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Re: October 2008 Horror Marathon for the rest of us
« Reply #15 on: October 16, 2008, 01:24:42 AM »
Half-way mark of the October marathon, how are we all doing?

I'm at 10 movies watched in 14 days. At that rhythm, I don't think I'll make it to 31, but, I'm still quite happy with this result. I mean, these 10 movie in 14 days are already 10 movies more than what I watched in the last 2 months!!  :clap:

Hope you're all still enjoying your marathons, I know I'm enjoying mine! (and I've been making some good watching choices hehe)

I think you are all doing great!  :thumbup:

If you haven't checked my thread lately I am up to 54 movies and 21 TV eps.... well on my way to breaking last year's record!  :yahoo:
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Re: October 2008 Horror Marathon for the rest of us
« Reply #16 on: October 16, 2008, 01:35:35 PM »
I've been watching a LOT of horror (an other) movies but I haven't had time to post them yet!  :-[ I'll try and do so in the next day or so.

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Re: October 2008 Horror Marathon for the rest of us
« Reply #17 on: October 18, 2008, 02:18:32 AM »
Movies
October 2 - The Shinning
October 6 - The Ninth Gate
October 8 - The Satanic Rites of Dracula
October 9 - Raising Cain
October 9 - So I Married an Ax Murderer
October 11 - Creepshow
October 12 - Phantoms
October 12 - Once Bitten
October 14 - Wallace & Gromit and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
October 17 - The Monster Squad - First time I've seen this one and I really enjoyed it.

TV Shows
October 8 - Treehouse of Horror X from The Simpsons Eleventh Season
October 12 - An Episode of True Blood, a vampire series on HBO.  I don't know the title of the episode.
October 15 - The Middle Earth Paradigm - Halloween episode from The Big Bang Theory first season.

10 movies and 3 tv show episodes so far.

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Re: October 2008 Horror Marathon for the rest of us
« Reply #18 on: October 18, 2008, 07:10:23 PM »
Just updated my list, and I realize somehing: there's very big chances this marathon will spill into November for me.

It's already the 18th of October, and there's still so many movies I wanted to watch for this: Nightmare on Elm Street, Child's Play, Scream, The Evil Dead movies... There's so many classic I wanted to see, that I will obviously not have time to watch before the end of October!

And then, there's the ones I've bought, and have yet to see for the first time: Friday the 13th, Doom, Darkness, Dead Heat, All the Romero zombie movies I have, Cloverfield, The Descent, High Tehsion, Hostel II, Saw IV, Hannibal Rising, Constantine, The Hitcher, etc. etc. etc. (wow, never realized I had that many horror movies! And I keep saying I don't really like horror... guess that's not entirely true!)

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Re: October 2008 Horror Marathon for the rest of us
« Reply #19 on: October 18, 2008, 07:16:27 PM »
 :redcard:

Spill into November? How very dare you!  :tease:

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Re: October 2008 Horror Marathon for the rest of us
« Reply #20 on: October 18, 2008, 07:22:36 PM »
:redcard:

Spill into November? How very dare you!  :tease:

Well, one thing's for sure, I will not pull a "Supermarket", I won't start watching Christmas movies on Nov.1st (yeah, I know, Americans have Thanksgiving in between, we don't in Canada). Might as well keep watching horror!  :laugh:

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Re: October 2008 Horror Marathon for the rest of us
« Reply #21 on: October 19, 2008, 01:59:52 AM »
Movies
October 2 - The Shinning
October 6 - The Ninth Gate
October 8 - The Satanic Rites of Dracula
October 9 - Raising Cain
October 9 - So I Married an Ax Murderer
October 11 - Creepshow
October 12 - Phantoms
October 12 - Once Bitten
October 14 - Wallace & Gromit and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
October 17 - The Monster Squad - First time I've seen this one and I really enjoyed it.
October 18 - Eight Legged Freaks

TV Shows
October 8 - Treehouse of Horror X from The Simpsons Eleventh Season
October 12 - An Episode of True Blood, a vampire series on HBO.  I don't know the title of the episode.
October 15 - The Middle Earth Paradigm - Halloween episode from The Big Bang Theory first season.

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Re: October 2008 Horror Marathon for the rest of us
« Reply #22 on: October 20, 2008, 01:37:29 AM »
Movies
October 2 - The Shinning
October 6 - The Ninth Gate
October 8 - The Satanic Rites of Dracula
October 9 - Raising Cain
October 9 - So I Married an Ax Murderer
October 11 - Creepshow
October 12 - Phantoms
October 12 - Once Bitten
October 14 - Wallace & Gromit and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
October 17 - The Monster Squad - First time I've seen this one and I really enjoyed it.
October 18 - Eight Legged Freaks
October 19 - Dracula - the 1931 version

TV Shows
October 8 - Treehouse of Horror X from The Simpsons Eleventh Season
October 12 - An Episode of True Blood, a vampire series on HBO.  I don't know the title of the episode.
October 15 - The Middle Earth Paradigm - Halloween episode from The Big Bang Theory first season.

