THE TIME HAS COME

Sugarboogerz and I decided to do this again this year. We did a lot of movie watching challenges/projects last year and this one was my favorite so I'm excited. I can never get enough horror

It's gonna work exactly the same. I found this chart on reddit. It shows 39 different horror sub-genres and a couple examples from each one (the person said they did a lot of recent examples instead of the best possible pick at times)



We're picking 39 horror movies that we haven't seen, one from each sub-genre. The deadline is HALLOWEEN. It feels early, but this is about the same time we started last year and 40 movies is a good chunk, that's still 8 movies a month on average to beat that deadline

Jacob and I made our list together again so it's movies neither of us have seen. JOIN IN! Use our list or make your own or make substitutes for what you've seen or don't. Josh? Zersch?? You down again? Where my horror fans at

Also don't start nitpicking the subgenres that we put some movies under pls, we went by what little we know about some of these movies and we don't wanna be spoiled on what exactly the horror element is unless the description says it. Also don't say so and so sucks because it'll make me not wanna watch it at all, pls and ty

OUR LIST: https://letterboxd.com/curtislost23/list/challenge-39-horror-subgenres-20/

For me for reference:

Funny Games [Psychological - Home Invasion]
Santa Sangre [Psychological - Fanaticism]
Session 9 [Psychological - Phobia & Isolation]
Berberian Sound Studio [Psychological - Madness & Paranoia]

The Howling [Monster - Werewolf]
Thirst [Monster - Vampire]
Day of the Dead [Monster - Undead]
The Fog [Monster - Animals & Nature]
The Battery [Monster - Virus]
Critters [Monster - Small Creatures]
Dracula [Monster - Classic]
Colossal [Monster - Giant Monsters]
Creature from the Black Lagoon [Monster - Neo Monster]
Invasion of the Body Snatchers [Monster - Aliens]

The Perfection [Gore - Torture]
Phantasm [Gore - Splatter]
The Neon Demon [Gore - Cannibal]
Ichi the Killer [Gore - Extreme]

Possession [Paranormal - Possession]
Midsommar [Paranormal - Witches & Occult]
Carrie [Paranormal - Supernatural]
The Haunting [Paranormal - Haunted House]
The Beyond [Paranormal - Devil/Demon/Hell]
Tigers Are Not Afraid [Paranormal - Ghost & Spirits]

The Hills Have Eyes [Killer - Backwoods & Redneck]
Peeping Tom [Killer - Slasher]
Opera [Killer - Crime & Giallo]

One Cut of the Dead [Misc - Meta]
The Love Witch [Misc - Horror Romance]
Pet Sematary [Misc - Creepy Kid]
The Skin I Live In [Misc. - Body Horror]
Irreversible [Misc - Revenge]
Creepshow [Misc - Anthology]
Inside [Misc - French Extremity]
Vampire's Kiss [Misc - Comedy Horror]
As Above, So Below [Misc - Found Footage]
Dracula [Misc - Gothic Horror]
Beyond the Black Rainbow [Misc - SciFi Horror]
Pulse [Misc - Technology]

Pretty excited about this batch. Last year's list had a ton of classics on there so I had seen a lot of the BIG moments from them which was too bad. Not so much for this list at all, I feel like I'm going in way more blind and know less about a good portion of these movies as a whole

Still got some classics tho. Dracula, Day of the Dead, Fog, Black Lagoon, Body Snatchers, Possession, Carrie, Haunting, etc. Some brand new movies like Midsommar and The Perfection. Midsommar is from the guy who did Hereditary and isn't even out yet but I can't wait. The Perfection literally just dropped on Netflix a few hours ago. And we have a good spread of classic horror directors like Romero and Carpenter and Craven and Argento and a couple of King stories. I'm looking forward to it

Only stinker that I think we forgot to replace after our early draft is As Above, So Below. That's our found footage movie. If anyone has some half-decent found footage horror to replace it with lemme know

It's the most wonderful time of the YEAAAAAR

I feel bad for not finishing my list last year.

Instead of making my own list I'm going to take y'all's lists, combine them and hope that out of the three of you (if Josh is in) one of you picked something I haven't seen.

Or wait, maybe that's what I did last year too and just filled in my picks where I'd already seen all the movies you guys picked.

I don't remember, I think I have dementia.

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At first scan this would be what I need to fill in. Keeping Pet Semetary but changing it to the remake due out before the deadline in theaters, right? Also you have Dracula on the list twice. Are they two different movies, or are you double dipping?

