Another ten days of craze.
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My, my, where have the days gone?
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I’m still catching up on the first few days of the month. So, here we go.
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So begins my quest to watch a horror movie every day during the month of October. I am utterly serious about it this year, and do not intend to miss one day. In fact, my goal is to have watched more than 31 films by Halloween night. Impossible? Perhaps. An enormous waste of time? Most definitely.

One thing that has happened the last two years I’ve tried this crazy undertaking is that sometime around the 14th or so I’ve found myself faced with a film-watching dilemma and have had no guidelines to help me through it. More than once my Darl has asked me, “Will this count?” forcing me to admit that I have no real rules and to feel a fraud. No so this year!

The Ground Rules
1. I must watch one film every day. A day without a horror film will effectively end the experiment.

2. The film must be well within the “horror” genre - no mystery, no suspense, no chicks in prison. “Thrillers” are marginally acceptable, but must have a body count of at least two.

3. Mystery Science Theater 3000 films are acceptable, but again, the film must fall within the horror genre. Just having Mike/Joel and the Bots along does not automatically qualify a film. The same goes for other hosted shows, like Svengoolie and Commander USA.

4. I must write a capsule review for each film and post it here. I will even use a silly rating system. Not only does the audience at home get to play along, but the reviews fill up the journal I have to keep for my Art class and I get to prove to myself that I can write better than Richard Roeper. Of course, who can’t?

5. A film started before midnight but ending after the calendar has turned to the next day counts for the day on which the film started. That’s fair, isn’t it?

6. Watching a film PornStyle™ - that is to say fast forwarding through the slow stuff to get to the good bits - is acceptable IF I have seen the film before in its entirety, at regular speed. However, this can only be used three times during the month.

7. No repeating a film during the month unless I absolutely have to.

With that, let’s get to the first three days of Madness!
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The ninth month of the year has come and gone again, with lightning speed and cracking leaves. I spent most of it studying and walking and cleaning up poop. But, like most of life, there have been unexpected turns and flowing creamy centers. So grab a marshmallow and join me on a trip to My September.
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