Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Get Your Calendars Ready and Head to the Polls!

I've decided to bring the weekly polls back from certain death. This time, when you vote, it'll count for something.

For the last Horror Fest in Greensboro, I'm going to have two "theme" nights. One is dedicated to films of my choosing that we've never seen during a horror fest, like The Stuff, Ginger Snaps, Cemetery Man, Bad Taste, and Phantasm. The other night, "fan favorites", is for you folks. Attendees (and anyone else) is encouraged to narrow down the field of past Horror (and Summer) Fest faves into one concentrated night of sweetness.

Polls will run for a week and a half, and between now and October, I'll include five movies from each fest. You can vote more than once, and the two most popular will move on to the next round and face off against the top two of another week, until we have one kick-ass lineup.

Here, for those keeping score at home, is the field I'm asking you to narrow down:

Ghoulies 2

The Alligator People

The Lost Boys

Feast

The Wicker Man

From Dusk Til Dawn

Friday the 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter

Saw

Slither

Jeepers Creepers 2

Re-Animator

Night of the Living Dead (1990)

Hostel Part II

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Dead & Buried

Night of the Lepus

Black Sheep

Hellraiser

1408

From Beyond

Return to Horror High

The Descent

Planet Terror

The Call of Cthulu

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Meyers

Night of the Living Dead 3-D

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation

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Plan 9 from Outer Space

Blood Car

Teeth

Shark Attack 3: Megalodon

Dead Heat

C.H.U.D.

Fido

Friday the 13th Part 2

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

The Giant Claw

In the Mouth of Madness

Dead Alive

Halloween

Faces of Death

Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn

The Ruins

The Mist

Blade Trinity

Blood Feast

Child’s Play 2

The Paul Lynde Halloween Special

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare

Horror of the Blood Monsters

The Wicker Man (2006)

The Orphanage

Drag Me to Hell

My Bloody Valentine 3-D

Army of Darkness

Alien Apocalypse

Chopping Mall

Terrorvision

Friday the 13th Part 3

The Prowler

Student Bodies

Uncle Sam

Hillbillys in a Haunted House

Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus

Troll 2

Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

Creepshow

Shaun of the Dead

vote early, vote often, and entice anyone you know to vote. We WILL watch the winners on Saturday night**.


If I had my druthers, the following films would certainly play:

Terrorvision
Blood Car
Slither
Shark Attack 3: Megalodon
Hillbillys in a Haunted House
Night of the Lepus
Black Sheep

but it's not up to me this time. I give you the power, so abuse away starting tomorrow!

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I'm also giving strong consideration to an "After Hours" version of Horror Fest, for after 1:30-2 am. We'd be watching much harder-edged-borderline-disturbing stuff, like Martyrs and Italian splatter gorefests. The kind of movies that I know some of you want to see but not everyone would stick around for. Let me know what you think.



* I promised I wouldn't identify it by name for a whole year, but you all know what it is. None of you are voting for it, so don't worry.
**Thursday is Cap'n Howdy's picks, and Friday is reserved for Let the Right One In, Trick R Treat, and any other surprises I find between now and October.

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