It's Supposed To Be Primarily A Horror Blog Right?

I've been noticing that lately, I haven't written too much about horror films. This struck me as I was perusing the blogs in my Gamespot.com account and I came across my 50 Favorite Horror Films list that I started back in January of 2007 here: http://www.gamespot.com/users/Saruman1719/blog?page=1

It was quite an undertaking, something I didn't realize immediately. I started off strong, cranking out entries easily. It became a chore after awhile because I had little time after work and school, and I believe it took me about 7 months to reach the conclusion of it. Looking back though, it was a good time and I'm pretty proud of the list and how much I wrote about each film. Call me vain, but I enjoy going back to past things I wrote to get an idea of where my mind was at the time and considering it was 3 1/2 years ago, it is both interesting and amusing to see what I had to say about some films and how I feel now.

The list needs to be heavily revamped. I've been out of the horror film loop for awhile now, really only rewatching favorites, but a lot has changed in 3 1/2 years and I go tell you that #50 and #49 on my old list, IT and Candyman respectively, will make no appearance on a new list. The first half of IT was masterful, but it's garbage in the second half, thus making it an average film. Candyman...it's good, but #49 good?...as detailed and thoroughly worked on my list was, I don't know what I was thinking.

The question is: How do I go about remaking this? I figure my old list will serve as a rough draft of sorts. I always know what my top 10 is, so that's another base to build upon.

50 films was too constrictive and I don't think it let the readers see some of the more intriguing selections. I thought the #50-#30-ish range of my list was more interesting because it had some of the less obvious films. So I think this time, I'll go a little crazy and double the number, ranking my favorite 100 Horror Films. When I sat down to list all possible contenders, I came up with 200 films, so cutting it in half was the closest I could get without driving myself nuts. 100 seems like a lot, but when you've seen hundreds upon hundreds like myself, it is simply too hard to cut it down further and be happy about it.

The last thing I have to think about is how to deal with the mainstays of the prior list that will no doubt make reappearanes on the updated list. Should I recycle my old entries or rewrite them with a different perspective of almost 4 years later at the ripe old age of 25? Just typing that sentence, I'm definitely rewriting them, haha.

It's going to be a huge task again, but I'm going to try to stick with it. Not short how much time I'll spend yapping about each film, but I think I'll keep the quote feature of the previous list, maybe add a clip of my favorite scene if it is on YouTube, or maybe if the film has an exceptional soundtrack, a music clip or something...or both. I'll have to give it some thought because I don't want to get burnt out on this again.