Halloween Viewing Log 2010

[Barbossa]

I took a break today from watching horror movies but in lieu of watching, I got my pumpkins today. I never get them too early as they start to rot even before Halloween. I'll probably carve them on Friday.

[PixarFan2006]

MOVIES
The Howling
It Came From Beneath the Sea
The Curse of Frankenstein
Grindhouse
Ed Wood
The Evil Dead
Alien
Frankenstein (1931)
The Mummy (1932)
Aliens
An American Werewolf in London
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Evil Dead II
Young Frankenstein
Child's Play

TV SHOWS/SPECIALS
Ducktales: Ducky Horror Picture Show
Modern Family: Halloween*
Tales From the Crypt: The Man Who Was Death
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror
The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror II
The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror III
The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror IV
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror V
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror VI
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror VII
Garfield's Halloween Adventure

*=Not sure if this really counts since it just aired last night.

[Barbossa]

Recent viewings in bold:

Ghostbusters
The Black Cauldron
Zombieland
The Watcher in the Woods
Creepshow
Scary Movie
Scary Movie 2
American Psycho
Disney's DTV Monster Hits
Scary Movie 3
Van Helsing
Scary Movie 4
The Fly (1986)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Trick 'R Treat
Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (From The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)
The Wolfman (2010) - Unrated Director's Cut
Disney Halloween-themed shorts
Hocus Pocus
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Halloween II (1981)
Poltergeist
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Halloween (1978)
Halloween (2007) (Unrated Director's Cut)
Creepshow 2
The Wolf Man (1941)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
Bram Stocker's Dracula (1992)
The Goonies
The Monster Squad

The Monster Squad - "Creature stole my Twinkie!" A quintessential Halloween movie. I watch his one every year, like Christmas Vacation. After watching The Goonies, thought I'd follow it up with a movie that was clearly inspired by it, and it's got Mrs. Walsh! It's campy, but it's fun. "Wolfman's got nards!"

Please Hollywood, do not remake this one.

[dvdjunkie]

Check out my updated list on Page 1. Had a lot of fun watching the original "King Kong" and all the remakes and then "King Kong Lives", which is pretty sad as far as the franchise goes. I probably should have watched "Godzilla Meets King Kong", but that picture is also very boring, at least "Lives" had a story you could follow without too much brain strain.

Getting down to the wire for All Hallows Eve and my One Hundred Horror Films Watched for 2010, hope I can make it.

[Ala ad-Din]

These are my FINAL Recent additions in BOLD.

Films
30 Days of Night
8213: Gacy House
Frankenstein: The College Years
Mirrors 2
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th Part 2
Friday the 13th Part III
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Trick r' Treat
Pumpkinhead
Friday the 13th (2009)

TV
The Real Ghostbusters - "When Halloween Was Forever" (November 1, 1986)
Masters of Horror - "The Damned Thing" (October 26, 2006)
Disney's Halloween Treat (October 30, 1982)
A Disney Halloween (October 1, 1983)
Are You Afraid of the Dark? - "The Tale of the Prom Queen" (June 19, 1991)
Are You Afraid of the Dark? - "The Tale of Vampire Town" (April 1, 1999)
Are You Afraid of the Dark? - "The Tale of the Photo Finish" (May 14, 2000)
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror VI (October 29, 1995)
Roseanne - "BOO!" (October 31, 1989)
Roseanne - "Halloween IV" (October 27, 1992)
The Last Halloween (October 28, 1991)
The Halloween That Almost Wasn't (October 28th, 1979)
Scared Shrekless (October 30, 2010)
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XXI (November 7, 2010)
The Cosby Show - "Halloween" (October 31, 1985)
Family Matters - "Dog Day Halloween" (November 2, 1990)

[PixarFan2006]

MOVIES
The Howling
It Came From Beneath the Sea
The Curse of Frankenstein
Grindhouse
Ed Wood
The Evil Dead
Alien
Frankenstein (1931)
The Mummy (1932)
Aliens
An American Werewolf in London
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Evil Dead II
Young Frankenstein
Child's Play
Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit

TV SHOWS/SPECIALS
Ducktales: Ducky Horror Picture Show
Garfield's Halloween Adventure
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Modern Family: Halloween
Tales From the Crypt: The Man Who Was Death
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror
The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror II
The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror III
The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror IV
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror V
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror VI
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror VII

[Barbossa]

Recent viewings in bold:

