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Lhet posted:8. The Gate (Bingo: Origin of Evil) - Two boys, through a series of unlucky coincidences, accidentally open a portal to hell in their backyard and struggle to close it. Solid enough, and once the practical effects start kicking in, this was great. The little demons are great, the gate looks great, the big demon looks really good. It's not a superdeep movie, and I'm not sure exactly what the audience is, but it holds its own leading up to the climax, and then pays off well. 4/5 If anyone's super into practical effects and especially stopmotion monsters, they owe it to themselves to watch The Gate. The little undercranked rubber gremlin dudes are so loving cool.
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 7)Hellraiser '22 (hulu)  They Always Come BackHey another good Hellraiser! New Pinhead is good. Now it doesn't reinvent the wheel, or do anything extraordinary with the concept, but at this point just being good is good enough. Though the last one I caught was when they were in space, so I can't really speak to anything since then. My only minor quibble-using the box to stab a cenobite is definitely cheating. Why would that count? Unless pinhead is just like "huh, clever. I'll allow it." .5/5 1)The Munsters, 2)Color Out of Space 3)Living Dead Girl 4)Collingswood story5)Mr. Harrigan’s Phone 6)Werewolf by night/halloweenies 7)Hellraiser
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16. Hellraiser (2022) Where to watch ? Its now streaming on Hulu  Well I'll be damned , they actually went and did it. They made a Hellraiser movie that was a reboot of the series and it is not loving bad at all. This is a really great adaptation of the material and what it was a about. Especially because they get the motivation of the Cenobytes right. They're not avenging anything. Its a really drat good horror film and its hard to talk about it without spoiling it. Its gorey, its sexual and most of all Jamie Clayton loving slays it as the Hellpriest. I would rank it 3rd after 1 and 2 of course, but its strong in that its as good as the 2nd. Here are my spoilered thoughts I loved the story of a addict finding the lament configuration and all that entails. Really makes the story incredibly personal but I'd have liked to seen more done with that. You never really struggle with addiction its just something they talk about The new cenobyte designs are loving excellent and the updated Hellpriest look is fantastic. We actually get a stinger of the movie where we see a cenobyte being made and that was excellent and gory.
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Thanks, Darthemed, for letting me know these things had finally gotten subbed and put on Youtube #13: Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi File 01: Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman Behind the Screams On Youtube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMPAYLNSt4E  A group of paranormal investigators are given a video of what appears to be a real life Slit-Mouthed Woman. They investigate and discover that the whole situation is very spooky. Now, this is very clearly the first part of a series. The whole Slit-Mouthed Woman thing is pretty good, the classic urban legend is explained early on so you can see that this Slit-Mouthed Woman is not following protocol. It's not really resolved because it's clear that we're just looking at the edge of something greater. But it does end on a satisfactorily spooky note that leaves you wanting more. The subs aren't great so I can't be sure if this is what it's going for, but there's a line towards the end where it's like, her soul was captured by the Slit-Mouthed Woman, which implies that this Slit-Mouthed Woman works on similar rules to the Slit-Mouthed Woman from Shirashi's non-mockumentary movie Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman. Which is neat. It's a good spooky time. There are jump scares but the documentary format means that they are then replayed in super slow motion. It's definitely a late night creeper in the classic Shiraishi vein, and I am fully on board for the rest of this series 
