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Halloween Hyping - Looking Back & Setting the Stage

October is typically my busiest Tumblring month and 2011 will be no different.

I just love digging into as many horror films and logging my viewings on this trusty tumblelog. As a list aficionado, I thought I’d collect my prior 3 years worth of Octobertime horror viewings into one post here, for my own personal enjoyment and as a quick reference to look back on and potentially update at the end of each horrific viewing season.

So, for the hell of it, let’s turn back the clock and list some shit and see what I checked out over the recent years.

Looking over the lists, I’ve increased the number of films I’ve watched each year. Not sure that pattern will continue, but we’ll see. I’m VERY surprised that there are no films listed more than once below. That really doesn’t seen accurate… I may have forgotten to log some because certain films I could swear that I’ve seen more than once during October over the prior 3 years (i.e. Halloween, The Evil Dead, The Shining, Halloween III…). Highly doubt that pattern will continue but I do certainly like seeing new (to me) horror films or ones I haven’t caught in a while during this time-frame.

Halloween Hype 2008

1. The Funhouse [1981 / Tobe Hooper]
2. The House on Sorority Row [1983 / Mark Rosman]
3. Videodrome [1983 / David Cronenberg]
4. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane [2006 / Jonathan Levine]
5. Calvaire [2004 / Fabrice Du Welz]
6. 28 Days Later… [2002 / Danny Boyle]
7. The Thing [1982 / John Carpenter]
8. Terror Train [1980 / Roger Spottiswoode]
9. Carnival of Souls [1962 / Herk Harvey]
10. Ghostbusters [1984 / Ivan Reitman]
11. Freddy vs Jason [2003 / Ronny Yu]
12. Halloween II [1981 / Rick Rosenthal]
13. Halloween III: Season of the Witch [1982 / Tommy Lee Wallace]

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Halloween Hype 2009

1. Pieces [Mil Gritos Tiene La Noche] [1982 / Juan Piquer Simón]
2. Night Train Murders [L’ultimo treno della notte] [1975 / Aldo Lado]
3. A Day With The Boys[1969 / Clu Gulager]
4. Friday the 13th Part III[1982 / Steve Miner]
5. Re-Animator [1985 / Stuart Gordon]
6. Paranormal Activity [2009 / Oren Peli]
7. The Poughkeepsie Tapes [2008 / John Erick Dowdle]
8. The Beyond [E tu vivrai nel terrore - L’aldilà] [1981 / Lucio Fulci]
9. Martyrs [2008 / Pascal Laugier]
10. The Exorcist[1973 / William Friedkin]
11. Black Sunday [La maschera del demonio] [1960 / Mario Bava]
12. Zombieland [2009 / Ruben Fleischer]
13. Drag Me to Hell [2009 / Sam Raimi]
14. The Wicker Man [1973 / Robin Hardy]
15. Halloween [1978 / John Carpenter]
16. The Evil Dead [1981 / Sam Raimi]
17. Seven [1995 / David Fincher]

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Halloween Hype 2010

1. Psychomania [a.k.a. The Death Wheelers] [1973 / Don Sharp]
2. Horror of Dracula [1958 / Terence Fisher] 
3. The Toolbox Murders [1978 / Dennis Donnelly]
4. Deep Red [Profondo Rosso] [1975 / Dario Argento]
5. Torso [I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale] [1973 / Sergio Martino] 
6. The Tenant [Le Locataire] [1976 / Roman Polanski] 
7. The House on the Edge of the Park [La casa sperduta nel parco ] [1980 / Ruggero Deodato]
8. Psycho[1960 / Alfred Hitchcock]
9. Mother’s Day [1980 / Charles Kaufman]
10. Happy Birthday to Me [1981 / J. Lee Thompson]
11. Trouble Every Day [2001 / Claire Denis]
12. The Last House on the Left [2009 / Dennis Iliadis]
13. The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh [Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh] [1971 / Sergio Martino]
14. Pet Sematary[1989 / Mary Lambert]
15. Pet Sematary II[1992 / Mary Lambert]
16. Trick ‘r Treat [2009 / Michael Dougherty]
17. Grindhouse [2007] (Planet Terror & Death Proof / Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino]
18. A Nightmare on Elm Street [1984 / Wes Craven]
19. Friday the 13th [1980 / Sean S. Cunningham]
20. The Shining [1980 / Stanley Kubrick]
21. Night of the Living Dead [1968 / George A. Romero]

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Halloween Hype 2011

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