Ghostbusters
The Black Cauldron
Zombieland
The Watcher in the Woods
Creepshow
Scary Movie
Scary Movie 2
American Psycho
Disney's DTV Monster Hits
Scary Movie 3
Van Helsing
Scary Movie 4
The Fly (1986)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Trick 'R Treat
Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (From The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)
The Wolfman (2010) - Unrated Director's Cut
Disney Halloween-themed shorts
Hocus Pocus
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Halloween II (1981)
Poltergeist
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Halloween (1978)
Halloween (2007) (Unrated Director's Cut)
Creepshow 2
The Wolf Man (1941)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
Bram Stocker's Dracula (1992)
The Goonies
The Monster Squad
A Nightmare on Elm Street 6: Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
A Nightmare on Elm Street 7: Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare - Wow is this one bizarre. It's like watching a messed-up episode of Pee Wee's Playhouse, or a really bad 80s MTV music video. Robert Englunud is great though, and this scene is hilarious, Johnny Depp's cameo:
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And of course Freddy didn't "die", as Wes Craven brought him back in new form in Elm Street 7.

"...and your little dog too!"


Wes Craven's New Nightmare - another bizarre one where actors from the Elm Street series are playing themselves. Interesting installment in this series. Unfortunately, this one feels a like a cheapo HBO movie.

[dvdjunkie]

Something that I would like to say, so don't take it as telling you what to do. Why didn't the rest of you just make one posting and edit as the month went along? Just a question, and I am sure that there will be some who will not accept this criticism because they like padding their post totals and that is what they wouldn't do what I did, one post and several edits.

Speaking of which, I have gone over the recommended 100 Horror Movies for Halloween (No television shows allowed) for the third year in a row, and I still have today to add any movies that I may watch.

Happy Halloween to all of you creatures of UD, have fun Trick or Treating and don't pig out too badly on all the sweets.

[Lazario]

Something that I would like to say, so don't take it as telling you what to do. Why didn't the rest of you just make one posting and edit as the month went along? Just a question, and I am sure that there will be some who will not accept this criticism because they like padding their post totals and that is what they wouldn't do what I did, one post and several edits.

Well, in my case / defense - it's because I was going to post a picture for every thing I watched and to put up 150-180 pictures each with a height of at least 345 pixels in one post... Would be monstrous- not including all the text!

But, I flunked out of the marathon. THIRD year in a row, I failed miserably. Only watched about 40 movies total. So... it's no longer an issue. But it really wasn't my fault. I've been having really bad computer problems (first time in over 2.5 years- I thought I was lucking out!!).

[PixarFan2006]

MOVIES
The Howling
It Came From Beneath the Sea
The Curse of Frankenstein
Grindhouse
Ed Wood
The Evil Dead
Alien
Frankenstein (1931)
The Mummy (1932)
Aliens
An American Werewolf in London
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Evil Dead II
Young Frankenstein
Child's Play
Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
The Addams Family (1991)

TV SHOWS/SPECIALS
Ducktales: Ducky Horror Picture Show
Garfield's Halloween Adventure
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Modern Family: Halloween
Tales From the Crypt: The Man Who Was Death
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror
The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror II
The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror III
The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror IV
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror V
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror VI
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror VII

[PixarFan2006]

But, I flunked out of the marathon.

In a way, I also did not reach my intended goal. I did not get to watch all the movies I wanted (Like Dracula and The Wolf Man).

[dvdjunkie]

Lazario wrote:

I flunked out of the marathon.

My bad. I meant to leave you out of the equation because I always check what movies you are watching for ideas of what movies to watch. You are totally excused. Keep up with your posts and pix, I only wish I knew how or if I even have the capability to do that.

I really feel like technology passed me by in my sleep one night. I have owned a computer since the middle nineties and still don't know how to do much more than I do now. Maybe I just need a good mentor or something!!

[Lazario]

Lazario wrote:

I flunked out of the marathon.

My bad. I meant to leave you out of the equation because I always check what movies you are watching for ideas of what movies to watch. You are totally excused. Keep up with your posts and pix, I only wish I knew how or if I even have the capability to do that.

I really feel like technology passed me by in my sleep one night. I have owned a computer since the middle nineties and still don't know how to do much more than I do now. Maybe I just need a good mentor or something!!

I'm so cheap, it's not funny: I just use a DVD-ROM (which anyone who has a somewhat newer computer has, 2006-today), Paint (not even PhotoShop, or whatever, which probably half the people here have), and a PrintScreen button. Which I think has been on computers since the 90's (not sure). I could show you in just 10 steps or less.

Hell, you could do this with just Paint, PrintScreen... and YouTube!! But your DVD pics would look better. I use the standard WindowsMediaPlayer to play the discs.

[Barbossa]

I'm still watching movies. Gonna watch Young Frankenstein now. Don't think any more trick-or-treaters will show-up. I'm still gonna watch my last movie tomorrow on All Saint's Day.

