***Official 8th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge*** (1 Viewer)

[Michael Elliott]

**Official 8th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge***



1. Watch 13 Scary/Horror/Halloween-Themed films before midnight on October 31, 2005 (use your own timezone to set the ending time).

2. Two of the above 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. I recommend more than 2, but 2 is the minimum to pat yourself on the head and say you completed the challenge. Please specify new discoveries in your film list by making them bold, adding asterisks, different colors, etc.

3. If you were part of the challenge last year, no more than two of the same films can be RE-watched. I'll grant a couple since some movies (ie. Halloween, Rocky Horror) are simply tradition and I'm willing to give credit for these. (Revision: This only applies to those going for the 13 movie challenge)

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.

6. There has been discussion over the past two years as to what movies qualify. Is Silence of the Lambs a horror movie? Does The Nightmare Before Christmas count? From now on, if you wanna include it, go for it. There will be no hairsplitting. If The Wizard of Oz send you to the dresser for a fresh pair of boxer shorts, all the power.


2006 ULTIMATE SPLATTER-HEADS

Michael Elliott - 93
Russell G - 86
TravisR - 72
Peter M Fitzgerald - 71
SteveGon - 70
Martin T - 65
Mario Gauci - 62
MichaelGH - 57
JohnRice - 57
Bob Turnbull - 56
Rick Spruill - 55
Jason Roer - 54
Joe Karlosi - 49
John Stell - 43
Chucky P - 40
Malcolm R - 37
Christopher B - 36
Jacob McGraw - 33
Sandro - 32
Tim Tucker - 31
Garrett Lundy - 31
Brian Kissinger - 31


Turner Classic Movies Horror/Sci-Fi/Thriller Listings

All times EST.

10/03

10:30am The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
3:15am Jaws (1975)

10/05

10:00am Festival of Shorts w/The Tell-Tale Heart (1942)
10:30am The Vampire (1957)
12:00pm Return Of Dracula, The (1958)
1:30pm Dead Men Walk (1943)
2:45pm Vampire Bat, The (1933)
4:00pm Last Man On Earth, The (1964)
5:30pm My Son, the Vampire (1952)
6:45pm Return of the Vampire, The (1944)
8:00pm Curse of the Demon (1958)
9:45pm Cat People (1942)
11:00pm I Walked With A Zombie (1943)
12:15am Leopard Man, The (1943)

10/09

12:45am Suspicion (1941)
2:30am Picture of Dorian Gray, The (1945)

10/10

6:15am Body Snatcher, The (1945)
7:45am Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1941)

10/12

6:00am Wild, Wild Planet, The (1965)
7:45am From The Earth To The Moon (1958)
9:30am Thing From Another World, The (1951)
11:00am Watch the Skies! (2005)
12:00pm Forbidden Planet (1956)
2:00pm Invisible Boy, The (1957)
3:30pm 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)
8:00pm Homicidal (1961)
9:30pm Strait-Jacket (1964)
11:15pm 13 Ghosts (1960)
12:45am Tingler, The (1959)

10/14

2:30am Eyes Without a Face (1960)
4:15am Der Traum des Allan Grey (1932)

10/18

12:00pm Between Two Worlds (1944)

10/19

6:00am Brain That Wouldn't Die, The (1962)
7:30am Soul of a Monster, The (1944)
8:45am I Bury The Living (1958)
10:15am Tomb Of Ligeia, The (1964)
11:45am Abominable Dr. Phibes, The (1971)
1:45pm Dementia 13 (1963)
3:00pm Berserk (1967)
4:45pm Scream of Fear (1961)
6:15pm Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)
8:00pm Mark Of The Vampire (1935)
9:15pm Freaks (1932)
10:30pm Devil Doll, The (1936)
12:00am London After Midnight (1927)
1:00am Unknown, The (1927)

10/21

12:00pm House Of Usher (1960)
1:30pm War Of The Worlds, The (1953)
6:15pm Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

10/26

12:15pm Voodoo Island (1957)
1:45pm Zombies On Broadway (1945)
3:00pm King Of The Zombies (1941)
4:15pm Revenge Of The Zombies (1943)
5:30pm Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
6:45pm White Zombie (1932)
8:00pm Bucket of Blood, A (1959)
9:15pm Creature From the Haunted Sea (1961)
10:30pm Pit And The Pendulum (1961)
12:00am Terror, The (1963)
2:00am Carnival of Souls (1962)

10/28

12:15am Mr. Wu (1927)
2:00am Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)
3:30am Kwaidan (1964)

10/31

6:00am Devil Bat, The (1940)
7:30am Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, The (1964)
9:00am Bride of the Monster (1955)
10:30am Revenge of Frankenstein, The (1958)
12:15pm Cry of the Werewolf (1944)
1:30pm Werewolf, The (1956)
3:00pm Mystery Of The Wax Museum, The (1933)
4:30pm House Of Usher (1960)
6:00pm Haunting, The (1963)
8:00pm Bedlam (1946)
9:30pm Invisible Ray, The (1936)
11:00pm Body Snatcher, The (1945)
12:30am Old Dark House, The (1932)
2:00am Die, Monster, Die ! (1965)
3:30am Walking Dead, The (1936)
4:45am Isle Of The Dead (1945)


