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The Hausu Usher posted:The Invisible Man owns very hard, second only to Bride of Frankenstein for me. 
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I’m not familiar with a lot of the films in the criterion 80s horror collection. Any recommendations? List here again: https://criterioncast.com/news/october-2022-programming-on-the-criterion-channel-announced
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Oct 2, 2022 16:57
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You can't go wrong with most of them tbh. What's your type of horror? The Hidden is a dope movie, but also: Prince of Darkness Henry Near Dark Road Games The Blob Lair of the White Worm I'll stop for now since I've seen most the list and would recommend all of them lol
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Oct 2, 2022 17:04
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If you like Da Goop and puppets, can't go wrong with either of the Frank Henenlotter movies there.
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Oct 2, 2022 17:06
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watched deep red last night. they spend a good hour of the runtime on just hangin' out in the most insane apartments ive ever seen its good
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Oct 2, 2022 17:09
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Watched Sissy on Shudder I am so glad I gave this a watch! Aisha Dee is incredible Amazing score too Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Oct 2, 2022 |
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Well for Universal, my shortlist is narrowing to the Draculas, the Frankensteins, the Invisible Man, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon (anything divisive is always going to be more interesting than the choices no one has any opinion on). checkplease posted:I’m not familiar with a lot of the films in the criterion 80s horror collection. Any recommendations? This was going to be my next post as well. I've seen about half the list. I've seen these (strongest five recommendations are bolded): -Dead & Buried, Gary Sherman, 1981 (I don't remember a drat thing) -The Funhouse, Tobe Hooper, 1981 (meh) -Scanners, David Cronenberg, 1981 (worth seeing but more iconic for the exploding heads and early Cronenberg goop than "good" per se) -Basket Case, Frank Henenlotter, 1982 (quality Henenlotter schlock) -Q: The Winged Serpent, Larry Cohen, 1982 (just saw this last night, review pending in October challenge thread!) -The Hunger, Tony Scott, 1983* (this isn't available until November 1st though) -Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, John McNaughton, 1986 (absolutely brutal) -The Hidden, Jack Sholder, 1987 (memory is fuzzy here) -Prince of Darkness, John Carpenter, 1987 (eighties Carpenter, nuff said) -Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow, 1987 (revisited this last October, great movie) -The Vanishing, George Sluizer, 1988 (overrated albeit compelling) -Brain Damage, Frank Henenlotter, 1988 (more quality Henenlotter schlock) -The Blob, Chuck Russell, 1988 (this is how you do a loving remake!) -Vampire’s Kiss, Robert Bierman, 1989 (Nic Cage in peak gonzo form) -Society, Brian Yuzna, 1989 (watch this and do not read anything whatsoever about the plot) -Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989 (I'd love to revisit, I remember it was a trip) Welcoming recommendations on the ones I have NOT seen: -Inferno, Dario Argento, 1980 -The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne, Walerian Borowczyk, 1981 -The House by the Cemetery, Lucio Fulci, 1981 -Strange Behavior, Michael Laughlin, 1981 -Wolfen, Michael Wadleigh, 1981 -Road Games, Richard Franklin, 1981 -The Fan, Ed Bianchi, 1981 -Next of Kin, Tony Williams, 1982 -Cat People, Paul Schrader, 1982 -The Slumber Party Massacre, Amy Holden Jones, 1982 (I may have technically seen this drunk in a dorm room once but I retained nothing) -The Keep, Michael Mann, 1983 -White of the Eye, Donald Cammell, 1987 -Dream Demon, Harley Cokeliss, 1988 -The Lair of the White Worm, Ken Russell, 1988
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Oct 2, 2022 17:45
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I watched Dead and Buried for last year's challenge and liked it pretty well, I'd recommend it. Slumber Party Massacre is fantastic if you can get through a couple of lulls.
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Oct 2, 2022 17:51
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MacheteZombie posted:I'll stop for now since I've seen most the list and would recommend all of them lol Yeah, I’ve seen 18 of 20 and pretty much feel that way too. The only ones I really didn’t like were The Keep, which I thought was a mess, and The Slumber Party Massacre, which I’m not convinced is as feminist as people say. My top picks would be: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer Prince of Darkness The Vanishing The Lair of the White Worm Tetsuo: The Iron Man I have a soft spot for The Funhouse and Brain Damage, but I don’t have them rated as highly.
