Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The 30 day Horror challenge

Get ready! Get set! Let's go! Are you up to the thirty day horror film challenge where we take a look back at some of our favorite horror films in various sub-genres or catagories? What horror films will make your list? Will we see lists flooded with The Exorcist, Jaws, An American Werewolf in London, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Scream, Dawn of the Dead, Bride of Frankenstein, etc?

The rules are simple, just pick your favorite horror film for each day! However, you can't pick the same horror film more then once. So once you pick say The Exorcist for your favorite horror film involving the powers of Hell, you can't repick it again for any other day what so ever including favorite horror film. So let's get to it! This is the 30 Day Horror Film Challenge!

Day 01 - A horror film that no one would expect you to love, but you do
Day 02 - The horror film that you releate most to
Day 03 - Your favorite slasher
Day 04 - Your favorite werewolf film
Day 05 - Your favorite monster movie
Day 06 - Your favorite vampire movie
Day 07 - Your favorite supernatural horror film
Day 08 - Your favorite anthology
Day 09 - Your favorite exploitation / grind house type film
Day 10 - Your favorite psychological horror film
Day 11 - Your favorite science fiction horror film
Day 12 - Your favorite horror film involving the occult
Day 13 - Your favorite horror comedy
Day 14 - Your favorite zombie film
Day 15 - Your favorite horror film involving serial killers
Day 16 - Your favorite childhood themed horror film
Day 17 - Your favorite horror film remake
Day 18 - Your favorite foreign horror film (outside of your country of origin)
Day 19 - Your favorite horror film involving the powers of Hell or Satanism
Day 20 - Your favorite horror film involving a killer animal
Day 21 - Your favorite medical horror film
Day 22 - Your favorite horror themed TV show
Day 23 - Your favorite made for TV horror film
Day 24 - Horror film in which you perfer the edited version over the director's cut
Day 25 - A horror film that you used to hate, but now like
Day 26 - Your favorite horror film to watch as a child
Day 27 - Your favorite guilty pleasure
Day 28 - Your favorite horror film that no one's ever heard of
Day 29 - Your least favorite horror film of all time
Day 30 - Your favorite horror film of all time 

So let me get this started with "A horror film that no one would expect you to love, but you do" and my vote goes to.....

Curse III: Blood Sacrifice - Some people said it was too slow moving. Some people said it wasn't violent enough. Some people said it was too self serious. However, for me, Curse III captures the spirit, the essence of what I would think a monster movie should be from back in the black and white days of horror, but updates it just enough to give it a modern twist. I, especially, love how they keep the monster off screen for just about the entire film so that it builds up that sense of wonder as to the big reveal of the creature.

8 comments:

Kate @Midnight Book Girl said...

Sounds like fun! I added my Day 1 challenge answer to my blog post:

http://www.midnightbookgirl.com/2011/03/goodbye-borders-part-2.html

Anonymous said...

I'm going to play along...my day 1 post should be coming soon.

Steve Gierman said...

Sounds like a blast! Here's my day one...

http://whitesoxcards.blogspot.com/2011/03/30-day-horror-challenge-day-1.html

LoCoDe said...

I'm in.

Day one posted.

http://chewingliquorice.blogspot.com/

Life Between Frames said...

Hmm... I don't have any movies in mind for a few of those categories, but I'm up for giving this a try.

Guts and Grog Reviews said...

I am in.

http://gutsandgrogreviews.blogspot.com/2011/03/day-one-of-30-day-horror-challenge-i-am.html


Tromeric

Micah said...

I'm in as well.

http://www.365horrormovie.com/2011/03/25/the-30-day-horror-challenge-day-1/

SonOfCelluloid said...

I'm in at http://sonofcelluloid1.blogspot.com/ but I'm going to start April 1. I've never done one of these "30 Day" things, this should be fun.