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Hello,

Just joined the forum and excited to discuss movies. Showing off my yearly movie watching events. While I love the likes of Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, the Universal Monsters and other classic horror, I want to try to discover new films to watch on Halloween.

This is part of my yearly Halloween film selections to celebrate the holiday! These include horror, sci-fi, cult, B-Movie or Exploitation films I have never seen.

1.   The Invisible Ray (1936)
2.   The Spiral Staircase (1945)
3.   The Maze (1953)
4.   Gog (1954)
5.   Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)
6.   Frankenstein 1970 (1958)
7.   The Snake Woman (1961)
8.   The Witch's Mirror (1962)
9.   The Night Walker (1964)
10.   Strait-Jacket (1964)
11.   The Andromeda Strain (1971)
12.   Chosen Survivors (1974)
13.   Shivers (1975)
14.   Rabid (1977)
15.   Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
16.   Road Games (1981)
17.   Night of the Demon (1980 or 1983 – I have different info on the release date)
18.   The Wind (1986)
19.   Munchies (1987)
20.   Killer Crocodile (1989)
21.   Popcorn (1991)
22.   Ghostwatch (1992)
23.   Mommy (1995)
24.   Mommy 2: Mommy's Day (1997)
25.   Whispering Corridors (1998)
26.   Memento Mori (1999)
27.   Wishing Stairs (2003)
28.   Feast (2005)
29.   Vacancy (2007)
30.   The House of the Devil (2009)
31.   The Amityville Moon (2021)

Only two days left as of this post. Overall a very mixed result this year. :P Hoping 2022 will fair better.

Welcome to the forum. Hope you like it here.

I didn't see this (and still haven't) but I still remember everyone talking about it at school the next day... they all thought it was real because it featured well known kids tv presenters and was done as if it was 'live'

 imdb says this

"It earned the dubious honour of being the first TV programme to be cited in the British Medical Journal as having caused Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in children."

apparently there was also a helpline set up!

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0200659/?ref_=fn_al_tt_0

Hi and welcome.

Good list, never seen the Mommy movies but always wanted to.


Ahh back in the day when stuff like this upset people. Something similar happen in Germany when the made-for-TV horror/thriller (theatrical worldwide) Spare Parts (1979) was shown on TV. Spare Parts was about organ trade. It had people upset and was heavily discussed in the media for months. German doctors chimed in and criticised the film's exploitative approach (jeez, it was only a movie).
I don't think anybody suffered anything traumatic, but it was a conroversial subject (back then) for sure.

Good choices!  :thumbup:
The INVISIBLE RAY (1936) has Bela as a good guy! And of course it has Boris- kind of like Lon Chaney's MAN MADE MONSTER (1940).

You can't go wrong with SHIVERS (1975)!

But NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1980) is fantastic! I mean-  Bigfoot ripping out some guys guts and whipping morons with it is great!
Oh yeah- welcome to the club!

http://youtu.be/iDjAr2C0UXA (http://youtu.be/iDjAr2C0UXA)

I have it on DVD and it is very disturbing.

That's actually a really interesting line up. 

I don't think I've ever actually sat down and made a 31 movie for Halloween list.  I've done 24 hour Halloween movie marathons and challenegd myself to watch one horror movie I haven't seen yet every day for October, but never really made a list like this. 

I think I'm going to have to do that now.

Honestly if I didn't take time off from work (a week or two from my personal leave) I wouldn't be able to do it. I do it for the challenge and discovering new movies to watch outside of the regular rotations however you can go through a bad or boring batch of films at once. :P Munchies was a title that made me grab the rum.

If you mean this, it's highly recommended...  and 1957...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Nightofthedemonposter.jpg)

I think he means ...

(https://i.imgur.com/COhTzxx.jpg?1)
(1988)
It is ALSO highly recommended, at least, if you like 80s horror. 
It's got Linnea Quigley in it. 

Pretty sure it's the 1980 or 1983 (the date of release is sketchy) version-

http://youtu.be/667oMEllSco (http://youtu.be/667oMEllSco)

I totally forgot about that movie. 

(There's too many different Night of the Demon(s) movies out there.)

