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Couldn't sleep. Felt like a movie. Didn't feel like Jason. Wasn't Friday the 13th anymore. Took a shot on a movie I didn't know existed a few hours ago but saw some mentions of in the Horror thread. 19 (29). The Babysitter (2017)  Perpetually bullied Cole is in love with his super hot and super cool babysitter. Too bad she's a psycho satan worshiping cult leader looking to sacrifice him to the devil. Whoopsie. This was super fun. Like, really, really fun. Its stupid as gently caress. And if you have any familiarity with McG (yes, that McG) you won't be surprised to find out its really kind of... gaudy? But its so totally tongue in cheek and whacked out and having so much fun. There's some heart between the two leads even when they're trying to kill each other and Robbie Amell is amazing. Like seriously, he's amazing. I don't have a lot to say, really. Its just a whacked out, crazy ride. Ride out the early decade outdated McG flourishes and basic teen stuff if it bugs you and wait for the death cult because then all loving hell breaks loose and its a wild ride. Totally worth staying up for and now I'm all jacked up and debating the merits of another movie and losing all sleep. It IS Saturday. Also the next one is #30 so I gotta figure out a good one for #31. October Tally - New (Total) - (1). V/H/S (2012) / - (2). V/H/S/2 (2013) / 1 (3). Let Us Prey (2014) / - (4). The Crazies (2010) / 2 (5). The Boy (2016) / 3 (6). Beyond the Gates (2016) / - (7). Child’s Play (1988) / - (8). Jennifer’s Body (2009) / 4 (9). Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015) / - (10). Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) / 5 (11). The Void (2016) / 6 (12). Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut (1990) / - (13). Grave Encounters (2011) / 7 (14). Grabbers (2012) / 8 (15). Get Out (2017) / 9 (16). Society (1989) / 10 (17). The House of the Devil (2009) / 11 (18). Hell Baby (2013) / 12 (19). Ghostwatch (1992) / 13 (20). Let Me In (2010) / - (21). Child’s Play 2 (1990) / 14 (22). Splinter (2008) / - (23). Child’s Play 3 (1991) / 15 (24). Apollo 18 (2011) / - (25). Bride of Chucky (1998) / 16 (26). Seed of Chucky (2004) / 17 (27). Friday the 13th (1980) / 18 (28). Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) / 19 (29). The Babysitter (2017)
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21. The People Under the Stairs: About 105 minutes of derailed trains of thought. And awesome in every way.
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Couldn't resist getting some Friday the 13th in on the day proper, and having never actively watched any of them before myself, decided to go with 1, 2 & 4 as per Franchescanado's recommendation post early in the thread (though didn't manage to get to 6, which as I understand it is pretty commonly regarded as both the best and most intentionally comedic/self aware.  ). Honestly, my takeaway thoughts on all of them are basically interchangeable, my only major points of difference between them being Jason in the latter two films being a more menacing villain than his mother post-revelation in the first film, and the 4th film coming across as a bit more self aware about making the majority of its victims unlikable assholes. Aside from that, all of them felt like competent but rote victim-to-victim slashers, with mostly its raw body count to set it apart. Not as groundbreaking or character-driven as Halloween, nor as fun and inventive as Nightmare on Elm Street, but an enjoyable enough way to spend a few hours nonetheless.Movies Watched (17): It, Werewolf (MST3K), Army of Darkness, Frankenweenie, Corpse Bride, Paranorman, Coraline, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Shining, Room 237, Teenagers from Outer Space (MST3K), Little Shop of Horrors, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Cannibal! The Musical, Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th Part II, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Trash Boat fucked around with this message at 13:17 on Oct 14, 2017 |
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I kind of want to join in on this. I try to watch 31 horror movies each October and I post short reviews on Facebook. Now I need to figure out how to transfer stuff to here without posting a massive, annoying wall of text.
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Glad you enjoyed them, Trash Boat. I think my favorite bits in the early Fridays is -trying to figure out the rules of Strip Monopoly -perfuming vaginas -Muffin -Ted using the bear line on every girl around him within earshot of the other girls. -Crispin Glovers awesome dancing -the illogical computer and it's ability to compute Dead Fucks Just post, Biff
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It's Hammer Dracula Day! It's one of my favorite title cards of all time, much better than any poster imo. Horror of Dracula is, aside from possibly The Curse of Frankenstein, the prototypical Hammer film. Everything I love about Hammer is extra concentrated in this movie. The Cushing/Lee/Fisher combination, the sets, the costumes, and just how much color is packed into ever scene. Hammer was really going out of its way to set itself apart from what Universal had done, and part of that was making these films pop with vivid colors all over the place. Sometimes it's the sets,   Other times it's the costumes, Van Helsing especially is given all kinds of awesome stuff to wear.   The story is better than your average Dracula adaptation too, because if you've read the novel or seen a lot of the other movies based on it, Horror of Dracula will still surprise you. It uses the framework of the story but mixes things up with the characters and diverts from the established story in some crucial moments. Dracula was my favorite monster growing up, so when I first decided to check out Hammer this was what I went to first. So it was my gateway to Hammer, I'll definitely always love it for that and I've watched it every year since around this time. Next up, Brides of Dracula... Completed:1.The Wicker Man, 2. Deadly Blessing, 3. Night Creatures, 4.Shock Waves, 5.Slugs, 6.Venom, 7.Maximum Overdrive, 8.Christine, 9.The Tingler, 10.The Masque of the Red Death, 11.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 12.The Funhouse, 13.Poltergeist, 14.Lifeforce, 15.Invaders From Mars, 16.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, 17.The Seventh Curse, 18.The Mummy, 19.Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, 20.Hellraiser, 21.Hellbound: Hellraiser II, 22.Child's Play, 23.Cult of Chucky, 24.Leviathan, 25.Pumpkinhead, 26.Phantasm, 27.Murders in the Rue Morgue, 28.The Abominable Dr. Phibes, 29.The Devil's Candy, 30.The Visitor, 31.Prince of Darkness, 32.Critters, 33.Killer Klowns From Outer Space, 34.Horror of Dracula
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Oct 14, 2017 16:57
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Biff Rockgroin posted:I kind of want to join in on this. I try to watch 31 horror movies each October and I post short reviews on Facebook. Wait, annoying walls of text are a bad thing? Ruh roh.
