Horrorthon

Cactus Col

Was at most of the horrorthon last year, and had a great time.

Anyway, here's the line up for anyone thinking of going this year.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 26th

20.30 SAW 3 (Opening Film, U.K. / Irish Premiere) 35mm print & THE FAIRIES OF BLACKHEATH WOOD (New 4 minute Irish short)

22.30 SNUFF MOVIE (Irish Premiere) 35mm print


FRIDAY OCTOBER 27th



14.00 FRIDAY THE 13th PART 2 (25th anniversary / 35mm print) (1981)

15.45 PET SEMATARY (1989) 35mm print

18.00 FROSTBITE (Director Anders Banke Q&A) 35mm print

20.00 "MASTERS OF HORROR"

John Landis's DEER WOMAN
Tobe Hooper's DAMNED THING (Premiere)
John Carpenter's PRO-LIFE (Premiere T.B.C.)

23.30 DEMONS (Director Lamberto Bava introduction) (1985 35mm print)



SATURDAY OCTOBER 28th



13.00 LIE STILL

14.40 DARKLANDS (Director Julian Richards introduction / Director's Cut : World Premiere)

16.20 THE LOST (2005) (Irish Premiere) 35mm print & FINAL JOURNEY (New 3 minute Irish short)

19.00 THE TORTURER (Director Lamberto Bava introduction) (2006)

21.00 "MASTERS OF HORROR"

John Landis's FAMILY (Premiere)
Dario Argento's PELTS (Premiere)

20.45 CARRIE (30th anniversary Outdoor Screening / Temple Bar Meeting House Sq.) 35mm

23.30 GRIZZLY (30th anniversary) 35mm print



SUNDAY OCTOBER 29th



11.00 BAVA ON BAVA (Public Talk with Lamberto Bava)

13.00 COUNTESS DRACULA (35th anniversary screening / 35mm print) (1971)

14.45 "MASTERS OF HORROR"

Brad Anderson's SOUNDS LIKE (Premiere)
Takashi Miike's IMPRINT

17.00 THE HOST (Irish Premiere) 35mm print

19.20 SURPRISE FILM (Irish Premiere)

21.00 PAN'S LABYRINTH (Irish Premiere) 35mm print

21.00 AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (25th anniversary Outdoor Screening / Temple Bar Meeting House Sq.)

23.15 CRUEL JAWS



MONDAY OCTOBER 30th



13.00 GOING TO PIECES : THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SLASHER FILM (Premiere / Introduction by Producer Rachel Belofsky) & BAN THE SADIST VIDEOS PART 2

15.40 BEHIND THE MASK : THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON (Irish Premiere)

17.20 THE DEVIL RIDES OUT (35mm print)

19.00 CELLO (U.K. / Irish Premiere)

20.50 POLTERGEIST (70mm Print / Closing Film)

spooky donkey

Wow I wouldent mind taking in Pan`s laybrinth, I asume that its on in the IFC. ALso how do the ticket sales work? As ive never been and always wanted to make one of em.

djkeogh

Looks like the Schedule has changed and a few flicks I was looking forward to are now gone. The list can be found here http://www.horrorthon.com/

here's a quick summary of the changes.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 26th

20.30 SAW 3 has been changed for THE HOST

SUNDAY OCTOBER 29th

17.00 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD replacing the Host which is Moved to the opening film

djkeogh

Personally I'm looking forward to Pan's Labyrinth, Demons, Poltergeist and i'm off to research some of the other ones. I missed out on being there last year but hopefully will be able to make it this year.

lodgepole

I've been going for a long time, but have missed the last two years (living abroad). This line up is quite excellent although there's a notable lack of a really good bad zombie or cannibal movie. Grizzly does sound good though.

Time to dig out the fudge recipe again.


I do want to see them, but doesn't the screening of Masters of Horror seem a bit cheap? Based on past experience I assume they'll be projecting the DVD's... Will these double bills be full price tickets?

Regardless, we're planning on getting full festival tickets and catching it all this year.

monkeyfudge

I'm really looking forward to seeing Demons on the big screen... I've loved that film since I was a little kid.

And Lamberto Bava is going to be there too... amazing!

mike65

11 am for Lamberto Bava interview? Gorepups need to be up early!

