OHHHH BABY. Guess what time it is

One of my favorite annual FE traditions will continue. Jacob and I were thinking about doing a scaled down version this year. I've been bad with watching movies these past few months and I'm not averaging neaaaaaaaaarly enough per month to be able to complete this by Halloween, I've just been way more into catching up on tv this year. But you know what, FUCK IT! Let's give it a shot and maybe Ill find the motivation along the way, I do love doing this

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 to start this, but we're actually starting it later than we did the first two times by a couple of weeks.

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. Zersch and Josh you gonna give it the ole college try again??

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-30/

A nice fresh list is already motivating me to start checking them off and chipping away


Angst [Psychological - Home Invasion]
November [Psychological - Fanaticism]
The Night House [Psychological - Phobia & Isolation]
The Quiet Family[Psychological - Madness & Paranoia]

Good Manners [Monster - Werewolf]
Nosferatu [Monster - Vampire]
Night Living Dead remake [Monster - Undead]
Phase IV [Monster - Animals & Nature]
Night of the Creeps [Monster - Virus]
Gremlins 2 [Monster - Small Creatures]
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [Monster - Classic]
Alligator [Monster - Giant Monsters]
The Thing From Another World [Monster - Neo Monster]
The Hidden [Monster - Aliens]

American Mary [Gore - Torture]
Bad Taste [Gore - Splatter]
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 [Gore - Cannibal]
Maniac [Gore - Extreme]

Christine [Paranormal - Possession]
Saint Maud [Paranormal - Witches & Occult]
Cronos [Paranormal - Supernatural]
Relic [Paranormal - Haunted House]
The Masque of the Red Death [Paranormal - Devil/Demon/Hell]
The Innocents [Paranormal - Ghost & Spirits]

The Burning [Killer - Backwoods & Redneck]
Stage Fright [Killer - Slasher]
Blood and Black Lace [Killer - Crime & Giallo]

Horror Noir [Misc - Meta]
The Duke of Burgundy [Misc - Horror Romance]
The Brood [Misc - Creepy Kid]
The Stuff [Misc. - Body Horror]
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? [Misc - Revenge]
Dead of Night [Misc - Anthology]
Trouble Every Day [Misc - French Extremity]
Little Shop of Horrors [Misc - Comedy Horror]
The Borderlands [Misc - Found Footage]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Misc - Gothic Horror]
Color Out of Space [Misc - SciFi Horror]
Cam [Misc - Technology]

I think we have a good variety of stuff again. We have movies from this year, movies that haven't even come out yet, staples on our lists like Peter Jackson, Dante, Carpenter, del Toro, Cronenberg, some Stephen King, Savini, Frank Oz, even SAUL BASS, an a24 movie, a couple of sequels and remakes, the original THING, and ofc Nic Cage again. I think were missing #1 staple Jeffrey COMBS though! What a shame

We picked these on a whim again. Each time I say I wanna put more thought into the choices and try to dig deep for hidden gems but we tend to give up on that pretty quickly and just start slotting things in. I'm fine with it, it doesn't always have to be gold to be fun. My average ratings for the first two lists were 2.9 and 2.7 which is not great but I don't regret watching either batch. Lets see if this one can be better. Like last year, I'm gonna do a head to head to HEAD thing this year and see which group comes out on top

I've awoken from my annual slumber to watch some great but mostly average horror movies with Curtis!!!

Curtis @ 1/7/2020 12:32

I think were missing #1 staple Jeffrey COMBS though! What a shame

Don't forget other 39 challenge favorite, Dee Wallace!

I wanna watch Color Out of Space

I tried to say that before and then ndim broke

dr @ 1/7/2020 14:02

I wanna watch Color Out of Space I tried to say that before and then ndim broke

We should do a party watch. I have no idea how.

Sugarboogerz @ 1/7/2020 15:03

dr @ 1/7/2020 14:02 I wanna watch Color Out of Space I tried to say that before and then ndim broke We should do a party watch. I have no idea how.

Discord screen share might work, Id be down for that

Fist came Dafoe, then came Song Kang-ho, and for round three I'm happy to report the male nudity that Jacob and I get to witness comes from none other than GEORGE COSTANZA

