DVDizzy Forum

It's October 1, so what better time to start this thread?

List and track your Halloween and Horror themed viewing season here!

I'm glad to see this thread up and running! I'll reserve this spot and update whenever I watch something. I'm thinking I'll probably start out with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; while it's not technically a horror film, it's German Expressionism and that kind of gets me in the Halloween spirit.

Edits:

It's been slow going for Halloween-themed movie-watching, but so far I've seen:

Psycho (1960) - September 20 (RT)
The Innocents (1961) - October 13 (R)
Cronos (1993) - October 14 (R)
The Devil's Backbone (2001) - October 15 (R)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - October 17 (R)
Hocus Pocus (1993) - October 20 (R)
Crimson Peak (2015) - October 20 (T)
Stir of Echoes (1999) - October 20
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - October 23
Room 237 (2012) - October 24 (A documentary on The Shining. That counts, right?)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1949) - October 24
Antichrist (2009) - October 25 (R)
Young Frankenstein (1974) - October 25 (R)
Eyes Without a Face (1960) - October 30 (R)
Frankenweenie (1984) - October 30
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) - October 31 (R)
Dressed to Kill (1980) - November 1 (R)

R = Rewatch
T = In Theaters

I watched Halloweentown on Disney Channel on Saturday while putting up some decorations. For many here, that's nothing unusual, but this is the first time Disney Channel proper has been in Canada, so I'll actually get their full Monstober line-up. Of course, we also know that having that semi-transparent logo bug at the bottom left corner of the screen makes the movie better, right?

It was also broadcast in widescreen which was...interesting. Obviously a SD upscale that was cropped, but for the mot part the framing didn't suffer too much.

I see they're showing Scream Team on Wednesday (!) and Phantom of the Megaplex on Saturday. Looking forward to them too.

Just finished watching Scream Team and they showed it in its OAR! You could tell because no one's heads were cut off and even though it was a 16:9 image, everyone stood in the middle of the screen. I really hope one day Disney releases this to DVD and/or Blu-ray.

We saw Crimson Peak last night. Totally not my choice of a film. I jumped a lot during it; I didn't like a lot of the story points, but some of it was good. The actors were great, though.

blackcauldron85 wrote:We saw Crimson Peak last night. Totally not my choice of a film. I jumped a lot during it; I didn't like a lot of the story points, but some of it was good. The actors were great, though.

I really enjoyed Crimson Peak. It could be because I'm a fan of Gothic literature, but I loved the decaying house, the ghosts, the Sharpes' past coming to haunt them, and I kind of saw the whole incest thing from the beginning, which actually didn't spoil the film at all. I love Poe's stories, and Crimson Peak is right in that same vein.

TheSequelOfDisney wrote:I really enjoyed Crimson Peak. It could be because I'm a fan of Gothic literature, but I loved the decaying house, the ghosts, the Sharpes' past coming to haunt them, and I kind of saw the whole incest thing from the beginning, which actually didn't spoil the film at all. I love Poe's stories, and Crimson Peak is right in that same vein.

I haven't seen many scary or gross movies at all, so this was a *little* more graphic than what I'm used to. And I'm a fan of the Flowers In The Attic book series, so it's not that I'm opposed to that being a story point, necessarily. I didn't like that No one but the audience suspected the Sharpes of Edith's dad's murder? No one?!? And, my boyfriend whispered to me, during the part when Edith tells Lucille that she & Thomas stayed the night at the Depot, that he thought that she wasn't the sister; I think that I would have liked Lucille being a wife more than I liked her being the sister. I did like, though, that Thomas truly cared for Edith. I wish Edith and Alan had gotten together early on...but it'd be a very different movie!!

I saw Crimson Peak as well, it's nice to know that we still have film-makers like Guillermo del Toro still working in Hollywood who usually turns out interesting films which are many genres instead of just one. This film is very beautiful to look at from beginning to end with the attention to detail from the sets, cinematography, and costumes. The story, while it is simple as all get out, it's still quite a nice story that reminds me of what would happen if Jane Eyre meets Edgar Allan Poe; honestly I knew that the Sharpe siblings were murderers I actually didn't see the incest twist coming. The characters are very good with talented actors to portray them, though Jessica Chastain has the best character and performance throughout the entire film in my opinion, she reminded me so much of Mrs. Danvers from Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca. Guillermo del Toro pays tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Wise, and so many other great directors but at the same time throughout Crimson Peak he never loses his style in this and we need more films like this these days especially stories that use ghosts as part of something big instead of using ghosts all the time like other film do.