Mike.

calliopeia

Have gone for the last 2 years. Loved the first year I went, hated last year, way to many TALKERS!!! There were maybe 2 movies last year I was aloud to enjoy, just because people just would not shut up! Will not be paying for the whole weekend this time, it felt like a waste of money last year!!!

lodgepole

Talking during which movies? There'll be talking and general hooting during quite a few films this year. The horrorthon is the one cinema related event that I fully encourage audience participation in.

I'll never forget getting a dirty look during Dario Argento's Sleepless a few years ago because we were laughing too hard. You'd swear there wasn't a midget gouging a woman's face out with a flute on screen...

I think only three days this year. And possibly Poltergeist as well. The line up isn't as good as it has been in the past, there isn't anything that provocative showing. The shark movie and Grizzly better make up for the appalling lack of cannibal movie this year.

Hugh Hefner

Just bought a 5 Day Pass today. This better be good.

I really like the look of BEHIND THE MASK: THE RISE OF LESLIE VERNON. The trailer was hilarious.

calliopeia

Lodgepole wrote:

Talking during which movies? There'll be talking and general hooting during quite a few films this year. The horrorthon is the one cinema related event that I fully encourage audience participation in.

I'll never forget getting a dirty look during Dario Argento's Sleepless a few years ago because we were laughing too hard. You'd swear there wasn't a midget gouging a woman's face out with a flute on screen...

I think only three days this year. And possibly Poltergeist as well. The line up isn't as good as it has been in the past, there isn't anything that provocative showing. The shark movie and Grizzly better make up for the appalling lack of cannibal movie this year.

I'm not talking about, laughing and a word with someone or general hooting. I had the misfortune of having beside me and behind me people having full blown conversations during movies. And not about the movies!!!

monkeyfudge

Hugh Hefner wrote:

Just bought a 5 Day Pass today. This better be good.

I got the €5 cheaper 4 day pass myself... annoying.. but I'll be out of the country for the first evening.

I'll have to keep an eye out for you.

Hugh Hefner

Well I can't imagine their being very many people with 4/5 day passes so once you see who else is at every single screening it will then only be a matter of picking out the throng of blonde, breast-enlarged centrefolds and the grey haired man in their midst.

Hugh Hefner

Just wondering if anyone had any guesses as to what the Surprise Film this year is going to be. I suppose it could be Saw III or The Grudge 2 but I really hope not. What other anticipated horrors are being released soon?

Is the Surprise Film usually an old film or a new release?

monkeyfudge

Hugh Hefner wrote:

Just wondering if anyone had any guesses as to what the Surprise Film this year is going to be. I suppose it could be Saw III or The Grudge 2 but I really hope not. What other anticipated horrors are being released soon?

Well Saw 3 goes on general release on Friday... so I really hope it's not that.

lodgepole

Hugh Hefner wrote:

Just wondering if anyone had any guesses as to what the Surprise Film this year is going to be. I suppose it could be Saw III or The Grudge 2 but I really hope not. What other anticipated horrors are being released soon?

Is the Surprise Film usually an old film or a new release?

It's always a new release. Saw III was on the first schedule they released so I doubt they would remove it only to have it as the surprise film. I've never guessed the film... Sometimes it's been good, sometimes bad... If it wasn't part of my weekend ticket I wouldn't be taking the chance.

Hugh Hefner

monkeyfudge wrote:

Well Saw 3 goes on general release on Friday... so I really hope it's not that.

Precisely.


Does anyone remember what it was last year? Or other years?

lodgepole

Idle Hands, The Others, The Cell and some ****e about a boat are the ones I can remember. I really enjoyed the first two, The Cell was decent and I didn't see the boat one.

monkeyfudge

Oh dear... I hate all the films you've named.

Cactus Col

Last year it was .... the brothers grim

monkeyfudge

Cactus Col wrote:

Last year it was .... the brothers grim

Oh dear. The only good thing about that film was how nice Monica Belluci looked.

azezil

Got a bunch of tickets, so far seen; The Host, Frost Biten and Demons.