Fox Movie Channel 24 Hours of Horror

10/28

6:00am The Lost World (1960)
7:33am The Undying Monster (1942)
9:00am The Alligator People (1959)
10:30am Horror of It All (1964)
12:00pm The Undying Monster (1942)
1:30pm The Alligator People (1959)
3:00pm Horror of it All (1964)
4:30pm Vault of Horror (1973)
6:30pm Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
8:00pm Devils of Darkness (1965)
10:00pm Freaked (1993)
11:30pm Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
1:00am Devils of Darkness (1965)
2:30am Freaked (1993)
4:00am Vault of Horror (1973)

10/31

6:00am The Alligator People (1959)
7:30am The Innocents (1961)
9:30am Cabinet of Caligari (1962)
11:30am Vault of Horror (1973)
1:30pm The Innocents (1961)
3:30pm Hush...Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964)
6:00pm PRetty Poison (1968)
8:00pm Race with the Devil (1975)
9:30pm Terror Train (1980)
11:30pm Freaked (1993)
1:00am Terror Train
3:00am Freaked (1993)
4:30am Race with the Devil (1975)

 

[Ruz-El]

i'd be up to try another genre challenge. not sure how many I have, and some giant monster stuff might get played in the Sci-fi, but still.

 

[Ruz-El]

oh, I guess I agree with Michael too, about the shorts and such. my first year in the challenge I didn't include Twilight Zone. I included the Masters Of Horror and Nightmare And Dreamscapes this year, mainly due because they are single story anthologies about 60 minutes long. I wouldn't include shows like buffy and that, unless i fit in a whole season and counted it as one. And despite us all agreeing to count drive in fair like the cormans and that, I just couldn't watch "Big Bad Momma" and include it. So I watched other stuff instead.

the only title on my list I would scratch was the one I had for those 2 shorts that pissed me off XD

And all that said, the rules are fine I think. As stated many times and every year, there's no prize, especially since the "winner" gets to baby sit all of us next year. I'm pretty happy coming in 3rd or so, however the standings play out. And really, should any of us be all that proud to say we can watch 100 plus movies in a month? I base this on telling people how I was doing in the challenge.

 

[Michael Elliott]

James, did you ever post your totals? I don't think I have them and can't seem to find a list of your films.

BIG BAD MAMA is a fun film but the real campy fun comes with BIG BAD MAMA 2, which was one of my favorites growing up.

 

[Mario Gauci]

I have roughly 78 Horror titles on my "To Watch" list for the months of November and December...can I count these with my October Halloween tally, too?

72 + 78 = 150

which would enable me to nab the top spot...er...earn the right to brag...yadda, yadda, yadda!

 

[TravisR]

I'm happy that I live in a world where there's words like sexploitation, Naziploitation, nunsploitation and drugploitation.

 

[Michael Elliott]

We could always have a ---ploitation month, although I'm not sure watching REEFER MADNESS type films all month would be healthy.

 

[Tim Tucker]

Now that would feel like being trapped on the Satellite of Love.

 

[EricSchulz]

Here's my tally:


First Time Viewings
Dead Men Walk
Cult of the Cobra
Tales from the Crypt (1972?)
The Host
Dr. Cyclops
Vault of Horror
The Land Unknown
Feast
13 Ghosts
Jenifer
The Leech Woman
The Raven (Karloff Lugosi)
It Came from Beneath the Sea
The Fog (2005)
The Mummy (1955)
Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film
Invisible Ray
Black Friday
The Creature Walks Among Us
(total: 19)

Repeat Viewings
Frankenstein
The Mummy
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Deadly Mantis
Mummy's Hand
The Black Cat
Mummy's Tomb
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Revenge of the Creature
Mummy's Ghost
Mummy's Curse
(total: 11)

Total Movies: 30

 

[JohnRice]

There seems to be a little interest, so maybe at least Sci-Fi and Gangster challenges are in order. I figured I could start them, beginning with Gangster in January. Sci-Fi is a little too close to the challenge that already happened. No doubt, plenty of movies fit in both. I figured it also makes sense to wait a while, and until after the holidays.

 

[Jeff Reis]

I posted waaaaay back in the thread to see if anyone was interested in any other "challenges"--no one was then--good to see that some are interested now.

As for the mild grousing about the rules, when I'm watching a movie, I'm watching a movie. I don't answer the phone, I'm not sending messages or on the internet. Anything less is tantamount to not really watching the film to me personally. If someone comes over to my house claiming they want to watch a movie and proceeds to answer their text messages every five seconds or makes a bunch of phone calls, the movie's getting turned off. I will never understand the desire to constantly be involved in inane communication all day long, but again, that's just me. Of course I take breaks, fall asleep, etc...I don't "count" anything until I finish watching it. Of course I'll put stuff on in the background while I'm housecleaning, on the computer, on the phone, etc, but mostly commentaries and stuff I've seen a lot. I would never watch a movie for the first time with a lot of distractions.

