Well, that’s it for this Halloween. Below we’ve got
a complete list of the Halloween Countdown reviews,
as well as links to all other Halloween themed movie
reviews we’ve done in the past. We follow that up
with questions for you readers about this little
event, and if you want similar things in the future.
Halloween Countdown to date
The titles involved in this year’s Halloween
countdown are:
- October 1: Witchcraft
Through The Ages - October 2: The Evil
Dead - October 3: Evil Dead
2: Dead By Dawn - October 4: Army of
Darkness - October 5: Ghostbusters
- October 6: Ghostbusters
2 - October 7: The Little
Shop of Horrors (1960) - October 8: The
Terror - October 9: The
Shining - October 10: Throne of
Blood - October 11: Ringu
- October 12: The
Ring - October 13: The Sixth
Sense - October 14: Signs
- October 15: Sleepy
Hollow - October 16: Neil
Gaiman’s Neverwhere - October 17: Mary
Reilly - October 18: Ginger
Snaps - October 19: Dark
City - October 20: Rocky
Horror Picture Show - October 21: Young
Frankenstein - October 22: Abbott and
Costello Meet Frankenstein - October 23: The
Mummy - October 24: Creature
from the Black Lagoon - October 25: The
Invisible Man - October 26: Freaks
- October 27: Phantom of
the Opera (1929) - October 28: Nosferatu
(1922) - October 29: Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein - October 30: Bram
Stoker’s Dracula - October 31: A complete drive-in type lineup,
including Lonesome
Ghosts, Bag of
Crushed Child, The
Birds, and Halloween.
Other Halloween-type stuff that we reviewed in the
past and, thus,
didn’t include this year includes:
- 12
Monkeys - Alien
- Aliens: The
Director’s
Cut - Alien
3 - Alien:
Resurrection - Apartment
206 - Bubba
Ho-Tep - Cabinet of
Dr. Caligari - Carrie
(2002) - Dr.
Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde - Dracula: The
Legacy
Collection - Edward
Scissorhands, last year’s Halloween movie. - Frankenstein:
The
Legacy Collection - Ginger Snaps
II:
Unleashed - Hellboy
- Incubus
- Little
Shop of Horrors
(1986) - Van
Helsing - Wolfman: The
Legacy
Collection - The
X-Files: Fight The
Future
As always, all of our reviews (with or without a
Halloween theme) can
be found on this
page. Also, we’ve got a new review schedule
available, so that
you can see what we have planned. (We can unveil it
now that we
aren’t trying to hold back any surprises.) You can
find it here.
(I’m maintaining it right now, so you’ll likely see
spontaneous and
regular TV reviews appear on the Bureau before the
schedule, but you
can get some idea of what is coming. Some of the
long-term planning
stuff may change. Much of the “existing product”
stuff, such as
comics, novels, or TV-on-DVD product, may show up
earlier than that
would indicate, since we’re aiming more for deadlines
than anything.
For example, with only three episodes of the first
season of “Land of
the Lost” left to watch, I doubt it’ll take me until
the second week
of November. I may have the Ultimate Spider-Man:
Carnage
review up tonight instead of Tuesday, as well.) I’m
going to try to
follow the Halloween stuff with some lighter stuff
this week, and also
try to get through some of the requests that have
been waiting for
some time.
Finally, a pair of questions for the Bureau 42
readers: Firstly, how
did the double-feature format work for you? (There’s
been some brief
discussion about trying to plan weekly double
features for next
summer, but if the readers don’t care for them,
there’s not much
point.) Let us know if you like the format.
Secondly, what do you
think of the themed events like the Halloween
countdown, and should we
try to do more?
My Feedback
I enjoyed the countdown for Halloween, thanks guys!
It would have been nice to get the list of previously reviewed halloween
movies a little earlier in the month, so I could have had a chance to check
them out before halloween. But, no biggie.
I also liked the fact that the countdown included older movies, as well as
halloween classics.
Thanks again.
Re: My Feedback
I’d like to echo two points.
1. I liked the countdown and daily reviews.
2. I also like that you guys review older movies, both in this countdown and in general.
Keep up the good work!
-cb
I liked it
I enjoyed the daily Halloween reviews and would like to see similar stuff in the future. Thanks for the hard work.
Awesome Job
It was great fun having new reviews every day for October. I have no idea where you guys found all the time to watch all those movies but it was lots of fun. Thanks
I’m not sure what you mean by “double features” but I think it sounds cool too :)
Re: Awesome Job
We found the time by writing a lot of the reviews in
September. As for the “Double Features,” that was the
Halloween night itself, with a couple of short films
before two feature films on the review schedule. I’ve
been tempted to do this once a week next summer, but
wanted to make sure people like the idea. (I’d be putting
up a summer schedule early, probably here,
in case anyone wanted to rewatch the movies in advance.)