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- [Psychological - Home Invasion] Santa Sangre [Psychological - Fanaticism] - [Psychological - Phobia & Isolation] Berberian Sound Studio [Psychological - Madness & Paranoia] Good Manners - [Monster - Werewolf] Thirst [Monster - Vampire] - [Monster - Undead] - [Monster - Animals & Nature] The Battery [Monster - Virus] - [Monster - Small Creatures] Dracula [Monster - Classic] Colossal [Monster - Giant Monsters] Creature from the Black Lagoon [Monster - Neo Monster] Invasion of the Body Snatchers [Monster - Aliens] The Perfection [Gore - Torture] - [Gore - Splatter] - [Gore - Cannibal] Ichi the Killer [Gore - Extreme] Possession [Paranormal - Possession] Midsommar [Paranormal - Witches & Occult] - [Paranormal - Supernatural] - [Paranormal - Haunted House] - [Paranormal - Devil/Demon/Hell] Tigers Are Not Afraid [Paranormal - Ghost & Spirits] - [Killer - Backwoods & Redneck] Peeping Tom [Killer - Slasher] Opera [Killer - Crime & Giallo] One Cut of the Dead [Misc - Meta] The Love Witch [Misc - Horror Romance] Pet Sematary [Misc - Creepy Kid] The Skin I Live In [Misc. - Body Horror] Irreversible [Misc - Revenge] - [Misc - Anthology] Inside [Misc - French Extremity] Vampire's Kiss [Misc - Comedy Horror] - [Misc - Found Footage] Dracula [Misc - Gothic Horror] Beyond the Black Rainbow [Misc - SciFi Horror] Pulse [Misc - Technology]

Some of us watching Martyrs at the same time-sh last season was one of my favorite board moments.

Two different Draculas! Christopher Lee version and Gary Oldman version

Also Colossal isn’t a horror movie at all so we’re picking Them! for our giant monster movie

Yea move over Anne Hathaway

God the trials and tribulations of finding a werewolf movie are alive and well in 2019.

I do not suggest Wer

Actually Zersch watch Good Manners for your werewolf movie. I’m pretty sure it’s a werewolf movie but the premise is apparently a bit of a mystery so I wouldn’t look it up. It was almost our pick

Werewolf and Giant Monsters are TOUGH genres to dig through.

IT'S BEGUN

The Haunting

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It was...aiight. It didn't age very well imo. I'm sure it was pretty horrifying at the time, and the classic scenes like the door warping and the wife in the cellar door were good, but the rest was just fine to me To be honest I kinda half watched it and was pretty distracted. I remember the sounds of the movie being pretty creepy. I watched it last week, I already forget a whole lot of it. It was cool seeing similarities between this and Hill House on Netflix but tbh I only half paid attention to that entire show too. Overall it was half decent ★★★ good/interesting concept/would recommend Paranormal - Haunted House: Last year I'd use this spot to talk about the sub-genre and what my favorite movie that fit that genre was. This time I'm gonna weigh this movie vs. last year's movie in the same category. Last year was the other most classic haunted house movie, House on Haunted Hill. These are probably the two titans of haunted house movies. I gave them both 6/10 but I'd probably give House on Haunted Hill the slight edge, if only for that one crazy effective jump scare alone with the creepy old lady, that was so good Also I'm gonna track the SHOWDOWN wins for each sub-genre. I feel like 2018 is gonna win out since we were able to watch more of the classics from every category and now we might be left with some scraps but WE'LL SEE! 2018: 1 2019: 0

Funny Games [Psychological - Home Invasion]
Santa Sangre [Psychological - Fanaticism]
Session 9 [Psychological - Phobia & Isolation]
Berberian Sound Studio [Psychological - Madness & Paranoia]

The Howling [Monster - Werewolf]
Thirst [Monster - Vampire]
Day of the Dead [Monster - Undead]
The Fog [Monster - Animals & Nature]
The Battery [Monster - Virus]
Critters [Monster - Small Creatures]
Dracula [Monster - Classic]
Colossal [Monster - Giant Monsters]
Creature from the Black Lagoon [Monster - Neo Monster]
Invasion of the Body Snatchers [Monster - Aliens]

The Perfection [Gore - Torture]
Phantasm [Gore - Splatter]
The Neon Demon [Gore - Cannibal]
Ichi the Killer [Gore - Extreme]

Possession [Paranormal - Possession]
Midsommar [Paranormal - Witches & Occult]
Carrie [Paranormal - Supernatural]
The Haunting [Paranormal - Haunted House]
The Beyond [Paranormal - Devil/Demon/Hell]
Tigers Are Not Afraid [Paranormal - Ghost & Spirits]

The Hills Have Eyes [Killer - Backwoods & Redneck]
Peeping Tom [Killer - Slasher]
Opera [Killer - Crime & Giallo]

One Cut of the Dead [Misc - Meta]
The Love Witch [Misc - Horror Romance]
Pet Sematary [Misc - Creepy Kid]
The Skin I Live In [Misc. - Body Horror]
Irreversible [Misc - Revenge]
Creepshow [Misc - Anthology]
Inside [Misc - French Extremity]
Vampire's Kiss [Misc - Comedy Horror]
As Above, So Below [Misc - Found Footage]
Dracula [Misc - Gothic Horror]
Beyond the Black Rainbow [Misc - SciFi Horror]
Pulse [Misc - Technology]