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7. Hellraiser (2022) A woman struggling to make ends meet steals a strange box... with spooky results. Hi, I'm that guy that never posts unless someone mentions Clive Barker. So, I was really hoping this would be a good movie. It is. It's a good movie. It a good movie called Hellraiser. Is it a good Hellraiser movie? Well... it's the third best Hellraiser movie by quite a large distance. It gets a lot of things right. It understands that the Cenobites aren't evil. They just have a different perspective. The come from a place where pleasure and pain are inseparable. They aren't demons who trick you into getting something you didn't want, they just don't understand that you might not like being flayed and seeping for all eternity. However, it sure does spend a good chunk of the movie having them act like monsters out to chase you down. The Cenobites look great. The new ones are great designs. The actors do a good job with them. Pinhead is very much as described in the novella, which I like better than the leather daddy look. They very smartly didn't try to copy Doug Bradley and did a slightly new direction while still being the same character. Doug Bradley Pinhead has an authority, Jamie Clayton Pinhead has a calm confidence. The non-Cenobite visual design is also good. The score is very good. The characters are actually good. It's just not exactly what I, personally, wanted. I want a slower, quieter, more introspective story about desire biting you in the rear end. I sorta wish it ended one scene earlier. Pinhead's departure was the better ending to me. Living is the greatest suffering. We're already in hell. 4/5 
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7. Hocus Pocus 2 This is the most cringe worthy movie ever. It's....fine and "charming" I guess but it's full on Disney cringe in this. I think if I was the same age I saw Hocus Pocus that I saw this I would enjoy it but as a adult it's just....meh. 2/5
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 Horror Noire -Watch a film directed by a Black filmmaker #37.) Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (dir. William Crain; 1976; Tubi) Dr. Pride is doing research into rejuvenation of human tissue, but when an experiment goes awry, he's transformed into an albino with a thirst for blood. The first act is a drowsy one, feeling like a community theater production of a hospital drama while it sets up the pieces for later. But once Dr. Pride transforms, things pick up, with a huge bar brawl that involves him throwing numerous dudes across the room. The story changes up the usual Mr. Hyde MO by having it be Dr. Pride's mind in a changed body, but more murderous. He knows the same things Pride does, and has the same desires, and the only additional behaviors he picks up are tendencies to fight people and crush sex worker's throats in alleys. If it's an exploration of man's dark desires, it's a limited one, though they do give the doctor some backstory which lends the murders a sort of Oedipal explanation. There's a whole plot tangle of pimping (though there's apparently only one in this part of town, and he knows some Dolemite-style karate), police laziness to solve the sex worker murders, and classism at play in their willingness to consider the doctor as a suspect. A lot of stuff to pick apart if you want to get into deep analysis of the film, but the moment-to-moment quality of the film can distract from the ambitions of the script. And then the ending decides to go for an action angle (including a King Kong homage) instead of introspection. It left me with the feeling that it could have been much more than it was, especially when comparing it to Blacula, which Crain also directed. Assuming from Blacula's quality that there was some interference on this one, and I can see why the director got out of feature films afterwards. "Brother-man, this situation is rapidly becoming insalubrious. Meaning, we about to stomp a mudhole in your rear end." Rating: 6/10
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10. Vivarium A couple played by Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg get tricked into an inescapable suburban hell dimension. Their only hope of escape is to raise a sinister mutant child. With that two sentence summary, you should be able to come up with every plot beat that makes up this movie, and more than a few of the exact shots as well. My hopes were raised with a few moments of brilliance, like Jesse Eisenberg trying to burn down their house about twenty minutes in and the crazy ADR they use for the kid's dialogue, but ultimately Vivarium is totally unimaginative. Usually I;m satisfied it when movies meet my expectations, but not like this.
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Really my only options for checking these two off the map. 11 (30 - The Bahamas). Bad Girl Island Behind the Screams Girl? Yes. Island? Yes. Bad? Oh gently caress is it terrible. A siren washes up on a beach and ends up starring in a movie about a siren washing up on the beach and killing a bunch of people, who it's eventually revealed are all horrible assholes and had it coming. This has more skin than a porn movie, just no sex. 1/5 12 (31 - Turks and Caicos Islands). Chupacabra Terror Terror-Vision - SyFy original with a Probably shouldn't have let myself count shorts towards world tour, but too late now. I have another 60 (mostly feature) films on my list.
