Hello! This blog was created to document our experiment in figuring out our favorite horror film. We were inspired by our good friends' ambitious project to determine their favorite film director: http://the-re-view.blogspot.com/ and decided we wanted to do something similar (just on a smaller scale).
We both enjoy watching scary movies, so this presented a fun opportunity to revisit some old favorites as well watch new ones.
For this project, we decided to bracket (March Madness style) 64 horror films against each other. The films were picked from various "Best of" and "Top Horror" lists and then seeded by their IMDB score. In case of a score tie, the film was then seeded by how many lists it was on.
The beauty of battling films is that we can view each film once and then fill out our brackets. The only re-watching should be our back-to-back final two films. Taking this approach we can each follow our own path (should they deviate from each other) and possibly come up with a different final two.
To pick winners neither one of us is applying a point based system (because of general laziness) but instead will pick which movie we liked better and try to focus on a few key things: how scary was it, was the story good, and the mise-en-scène (set design, lighting, space, costume, acting).
We are aiming to watch one movie a week at a minimum, but hopefully we get a battle done each week, so we don't spend over a year getting this finished!
So that's the basic premise and set-up. Our short reviews/opinions on each movie battle to follow (it'll help us remember the earlier films by the time we move on to the second round).
