Saturday, December 01, 2007

AC Best of Horrorthon 2007

Even though I really don't have time to do this now, I want to get my best-ofs up before Boom Boom starts deluging us with entertainment news as promised. Here we go, short and sweet.

1. Favorite: The Ring. Everything a horror movie should be: truly scary, atmospheric, satisfying.

2. Hidden gem: n/a The good movies I watched are well known to all.

3. Most disturbing: Angel Heart. Psychologically even more disturbing than visually. Yum.

4. Scream Queen and King: Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween and Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead.

5. Worst: Plan 9 From Outer Space. Wow, so incredibly baaaaaad.

6. So bad it's good: The Thing with Two Heads, Plan 9 from Outer Space.

7. Goriest: Slither, and a movie I actually couldn't finish as it was making me sick (and therefore couldn't write up): Mark of the Devil. Perhaps my stomach will toughen up by 10/2008?

8. Most memorable death: Tough call. I'll go with Angel Heart.

9. Best looking monster: Aliens.

10. Scariest: The Ring and Alien.

Thanks so much for inviting me to play this year! I had a great time. I'mnotmarc, I'm flattered that you were concerned by my nipping at your heels. It was an honor even to be in the running against a Horrorthon veteran. Happy December everyone!

5 comments:

DKC said...

You rocked for the newbies AC! Way to represent!

Johnny Sweatpants said...

Yeah, it was fun having you participate this year!

Octopunk said...

Indeed! And a very impressive count for your first go. My first attempt -- and I can only say "attempt" because I didn't write anything -- was in 2003, riding shotgun with JPX as he screened Asian horror movies which were very unknown at the time. I saw maybe six, and wrote about none.

I'mnotMarc's first-ever score was three. And Julie's, too.

Very nice work. Maybe next year you should explore some more unknowns...it's nice to find to find the hidden gems. However, when I say that I must also point out that you get full marks for taking on turkeys like Plan 9. Horrorthon!

Whirlygirl said...

You made us newbies proud AC! I watched 24, but only wrote I think 7, so congrats on watching and writing 25.

AC said...

Thanks guys! The experience was surprisingly addictive. It's fun reading Horrorthon and even more fun when one is participating.

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