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Sono posted:Really my only options for checking these two off the map. If you haven't already make sure to watch Excision for a good movie starring AnnaLynne McCord
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 Hobo with a Shotgun, 2011 What started as a joke trailer in Grindhouse eventually got made into a real movie. And about time, because this movie is loving great. Just nonstop over the top violence and gore from start to finish. A homeless drifter comes to a small city that's Hell on Earth. Crime is so bad and the police so corrupt that gangsters can hold public executions for all to see, rapists and child molesters run rampant and murder is just normal. Our hobo finds him self in a pawn shop robbery and grabs a shotgun, killing the robbers, then steps out to give the town the justice the police refuse to bring one shotgun shell at the time. He just straight up kills the most objectively worst people ever and the local crime lord don't like it. His sons burn a whole school buss full of children and sends the message that more kids will be killed unless the hobo dies and that it is open hunting season on homeless people. This is where the tonal whiplash of the movie is at its most in your face. The whole movie is super cartoony and over the top obviously a sort of comedy. Yet you got these scenes of brutal child murder, homeless people hunted and dumped in mass graves, a homeless mother with her baby burned alive by mobs. And the the tonal whiplash is sort of what makes it work. Every killing and act of violence do feel gruesome, do feel horrible, yet everything is so awesome and fun. It is hard to describe what I mean. Hobo with a Shotgun is one of the best horror comedies I've seen in quite some time just in terms of awesome. I strongly recommend this movie. Hot Dog Day #89 fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Oct 8, 2022 |
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 #5: The Handmaiden (2016) Spooky Bingo: Paperbacks From Hell Based on the novel Fingersmith. Set in Japanese-occupied Korea, a young thief goes to work as a maid for a Japanese heiress as part of a conman's scheme to steal her inheritance. This is much-seen and highly regarded and I don't have much to add to that. Beautiful, well-acted, intricately plotted. The lesbian sex scenes are absurd to the extent that I wondered if a point was being made about some sort of parallel to the erotic literature Hideko is forced to read, but I couldn't make that add up to anything.  #6: The Deep House (2021) Spooky Bingo: Hausu A young couple who create urban exploration YouTube videos together document their dive into a mansion at the bottom of a man-made lake. Underwater exploration is fascinating and instantly tense, and I admire being able to set nearly an entire movie underwater, particularly the segments with the ghosts, where the performers aren't even in diving gear. But I found the more mundane exploration so tense that the eventual introduction of the the supernatural elements undercut the tension for me because the danger became a lot less grounded. Just alright. 
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7. All Hallow's Eve (2013), Tubi Pretty mean-spirited, felt a little misogynistic (especially the first story , and the very end of the highway story). Definitely done on a budget and it shows; on one hand I'm trying to be fair about it and say "well for a movie made for $38 and made by 6 people, it's a solid enough effort", and some of the practical effects work was great given the budget and apparent experience level of the effects guy (who was also the director), but other stuff was hokey as hell and really unconvincing. The different demons in the first story all felt like the director tried to come up with a mish-mash of the edgiest "scary" Spirit Halloween masks he could find and none were particularly convincing. The alien in the alien abduction had the potential to be cool and unsettling with his weird wavy movements, but he was shown way too much and full on looked like someone had seen a higher-budget sci-fi movie somewhere and then tried to swede it. Like yeah I get that the budget was low, but at least disguise it by keeping the alien hidden or in the shadows or only offer glimpses of it, don't put it front and center in the camera where it's extremely clear that it's a guy in a $20 costume. The highway story started out as the best one, with solid effects and a surreal "this can't be happening" vibe to it, and then it nosedived at the end when the clown carved pointless slurs into the girl's mutilated body (although when the clown was whipping her with random tools on chains earlier on, that was probably a bad sign). Like, why? The wraparound story started out weak and got pretty great, especially when it had the phone call that intersected with the highway story, and how the weird stuff from the tape bled into the "real" world. My one criticism of the wraparound story was how it would cut back from the other stories to show the wraparound characters' reactions to what they were watching; just let the little stories play out, I don't need to see the other characters flinch or cringe to tell me I should be flinching or cringing, it felt like slapping an unnecessary laugh track (scare track?) on the movie. Clown was creepy and memorable, he did his job. 1. 'Tales from the Crypt' (1972) 2. 'Trilogy of Terror' (1975) 3. 'Southbound' (2015) 4. 'The Vault of Horror' (1973) BONUS: 'Smile' (2022) 5. 'Creepshow' (1982) 6. 'The House That Dripped Blood' (1971) 7. 'All Hallow's Eve' (2013)
