Horror Movie a Day: October 2011

[JimJ]

EDIT: This WAS originally my list for the day, but I figured it would be best to just edit my initial post, so everyone can see what day I drop the ball on.

To fill the space, yes, I do like the new Dawn of the Dead.  I like the old Dawn of the Dead.  However, this is the third time I've watched Day of the Dead and not Dawn of the Dead, so it's weird what ones I'll watch and not watch.  Only so many days, gotta pick and choose.

But Day of the Dead...man, what a sucker punch on this one...
9 onscreen deaths.  13 main characters, 1 one of which is already a zombie, and 3 escape.  I was SO close to getting the "10 onscreen victims in one movie" on one I didn't expect.  Ah, well.  I know one where I'm almost certain to get it, and one that definitely will.

By the way, for the record, the onscreen victims does NOT include zombies and/or aliens, cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers, or any of the many monstrosities that are monsters from the get go.  HOWEVER, if a character BECOMES a zombie or monster during the course of the film, they ARE counted (if they are subsequently destroyed post-conversion, obviously).

Actually, now that I think about it, one character that became a zombie never got finished off in Day...so my math is off by one.  Ah, well, what's one?

So human baddies do count then?  Jay Hernandez takes out several of the torturers in Hostel, do they count towards the total?

[shodan]

i got my ten count with hellrasier 3 when pinhead kills everybody in the club.

[SJP]

So human baddies do count then?  Jay Hernandez takes out several of the torturers in Hostel, do they count towards the total?

If they're onscreen, then yes.  I mostly threw that in because if we counted everything that gets blown away in every zombie film or monster flick, you'd have 10 kills in 13 seconds.

[JimJ]

So human baddies do count then?  Jay Hernandez takes out several of the torturers in Hostel, do they count towards the total?

If they're onscreen, then yes.  I mostly threw that in because if we counted everything that gets blown away in every zombie film or monster flick, you'd have 10 kills in 13 seconds.

Cool, in that case I've already got my ten.  11 actually, by my count.  Would've had 12 if I had watched the cut with the theatrical ending.  Doghouse had 5 so I'm at 16 total, on pace to easily get 100  .

[shodan]

i didnt really count the bodies in the club scene but the place was packed... lets just say 15 then, plus 4 from evil dead 2.. im up to 19

[Relaxing Dragon]

I try to stick to named (or at least non-walk on roles) characters for tallying up death counts in movies. Of course, I didn't think through the "they come back as some sort of zombie/pseudo-zombie" thing, so my 28 Days Later count may need to be changed now.

Whatever the case, I'm definitely going for for the 100 (and all the achievements, in fact). May have to bust out a lot of slashers to do it, but it will be reached.

[Russell]

Shaun of the dead - 2004 - Simon Pegg is a guy who works in an electronics store who wants his girlfriend
back, but she won't take him back so he has to rescue her in the middle of a zombie outbreak
and they all run to the pub to survive. The movie is completely silly and even has the balls to
put alternate endings to itself in the middle of the movie. That is awesome. Shaun of the dead
is(and I know this is some cliched shit) the perfect blend of comedy/horror.

[JimJ]

Movie number 3 was Jason Goes To Hell, which I watched purely for body count padding reasons. I want to get done with that achievement as quickly as possible so I don't have to count the deaths anymore.  This one didn't disappoint with 17 on screen kills. I've always thought this one was kind of underrated. It's silly, of course, but I enjoy it. 3/5.

Total death count after 3 movies: 33

[shodan]

im gonna keep a list as well
oct1. evil dead II
oct2. hellraiser hell on earth
oct3. rifftrax-the grudge
achievements:
here's johnny
ill teach you to throw away my comic book
he watched the tape
this is where he hotcurls her to death
achievement progress:
seems like ive spent the beteer part of my lif amongst the dead: 80's 90's 00's
sayonara rick-san: kill count at 24

[Russell]

Cape Fear - 1991 - I know, not exactly a run of the mill horror film, but once you've
seen Robert Deniro in drag I am sure you will change your mind. So, Robert Deniro
portrays a convicted rapist who was "defended" by Nick Nolte's character, and of
course Robert Deniro is super pissed about going to prison so he is determined
to make his former lawyer's life miserable and maybe evil kill him and his family
too. A caveat though, If you have seen the Simpson's episode "Cape feare", much
of this film will be spoiled for you. Robert Deniro is brilliant in his role as a psycho
killer and Nick Nolte is great as a fearful man who was only doing his job... or was
he?! The answer is yes.