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Speaking of... 20 (30). Curse of Chucky (2013)  So, that was entirely unexpected. If one of you had told me that the 6th movie of this franchise is a gothic haunted house piece I would have been certain you were bullshitting me. If nothing else I’ve developed a real respect for this franchise and Don Mancini. Its not often you see a franchise reinvent itself as many times as this one does and I don’t know if I can think of any director/writer who tries so many things with a character like Mancini. Sink or swim I can really respect that he seems to want to really take Chucky and do different things with him. From the low key child terror of the Child’s Play movies to the really absurdist dark fairy tale nature of Bride and Seed to this classic horror idea with Chucky placed in. And it really mostly works. It seems obvious that production costs had a lot to do with it as the really impressive audio-animatronics are gone and we’re back to tight angles of puppets and pretty obvious human body doubles. I even spotted some bad CGI for the first time. But Chucky benefits huge by going back to basics and becoming a creepy doll again (and boy, is the new design creepy) and it being about waiting for the reveal and not just watching him be Bugs Bunny. The ultimate reveal of him wearing makeup to hide his scars wasn’t quite the battery scene from the original but it was still a really effective little scene that I didn’t entirely see coming. Less of a shocker and more of a horrifying realization. Fiona Dourif is fun and maybe the first actually rootable human of the series. Imagine that. An actual likable human protaganist for Chucky. What a novel concept. Its really such a basic horror concept and movie but its just so different for Chucky to be dropped into it instead of being sucked into Chucky’s world. The end teasers were a little weird. I guess they draw together the franchise as a whole and provided some laughs. Since I’m marathoning the movies it was certainly kind of fun to see Serial Killer Jennifer Tilly and Andy alive and well, outside a prison or asylum, and staying ever vigilante - and apparently his mom is out too, which is nice.. It was just kind of a confusing mess of scenes tagged on to the end of a totally different movie. And it sort of felt like they had a bunch of ideas and just decided to do all of them even if they didn’t totally make sense together. But I guess that’s why I’ll be watching Cult of Chucky soon. All in all I’d say this is my favorite Chucky movie after the original. I didn’t expect that at all. Next movies is 31 so I either gotta come up with a gem or just do the comedy choice of watching 31. October Tally - New (Total) - (1). V/H/S (2012) / - (2). V/H/S/2 (2013) / 1 (3). Let Us Prey (2014) / - (4). The Crazies (2010) / 2 (5). The Boy (2016) / 3 (6). Beyond the Gates (2016) / - (7). Child’s Play (1988) / - (8). Jennifer’s Body (2009) / 4 (9). Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015) / - (10). Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) / 5 (11). The Void (2016) / 6 (12). Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut (1990) / - (13). Grave Encounters (2011) / 7 (14). Grabbers (2012) / 8 (15). Get Out (2017) / 9 (16). Society (1989) / 10 (17). The House of the Devil (2009) / 11 (18). Hell Baby (2013) / 12 (19). Ghostwatch (1992) / 13 (20). Let Me In (2010) / - (21). Child’s Play 2 (1990) / 14 (22). Splinter (2008) / - (23). Child’s Play 3 (1991) / 15 (24). Apollo 18 (2011) / - (25). Bride of Chucky (1998) / 16 (26). Seed of Chucky (2004) / 17 (27). Friday the 13th (1980) / 18 (28). Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) / 19 (29). The Babysitter (2017) / 20 (30). Curse of Chucky (2013)
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Oct 14, 2017 20:18
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Franchescanado posted:Glad you enjoyed them, Trash Boat. All of these are wonderful, and I also have to add Mrs. Voorhees' decapitation and Dead gently caress Computer perpetually laughing uproariously at vintage pornography over the course of what I presume to be several hours.
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Trash Boat posted:All of these are wonderful, and I also have to add Mrs. Voorhees' decapitation and Dead gently caress Computer perpetually laughing uproariously at vintage pornography over the course of what I presume to be several hours. His name is Ted and he is a ridiculous rear end in a top hat. The laughing at pornography scene is one of the best moments in the series. I'm showing 2, 4 and 6 tonight for a large group of people who have never seen a Friday sequel, and many haven't seen the original. It's going to be fun.
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Oct 14, 2017 22:07
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STAC Goat posted:Speaking of... finish the series with Cult of Chucky!!!!! It's just as good as Curse if not better because it takes the entirely absurd premise of "doll is alive because voodoo" and just goes to a fun logical extension.
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Oh, I fully intend to finish. It's just a question of whether it's movie #31, #32 after a more "special" 31, or if it put it off til tomorrow and watch a couple of more Jason.
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22: Let The Right One In (2008) I'm in the unusual position for someone not Swedish of having read John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel before the movie was made. I definitely prefer the movie. It carries over all the themes intact while jettisoning the extraneous baggage in the book, and puts layers upon layers into key scenes. "You're like me", Eli says to Oskar, describing his violent fantasies - then seemingly contradicts her explanation by saying why it makes them very different. But she's telling the truth, when she heard Oskar say those things she did know they were alike, just not in their reasons for violence. Despite being centuries old Eli never had the chance to be an ordinary child with friends, and neither has the bullied Oskar. If there's a fault in the movie, it's the casting of Kare Hedebrandt as Oskar. In the book Oskar is bullied because he's overweight - hence Conny and his friends referring to him as "Piggy" - but it's an angle of attack that seems weird when directed at an almost angelically pretty child like Hedebrandt. I kind of wish they'd tweaked it to have the bullies attack him for being pretty, or because of his absent father (who it is hinted might be gay). On the other hand Hedebrandt knocks his performance out of the park, doing almost as good a job as Lina Leanderssen in her role as Eli. The beatific smile he gives Eli when he sees her at the swimming pool is perfect and I don't think it would have worked half so well with a fat kid. In the course of this review, I may inadvertently have ordered volume 1 of Lindqvist's Himmelstrand trilogy from Amazon. They'd better get round to translating the other two.
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Jedit posted:22: Let The Right One In (2008) I liked the book enough but I'm glad the films excised all those superfluous characters like those adult drunkards only tangentially related to the story.