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11. Black Mountain Side 2016 Call of Cold-thulhu  Part At the Mountains of Madness, part The Thing, Black Mountain Side is fond of taking its time. There's certainly lots of moments where poo poo gets real and there's some surprise gore, but the cool moments are between lots of long stretches of staring at nothing, or slow zooms in on people's faces. The movie's not bad, but it's a much slower watch than I think most people would be down for. When it's good, it's pretty drat good (and an excellent Cthulhu movie) but it's weighed down by sluggish editing and pacing. Still worth a watch if you're interested in something Lovecraftian. Rating: 6.3/10 Buried Snow Pyramids --- 12. Deadstream 2022 Logan Paul in a haunted house  Fast-paced, wickedly funny, and splattered in goop and gore, Deadstream is a really good time. From a biting satire of livestream culture to a flat-out haunted house movie, everything moves at a quick pace until the first goop hits the wall, at which point the movie never slows up until the end. The story is mostly predictable, but that's not a bad thing -- instead, it lets the movie tell genuinely funny jokes in a grotesque situation. Perfect beer and pizza movie. Rating: 7.8/10 Slim Jims
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October 7 - Hellraiser Yeah, everyone is going to watch this one. I actually haven't seen the direct to video sequels because I was warned off them pretty hard (plus, having seen III and IV, I wasn't going to return unless I heard good things).  I'm a bit concerned about some of these five-star ratings... A recovering drug addict with bad taste in boyfriends is convinced to rob a shipping containing. Inside it is a safe and inside the safe is a box and inside the box is smaller box that has parts that move. She triggers the mechanism for the box which ejects a knife and her brother gets cut by it. He vanishes a few minutes later and she is convinced the box is the reason. I don't want this to be a wall of spoiler text so I'm going to be more circumspect than I usually am in these posts. First of all, third best Hellraiser movie. It completely upends the mythos of series and it's got a few hefty flaws, but over all the movie works. Hellraiser has always been kind of complicated because the cenobites aren't really active villains. "You called, we came." "We have such sights to show you." Those two lines pretty much sum them up and in the original two films. They're just hanging out being angels to some, demons to others and then someone opens the box and they got to get off their butterball rear end to hook people and haul them back. So the films are really dependent upon the story of the people who are willing to tinker with the magic artifact that's brings damnation with it. This film's solution to that is to rewrite things: now there's multiple configurations of the box and setting one causes it to draw blood with the person whose blood is spilled getting captured. It gives the reboot a stronger narrative drive, but I feel like it pushes the cenobites more toward being standard movie monsters rather than being weird things from another realm. This film does like to hammer the beats that it has, though I don't think it hurts to be blunt in this way. The film is initially sensual, mirroring the originals, though that is lost as it shifts into a mystery mode. OTOH, once the movie reaches the halfway point, it picks up a new direction that I thought was pretty interesting. Obviously, people want to know how Jamie Clayton does as the new Pinhead: she's good. I think I like Bradley better, but I think that's more due to the general approach to the cenobites rather than a slight on Clayton. She doesn't get a lot of memorable lines, either, since this movie doesn't have the pen of Clive Barker behind it. A few more notes: this is a very dark film. I had to watch in a well-lit room and I could barely see a lot of the scenes. And the layering of voices on the cenobites made them really hard to understand. Without drilling into this too deeply, this is an interesting reboot. I like the original duology better, but this movie is better structured to turn Hellraiser into a proper horror franchise and if they make a sequel I will happily watch it. Naturally, They Always Come Back:  Fake edit: I appreciate that everyone who is watching this movie is calling it the "third best Hellraiser". 
