John Stell
Screenwriter
1. Watch 13 Scary/Horror/Halloween-Themed films, etc. from midnight October 1, 2024 through October 31, 2024 (use your own time zone to set the ending time).
2. Theatrically released films and short features count as 1 point each. Running times are irrelevant. TV specials (e.g. "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!") and individual episodes of anthology TV series (e.g. "The Twilight Zone") also count as 1 point each. For episodic TV series, 2 hour-long episodes (e.g. "The Walking Dead") count as 1 point and 3 episodes of 30 minute-long episodes (e.g. "The Munsters") count as 1 point.
3. Two of the 13 films, et. al. must be new discoveries, movies you've never seen before. The point of this is to see those few movies you've always meant to see, but never got around to. Please specify new discoveries in your film list by making them bold, adding asterisks, different colors, etc.
4. Come here and talk about 'em.
5. There is an uber-category, the Ultimate Splatter Challenge for those who wish to put all of the rest of us to shame. This is the heavyweight division. These people, if they choose to accept the challenge, must view 31 horror/scary/Halloween themed movies before dawn on Nov. 1st. Ten new discoveries are recommended for this one. The rest of us will bow down in awed reverence to these truly "Splatterific" HTF members. The bragging rights will be awesome and long lived. What movies qualify? If you wanna include it, go for it. There will be no hairsplitting. If The Wizard of Oz sends you to the dresser for a fresh pair of boxer shorts, all the power.
6. At the end of the challenge, the totals will be added up based on the point system outlined in number 2 above.
24th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2023 Results:
BobO'Link 138 (43)
Michael Elliott 138 (103)
Ruz-El 131 (115)
JasonRoer 128 (85)
John Stell 107 (20)
Travis 104 (2)
Compson 55 (33)
Adam Lambert 38 (18)
dpippel 33 (14)
Neil 31 (13)
Malcolm 28.5 (12)
HawksFord 22
EricSchulz 18 (7)
2. Theatrically released films and short features count as 1 point each. Running times are irrelevant. TV specials (e.g. "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!") and individual episodes of anthology TV series (e.g. "The Twilight Zone") also count as 1 point each. For episodic TV series, 2 hour-long episodes (e.g. "The Walking Dead") count as 1 point and 3 episodes of 30 minute-long episodes (e.g. "The Munsters") count as 1 point.
3. Two of the 13 films, et. al. must be new discoveries, movies you've never seen before. The point of this is to see those few movies you've always meant to see, but never got around to. Please specify new discoveries in your film list by making them bold, adding asterisks, different colors, etc.
4. Come here and talk about 'em.
5. There is an uber-category, the Ultimate Splatter Challenge for those who wish to put all of the rest of us to shame. This is the heavyweight division. These people, if they choose to accept the challenge, must view 31 horror/scary/Halloween themed movies before dawn on Nov. 1st. Ten new discoveries are recommended for this one. The rest of us will bow down in awed reverence to these truly "Splatterific" HTF members. The bragging rights will be awesome and long lived. What movies qualify? If you wanna include it, go for it. There will be no hairsplitting. If The Wizard of Oz sends you to the dresser for a fresh pair of boxer shorts, all the power.
6. At the end of the challenge, the totals will be added up based on the point system outlined in number 2 above.
24th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge 2023 Results:
BobO'Link 138 (43)
Michael Elliott 138 (103)
Ruz-El 131 (115)
JasonRoer 128 (85)
John Stell 107 (20)
Travis 104 (2)
Compson 55 (33)
Adam Lambert 38 (18)
dpippel 33 (14)
Neil 31 (13)
Malcolm 28.5 (12)
HawksFord 22
EricSchulz 18 (7)
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Start of the Month: Bela Lugosi
Creepy Cinema with Mario Cantone (starts at 8pm)
Start of the Month: Bela Lugosi
Creepy Cinema with Mario Cantone (starts at 8pm)
Start of the Month: Bela Lugosi
Creepy Cinema with Mario Cantone (starts at 8pm)
Start of the Month: Bela Lugosi
Creepy Cinema with Mario Cantone (starts at 8pm)
ALL-DAY HORROR AND THRILLERS
HAPPY HALLOWEEN HORROR
Start of the Month: Bela Lugosi
- 8:00pm – Dracula (1931)
- 9:30pm – Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
- 11:00pm – Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Creepy Cinema with Mario Cantone (starts at 8pm)
- 1:30am – The Wolf Man (1941)
- 3:00am – The Devil-Doll (1936)
- 4:30am – The Walking Dead (1936)
- 6:00am – Queen of Outer Space (1958)
- 7:30am – Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
- 9:00am – Forbidden Planet (1956)
- 10:45am – The Invisible Boy (1957)
- 12:30pm – The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