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Oct 15, 2017 00:35
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Addams Family Values I'm gonna say it: This movie is near-flawless. Barry Sonnenfield absolutely nails not just how the Addams Family home operates, but how the universe responds to the field of strangeness they project outward. I adore this film; Huston and Ricci both have every perfectly-delivered line that makes the script so good, and the irony of Debbie being almost a perfect Addams before ever having met them and going mad from being in their orbit is a delight (as is Joan Cusack). The only flaw in this movie is the dinner and dance scene, which is just Sonnenfield showing off all the special effects and set dressing he could while letting Julia and Huston show off their flamenco. Movies Watched: (23) Midnight Meat Train, IT, Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), Saw 7, Phantasm, Demons, Rockula, House of the Devil, 31, Deathrow Gameshow, Nine Miles Down, The Carrier, Halloween (1978), Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama, Nightbreed, Pumpkinhead, What we do in the shadows, Curse of Chucky, Cult of Chucky, Dracula 2000, RAW, The Blob (1988), Addams Family Values
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Dick Miller Is Only In One Scene And He Gets Murdered By A Killer Robot double feature today! #23: Chopping Mall If the premise of Chopping Mall interests you, you'll probably like it. This is one of those rare movies with a sublimely ridiculous and awesome premise, and manages to live up to it. It's not a technically amazing film, the special effects are low-rent, the acting's not so good (except for Barbara Crampton!), but that's why you're watching this movie! It's a charming low-budget Terminator knockoff that does a lot different to craft its own unique movie. It's also one of those movies that's very self-aware, but never draws too much attention to that, and instead litters the film with inside jokes to let you know that they're having a good time, but they want to make sure you're enjoying it. Like I said at the beginning, if security robots killing teens in a shopping mall sounds like a premise you'd enjoy, you have to watch this, because it's a loving blast. #24: The Terminator One of the all-time classics, and what can be said about this one that hasn't been said before by people much smarter than me? It's often regarded as a classic of action cinema, but it's much more of a horror movie to me. It's tense, brutal, inspired, exciting, and really bends what we expect from an action or horror movie. This film also uses Arnold's physical presence in a way few, if any, of his other movies have. He's big, and he fills the screen, and it's loving terrifying. Linda Hamilton is also great in this movie, and she does a great job as she goes from a scared waitress to the mother of the future resistance, and Michael Biehn is supremely cool. The action scenes and the build-up are beautifully shot, taking a lot of cues from Halloween's blue lighting, and they're closely filmed and intense, never letting up until they're over. This is one of my personal favorites, and I would highly encourage anyone who somehow hasn't seen it yet to immediately add it to their list. Completed: Beyond the Black Rainbow, Rabid, The Driller Killer, Phantasm*, Phantasm II, Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead, Phantasm IV: Oblivion, Phantasm V: Ravager, The Prowler, The House of the Devil, From Beyond, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Apt Pupil, Wait Until Dark, Gerald's Game, Hell House LLC, Black Swan*, Happy Birthday To Me, Pieces, Trollhunter, As Above So Below, The Devil's Candy, Antibirth, Chopping Mall, The Terminator* *denotes rewatches
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I had another movie lined up for today, then as I was thirty seconds into it I went, "Hey, isn't there a movie titled..." and I was right, so naturally I had to watch: October 14 - Saturday the 14th  A family inherits a cursed house with a Book of Evil (actual title) in it. The son lets the monsters in the book out accidentally and then hijinx ensue as they try to stop them. So, I don't think there was a single laugh for me in this "parody". There were a few ideas that could have been funny, but they didn't have the skill to pull them off. Stuff like the television only playing episodes of The Twilight Zone, but it's all pretty straightforward Rod Serling-esque lines instead of The Scary door. The best joke in the movie for me was the giant headline of "The Exterminator Times" that the pest exterminator was reading that said, "30000 Cockroaches Dead in Philadelphia!" The film is rated PG and it's not even a 1980's PG, so they don't even go for the Sam Raimi style horror comedy antics. OTOH, there is the definitely underaged actress getting naked and being sexually menaced by a fishman in the bathtub while something resembling but legally distinct from the Jaws theme plays. So, yeah. Jeffery Tambor is in this movie and he can't do anything with his terrible role as a vampire who wants the house. I knew the film had a bad reputation going in, so it being a dreadful comedy wasn't a surprise. But it was a disappointment since they couldn't even get the easy things right. There's actually a sequel to this out there, but I think I'll save it for the next time there's a Saturday the 14th in October.
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1. I watched Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. There was no book of shadows and it has the tamest satanic orgy in the woods in cinema.
