Final List 2014

Here it is, the list of flicks watched in 2014 as part of my first 90 Days of Horror Movies!

1. Stand by Me (8/1)

2. The Lost Boys (8/1)

3. Sharknado (8/3)
4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (8/3)
5. Argento's Dracula (8/3)
6. The Worst Witch (8/4)
7. Children of the Corn (8/5)
8. House on Haunted Hill (8/7)
9. The Blair Witch Project (8/8)
10. House of the Devil (8/9)
11. Fright Night (8/10)
12. Creepshow 2 (8/14)

13. Under the Done Season 2 (ongoing)

14. Halloweentown (8/15)

15. The Dark Half (8/15)

16. House (8/16)

17. The Hole (8/16)
18. Scream (8/17)
19. Scream 2 (8/18)
20. Haunter (8/18)

21. Children of the Corn II (8/19)

22. Scream 3 (8/19)

23. Scream 4 (8/19)

24. Scary Movie (8/20)
25. Halloween (8/22)
26. Halloween II (8/22)
27. Halloween III (8/23)
28. Halloween 4 (8/23)
29. Halloween 5 (8/26)
30. Salem's Lot (8/29)
31. Ghostbusters (8/30)
32. Scary Movie 2 (8/31)
33. Teen Wolf (9/3)
34. I Sell the Dead (9/4)
35. A Nightmare on Elm St. (9/5)
36. 28 Days Later (9/7)
37. Pet Semetery (9/8)
38. Dracula (1931) (9/10)
39. Pizza Girl Massacre (9/11)
40. Beetlejuice (9/11)
41. Simpsons Treehouse of Terror (13-15) (9/16)
42. Bubba Ho Tep (9/15)
43. Dawn of the Dead (1978) (9/17)
44. Frankenstein's Army (9/18)
45. A Nightmare on Elm St. 2: Freddy's Revenge (9/15)
46. Ghostbusters 2 (2/21)
47. The Lawnmower Man (9/21)
48. Nightmare on Elm St. 3 (9/22)
49. Nightmare on Elm St 4 (9/22)
50. VHS (9/24)
51. Nightmare on Elm St 5 (9/24)
52. Freddy's Dead (9/25)
53. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (9/27)

54. Simpsons Treehouse of Horror I & II, III, IV, V (9/27-10/7)

55. I Heart You (9/28)

56. Cabin Fever (9/29)

57. Shining (10/1)

58. The Purge (10/2)
59. Hocus Pocus (10/5)
60. Zombex (10/5)
61. Found (10/5)
62. Willow Creek (10/6)
63. American Horror Story: Coven Episodes 1&2 (10/7)
64. American Horror Story: Coven Episodes 3&4 (10/8)
65. Disney's The Dance of the Skeletons and (Fantasia Segment) Night on Bald Mountain (10/9)
66. Peanuts Halloween Special (10/9)
67. Garfield's Halloween Adventure (10/9)
68. Simpson's Treehouse of Horror VI, VII (10/9)
69. American Horror Story: Coven Episodes 5&6 (10/10)
70. American Horror Story: Coven Episodes 7&8 (10/10)

71. AHS: Coven Episodes 9&10 (10/10)

72. AHS: Coven Episodes 11-13 (10/11)

73. The Monster Squad (10/12)

74. Jason X (10/13)

75. Fat Albert's Halloween Special (10/13)

76. Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Sleepy Hollow segment) (10/14)
77. Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XXV (10/19)
78. Evil Dead II (10/22)
79. Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet (10/22)
80. Cottage Country (10/22)
81. Mr. Boogedy  (10/23)
82. It (10/24)
83. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (10/26)
84. Trick 'R Treat (10/26)
85. World War Z (10/28)
86. An American Werewolf In London (10/28)
87. The Conjuring (10/28)
88. The Purge: Anarchy (10/30)
89. Sinister (10/30)
90. Bram Stoker's Dracula (10/31)
91. Interview with the Vampire (10/31)
92. Freddy Vs. Jason (10/31)

#90 Bram Stoker's Dracula #91&92 Interview with the Vampire and Freddy Vs. Jason

Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula is all I need out of a retelling of the story. It's crazy, sexual, oh so 90s and kind of fun. Anthony Hopkins' Van Helsing is the best thing ever. This flick came out when I was in fifth grade and, since it was kind of based on classic literature, I was allowed to watch it! That made for some awful good steps forward in the development of my young, impressionable brain. Watching it still takes me back.

