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I'm going fast and loose again with not concrete plan. Probably watch more old Hammer with my mom who I look after. Otherwise I'm hitting the unwatched pile but want to shuffle more new releases into this one so I may go one unwatched pile/one new. Also want to clear up some boxsets so I want to...

I'll be in again!

Great work everyone, and hats off to those of you that broke 100! My final totals: 92 film watched (which I double checked since it seemed high considering I didn't go as nuts as previous years! 59 Fist time viewings Favourites of the Challenge: the Quartermass films are solid gold, so good...

Here's my last batch of films from yesterday. Guess which one was picked solely due to run time fitting the window I had to watch it? 087 10/30 Friday the 13th (2009) 2/5 Watched the “Killer Cut” again. If you told someone what a Friday the 13th movie was like and then asked them to write a...

Got in a few more. I find the final days like today tricky since I know I'm not going to get in all I want so it's harder to choose what to watch. 083 10/30 WNUF Halloween Special (2013) 3/5 This one is a great idea, presented as an old VHS of a live Halloween broadcast where things go bump in...

But is more of the worst Jason better than 5minutes of actual Jason? I'm gonna have to meditate on it. :lol:

Got in three last night. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed is the film with the "doctor" line discussed previously. Bitchy Frankenstein is a whole mood. 080 10/29 Bloodthirsty Butchers (1970) 2/5 Milligan takes a crack at the “Sweeny Todd” story and it’s quite the doozy. There’s a lot of...

I conked out watching movie number two (a Milligan film, nuff said) so only one for me last night. 079 10/28 Dracula Has Risen From His Grave (1968) 3.5/5 Another solid entry in the Hammer Dracula franchise finds a couple of priests mucking about Drac’s old castle and resurrecting the ol’ neck...

Speaking of Hammer, I just realized I forgot to crack open that Hammer adjacent Crypt of Christopher Lee set Severin put out! I'm pretty much out of time to get much into it, but I may try this final weekend. Damn!

I too watched Quartermass and the Pit last night and boy did I love it! I'll also vouch for how good the BBC 1977 Count Dracula was. Watched it in a previous challenge with a friend who sneers at most things from before the 80s that aren't action picture and he dug it too. Genuinely creepy, that...

Phwor! I may have written off this series too soon! :lol: Got in three last night: 074 10/26 The Fifth Cord 3.5/5 A reporter working on a murder case that is effecting people he knows to the point that he becomes a suspect in this giallo staring Franco Nero. Coming early in the cycle it may...

I track all my movie watching on letterboxd and watching all these Hammer films has actor Michael Ripper tied for third place most wathched this year, right beside Peter Cushing. Will either of them beat Mel Blanc or Robert L. Ripley)? :lol:

Got in two last night: 072 10/25 Psycho Sisters (1994) 3.5/5 A pair of sisters go psycho after escaping an assault that resulted in their other sister being killed, and start luring men to strangle as a way to get even in this WAVE Video adjacent oddity. Going in you know you're in for a shot...

Redford is so imprinted as a "good guy" it would have sold the heel turn for sure. Though we wasn't at maximum stardom in 1968 I think he mostly played romantic leads so it would be a good sell.

Side note on my viewing yesterday. It's impossible for me to see the title "Frankenstein Created Woman" and not think Count Floyd is going to introduce it on Monster Chiller Horror Theater.

Got in 5 yesterday. Well, 4 plus one from the night before that I watched after posting my last update. 067 10/23 Sexcula (1974) 3/5 068 10/24 Candyman: Day of the Dead (1999) 2.5/5 Candyman goes direct to video and I think it probably helps the series to be honest. After the second film...

I've thought the same thing the past 5 years of challenges. What I love about this one is anyone can kind of make it what they want it to be. I knew going in this year that I wouldn't be able to hit crazy numbers, but that's okay, I'm hitting non-challenge crazy numbers haha. I have certain...

Four in today. Going to try to sneak one more in after I post this. Going into the final week, I'm once again realizing I'm not going to get in all the films I thought I would and discovered I spaced out some films too much to fit in without cramming. Now I have to make some decisions. I miss...

I meant to post my two films from last night earlier but the day went completely pear shaped so no you get FOUR reviews you lucky ghouls! 059 10/21 Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) 3.5/5 This is the first Hammer Studios film I remember seeing so I’m pretty partial to it. Tourists get roped...

I'll add Bill Rebane to the worst list. Not a single title in that Arrow set has been good. I have one to go, but I'm not holding my thumbs. You can feel the love in Ed Wood's work, even in his later porn decline. I don't feel anything in Rebane's films.

I'm hoping to run all of them before the end of the month. If I notice it I'll be sure to keep you posted lol. Cushing is really perfect as Dr. Frankenstein, and it's kind of shocking to see how good he is as Van Helsing as well, since Helsing has been a much more physical role in the two I've...

Here's my last four. Looks like HawksFord and I agree on the Hammer Frankie films. 055 10/19 The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) 3.5/5 This is an odd one. Dr. Frankenstein returns to his estate and finds his monster frozen in ice and gets the help of a hypnotist to revive him. It’s odd since while...

I'm going to try to get Adoration in before the end of the challenge. I agree with you completely with VS. I'm on the fence with the subscription since the VS releases have been more miss than hit for me for the past year and a bit. The partner labels though have been knocking it out of the...

Got two in last night, finished the two from the night before lol. 053 10/18 The Body Beneath (1970) 2/5 This one is a Dracula remix from Andy Milligan in which a Vampire family is on the move, looking to bring in fresh bloodlines to stave off the inbreeding they are facing. Which is pretty...

Boy, those screen grabs of LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE bring back some memories lol. Nice choice to watch. For suspense their Wages of Fear/Sorcerer rip is a good one too. My viewing went completely off the rails yesterday. Only 3 films completed since my last update, but I'm halfway through...

A bigger update for me as I was able to get a few in since last update. Tomorrow is book club day which is really going to screw up my numbers for the weekend lol. A bit more "horror-adjacent" than I've been running, but I think they should count. 043 10/15 Mail Order Murder: The Story of...

That I forgot to post my review for my one movie watched since last time should tell you all you need to know about how I'm doing at this point. I think I'm about a couple production years behind John's Hammer run. :lol: 042 10/14 Curse of the Werewolf (1961) 3.5/5 Oliver Reed stars in this one...

I'm hitting that wall too. My main goal this time around was knocking off as much unwatched physical media as I could and I think I'm going to do it. I might have to kayfabe some not strictly horror but that's okay eh? lol

I have seen a few before, most of that box will be first timers. I liked Fleshpot. for my money Vapors is the best of his that I've seen, and I'm gonna re-watch it but I remember liking SEEDS as well.

I plan on digging into this set and stretching the "rules" of the challenge by finishing the Arrow Rebane and Grefe boxsets that sound maybe more grindhouse exploitation than straight horror. I'm in for a rough week.