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Friday the 13th: Jason Lives (1986) For as much as people say they're want change on horror sequels, Friday the 13th part 6 shows they don't want too much change. After a different direction in part V, Jason is back in part 6. The story is pretty much the same as always - Jason is killing horny teenagers at a summer camp. This time around though, Tommy Jarvis is all grown up and on his tail. This is the fastest paced entry in the series. By this point the series is self aware, and little time is wasted on expositions or setting up kills. We know Jason is coming and we get right to the bloodbath. The familiarity of the series does work against this at times, as we know the character and the rules well enough that some scenes end up lacking tension. Regardless of its unoriginality, this is one of the strongest entries of the series and definitely worth watching. Happy Death Day (2017) I checked this out earlier today, and it's a pretty good movie, but nothing too great. A young sorority sister named Tree is getting murdered by a man in a baby mask on her birthday, and she keeps on reliving the day and trying to change her fate. It is heavily influenced by Groundhog Day, to the point where characters reference that movie directly. It's a little bit of a mess at times. It will introduce interesting concepts, such as retaining damage from past lives for example, then ignore them later. It's also thematically a bit of a mess too. Tree realizes she needs to come to terms with her mothers death and become a better person, but that still doesn't stop her curse. But it is a pretty funny movie, and we get a fun montage. I don't see this becoming a classic or anything, but it's probably worth checking out. The Babysitter (2017) this is the latest fromMcG, and it's on Netflix. It's decent enough but not something I think id ever bother watching again. A bullied kids new babysitter ends up being part of a satanic cult. He find out, and she and the cult try to kill him. It never takes itself too seriously, and it does have some very well done gore scenes. It's a little stereotypical aside from that. It seems to take every trope you'd associate with a nerdy kids coming of age story and checks them off as it goes along. Rewatches (8): Maniac Cop, Friday the 13th 3, Friday the 13th 4, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 , The Lost Boys, Land of the Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, Friday the 13th 6 First time watches (20): Mortuary, Little Evil, Eloise, Mother!, The Roommate, The Chaos Experiment, Resident Evil 6, Vacancy, Rings, The Stepfather, Train to Busan, Dracula's Daughter, Son of Dracula, Cult of Chucky, The Return of Dracula, The Fog, Sssssss! Happy Death Day, the Babysitter
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22. Mars Attacks! Finally sat down and watched it through. One of those movies I'd seen in entirety but piecemeal. It's a massively fun love letter to schlocky sci-fi and corny model rocket on a visible string grade effects. My son absolutely loved it. 23. They Live: Very good movie. I love the way a stupid alley fight was allowed to leisurely hog a good chunk of running time. Butch Cassidy fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Oct 16, 2017 |
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Been a week since my last check-in. 1. Hellraiser 2. Hellraiser II 3. Hellraiser III 4. Slither 5. The Sacrament 6. Noroi: The Curse 7. Cult of Chucky 8. Pumpkinhead - I'd actually never seen this before. I don't regret watching it, but Stan Winston's strength was not directing and it showed (for another case study in this, see Harbinger Down or anything by the Brothers Strause). Lance Henriksen is a cool dude, and initially I was a little put off by how sympathetic the "victims" were because it felt mean-spirited to kill them off, but eventually I realized that that was intentional and the movie's point was that vengeance doesn't solve anything. Creature effects were on point, which is a plus. 9. Lights Out - I liked this a LOT more than I expected to, and I'm going to keep it in my stable of "loving scary PG-13 horror movies" because goddamn was this movie effective. Gorier than I expected it to be, as well. If I were rating the movie, I'd have given it an R rating for its intensity alone, not to mention the boundary-pushing violence in a few scenes. 10. The Conjuring - I expected to like this one after really enjoying Insidious, but it pretty much fell flat (especially after watching Lights Out, which was loving crazy). The Annabelle subplot felt forced and unnecessary, the scares weren't particularly effective in a world where Poltergeist and the Amityville Horror exist, and for something that went out of its way to play up the "BASED ON A TRUE STORY" angle, it broke the immersion multiple times by having camera crews documenting everything... of which none of the footage actually survived in real life, I guess? 11. 13 Ghosts - I'd never seen the original, so I gave it a spin. It was neat enough for what it is, I wasn't expecting anything revolutionary out of it. I do like the remake quite a bit, and seeing the original was cool so I could see what elements they kept and what they changed. 12. The Other Side of the Door - this movie was really uneven; it had some goofy pacing and real dumb and distracting character moments, but counterbalanced by some legit loving creepy poo poo and really effective practical make-up. The mother just kinda rolling with the ghost of her dead son coming back (and that being totally okay and normal somehow) was loving goofy, as was the father being totally oblivious to all of it until the last 10 minutes of the movie where suddenly everything goes off the rails and he gets thrown in the deep end. In total it felt like a poor man's 'Pet Sematary'. 13. Last Shift - I dug this for the most part, a haunted police station is a pretty novel concept for a horror movie, and a lot of the creepy moments were effective, and the practical makeup was solid. The ending felt real abrupt and forced, which kinda dragged the experience down. 14. The Babysitter - this was a fun ride, although the second half was better than the first. The movie really took the time to set up the relationship between Cole and Bee, and I think it paid off in the end. Sometimes the humor fell flat, but overall the movie was charming enough to keep my attention. 15. Chopping Mall - I felt my horror binge was missing some 80s horror schlock, and I'd never seen this before, so I gave it a whirl. It started out pretty much as bad as I expected... and then I was surprised to find myself actually pretty engaged with the movie and enjoying it a lot more than I expected I would. Like yeah it's not high art, but the movie got a lot better as it went along and did a good job of hiding its nonexistent budget. 16. Saw III - rewatching the series with my mom in anticipation of the new one at the end of the month. I still dig Saw III, and it's got one of the most gruesome and flinch-inducing traps in the entire series ("the rack").
