Horror Movie Survival Thread Discussion (For a Thread in October and Only October)
 

Alright, so there has been a glut of survivor threads recently, and they have a timeline that might or might not be finished by the time we are all dead, but this is an idea for a thread with a much more compressed period of time. Basically, we do the "vote for the best 'x' thing" thread, but instead of 500 different categories of music albums, we do a vote for the best horror movies of all time that will last from October 1st to October 31st, with no extensions.

We can discuss until then what form the actual voting thread (which will be a standalone thread created on September 31st or October 1st) will take, and what movies will be included, but no matter what, it will only last the month of October, no sooner, no later, and on November 1st the greatest horror movie of all time will be announced.

So let the ideas flow...

We should come up with a list of horror movies to vote on.

Brilliant! If Halloween, Alien, and Leprechaun in the Hood are not included then I'm quitting this forum.

I thought Freddie already kicked Jasons ass back to Camp Crystal Lake.

A starter list

1. The Exorcist
2. Psycho
3. Halloween
4. The Thing
5. Night of the Living Dead
6. Let the Right One In
7. The Shining
8. Saw
9. The Omen
10. A Nightmare on Elm Street
11. The Texas Chaingofuckyourselfbatlordsaw Massacre
12. Rosemarie's Baby
13. Friday the 13th
14. 28 Days Later
15. The Babadook
16. Poltergeist
17. The Descent
18. Begotten
19. Eraserhead
20. Alien
21. Insidious
22. The Strangers
23. Pontypool
24. Carrie
25. The Blair Witch Project
26. Suspiria

I could go with that list, but The Blair Witch Project? I sincerely hope you included that out of relevance and not out of not sucking. And isn't there a whole world of Italian horror that we're missing out on? I say that out of ignorance, since I have not watched a single Italian horror movie, but I hear things.

Likewise with Japanese horror.

Notoriety, plus I dig it. My list was a startoff one anyway, I'm sure bob and Exo are gonna want to do some of the work. Also, Suspiria did make the list so we at least have a little bit of marinara on the list.

Maybe we can make it into 100 movies?

I'd recommend including Pulsa aka Kairo if you want to japan things up.

And so that the French don't have their feelings hurt, Calvaire (which is actually pretty ****ing awesome).

31 days. 100 movies. Not gonna work. This will not be another Rock Album Survivor thread, even if we have to give some deserving movies the shaft.

So what's a good number, 50?

I don't know. It's ****ing February, man. Discussion and ****, but it would probably be absurd to have more than thirty movies, since it would be a thirty-one day event. Especially since asking people to watch movies is more than asking them to listen to albums.

You could split it up into five (or whatever) ways and try out the system of the pop survivor thread where everyone ranks the ten films and we take the average from there. Then at the end of the month we can pit the remaining five films against each other or something like that.

Plus, it's ****ing February, we'll have a little bit of time to watch some of em.

Of course it's February, which is why we have time to figure out how this will work. But it's not gonna work like the other survivor threads work, even if there are considerable months till the actual action starts. This whole thing might get ironed out in a month and be good to go by April, but nothing official happens till October.

I'm all over this and have plenty to add :)

Jaws
The Beyond
Zombie
Motel Hell
Hellraiser 1 and 2
The New York Ripper
Sleepaway Camp
Black Sunday
Nekromantic 1 and 2
City of the Living Dead (nothing better than watching someones intestines coming out of their mouth)
Profondo Rosso
Tenebre
The Brood
Videodrome
Basket Case
Bay of Blood
Torso
The Tool Box Murders
Corpse Grinders
The Gore Gore Girls
Color Me Blood Red
Cannibal Holocaust
Martyrs (French one....**** America)
Wicker Man
Inside
Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
April Fools Day
Aftermath (The good one)
Evil Dead 1 and 2
High Tension
Sheiten
Return of the Living Dead
Nightbreed

looking forward to voting and watching all of these again

would anybody be interested in join Shudder?

they have an amazing collection for streaming....quite a few of the films we've already mentioned as well as many i've never heard of that sound really interesting