Day 30- Your Favorite All Time Horror Movie

I'm a purist.

Day 29- Worst Horror Movie

'Don't Go In The Woods' (1981) is inept on every level. I swear that if I gave my cat a camera and a bag of treats she'd come up with something better than this turd about a madman/giant Ewok in the woods. How is it possible then that it was remade in 2010 as a slasher musical and it still manages to be worse than the original? Not cult. Not so bad it's good. Not camp. Just the worst. Both of them!

Day 28- Horror Film You'd Like To See Remade/ Rebooted

Instead of desecrating acknowledged classics why not take a movie where there’s lots of room for improvement and actually help fulfill its promise. Demons is a mid-eighties crap-a-thon but the idea of people trapped in a cinema whilst demonic forces come to life is full of possibilities. Go on Hollywood, give me a call and I'll tell you how to do this thing right.

Day 27-Your Guilty Pleasure Horror Movie

House of 1000 Corpses is a turgid piece of crap that needs flushing away. I can't defend it on any level. But I quite like it.

Day 26- Horror Movie For A Chicken

If you want to see a PG-13 rated movie that has a child lead, no gore, no monsters and yet still manages to be really scary...seek out 'Paperhouse'

Day 25- Favourite Christmas/ Holiday Horror Movie

There's a whole sub-genre of Xmas related horror movies but 'Black Christmas' is the only one you need bother with.

After 'Halloween' I think all the calendar dates have been exploited in one way or another. Except for Pancake Day. I reckon it could work:

Day 24- Horror Movie Character That Describes You

Is there a character that lives in a groundhog day nightmare where he takes on a 30 day horror challenge and then ends up thinking about horror movies in every waking moment to the point where it starts to rot his brain? Because I’d be him.

No? Well, if not I’d be Randy Meeks who knows all the rules but still dies in the sequel.

Day 23- A Great Quote From A Horror Movie

"I'll bet my badge that we haven't seen the last of those weirdies."

Just about every line from Plan 9 is quotable.

As a bonus here's my favourite horror related quote, from Italian director Lucio Fulci:

"I find a lot of what I film repugnant to me, but it has to be done. The scene where the girl vomits out all her intestines and guts was very important - and was insisted upon by my co-writer - as it is the first time we see the evil priest and what he can do."

Day 22 - Best Death Scene

You know the one.

Day 21 - Favourite Horror Franchise.

Phantasm. The law of diminishing returns applies with all horror franchises. A classic film generates sequels which become a brand which becomes merchandising which becomes a tedious array of parodies, rip offs, spin offs, tv series and reboots to the point where the original has no power any more. Phantasm is the exception that proves the rule. It starts off as a load of rubbish (or surreal vision depending on your taste) and stays there for the whole series. It doesn't really matter where you come in it's always going to be the same film: it's not going to make any sense, but you will have a fun time. It's a load of balls but consistently enjoyable.

Day 20 - Favourite Horror Character

You can keep your Freddys and your Jasons and your Michaels and other assorted psychos. They do not understand the poetry of life. Not like Dr. Anton Phibes.

Day 19- best use of gore

Best use of gore. Perhaps that's a category that they should introduce to the Academy Awards now that even the most mainstream of films contain things once considered extreme. Personally I'm no gore hound. I don't have a problem with it when I see it but I don't want to spend my days chasing it down. Nobody used gore better than Cronenberg and most of his films still hold up. Have Videodrome. Long live the new flesh.

Day 18- Favourite Horror Movie Filmed In Black And White

"Black and white takes you kind of far away. Some things are said better in it, some feelings come across better." - David Lynch

Day 17- Favourite 80's Horror

80s horror: slashers, sequels, body horror and bad synths. Not much has dated well. My favourite is still probably Hellraiser 2, just because I can remember chain-smoking my way through it, in those distant days when you could do such a thing in the cinema.

Day 16- Horror Film With A Great Soundtrack

John Carpenter or Goblin? Goblin or John Carpenter? Oh...call it a tie and have both.

In the recent (admittedly brilliant) series about soundtracks on BBC4 there wasn't one mention of John Carpenter. Let's put that right now...the Halloween theme is relentless, disorientating, unforgettable and just plain....evil: 

Goblin's soundtrack for Suspiria wasn't so much created in the studio as boiled up in a coven. Inventive, exciting and at times utterly terrifying in its sonic assault:

 

Day 15 - Favourite Monster Movie

 

The Creature From The Black Lagoon. I love this guy. He's so cool.

Day 14- Favorite Indie Horror Movie

 
Kill List. I know lots of people 'don't get it' and get all worked up about the ending but I think it's expertly pitched and controlled. For me the film is about the violence that dwells just below the surface. Every scene simmers with it. The end just hammers it home (pun intended). Intense, brilliant and filmed on my doorstep in Sheffield which makes it all the more terrifying.

Day 13- Favourite Zombie Movie

Dawn Of The Dead (1978)

I worked in a mall for 10 years. I'd think of this movie every day.

Day 12- Your Most Disturbing Horror Film

After I saw 'Surveillance' I didn't even want the DVD hanging around in the house. I've seen much more extreme films but nothing has got under my skin as much as this. It may not even technically be a 'horror' movie but if true horror comes from other people and what they might do then it absolutley is.

Day 11- Favorite Horror/ Comedy

 
An American Werewolf In London. It's like comfort food to me.