All satirical so far, hoping tomorrows helping of 'The Lost' will be better, an actual horror for this... horrorton I've paid so much for :rolleyes:

monkeyfudge

I wasn't too crazy about Frostbite... it was trying too hard to be an American style film without any cultural identity of it's own.

I thought John Carpenter's Pro Life was very good and an excellent return to form for him... lets hope he can start making proper features like this again.

And of course I absolutely loved seeing Demons on the big screen... the quality of the print was excellent as well... Friday the 13th Part 2 was in bits.

lodgepole

Frostbite was a bit rubbish alright. My favourite of the day (besides Demons) was The Deer Woman. Friday the 13th Part 2 was in tatters alright.

Hugh Hefner

monkeyfudge wrote:

Friday the 13th Part 2 was in bits.

Very true. It really got in the way of the silent parts. But it was kinda interesting to a print as beaten up as that.

By the way, I think you were sitting in-front-of-me-and-to-the-right in Demons. I recognised your voice from the podcasts, heh.


Anyway, I thought demons was great. The black pimp was the best character ever and it was really a cool movie to see at 11:30. I think I'll get it on DVD (if I can find it).

My favourite of the festival so far has been Snuff-Movie. I thought it was really, really good (as a horror film). It was a pity that the audience was kinda small.

monkeyfudge

Ha... I didn't realise I was talking so much during the film for you to recognise my voice. I brought my Demons DVD in today to get Bava to sign it... but never got the chance.

Oh dear lord... The Torturer was pretty terrible wasn't it? Not a patch on demons.

That welsh film was pretty bad too. The Lost was enjoyable enough.. but it really wasn't a horror film... It's like showing a film like Reservoir Dogs at a horror festival.

The two Master of Horror films were really good again... loved Family particularly and I'm looking forward to Imprint now.

Grizzly was good fun... but I completely conked out towards the end only to be awoken by the sound of the bear been blown up just before the end titles.

I appreciated what Lie Still was trying to do... but it just didn't really work and wasn't really scary at all. I loved how it was shot though, very low lighting through out... although looking at a how film in that light it is very depressing.

lodgepole

The Torturer was death... Not even Bava could watch it. I enjoyed The Lost, and the two Masters of Horror were very good. Grizzly was better than I expected, the description of the maimed kid towards the end was amazing.

Slept in this morning, so i'm going to have to skip Countess Dracula. It should be qualty all the way through until Cruel Jaws.

monkeyfudge

Lodgepole wrote:

Slept in this morning, so i'm going to have to skip Countess Dracula. It should be qualty all the way through until Cruel Jaws.

Same here. I think I've seen it in the past anyway... And for me hammer movies will always be for watching at about 3am on ITV.

Hugh Hefner

Chrsit, The Torturer was bad. It looked like an Italian soap opera. I blanked out for about 2 minutes a few times.

Lie Still was alright but it didn't have much momentum. I thought it was cool how the landlord in Lie Still was also the newspaper editor in Darklands.

Darklands itself was... good in parts but the films it was "borrowing" from were just so obvious (e.g. the bearded priest - The Omen). I think it's the only film, so far, not to get an applause at the end.

monkeyfudge wrote:

The Lost was enjoyable enough.. but it really wasn't a horror film... It's like showing a film like Reservoir Dogs at a horror festival.

I really, really liked The Lost but I agree with you. I certainly found myself about two thirds in thinking, "Huh, there hasn't really been much horror in this, has there?"

I enjoyed The Masters Of Horror episodes too. I love that this season they seem to have about two reletively famous actors in each epiosde. People like Ted Raimi, John Saxon, Matt Keeslar, George Wendt (love him) and even Ron Perlman!
I think that the epiosdes have really hit the ground running in the festival. They fit in perfectly.

I'm debating whether to sit through Imprint today. See, I need a break to get some air, eat, etc. and I've already seen Imprint. However, I really want to see people's reactions to what goes on in the episode. Hmmm... I think I'll stay.

I skipped Grizzly to get sleep for today but I'm regretting it now as I think I would have liked it a lot.