If I gave this a rating it would be a 4.5 out of 5, I liked this so much that I will see it again for the second time.

I've seen The Nightmare Before Christmas, ParaNorman, Hocus Pocus, The Witches of Eastwick (if that counts), Interview With a Vampire, Halloweentown, and several South Park Halloween episodes over the past few days, if any of those count.

Btw, I liked seeing the reviews here for Crimson Peak. I definitely had been getting a EAP vibe from the previews. I can't wait to see it.

We watched The Corpse Bride last night. It was the 2nd time I've seen that movie, and it is a really good one!

Last night I realized I hadn't watched any Halloween type films through the whole month of October so I watched one of my childhood favorites. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) always makes me laugh Don Knotts was brilliant in the film, one of the best of the 5 comedies he did for Universal. After I watched The Ghosts of Buxley Hall (1980), had bought the DVD last year had seen it years ago was just as cute as I remembered it. Highly recommend it to fans of obscure Disney films, also Ruta Lee who I've always been a huge fan of is brilliant as a Gold-digging middle aged woman who will go to any means to get her hands on money.

Here's my Halloween viewing log for this year:

Movies

Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
Goosebumps (2015)

TV Shows/Specials

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
Home Improvement: "The Haunting of Taylor House" (1992)
Home Improvement: "Crazy for You" (1993)
King of the Hill: "Hilloween" (1997)
SpongeBob SquarePants: "Scaredy Pants/I Was a Teenage Gary" (1999)
The Simpsons: "Treehouse of Horror XI" (2000)
The Simpsons: "Treehouse of Horror XII" (2001)
The Fairly OddParents: "Scary Godparents" (2002)
The Simpsons: "Treehouse of Horror XIII" (2002)
The Simpsons: "Treehouse of Horror XIV" (2003)
The Simpsons: "Treehouse of Horror XV" (2004)
Tom and Jerry Tales: "Bats What I Like About the South/Fraidycat Scat/Tomb It May Concern" (2006)
The Simpsons: "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" (2007)
The Simpsons: "Treehouse of Horror XIX" (2008)
Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space (2009)
The Simpsons: "Treehouse of Horror XXI" (2010)
SpongeBob SquarePants: "Ghoul Fools" (2011)
The Simpsons: "Treehouse of Horror XXII" (2011)
The Simpsons: "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" (2012)
The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow (2013)
Bob's Burgers: "Fort Night" (2013)
Toy Story of Terror! (2013)
The Simpsons: "Treehouse of Horror XXV" (2014)
The Simpsons: "Halloween of Horror" (2015)
Bob's Burgers: "The Hauntening" (2015)
The Simpsons: "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" (2015)
Family Guy: "Peternormal Activity" (2015)

Cartoons

The Case of the Stuttering Pig (WB, 1937)
Lonesome Ghosts (Disney, 1937)
Fraidy Cat (MGM, 1942)
Scaredy Cat (WB, 1948)
The Flying Sorceress (MGM, 1956)
Broom-Stick Bunny (WB, 1956)
Transylvania 6-5000 (WB, 1963)
A-Haunting We Will Go (WB, 1966)

Completely forgot to start this thread this year, but I've been keeping my tabs over at Blu-Ray.com. Here's what I watched this year...

*First time viewing

1. Something Wicked This Way Comes
2. *Dracula Untold
3. Daybreakers
4. *The Funhouse
5. Tremors
6. *Tremors 2: Aftershocks
7. *Tremors 3: Back to Perfection
8. *Tremors 4: The Legend Begins
9. Hollow Man
10. *Hollow Man 2
11. The Exorcist
12. *The Exorcist II: The Heretic
13. *The Exorcist III: The Legion
14. *Exorcist: The Beginning
15. *Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
16. *Wolf Cop
17. *As Above So Below
18. *Ouija
19. Bram Stoker's Dracula
20. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
21. *The Pyramid
22. *Pumpkinhead
23. The Woman in Black
24. *The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
25. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.
26. *The Babadook
27. The Amityville Horror (2005)
28. The Goonies
29. The Monster Squad
30. Ghost Ship
31. Psycho
32. Psycho II
33. Psycho III
34. American Psycho
35. *Evil Dead (2013)
36. *Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
37. The Blair Witch Project
38. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
39. Halloween (2007)
40. *Halloween II (2009)
41. The Nightmare Before Christmas - Always watch it the day after Halloween.