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I considered a lot of movies at #31. Highly praised films I’ve never seen before. Highly anticipated movies I’ve been interested in watching. Movies I love to rewatch. Ultimately I couldn’t choose and decided that I was putting unreasonable expectations on an arbitrary number that were sure to hamper my enjoyment. So I decided to go for the most obvious, nonsense, arbitrary choice and take the pressure off. 21 (31). 31 (2016)  Sherri Moon Zombie’s character who’s name I’ve forgotten and her crew get kidnapped and thrown into a psychotic Halloween “game” where they’re hunted by killer clowns and must survive. I’m more or less a fan of Zombie’s work, so I came in basically expecting this to be distilled Zombie. That’s definitely what it is. If you’ve seen more his films you know exactly what you’re getting from this. 70s, rock and roll, a familiar cast, psychotic clowns, an embrace in vulgarity, too clever by half dialogue, and lots of gore and slashing. This basically feels like Zombie’s inner psyche. That’s kind of the problem. There’s nothing at all new here. I’d say that if you love Zombie maybe its something you’ll love, but I love Devil’s Rejects and it just felt like half effort retread. The whole thing feels “cheap”, not so much in a money sense (although Zombie’s always got a “cheap” feel that I actually enjoy) but rather it feels like this is what the Zombie crew does on a weekend for fun and there wasn’t much more thought put into it. Its “hey, lets film a bunch of clowns killing people to 70s rock” and done. Sherri Moon has limited reach but I think she generally pulls it off, but she’s really got nothing to work with here. She just feels like a caricature of all her past characters. Malcolm McDowell seems incredibly wasted and that whole aristocrat game runner group felt under developed and just sort of there. The clowns are all kind of there besides the spanish speaking nazi midget one, and you can’t help but thing he existed so that Zombie could laugh when someone said that phrase. Doom-Head is obviously supposed to be the big bad but he isn’t there enough and he just kind of comes off as a dime store philosopher psycho. Nothing special. If a little more thought had gone into this it could have been more fun. Or maybe even a little less. If it had focused more heavily on Doom-Head vs Sherri Moon then both characters could have been developed better and their conflict could have felt more meaningful or balanced. As it is it doesn’t and the whole ending makes her feel less like a “final girl” and more like a randomly lucky victim who is screwed anyway. Which knowing Zombie might have been the point but that’s not “fun” for me. I can’t be mad, because its just fully expected pure Zombie. But its also pure mediocre Zombie and isn’t really worth the time unless you REALLY love Zombie or REALLY love cheap exploitation grind house slasher stuff. With the pressure off how about the movie I was really looking forward? 22 (32). Cult of Chucky (2017)  I’m not even going to try and explain this in a non spoilery way. Most of the baseline of what I’d say about this was already said with Curse. I really respect the hell out of the fact that Mancini really swings for the fences and tries something different with his franchise. He’s unafraid in a way I can’t think of another big horror franchise is. Most sequels or reboots are just retreads in one way or another. Even the ones that tack on continuity or usually doing it to drag along the formula. Something like Wes Craven’s New Nightmare is rare but that’s really what Cult of Chucky is in a lot of ways. At least for the Chucky franchise. I had an idea of what “Cult” could mean and I’m really glad it wasn’t right. The multiple Chuckies twist wasn’t exactly a shocker but it built really well through the movie and again made good use of the more limited budget to keep Chucky largely simple and doll based. Of course things get crazy in the final act and the cheapness kind of shows, but it was - as Chucky says - the fun kind of crazy and really a ride I was willing to take at that stage. And honestly, it finished off in a place where somehow I’m sitting here kind of hoping there’s an 8th movie and curious as to where the hell they’d go with it. One criticism is that I think the movie was trying really hard to sell itself as a psychological thriller in playing with the idea that Nica wasn’t sure if she was crazy or not. I don’t think that ever landed or worked. I don’t blame Fiona Douriff for that as I think she does a good job in these two movies with a lot of weird things thrown at her. I just never really bought into that particular dilemma and I think the movie really wanted me to. I never doubted that Nica knew the truth. Also, as much fun as it was to see Andy and Kyle that whole part feels really thrown in. It felt a little too fan service and not worked into the story well at all. Fiona/Nica really takes the series with Curse/Cult and —————Andy———— just kind of feels like an appendage. Although the whole prologue idea of being unable to function in modern Google search society because of his past and him retreating to this twisted idea of torturing the Chucky head he keeps as a trophy was really twisted, funny, and inspired in that way this franchise can often be. Oh, and poor Alice. That seemed like a kind of rough/unsatisfying way to end that. I mean, it worked to be brutal in the story but it felt a little empty as a viewer. I gotta wonder if there’s some kind of production reasoning like the child actor quitting or the family not wanting her working in horror anymore but it looks like she’s appearing in the pretty twisted No End House show right now, so I don’t know. Maybe they just wrote themselves into a corner where she’d have to be Chucky and it was beyond her acting skills. I don’t know, it just stuck with me. And the movie seemed to be trying to “lampshade” it. Final results? 1. Child’s Play - The original, still a scary horror, all time great reveal. 2. Curse - A really good reboot for the franchise and a great stand alone haunted house movie. 3. Cult - Probably gets the nod for pure balls and how much it really tried to do to totally reinvent the franchise for a possible future, or a fun open ended finish. 4. Child’s Play 2 - A solid, if unspectacular sequel that still held onto what made the original work. 5. Bride - Flawed in a lot of ways but the first real case of Mancini’s willingness to just take huge chances with things and did a lot to define the franchise in the end. 6. Seed - I mean, points for balls but that whole thing is kind of a swing and a miss for me. But its definitely a spectacle. 7. Child’s Play 3 - As I saw another poster put it, it ultimately commits the sin of being boring and forgettable. It also lives in a weird middle ground between the horror original and absurd/comedic evolution that made both look bad. In the bigger picture I’ve now done 32 films, 22 new films, and 15 of 31 years. Not too bad for 14 days in. Gonna have to dig for some new years and get ahead of that and I want to go back to the Friday the 13th movies but still not even half way through the month and I’m not feeling burned out at all. Hell, my Halloween directions aren’t even fully up yet and I don’t have any pumpkins. Long way to go. October Tally - New (Total) - (1). V/H/S (2012) / - (2). V/H/S/2 (2013) / 1 (3). Let Us Prey (2014) / - (4). The Crazies (2010) / 2 (5). The Boy (2016) / 3 (6). Beyond the Gates (2016) / - (7). Child’s Play (1988) / - (8). Jennifer’s Body (2009) / 4 (9). Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015) / - (10). Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) / 5 (11). The Void (2016) / 6 (12). Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut (1990) / - (13). Grave Encounters (2011) / 7 (14). Grabbers (2012) / 8 (15). Get Out (2017) / 9 (16). Society (1989) / 10 (17). The House of the Devil (2009) / 11 (18). Hell Baby (2013) / 12 (19). Ghostwatch (1992) / 13 (20). Let Me In (2010) / - (21). Child’s Play 2 (1990) / 14 (22). Splinter (2008) / - (23). Child’s Play 3 (1991) / 15 (24). Apollo 18 (2011) / - (25). Bride of Chucky (1998) / 16 (26). Seed of Chucky (2004) / 17 (27). Friday the 13th (1980) / 18 (28). Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) / 19 (29). The Babysitter (2017) / 20 (30). Curse of Chucky (2013) / 21 (31). 31 (2016) / 22 (32). 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I've been watching horror flicking in random rotation since October started. I didn't think to post before so I'll try to keep these to just hot takes. Don't really have a goal number, either October will end or I'll stick to the ones I like. 2. Deep Blue Sea, this movie has a killer soundtrack with the my hat is like a Shark fin song. Samuel Jackson's death is the best part of the movie. 3. Evil Dead the old one, this is my favorite one in the series with the multiple deadites taunting the group over most of the movie. The new remake sucks huge donkey dick resusing so much material. 