Day Eleven: Jennifers Body
This movie is great and Megan Fox is great in it. An interesting twist on how far a band would go for fame / fortune and the inevitable consequences of those choices. If you’re the band Low Shoulder, you’d go pretty damn far.
Day Ten: Return of the Living Dead
Love this movie! Love it. The soundtrack, the look, the overall atmosphere. I, without fail, watch it at least once a year. Every July 3rd. “More Brains” Yes please.
Day Eight: Cooties
Today’s movie is Cooties… “Circle, Circle, Dot, Dot I got my Cootie shot”. Cooties occupied a huge part of my childhood. At least, making sure I didn’t get them. Everyone knew that the only way to catch cooties was through close contact with an infected person, mainly girls, cause everyone knew girls had cooties. I’m sure glad that I didn’t attend Fort Chicken Elementary School. This movie made me look at cooties in a whole new way. It also made me rethink eating chicken nuggets. I never stopped eating them, but I did rethink it.
Day Seven: Re-Animator
The second film on the list with a connection to Lovecraft. The first was Evil Dead II with its usage of the “Necronomicon” and this one based on the story “Herbert West-Reanimator”. What we have here is something so wrong on so many levels and yet so right.
This movie checks off so many boxes it’s ridiculous. Mad scientists? check, reagent serum? check, zombies? check, nudity? over the top violence? gore? check, check, check! and oh yeah…a lovely cat named Rufus, Check!
Day Six: From Dusk till Dawn
Picture it - The Bronx 1996
Friend: YO! wanna check out that new Tarantino flick? From Dusk Till Dawn.
Me: Nah!!! I really wanna see that Wayans joint, “Don’t be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood!” Supposed to be mad funny.
Friend: True that, but peep it, remember that fly honey from Desperado? She’s in it and that dude from Facts of Life. Oh yeah and something about Mexican Vampires.
Me: Word?
(This may or may not have gone down exactly like this)
Day Five: Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil
This movie should be required watching for all. In a world where stereotypes, cognitive biases and just straight up ignorance runs rampant a little dose of Tucker and dale can go a long way. “Hillbillies”, “ Preppy Kids” and a dilapidated mountain cabin. What can possibly go wrong?
Day Four: Bad Milo
This one hits home. Kids if ever anything was going to teach you about the adverse effects of stress on the human body, let this be it. Although, it also teaches you how to try to deal with stress. I can’t say it’s the most constructive. Ken Marino is great and Milo is all kinds of wrong. Oddly cute tho, but definitely ain’t right.
Day Three: Beetlejuice
Does this one actually need an introduction? No, no it does not. To be fair, if you’re following this list most of these movies need no introduction. Davis and Baldwin as ghost and Keaton as Beetlejuice, a bio-exorcist. This also got me hooked on Calypso real bad…that sweet sound of the steel drum, the melodious tones of the late great Harry Belafonte. Almost started a band, almost called it “Tally me banana”
Day Two: Evil Dead 2
All kinds of crazy in this Bruce Campbell classic. This is the second installment in the evil dead series. When I first saw it I thought it was a remake of the original, turns out it’s both a remake and a sequel, a re-quel.
Remote cabin in the woods, Romantic couples getaway, Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. That’s a good time.
Day one: Critters
So we begin this marathon with a movie that 10 year old me thought was all kinds of awesome (I still think it’s all kinds of awesome). We’re talking about the 1986 science fiction horror-comedy Critters.
Carnivorous, small, furry aliens, shape shifting bounty hunters and…it’s all going down on a farm in rural Kansas. What! What!
it’s that time of year again!
Our annual horror movie marathon “31 Days” is about to commence in a few short days. Last year’s event was tremendously successful. We went from years of zero participation, to 1 participant and last year there were 6 participants! That’s right 6! That’s a 500% increase. Mayhaps this year we’ll see 7…8…9 participants? One can dream.
The theme for 2024 will be “Horror Comedies”. As the name implies these are films that are both funny and scary. One would think that an explanation for that theme would not be necessary, but one would be wrong.
Please click on the link “31 Days 2024” on the navigation to see a gallery of all the movies included within this years list. You will also find all the rules governing our annual horror movie marathon below.
RULES:
Make an attempt to watch the 31 movies on the list.
Please have fun and try to enjoy watching the 31 movies on the list.
If you do not like, enjoy or find yourself not having fun watching any of the 31 movies on the list, please feel free to substitute.