Sep '20 *
Rules:
> At least 31 Horror films must be watched during the month of October. 16 of these must be first time viewings.
> You get 1 "point" per movie watched.
> The challenge will begin at 00:00 hours on October 1st in your time zone.
> Runtime is 45 minutes minimum.
> Documentaries and TV shows will not be accepted.
> To save arguments on whether a movie is classified as horror, it must be tagged as "horror" on either IMDb, RT, Wiki or any other notable movie reference site.
If there is anything I have missed as first time host, let me know over on the discussion thread: https://trashepics.com/post/30/35/
Previous year threads:
https://trashepics.com/post/9/160/
https://trashepics.com/post/9/218/
https://trashepics.com/post/142/130/
So make your spot and have fun!
Rules:
> At least 31 Horror films must be watched during the month of October. 16 of these must be first time viewings.
> You get 1 "point" per movie watched.
> The challenge will begin at 00:00 hours on October 1st in your time zone.
> Runtime is 45 minutes minimum.
> Documentaries and TV shows will not be accepted.
> To save arguments on whether a movie is classified as horror, it must be tagged as "horror" on either IMDb, RT, Wiki or any other notable movie reference site.
If there is anything I have missed as first time host, let me know over on the discussion thread: https://trashepics.com/post/30/35/
Previous year threads:
https://trashepics.com/post/9/160/
https://trashepics.com/post/9/218/
https://trashepics.com/post/142/130/
So make your spot and have fun!
October 1: Gnaw (2008)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 90
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 4/10
Note: I'm really looking forward to Thanksgiving. We are having t-bone steaks this year instead of turkey.
Movie #2
October 1: Friend Request (2016)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 92
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 6/10
Note: Not sure how many Facebook friend requests I've sent out, but based on the number of yes's, I would guess zero.
Movie #3
October 2: Traveler, The (2010)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 96
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 6/10
Note: If everyone chills out about the "deadly" Chinese coronavirus (over 99% chance of recovery), I will get to travel the PCT again in 2021.
Movie #4
October 2: Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The (1966)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 90
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 5/10
Note: The local Hy Vee makes the second best fried chicken in town.
Movie #5
October 2: Dying Breed (2008)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 92
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 7/10
Note: Looney Tunes is the best cartoons franchise ever.
Movie #6
October 4: Wild Country (2005)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 67
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 4/10
Note: On the PCT in 2018, I had close encounters with two rattlesnakes, a bobcat, and a woolly-bear caterpillar.
Movie #7
October 5: Expiration (2011)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 92
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 5/10
Note: Those are really just suggestions, not a hard and fast rule.
Movie #8
October 5: Voices (2007)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 85
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 7/10
Note: Always listen to the voices. They will never steer you wrong. Usually.
Movie #9
October 5: Dead Inside, The (2011)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 98
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 6/10
Note: That's what my first girlfriend accused me of being.
Movie #10
October 6: Rift, The (1990)
Format: Network
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 82
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 4/10
Note: Me and a friend built one and floated a ways down the Missouri River. Oh wait, I read the title wrong.
Movie #11
October 6: Dark Dealer, The (1995)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 85
Body Count:
Recommend to others: ??
Rating: ?/10
Note: Always double down on eleven.
Movie #12
October 7: Asylum Blackout (2011)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 85
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 5/10
Note: My brother is a fantastic cook. But he used to work at an "all-you-can-eat" restaurant, and doesn't know how to make small portions.
Movie #13
October 8: Knock Knock (2015)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 99
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes (but mainly for the girls)
Rating: 6/10
Note: Who's there? Banana? Banana who? / Knock knock. Who's there? Banana? Banana who? / Knock knock. Who's there? Orange? Orange who? / Orange you glad I didn't say banana again?
Movie #14
October 8: Airborne (2012)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 81
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 5/10
Note: One thing I never tried that I (kinda) want to do is skydive.
Movie #15
October 8: Sylvian Experiment, The (2010)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 94
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 5/10
Note: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show had some pretty good songs.
Movie #16
October 9: Grimm Love (2006)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 87
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 4/10
Note: Hexenbiests rock.
Movie #17
October 10: Jaws of Satan (1981)
Format: Network
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 92
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 4/10
Note: I have a couple listings in the "Goofs" section of Jaws. The one I remember is a crab being dropped on Chrissy's remains.
Movie #18
October 11: Creature (1985)
Format: Network
First Time Viewing: No
Run Time of Film (minutes): 97
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 4/10
Note: First time I saw this, I thought it was kind of a rip-off of Alien. After watching it again, I still kind of think that.
Movie #19
October 12: Nest, The (1988)
Format: Network
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 89
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 4/10
Note: Two of our chickens were fighting over the same nest, because they both wanted to lay an egg there.
Movie #20
October 13: Lemora: A Child's Terror of the Supernatural (1973)
Format: Network
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 80
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 6/10
Note: I can't believe Supernatural is still on.
Movie #21
October 14: Wolf Man, The (1941)
Format: Network
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 70
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 7/10
Note: Clap for him.
Movie #22
October 15: Terror Birds (2016)
Format: Network
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 87
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 4/10
Note: We had a guinea a number of years ago that would hide in the treees, and when someone walked by would fly out, land on their shoulder, and attack.
