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Screen Drafts (Home Version) XVI: Hellraiser and Exorcist Films

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Screen Drafts (based on the popular podcast) is a draft between players (I, my wife Vanessa and our friends Nick and Scott) to rank a list of films. Scott chose this topic. There were 17 total options: 6 Exorcist films and 11 Hellraiser films. We each had four numbered picks, determined by trivia provided by our friend Mario and the person who had two also picked number one. Everyone had the same amount of arsenal: 2 vetoes and one override of a veto. The next game will be a top 18 and will have a pool of fifty films based on the scariest movies, as decided by the folks at The Science of Scream. Nick brought his big puppy Sheba. She was awesome.    17. The Exorcist Believer (2023) I came in second during trivia and wanted the very bottom pick. My picks were (17, 13,9 and 5). I wanted it because my favorite Hellraiser film was Judgement and I knew some cruel person would play that low, and I could not live with Hellraiser (2022) being above Judgement. I found the Hulu productio...
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Screen Drafts (Home Version) XV: Top 18 Camp Horror Films

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Four of us, Nick, Scott, I (Dennis) and my wife Vanessa played at game of the popular collaborative podcast Screen Drafts to determine the top 18 camp horror films. We are a bit different than Screen Drafts only in that we have more vetoes and overrides and generally watch thirty or so films before each game to prep. Our friend Mario provided trivia to determine placements, and we all had a nice dinner and a few hours of solid film discussion.   18. Thirteen Ghosts (2001) Nick won position A (picks 18, 14, 9, 6 and 1: it comes with one veto and he had an override that carried over from the last time we all played.).  Mostly, he felt he liked the film and the designs of the ghost and the house very much. He thought the deaths were creative and did not like any of the characters. He came in hot with stuff he didn't like about the film, and we called him out on often not loving the first picks he puts on a list. We did not veto it, but no one loved it. 17. The Gruesome Twoso...
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we played a game of Screen Drafts where we ranked all the Friday the 13th films and all The Crow films

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  It was my turn to pick a topic for the newest game. We had four players (I and my wife Vanessa, Scott and Nick). I usually pick games based on what I want to watch, and lately I have been wanting to watch The Crow franchise. I had at the time only seen the first and second of the films; there are five!!  I bought them and used that as inspiration to pick them for my game. But five films is not enough; four players require at least 16 films in play because it's not worth getting out of bed if you have less than four picks. And if 16 are in play, no one really has pick number one because it's decided at number two. So I needed at least 17 films. I noticed the Friday the 13th franchise had 12 (if we include the remake and vs Freddy), so two franchises about revenge and resurrection.  I did not want a ton of vetoes or overrides in the game. I thought since every title is in play (unlike the last game High School Horror where there were hundreds of possible picks), limit it ...
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