31 DAYS OF FRIGHT: What Will be Exhumed This Weekend?

Two years ago the guys at Exhumed Films, a Philadelphia-area horror film group that runs double-features throughout the year, decided to celebrate their 10th anniversary with a 24-hour horror and trash film marathon. Unable to resist the lure of such an event my buddy Bruce and I trekked up for what turned out to be a spectacular 14-film lineup featuring such classics as DEMONS, GATES OF HELL, PIECES and PHANTASM, along with the deadly dull DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN and the surprisingly awesome TEENAGE MOTHER (just released on DVD).

The event turned out to be so well-received that the Exhumed crew did it again last year and Bruce and I ended up recruiting a half-dozen like-minded horror buffs (including THG contributor, author and good pal Bryan Senn who flew in from Seattle for the event!) to commit ourselves for the weekend.

While the lineup was far more mainstream-leaning (ELM STREET, FRIGHT NIGHT, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD) it did showcase the mind-blowing WICKED, WICKED (shown in split screen Duo-Vision) which nearly brought the house down just four films into the weekend.

With two of these events under my belt I sat down last night, took a look at the lineups from previous years and put together my own "dream lineup" for 2009. The only limits I placed on myself were that I had to pick 12 flicks from the list of previous Exhumed screenings, allowing me only two "wild card" entries. I also tried to follow the rhythm of the previous lineups, with a Carpenter flick and a chop-sockey outing leading off and a triple bill of two gore flicks and a "nature run amok" classic closing out the event.

The 2007 and 2008 lists are published below with my 2009 lineup following...

2007
HALLOWEEN
GODZILLA VS THE COSMIC MONSTER
DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK
HELLRAISER
PHANTASM
PIECES
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
BLACULA
BURIAL GROUND
TEENAGE MOTHER
DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN
DEMONS
ALLIGATOR
GATES OF HELL

2008
THE FOG
DESTROY ALL MONSTERS
PHANTASM 2
WICKED WICKED
NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN
THE BOOGEYMAN
FRIGHT NIGHT
DEAD & BURIED
ISLAND OF THE DAMNED (aka WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?)
EQUINOX
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2
FOOD OF THE GODS
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD

2009?
PRINCE OF DARKNESS
INFRA-MAN
THE CONVENT
HORROR EXPRESS
HALLOWEEN III (wild card)
TENEBRAE
BLOODSUCKING FREAKS (wild card)
NIGHT OF THE CREEPS
NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES
GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE
THE WIZARD OF GORE
RE-ANIMATOR
GRIZZLY
ZOMBIE