Skipping Countess Dracula today (again for sleep). Looking for ward to Cruel Jaws, the surprise film and, of course, Pan's Labyrinth(!). Oh, and I undertake that if I don't catch a MoH t-shirt today, I will kill myself. I mean, c'mon, the mod. of the juggling forum should at least be able to catch a t-shirt for **** sake.

monkeyfudge

Ha... I've gotten 2 DVDs so far. One from the raffle and from when they were throwing them out... I didn't even try and grab for it... it just landed in my lap.

Cruel Jaws was absolutely outstanding... my face hurts from laughing so much.. I'm definitely going to have to pick up a copy on DVD.

The surprise film was See No Evil and it was an absolutely cliched teen slasher flick which was vehicle for some wrestler who reminded me of Thor Johnson from the old Ed Wood films. It was pretty terrible.

Pan's Labryinth was brilliant though... I really enjoyed that one and it's definitely the best film of the festival for me.

Imprint was a lot of fun too.... Billy Drago's over acting was very funny to watch... two girls sitting next to me had to get up and walk out during it though.

Hugh Hefner

monkeyfudge wrote:

Cruel Jaws was absolutely outstanding... my face hurts from laughing so much.. I'm definitely going to have to pick up a copy on DVD.

Your face hurts, my throat hurts, fun was had by all. The three guys next to me were the "Hogan! Hogan! Hogan!" guys so I simply had to join in with, "They're gonna break her legs!"

monkeyfudge

"I'll rip his balls off!"

ObeyGiant

I'm feeling so sick of crisps and chocolate now. Could they not hand out some apples or something?

Fell asleep during Night of the Living Dead, but then... I always do. I mostly wanted to make sure I had a good seat for the surprise movie. Oh dear.

I loved the culture clash in the audience for Pan's Labyrinth. The horrorthon kids were whooping it up and clapping at the beginning. The standard IFI audience were stoic and reverent.

My only loot so far: Scary Movie 4. Jesus.

Hugh Hefner

I couldn't find my glasses case after Cruel Jaws and was searching forever. Everyone had left the screen and Edward King and the others had already come in to clean.
Suddenly I found my case and then a guy came to me and said, "Here, the last punter out gets a free DVD." It was Scary Movie 4 too but I haven't seen 4 so I was happy.

monkeyfudge

Well it's all over.

I was pleasantly surprised by Behind the Mask... I really wasn't expecting much, but it turned out to be great.

Cello was pretty poor. Very predictable outcome and it had all your typical Asian horror tricks thrown in... but none of them really worked here.

It was brilliant to see Poltergeist on the big screen though... It really is a great film and it's aged excellently. I loved that I was able to spot lots of little details that I'd never noticed before on a TV screen... Haha... such as the huge hickey on the sisters neck when she got out of her boyfriends car towards the end.

Should be great next year if they can get Dario Argento along like they promised.

lodgepole

Cruel Jaws and Grizzly were fine and got the desired laughs (I stayed beyond my 15 minute testing period) but there's really no substitute for a few mud covered cannibals. That said, there really aren't any decent cannibal movies left to show.

Pan's Labyrinth was very good, the violence was surprisingly vicious. Particularly the face being beaten in towards the start. I did think that neither storyline really took off as much as they should because there was a great war movie and a great fairytale in there. It was beautifully filmed. The budget was supposedly between five and seven million, it was money very well spent.

All I managed were a few Masters of Horror t-shirts and a copy of Mansion of the Living Dead (starring Mamie Kaplan of Lillian, The Perverted Virgin). My housemate got a nice Friday the 13th Model Set though.

NunianVonFuch

Hey guys, unfortunately I didn't get any of the prizes or freebies at the fest this year but still enjoyed it all the same! Apparently there was a raffle on too? Prizes are on the horrorthon.com website. Didn't hear one word bout that all weekend!

Anyway, what were your fave flicks from the fest this year?
I saw The Host, Masters of Horror 1&3 and the Surprise Movie.

I'd say Tobe Hooper's The Damned Thing was my favourite for serious scares. Scared the hell outta me! :eek: Pro-Life came close in the scare stakes but Deer Woman was most craic.

See no Evil though was a terrible choice for the surprise movie, but at least it was surprising! I didn't believe we'd actually be subjected to Kane's debut, but at least the speel about the director's previous porn movies was a good laugh - "And now from the director of Between the Cheeks, New Age Hookers 2, New Age Hookers 5, The Devil In Miss Jones 3: Inferno" etc. Very funny, really didn't know what to expect.