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Oct 2, 2022 17:58
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MacheteZombie posted:You can't go wrong with most of them tbh. What's your type of horror? Thanks. I guess i was looking for standouts as I don’t think I’ll get through everything. Always too much I want to watch. Some horrors I watched last year I enjoyed: The Thing, Nightmare on Elm Street, the ring, Tcm, Halloween, cronos, crawl.
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Oct 2, 2022 18:02
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checkplease posted:Thanks. I guess i was looking for standouts as I don’t think I’ll get through everything. Always too much I want to watch. I think you'll dig most of my recs and the list in general. Henry might be the big exception though, it's a heavy and bleak horror flick that follows a serial killer just living his day to day.
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Oct 2, 2022 18:14
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Watched Sissy on Shudder I watched it yesterday and really liked it. Great visual style, great score, and one of the more brutal kills I’ve seen in recent memory
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Oct 2, 2022 18:24
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Benito Cereno posted:I watched it yesterday and really liked it. Great visual style, great score, and one of the more brutal kills I’ve seen in recent memory I’m curious which one you are thinking of because I was shocked at how brutal all kills were The visual of the cliff death made my jaw drop
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Oct 2, 2022 18:59
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 cant say I really expected this sort of exchange in 1996 without a "gross dude" or a hard-f being tossed around in Hellraiser: Bloodline. sorta pleasantly surprised because as soon as it started I was ready for this movie to already go from bad to garbage. This movie is still bad though, the best parts are the monster designs and the kills but otherwise bad. dorium fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Oct 2, 2022 |
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Oct 2, 2022 19:03
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:I’m curious which one you are thinking of because I was shocked at how brutal all kills were I was thinking of the slow motion head bursting under the tire but you’re right, there’s definitely a number of brutal kills
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Oct 2, 2022 19:44
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Anyone watch the Interview with a Vampire series? Any good?
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Oct 2, 2022 20:03
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worms butthole guy posted:Anyone watch the Interview with a Vampire series? Any good? It's weird so far. It's a sequel to the original book/movie, sort of. The theme is that the original interview never got published, so Louis reaches out 50 years later to the same interviewer to redo the interview, so it's also a reboot. The actual character of Louis is changed pretty significantly (plantation owner wouldn't work for obvious reasons). I don't think it's GOOD so far, but it's decent enough that I'm going to continue watching. It's got "cancelled after one season" written all over it
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Oct 2, 2022 20:18
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Aw bummer. We watched scream queens season 1 again and that's still probably the best horror TV show of all time
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Oct 2, 2022 20:23
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worms butthole guy posted:Aw bummer. We watched scream queens season 1 again and that's still probably the best horror TV show of all time I only ever saw the “My vagina” line on the soup
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Oct 2, 2022 20:28
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I decided to watch Thirteen Ghosts 2001 for my first October view after the discussion here and it was cool. Cool sets, monsters and kills (though there are only 4). Horrible dialogue but the whole concept behind the house and the magic/spells stuff was pretty wild considering how nu-metal the film is. Tony Shaloub gets points for not phoning his poo poo in.
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Oct 2, 2022 20:54
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I know someone working on the other AMC Anne Rice television series filming in New Orleans, so I'm hoping that one works out well.
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Disposable Scud posted:I decided to watch Thirteen Ghosts 2001 for my first October view after the discussion here and it was cool. Cool sets, monsters and kills (though there are only 4). Horrible dialogue but the whole concept behind the house and the magic/spells stuff was pretty wild considering how nu-metal the film is. That movie is EXTREMELY terrifying as a homeowner. Just thinking about having to clean all those windows shakes me to my very core
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Oct 2, 2022 20:57
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I watched Hereditary so now I'm re-watching Elvira: Mistress of the Dark to raise my spirits. I love that movie so much, it's got almost Airplane!-levels of rapid-fire jokes while having a slightly straighter narrative, and Elvira kicks so much rear end.
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Just saw Smile and have very mixed feelings. Some of it is done very well (particularly some of the designs and effects towards the end) but it could have done more plus it’s also part of that genre where a person constantly reacts to a situation in the worst way possible which got frustrating after a while. Mostly though I think it got off of the wrong foot pretty badly when I saw the main character owned an adorable cat. It was an incredibly cheap and unpleasant way to build tension and one that is increasingly becoming a deal breaker for me. The nanosecond I saw the cat I knew exactly where the movie was going and I distinctly remember thinking to myself that were this not a theater I’d have stopped the movie and watched something else right then and there. And to contribute to pets in horror talk yes, it’s distinctly different to kill a pet vs a person. It can be done well but usually isn’t and due to the unique way people relate to their pets the result is upsetting rather than simply exciting or scary. I consider it a lot like a jump scare (which Smile also had a problem with) yeah, of course you can upset me by showing me a dead cat the same way you can startle me with a loud sound but neither demonstrates any real skill on the part of the filmmaker’s part.
