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October 31: The Thing (1982) – PERFECT (5 out of 5) In the isolation of a remote Antarctic research station, a U.S. research team is unknowingly infiltrated by a thing that can perfectly imitate lifeforms, human or animal. With a storm setting in and cutting them off from the outside world...

October 30 (c): The Thing (2011) - 4 out of 5 A discovery in the artic has Norwegian scientists excited. To excavate the discovery, they enlist the expertise of American, Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). Once they have their prize back to their base of operations, the frozen discover...

October 30 (b): Night of the Creeps (1986) - 3.5 out of 5 First landing on earth during the 1950s and somehow winding up being cryogenically frozen for 30 years, alien slugs manage to infest a small college town during pledge week, resulting in some unexplained brutal murders followed by a...

October 30 (a): Freaks of Nature (2015) – 3 out of 5 – First Time Viewing Imagine a world where vampires, zombies and humans coexist. That’s the reality in the small down of Dillford. Vampires sit atop the power chain, humans get by in the middle, and Zombies, when they’re not used for basic...

October 29 (b): The Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022) – 3 out of 5 - First Time Viewing Sidney Gordon (Priah Ferguson) and her parents, Howard (Marlon Wayans) and Emily (Kelly Rowland) are relocating from the big city to the small-town community of Bridge Hollow. Arriving in town for the first...

October 29 (a): I Am Lisa (2020) – 2.5 out of 5 – First Time Viewing Lisa (Kristen Vaganos) is a quiet young woman. She runs a bookstore in her hometown but is bullied by the Sheriff’s daughter and her friends. The sheriff herself is a nasty piece of work. When the sheriff, her malicious...

Ha! That gave me a good chuckle this morning :)

October 28: Hellraiser (2022) – 3.5 out of 5 – First Time Viewing Riley (Odessa A’zion) struggles with addiction. She’s drifting through life a bit of a mess and currently staying with her brother at his apartment. But when Riley’s untrustworthy boyfriend convinces her to join him in breaking...

October 27: The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020) – 4.5 out of 5 The quiet ski-town community of Snow Hollow is rocked by a brutal murder and the small-town sheriff's department is ill-prepared for the crime (and what soon follows). Officer John Marshall (Jim Cummings), a recovering alcoholic and...

October 26: Werewolves Within (2021) – 4.5 out of 5 Finn Wheeler (Sam Richardson) arrives in the sleepy small town of Beaverfield to start his job as a forest ranger and finds the locals to be an oddball bunch of characters, swallowed by disagreements over a proposed gas pipeline. While he...

October 25: The Long Walk (2019) – 4.5 out of 5 – First Time Viewing In the near future, an old Laotian man living a humble, solitary life, has been able to see the ghost of a young girl that died along the dirt road he’s traveled every day for years since he was just a boy. A quiet, unassuming...

October 24: The Fog (1980) – 4.5 out of 5 Antonio Bay, a sleepy seaside town, is preparing to celebrate the history of its founding, but that history hides a very dark secret. And that dark secret is about to visit upon the town a bloody vengeance. John Carpenter's The Fog is a scary campfire...

October 23 (b): The Invasion (2007) – 3 out of 5 Following a tragic explosion of a space shuttle over America, D.C. psychiatrist Dr. Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) sees a patient (Veronica Cartwright) who is certain her abusive husband is no longer her husband. Then, following a strange...

October 23 (a): Body Snatchers (1993) – 3 out of 5 – First Time Watching Marti Malone (Gabrielle Anwar) has spent the summer moving to different U.S. Army bases across the country with her father, Steve (Terry Kinney), stepmother, Carol (Meg Tilly), and stepbrother, Andy (Reilly Murphy). Steve...

October 22 (b): Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) – 5 out of 5 Something small from outer space lands on the plant life in San Francisco, California. It produces an unusual flower that Department of Health (DoH) worker Elizabeth Driscoll plucks and takes home to show her live in boyfriend...

October 22 (a): Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) – 5 out of 5 – First Time Viewing Dr. Miles J. Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) is a small-town doctor who rushes back to his home community when his assistant tells him many of his regular patience have been trying urgently to see him. But, when he...

October 21: Lake Mungo (2008) – 4.5 out of 5 – First Time Viewing Following the death by drowning of young girl in a lake, the family begin to experience strange things in their home and soon uncover surprising secrets about the dead girl. Lake Mungo, told documentary style, is superbly...

October 20: Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity (2021) – 4 out of 5 – First Time Viewing Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity is a very good look at the birth, life, and end of the 6-film (at the time) franchise that shook up and surprised the box office...

I am going to see if I can get a hold of The Long Walk for this challenge. You really piqued my curiosity!

I love both these films and have watched them a couple times for these challenges over the years. I think the original has the edge for me, but what a great remake. I also love both scores for these films. Different from each other, but so good.

October 19: Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021) – 3 out of 5 – First Time Viewing A young woman, Margot (Emily Bader), abandoned at a hospital by her mother as a newborn, discovers that she has living relatives. She’s never met a blood relative before, so the surprise discovery following a...

October 18: Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015) – 2.5 out of 5 A new family, the Fleeges, unsuspectingly moves into the home where the Paranormal Activity first took a hold of Katie (from Paranormal Activity). Ryan (Chris Murray), Emily (Brit Shaw), and their daughter, Leila (Ivy...

October 17: Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014) – 4 out of 5 – First Time Viewing Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) is fresh from his High School graduation, lives in an apartment complex with dad, sister, and grandmother. One night, their downstairs neighbor, Ana, can be heard moaning and making...

October 16: Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) – 3 out of 5 It has been a few years since Katie disappeared with Hunter, her nephew (at the end of Paranormal Activity 2) and now, some distance from where the paranormal events took place, a new family has moved into a nice suburban neighborhood. Alex...

October 15: Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) – 3 out of 5 It’s 1988, and sisters Katie and Kristi are living with their mother, Julie (Lauren Bittner) and her boyfriend, Dennis (Christopher Smith). Dennis is a wedding videographer and uses his trade to set up video camcorders around the house to...

October 14: Paranormal Activity 2 (2010) – 3.5 out of 5 Initially set before the events of the first film, the story begins with Kristi, the sister of Katie from the first film, and her husband Daniel, filming the day their newborn son comes home from the hospital for the first time. We are...

October 13: Paranormal Activity (2007) – 3.5 out of 5 Micah and Katie are by all appearances a typical suburban couple who live together in San Diego, but they are beginning to deal with something that will change them forever. Something is making noises in their home and Micah has brought home...

October 12: Tremors (1990) – 4.5 out of 5 In the dusty town of Perfection, Nevada, Val and Earl have had enough of their handymen routine and are packing up and heading out. But they picked the wrong day to leave. Beneath the ground lurks danger that senses movement on the surface. To survive...

October 11: The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) – 3 out of 5 – First Time Viewing Ed and Lorrain Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga), legendary paranormal investigators, are stumped when an apparent demonic possession turns out to be a more complex and targeted occurrence. It...

October 10: The Head Hunter (2018) – 4 out of 5 – First Time Viewing A medieval hunter of various creatures in the world suffers a terrible loss. He vows to destroy the creature that took the life of his daughter and stick its head on a stake on his wall along with the head of the other...