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Cinemassacre's Monster Madness VII (2013): "Sequel-A-Thon 2"

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Every year, the Angry Video Game Nerd's James Rolfe does a series of horror movie video-reviews in October called "Monster Madness." This is his seventh consecutive year doing so, and he's going to be reviewing five horror movies and the sequels they spawned. Unlike last year, where he only did a new review every other day because of commitments to the AVGN movie, it seems like this year he's back to doing a review a day -- thirty-one reviews in total!

Which franchises will he do? It's always a surprise, but the promo video below seems to imply the Exorcist, The Birds, and Psycho movies might be in the running. Who knows though!

Watch the promo video here! James looks completely in his element and the video could not have made me more excited for this year.

This year's Monster Madness videos:

  1. The Mummy (1932)
  2. The Mummy's Hand (1940)
  3. The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
  4. The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
  5. The Mummy's Curse (1944)
  6. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
  7. The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
  8. The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
  9. Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
  10. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
  11. Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1973)
  12. Gamera (1965)
  13. Gamera vs Barugon (1966)
  14. Gamera vs Gyaos (1967)
  15. Gamera vs Viras (1968)
  16. Gamera vs Guiron (1969)
  17. Gamera vs Jiger (1970)
  18. Gamera vs Zigra (1971)
  19. Gamera Next Gen
  20. Alien (1979)
  21. Aliens (1986)
  22. Alien 3(1992)
  23. Alien Resurrection (1997)
  24. Alien vs. Predator (2004)
  25. Alien vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)
  26. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
  27. Day of the Dead (1985)
  28. Land of the Dead (2005)
  29. Diary of the Dead (2007)
  30. Survival of the Dead (2010)
  31. Night of the Living Dead (1968) FULL COMMENTARY
Previous Monster Madness NeoGAF threads:

 
I wish he would do another one with extremely trashy films.

"From hell it came, ...from hell what came?" Gets me every time.
 
Odrion said:
Always his best work, always excited for this time of year.

God bless Rolfe.
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The promo made it look like he's really fired up for it too. After I was done watching it I said "James is back!"

(His last AVGN review was really good too, but yeah, his MM reviews are always top-notch.) I'm ecstatic he's doing thirty one reviews again this year.
 
Fuck yes.

Monster Madness >>>>>> AVGN. James Rolfe seems like such a cooler guy than the character he plays.
 
So who wants to try and guess what the series will be this year? They'd have to have around 6 movies per, on average. Last time it was Frankenstein, Dracula, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Halloween.

If I had to bet, I'd say Friday the 13th, Hellraiser, Alien, and The Exorcist are likely candidates. Maybe he'll surprise us and do Paranormal Activity or Saw, too.
 
Andrex said:
So who wants to try and guess what the series will be this year? They'd have to have around 6 movies per, on average. Last time it was Frankenstein, Dracula, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Halloween.

If I had to bet, I'd say Friday the 13th, Hellraiser, Alien, and The Exorcist are likely candidates. Maybe he'll surprise us and do Paranormal Activity or Saw, too.
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If he does Alien then I wonder if he will put Prometheus in there too.
 
Has he done Scream yet? Scream would be nice.
 
This is the reason I look forward to October each year, glad that he is doing a video for each day again this year :D
 
Awesome! always fun to watch a new one every day throughout the month.

Hopefully he packs in small details and production notes from the series he's about to cover instead of quick 1 minute plot descriptions :D

Predictions go to Hellraiser, Prophecy, Children of the Corn, Leprechaun and Omen (or Exorcist) :D
 
BatDan said:
I don't think that will happen. He said he's going to cover 5 franchises, and Friday the 13th would take up a third of October.
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I hope it does, considering he's done the other two big ones (Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street.) Plus he's done two movies in one review sometimes before.

Besides, even if it does take up a third of October, that leaves room for smaller horror series that only have two or three sequels.
 
Sorry there Andrex, didn't see you created this thread about Monster Madness this year. Ignore the one I created today then, but hey, nice |OT| buddy!
 
Monster Madness is one of my favorite things about the Halloween season, can't wait to check these out as the days progress.
 
October time! Great episode. The Mummy is quite an interesting subject for the variety of reasons that James mentioned in the video; it being a mostly original work, the original movie never received a direct sequel, the relationship with the Dracula movie, and the original Mummy looking quite different from the popular image for most of the movie. Interestingly enough, the director for this movie (Karl Freund) apparently later went on to do the cinematography for I Love Lucy, persuaded to do it by Desi Arnaz no less.
 
Noisepurge said:
Shorter than the first but its fun to know the little tidbits of these movies :D
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It was probably shorter due to the movie covering a lot of the same ground story-wise. It was, at its core, an action-comedy semi-remake of the original, with the Ihmotep role split between Kharis and the Priest. I'm glad that he managed to fit in a mention of the 1999 movie, since it too was an action-comedy Indiana Jones-style remake. :)
 
Zero-Crescent said:
It was probably shorter due to the movie covering a lot of the same ground story-wise. It was, at its core, an action-comedy semi-remake of the original, with the Ihmotep role split between Kharis and the Priest. I'm glad that he managed to fit in a mention of the 1999 movie, since it too was an action-comedy Indiana Jones-style remake. :)
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yup, and as the movie itself was about an hour long, not much to tell :D

Next episode is up, The Mummy's Tomb
 
Heh, he isn't kidding about the short runtimes of these later Mummy movies. The Mummy's Tomb is only 61 minutes, and 10 minutes of that is recap footage. In fact, when you add up the runtimes of all four Kharis Mummy movies, it comes out to 251 minutes (~4 hours) total, the same runtime as "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - Extended Edition."
 
Noisepurge said:
yeah bring on the Leprechaun sequels after Mummies! :D
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This is seriously my favorite part of Halloween each year. No joke! I've learned so much, been introduced to so many awesome movies, and it's really gotten to love the month of October and Halloween in general.
 
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Guessing he's gonna do the Hammer Frankenstein movies now to finish off the Frankenstein reviews he did in the original Sequel-a-thon. I'm somewhat let down, was hoping he'd do more modern franchise (and he's done a bunch of Frankenstein movies before.)
 
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