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One thing that would have improved Smile in my opinion despite overall liking it was right at the end, instead of mindlessly screaming at the monster that she'd seen before and was already familiar with, she should have been shouting at the police officer ex-bf to NOT come in and just let things happen, only for him to not heed her warning due to hubris. That way she would have done everything she could to defeat it only for the failure to feel more inevitable. I did like that fakeout though as it felt very 1408.
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Oct 2, 2022 21:44
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the scene in House That Jack Built where he speeds off in his van escaping with the corpse dragging behind while Bowie's "fame" plays is honestly up there with I Saw The Devil as the most tar black comedy. Prob one of my fav pairings of a popular song in a horror movie (the GOAT being Freebird in Rejects)
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I have guests this coming weekend, what horror movies should I show them that are not really intense horror movies and are kind of mild because neither of them like horror movies. I was thinking of stuff like Silver Bullet , that sort of thing.Kvlt! posted:the scene in House That Jack Built where he speeds off in his van escaping with the corpse dragging behind while Bowie's "fame" plays is honestly up there with I Saw The Devil as the most tar black comedy. Prob one of my fav pairings of a popular song in a horror movie (the GOAT being Freebird in Rejects) I thought the House that Jack Built was absolutely hilarious. Like I just really enjoyed the pitch black humor that was in it.
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Hollismason posted:I have guests this coming weekend, what horror movies should I show them that are not really intense horror movies and are kind of mild because neither of them like horror movies. I was thinking of stuff like Silver Bullet , that sort of thing. Tremors or other creature features with a pleasant cast and vibe. I remember the first Lake Placid was quite nice in that way, too. Arachnophobia, maybe.
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Crescent Wrench posted:Well for Universal, my shortlist is narrowing to the Draculas, the Frankensteins, the Invisible Man, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon (anything divisive is always going to be more interesting than the choices no one has any opinion on). Don't avoid The Old Dark House! That's one of my faves.
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I was won over when he followed up a montage of historical dictators, madmen and genocides with a montage of previous Lars von Trier films.
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Grendels Dad posted:Tremors or other creature features with a pleasant cast and vibe. I remember the first Lake Placid was quite nice in that way, too. Arachnophobia, maybe. Tremors and Lake Placid along with Arachnophobia is a really good suggestion.
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Oct 2, 2022 22:32
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God, I need to rewatch Tremors. One of those movies made by the little things. Like counting how many things get knocked over or dropped early in the movie, just to set that up.
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I gotta do a whole write up for the challenge thread but I just finished Bring it On: Cheer or Die and oh my god it sucks so bad. So, so bad, like worst movie I’ve seen that I didn’t have a moral objection to all year. It’s the kind of movie where down the road someone involved is going to claim they were intentionally trying to make something lovely, like a Sharknado, but they will be LYING. The best part of the whole movie is the behind the scenes cheer practice that rolls during the credits, it has more energy and life than anything that actually made the film.
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Oct 2, 2022 22:50
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Kvlt! posted:the scene in House That Jack Built where he speeds off in his van escaping with the corpse dragging behind while Bowie's "fame" plays is honestly up there with I Saw The Devil as the most tar black comedy. Prob one of my fav pairings of a popular song in a horror movie (the GOAT being Freebird in Rejects) Big fan of “Love Hurts” in Halloween 2 here
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Oct 2, 2022 23:05
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That was also in Halloween 1 as well House that Jack built is great lmao
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Oct 2, 2022 23:08
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After watching Final Destination 4 yesterday, it has a great needledrop of Why Can't We Be Friends while a klansman gets dragged behind a truck after trying to burn a cross. It's so on-the-nose but it got a solid giggle out of me.
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This is the only dog death I’m okay with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSH_riW7V8s
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Ima pull a classic CP here "actually all dog death is cool and good"
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Is that my classic? Idk I keep trying to change myself up all the time so I lose track on what I used to do lmao
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