31 Days of Halloween-2015 Movie Lineup

[Sean]

I try watching at least one horror/ sci-fi flick per day during October (hell, I try EVERY day ).  I will be tracking them here.  What are YOU watching?  What do you think of the stuff I'M watching?  Enjoy!

October 1st:  Son of Frankenstein (1939)
October 2nd:  The Devil Bat (1940)

[Sean]

I try watching at least one horror/ sci-fi flick per day during October (hell, I try EVERY day ).  I will be tracking them here.  What are YOU watching?  What do you think of the stuff I'M watching?  Enjoy!

October 1st:  Son of Frankenstein (1939)
October 2nd:  The Devil Bat (1940)

In The Devil Bat, Lugosi shakes hands with a guy who just rubbed the  lotion on his own neck (driving the Devil Bat to maul him on his neck)-----question... Why didn't the Devil Bat attack Bela's hand?  Lugosi was careful to throw out his jacket after it was "contaminated".  This was a great, low budget flick, IMO.

[Mike...In 3-D!]

I set aside every Sunday evening for me throughout the year (unless something comes up) to catch up on horror movies (some new, some old favorites). I wish I could do one a day in October but it hasn't worked out for me in the past. Tomorrow I have The Editor, Dr. Giggles and Elvira's Movie Macabre (2010): Don't Look in the Basement.

[Mike Scott]

This was a great, low budget flick.

And there's your answer.

[Sean]

I set aside every Sunday evening for me throughout the year (unless something comes up) to catch up on horror movies (some new, some old favorites). I wish I could do one a day in October but it hasn't worked out for me in the past. Tomorrow I have The Editor, Dr. Giggles and Elvira's Movie Macabre (2010): Don't Look in the Basement.

I hear you, Mike.  Full disclosure... I cheat.  If I can't watch a movie 1 day, I'll do a Double-Feature the next day.  I guess what I REALLY wind up doing is watching 31 movies in October-----but I try REAL hard to do at least 1 per day.  Your TRIPLE-Feature tomorrow would cover you for the weekend, in my book!! . Keep telling us what you are viewing throughout the month!

[Sean]

And there's your answer.

. I guess you're right!

[Sean]

October 1st:  Son of Frankenstein (1939)
October 2nd:  The Devil Bat (1940)
October 3rd:  Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

I just realized that's 3 Lugosi flicks in a row.

[Sean]

I set aside every Sunday evening for me throughout the year (unless something comes up) to catch up on horror movies (some new, some old favorites). I wish I could do one a day in October but it hasn't worked out for me in the past. Tomorrow I have The Editor, Dr. Giggles and Elvira's Movie Macabre (2010): Don't Look in the Basement.

We used to view Cheesy Horror double-features every Sunday Night.  We'd order Chinese take-out and watch and review the bad films.  We wrote reviews to about 150 movies.  We called it a "Cheezer Chinese-er Double Feature". One night, Dr. Giggles got rented.  I won't spoil the ending for you.

[Mike Scott]

Got a late start on my 31 movies in 31 days. I'll have to watch 2 today and tomorrow to catch up. Watch this space.

Gonna watch all Universal horror this year.

Today (Oct. 3) I watched FRANKENSTEIN (Blu-Ray) and DRACULA (Spanish).

Oct. 4 - THE BLACK CAT and MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE.

Oct. 5 - THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1929 Blu-Ray w/ commentary)

Oct. 6 - THE OLD DARK HOUSE (Kino)

Oct. 7 - MAN MADE MONSTER (1941)

Oct. 8 - THE INVISIBLE MAN (and docu.)

Oct. 9 - THE MAD GHOUL (1943)

Oct. 10 - THE MUMMY (1932)

Oct. 11 - THE MAD DOCTOR OF MARKET STREET (1942)

Oct. 12 - THE WOLF MAN (1941)

Oct. 13 - THE MUMMY'S HAND

Oct. 14 - SECRET OF THE BLUE ROOM (1933)

Oct. 15 - THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)

Oct. 16 - HOUSE OF HORROR (1946)

Oct. 17 - DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (1936)

Oct. 18 - SON OF DRACULA (1943)

Oct. 19 - SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939)

Oct. 20 - WEREWOLF OF LONDON (1935)

