Project Announcement: The First Annual 13 Days of Halloween

UPDATE October 29, 2017: See the 2017 project at this link!

It’s a poorly kept secret that my favorite time of the year lies between September 1 and December 31. That’s when all of my favorite seasons and holidays (and my birthday) happen! I love Halloween, and my hype for the holiday starts on September 1st and rolls right through 11:59 PM on October 31st.

Last year I proposed a project called “31 Nights of Halloween” where I’d watch and review something Halloween related each day in October. Unfortunately, my work schedule was too demanding, and I only locked down seven movies and was forced to cancel the project. So this year, I’m starting over, and hitting a more realistic goal of 13. This will be much simpler and more achievable. I can also hit this up annually and watch 13 different items each year and never miss a beat. Sounds like a perfect goal and situation to be in!

If you’ve read my past blogs, you already know I have annual traditions that go along with this time of year. If not, take a quick second to review them here. Some of the top items I’m going to watch every year no matter what, even after I review them in this project. The main goal is to vary up my watchlist each time to hit a variety of genres outside of just traditional horror. I’m including suspense, thrillers, family films with Halloween included or featured, sci-fi, or anything else that can spark my spirit.

The list of potential project ideas is below. I am opening this up to suggestions until October 1st, which is when I’ll work out my schedule of movies. What would you like to see or include? Leave them in the comments!

I will probably try to vary horror, sci-fi, family, and TV each year for as long as I can. Also, some ideas may be rejected, but if so, I will post them at the bottom and explain why.

 

THE SPOOKY HALLOWEEN SPECIALS LIST TO BE CONSIDERED

Note: entire series.sagas will be considered where you see a film listed. Example: Friday the 13th will be listed, and all will be considered, unless otherwise stated.

 

1. 10 Cloverfield Lane
2. 13 Ghosts
3. 28 Days Later
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Not the remake)
5. AAAHH!!! Real Monsters Episodes
6. Addams Family
7. Alien (Series)
8. The Amityville Horror
9. An American Werewolf in London
10. Are You Afraid of the Dark? Episodes
11. Ash Vs. Evil Dead
12. Beetlejuice
13. Big Bang Theory Halloween Specials
14. Blade
15. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
16. Bubba Ho-Tep
17. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Halloween themed episodes)
18. Butterfly Effect
19. Cabin in the Woods
20. Carrie
21. Casper
22. Children of the Corn
23. Coraline
24. Corpse Bride
25. The Craft
26. The Crazies
27. Dawn of the Dead (Original)
28. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
29. The Devil’s Rejects
30. Disturbia
31. Donnie Darko
32. Doug: Doug’s Halloween Adventure
33. Edward Scissorhands
34. Event Horizon
35. Evil Dead 2013
36. The Exorcist (A classic paranormal horror)
37. Frankenweenie
38. Friday the 13th
39. From Dusk Til Dawn
40. Ghostbusters
41. Goosebumps Episodes/Movie
42. Halloween / Halloween II (Rob Zombie Remakes)
43. Halloweentown
44. Hannibal Rising
45. Hansel & Gretel
46. Hellraiser
47. The Hills Have Eyes
48. Hocus Pocus
49. Hotel Transylvania
50. Interview with the Vampire
51. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
52. It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
53. Jaws
54. John Carpenter’s Vampires
55. Jurassic Park (Original film only)
56. Killer Klowns from Outer Space
57. King Kong
58. Little Shop of Horrors (The Rick Moranis edition)
59. Lost Boys
60. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
61. Monster House
62. The Mummy (Brendan Frasier series)
63. Night of the Living Dead
64. Nightmare Before Christmas
65. The Omen
66. ParaNorman
67. Pet Cemetery
68. Phantom of the Opera
69. Poltergeist
70. Predator
71. Prometheus
72. Psycho
73. The Purge
74. Queen of the Damned
75. Rear Window
76. Rocky Horror Picture Show
77. Saw
78. See No Evil
79. Scary Movie
80. Se7en
81. Shaun of the Dead
82. The Shining
83. Silence of the Lambs
84. The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror (Only one per year)
85. Sixth Sense
86. Sleepy Hollow
87. South Park Halloween Specials
88. Strangers
89. Super 8
90. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
91. Tales from the Crypt Episodes
92. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
93. They Live
94. The Thing
95. This is the End
96. Trick ‘R Treat
97. Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil
98. Twilight Zone Movie/Episodes
99. Van Helsing
100. The Wolfman
101. Wrong Turn
102. X-Files (Specific episodes/movies)
103. Young Frankenstein
104. Zombieland

 

REVIEWED ALREADY

1. Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad
2. Army of Darkness
3. Big Bang Theory – The Middle-Earth Paradigm
4. Evil Dead
5. Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn
6. Get Out
7. Halloween (1978)
8. Halloween II (1981)
9. It (1990)
10. It (2017)
11. Simpsons – Treehouse of Horror XXVIII
12. South Park – Sons A Witches
13. Stranger Things (Season 1)

 

 

THE REJECT LIST

-Blair Witch series. I saw the first one and loathed it. I have zero interest in watching it again, or any of its sequels.
-Child’s Play series. I’ve never been a fan of Chucky as a character or a horror villain. I admit I laughed at scenes in Bride of Chucky, but otherwise I find him obnoxious.
-Final Destination series. Talk about jumping the shark. The movies get boring after the opening scene. I did enjoy the second one though.
-Jeeper’s Creepers. Hated the first one. Watched a death montage of the second. I’m good.
-The Mist. One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. I should retro my worst movies list and add this back.
-Paranormal Activity series. Same as Blair Witch.
-Scream series. I’ve seen the first one twice. It didn’t do anything for me. I watched the second one for Sarah Michelle Gellar, and the third one for the Jay & Silent Bob cameo. That’s about it.