But the competition aspect of these threads is way down the list of what makes it fun to me. I just like seeing the sheer variety of what people watch and their reactions to it. That's all that really matters. Great to see so many participating this year.

 

[PatW]

It was interesting reading the various comments during this horror challenge. Though I had no interest myself in participating, horror being my least favourite genre, I'd certainly be interested in Sci-fi and to a lesser extent gangsters. So bring on the new challenges. Jan or Feb sounds just about right.

 

[JohnRice]

Alright, as long as nobody else really wants to do it, I'll start a Gangster challenge in January, and post a warning sometime in early December. Then a Sci-Fi one could go in March or April. I really think a Historical/Costume Drama one would be good, because I don't think many people here see many of those and the whole idea of these challenges is to see new stuff.

This is what I was thinking, at least with the Gangster one, the movies would be fairly wide ranging, including the whole Cops, Robbers, Noir, Gangster and Espionage range. I was thinking of having one main limitation, which is nobody can count the same movie twice in a one year period, or two consecutive challenges of the same subject. For example, if you count Blade Runner for the Gangster challenge as a Noir, you can't count it again for Sci-Fi or next year's Gangster challenge (if there is one), even if you watch it again. We will be on the honor system.

What do you think?

 

[Michael Elliott]

I was thinking of a way to do these "challenges" within the Track thread for personal habits. A couple years ago I used March as a foreign month and I might try this again. Perhaps a silent month, a current films month and a few others because I've got so many unwatched movies sitting around (not to mention my TCM films).

Perhaps the Sci-Fi and Horror challenges could be six months apart from one another.

 

[Michael Elliott]

OK, here are all the results that I have so if anyone is left out then let me know. The first number is the total films with new viewings in the ().


Travis R 123 (29)
Russell G 119 (99)
Michael Elliott 103 (65)
James Perry 82 (?)
Martin T 82 (31)
John Stell 80 (9)
Mario Gauci 72 (69)
Jason Roer 58 (48)
Rick Spruill 46 (26)
Steve Gon 45 (34)
Michael GH 45 (34)
Joe Karlosi 42 (5)
Christopher B 40 (28)
Bob Turnbull 34 (31)
John Rice 33 (19)
Brian Kissinger 31 (29)
Jeff Reis 31 (27)
Marc Fedderman 31 (25)
Chucky P 31 (7)
Brook K 30 (24)
Sandro 30 (22)
Eric Schulz 30 (19)
Malcolm R 25 (13)
Jacob McCraw 20 (13)
Tim Tucker 17 (12)
Peter Fitzgerald 14 (8)

 

[Ruz-El]

Wow! I'd have to double check but it looks like a way bigger turn out then we last years. tons of stuff watched. I still can't believe I broke a hundred movies.

And speaking of horror... I was at a friends place tonight and we watched an MTV series called ROOM 409. Basically it's PUNK'D, but with a horror angle (arms cut off, ghost stuff..) Not really my thing, but some of you horror heads might get a kick out of it.

 

[Mario Gauci]

Hey, I did win in a way...with the largest percentage of first vieiwngs! Unfortunately, this entailed that the overall quality of my viewings was wildly erratic and generally average.

Actually, I did purposefully put this limitation on myself i.e. to concentrate on first viewings rather than the same old faves and only managed 3 obvious revists - since I was going to watch THE FLY sequels, I had to watch the original; THE EROTIC RITES OF FRANKENSTEIN is inextricably linked with DRACULA, PRISONER OF FRANKENSTEIN; THE MONSTER SQUAD is a companion piece (of sorts) to THE LOST BOYS.

As for the 3 proposed Challenges - Gangster, Epic and Sci-Fi - I'm all for them...provided they're evenly spaced out throughout the year. I suggest, for example, the following schedule (which can be debated between ourselves):

January: Gangster
April: Epics (to coincide with Good Friday)
July: Sci-Fi
October: Horror

Other candidates could be Westerns (since I have a shitload of those) and comedies (another fave genre). Besides, I'd love to fit in a Foreign and a Silents month but I fear my eyes won't take the strain of following all those subtitles - unless I concentrate exclusively on Italian movies! As for current films month, I personally have no interest in that at all (sorry Mike!)...

 

[Michael Elliott]

Too bad you weren't a critic back in 1935 because you probably would have voted BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN as the worst film of the year.

I'm not sure how many people would do these challenges but we can try. The majority of the ones I talked above were just personal challenges that I was going to do in the other thread. These public challenges push me into watching things but I know for certain that I wouldn't watch this many films in any other genre within such a short frame.

 

[Ruz-El]

there's no way I would watch as many movies either, I just flat out don't have as many titles in my collection to watch in other genres as I do the ones that fit Scary Movie Challenge.

I'd stil give it a shot, I have some Noirs set aside. I was going to wattch them in august when I should have a new noir set from WArners XD

and foreign movie month would be a good excuse to finally watch all those Zatoichis

 

[JohnRice]

I think it is about the same. Last year I watched 57 and tied for 9th place. This year 57 would have given me sole 9th place.

 

[Garrett Lundy]

January's Gangster/Crime Challenge sounds good to me.