Can I Do it?

[addicted2dvd]

To refresh your memory... last October I beat my personal record on my Month Long Horror/Halloween Marathon when I watched 84 movies and 34 TV Show episodes. I knew at that time this would be a more then difficult record to beat this year. Well we are about a Month and a Half from this year's marathon!

I was thinking if I am to have any chance at all to beat last year's record I have to be extremely in the mood for horror. For that to happen... I will have to abstain from watching horror for a while.

So the question is... does anyone here think I can... from this point on... with new horror in my collection as well as 3 more horror movies on the way... can I abstain for a month and a half from watching any horror?

So what do you think? Can such a horror fanatic as myself abstain for almost 2 months?

[RossRoy]

I voted "Nay", because collectors, such as all of us, are notorious for their lack of self-control! 

But then, the possibility of beating last year's record (which will be insanely difficult) might be encouragement enough to actually refrain...

Nah, I say you can't do it! 


....


Now go, and prove me wrong! 

[Achim]

Without horror for six weeks? What else are dreaming off?

[Najemikon]

Sorry, Pete, no hope! Did you ever try Asian horror? If you get used to subtitles you'd open up enough material for two months. Except you'd be too scared to finish them...

[addicted2dvd]

Wow... woke this morning to 5 votes... and none of you think I can do it!

Well that is a good thing! That is the extra push I need to make it through till October with no horror. I can do it I tell you! I know I can do it!... uh-oh! Tomorrow is Friday... the start of my first non-horror marathon!

Does Comedy-Horror count as Horror? 

@Jon...
I only had a little taste of Asian horror... I have the episode of Masters of Horror directed by Norio Tsurata called Dream Cruise... it is a mixture of English and subtitles. I did fairly well with it.... didn't hardly have to pause/rewind much at all. I also watched the Spanish version of Dracula during my Universal's Classic Monster Movies Marathon.... and didn't have a whole lot of trouble that time either. So I am definitely thinking it is about time to start picking up some of the famous Asian horror movies. Maybe I can find some good sales on some when the online stores start their annual horror sales. 

[Achim]

Well that is a good thing! That is the extra push I need to make it through till October with no horror. I can do it I tell you!

We not only dare you, we double, heck, even triple dare you!

Does Comedy-Horror count as Horror? 

Of course it does!

[Najemikon]

I only had a little taste of Asian horror... I have the episode of Masters of Horror directed by Norio Tsurata called Dream Cruise... it is a mixture of English and subtitles. I did fairly well with it.... didn't hardly have to pause/rewind much at all. I also watched the Spanish version of Dracula during my Universal's Classic Monster Movies Marathon.... and didn't have a whole lot of trouble that time either. So I am definitely thinking it is about time to start picking up some of the famous Asian horror movies. Maybe I can find some good sales on some when the online stores start their annual horror sales. 

Not just Asian! I can also recommend Spanish with Del Toro (Hellboy, Blade II) who makes wonderful films in his own language. Pan's Labyrinth is sort of horror, more fantasy, but go a bit older and you'll find The Devil's Backbone (ghost story set against the Civil War) and Cronos (a rather different take on the vampire myth, and styled not unlike a Hammer horror towards the end). Recent horrors in Spanish would be Rec and The Orphanage, but I haven't seen them yet.

[Kathy]

Pete not watching horror for that long? 

[DJ Doena]

Wouldn't it be nice to just enter a Buffy disc into the player? *tease*

[addicted2dvd]

LOL.... 8 votes basically saying not a chance in Hell! I can see now that I will have to prove to you that I can do this.

uhhhhh... I guess this also means I can not watch FEARnet (On-Demand) either No Matter! I can do this!!!

@Achim...
I will take that Triple dare! but what do I get if I make it?  And OK.... no Comedy-Horrors either!

@Jon...
Thanks for the recommendations! 

@Kathy...
Thanks alot!... boy feel the love around here! 

@Karsten...
Damn!.... no Horror TV Shows either!... OK.... OK! I can still do this!  I am ready for the challenge!

[Najemikon]

Hey! I have an idea! It's ages since we did one of the month long marathons where we all take part. Let's all do a Six Week Alphabetised Horror Marathon! Starting now!




Pete? You in? 

[addicted2dvd]

LOL.... Thanks for thinking of me Jon... but think I will wait till October!


Now... did you really think it would be that easy to get me to stray? 

[RossRoy]

Now... did you really think it would be that easy to get me to stray? 

Maybe not from Jon's post, but if we were to actually do it, it might make it harder to resist! 

[addicted2dvd]

lol... believe me... I will have a hard enough time making it. I am strll not really sure I will be able to do it at all.  But I will do my best.

[Achim]

LOL.... 8 votes basically saying not a chance in Hell! I can see now that I will have to prove to you that I can do this.

If you have friends like us, you don't need enemies...

@Achim...
I will take that Triple dare! but what do I get if I make it?  And OK.... no Comedy-Horrors either!

Well, what if you don't get to make it? Make an offer I can't refuse and you're in for a bet

But you'll have to stop fooling yourself by watching stuff like Bewitched and then saying it's not horror

Now... did you really think it would be that easy to get me to stray? 

Maybe not from Jon's post, but if we were to actually do it, it might make it harder to resist! 

FWIW, I'd be in