- 2:00pm – The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
- 3:30pm – Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
- 5:00pm – The Thing from Another World (1951)
- 6:30pm – Invaders from Mars (1953)
- 8:00pm – Sudden Fear (1952)
- 10:15pm – In This Our Life (1942)
- 12:15am – House of Wax (1953)
- 2:00am – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
- 3:45am – Mad Love (1935)
- 5:00am – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
- 6:00am – The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
- 7:15am – A Bucket of Blood (1959)
- 8:30am – The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962)
- 3:15pm – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Start of the Month: Bela Lugosi
- 8:00pm – Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
- 9:30pm – Zombies on Broadway (1945)
- 10:45pm – You’ll Find Out (1940)
Creepy Cinema with Mario Cantone (starts at 8pm)
- 12:30am – Spooks Run Wild (1941)
- 1:45am – Ghosts on the Loose (1943)
- 3:00am – The Death Kiss (1933)
- 4:15am – Scared to Death (1947)
- 5:30am – The Gorilla (1939)
- 8:00pm – Rear Window (1954)
- 10:15pm – Sisters (1972)
- 11:59pm – Poltergeist (1982)
- 2:00am – The Haunting (1963)
- 4:00am – Spirits of the Dead (1968)
- 6:15am – Carnival of Souls (1962)
- 6:00pm – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
- 6:15am – Chamber of Horrors (1966)
- 8:00am – Two on a Guillotine (1965)
Start of the Month: Bela Lugosi
- 8:00pm – White Zombie (1932)
- 9:15pm – The Body Snatcher (1945)
- 10:45pm – Devil Bat (1940)
- 11:59pm – Mark of the Vampire (1935)
Creepy Cinema with Mario Cantone (starts at 8pm)
- 1:15am – The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
- 2:45am – Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
- 4:15am – Queen of Outer Space (1958)
- TBA
- 3:15am – The Reptile (1966)
- 5:00am – The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
- 6:30pm – Village of the Damned (1960)
- 6:15am – The Ghost Ship (1943)
- 7:30am – Isle of the Dead (1945)
Start of the Month: Bela Lugosi
- 8:00pm – The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
- 9:30pm – Bowery at Midnight (1942)
- 10:45pm – The Saint’s Double Trouble (1940)
- 11:59pm – Broadminded (1931)
Creepy Cinema with Mario Cantone (starts at 8pm)
- 1:30am – Genius at Work (1947)
- 2:45am – Ninotchka (1939)
- 4:45am – 50 Million Frenchmen (1931)
- 8:00pm – The Night Digger (1971)
- 10:00pm – The Brood (1979)
- 11:45pm – Demon Seed (1977)
- 1:30am – They Live (1988)
- 3:15am – The Hidden (1987)
- 5:00am – The Shout (1978)
- 6:45am – The Thing from Another World (1951)
- 8:15am – Transatlantic Tunnel (1935)
- 7:15am – I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
- 12:00pm – The Invisible Boy (1957)
ALL-DAY HORROR AND THRILLERS
- 6:00am – House on Haunted Hill (1958)
- 7:15am – From Beyond the Grave (1973)
- 9:00am – Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
- 10:45am – Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
- 12:30pm – The Mummy (1959)
- 2:15pm – Horror of Dracula (1958)
- 3:45pm – The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
- 5:15pm – The Beast with Five Finers (1946)
- 6:45pm – The Seventh Victim (1943)
- 8:00pm – Psycho (1960)
- 11:45pm – Blue Velvet (1986)
HAPPY HALLOWEEN HORROR
- 2:00am – The Strangler (1964)
- 3:45am – Night Must Fall (1964)
- 5:30am – Return to Glennascaul (1953)
- 6:00am – Doctor X (1932)
- 7:30am – Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
- 9:00am – Thirteen Women (1932)
- 10:15am – Freaks (1932)
- 11:30am – The Bat (1959)
- 1:00pm – The Wolf Man (1941)
- 2:15pm – The Black Cat (1941)
- 3:45pm – Dracula (1931)
- 5:15pm – Frankenstein (1931)
- 6:30pm – Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- 12:00am – Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- 1:45am – The Devil’s Own (1966)
- 3:30am – The Devil’s Bride (1968)
- 5:15am – Eye of the Devil (1966)
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
JOHN CARPENTER MARATHON
AMC Celebrates Nightmare Marathon
Friday the 13th Marathon
Final Destination Marathon
Halloween Marathon Begins
Halloween Marathon Continued
Stephen King Marathon
Fear the 80s Marathon
House of Horrors Marathon
Final Destination Marathon
SLASHER SUNDAY
Friday the 13th Marathon
Creature Feature Marathon
Halloween Marathon
Final Destination Marathon
Nightmare Marathon
Halloween Marathon
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Halloween Marathon Continues
- 12:00am – The Crazies
- 9:00am – The Apparition
- 11:00am – The Crazies
- 1:30pm – The Last House on the Left
- 4:00pm – Trick ‘r Treat
- 6:00pm – Thirteen Ghosts
- 8:00pm – Jeepers Creepers
- 10:00pm – House of Wax (2005)
- 12:30am – The First Purge
- 9:00am – Hellraiser (1987)
- 11:15am – House on Haunted Hill
- 1:15pm – The Haunting
- 3:45pm – The Last Exorcism
- 5:45pm – Poltergeist
- 8:15pm – The Exorcist (1973)