The Burning

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Here we go babayyyyyy. DIVING IN! Time for the campy slasher of the bunch. We have it under Killer Backwoods instead of Killer Slasher because we thought it was more of a hillbilly motherfucker. But it still kinda fit maybe This was....OKAY! Lemme tell you, this shit took ages and ages and ages to finally pop off. It was a boring 4 for the longest time, but when stuff got going it made up for it a bit. In the end I kinda appreciated the build up a lot. I thought people were gonna die quite a few times early on but they were fakeouts and they got me The movie actually did a good job of subverting expectations left and right. Certain characters died when I didn't expect them to, certain characters DIDN'T die which was as much a surprise, and overall it kinda kept me guessing a bit. Its a F13 clone but it did enough to change things up a little And it has JASON ALEXANDER! There's a big scene that's a horror classic now so I had unfortunately seen it, but it still held up. If I didn't know it was coming I would've neverrrrrr seen it coming. Good kills overall for the most part. Better than the first F13s kills tbh ★★½ mixed feelings/flawed but fine/some good ideas Killer - Backwoods & Redneck: HERE'S THE PLAN! I'm pitting all three movies from all three years against each other. The one I like best gets 2 points, middle gets 1 point, worst one gets nothing. Last year it was nearly dead even between the two, lets see if this year can compete. Last time I did this I remember saying at the end that if you ask me those matchups months later my winner might change. I think that's definitely gonna be the case, recency bias is real For this one we have The Hidden vs. The Hills Have Eyes vs. Wolf Creek. Not a hard one for me. Hills is the worst of the bunch easy, I think I gave that a 4. Wolf is a low 6 for me and Burning is a 5. Wolf and Burning are decently close 2020: 1 2019: 0 2018: 2

Angst [Psychological - Home Invasion]
November [Psychological - Fanaticism]
The Night House [Psychological - Phobia & Isolation]
The Quiet Family[Psychological - Madness & Paranoia]

Good Manners [Monster - Werewolf]
Nosferatu [Monster - Vampire]
Night Living Dead remake [Monster - Undead]
Phase IV [Monster - Animals & Nature]
Night of the Creeps [Monster - Virus]
Gremlins 2 [Monster - Small Creatures]
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [Monster - Classic]
Alligator [Monster - Giant Monsters]
The Thing From Another World [Monster - Neo Monster]
The Hidden [Monster - Aliens]

American Mary [Gore - Torture]
Bad Taste [Gore - Splatter]
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 [Gore - Cannibal]
Maniac [Gore - Extreme]

Christine [Paranormal - Possession]
Saint Maud [Paranormal - Witches & Occult]
Cronos [Paranormal - Supernatural]
Relic [Paranormal - Haunted House]
The Masque of the Red Death [Paranormal - Devil/Demon/Hell]
The Innocents [Paranormal - Ghost & Spirits]

The Burning [Killer - Backwoods & Redneck]
Stage Fright [Killer - Slasher]
Blood and Black Lace [Killer - Crime & Giallo]

Horror Noir [Misc - Meta]
The Duke of Burgundy [Misc - Horror Romance]
The Brood [Misc - Creepy Kid]
The Stuff [Misc. - Body Horror]
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? [Misc - Revenge]
Dead of Night [Misc - Anthology]
Trouble Every Day [Misc - French Extremity]
Little Shop of Horrors [Misc - Comedy Horror]
The Borderlands [Misc - Found Footage]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Misc - Gothic Horror]
Color Out of Space [Misc - SciFi Horror]
Cam [Misc - Technology]

I can't just sit here and not attempt this again.

Zersch @ 1/7/2020 17:46

I can't just sit here and not attempt this again.

I understand that you guys still weren't ready to take on the Ghoulies franchise.

Until 2021!

Phase IV

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This was directed by none other than SAUL BASS! Legendary graphic designer who did the title sequences for a lot of Hitchcock movies. The only movie he ever directed Much like The Burning, I kinda hated it for the longest time. It was not holding my attention at all. But for reasons that I cant really put my finger on I thought the last third was pretty interesting and has kinda stuck with me. It definitely had something to say way more than the average animals strike back movie, I wish the first half of the movie explored the same questions as the end Also, it was actually kinda horrifying. Just the idea that the ants were EVERYWHERE by the end. The young scientist marching through the desert knowing they were all around him. That hole in his mask was brutal The trap that they carved and caught the old scientist in was good too. I wish we got a gory death there, I wanted one of those time lapses of them swarming him and his body decomposing. Thatd be nasty. It was still gross though, the idea of being stuck down there with all of them swarming at you. EEEEE! Pretty incredible ANT PHOTOGRAPHY too, that shit was kinda wild. And outside of that, Saul Bass' visual flair was definitely on display a few times I gave it a 6 initially but settled on a 5 soon after. It was just way too uneven and boring to start ★★½ mixed feelings/flawed but fine/some good ideas Monster - Animals & Nature: Cujo vs The Fog vs Phase IV. YIKES! Animals and Nature is striking out, all three are a 5 for me, but I'm gonna give it to........Phase IV! It had more to say and was a bit more interesting than the other two disappointments. The Fog barely gets 2nd over melodramatic Cujo. An early lead for 2020! 2020: 3 2019: 1 2018: 2