 ^ Well, being as he listed the film as made in 1980 or '83, I think that cinches it.
It is also listed in the end credits as  c @1979! So who knows?
This newspaper page is from Feb. 1980

(https://i.imgur.com/RE2vvU7.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

(https://i.imgur.com/HMI0f4A.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)

And yes, it's a killer Bigfoot movie. With Devil worshipers. And a guy gets his dick ripped off. Another gets tossed in a sleeping bag. Great movie.

I'm sure you're right... CURSE OF THE DEMON (aka NIGHT OF THE DEMON 1957) is on TCM today at around 4pm est... I'll have it on!

Now I'm in the mood for a Night of the Demon, Night of the Demon, Night of the Demons triple feature. 

Final results -

My blunt review system:
***** - Unmissable
**** - Great
*** - Good
** - For die hards only
*- Skip it.

1.   The Invisible Ray (1936) - *** - Good
2.   The Spiral Staircase (1945) - **** - Great
3.   The Maze (1953) **** - Great
4.   Gog (1954) ** - For die hards only
5.   Curse of the Faceless Man (1958) ** - For die hards only
6.   Frankenstein 1970 (1958) ** - For die hards only
7.   The Snake Woman (1961) *- Skip it.
8.   The Witch's Mirror (1962) **** - Great
9.   The Night Walker (1964) ** - For die hards only
10.   Strait-Jacket (1964) *** - Good
11.   The Andromeda Strain (1971) **** - Great
12.   Chosen Survivors (1974) ** - For die hards only
13.   Shivers (1975) **** - Great
14.   Rabid (1977) **** - Great
15.   Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) *** - Good
16.   Road Games (1981) **** - Great
17.   Night of the Demon (1980 or 1983 – I have different info on the release date) *** - Good (if you are into bad movies, lower a point if you are not)
18.   The Wind (1986) ** - For die hards only
19.   Munchies (1987) *- Skip it.
20.   Killer Crocodile (1989) ** - For die hards only
21.   Popcorn (1991) *** - Good
22.   Ghostwatch (1992) **** - Great
23.   Mommy (1995) ** - For die hards only
24.   Mommy 2: Mommy's Day (1997) ** - For die hards only
25.   Whispering Corridors (1998) ** - For die hards only
26.   Memento Mori (1999) ** - For die hards only
27.   Wishing Stairs (2003) *** - Good
28.   Feast (2005) ** - For die hards only
29.   Vacancy (2007) *** - Good
30.   The House of the Devil (2009) *** - Good
31.   The Amityville Moon (2021) *- Skip it.

A bit of a mix back this year but always happy to take on the challenge. Happy Halloween everyone!

Was this the Bigfoot movie?

Correct. I personally found the film so goofy it was fun.

That movie is wonderfully bad... who can forget the peepee pull?   Doesn't that one also have the bigfoot hybrid backwoods birth?  :question: :twirl:

I'd add a lot of 70s stuff like:

* Alice, Sweet Alice
* Invasion of the Blood Farmers
* Simon, King of the Witches
* Dr. Death, Seeker of Souls (with a brief appearance by Moe Howard!)
* Beyond the Door
* Suspiria
* Lisa and the Devil (or the more exploitative "House of Exorcism" cut)
* Last House on the Left
* Frightmare
* The Brood
* Shriek of the Mutilated
* Barn of the Naked Dead
* Three on a Meathook
* Deranged
* Texas Chainsaw Massacre
* Black Christmas
* Willard
* Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
* Death Dream
* Shock Waves
* Asylum
* The House That Dripped Blood
* Tales From the Crypt
* The Vault of Horror
* Sisters'
* Dawn of the Dead

Probably a dozen or more others I'm forgetting

I've seen 1/2 of these. Again I do this every year and the point is to watch movies I've never seen so the big guns (Universal Monsters, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw, Friday the 13th and so on) I try to save for rewatches to a minimum but I will take some of the suggestions for futures lists.

And let us never forget the hilariously absurd double-girl scout murder!

In all seriousness, I love Bigfoot movies and find (many of) them legitimately scary. (It probably helps that I believe that giant cryptids are real. Errr.  :lookingup: :lookingup:) NOTD is a particular stand-out as it is REALLY grisly and mean-spirited, the backstory is bleak, and there are actually a couple of moments that are intense as hell, possibly meaning that the scariness I receive could be appreciated by other viewers. But for those who are made of tougher stuff than I, there are indeed also plenty of hack-handed laffs to be had.