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Random Stranger posted:October 7 - Hellraiser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foFVt1Np41w&t=2s
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10. Crimson Peak (2015) Directed by Guillermo del Toro 🎃 Paperbacks From Hell 🎃 "Edith, this is your home now. You have nowhere else to go."  If anyone is looking to fill the Picnic At Hanging Rock, Zombie Honeymoon, Hausu, or possibly Masters of Horror square, Crimson Peak could fit the bill. I went with Paperbacks From Hell because Edith is a writer. Crimson Peak looks amazing. The costumes and sets, especially Allerdale Hall, and the boss fight finale are just fantastic. The unfortunate thing is that there's not a whole lot else going on. There's a mystery about an old family with an unsavory past, but that's just gothic horror. It's not that it's bad, it's just that it drags on too long and Guillermo del Toro has done so much better. 👻👻👻/5 October Challenge 4/31 1. Blood Feast (1963), 2. Sunshine (2007), 3. Relic (2020), 4. Mortuary (2005) Spooky Bingo 6/36 1. Rodan (1956), 2. Carrie (2013), 3. Gargoyles (1972), 4. Ticks (1993), 5. Penda’s Fen (1974), 6. Crimson Peak (2015)  Total 10/?
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#14: Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi File 02: Shivering Ghost Masters of Horror  Holy poo poo, now that's what I'm talking about! After the Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi File series got off to a relatively staid start with Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman, Shiving Ghost puts it into high gear! Our paranormal investigators, still with unanswered questions from the Slit-Mouthed Woman case, are shown a video of a ghost in an abandoned building. They investigate only for their investigation to go off on an unexpected tangent. And it just loving goes down this wild rabbit hole. I'm talking a magic bisexual, I'm talking the true purpose of the Tokyo Sky Tree, the first appearance of the Shiraishi trademark weird blob in the sky, it kicks rear end. And this is only part 2! If this was a regular length Shiraishi movie we'd be 2/3rds of the way through by this point. I am one hundred percent on board with the Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi File series now. I can't wait to see where this goes. 
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Movie #7 Glitches -watch a film heavily featuring fears of technology, fears of the internet, or devices failing/becoming possessed/dangerous Mr. Harrigan's Phone, 2022 A fairly average Stephen King story with a few laughable Old Man Yelling At Cloud moments. The first half is a coming of age story as we watch young Craig befriend the elderly billionaire Harrigan, reading to him three times a week and doing odd jobs around the house. When Harrigan eventually dies, the film becomes a very, very light horror with Harrigan and Craig's phones connecting them between life and death. The mundane small town stuff is fun and Donald Sutherland is excellent as Harrigan. I liked the rapport built between him and Craig, and there's a decent thematic undercurrent with three generations of men being unable to express their emotions and deal with grief. The high school drama, on the other hand, is totally uninteresting, and once things start getting spooky they derail a lot of the emotional build the film has established. A haunted phone that connects to the afterlife and may grant its user the power over life and death either needs to be played way campier or way more seriously, a study of how power corrupts and the spiritual trauma therein. Director John Lee Hancock's 2016 film The Founder, following McDonald's "founder" Ray Kroc's rise to power, is a masterpiece of power ruining someone on a very personal scale. That remarkably well-toned thematic study is almost entirely absent here. 