Angst [Psychological - Home Invasion]
November [Psychological - Fanaticism]
The Night House [Psychological - Phobia & Isolation]
The Quiet Family[Psychological - Madness & Paranoia]

Good Manners [Monster - Werewolf]
Nosferatu [Monster - Vampire]
Night Living Dead remake [Monster - Undead]
Phase IV [Monster - Animals & Nature]
Night of the Creeps [Monster - Virus]
Gremlins 2 [Monster - Small Creatures]
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [Monster - Classic]
Alligator [Monster - Giant Monsters]
The Thing From Another World [Monster - Neo Monster]
The Hidden [Monster - Aliens]

American Mary [Gore - Torture]
Bad Taste [Gore - Splatter]
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 [Gore - Cannibal]
Maniac [Gore - Extreme]

Christine [Paranormal - Possession]
Saint Maud [Paranormal - Witches & Occult]
Cronos [Paranormal - Supernatural]
Relic [Paranormal - Haunted House]
The Masque of the Red Death [Paranormal - Devil/Demon/Hell]
The Innocents [Paranormal - Ghost & Spirits]

The Burning [Killer - Backwoods & Redneck]
Stage Fright [Killer - Slasher]
Blood and Black Lace [Killer - Crime & Giallo]

Horror Noir [Misc - Meta]
The Duke of Burgundy [Misc - Horror Romance]
The Brood [Misc - Creepy Kid]
The Stuff [Misc. - Body Horror]
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? [Misc - Revenge]
Dead of Night [Misc - Anthology]
Trouble Every Day [Misc - French Extremity]
Little Shop of Horrors [Misc - Comedy Horror]
The Borderlands [Misc - Found Footage]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Misc - Gothic Horror]
Color Out of Space [Misc - SciFi Horror]
Cam [Misc - Technology]

Night of the Living Dead

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This is the 1990 Savini remake and its...basically just the original in color. Which is fine. I dont hold the original so dearly in my heart as many people so I'm not a fraction as upset that this movie exists as many people were at the time It was fine! Always love Tony Todd and he was perfect for the Ben role. I remember Barbara being kinda completely useless in the first one? But she was fine here. Cooper was great, a perfect slimy character who you know is gonna get his in the end I liked Ben's sad demise in the original more than this, but Coopers death was better here. The dummy shooting the gas pump remains one of the dumbest decisions ever in a horror movie I'm cool with the idea of remaking the original with updated effects and all but for a movie directed by Savini the practical effects were kinda....non existent? It was weird. Obviously there was some stuff and what we saw was good and all but this was at the end of the 80's, the practical effect craft had basically been PERFECTED! And yet I cant recall a single fun one from this movie and I only just watched it yesterday. Kinda weird Overall it was fine. A quick easy watch. Cant hold much against it p0[']/?:"()P ★★★ average/good/interesting concept Monster - Undead: Re Animator vs Day of the Dead vs Night of the Living Dead. EASY! ReAnimator is the best, then Day, then Night remake. Our original 2018 list takes the lead 2020: 3 2019: 2 2018: 4

Angst [Psychological - Home Invasion]
November [Psychological - Fanaticism]
The Night House [Psychological - Phobia & Isolation]
The Quiet Family[Psychological - Madness & Paranoia]

Good Manners [Monster - Werewolf]
Nosferatu [Monster - Vampire]
Night Living Dead remake [Monster - Undead]
Phase IV [Monster - Animals & Nature]
Night of the Creeps [Monster - Virus]
Gremlins 2 [Monster - Small Creatures]
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [Monster - Classic]
Alligator [Monster - Giant Monsters]
The Thing From Another World [Monster - Neo Monster]
The Hidden [Monster - Aliens]

American Mary [Gore - Torture]
Bad Taste [Gore - Splatter]
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 [Gore - Cannibal]
Maniac [Gore - Extreme]

Christine [Paranormal - Possession]
Saint Maud [Paranormal - Witches & Occult]
Cronos [Paranormal - Supernatural]
Relic [Paranormal - Haunted House]
The Masque of the Red Death [Paranormal - Devil/Demon/Hell]
The Innocents [Paranormal - Ghost & Spirits]

The Burning [Killer - Backwoods & Redneck]
Stage Fright [Killer - Slasher]
Blood and Black Lace [Killer - Crime & Giallo]

Horror Noir [Misc - Meta]
The Duke of Burgundy [Misc - Horror Romance]
The Brood [Misc - Creepy Kid]
The Stuff [Misc. - Body Horror]
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? [Misc - Revenge]
Dead of Night [Misc - Anthology]
Trouble Every Day [Misc - French Extremity]
Little Shop of Horrors [Misc - Comedy Horror]
The Borderlands [Misc - Found Footage]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Misc - Gothic Horror]
Color Out of Space [Misc - SciFi Horror]
Cam [Misc - Technology]