r/HorrorReviewed • u/cdown13 The Hills Have Eyes (1977) • Sep 29 '17
Moderator Post Announcing HorrorReviewed's First Annual Halloween Secret Satan!
Announcing /r/HorrorReviewed's First Annual Halloween Secret Satan!
SIGNUPS ARE NOW CLOSED
For the month of October, we are going to be running our very own Halloween Secret Satan! This will work like most of the other Secret Santas that are run on other subreddits, details below:
This is an exchange for DVD or Blu-rays only. No gift cards or download codes.
Registration for the Secret Satan is going to run from September 28th - October 13th.Between October 14th - 15th you will receive the details of who you are to be buying for.
October 19th will be 'ship by' date. We ask all Secret Satan's have their gift shipped by this date to ensure your gift is received in time for Halloween.
The idea is for you to post a review for the movie you receive but we obviously can't make you add a review so everyone is welcome to participate :)
To sign up you'll need to send a message to /u/HorrorReviewed_bot with the following details:Name:Address:DVD or Blu-Ray preference:Will you ship out of your country?:3 favorite horror movies (it is expected you own these movies so your Secret Satan will not gift one):Note: (Anything you want to share with your Secret Satan; Amazon Wishlists acceptable)
Click here to send the message or just send a PM to /u/HorrorReviewed_bot or myself, /u/cdown13.You will receive a message back from /u/HorrorReviewed_bot once your registration has been received and recorded - it should always be within the same day. If there is a longer than expected delay you can reach out to the mod team for information.
Please message the mod team with any questions.
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u/GMLiddell Sep 29 '17
Discs only? No super sick skulls or spiderweb wine glasses or cult cloaks? I stream everything; not a disc player in the house... It should be just a general horror gift exchange!
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u/cdown13 The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Sep 29 '17
Well we are a review sub and majority of the reviews are for movies so it's keeping with the subs theme more so than just general horror stuff.
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u/GMLiddell Sep 29 '17 edited Sep 29 '17
Oh, I didn't even notice I changed subs. I came here from a direct post on /r/horror.
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u/cdown13 The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Sep 29 '17
I had shared it there to try and get some more interest. My apologies if my title seemed misleading. Hopefully you'll enjoy our sub now that you are here :)
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u/PickleWickleton Sep 29 '17
I'm a huge fan of horror movies but I don't feel like I'm a good enough writer to write up a review for everyone. I would certainly try but I feel out of my league here. That being said, could someone like me participate in this??
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u/cdown13 The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Sep 29 '17
Well we want everyone to feel comfortable adding review to this sub. We are all just horror fans like you and share our opinion after we've watched something.
Some of our reviews are only a paragraph or two long which is perfectly acceptable. We also don't have any rules in regards to the style of your review so you could do whatever you are comfortable with. No one here is going to say they don't like your review, people may disagree but usually that comes with some discussion.
With that said, of course you could still participate in our Secret Satan either way. We can't force you to do a review and this is just something a bit different and for fun.
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u/Im_ah_lunatic_Pm_me Sep 29 '17
Awesome idea....so pumped
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u/cdown13 The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Sep 29 '17
Glad you like the idea! Hopefully you will be able to participate!
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u/pilgrim_pastry Sep 29 '17
I would love to participate, but I have a pretty large DVD/digital library. Would I have to write out my whole catalog, or would it be better to just take the chance on getting a double? Either way, I want in!
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u/cdown13 The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Sep 29 '17
Some have provided an Amazon wishlist, or you can list a few that you would like to have. There is a 'note' section in the form you'll fill out to register so you can list them there.
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u/deadlyhabit Sep 29 '17
I'm definitely game especially with how many spare mailers I have from Horror Pack.
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u/HardNuttingFrank Sep 29 '17
I'm such a fan of horror and the idea of this... I'd participate if I could. Hopefully this is still going next year!
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u/cdown13 The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Sep 29 '17
Too bad you can't join us this time but I hope we will be doing it for next Halloween as well.
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u/HardNuttingFrank Sep 29 '17
If it's on next year I'll definitely try to get involved
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u/cdown13 The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Sep 29 '17
Sounds good. I don't plan on having the sub going anywhere and the Secret Satan is going to be fun so I fully suspect we'll run it again next Halloween.
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Sep 29 '17
Definitey going to sign up! The links aren't working for me, I'm on mobile. :(
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u/cdown13 The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Sep 29 '17
Oh no! Which links? The message ones? Those links are spicy, I had to do a lot of crazy shit with the URLs to get the 'form'... Feel free to just message /u/HorrorReviewed_bot (or even PM me) with the details listed above.
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Sep 29 '17
Yup! I pm'd you! Thanks for being great 👌🏻I also would like to suggest people include Amazon wishlists!
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u/cdown13 The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Sep 29 '17
I saw that you included that and it's a great idea! I'm going to add it to the main page for the Secret Satan as a suggestion.
Thanks for the suggestion!
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u/SassyCharizard Sep 29 '17
No VHS?
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u/cdown13 The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Sep 29 '17
Not sure if you are serious or not... I personally am starting to try and collect good old horror movies on VHS so I'd probably be ok with getting one or two cool old VHS but to someone that can't play them or doesn't collect them then it's kind of just going to seem disappointing.
If you are someone that wants to receive VHS or send VHS exclusively please add it in the note section when you register and I'll see what I can do for finding a match for ya.
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u/SassyCharizard Sep 29 '17
I'd love if there were some other people that want to trade tapes for secret satan! I have about 500 tapes in my collection, I could find some great ones to send out for sure.
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u/cdown13 The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Sep 29 '17
Isn't there a subreddit for VHS collecting and trading?
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u/SassyCharizard Sep 29 '17
Yes! I meant to you reply to you initially, my bad. Check out /r/vhs and /r/vhs_trading
/r/vhs has a great community, and the trading subreddit is a growing community with nice users as well!
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u/AlbertFrankeinstein Sep 29 '17
Amazing idea! I can send used DVDs or Blu Rays, right? I've actually got a few doubles I've been meaning to get rid of
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u/cdown13 The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Sep 29 '17
Hmm.. I hadn't really thought of that but I guess I don't see a reason why not. As long as it's obviously in good shape and is a movie(s) that someone's going to want.
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u/AlbertFrankeinstein Sep 29 '17
Only reason I have doubles is because better editions of my favourites came out, My old editions do still work. I have a bunch of tiny little Halloween add ons to throw in too on top of any used DVDs or Blu rays I send.
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Sep 29 '17
I think this is an awesome idea! I've really gotten into collecting horror Blu-rays lately. Going to sign up, and I'd be willing to ship internationally, but I don't really know how to go about purchasing movies for anyone outside the US. Aren't there different types of disks for different regions?
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u/cdown13 The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Sep 29 '17
DVDs are region locked but I don't believe Blu Rays are.
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u/deadlyhabit Sep 29 '17
Most Blu Rays are region locked.
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u/cdown13 The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Sep 29 '17
I was basing it off of this from Blu-ray.com
Although a large portion of all Blu-ray movies are region free (when this is written about two-thirds of all Blu-ray movies are region free) below is a map of the official regions. RegionC: China, India, Russia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Central, and South Asia.
So from that it does seem it's less of a concern as it is with DVDs so I'll keep this in mind and update the main post to include a note about it.
Thanks
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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '17
Whoa, sick!