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7. Suburban Sasquatch (2004) A reporter investigates strange murders that turn out to be an angry big foot. Suburban Sasquatch is not a good movie, it's color is bad, the light is overblown at times, the stock effects are grating, and the CGI is laughable, but it's got a lot of heart. Had a bunch of fun watching it with friends. Not recommended for solo viewing. Looks to be available on Tubi. Counting this one for Wild Beasts 
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12: Night of the Comet Origins of Evil (1984) A comet passes close to the earth, with spooky results. This is one of those cult classics I've been aware of for years but never got around to seeing (and also constantly mixed up with Night of the Creeps). It's a solid little 80s movie with pretty much everything you'd expect from an 80s movie, to an almost cliche degree, but it's brisk and enjoyable.
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 6: Hellraiser (2022) SPOOKY BINGO They Always Come Back I was very skeptical after the trailer for this. You know what? I fuckin loved it. This movie is spooky as hell. It's two hours long but I don't feel like it dragged at all. It looks amazing, the new puzzle box with it's various configurations was a great expansion on the original, there is some absolutely brutal gore and a nice amount of goop, and the way the film very slowly shows you more and more of the cenobites and the labyrinth with each kill really worked for me. We have flawed people dealing with a properly amoral, alien force that has a morality concerned only with the extremes of sensation. Hell yeah. There are some amazing single moments scattered throughout too. Serena taking the cenobite's hosed up communion, the inside of the van unfolding into the labyrinth, blood eagle'd cenobite tearing through it's face, Leviathan descending over the mansion during the finale I do have a few criticisms. I wish we had gotten to explore a bit more of the inside of the labyrinth, even just to get a glimpse at some more grand and otherworldly tortures or have a pov character see the absolute scale of the place for real. While I think the cenobite designs were awesome, they could have been a bit, I dunno, wetter? They sometimes felt more like wax than living, goopy flesh. Lastly, and this is kind of a big one, the movie was more sexless than I expected. That's honestly a criticism of the franchise as a whole though, beloved 1 and 2 included. They never really have the cenobites seem at all interested in the pleasure side of pain and pleasure. If you're trying to explore the outermost boundaries of pain and pleasure, that's a deep loving well, something that can be plumbed quite a bit before you start ripping people in half with chains. Overall though, I was really kinda thrilled with this. Great way to spend a night in the dark.
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13. Hellraiser (2022) Dutifully checks the checkboxes but never finds a satisfying note of its own. The 2022 Hellraiser hits all the visual touchstones: chains, new Cenobites, skin flaying, shifting walls. It does a good enough job with all of the gory business to keep me hooked (hyuk hyuk) for the next ritual torture. My vote for coolest act of violence goes to the abduction from the back of a van, which features a memorable in-body view of puncturing needles. But all the characters here are dishwater dull. Odessa A'zion is given a very loose addiction journey where the people around her getting used up and replaced by pushers of bad sensations is prooobably supposed to track as metaphor for her hitting her lowest point? She ultimately faces a choice that might as well be between chasing the dragon forever and swallowing the bitter pill of acknowledging her own fuckups. But you can't just hang an analogy on top of the horror movie story structure, you need to write it. Aside from a few great lines from Jamie Clayton as Pinhead, this Hellraiser is almost void of juicy dialogue or interesting dramatic moments. In the climax where the stakes are biggest, all the remaining characters just come off as exhausted instead of selling the horror. So the whole picture unwinds itself with the dull ticking consistency of a clock.  .5 / 5 For Spooky Bingo, this Hellraiser reboot satisfies They Always Come Back. 