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Re: October 2008 Horror Marathon for the rest of us
« Reply #23 on: October 20, 2008, 11:32:36 AM »
Movies
October 2 - The Shinning
October 6 - The Ninth Gate
October 8 - The Satanic Rites of Dracula
October 9 - Raising Cain
October 9 - So I Married an Ax Murderer
October 11 - Creepshow
October 12 - Phantoms
October 12 - Once Bitten
October 14 - Wallace & Gromit and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
October 17 - The Monster Squad - First time I've seen this one and I really enjoyed it.
October 18 - Eight Legged Freaks
October 19 - Dracula - the 1931 version

TV Shows
October 8 - Treehouse of Horror X from The Simpsons Eleventh Season
October 12 - An Episode of True Blood, a vampire series on HBO.  I don't know the title of the episode.
October 15 - The Middle Earth Paradigm - Halloween episode from The Big Bang Theory first season.
October 19 - The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XVIII

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Re: October 2008 Horror Marathon for the rest of us
« Reply #24 on: October 20, 2008, 11:24:01 PM »
Movies
October 2 - The Shinning
October 6 - The Ninth Gate
October 8 - The Satanic Rites of Dracula
October 9 - Raising Cain
October 9 - So I Married an Ax Murderer
October 11 - Creepshow
October 12 - Phantoms
October 12 - Once Bitten
October 14 - Wallace & Gromit and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
October 17 - The Monster Squad - First time I've seen this one and I really enjoyed it.
October 18 - Eight Legged Freaks
October 19 - Dracula - the 1931 version
October 20 - The Frighteners

TV Shows
October 8 - Treehouse of Horror X from The Simpsons Eleventh Season
October 12 - An Episode of True Blood, a vampire series on HBO.  I don't know the title of the episode.
October 15 - The Middle Earth Paradigm - Halloween episode from The Big Bang Theory first season.
October 19 - The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XVIII

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Re: October 2008 Horror Marathon for the rest of us
« Reply #25 on: October 21, 2008, 12:26:03 AM »
What did you think of The Frighteners? Seen it before?

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Re: October 2008 Horror Marathon for the rest of us
« Reply #26 on: October 21, 2008, 03:42:24 PM »
17   Opera

ok, it's a giallo, not horror, but somehow I remembered it differently :shrug:
Many giallo can count as horror as well. If Psycho is an horror classic any giallo is and by the way an human killer is a monster no?

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Re: October 2008 Horror Marathon for the rest of us
« Reply #27 on: October 22, 2008, 02:34:34 AM »
What did you think of The Frighteners? Seen it before?

I have seen it before.  This was probably about the 4th time I've seen it.  I love it.  I remember when the movie came out and the previews freaked me out so much that I had no intention of ever seeing it.  Then a few years later I came across the movie on tv late one night and started watching not knowing what it was.  I ended up getting the DVD not long after that if I remember right.

The movie has a good mix of humor with the scary, something that doesn't always work.  I liked how the ghosts were handled and thought they looked cool.  It has a good amount of suspense and I didn't think it was predictable at all.  Great movie all around.

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Re: October 2008 Horror Marathon for the rest of us
« Reply #28 on: October 22, 2008, 02:35:24 AM »
Movies
October 2 - The Shinning
October 6 - The Ninth Gate
October 8 - The Satanic Rites of Dracula
October 9 - Raising Cain
October 9 - So I Married an Ax Murderer
October 11 - Creepshow
October 12 - Phantoms
October 12 - Once Bitten
October 14 - Wallace & Gromit and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
October 17 - The Monster Squad - First time I've seen this one and I really enjoyed it.
October 18 - Eight Legged Freaks
October 19 - Dracula - the 1931 version
October 20 - The Frighteners
October 21 - Frankenstein
October 21 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

TV Shows
October 8 - Treehouse of Horror X from The Simpsons Eleventh Season
October 12 - An Episode of True Blood, a vampire series on HBO.  I don't know the title of the episode.
October 15 - The Middle Earth Paradigm - Halloween episode from The Big Bang Theory first season.
October 19 - The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XVIII

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Re: October 2008 Horror Marathon for the rest of us
« Reply #29 on: October 22, 2008, 10:05:04 AM »
What did you think of The Frighteners? Seen it before?
The movie has a good mix of humor with the scary, something that doesn't always work.  I liked how the ghosts were handled and thought they looked cool.  It has a good amount of suspense and I didn't think it was predictable at all.  Great movie all around.

Exactly what I think. I mentioned the same thing when reviewing An American Werewolf in London for the horror marathon. I did say that Shaun of the Dead is an excellent comedy-horror, but it's far more comedy than horror and a serious bit towards the end doesn't really work. I forgot about The Frighteners. Which is especially bad because I have it in a boxset with American Werewolf and Shaun... :-[