Announcing: Blogtober!

Halloween is a pretty big deal for me.

In fact, I just love the fall season in general, especially the month of October.  As such, back in 2014, I created what would become a yearly tradition for me: each year I make a new list of movies, one for each day of October, as well as one each for September 30th and November 1st.  I schedule each movie to a day of the month, and on that day I watch that movie.

Each year's list is different, and sometimes I allow myself some favorites that I've seen, but for the most part the movies are always new to me, or at least I'm sitting down and watching it in completion for the first time.  The only major exception to the rule is the November 1st movie which, every year thus far, has been Nightmare Before Christmas, as a way of laying the Halloween season to rest for the year and allowing it to pass the baton to Christmas.

The reason all this is relevant to the blog is that I'm adding a new wrinkle to the blanket this year: every day that I watch one of the movies on my list, I'll make a blog post detailing my thoughts on the movie that day.  These won't be critical analyses, or even full-on reviews, but rather just my thoughts in the immediate aftermath, whether or not I liked it, things I may have noticed, trivia I have on hand, things like that.  I'll be calling it Blogtober, which is a completely creative and original name that I'm sure no one has ever used before. /sarcasm

As for details on the movies themselves, I most likely won't be revealing the full list on here, just to keep some suspense about what the next day will bring.  I will go ahead and say that not every one of them will be a horror movie.  The criteria for the movies allowed on the list are vague and undefined, even to me.  They tend to have monsters in them or an atmosphere of dread, but sometimes it's just a case of feeling right to me.

Highlights of previous lists include: Hotel Transylvania, Hellraiser, The Crow, Big Trouble in Little China, Spirited Away, and Uzumaki.  Just from that list you can see how varied the selection of movies can be, so hopefully I'll have a little bit of something for everybody.  I'll also be making other, smaller posts here and there about other Halloween-themed things I may be interested in, like horror games and comics, or just more general posts about why Halloween is so special to me.

And before anyone tries to call me out on it, this list is absolutely, 100% inspired by Cinemassacre's Monster Madness, and Blogtober is my tiny contribution to filling the void that left behind.  James Rolf carried the torch for 10 years, and he deserves a rest.

Until next time!

Current Interests:
Listening - The Fratellis: We Need Medicine! (2013)
Playing - Slain: Back From Hell (2016)
Reading - Frankenstein Underground (2015)
Watching - Unsolved Mysteries (1987)