Halloween gives us a great opportunity for movie marathons. Genres like vampires, classics, cheesy B-movies, aliens, monsters, etc. are all easily watchable "in the spirit of the holiday season." So, let's plan a movie marathon. Let's say it's for a Saturday night in October, beginning at 6 pm and ending at midnight. You can program anyway you wish, maybe Nosferatu and the Gil Man. Maybe The Menagerie Star Trek ep. Maybe you'll have intermissions inbetween the films where you'll show porn (Yes, I've been to a Halloween movie marathon where our hosts showed skinflicks inbetween the actual flicks). There are even some good, old Doctor Who horror serials you could consider. So, how will you program your six hours?
Well a starter actually would be Forbidden Planet followed by Godzilla, King of the Monsters with the finale ...the original Phantasm.. musical interludes in between..(to referesh one's beer/wine and munchies)
For me it would be Ghostbusters The Blair Witch Project Scream Nightmare Before Elm Street Pyscho Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
I'd go like this: Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars 1 Creature from the Black Lagoon Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars 2 Phantom of the Opera Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars 3 Blade
If I had to plan A Halloween Movie Marathon it would have to be over 3 days and be as follows.. Day 1 Forbidden Planet, Star Trek The Cage, The Day The Earth Stood Still (original) The Birds, Psycho (once again original) Evil Dead, Day 2 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday The 13th, Slither, Scanners, A Nightmare On Elm St, The Burning, A L I E N, Evil dead II. Day 3 The Fly (remake), The Blob (remake) Aliens, Hellraiser, Hr II Hellbound, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Moon Trap, Alien 3, Army of darkness, and top it all off with Freddy vs Jason.
I'd probably do a short one. I'd start off with something light like Addams Family Values, Ghostbusters, or The Nightmare Before Christmas. Next I'd do something dark & sci-fi like Aliens, Species, Star Trek: First Contact, or The Terminator. Then I would close it out with a classic mix of horror & comedy, the MST3K version of "Manos: The Hands of Fate."
I usually like to watche televised movie marathons Yes some are edited but who cares its fun to catch a good one on tv. TCM has a great marathon every year plus you get the bonus of Robert Osbourne hosting the evening films. I always take the last week in October off because of Halloween. Its a weeklong celebration for me. Usually by myself though and I do go to the GF's to watch some films.
It should be mandatory for everyone to watch the original Halloween on Halloween. I'd probably start off with two B&W films. A low-budget cheesy one from the 50's. Then a Universal film. Maybe the Black Cat or a Frankenstein movie. On second thought instead of a low-budgeter maybe the other B&W could be Mario Bava's Black Sunday or Carnival of Souls. Then any Hammer film with Cushing and Lee together. Move on to the Exorcist and the aforementioned Halloween. Finish the night with either the Shining or Carrie. In between play scenes from the Simpson's Treehouse of Horror episodes.
Well, There are so many fun horror films, but I'd make sure these were considered Dawn of the Dead (1978) Re-animator Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness And some Hammer Horror.
I'd definitely start with the movie that I am watching right now... Dora the Explorer: Dora's Halloween. What? In years past, my traditional Halloween movie have been Arsenic and Old Lace and Plan 9 from Outer Space... along with marathon sessions from the Universal Studios Monster Legacy Collections.
Mine (but this isn't the actual Halloween party schedule we have planned - Our party starts at 5:00 and lasts until a little after 1:00).: 6:00 - 7:36: Night of the Living Dead 7:40 - 9:21: John Carpenter's Halloween 9:25 - 10:55: A Nightmare on Elm Street 11:00 - 12:34: Hellraiser
Any list which does not include Creature From the Black Lagoon is, simply, incomplete. 1 - Creature From the Black Lagoon 2 - The Monster of Phantom Lake 3 - The Mole People 4 - Young Frankenstein 5 hours, 59 minutes total.
For Company: Start Light with The Addams Family Go a bit Darker with the Burbs and end with The People Under the Stairs for myself Start off with the Moral Orel episode "Alone" then go to The people under the stairs Next Perfect Blue and end it with the devils rejects
My friends and I are planning to watch the original Dawn of the Dead, follow that up with Trick R' Treat on DVD (I saw it at a screening earlier this year - very good anthology horror film) and then a late night screening of Paranormal Activity closer to Halloween.
When I do a movie marathon, I always try to keep to a certain type and genre. Sometimes I will mix things up a little for sport. My suggestions: Nosferatu (1922) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Dracula (1931) The Wolfman (1941) Frankenstein (1931) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Rebecca (1940) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Psycho (1960) Rear Window (1954) The Birds (1963) The Haunting (1963) Rosemary's Baby (1968) The Exorcist (1973) The Omen (1976) The Amityville Horror (1979) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Halloween (1978) Friday 13th (1980) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Hellraiser (1987) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) The Fly (1958) The Blob (1958) Night of the Living Dead (1968) Alien (1979) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) Sleepy Hollow (1999) Interview with the Vampire (1994) Sweeney Todd (2007) Dawn of the Dead (1978) The Thing (1982) The Blob (1988) The Fly (1986) The Mist (2007) The Shining (1980) The Sixth Sense (1999) Heavenly Creatures (1994) Se7en (1995) Silence of the Lambs (1992) Evil Dead (1981) Evil Dead II (1987) Army of Darkness (1992) Shaun of the Dead (2004) Death Becomes Her (1992) Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) Ghostbusters (1984) Young Frankenstein (1974) Beetle Juice (1988) The Frighteners (1996) And I think a marathon should mean eight to ten hours worth of movies. Six hours is just to short to show much of anything!
Dracula (1931) Psycho (1960) The Birds (1963) The Haunting (1963) The Omen (1976) Alien (1979) Poltergeist (1982) Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) Shaun of the Dead (2004)