31 October 2004

SWH: 2004 (week 6)

My Choice


Shorts & Trailers
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  • Tales from the Crapper
  • Virgin Witch
  • The Simpsons: "Time and Punishmen"
  • A Personal Greeting from Mr. Dom DeLuise
  • Candy is Delicious Eat Some Every Day
  • Erotic Nights of the Living Dead
  • King Kong
  • Mickey Mouse: "Lonesome Ghosts"
  • Hookers Revenge / The Photographer's Model
  • Igor and the Maniacs
  • Biozombie
  • Assault on Precinct 13
  • Frankenstein (1910)

Carpenter (1974-1976)

Earlier this year, I completed my Carpenter DVD collection. Now, I'm gonna watch all of his films in chronological order. I only allow myself to watch Halloween on the night of Oct 31st, so I'm just starting my project tonight with his first two films. I'll be posting mini-reviews as I go. Should be good for a couple months of fun.

1974 - Dark Star - I feel like this is more Dan O'Bannon than John Carpenter. Certainly, the director's cut (AKA the 68-minute "Special Edition") is a much better movie than the tedious theatrical cut (with 16 minutes of added scenes), but neither version really worked for me. The humor didn't tickle my funny bone at all. However, the frozen Commander Powell was very cool and quite disturbing.

1976 - Assault on Precinct 13 - Excellent action movie. I love the faceless, silent gang. They were essentially a Michael Myers split into dozens of bodies, or like a swarm of animals, or just a force of nature; distilled film-evil. I loved the silenced gun battle. I loved the characters, from the cheeky Napoleon to the cool-as-ice Leigh. A thoroughly entertaining film.

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23 October 2004

SWH: 2004 (week 5)

Slasher Part Twos

  • Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
  • Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 (1985)

Shorts & Trailers
  • A Personal Greeting from Mr. Dom DeLuise
  • Surf Nazis Must Die
  • The Simpsons: "The Shinning"
  • Freaks
  • Monsters Crash the Pajama Party
  • Blood Spattered Bride / I Dismember Mama
  • The Devil's Rain
  • Doctor Mordrid
  • Merrie Melodies: "Scaredy Cat"

16 October 2004

SWH: 2004 (week 4)

Redneck

  • The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
  • Deliverance (1972)
  • Redneck Zombies (1987)

Shorts & Trailers
  • Dagon
  • Blood Feast
  • The Simpsons: "Homer3"
  • Jacktown
  • Carnival of Blood / Curse of the Headless Horseman
  • Buttcrack
  • Frankenpimp
  • I Am Weasel: "I Am Vampire"
  • Class of Nuke 'Em High

09 October 2004

SWH: 2004 (week 3)

Splatter

  • Evil Dead II (1987)
  • Dead-Alive (1992)


Shorts & Trailers
  • The Simpsons: "Clown Without Pity"
  • Alien
  • The Wicker Man
  • Sealab 2021: "Predator"
  • Nightbreed
  • The Simpsons: "The Thing and I"
  • Shrunken Heads

02 October 2004

SWH: 2004 (week 2)

Serial Killers

  • Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
  • American Psycho (2000)
  • M (1931)

Shorts & Trailers
  • The Simpsons: "Attack of the 50 ft Eyesores"
  • God Told Me To
  • Basket Case
  • Courage the Cowardly Dog: "The Demon in the Mattress"
  • Scream Blacula Scream
  • The Simpsons: "The Bart Zone"
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except

25 September 2004

SWH: 2004 (week 1)

Stephen King

  • Cat's Eye (1984)
  • Maximum Overdrive (1986)
  • The Running Man (1987)

Shorts & Trailers
  • The Simpsons: "Dial 'Z' for Zombie"
  • X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes
  • Beetlejuice
  • Johnny Bravo: "Bravo Dooby-Doo"
  • Zombie Martians from Deep Outer Space
  • The Simpsons: "Hungry are the Damned"
  • Dracula vs. Frankenstein

Six Weeks of Halloween: 2004

Six Weeks of Halloween
2004
Six Weekends of Movies:
  1. September 24th
  2. October 1st
  3. October 8th
  4. October 15th
  5. October 22nd
  6. October 31st

The Plan

Halloween, being just one twenty-four-hour period falling on October thirty-first, is just too damned short. I've decided to celebrate Halloween for six weeks.

On a Friday, Saturday or, possibly, Sunday of each of the weekends listed above, I'm going to watch 3 or 4 horror movies. I will also eat candy and drink beer.

Anyone who comes to partake in the festivities can vote on what to watch, choosing from one of the categories below (more categories to come, maybe).

The actual day of Halloween is the exception. On that day, I will more than likely be watching movies the entire day, choosing whatever I feel like watching.

In addition, I will be continuing my 6-year-long tradition of watching John Carpenter's Halloween on the day of Halloween. This will be a part of my John Carpenter Chronocinethon, so prior to October 31st I will need to watch Dark Star, Assault on Precinct 13 and Someone's Watching Me! This is why there are no Carpenter flicks on the list below.

The 3 movies with images are my first choices to watch, but any of them can be swapped for an alternate. Italics means I don't own the movie yet, but it's on the way.
1920s

1930s

1960s
  • Psycho (1960)
  • Carnival of Souls (1960)
  • Dementia 13 (1963)
  • The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1960)
  • Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
  • Bloodlust! (1961)
  • Eegah (1962)
  • Blood Feast (1963)
  • The Crawling Hand (1963)
  • The Terror (1963)
  • X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes (1963)
  • The Creeping Terror (1964)
  • Two Thousand Maniacs (1964)
  • Color Me Blood Red (1965)
  • Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Ghosts

High Melanin Anti-Heroes

In Space

Italian

Stephen King

Michael Moriarty

Rape-Revenge

Redneck

Robot


Satan

Serial Killer

Slasher Part Twos

Splatter

Troma Unwatched

Vampires
  • Vampire Hunter D (1985)
  • The Lost Boys (1987)
  • Interview with the Vampire (1994)
  • Nosferatu (1922)
  • Dracula (1931)
  • Dracula (Spanish) (1931)
  • Vampyros Lesbos (1970)
  • Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
  • Blacula (1972)
  • Rabid (1976)
  • Salem's Lot (1979)
  • Near Dark (1987)
  • Daughter of Darkness (1990)
  • Sleepwalkers (1992)
  • From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
  • Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood (1996)
  • Blade (1998)
  • From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)
  • From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000)
  • Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
  • Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001)
  • Blade II (2002)

Watched