4. Event Horizon, gory kill fest movie. My favorite part is somehow the black guy gets shot into space via exploding spaceship still somehow manages to fly back to the Event Horizon to save the day. Morpheus did a good job a the captain even though its the same role he would go on to play in like all his stuff. He does a good emotion yell when trying to get to the airlock, Jussssstiiiiiiinnnnn! 5. Drag me to hell, the old lady stuff is great but once they start trying to get help from the mexican lady the movie gets boring fast. All the build up to it was good but the ritual just seemed dumb. 6. DeepStar Six, America for some reason is having underwater missile launch silos installed and they wake up a huge dumb monster that is able to live because no one can shoot a gun or use a exploding shark spear correctly. The creator of Robocop plays a real wimpy character. 7. Leviathan, stars Robocop as he tries to do a cheap alien ripoff underwater. Mexican character can't use his suit right so they have to have a 20m part where hes suit doesn't have air to make the movie interesting. Then he dies and his death scream is pretty funny.  They swim up from the bottom of the ocean and then Robocop says a one liner as he throws a stick of dynamite at the monster to blow it up. 8. The Thing, good classic. Favorite part is the chest monster that eats the doctors arms and the arm that shoots up out of the blood. MacReady lived, Childs was human. 9. The Thing The prequel, I like the movie on how it expanded the Thing's monster. They made too much noise with their lute music and woke the drat thing up. The space ship stuff at the end is kinda lame but I guess they had to go big for a new movie. They can still make another movie from the helicopter crash site. 10. 1408, good spooky movie about a spooky hotel room. It's pretty much just John Cusack running around his hotel room and getting scared for an hour in an half. Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 08:41 on Oct 15, 2017 |
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Oct 15, 2017 08:26
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Super Fan posted:I liked the book enough but I'm glad the films excised all those superfluous characters like those adult drunkards only tangentially related to the story. Hakan mutilates himself with acid instead of just committing suicide because Lacke and his friends might recognise him after speaking to him in the Sun Palace. Eli killing Jocke gets Lacke into a fight with Virginia when he grieves; that fight leads to her also getting attacked by Eli with Lacke as witness. That in turn leads to Lacke hunting for Eli and Oskar saving Eli's life, which is why Eli decides to take Oskar with her when she leaves Blackeberg. But sure, superfluous and only tangentially related to the story.
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Oct 15, 2017 09:14
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32. Tombs of the Blind Dead - From conversation in the horror thread I was expecting slightly non-traditional zombies, but that's really selling these guys short. At first it looks like we're in full-on skeleton territory, but then we get a couple signs pointing more zombie-ish, and even a little touch of vampire. They're pretty cool. The human characters and plotting are odd even by old horror standards. I have no idea why the professor's son agreed to visit the old town with them, or why the inspector followed them to that meeting unless we assume that literally everyone other than the initial three central characters know what's up. Movie also threw me for a loop when the assistant mannequin-maker is cornered in the warehouse and, instead of being horribly murdered, just sets the body on fire and apparently lives happily ever after. Not as amazing as I was hoping it would be, but it gets points for surprising me a few times and extremely cool design on the knights. Quite a few standout visuals. The ending is also great, with the accidental kidnapping of a bunch of blind old men. Will they be able to find their way back or are they just going to have to relocate to the resort town for good? Poor guys.     33. A Nightmare on Elm Street - At a local theater. I haven't seen this since I was a kid and Shocker reminded me that Wes is cool and good, so I felt obligated even though it's a rewatch. Major standout impressions in the order I remember them: the sound design is excellent and I really appreciate that they didn't just have a single recording that played every time Freddy touches something with his claws. All of the outdoors at night dream scenes are really pretty and I love the lighting/fog around the edges. The secret spare coffee maker was a perfect complement to the mom's stashes of booze. Freddy feels like a more restrained presence than I was expecting based on memories of the later movies. He obviously has some personality, but he's not even visible in any of the most effective scenes. There are a lot of strange little moments where he's just flickering by in the foreground/background out of sight of whoever is dreaming that feel really weird in the context of the movie. This initially seems kind of weird in the context of the movie - we establish early on that he's not constrained by space in any obvious way, and if he was just playing with his victim you'd expect him to make his presence known. The movie never makes any attempt to establish how he works but does seem to suggest that rules exist, which feels like the right choice for a dream monster. I had also completely forgotten about the insect motif, Freddy was pretty enthusiastic about being the boogieman at this point. Also, blood geyser. 34. Dead of Night - This thing starts kind of slow but when it gets rolling there are some real standouts. The golf segment is A++ and then we get the best version of the ventriloquist story I've ever seen. Followed by the best ending to a wraparound segment I've ever seen. Some really great acting throughout, too. Definitely check this one out. 35. Chillerama - This goes about as well as I think you could reasonably expect given that the first segment is called Wadzilla, but the audience reaction is really what made it.
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3. Blair Witch (2016, dir. Adam Wingard, d.p. Robby Baumgartner) From the start, it was impossible for this movie to live up to the original. The explosion of the found footage genre, as well as the massive changes in how information spreads, make it impossible to manufacture a "genuine" experience of that scale. That said, I still think it's possible for a good film to be made with the premise. This film is at its absolute best when it drops the pretenses of mimicking the first film stylistically and becomes a high-octane thrill ride. Unfortunately, that only comprises the last third of the feature. The prior hour is spent retreading the beats of the original film's setup and climbing action, just blander and more conventional. I haven't seen much of Wingard, and certainly not any of the heralded films he made with screenwriter Simon Barrett, but I hope that this film isn't representative of their typical quality. The characters for the most part are generic horror victims, save for the two underutilized Burkittsville guides. The actors do a fine enough job with what they have, but they don't elevate it either. It doesn't help that the dialogue feels visibly more scripted. Barrett makes a good pass at naturalistic dialogue, but when the original was stitched together from improvised takes, any comparison is going to make the former sound less authentic. One element the movie did do well was the incorporation of the massive amounts of portable camera technology that has arisen since 1999. The aggressive commitment to maintaining found footage with all of the methods of capture wasn't always in aid of the plot, but it at least maintained minor interest when nothing else noteworthy was occurring. The witch effects were...not optimal, but I felt the original worked so well due to her aggressive absence from the tape, so nothing they were going to do with it was going to make me happy. The music would have been passible in any other film, but given the distinctive ambience of the original, it just comes off as distracting. I realize that most of this is filled with complaints, and I feel that the first two-thirds are only going to get worse the more I revisit them, but the last act was well worth the price of admission. It completely channeled the aggressive insanity that popped up in the best moments of his VHS work. And much of the time, the main crime of the film is being unmemorable, rather than being outright bad. Perhaps if Wingard had been given the o.k. to aggressively eschew the original as he had in the final act we would have gotten a truly interesting follow-up, but it isn't this one. 5/9
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8. Splinter (2008) Predictable but solid. I appreciate that the threat is more than just a zombie-thing, but the distinction doesn't matter much when the spastic camerawork reduces the creature to a muddy blur. Three pumpkins out of five for being an interesting low-budget bottle film. Recommened for anyone looking for a light but enjoyable creature feature. 