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 Hausu -watch a Ghost movie #38.) Ju-On: White Ghost (2009; digital) A set of short stories involving the cursed house that usually turns up in the Ju-On films, as well as the ghosts of a little girl in rain gear and an old woman in white who carries a basketball. These are about up to par with the rest of the series, though the stories in this tended to focus on quick scares over building dread. The direction and shooting is good, and while the quickness of some of the stories makes things feel scrambled at first, things pull together as more of the mystery is revealed. The most developed story, and the one to which most of the peripheral stories try to link, is basically The Amityville Horror, but more sudden. There's a Christmas thread running through some of the more overtly related stories, but it didn't feel like it added much more than set dressing (and a reason for a cake delivery) and a vague reinforcement of the familial tragedy. More of a treat for fans of the series seeking more of that ambiguous curse atmosphere than a stand-alone film, but respectable for what it is. “Sorry, I'm tied up right now, I'll be right there.” Rating: 6/10
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 This movie made me regret watching Ready Or Not : because then I could be watching that instead. The Babysitter (McG ; 2017) My Bingo Card Is A Temple I don't remember the last time I bounced off of a movie so hard. I checked in with the horror movie thread and it does seem to be a me thing, so I'm not making any statements about absolute quality. I hated every single second of watching this thing and only finished out of spite. I'll admit it picked up once the killing started but it couldn't win me back after the first 28 agonizing minutes. The last movie where I hurt this much the whole time was the 4th Harry Potter movie, because I watched that in the hospital after major surgery. I didn't know this was McG until after I watched it, but it made perfect sense because I abhor everything else that guy directed. Especially Sugar Ray.  /1012 down, 19 to go
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8. The Deep House (2021) A couple who makes diving YouTube videos discover a house at the bottom of a lake and go exploring. The Deep Houses gimmick of scuba diving both helps and hurts it. Its uniqueness makes me gloss over regular horror movie tropes of being a haunted house movie where characters are dumb. It hurts the movie since some scenes get way too dark to the point of not being able to see anything for quite a while. Also all the YouTube talk felt shoehorned in. Recommended. Available on Amazon Prime. Gonna say that's a haunted house movie so Hausu it is. 
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 #7: Hellraiser (1987) Rewatch First saw this a while back. Rewatched it in anticipation of watching the sequel, in anticipation of watching the reboot. The goop is as good as I remembered, and I appreciated how much time it spends with the various people in the family with the cenobites staying at the periphery. Looking forward to more.
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 32) CarousHELL The 2nd - 2021 - TubiTV Well, when the director of CarousHell responds to your Letterboxd review and mentions the sequel is done, that's a hell of an incentive to go watch it. Not like I needed that incentive anyway. There needs to be more killer carousel unicorn movies out there. Sequels in general can be a mixed bag. Too often the story was told fine with the first movie and they have to stretch to justify the sequel. Other times they'll just slap a sequel moniker on anything to make a buck. Here, we've got legitimate connections to the first film. Nothing was shoehorned in and meshed with the first film. Plot here is the continuation of the killer carousel unicorn, Duke's story. He's still been killing people here and there, but now we get his backstory and his adjusting to being a parent. Just like in the first film where we have a scene where I'm thinking 'Oh God..they're not going to go there'..drat if they went there again and I laughed every moment of it. Everything in the film worked for me, especially the very satisfying gloopy face melt. Robbie was adorable. If you enjoyed the first film, you will enjoy this one. If they do a third film, I will definitely watch it. Franchescanado posted:
 33) One Hour Photo - 2002 - Prime Trying to find something Yuppie Horror was particularly challenging. Most of the films in the category come across more as drama-esque to me than proper horror. This probably comes from being on the brokeass end of things in life. I don't see it as so much horror as a 'well, sucks to be you' thing. I picked this film because it felt close enough to horror, and more needs to be said on Robin Williams phenomenal performance. Story follows Sy, a photo developer who feels a connection with a family that he's handled many of thier family photos over the years. When something happens to break the image Sy has of the family, things get dark. Good God there's so much to unpack in this one. Compared to some films with a similar plotline, this one is uncomfortably plausible. With this film, it had me thinking of back when I was into the various fandoms and you'd always have a few trying to build more of a connection with the actor or actress and ascribing behavior or opinions to them that were pure projection. Call them out on it or they see something that differs from what they've built up in their head and they'd explode. It's not that much of a stretch to wonder what would they do face to face with that famous person. An equal thing to think on is what we present to the world. How often have we come across one of those Youtube channels of a family showing off their life only to have it turn out that the children were being abused or worse. I have friends who share way too much on social media or always present themselves as everything is so awesome in their life to the point it becomes a game to guess what's really going on in their life. So, with that said, I can understand to a point Sy's connecting with the family. While I've never faced the crushing loneliness he does, I can understand his desire to connect. Equally we do like to share aspects of our lives with others. We are a social species after all. It's hard to see how else things could've panned out in this movie. Sy already has issues (ie loneliness, childhood trauma). If the father wasn't cheating on his wife, it could've easily been something else that cracks the facade of the family that has everything. Robin Williams not only knocks this role out of the park, he knocks it into a different galaxy. The depth and nuance he brings into his performance is simply incredible. As much as we know Sy is pretty messed up, we are sympathetic to his plight. He is in dire need of help that he simply never gets. For the most part the family is caught up in their own bubble. Only the son is observant enough to notice Sy's in trouble compared to the mother's obliviousness. This is a film that one needs multiple viewing just because there's so much going on, especially with how much we're involved with social media and isolation. 
