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38) Werewolf by Night (in color) - :emoji_jack_o_lantern:.5 - When I watched this last year in Black & White I loved it. Compared to Marvel's other TV shows I thought this was a great example of highly stylized, efficient story telling. Maybe too efficient, as there is no subtle layering...

36) Evil Dead 2 (1987) - :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: - Wildly inventive classic. Never gets old. 37) Overlord (2018) -...

35) Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) - I can't really rate this because I'm not the intended audience. My son took me and he's been playing all the games for years. He thought it was awesome, and according to him it was full of Easter eggs. It wasn't nearly as bad as I was dreading, but I did...

I'm almost embarrassed at how little I've watched this year. Haven't even touched the Universal horrors, any of my 3D movies, or perennial favorites like American Werewolf, Army of Darkness, Prince of Darkness, Schlock, Halloween, Suspiria, etc., etc. I had lofty plans but work, school, family...

31) Night of the Demons (1988) - :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: - Four pumpkins might be a tad high, but Ive always enjoyed this movie. It has all of the tropes of a low budget 80s slasher, horny teens, nudity, gore, a crotchety...

29) John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) - :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: - I watch this every year, never gets old. 30) This is the End (2013) -...

I couldn't disagree more. 28) Evil Dead Rise (2022) - :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: - Sooooo much better than the reboot/remake. This one felt like an evil dead movie. The initial setup cleverly pays...

27) The Monster Squad (1987) - :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: - Ive always avoided this movie because it looked like a made for Disney channel preteen cable movie. And aside from a few minor curse words and such my hunch was about right. I decided to watch it because of some...

25) Fright Night (1985) - :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: - This film really relishes it's 80sness and a lot of the sets look like a backlot. But the characters are so likable, even the bad guys. Chris Sarandon is devilishly...

I snuck in one more before dinner. Every year it amazes me how somebody y'all are already in the 60s or 80s so quick. 24) Dangerous Game: the Legacy Murders (2023) - :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: - A dysfunctional group of family members, on a dark and...

That's disappointing. Part of why I want to see it is because it stars Lily Sullivan, who is a frequent guest on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast. I was hoping that meant they brought some wit and glee back to temper the tension and gore. I still plan to watch it, but my expectations have been...

I love the movie but hadn't considered it for the challenge, but it plays off of War of the Worlds and has some creepy looking alien bad guys, so why not? Good call.

21) The Lonesome Ghosts (1937) - :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: a group of ghosts, bored because they scared off all the humans, hire Mickey, Goofy and Donald: the ghost exterminators. It's a silly 10 minutes and a good way to cleanse the pallet between...

20) The Banana Splits Movie - :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: .5 - I finally watches this mostly out of morbid curiosity and was pleasantly surprised by a silly, bloody movie. The Banana Splits find out they're being cancelled and decide to turn the tables. Not high art by any...

18) Poltergeist (1982) - :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: - I hadn't watched this in probably 30 years, and it didn't age well for me. Carol Anne is still cute, and JoBeth Williams gives a great performance, but Craig T Nelson is really wooden. The first...

17. Renfield (2023) - :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: - I was planning to rent this soon and then it showed up today for free on Prime. 😁 In modern day New Orleans Renfield attends co-dependent group therapy in hopes of finding...

I watched it for last year's challenge. I liked it fine enough, there was some good critter mayhem. But I agree it wasn't as good as the first two.

13) We Have a Ghost (2023) - :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: - Netflix bills this as a family comedy and features the great Jennifer Coolidge in its promotion. This movie is not a comedy. It is 2 hours 7 minutes and Coolidge is in it for less than 10...

12) The Being (1983) - :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: - A mutating blob of radioactive goo wreaks havoc in a small town which just opened (one of a planned two thousand if everything goes right) a nuclear waste dump. This is another competently made low...

7) Monsters S1 E12 - "Fool's Gold" - :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: - construction workers expanding a basement discover a treasure chest in a hidden cave, but it is protected by a strange creature. This show is just fun. The acting isn't great and Dick...

5) Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters (2013) - :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: :emoji_jack_o_lantern: A grown up Hansel & Gretel discover some family secrets while investigating the abductions of local children by a powerful witch. Despite a few F-bombs, some brief nudity and...

While there are a lot of good sequels, I think that in general sequels get a bad rap. Mostly because a lot of them seem like an inferior recreation of the original. So I applaud the creators here for making something quite different, and I'm glad y'all liked it. Mia Goth definitely had some...

3) X (2022) - :emoji_jack_o_lantern::emoji_jack_o_lantern::emoji_jack_o_lantern: a group of young adults in 1979 making an adult movie on a remote farm are killed off one by one. Not as creepy or harrowing as the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but different enough from a traditional slasher...

Bold = first time viewing. Ratings 1 to 5 :emoji_jack_o_lantern: My first two choices last night were a bit of a disappointment. 1) The Love Boat S2 E7 "Ship of ghouls" - :emoji_jack_o_lantern: I've been watching this series and was going to pause for October but coincidentally this was the...

I'm in again. I've got a nice stockpile of titles ready to go.