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Oct 15, 2017 14:16
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1)Ghostwatch 2)Willow Creek 3)Mother! 4)Q 5)Vampyros Lesbos 6)Saw the final chapter 7)Trilogy of Terror 8)train to busan 9)The living Skeleton 10)Light’s Out 11)Gerald’s Game 12)31 13)The Monster 14)Little Evil  15)friday the 13th Rewatch! Classic, but definitely distinct from what the series evolved into. I don't know if I like it more than other slashers of the era, but it's still solid. /5
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October 15 - Bram Stoker's Dracula No, not that one. This is a 1973 BBC television production of Dracula with Jack Palance as the vampire. I saw that and I thought, "How could I not watch Palance doing Dracula?" and he turned out well but the rest... Well, it's definitely a BBC television production from the 1970's. Dracula is tired of the humdrum life in rural Transylvania so he decides to go to the big city. He hires a solicitor to prepare a house for him and moves to England where he samples the local food. However, certain people catch on that there's a foreigner from eastern Europe taking their women and they won't stand for that, driving the immigrant back out of the country. Adaptations of Dracula have to go pretty broad given the nature of the original novel. A lot of them are based on the stage play adaptation which limits locations and cast. This one strips things down to the absolute bone. It gives it a herky-jerky feeling where we're just jumping from plot point to plot point. One thing that got me in this movie was the lack of sexuality in the film. Given how sexually charged the source material is, most adaptations of Dracula lean into that. Even the Bela Lugosi version has that simmering undercurrent. Here, though, the closest you get is triple layered Victorian undergarments. There's no passion in this Dracula. So not the worst adaptation I've seen, but it is definitely a bargain basement BBC adaptation.
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#42. Raw (2016) Justine starts her Uni life by going to a major veterinarian school in her native Belgium, where her older sister is attending and her parents met at. There, she has to endure brutal first week hazing, including violating her vegetarian upbringing to eat raw meat. This and the stress of college on her start to cause unsettling cravings in her, leading to bizarre personality shifts, which seem to even effect her older sister in disturbing ways. I had heard word of mouth that this was an impressive movie, and boy was I not led wrong by that. It's a heavy, sledgehammer of a movie that hits you hard by the end. I would say this also is not a movie for the squeamish, as it doesn't shy away from realistic bloody moments, or glamorize what a vet school requires you to know and look at. It's hard to really describe the film, but it's intense, and I enjoyed it. I give Raw  out of Five#43. Grand Piano (2013) After 5 years in retirement, master pianist Tom Selznick (Elijah Wood) comes back to the stage to honor his late mentor, who composed a piece said to be "impossible" to play. During the concert, Selznick is contacted by a sniper with a bead on him, telling him he must play that piece, and perfectly, or he will die. This was a fun little film, recalling the sort of suspense Alfred Hitchcock loved to create in his prime. There is an intense amount of suspense carried by Wood's panic that makes the film just fly by. On top of that, it's an incredibly sumptuous film, with lavish cinematography, and beautiful music. I know that Wood had a piano hand double for the closeups, but there are still enough shots where he himself is playing that it makes the illusion of him having this level of skill quite palpable. I really appreciated everything this movie had going for it. I give Grand Piano out of Five#44. Dead of Night (1945) One of the earliest horror anthologies, this story sees an architect come to a farmhouse for a social gathering and claim he's seen everyone there in a recurring nightmare. This leads to the guests one by one recounting strange, unexplained occurrences they've experienced. Normally anthologies have the individual pieces set their own pace, but not here, here there's a very real momentum that slowly ramps up as the film goes on. The first couple stories are brief and hoary old urban legend types that anyone can predict. Then we start diving into the meat of things with novel mental twisting, followed by a surprising funny story. Then things turn darker with a truly creepy "evil ventriloquist dummy" tale, followed by the wrap-around story reaching it's climax, which hits stronger than pretty much any other I can think of. This momentum really is such an effective tool, causing you to not at all suspect any of the tension until it's already washed over you. This is definitely a film many could learn from. I give Dead of Night out of Five#45. Chillerama (2011) It's the last night for the local drive-in, so they're showing a night of tasteless terrors made to look like classic drive-in era pictures for their swan song, while behind the scenes, a sex crazed zombie plague has started to spread. First on display is "Wadzilla", wherein a man tries an experimental drug to strengthen his virility, and winds up creating a giant killer sperm that runs amok. Then we have "I was a Teenage Were-bear" where our hero is a teen having uncomfortable urges to gravitate more towards the leather-bound troublemakers than his beach party girlfriend, until said troublemaker bites him, revealing they transform into large hairy leather daddies by the full moon. Next we get "The Diary of Anne Frankenstein", which you could probably figure out the plot of by yourself. Finally, as the zombies run amok, we get glimpses of 'Deathication", the less we talk about the better. If you would have told me this was a Troma movie, I probably would have believed you. It's got that same sort of gonzo crass humor the studio has made a trademark, where everything is over the top and vulgar. I'm definitely in a minority for loving this kind of thing, but if you too enjoy extreme gross-out humor, you'll find it here for sure. I give Chillerama out of Five
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16. Ghostbusters (84) I mean what can I say about this one. It's been my favourite movie for as long as I can remember, I know every word and still laugh at them anyways, and my son loves it as much as I do. A true classic.