- 11:00pm – Christine (1983)
JOHN CARPENTER MARATHON
- 1:00am – Carrie (1976)
- 5:27am – Violent Midnight
- 9:00am – John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars
- 11:00am – John Carpenter’s Vampires
- 1:30pm – John Carpenter’s They Live
- 3:30pm – John Carpenter’s The Thing
- 6:00pm – John Carpenter’s Christine
- 8:00pm – Halloween (1978)
- 10:00pm – Halloween II (1981)
AMC Celebrates Nightmare Marathon
- 12:00am – Horror’s Greatest (2024)
- 1:20am – Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- 5:45am – Voodoo Woman
- 9:00am – Corridors of Blood
- 9:15am – The Creation of the Humanoids
- 9:30am – Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
- 11:30am – A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
- 1:30pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
- 3:45pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
- 6:00pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
- 8:00pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- 10:15pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Friday the 13th Marathon
- 1:27am – Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
3:59am – A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
6:00am – A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) - 8:00am – Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
- 10:00am – Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
- 12:00pm – Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
- 2:00pm – Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
- 4:00pm – Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
- 6:00pm – Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
- 8:00pm – Friday the 13th (1980)
- 10:00pm – Friday the 13th Part 2
Final Destination Marathon
- 12:00am – Friday the 13th Part III
- 2:00am – Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
- 4:00am – How to Make a Monster (1958)
- 4:15am – Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
- 6:15am – Jason X
- 8:30am – Freddy vs. Jason
- 10:45am – I Know What You Did Last Summer
- 1:00pm – Final Destination (2000)
- 3:00pm – Final Destination 2
- 5:00pm – Final Destination 3
- 7:00pm – Final Destination 5
- 11:56pm – Final Destination (2000)
Halloween Marathon Begins
- 9:00am – Invasion of the Neptune Men (1961)
- 9:15am – Jet Attack (1958)
- 9:30am – Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
- 11:30am – Motel Hell
- 2:00pm – Pumpkinhead
- 4:00pm – The Fly
- 6:00pm – Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
- 8:00pm – Halloween: Resurrection
- 10:00pm – Halloween (1978)
Halloween Marathon Continued
- 12:00am – Halloween II (1981)
- 2:00am – Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- 4:00am – Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers
- 9:00am – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
- 11:00am – Halloween II (1981)
- 1:00pm – Halloween (1978)
- 3:00pm – Halloween: Resurrection
- 5:00pm – Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
- 7:00pm – Halloween (2007)
- 9:30pm – Halloween II (1981)
- 12:00am – Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
- 2:00am – House on Haunted Hill
- 4:00am – Piranha 3DD
- 9:00am – Invasion of the Neptune Men
- 9:15am – How to Make a Monster
- 9:30am – Halloween (2007)
- 12:00pm – Child’s Play (2019)
- 2:00pm – Candyman
- 4:00pm – Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
- 6:00pm – Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
- 8:00pm – Friday the 13th (1980)
- 10:40pm – Friday the 13th Part 2
- 1:20am – Hellraiser (1987)
- 3:35am – House of the Dead
- 9:00am – The Rite
- 10:45am – The Haunting
- 1:15pm – Cloverfield
- 3:15pm – House of Wax
- 5:45pm – I Know What You Did Last Summer
- 8:00pm – Final Destination 5
- 10:00pm – Final Destination 3
- 12:00am – Horror’s Greatest (New Episode)
- 1:10am – Child’s Play (2019)
- 3:10am – Ghost Rider
- 5:40am – Tanks of El Alamein
- 9:00am – Voodoo Woman
- 9:15am – Hellraiser: Inferno
- 11:45am – Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
- 1:45pm – Hellraiser (1987)
- 4:00pm – Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
- 6:00pm – Final Destination (2000)
- 8:00pm – Ghost Ship
- 10:00pm – Jeepers Creepers
Stephen King Marathon
- 12:00am – The Last House on the Left
- 3:58am – Suicide Battalion (1958)
- 4:13am – The Ring
- 6:45am – Cujo
- 8:45am – Graveyard Shift
- 10:45am – Children of the Corn (1984)
- 1:00pm – Carrie (1976)
- 3:15pm – Misery
- 5:45pm – Thinner
- 7:45pm – Carrie (2013)
- 10:00pm – Silver Bullet
Fear the 80s Marathon
- 12:00am – Christine
- 2:00am – Carrie (2013)
- 5:43am – Thinner
- 7:45am – The Thing
- 10:15am – Child’s Play
- 12:15pm – Friday the 13th Part 2
- 2:15pm – Poltergeist
- 4:45pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
- 6:45pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- 11:30pm – Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
