Six Years of Exhumed 24 Hour Horrorthons... And Counting

I always love when a weekend hits pretty much all of my interests in one fell, 48 hour swoop. Though I was happy to spend yesterday throwing back cups of chowder and chatting with old friends at Long Beach Island's annual Chowderfest, Friday night definitely got the festivities started on a particularly high note.

Not only did I get to try some very good barbecue at a local joint I wasn't familiar with (watch The Hungover Gourmet for a full review), a bunch of pals and I got to see Italian prog rock and horror soundtrack maestros Goblin during their first ever North American tour. There's nothing quite like hearing the thundering scores from some of your favorite horror movies come to life – and split your eardrums in the process. (If you missed them, shame on you. But you get another chance as they're making another trip to the States later this year.)

During the course of the evening the topic occasionally turned towards what horror films we'd been watching or were planning on watching during the Halloween season and that topic inevitably led to talk of Exhumed Films 24 Hour Horrorthons both past and future. (Speaking of future, the image above is the mockup of the shirt for this year's even by Burneyart.) At one point, Cinema Arcana editor Bruce Holecheck remarked what a really staggering amount of stuff the two of us had seen over the course of the six marathons we had attended.

I did some quick math in my head and calculated it had been approximately 84 flicks (14 film per year average x six years) but I felt like I needed to dig out my lists and see exactly how many films we're talking. Plus, for the life of me, I couldn't remember 90% of what played last year.

So here's a running tally of what features have been screened at the first six Exhumed Films 24 Hour Horrorthons...

2007

1. HALLOWEEN

2. GODZILLA VS THE COSMIC MONSTER

3. DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK

4. HELLRAISER

5. PHANTASM

6. PIECES

7. AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON

8. BLACULA

9. BURIAL GROUND

10. TEENAGE MOTHER

11. DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN

12. DEMONS

13. ALLIGATOR

14. GATES OF HELL

2008

15. THE FOG

16. DESTROY ALL MONSTERS

17. PHANTASM 2

18. WICKED WICKED

19. NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

20. THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN

21. THE BOOGEYMAN

22. FRIGHT NIGHT

23. DEAD & BURIED

24. ISLAND OF THE DAMNED (aka WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?)

25. EQUINOX

26. TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2

27. FOOD OF THE GODS

28. RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD

2009

29. CREEPSHOW

30. GODZILLA ON MONSTER ISLAND

31. THE FLY (Cronenberg)

32. THE OBLONG BOX

33. FRIDAY THE 13TH PART IV

34. RAW FORCE

35. THE NEXT VICTIM

36. CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD

37. HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD

38. TRAUMA

39. LADY TERMINATOR

40. THE CHILDREN

41. PIRANHA

42. RE-ANIMATOR

2010

43. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART 3

44. MIGHTY PEKING MAN

45. THE VAULT OF HORROR

46. IT LIVES AGAIN

47. DAWN OF THE DEAD (Romero)

48. THE DEADLY SPAWN

49. PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE

50. FIVE ELEMENTS NINJAS

51. THE FUNHOUSE

52. THE HOWLING

53. BOARDINGHOUSE

54. FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2

55. BUG

56. HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY

2011

57. PSYCHOMANIA

58. RODAN

59. FRIGHTMARE

60. HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER

61. THE DEAD

62. TRICK OR TREAT

63. NIGHT WARNING

64. FRANKENHOOKER

65. DR BLACK, MR HYDE

66. LEGEND OF THE WOLF WOMAN

67. BLOOD DINER

68. THE BURNING

69. MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE

70. MEET THE FEEBLES

2012

71. THE GATE

72. Q

73. THE DRILLER KILLER

74. XTRO

75. HALLOWEEN III

76. SUSPIRIA

77. CHUD

78. NIGHT OF A THOUSAND CATS

79. VAMPIRES NIGHT ORGY

80. THE HIDDEN

81. LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND THE MONSTERS

82. SON OF BLOB

83. INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN

84. HUMONGOUS

85. DR. BUTCHER, MD