...and A Nightmare on Elm Street (sort of).
So, last Saturday, I over-ambitiously hosted a "Dusk 'til Dawn" (supposed to be 7 pm-7 am) horror film fest, which was supposed to feature about 10-12 guests and somewhere around 10 films, over the course of the 12 hours, give or take...
Somewhere along the line, though, things went wrong.
Two (and a half) guests throughout the night (Jen G, Kris, and my sis Katie, who counts as the half because she's a sibling), mixed with overzealous drinking and incredibly salty snacks ended up with me in bed by 2 am, with a few stragglers around until about (I'm told) 3. Oh well...
The films I did manage to see were John Carpenter's Halloween (a perennial fave), Pumpkinhead (Stan Winston's ode to the creature feature of yore), Return of the Living Dead (zombie-gore-punk classic), and Demons (an Italian take on the living dead genre, and one I watch EVERY October). Things began to get real shaky around the beginning of Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (the terrifying original, not to be confused with the self-parodying sequels), soon after the onset of which I retired for the evening. Kudos to the diehards (Kris, Katie, Robyn) who saw the film out to its conclusion.
A few lessons learned for next year's installment: pace yourself, get lots of sleep the night before, and invite people more than a few days beforehand (and people that actually might show up).
Regardless of the hiccups, I'm looking forward to 2009s edition...
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Did you bump this installment up to "part 7" because you technically watched 4 (and a half?) movies, or because it looked like our countdown needed to pick up some speed?
no - i wanted to leave your two installments as 1 and 2 because you started the series, then i went back and renumbered the horror films i watched in october but posted before the "it's beginning to look a lot like halloween" started, 3,4 and 5, then i went and numbered the ones after your installments 6 and 7 - so confusing, but i added a sidebar on the right to easily access any of the parts of the series thus far.
essentially, i wanted our countdown to pick up speed - hence the renumbering of the earlier unnumbered posts, but at the same time i didn't want to take away from your glory of starting the series. so they are numbered, after your part 1 and 2, chronologically....
oh god, just use the sidebar....
oh, and yes - post more.
my favourite part was jumping on Joe's bed while he was asleep and him mumbling something along the lines of "what? you gotta put the shoes on"
anyways, Demons was fucking incredible. and Nightmare.. well it actually scared me. but if anything that film made me want more. not even dying or freddy i felt. maybe i gotta keep watchin em. anyways with lines like "freddy is gone, mommy killed him" and "she put on that mask and scratched herself, it's like in the movie. we gotta stop the damn movie!" from demons, it was a dope night.
oh and snack were good
i mean the snacks were good
there's another installment monday night at jen g's. be there...
i don't remember anything about anyone jumping on the bed...mad terrifying...
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