Movie #23
October 18: Cowboys Vs. Vampires (2010)
Format: Network
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 94
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 2/10
Note: The worst of the "Cowboys vs." movies.
Movie #24
October 18: Island of the Dead (2000)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 91
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 2/10
Note: One of my favroite Gilligan's Island episodes is the episode with the ghost.
Movie #25
October 18: Horsemen (2009)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 90
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 5/10
Note: Chris Benoit was one of the best performers of professional wrestlers. Too bad the steroids whacked him out.
Movie #26
October 19: Dark Shadows (2012)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 113
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 7/10
Note: I know someone who has been a troll collector for years. He has hundreds of them. I worry about him.
Movie #27
October 20: Sin Reaper 3D (2012)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 90
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 4/10
Note: The stupid Chinese Coronavirus has ruined everything this year, including the annual Renaissance Fair.
Movie #28
October 21: Evil Remains (2004)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 88
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 3/10
Note: That's what the bone-in country ham looked like after I got done with it.
Movie #29
October 22: Jigsaw (2017)
Format: Bluray
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 92
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 6/10
Note: Some on the old IMDB message boards said Saw V was the last one. I told her as long as they make money, they will keep making them. And I will say "I told you so" now to get it out of the way.
Movie #30
October 22 13th Child (2002)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 99
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 2/10
Note: That's a big family.
Movie #31
October 23: Blood Trail (2005)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 81
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 4/10
Note: I saw plenty of blood while out on the PCT in 2018. Most of it mine. That's how I got the trail name Faceplant.
Movie #32
October 23: 13 Hours in a Warehouse (2008)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 92
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 3/10
Note: That kind of sounds like the title to a bad country song.
Movie #33
October 24: Corrupted, The (2010)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 76
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 3/10
Note: I really, REALLY hop that we don't have to put up with a Joe Biden presidency. However brief it is before he is 25th'ed out.
Movie #34
October 25: Subterano (2003)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 91
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 4/10
Note: Kind of like Tron, but with a lot more death and stuff. Well, really nothing like Tron, now that I think about it.
Movie #35
October 26: Backlot Murders, The (2002)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 90
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 4/10
Note: The killer's mask looked like a PUMAT of Vinnie Barbarino, Arthur Fonzarelli, and William Shatner on "Third Rock from the Sun."
Movie #36
October 26: Reality Terror Night (2013)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 88
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 3/10
Note: I hate most reality television. I did like Fear Factor, though. Incredibly hot female contestants.
Movie #37
October 27: 23 Minutes to Sunrise (2012)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 79
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 6/10
Note: There used to be a Sunrise Bakery in our town that made awesome donuts. And guess how long it took me to drive there?
Movie #38
October 28: Anger of the Dead (2015)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 84
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 4/10
Note: I forgot all about Uwe Boll. But this was actually decent, at least until the extremely unsatisfying and stupid end scene.
Movie #39
October 28: Ascent to Hell (2014)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 90
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 3/10
Note: You have to have been REALLY bad to have to ASCEND to hell.
Movie #40
October 29: Killer By Nature (2010)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 94
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 3/10
Note: Our female orange tabby has an impressive kill list. Mice, rats, snakes, rabbits, sparrows, a bat, a woodpecker, a possum. That's what's confirmed.
Movie #41
October 30: You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You (2012)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 86
Body Count:
Recommend to others: No
Rating: 3/10
Note: To quote Chris Jericho, "Ra-a-ap is crap!"
Movie #42
October 30: Devil's Tomb, The (2009)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 90
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 6/10
Note: I actually met one of the Playboy centerfolds. I still have the restraining order to prove it.
Movie #41
October 30: Crocodile (2000)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): ??
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 5/10
Note: I remember when rock was young.
Movie #42
October 31: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 108
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 6/10
Note: I think I worked with the fat gal.
Movie #43
October 31: Dead Mary (2007)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 103
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 6/10
Note: Why do bad things always happen to good people when they go to cabins in the woods?
Movie #44
October 31: The Nun (2018)
Format: DVD
First Time Viewing: Yes
Run Time of Film (minutes): 96
Body Count:
Recommend to others: Yes
Rating: 6/10
Note: We had a horse that hated to be ridden. Dad put me on her back once, and she proceeded toward a branch she could fit under, but not me. And down I went.
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First Time Viewings: 45
Repeat Viewings: 1
Total viewings: 46
DVD/Bluray: 38
Subscription Service: 0
Satellite/Broadcast: 8
Highest Body Count: (Blood Trail - 2005) -
Lowest Body Count: (The Ghost and Mr. Chicken - 1966) -
Total Body Count: 661 Total
Shortest Movie: 67 minutes (Wild Country - 2005)
Longest Movie: 113 minutes (Dark Shadows - 2012)
Busiest Day: October 31 (304 minutes, 3 movies)
Average Length: 89.74 minutes
Total Length:4128 minutes (68.80 hours) (2.87 days)
2010s: 22
2000s: 16
1990s: 02
1980s: 03
1970s: 01
1960s: 01
1950s: 00
1940s: 01
1930s: 00
1920s: 00
1910s: 00