Nathan Rabin's Happy Place's Definitive 30 Day Film Challenge
The Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place’s 30 Day Film Challenge is certainly not the first of its kind but at the risk of being immodest, I do believe it to be definitive.
Follow these simple prompts and prepare yourself for a wonderful cinematic voyage of discovery and re-discovery that spans genres, cultures, languages and generations. If you’re not careful, you might just end up learning something while being entertained!
It’s a sturdy blueprint for a dazzlingly diverse, wildly adventurous romp through pretty much the entirety of film history. And in only 30 days!
So play along and enjoy the ride!
Day 1
A film whose title irreverently references a false accusation of incestuous sexual assault
Day 2
A film by a legendary figure in the world of Canadian public access television
Day 3
A film Roger Ebert has described as a “vomitorium”
Day 4
A film in which a small child is horribly injured in humorously excessive ways.
Day 5
A film prominently featuring horse and elephant penises
Day 6
A film with a cast-member who famously got into a physical altercation with Norman Mailer
Day 7
A film by a man whose memoir boasts a title that references both his unsuccessful film career and ultimately successful battle with testicular Cancer.
Day 8
A film with a cast member whose show-business name combines a regular verb with a past-tense verb.
Day 9
A film including at least one scene centered on gallons upon gallons of elephant ejaculate
Day 10
A film where the lead character moves to Los Angeles in order to work in a cheese sandwich factory.
Day 11
A film in which the hero strokes a horse’s enormous penis while shouting, “Look at me, daddy! I’m a farmer!”
Day 12
A film whose star, director and writer nearly had a stunt wedding to Drew Barrymore at the end of a Saturday Night Live episode he hosted.
Day 13
A film about a hateful, mentally ill, abrasive 28 year old man-child with no redeeming qualities.
Day 14
A film in which a factory worker pretends a giant salami is his penis and shouts, ”I’m sexy! I’m a sexy boy! Ding dong! Ding dong!”
Day 15
A film where a character enthusiastically masturbates an elephant, causing it to ejaculate explosively on the character’s father.
Day 16
A film with a cast-member who famously got into a physical altercation with Dennis Hopper
Day 17
A film where the lead character runs around with a bloody deer carcass on his shoulders while screaming in an attempt to “get inside” the animal kingdom.
Day 18
A film where a man disgustingly eats a sandwich and giggles maniacally while watching horses have sex.
Day 19
A film with a supporting player who once broke into a bank he drunkenly mistook for his home as a 79 year old man.
Day 20
A film where the protagonist has his father’s home shipped to Pakistan without his consent or knowledge, leading to an international incident.
Day 21
A film where the protagonist delivers a woman’s baby against her will, then very messily cuts its umbilical cord with his teeth in a crazed, bloody frenzy.
Day 22
A film whose writer, director and star danced alongside Tila Tequila during her infamous performance at the Gathering of the Juggalos
Day 23
A film where a character swings a newborn baby, still attached to his mother through the umbilical cord, around his head like a lasso.
Day 24
A movie where the disabled female romantic lead gets off sexually on having her shins whipped relentlessly with a wooden cane.
Day 25
A movie where a man repeatedly rejects offers of oral sex
Day 26
A film in which an inventor creates a pulley system that allows him to eat sausages while playing the organ.
Day 27
A film where the hero encourages his mother to get back at her angry, rage-filled husband by having sex with “basketball players” and “men from Greece”
Day 28
A movie in which a character is sent to live in a home for children who have been molested despite being a twenty-five year old man.
Day 29
A movie where a father drunkenly, belligerently pulls down his pants to expose his bare buttocks and asks his adult son, “Do you want to fuck me? Just stick it right in there!”
Day 30
A film where basketball superstar Shaquille O’Neal has sex with the protagonist’s mother.
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