After that, we watched Interview with the Vampire. I've been wanting to see this flick again for a while. Man, it's kind of slow and wussy. I had forgotten. This flick, and the series of books that it is based on, are as much 'vampires for middle aged women' as Twilight is 'vampires for teenage girls'. Even though I'm not the target audience for this flick, I still think it has some good stuff in it.

Freddy Vs. Jason: We kind of just didn't want the night to end. And I didn't want IwtV to be the last movie on the list. I slept through a fair portion of the plot development in the middle and woke up for the big fight at the end.

Okay, that's it!

#88 The Purge: Anarchy #89 Sinister

The second Purge movie is pretty good. It's another one of the recent rash of action movies parading as horror, but at least it keeps things moving. It is just interesting enough and has just enough political commentary to keep me engaged. Is the very basic idea of this movie kind of stupid? Yes. Is the conversation that it would inspire about human nature and morality just as pointless? Pretty much. At least this one dealt with some real people instead of the upper class yuppie douche bags that we all kind of wanted to die who were the center of the first one. I kind of cared if a couple of these people lived through the night. And that'll do, pig, that'll do.

Then I watched Sinister. Holy slut farts! This movie was actually kind of scary! Ethan Hawke is quietly becoming the king of modern horror. He has taken on vampires, purgers, and now an ancient creepy guy who eats children! The style and tone of this movie, while sadly humorless, actually provides a few intense moments and some of the best jump-scares that I've witnessed on film in quite a while. There is a little bit of overabundance of Hawke wandering around in the dark (doesn't this dude ever turn on a light!), but other than that, I can officially give this sucker a 'thumbs up'. Good times.

#85-87 World War Z, An American Werewolf in London, The Conjuring

World War Z is great if you love Brad Pitt and Zombies. If you can watch Brad Pitt make hard decisions for 2 hours while zombies are trying to kill him, this movie is for you. There really isn't anything else going on in it. It's also not a horror movie. It's an action movie, just like Arnold used to make in the 80s, except now the terrorists have been replaced with the undead.

American Werewolf in London is, simply put, great. The last 5 minutes of this movie are probably the best ever constructed for the horror/comedy genre. This flick toggles from sexy to scary to hilarious at such a rapid rate that sometimes it's hard to keep up.

The Conjuring is a lot better than I remember it being. I was much more engrossed in the style of it all this time around. The first half of the flick actually inspires terror, because it stays true to the source material and within the bound of what is actually possible when dealing with the supernatural. That makes it genuinely freaky. The end kind of pushes everything too far, but what-r-ya-gonna-do, it's a Hollywood movie, not a documentary.

#83 Buffy the Vampire Slayer and #84 Trick 'R Treat

Before there was Avengers and Ultron or even Dollhouse, there was Buffy. And before there was the groundbreaking television show about Buffy, there was this cheesy movie. Joss Whedon has said that this flick didn't turn out as he'd hoped, but it is still fairly good. Rutger Hauer (Hobo with a Shotgun) and Paul Rubens (Pee-Wee Herman) tooling around together as a couple of powerful but silly vampires is reason enough to watch for me. Throw in Oscar winner Hillary Swank (The Next Karate Kid) doing her best valley girl impression, and that guy from Office Space (Trailer Park Boys) as the principal and we've got ourselves a movie!

Trick R Treat pretty much gets better every time I see it. The interweaving stories cover most of the ground that you want explored in a good Halloween yarn. And they do it in, like, an hour and twenty minutes. That sounds like success to me.

#82 It

Another sweet Stephen King adaptation. This one would probably be my favorite if it didn't kind of peeter out in the last 10 minutes. After 3 hours of awesome, this one just ends with a spider. But along the way we get some of the best page to screen transformation that King's horror work has ever had. The nostalgia factor is high, the stars are all television regulars. Then there's Tim Curry's Pennywise the Dancing Clown. This image still haunts a generation of horror fans.

#81 Mr. Boogedy

Bud Bundy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the guy in the group who kills himself instead of going back to fight It, and a couple of other people take on a ghost in a cloak in this made for The Wonderful World of Disney classic from the 80s. It's pure kid Halloween fun and gives me all the nostalgic feels. The only way to get it is a bootleg copy that comes complete with tracking problems and the counter from the VCR in the corner of the screen. Fabulous! So, good, for real.