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Shocktober 2014

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My beloved has taken a year-long trip overseas to study at Oxford, and I’m attempting to ease the transition with a little extra distraction for the first month by participating in Patrick Klepek's “Shocktober” month-long horror movie marathon. Accordingly, I’ve prepared a list of 31 horror films – old and new, classics and crap – to watch. Theoretically, that’d be one per night, but given that...

My beloved has taken a year-long trip overseas to study at Oxford, and I’m attempting to ease the transition with a little extra distraction for the first month by participating in Patrick Klepek's “Shocktober” month-long horror movie marathon. Accordingly, I’ve prepared a list of 31 horror films – old and new, classics and crap – to watch. Theoretically, that’d be one per night, but given that one per night is a practical impossibility, it’ll more likely be rather sporadic. Odds are, even, that I won’t get through all 31, but whatever, it’s not a friggin’ contest.

Anyway. Most of my films are taken from the suggestions provided by Patrick, with a number of modifications, mostly in the interest of replacing especially shit films with ones I’ve been meaning to watch (mostly adpatations of HP Lovecraft stories, because I’ve been on a big HPL kick), or replacing sequels with originals in cases where I’m not up to speed with whatever series. ANYWAY anyway, here’s the list.

  1. Alien
  2. The ABC’s of Death Funny Games Trick ‘r Treat
  3. Funny Games The ABCs of Death Funny Games
  4. The Guest (In Theatre) Honeymoon
  5. Coherence
  6. Honeymoon The Signal
  7. The Signal The Guest (In Theatre) Pandorum
  8. Grabbers
  9. Death Spa
  10. The Houses October Built (In Theatre)
  11. Dead Snow
  12. Trick ‘r Treat The ABCs of Death
  13. Kill List
  14. The Resurrected
  15. Halloween
  16. Cthulhu
  17. The Loved Ones
  18. The Banshee Chapter
  19. Possession
  20. The Haunted Palace
  21. The Battery
  22. V/H/S
  23. V/H/S/2
  24. Escape From Tomorrow
  25. Exists
  26. The Whisperer in Darkness
  27. The Entity
  28. The Borderlands
  29. The Babadook
  30. Eraserhead
  31. Horns (In Theatre)

So, if you want to join in, then assemble a list! You could use mine, of course, or Patrick's, or make your own, which is probably most advisable. I'll be posting reviews of each film as I watch them on Tumblr and my personal blog, too. My apologies for all of the edits – I keep running into technical or timing difficulties!