You're Invited to Chrono's Seven-Week Horror Marathon!

[The Villain]

Originally Posted by hammerfan

I wrote this on your FB group page, but thought I would post it here, too.

I have a suggestion for next year, if you do this again: giant monsters, i.e., Godzilla, Them!, Tarantula, The Giant Gila Monster, etc.

What a totally original idea that absolutely nobody else on this forum has done for their own marathon.

[hammerfan]

Originally Posted by The Villain

What a totally original idea that absolutely nobody else on this forum has done for their own marathon.

Doh! Sorry, Villain!

[ChronoGrl]

Hey friends! Happy Horror Hump Day!

This movie marathon is making me EXTREMELY happy, so thank you to all who have participated so far!

I think that I might make a couple of tweaks to the schedule...

Since I am turning into an OLD MAID, the 8:00 weekday start time is pushing the evening out later than I'd like (add in fun post-movie conversation time and I'm getting to bed closer to midnight!) - I'd like to propose a 7:00 start time for the Tuesday and Thursday shows... What do you think?

[hammerfan]

I won't be able to make Sunday's viewing, sorry!

[Sculpt]

Originally Posted by hammerfan

I wrote this on your FB group page, but thought I would post it here, too.

I have a suggestion for next year, if you do this again: giant monsters, i.e., Godzilla, Them!, Tarantula, The Giant Gila Monster, etc.

Excellent choices. The original Nippon version of Godzilla is a good film to see with friends, depression is best experienced together.

Interesting... did you know Gila and Attack of the Killer Shrews was made back-to-back by Ray Kellogg? So, with the skype room, can you hear people's comments well? and is there a delay? Cause Gila sucks, & without lampooning is a bore. I might recommend a better film, or the MST2K version instead.

Tarantula is a decent 50's film, maybe a bit overseen for a film with not a lot of re-watchability, IMO.

I recommend better &/or lesser seen giant monster films:

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) - Ray Harryhausen does some of his finest stopaction animation.
Pacific Rim (2013) - excellent Del Toro film
Destroy All Monsters (1968) - best Godzilla sci-fi film
Jurassic Park (1993) - good movie, been a long time for most.
Godzilla Vs the Smog Monster (1971) - rich, dark, psychedelic Godzilla film, just read it's Roger Ebert's fav G film.
Monsters (2010) - film won Gareth Edwards directorial dibs on Godzilla2014
Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris (1999) - 91% rottentomatoes, good FX & story

[metternich1815]

Originally Posted by Sculpt

Excellent choices. The original Nippon version of Godzilla is a good film to see with friends, depression is best experienced together.

Interesting... did you know Gila and Attack of the Killer Shrews was made back-to-back by Ray Kellogg? So, with the skype room, can you hear people's comments well? and is there a delay? Cause Gila sucks, & without lampooning is a bore. I might recommend a better film, or the MST2K version instead.

Tarantula is a decent 50's film, maybe a bit overseen for a film with not a lot of re-watchability, IMO.

I recommend better &/or lesser seen giant monster films:

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) - Ray Harryhausen does some of his finest stopaction animation.
Pacific Rim (2013) - excellent Del Toro film
Destroy All Monsters (1968) - best Godzilla sci-fi film
Jurassic Park (1993) - good movie, been a long time for most.
Godzilla Vs the Smog Monster (1971) - rich, dark, psychedelic Godzilla film, just read it's Roger Ebert's fav G film.
Monsters (2010) - film won Gareth Edwards directorial dibs on Godzilla2014
Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris (1999) - 91% rottentomatoes, good FX & story

What does Nippon version mean?

I myself have not yet seen either of those films, I am not sure if I own them. I do think I own Killer Shrews. So far, we have been using imeetings. There is video/audio component. If you at least have the equipment, you are able to use live chat (like a chatroom). There is a delay for the speaking part. It seems like the program crashes alot though and I have only been on with me and ChronoGrl, so not sure how it works with more than two people practically speaking.

I have seen Tarntula, but it has been a while, I need to watch it again.

Of all the others, the only one I have actually seen is Jurassic Park, which I absolutely loved (do not consider it horror at all though). Clearly, I need to watch more monster movies.

And, to clarify, ChronoGrl is not actually doing this, this is just a suggestion for next year.

[ChronoGrl]

I think Nippon version = Japanese version, maybe? (or maybe the original version?)

I like to pretend to know stuff.

I love the idea of doing another Giant Monster week - the hubby loves them and we own quite a few (Giant Leeches and Killer Shrews I know off the top of my head)...

[neverending]

Yes, he means the original Japanese version, titled Gojira. There are no American characters, and it's really a much more atmospheric and foreboding film. Those who haven't seen it, really should make time for it. It's an important piece of post war filmmaking.

[ImmortalSlasher]

I picked a movie from the list per week. I try to watch a movie or two a week. But I'm behind on TV shows too. I think I'll schedule next year better so I can watch a horror movie every other night or something in October. Plus I was looking to see what movies are on cable and saw that Encore has what seems to be all the Hellraiser movies up. I've only seen the first and I barely remember it. I saw the original Prom Night on too. I've never seen that one. So my schedule from the list will be:

Night of the Living Dead - This one is always on demand.
Halloween (original) - I always watch this on the 31st but it never gets old.
The Haunting - I want to see this again. I'll try to find it.
Evil Dead II - I've never seen this one and have only seen the Evil Dead remake. So I'm going to make an attempt on Evil Dead I & II this Halloween.

Add in those Hellraiser movies and Prom Night probably on weekends.