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Jedit posted:Hakan mutilates himself with acid instead of just committing suicide because Lacke and his friends might recognise him after speaking to him in the Sun Palace. Eli killing Jocke gets Lacke into a fight with Virginia when he grieves; that fight leads to her also getting attacked by Eli with Lacke as witness. That in turn leads to Lacke hunting for Eli and Oskar saving Eli's life, which is why Eli decides to take Oskar with her when she leaves Blackeberg. Those are minor things as evidenced by them not being in the films.
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1)Ghostwatch 2)Willow Creek 3)Mother! 4)Q 5)Vampyros Lesbos 6)Saw the final chapter 7)Trilogy of Terror 8)train to busan 9)The living Skeleton 10)Light’s Out 11)Gerald’s Game 12)31 13)The Monster 14)Little Evil 15)friday the 13th  16)cube I really enjoyed it. It's very canadian, but works pretty well. Might have to do the rest of the trilogy  /5
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Super Fan posted:Those are minor things as evidenced by them not being in the films. All those things do happen in the films, which it appears you haven't watched.
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13. Creep (2014) I'm basically turning to Netflix for quick and convenient horror flicks at this point until I get some days off where I can get to my horror backlog. This is yet another found footage (there are a lot of them on Netflix it seems) about a filmmaker who goes to a cabin with a terminally ill man who wants to shoot a v-log for his unborn son. Of course, it goes downhill from there. This was a good film because the actor that played Josef was just so drat creepy in a convincing way. The twist at the end was predictable but I have to admit watching him perfectly unnerved me. . 5 /514. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) I think I found out why the original Halloween worked. It had such a perfect ambiance of quiet fall setting, Halloween imagery and the sense that Michael Myers was just unstoppable. This film basically doesn't really attempt any of that turning it into a kinda dull slasher. I'll probably keep watching this series knowing it doesn't get any better. / 5
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Been lazy about writing these up but let's see what I got. 8. Lifeforce (1985) I think this might be my favorite thing I've seen so far. I think maybe a half hour could be chopped off here and it would be really great. /59.REC 3 (2012) I don't think this was anywhere as good as the previous 2. It drops the first person / found footage gimmick pretty early. People are a bit dumber in this one. /510. I Saw the Devil (2012) I really wouldn't consider this a horror movie, more of a thriller. Left me conflicted as it felt like a good movie even though it also felt pretty silly movie logic. /511. Halloween II (2009) Ugh I feel like I keep tricking myself with these goddamn Rob Zombie movies. I hated this, it just felt mean, but not in an interesting way. /512. The Zero Boys (1986) No budget slasher, that goes nowhere for most of its 89 minutes running time; I'm pretty sure the slasher doesn't show up until like 70 minutes in. The movie also just kind of ends with no real conclusion.  /513. Critters (1986) I liked the creature effects and would have probably enjoyed this as a child. Didn't do much for me otherwise. /5Watched: 1. House 2 (4/5) 2. Little Evil (2.5/5) 3. Cult of Chucky (3/5), 4. Dr. Phibes Rises Again (3/5) 5. Fright Night 2 (3/5) 6. Nomads (2.5/5) 7. 976-EVIL (1.5/5) 8. Lifeforce (3/5) 9. REC 3 (3/5) 10. I Saw the Devil (3/5) 11. Halloween II 2009 (2/5) 12. The Zero Boys (1.5/5) 13. Critters (2.5/5) Bonus: REC (4.5/5), REC 2 (4/5), Halloween 2007 (2/5)
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1)Ghostwatch 2)Willow Creek 3)Mother! 4)Q 5)Vampyros Lesbos 6)Saw the final chapter 7)Trilogy of Terror 8)train to busan 9)The living Skeleton 10)Light’s Out 11)Gerald’s Game 12)31 13)The Monster 14)Little Evil 15)Friday the 13th 16)cube  17)Hocus Pocus Rewatch, and not one I'm personally super nostalgic for, but it's not a terrible kids movie. Weirdly focused on children's virgity, but is does stoke up a lot of nostalgia for early 90s halloween.  /5
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10: The Touch of Satan (1971, Don Henderson) [MST3K] A lot of bad horror movies always seem to have the dumb lunk guy and this is no exception. Rightfully riffed by MST3K, this makes an overwhelmingly boring movie tolerable. Though, you can't see it in the lovely print, it was shot by Jordan Cronenweth, who would go on to shoot some slightly more respectable films. 11: Halloween (1978, John Carpenter) One of the essentials I hadn't seen yet. While it may not be a masterpiece of terror, it's probably ground floor for every slasher that came after it. Though, it seems to be an American take on the already-thriving Giallos coming from Italy. You have the horny teens getting it on before getting murdered. The jump scares. The balletic death scenes. With a good dose of ironic humor. Not surprising that it's the film that put John Carpenter on the map. 1a/b: The Creep Behind the Camera/The Creeping Terror | 2: Phantom of the Paradise | 3: The Phantom of the Opera (Hammer) | 4: I Walked with a Zombie | 5: The Evil Dead (1981) | 6: Evil Dead 2 | 7: Army of Darkness | 8: Phantasm | 9: Night of the Lepus
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The Changeling (1980) This was a pretty creepy movie. George C. Scott stars as a grief stricken man who goes to a secluded mansion across the country to restart his life. He isn't as alone as he thinks. This film plays more like a mystery, but it uses a lot of conventions of haunted house movies. It's somewhat slow, but it can get very intense at times. Rewatches (8): Maniac Cop, Friday the 13th 3, Friday the 13th 4, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 , The Lost Boys, Land of the Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, Friday the 13th 6 First time watches (21): Mortuary, Little Evil, Eloise, Mother!, The Roommate, The Chaos Experiment, Resident Evil 6, Vacancy, Rings, The Stepfather, Train to Busan, Dracula's Daughter, Son of Dracula, Cult of Chucky, The Return of Dracula, The Fog, Sssssss! Happy Death Day, the Babysitter, The Changeling
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Ambitious Spider posted:Might have to do the rest of the trilogy No, don't!
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