[Barbossa]

Recent viewings in bold:

Ghostbusters
The Black Cauldron
Zombieland
The Watcher in the Woods
Creepshow
Scary Movie
Scary Movie 2
American Psycho
Disney's DTV Monster Hits
Scary Movie 3
Van Helsing
Scary Movie 4
The Fly (1986)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Trick 'R Treat
Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (From The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)
The Wolfman (2010) - Unrated Director's Cut
Disney Halloween-themed shorts
Hocus Pocus
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Halloween II (1981)
Poltergeist
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Halloween (1978)
Halloween (2007) (Unrated Director's Cut)
Creepshow 2
The Wolf Man (1941)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
Bram Stocker's Dracula (1992)
The Goonies
The Monster Squad
A Nightmare on Elm Street 6: Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
A Nightmare on Elm Street 7: Wes Craven's New Nightmare
The Haunted Mansion
Young Frankenstein

The Haunted Mansion - Fun, but not great. Even though people dislike Eddie Murphy in this, I actually dislike the way the girl is portraying his daughter - acting "cool" and "grown-up" and as if everything is lame. And Master Gracey comes off like a slimeball in this. The effects are great though. I do like the mausoleum scene. It's cool that they didn't use CGI for the corpses/zombies. Here's hoping del Toro's reboot will be better.

They guy playing the ghost on the right, is he the one that played the White Witch's assistant in the first Narnia? The voice sounds the same and the height is about right.


Young Frankenstein - A great Mel Brooks classic. The "Puttin' on the Ritz" scene always cracks me up.
"What knockers!"
"Why, thank you doctor!"



I've got one more movie I want to watch to cap off this year's Halloween moviethon. I'll watch it today after I get home from work.

[dvdjunkie]

I finished the Hundred Halloween Movies Challenge again this year with just over a hundred movies watched. That makes three years in a row now.

Check my posts on page one of this thread and see how many you may have missed in your watching this year. Thanks to Lazario for tripping my thoughts trigger when I came up dry in the middle of the month.

Going to sit back and enjoy the Thanksgiving season and prepare for the Hundred Christmas-Themed movies challenge in December.

[TheSequelOfDisney]

Wow, I'm very impressed with how many films people watched! I'm also very impressed how everyone found time to watch the films. I only watched three films:

The Nightmare Before Christmas
Hocus Pocus
Halloweentown

I enjoyed all three of them, but Hocus Pocus will always be my number one Halloween-themed film.

[Disney's Divinity]

Yeah, Hocus Pocus and Poltergeist were the only films I watched this Halloween. And that's only because they happened to be on tv. Don't really have the time for movie marathons unfortunately. (And i had no candy... ).

[Barbossa]

Recent and final viewing in bold:

1. Ghostbusters
2. The Black Cauldron
3. Zombieland
4. The Watcher in the Woods
5. Creepshow
6. Scary Movie
7. Scary Movie 2
8. American Psycho
9. Disney's DTV Monster Hits
10. Scary Movie 3
11. Van Helsing
12. Scary Movie 4
13. The Fly (1986)
14. Rocky Horror Picture Show
15. Trick 'R Treat
16. Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (From The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)
17. The Wolfman (2010) - Unrated Director's Cut
18. Disney Halloween-themed shorts
19. Hocus Pocus
20. Halloween III: Season of the Witch
21. Halloween II (1981)
22. Poltergeist
23. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
24. Something Wicked This Way Comes
25. Halloween (1978)
26. Halloween (2007) (Unrated Director's Cut)
27. Creepshow 2
28. The Wolf Man (1941)
29. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
30. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
31. Bram Stocker's Dracula (1992)
32. The Goonies
33. The Monster Squad
34. A Nightmare on Elm Street 6: Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
35. A Nightmare on Elm Street 7: Wes Craven's New Nightmare
36. The Haunted Mansion
37. Young Frankenstein
38. Ghostbusters II

I started it with Ghostbusters, so tonight on All Saints Day, I'm ending it with Ghostbusters II. Even though it gets flack, which I don't understand, it's still a fun movie. Here's hoping for Ghostbusters III.



What kicked off this year's Halloween moviethon for me and making it a little extra special this year, was meeting Dan Aykroyd back on Sept 22 at the local Crystal Head Vodka signing. Wow, 38 movies and/or TV specials. Not bad, the most I've ever watched in the run-up to Halloween. There's lots in the list they I watched for the first time too. Hopefully I'll have the time next year to watch this many.

With Remembrance Day coming up next week on Nov 11, I'm going to start watching some war movies, and have a little war moviethon.

[JiminyCrick91]

Updated for every thing I watched since the last update. I do plan to close out the Halloween season with the newest Treehouse of Horror this sunday and The Nightmare Before Christmas soon as I've already started watching Christmas stuff.

-Skyler