Oct. 21 - THE MAD DOCTOR OF MARKET STREET (1941)

Oct. 22 - FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (1943)

Oct. 23 - THE CAT CREEPS (1946)

Oct. 24 - THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS (1940)

Oct. 25 - TOWER OF LONDON (1939)

Oct. 26 - THE INVISIBLE RAY (1936)

Oct. 27 - THE STRANGE CASE OF DOCTOE Rx (1941)

Oct. 28 - HORROR ISLAND (1941)

Oct. 29 - THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1927)

Oct. 30 - THE MUMMY'S HAND (1940)

Oct. 31 - ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)

              ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN (1951)

              ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1953)

              ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE MUMMY (1955)

[Sean]

Got a late start on my 31 movies in 31 days. I'll have to watch 2 today and tomorrow to catch up. Watch this space.

Gonna watch all Universal horror this year.

Today (Oct. 3) I watched FRANKENSTEIN (Blu-Ray) and DRACULA (Spanish).
Oct. 4 -

Wow, Mike----you're out of the gate in style.  2 gems!!

[Sean]

October 1st:  Son of Frankenstein (1939)
October 2nd:  The Devil Bat (1940)
October 3rd:  Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
October 4th:  Night Monster (1942)

I never saw Night Monster before.  Let me say that I was pleasantly surprised and most entertained.  It is a mysterious, spooky movie with plenty of atmosphere:  a manor home, foggy nights, shadows... Kind of a creepy whodunit.  With Bela Lugosi as a snobby butler----which made me sad . The role was so beneath Bela.  I had no idea Bela was in this-----but now my 1st 4 movies all have Lugosi in them!!

[Sean]

Got a late start on my 31 movies in 31 days. I'll have to watch 2 today and tomorrow to catch up. Watch this space.

Gonna watch all Universal horror this year.

Today (Oct. 3) I watched FRANKENSTEIN (Blu-Ray) and DRACULA (Spanish).

Oct. 4 - THE BLACK CAT and MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE.

Oct. 5 -

Oct. 6 -

Oct. 7 -

Oct. 8 -

Oct. 9 -

Oct. 10 -

Mike, you have "caught up" in style!!!  Nice opening 4 flicks!!

[Mike Scott]

I never saw Night Monster before. 

It's a fun "B". Do you have that 5 movie set? I'm sure I'll end up watching at least one flick from it, this month.

[Sean]

October 1st:  Son of Frankenstein (1939)
October 2nd:  The Devil Bat (1940)
October 3rd:  Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
October 4th:  Night Monster (1942)
October 5th:  Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman (1943)

What the deuce!  It's another Lugosi picture...  Not on purpose, folks... honest.  5 Lugosi movies.  He's been a grave robber, a mad scientist, Dracula, a snobby butler and the Frankenstein monster.  I always disliked Bela as the monster.  Aside from the confusing 'is he mute?' situation, the monster is selectively vision impaired.  He looks silly stomping around with those flailing, uber stiff arms----as if he sees nothing... then he definitively points to a door when Talbot asks him where something is and looks over Talbot's shoulder as Talbot is looking something over.  Just HOW blind is he???  And Bela has the wrong face-shape for the makeup.  And for some reason, the head shape on Bela's monster is angled in the back like the Arizona Cardinal's logo.  It's not all bad, though.  The look Lugosi gives when he's being charged to full power is pure evil.  And the fight scenes are pretty good.  The athletic, leaping Wolfman VS the stiff, brute power of the monster.  2 classic fighting styles, so different from each other.  The monster stand-in looked good in the costume, too.  I liked how everybody completely disrespected Maleva by gratuitously referring to her as a witch right in front of her or when directly addressing her.  Scatter will yell at me if he reads this----but if the wind was right and I downed a 12-pak, I might just try to make an honest woman out of Maleva.  . I always liked the village mobs in these movies.  ALWAYS colorful characters.  And the opening scene at the Talbot Family Crypt is among the best, IMO, of all of the Universal Monster movie scenes. 

[Sean]

It's a fun "B". Do you have that 5 movie set? I'm sure I'll end up watching at least one flick from it, this month.

No, Mike.  Tell me----what are the other 4 pictures in the set?  You put it well, btw---"it's a fun B."