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Jason wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:34 pm

zombie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:33 pm

Jason wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:28 pm

zombie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:22 pm what is in contention?

The top 23 are locked most likely. The rest that are sitting in lost purgatory are (no particular order)

Creepshow
Phantasm 2
Motel Hell
Salem's Lot (1979)
The Monster Squad
Ginger Snaps
An American Werewolf in London
Dawn of the Dead
Return of the Living Dead
Creepshow 2
The Omen

you have ten to squeeze into two remaining spots? that is a herculean task.

I guess I edited in Evil Dead II when you weren't looking. That one is probably gonna be somewhere between 25-27.

zombie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:37 pm

Jason wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:34 pm

zombie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:33 pm

Jason wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:28 pm

zombie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:22 pm what is in contention?

The top 23 are locked most likely. The rest that are sitting in lost purgatory are (no particular order)

Creepshow
Phantasm 2
Motel Hell
Salem's Lot (1979)
The Monster Squad
Ginger Snaps
An American Werewolf in London
Dawn of the Dead
Return of the Living Dead
Creepshow 2
The Omen

you have ten to squeeze into two remaining spots? that is a herculean task.

I guess I edited in Evil Dead II when you weren't looking. That one is probably gonna be somewhere between 25-27.

and i counted wrong anyways. ginger snaps at 25. final decision! you can choose anything else you want for 24, but 25 is locked. sorry.

zombie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:42 pm what is the decade breakdown for the first 23? bet you don't have any post-90s. ginger snaps is looking better and better1

Jason wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:42 pm

zombie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:42 pm what is the decade breakdown for the first 23? bet you don't have any post-90s. ginger snaps is looking better and better1

I'll just post the rough draft in this chat. Lemme go grab it.

zombie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:47 pm nasket case and sleepaway camp? you're a man after my horror fan heart!

i did expect the chain saw to make your ten though. that's interesting.

Jason wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:50 pm

zombie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:47 pm nasket case and sleepaway camp? you're a man after my horror fan heart!

i did expect the chain saw to make your ten though. that's interesting.

I'm sure you can probably guess at least the vast majority of my top ten. I don't think there are very many wild cards in there, maybe the order placement will be more surprising. But yeah, Basket Case and Sleepaway Camp were both locks for the top 25.

If I had just made the list without actually rewatching TCSM for the challenge, I probably would have had it around the top ten, but I am feeling heavily fun and nostalgic at the moment of making the list. So lots of that is incorporated into it. TCSM though, I do maintain is really the ultimate definition of horror as it pertains to the genre.

zombie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:55 pm

Jason wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:50 pm

zombie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:47 pm nasket case and sleepaway camp? you're a man after my horror fan heart!

i did expect the chain saw to make your ten though. that's interesting.

I'm sure you can probably guess at least the vast majority of my top ten. I don't think there are very many wild cards in there, maybe the order placement will be more surprising. But yeah, Basket Case and Sleepaway Camp were both locks for the top 25.

If I had just made the list without actually rewatching TCSM for the challenge, I probably would have had it around the top ten, but I am feeling heavily fun and nostalgic at the moment of making the list. So lots of that is incorporated into it. TCSM though, I do maintain is really the ultimate definition of horror as it pertains to the genre.

yeah, i probably could if i put my mind on it. but i want to see it rather than just speculating over it.

so tcsm is like the "perfect" horror movie, in the foo sense of the word? nice.

Jason wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:57 pm

zombie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:55 pm

Jason wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:50 pm

zombie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:47 pm nasket case and sleepaway camp? you're a man after my horror fan heart!

i did expect the chain saw to make your ten though. that's interesting.

I'm sure you can probably guess at least the vast majority of my top ten. I don't think there are very many wild cards in there, maybe the order placement will be more surprising. But yeah, Basket Case and Sleepaway Camp were both locks for the top 25.

If I had just made the list without actually rewatching TCSM for the challenge, I probably would have had it around the top ten, but I am feeling heavily fun and nostalgic at the moment of making the list. So lots of that is incorporated into it. TCSM though, I do maintain is really the ultimate definition of horror as it pertains to the genre.

yeah, i probably could if i put my mind on it. but i want to see it rather than just speculating over it.

so tcsm is like the "perfect" horror movie, in the foo sense of the word? nice.

Is that what Foo said about it?

That might have planted the seed in my line of thinking regarding that movie. It's always been among the top of my lists, and if a movie is going to be absolutely brutal for the sake of being brutal, it should be as realistic and terrifying as possible. Could be why I didn't totally love the Terrifier flicks. They were kinda silly and stupid fun. Which is nice, but it was a little overly brutal for its silliness. lol.

zombie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:59 pm

Jason wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:57 pm

zombie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:55 pm

Jason wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:50 pm

zombie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:47 pm nasket case and sleepaway camp? you're a man after my horror fan heart!

i did expect the chain saw to make your ten though. that's interesting.

I'm sure you can probably guess at least the vast majority of my top ten. I don't think there are very many wild cards in there, maybe the order placement will be more surprising. But yeah, Basket Case and Sleepaway Camp were both locks for the top 25.

If I had just made the list without actually rewatching TCSM for the challenge, I probably would have had it around the top ten, but I am feeling heavily fun and nostalgic at the moment of making the list. So lots of that is incorporated into it. TCSM though, I do maintain is really the ultimate definition of horror as it pertains to the genre.

yeah, i probably could if i put my mind on it. but i want to see it rather than just speculating over it.

so tcsm is like the "perfect" horror movie, in the foo sense of the word? nice.

Is that what Foo said about it?

That might have planted the seed in my line of thinking regarding that movie. It's always been among the top of my lists, and if a movie is going to be absolutely brutal for the sake of being brutal, it should be as realistic and terrifying as possible. Could be why I didn't totally love the Terrifier flicks. They were kinda silly and stupid fun. Which is nice, but it was a little overly brutal for its silliness. lol.

well no. i'm borrowing his terminology a bit from how i held final chapter as the perfect encapsulation of slasher elements.

zombie wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 12:00 am i did not peer pressure.... but reign will not be pleased.

Jason wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 12:01 am

zombie wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 12:00 am i did not peer pressure.... but reign will not be pleased.

Reign and I have a pretty similar top ten. We both got Exorcist at #2. But nothing pleases Reign. We know this.

zombie wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 12:08 am

Jason wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 12:01 am

zombie wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 12:00 am i did not peer pressure.... but reign will not be pleased.

Reign and I have a pretty similar top ten. We both got Exorcist at #2. But nothing pleases Reign. We know this.

now that we've seen your list, you should just post it up and decide whether or not to change the 24 and 25 later.

zombie wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 12:12 am very 70s and 80s heavy. mostly everyone else has a krampus or a rec or a descent. what is yours gonna be?