[RoninFox]

Last night tried to watch Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, which barely counts especially since I fell asleep on it. Made up for it already this morning by watching Gravedancers, and now I'm in the middle of Return of the Living Dead.

[SJP]

Welp, I believe I have been tricked somewhat...archive.org has a link to a movie entitled "Wolf Blood" from 1925.  It is billed as the "earliest surviving werewolf movie."  Thing is, the idea of werewolves isn't even brought up until minute 57...in a 68 minute film.  Yeah, it's a bit of a slow burn.

The plot revolves around two logging companies at odds with each other.  One is run by a really nice guy who tries his best to keep his men away from the dangers of alcohol.  The other is run by a guy who isn't above hiring people to shoot at the competition to get them to stop working.  Guess which one's the hero?  Anyway, the nice guy, Dick Bannister, wants to talk to the owner of the company over all the people mysteriously being shot and wounded on his team, so enter love interest with her surgeon fiancé (who looks an awful lot like the unholy combination of Charlie Chaplin, Tom Waits, and Cosmo Kramer) to try to straighten things out.  Anyway, after one particular fight with the evil owner, Dick is wounded and left for dead, at which point he needs a blood transfusion.  Dr. Kramer, with no other choice, is forced to give Dick blood from a wolf owned by a half-French backwoods moonshiner (who sounds less like he's French Canadian in the text boxes and more like the Frito Bandito).  Rumors start spreading that Dick is no longer a man, but half-monster.  And when the evil guy turns up dead with his throat ripped out, Dick is the main suspect.

Really, this is only vaguely a horror film.  Only one guy dies, and there isn't really a werewolf in it, but there IS a ten-minute sequence of people dancing it up at a jazz hall.  Still, even though the movie forgets the point it's trying to make until 10 minutes from the end, I do have a soft spot for the silent film era, and there is a sort of cool superimposed ghostly effect involving wolves at the end.  It makes no sense in the long run (mostly considering a wolf blood transfusion is, oh, I don't know, more likely to KILL YOU OUTRIGHT), and it does not hold up well compared to REAL horror stuff like John Barrymore's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" or "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (both of which I highly recommend, if you're struggling with something to watch from the '20s), but as something I went into blind, I have to say it certainly could've been a lot worse.  Dr. Kramer is definitely worth catching, if only to think he might've been considered stylish back then.

[dignan]

Well, far be it for me to break a streak, so I watched Friday the 13th Part 3 (3-D version).  So, bearing that in mind...

10/1: Friday the 13th - 10 deaths
10/2: Friday the 13th Part 2 - 9 deaths (I don't count Paul)
10/3: Friday the 13th Part 3 - 12 deaths

Having seen these movies numerous times, Part 2 remains my favorite.  It's hard to say why, exactly.  It's not especially well-acted, produced, written, or directed.  Despite that, it does manage to generate some decent tension when Ginny is on the run from Jason.  Not so much in a "will she get away" sort of way, since she kind of has to, being the only one left, but in how she'll manage to escape some of the seeming dead-ends she finds herself in.  And, I really like the Jason-In-A-Bag look.  Part 3 is a rough slog, in comparison. 

By the way, Part 5 is actually my second favorite in the series, due to the sheer WTF-ery of it all.

[Compound]

Movie #6- Dylan Dog: The Dead of Night

Well, this rather poorly received horror film from earlier this year (but still enjoyable) manages to cover 5 different achievements. Woot.

Still, not a bad film, if a little schitzo in it's presentation.  The comic relief character could have been dumped or made a bit more serious and it'd be a better film.

[shodan]

got my next movie  lined up , one of my favorite zombie movies, Fido.