Ye mentioned Brothers Grimm which was 2005, all right and came out a week after but in 2004 it was The Machinist. This was least surprising of all as the night before it was played by mistake! So my theory is that the less of a surprise it is the better the quality.

Really curious as to what 2003's Surprise was, as that was my first year and I avoided it+never found out what it was!

Also Imprint - WTF? First 20 mins ok tolerable. Then the torture which was nasty all right but just went on too long! I was waiting for the torturer to start singing "this little piggie went to the market" but at least we got "Rock-a-bye baby" at the end. Somewhere round the last 15 minutes it just crossed the line into farce and everyone laughed their way through the rest of it. Maybe the only audience to do so? :cool:

monkeyfudge

NunianVonFuch wrote:

Also Imprint - WTF? First 20 mins ok tolerable. Then the torture which was nasty all right but just went on too long! I was waiting for the torturer to start singing "this little piggie went to the market" but at least we got "Rock-a-bye baby" at the end. Somewhere round the last 15 minutes it just crossed the line into farce and everyone laughed their way through the rest of it. Maybe the only audience to do so? :cool:

Ha.. have you seen any of Takashi Miike's films in the past? They always have a fairly perverse sense of humour in them. He certainly showed Bava how to do a proper torcher scene.

If you filled in one of the forms over the weekend you'll be entered into the draw for the Masters of Horror box set. If you didn't I think you can still register on the website www.horrorthon.com but be quick as they said they were going to pick a winner this evening.

NunianVonFuch

Ha.. have you seen any of Takashi Miike's films in the past? They always have a fairly perverse sense of humour in them. He certainly showed Bava how to do a proper torcher scene.

I've seen Gozu and Audition. Though thrilling I didn't really get much humour out of Audition (he likes needles doesn't he?) but Gozu was similar in WTF-ness to Imprint though the humour was a little more obvious. Also when I went to see that it was with a couple of mates who were going based on my recommendation - the first time I'd gone to the cinema in ages with them and needless to say the last for a while, heh heh!

Oh and cheers for the link, I fired off an email to them so hopefully that'll bag me something. Really wanted one of those t-shirts!

Scary Movie 4 - quality lol! I got Romasanta one year and still haven't watched it. Well I didn't get it, my girlfriend won and she didn't know what to pick and asked me. Passed up Starsky and Hutch for it and I still haven't watched it lol! She still has it in for me too!

azezil

Well... hmm, won't be doing that again, I was hoping for deep rooted psychological issues after a 5 day horror fest, instead, although the crowd was a lot of fun at times, I was bored by the rather poor film lineup.

NunianVonFuch

Well... hmm, won't be doing that again, I was hoping for deep rooted psychological issues after a 5 day horror fest, instead, although the crowd was a lot of fun at times, I was bored by the rather poor film lineup.

Did you go to Pan's Labyrinthe?

Any of the Masters of Horror?

What films disappointed you so?

The only one I saw of the others you mentioned previously was The Host and whilst it was fun, it was a bit all-over-the-place. Bit too long, kinda failed to hold your attention between set-pieces. I'd say there was a great 90 minute movie in there though. Aside from those I spoke about I tend to agree with your view as there were 20 odd films and most didn't look that good at all.

monkeyfudge

Yep. It was good fun but most of the new films on offer were terrible.

And over the whole weekend the only film I thought even approached been actually scary was Poltergeist... which is PG rated

Hugh Hefner

The highlights for me were Snuff-Movie, Demons (which I'll have to get on DVD), The Lost (really liked it), Cruel Jaws and Poltergeist (there's a film which must be seen on a cinema screen). Not to mention Pan's Labyrinth, which is a given. I enjoyed Frostbite a fair bit too.

But I think that the best element of Horrorthon was, unarguably, The Masters Of Horror episodes. They tied things together very well they were all really enjoyable. I was so happy when Edward King said thet Andrew Deane had promised series 3 episodes for next year. That's some cool ****.

monkeyfudge

Looking forward to seeing Stuart Gordon's Master of Horror film this year... He has Jeffery Combs playing Edgar Allen Poe... How cool is that?