- 4:00am – Body Snatchers
- 11:15am – A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- 1:30pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
- 3:30pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
- 5:45pm – Freddy vs. Jason
- 8:00pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
- 10:00pm – Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
- 5:30pm – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
- 7:30pm – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
- 9:45pm – Trick ‘r Treat
- 6:00pm – Jeepers Creepers
- 8:00pm – Halloween: Resurrection
- 10:00pm – Child’s Play (2019)
- 5:45pm – Christine
- 7:45pm – Carrie
- 10:00pm – Thinner
House of Horrors Marathon
- 9:00am – The Haunting in Connecticut
- 11:00am – The Shining
- 2:30pm – Misery
- 5:00pm – The Last House on the Left
- 7:30pm – House of Wax (2005)
- 10:00pm – Thirteen Ghosts
Final Destination Marathon
- 12:00am – Poltergeist
- 4:00pm – Final Destination 2
- 6:00pm – Final Destination 5
- 8:00pm – Final Destination (2000)
- 10:00pm – Final Destination 3
SLASHER SUNDAY
- 6:45am – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
- 8:45am – Candyman
- 10:45am – Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
- 12:45pm – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
- 3:00pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street
- 5:00pm – Halloween
- 7:00pm – Friday the 13th
- 5:45pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- 8:00pm – Halloween (2007)
- 10:30pm – Halloween II (2009)
- 5:30pm – Misery
- 8:00pm – Poltergeist
- 10:30pm – The Exorcist
- 6:00pm – Trick ‘r Treat
- 8:00pm – Final Destination (2000)
- 10:00pm – Final Destination 2
- 12:00am – House of Wax (2005)
- 7:30pm – Ghost Ship
- 9:30pm – AMC Premiere Event: The Meg
Friday the 13th Marathon
- 9:00am – Friday the 13thPart VI: Jason Lives
- 11:00am – Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
- 1:00pm – Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
- 3:00pm – Freddy vs. Jason
- 5:15pm – Friday the 13th Part III
- 7:15pm – Friday the 13th
- 9:15pm – Friday the 13th Part 2
- 11:15pm – Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Creature Feature Marathon
- 1:15am – Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
- 3:15am – Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
- 5:15am – Friday the 13th
- 7:15am – The Mist
- 10:00am – Gremlins
- 12:30pm – Christine
- 2:30pm – Silver Bullet
- 4:30pm – The Fly (1986)
- 6:30pm – The Thing
- 9:00pm – Jeepers Creepers
- 11:00pm – Child’s Play
Halloween Marathon
- 1:00am – Sleepy Hollow
- 3:30am – Eight Legged Freaks
- 9:00am – Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
- 11:00am – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
- 1:00pm – Halloween II (1981)
- 3:00pm – Halloween
- 5:00pm – Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
- 7:00pm – Halloween: Resurrection
Final Destination Marathon
- 4:00pm – Final Destination 2
- 6:00pm – Final Destination (2000)
- 8:00pm – Final Destination 3
- 10:00pm – Final Destination 5
Nightmare Marathon
- 9:00am – Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
- 11:00am – A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
- 1:00pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
- 3:15pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
- 5:30pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
- 7:30pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- 9:45pm – A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
- 11:45pm – Freddy vs. Jason
Halloween Marathon
- 2:00am – Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
- 9:00am – Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- 11:00am – Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
- 1:00pm – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
- 3:00pm – Halloween
- 5:00pm – Halloween II (1981)
- 7:00pm – Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
- 9:00pm – Halloween: Resurrection
- 11:00pm – Halloween
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Halloween Marathon Continues
- 1:30am – Halloween II (2009)
- 4:00am – Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- 6:00am – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
- 8:00am – Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers
- 10:00am – Halloween: Resurrection
- 12:00pm – Halloween (2007)
- 2:30pm – Halloween II (2009)
- 5:00pm – Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
- 7:00pm – Halloween
- 9:00pm – Halloween II (1981)
- 11:00pm – Halloween
- 1:00am – Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
- 3:00am – Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers
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), and the killer's sound effects announcing that he was nearby. A great cast in this, with Farmiga and Middleditch, as well as Alexander Ludwig, Adam Devine, Alia Shawkat, and Nina Dobrev.
