for the rest of Panem), Ridley strangled her.  It took only a minute after the light left her eyes for him to be declared the winner, but that minute was all it took to realize what he had done in the name of survival.  

Memories of the games plague him night after night, and he can’t remember a time where he didn’t wake up crying or screaming since he returned from the arena over two years ago.  His father refused to look him in the eye and, upon Ridley moving into the victor’s village, elected to stay home in district four.  His meager existence was better than living in the shadow of a monster, and Ridley couldn’t say he fully blamed him.  When he’s not on display for the capitol, he’s a walking disaster, often appearing as though he hasn’t slept in days, barely eating enough to get by, and his hands are constantly trembling.  Like the flip of a switch, though, he’s able to pull it together enough to look like the golden boy victor, answering all the right questions and flirting with all the right people.  In these moments, he allows himself to believe that he did what he had to do, that he’s not a monster, and that scares him most of all. 

PENNED BY MARK