Oh.. and play have a pretty good price for that box set actually...

http://play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/1720520/Masters_Of_Horror_Vol_1_Box_Set/Product.html

lodgepole

Masters of Horror really pulled the weekend together. I think Ed spread himself too thin this year. He could have shaved off a lot of rubbish and gone with the traditional two and a half days and he would have had a top notch festival. The Lost was the biggest surprise to me, I loved it. Pan's Labyrinth was a great event movie to have, and Poltergeist is the kind of classy polished clasic horror film that a festival like this should have.

NunianVonFuch

I'm going to put it out there that 2004 was the best year.
Dead Meat (come on lads, do another!),
Grudge (American),
Club Dread,
Dead and Breakfast,
The Keep (crap but so so rare),
Grudge 2,
Card Player,
Dracula (1979),
Toolbox Murders,
They Live and
The Crow.
Plus surprise was The Machinist.

But seeing the Masters of Horror on the big screen was a unique experience. With a show of such quality I'm delighted they're going to do it with the 3rd series next year, only bad thing is guessing which eps from series 2 to avoid before they're shown next october again lol!

Combs as Poe? I'm there! Combs in a movie of any kind? I'm there! Also that boxset - yes, oh yes. There's a chrimbo pressie for my oh-so-grateful friends I'll be borrowing...

monkeyfudge

NunianVonFuch wrote:

Also that boxset - yes, oh yes. There's a chrimbo pressie for my oh-so-grateful friends I'll be borrowing...

You might be able to get a further £5 off the price

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055009838

NunianVonFuch

monkeyfudge wrote:

You might be able to get a further £5 off the price

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055009838

Cheers! Hopefully it'll work out for us non-UK folk too :cool:

azezil

NunianVonFuch wrote:

Did you go to Pan's Labyrinthe?

not yet, waiting for UGC release (unlimited card )

Any of the Masters of Horror?

nope

What films disappointed you so?

They weren't really bad, just not scary, pretty much any of them, off the top of my head, The Host, The Lost, Frost Biten, Demons, Night of the living dead, Cello, Grizally (oh one was just silly, but very funny!) and as monkeyfudge said, Poltergeist was the only kinda scary one!

NunianVonFuch

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Any of the Masters of Horror?
nope

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What films disappointed you so?

They weren't really bad, just not scary, pretty much any of them, off the top of my head, The Host, The Lost, Frost Biten, Demons, Night of the living dead, Cello, Grizally (oh one was just silly, but very funny!) and as monkeyfudge said, Poltergeist was the only kinda scary one!

Yeah the films themselves didn't look all that hot this year, Host wasn't bad mind but the overall theme seemed to be laughs rather than scares being aimed at. You should checkout the Masters of Horror as they're being shown in US now. Tobe Hooper's Damned Thing was on last fri in US so should be available online I thought that was really scary. It seems to have gotten very mixed reviews, some say its fantastic and the best thing he ever did, some say its a pile of cack. I never really liked Poltergeist, cept the levitating furniture. Still haven't seen Night of the Living Dead - its sittin at home on DVD. Thought it was ment to be scary tho?

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Originally Posted by NunianVonFuch
Did you go to Pan's Labyrinthe?
not yet, waiting for UGC release (unlimited card )

I think I'll stick to IFI. I like the way you can just come right out and go straight to the bar. A bar that doesn't have people rushing off to the cinema behind it with trailers on all around. Great for post-film natterings.

Irish Gothic

Hi all,

More shameless self promotion here. We've just launched a new free on-line journal this Halloween, The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies. Among its many exciting features is an article by noted genre critic and author Kim Newman, who will be discussing Irish-themed horror films (including dubious gems such as The Leprechaun and Dementia 13). Our address is http://irishgothichorrorjournal.homestead.com/

Horrorthon organiser, Ed King, has written a piece on the history of the Horrorthon in our film reviews section http://irishgothichorrorjournal.homestead.com/FilmReviews.html#anchor_84
And soon to follow is a review of this year's festival... entitled Horrorthon 2006: Or, what does one do with 400 free Kit-Kats? there'll also be an interview with the director and the producer of Frostbitten

Please feel free to pay us a visit and relive those good old days of last month!