So, as far as my records are concerned, it turns out that this year’s Halloween Marathon (which of course I’ll be doing as usual) will actually be my 10th one. Do let me know in comments if you know me well enough to know this isn’t true, but it sounds about right to me.

Incredibly, I have the lists of the movies I watched in all but one of these years. Since I went through this site and stripped out all the journal posts containing those lists some time ago (don’t worry, they’re all around… somewhere), I thought it’d be nice to make a post with all the lists up till now that I unearthed. From this year onward, I’ll make a dedicated post for such things. And this might be my kinda-sorta way of saying there might be more posts here that aren’t just reviews of a given movie.

2001
(no times available on this one)

Valentine
Ginger Snaps
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Manhunter
The Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal
The Exorcist: The Version You’ve Never Seen
Phantasm
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (“only watched half” lol… it was my graduation ceremony the very next day)

2002

00:00 Interview with the Vampire
02:00 Nightmare on Elm Street
03:30 Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
04:50 Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriers
06:20 Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
10:30 Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
11:45 Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
13:25 Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
15:15 Texas Chain Saw Massacre
16:50 What Lies Beneath
19:00 The Silence of the Lambs
21:00 The Shining
23:35 The Exorcist
01:30 (maybe) Panic Room / Urban Ghost Story (no evidence of memory that I watched either of these, but I had updated the rest of the list to reflect what I ended up watching, and didn’t touch these, so I would guess I ended up watching both…)

2003 is missing. This would be more irksome were it not for the fact that I’ve grown used to finding 2003 “missing” from my life lol. Seriously, I couldn’t even tell you if I even did a Halloween marathon that year. If I did, and if I was on the ball, I might have done all the Halloweens as it was the 25th anniversary. I definitely didn’t see Halloween: Resurrection until 2007, however, and since that was around this year, I guess this is unlikely.

2004
(we expand beyond the 31st for the first time, lol…)

Friday 29th October:
2pm Dawn of the Dead [1978] Theatrical Cut w/wo Commentary

Saturday 30th October:
12:40am The Wolf Man
9:30am 28 Days Later…
11:20am The Evil Dead
12:45pm Evil Dead II
2:10pm Army of Darkness
10pm The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
11:20pm The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Sunday 31st October – Hallowe’en
12:50am Friday the 13th (BST Ends)
1:20am Friday the 13th Part 2
2:45am Friday the 13th Part 3 (not in 3D, sadly)
[sleep :-p]
8:50am Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
10:20am Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
12:15pm Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI
1:50pm Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
3:20pm Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
5:15pm Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
6:45pm Jason X
8:20pm Freddy Vs. Jason

2005

30th
Hell Night
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist

31st
The Exorcist
House of 1,000 Corpses
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Amityville Horror [1979]
[Final episode of Afterlife – damn what a great series that was]
The Skeleton Key
Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf
The Amityville Horror [2005]

2006

00:05 “The Perfect Scary Movie” [C4 documentary]
02:10 The Slumber Party Massacre
03:25 Slumber Party Massacre II
04:45 Slumber Party Massacre III
06:40 Boogeyman
12:20 The Omen
15:20 Silent Hill
18:00 The Woods
19:35 Slither
21:10 Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour: Halloween
22:20 “Afterlife”, Saturday’s episode [I actually forgot this was on the schedule two years running… awesome]
23:00 The Ring Two
01:05 Halloween
[this year I actually suggested that the following year I should do a run with just classics/faves, ie no new stuff… which is what I’m finally doing this year lol…]

2007

30th
13:15 Dolls with writer/director commentary
15:00 The Innocents
17:00 The Haunting
19:00 “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!” – yep this was the first time I watched it, at the ripe age of 27 LOL
21:30 Blood Car
23:00 Black Sheep

31st
01:00 The Hills Have Eyes [2006]
02:30 The Hills Have Eyes 2 [2007]
04:15 Resident Evil: Extinction
12:00 Halloween
13:30 Halloween II
16:30 Halloween III: Season of the Witch
20:00 Halloween IV
22:00 Halloween V
23:30 Halloween VI

1st
01:00 Halloween H20
02:30 Halloween: Resurrection
[have just realised: why I did all the Halloweens this year, I don’t know – the 30th anniversary was the following year lol. I think I just couldn’t wait.]

2008
[this was taken from my viewing log, so again no times, and it may be missing repeat views… but possibly not, I was heavily into Second Life this year and spent at least 4 hours doing stuff there]

Teeth
The Strangers
2001 Maniacs
The Devil’s Rejects
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
Return to Sleepaway Camp
Roman
[Rec] [pretty sure I went to bed after this]
Seed
Bloodrayne 2: Deliverence

2009
[the first one I tweeted my way through! that’s where I got the times from too, so they’re approximate. Weirdly I didn’t review any of these. I must’ve been badly out of the habit]

00:15 A Tale of Two Sisters
02:15 Paranormal Activity
04:00 Poltergeist
06:00 The Witch Who Came from the Sea
07:30 Tombs of the Blind Dead
09:10 Poltergeist 2
10:50 Trick R Treat
12:20 Mostly Ghostly
14:00 Return of the Blind Dead
15:40 Poltergeist 3
17:00 Orphan
19:30 The Shining
21:30 The Ghost Galleon
23:30 Halloween
00:50 Halloween 2
02:20 The Uninvited
03:50 Night of the Seagulls

And, as a teaser (and just in case I don’t get round to making a dedicated post…), my 2010 plan. At present this is still dependent on Blu-rays arriving in good time and also how long the Psychoville special is and what time it airs… these will all be Blu-ray except where indicated The first all-HD Halloween marathon, the 10th, and, I’m reckoning, the best…

2010

30th October
3:45pm The Omen
5:45pm The Innocents – was super excited about the Blu-ray of this, but have heard bad things about compatibility particularly with my player… till I’m assured they’ve resolved the issue, I’ve found a 1080p rip…)
7:30pm Psycho
9:30pm The Shining

31st October
Midnight Halloween
1:30am Alien [BST ends]
3am Night of the Living Dead
4:30am The Birds – recorded off ITV HD some months ago. Wish there was a Blu-ray.
6:40am Dawn of the Dead
8:45am Day of the Dead
10:30am The Silence of the Lambs
12:30pm The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
2pm Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
4pm Wolf
6:10pm Bram Stoker’s Dracula [I’ve always considered the 90s Frankenstein, Dracula, and Wolf to be a kind of loose trilogy – was overjoyed to discover the Blu-ray box with all of them in!]
8:30pm “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” – HD, but not the Blu-ray as planned, had to save money somewhere! lol
9pm Psychoville – BBC HD, I’m assuming.
10pm The Exorcist

1st November
Midnight Carrie
1:40am A Nightmare on Elm Street
3:10am Friday the 13th
4:40am The Evil Dead

Tags: geekery, Halloween, horror

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