The Challenge rolls along and we’re reaching the finish line with just over a week before Halloween! How have you been doing, if you’ve been playing along? Are you burning through the requirements like wildfire or taking it slow? Week three was a lot lighter than the previous two, with a weird mishmash of genres and styles, everything but the kitchen sink it seems. Read on! Continue reading OHMC 2014 – Week Three: The Kitchen Sink
It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for — the winners of the Hidden Horror book contest have been chosen! I’m am pleased to announce that through a completely mysterious, scientific process (random name picker dot org, basically), the two people who will receive a copy of this indispensable reference guide are…[drum roll]… Continue reading OHMC 2014 Hidden Horror Contest Winners!
Another week bites the dust in the October Horror Movie Challenge, bolstered by a trip to Chicago for the 10th annual Music Box of Horrors at the historic Music Box Theater. Several more views under the belt and I’m now a handful of films away from meeting the minimum challenge requirements. Read on! Continue reading OHMC 2014 – Week Two: A Music Box of Horrors
Want your own copy of Hidden Horror? OF COURSE YOU DO.
Continue reading OHMC 2014 HIDDEN HORROR GIVEAWAY! (100th POST!!)
We’ve survived week one of the October Horror Challenge! So far, this year’s views have been a lot of re-watches, many of which were long overdue, and a couple of first time views that have largely been quite good. The heavy stuff is sure to come later, and it’s only a matter of time before I get stuck with a stinker. We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it, though. In the meantime, here’s what I watched from 1 October through 7 October:
Continue reading OHMC 2014 – Week One: The Ashmore Factor
The last few days of September are hard. I get antsy for October to be here, so I can get cracking on celebrating Halloween for 31 days. It’s not even about the October Horror Movie Challenge at this point; it’s just time to get spooky. I try to avoid watching horror films for all of September, because I know what it’s like to get burned out on the genre by the time 31 October rolls around. But I was weak this year! I was weak. Continue reading pregaming the October Horror Movie Challenge
October is coming fast, friends! I’ve got my queue built and ready to go for the…
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Continue reading coming soon: the October Horror Movie Challenge 2014
Hello. While I’ve been blogging the October Horror Movie Challenge, I’ve been leaving all personal writing to the wayside. So let me do a quick rundown of everything that’s been happening lately… Continue reading an update
This is it. The last update on Bemused and Nonplussed for the October Horror Movie Challenge this year. I still have a couple more entries over at Dreams In The Bitch House to complete, and then the theater goes dark for another year. Not to worry, there’ll still be regularly scheduled mayhem here, and perhaps a few posts over there, too, not to mention writing for Cult Reviews. As far as long-form write-ups go for the Challenge, the final entry goes to Disney’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, a perfectly autumnal film if there ever was one.
Continue reading OHMC 2013 – Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
It’s always bittersweet when the October Horror Movie Challenge is over. It marks the end of a horror fan’s greatest and best-loved month, but it also comes at great relief for some (including me). The minimum requirements for the Challenge are sometimes even too much for some genre fans (including me), who get burned out on watching all this terror. I recall one Challenge in particular that left me in a funk until December. I’m not saying this happens to everyone, and I’m not saying this as a deterrent to participating in or attempting the Challenge, I merely say this out of personal experience. At the same time, there’s a great and ever-growing community of participants with which to interact, discuss and debate horror films, which is a grand and wonderful thing to have. The best moments come from discovering new-to-you movies, and also when you rediscover an old favorite, particularly when you see it in a new light. This happened on a rewatch of George Romero’s third entry to the Dead series, Day of the Dead. Continue reading OHMC 2013 – Day of the Dead (1985)
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