My Halloween movie marathon šŸ’€šŸæ

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Weā€™re over halfway through the month of horror and I thought Iā€™d share what Iā€™ve been doing to celebrateā€¦

31 Halloween films in 31 days :eyes::coffin:

So basically me and my partner have picked a set of movies each (15 from me and 16 from her) which we placed in a glass pumpkin and then we pull out a ticket to decide what weā€™re watching that night.

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So far weā€™ve had:

  1. The Craft - 4 :bat: out of 5
  2. Practical Magic - 3 :bat: out of 5
  3. Ready or Not - 4 :bat: out of 5
  4. Slither - 2.5 :bat: out of 5
  5. Hush - 3 :bat: out of 5
  6. Scream - 4.5 :bat: out of 5
  7. The 'Burbs - 5 :bat:out of 5
  8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 2 :bat: out of 5
  9. Halloween - 5 :bat: out of 5

Weā€™re quite a bit behind but a huge fan of movie marathons :popcorn:

Anyone else been hitting up the Halloween films?

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This is my idea of hell! Thriller I can deal with, but not horror or jumps.

But I like the idea of movies in a pot and pick one out. Saves the scrolling on Netflix, switching to Prime, switching to Disney etc etc.

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I feel like I was forced to watch horror movies from such a young age that itā€™s just become the norm for me to try and scare the :poop: out of myself on the regular.

I pure struggle with have every TV show and film available to me so the pulling the names out the hat/glass pumpkin was a big win for me.

@Revels Do you do any Halloween viewing?

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Not if I can help it!

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My housemate has persuaded me that we need to watch a scary movie as itā€™s Halloween month. I do not care for such films, they make me very anxious (I struggle just to go to the laundry room in the cellar if Iā€™m here on my own!) but Iā€™ve agreed just to test myself. I guess that means Iā€™m going to be staying awake all night with the lights onā€¦

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Are any of the Annalise on your to watch list?

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Sleepy Hollow isnā€™t on there :eyes:

Thatā€™s my go to for Halloween

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Hope Psycho is in the pumpkin. Hitchcockā€™s first selfā€“described horror film.

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Not in the mix but the Conjuring is in the bowl to be picked :ghost:

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No Sleepy Hollow either! Such a belter - itā€™s hard to cut it down to 31 films

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No Psycho either! Everyone is putting me to shame here haha.

Think Halloween is the oldest out of the selected films :thinking:

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I knew 31 films would be too ambitious, especially with also watching some great telly, so the goal I set myself was roughly one a week, at least five for the month. So far Iā€™ve managed:

  1. Scream (2022)
  2. Ghostbusters: Afterlife
  3. One Night in Soho

In order; sucked, decent, really enjoyed.

Plan is for Candyman (2021) to be next, and havenā€™t decided what the last one will be yet. Between discs and streaming, Iā€™ve plenty to choose from. Only restriction being I wouldnā€™t want to watch something Iā€™ve already seen before.

Have I hit anything on your own list, @AlanDoe?

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I watched Conjuring 2 the other night. Then Sinister I believe.

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Psycho is the best film. Ever. If you havenā€™t seen it, watch it in the dark.

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Iā€™ve only seen the Van Sant Psycho myself :grimacing:

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The Evil Dead. Original. Just ā€˜WOWā€™ (especially good with VHS/Betamax striping)!

Then The Cabin in the Woods for the ā€˜WTF is this really about?ā€™ moment.

Nightmare on Elm Street films good too, although watch them in order.

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Tonightā€™s films from the glass pumpkinā€¦

  1. The Lost Boys - 4 :bat: out of 5
  2. The Last House on the Left - 2 :bat: out of 5

With added pumpkin carving which I am evidently terrible at :upside_down_face:

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Man is that a good film (Lost Boys).

Going to have to rewatch that now

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I realised Iā€™ve never seen Scream :scream: so watching it in the dark.

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Watched Halloween Kills last night. Have realised that I appear to be accidentally doing a ā€˜new, but oldā€™ theme with everything so far.