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My list (first time viewings in red) 1. Meg 2 2. Them/Ils 3. The Brain Eaters 4. The Dare 5. Green Room 6. Chernobyl Diaries 7. Monster 8. Nosferatu 9. Dracula 10.Dan Curtis’ Dracula 11.The Exorcist 12.Dr. X 13.Mystery of the Wax Museum 14.Tales from the Crypt 15.The Crawling...

I’m going to try to watch a couple more movies tonight…I’ll post my entire list tomorrow morning.

15. The Crawling Hand (new) Yikes. A convoluted story involving astronauts, scientists, murders, college students and a severed arm. The first part of the movie is very talky with no action. The actor playing Paul thinks he’s James Dean. Awful acting and story with special effects that range...

14. Tales from the Crypt (1972) While far from perfect it’s still a great anthology horror film. Five stories from EC Comics are loosely woven together with a story of five strangers who take a tour of a graveyard and end up meeting the Crypt Keeper who shares stories with them to help them...

I did an in-theater double feature last night! Chicago’s Music Box Theater always does a horror festival in October and I indulged last night. A double feature of two pre-code two strip Technicolor films: Dr. X and Mystery of the Wax Museum. Both were UCLA 35mm restorations. Interesting side...

Personally, I didn’t like it. But I know I’m definitely in the minority.

11. The Exorcist I really hadn’t planned on watching it this year. However, I’m reading the excellent “making of” book “The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear“ and I decided I HAD to watch it again. It’s still an excellent movie on so many levels. Phenomenal cast, excellent music, great pacing...

Every year I tell myself I am going to do something special during the challenge: Chaney Sr. movies, Universal classics, binge Halloween or Elm Street…but I never do. This time I did a mini-binge, two revisits and one new viewing. 9. Nosferatu I’m always impressed by how well this one holds...

With the passing of Piper Laurie I guess I’ll be rewatching Carrie this weekend.

Monster (2018) (new) Yikes. This is one of those found footage movies that are so hated by many. With good reason. A documentary filmmaker and her sister are filming their trip to Japan to explore issues related to climate change. While there they experience what initially is thought to be an...

#6 Chernobyl Diaries (new) An interesting premise: a group of Americans on their way to Moscow decide to do “an extreme tour” of the town outside of Chernobyl that housed the workers of the nuclear power plant. The initial idea is a clever twist on the “lost in the woods“ trope, and most of it...

#5 Green Room I’m not sure whether to consider this a “new to me” movie since I started watching it once and stopped about a third of the way through. Finished the whole movie today, though. A punk band is traveling to low paying gigs and after losing one because of their inept “promoter“ he...

#4 The Dare (2019) The initial setup is okay but it very quickly veers to being a derivative Saw/Hostel ripoff. Jay isn’t doing the best job with his work/life balance according to his wife. One night his home is invaded by a masked figure and he wakes up chained to the wall in a dark and dingy...

#3 The Brain Eaters (1958) Ultra low budget sci-fi “shocker“ that plods along despite its 61 minute running time. VERY Ed Wood-ish, from the laughable acting/dialogue/effects to the voiceover narration where the actors literally act out exactly what the narrator is saying. Roger Corman is one of...

I’ve seen that too. If I recall that’s a little more like a traditional home invasion thriller. I may have to rewatch that one too!

#2 Them (Ils) (French with subtitles) When I started watching this I knew I had seen it before…back in my ancient Netflix DVD queue days! It still holds up. A really effective “home invasion“ movie that goes between uneasy/dread/suspenseful at the drop of a hat. A couple become trapped in their...

1. Meg 2: The Trench Everyone associated with this “movie“ should be banned from ever working in the industry again. It starts out bad and just gets more ridiculous as it progresses. It becomes a “let’s throw everything at it and see what sticks“, the dialogue is awful, the special effects are...

Damn! @John Stell beat me to it! 👻👹🎃🔪