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 14. Bulbbul (2020) "Where did the sweet little girl I knew go?" "I gobbled her up." A period melodrama about a woman married off to a rich family as a child being broken emotionally and physically by patriarchy; quite a bit like Raise the Red Lantern but with a demon witch woman floating through the treetops and massacring misogynists! Tripti Dimri is really sharp as the lead here. In flashbacks she's an innocent girl who falls in love with her awful husband's much kinder (and much more age-appropriate) younger brother and is devastated when her one companion is maneuvered away from her, and then in present day we see her hardened into the catty lady of the manor who has learned the painful lessons of power and now enjoys sending barbed remarks everyone's way while fanning herself with peacock feathers. The supernatural elements unfortunately take a long backseat in the midsection so we can stew in her suffering, which I warn you includes a really horrendous rape. But the worst of the to-be-woman-is-pain weepiness is smartly tempered by the flashback structure allowing us to have seen evidence of romantic happiness and revenge both in her future. And I love the big enthusiastic horror energy when the supernatural does pop up, like that great shot of the backwards feet of the witch as she drags a victim away, and the way a bloodshot moon saturates the forest shots in red or orange.  .5 / 5  Spooky Bingo: Bulbbul is directed by the female Anvita Dutt, qualifying for Femme Fatale. 
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:11. Black Mountain Side  I am so loving mad I didn't think of that when I watched that the other year.
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13: The Company of Wolves (1984) Full Moon A girl dreams she's Little Red Riding Hood. In the dream, she and Grandma tell werewolf stories. It's framing devices within framing devices! The sets are great, very Hammer in style. Good cast, including David Warner and Angela Lansbury. Reasonably good transformation scenes. An issue I have with werewolf movies is, no matter how good the transformation is, the end monster looks goofy. A guy in a costume or a bad CG creature. Sometimes I wondered why full bi-morphs aren't more common. Well now I know, it's because casting wolves or wolf-like dogs isn't scary, it's adorable   Total: 13 Scream 4; Scream 5; Burke & Hare; Pet Semetary (1989); Lake Mungo; Season of the Witch; Childsplay 3; Boris Karloff: the Man Behind the Monster; Piranha (2010); Dead and Buried; Black Sabbath; The Curse of the Cat People; The Company of Wolves  Bingo!
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Hellraiser (2022) David Bruckner, Hulu It's fine. It doesn't really get going until after the first hour and doesn't really hold the attention span like the original, despite some fun effects. As with the Candyman remake, I liked Hellraiser better when it wasn't deeply concerned with explaining anything.
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8. The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972) - 2/5 In some ways this seems to me like a proto-The Blair Witch Project, another big hit on a low budget, with its fake documentary format; its background of local lore; the emphasis on the fear and paranoia generated by being isolated in the wilderness; and the threat that menaces by suggestion, never really manifesting into action. The last is kind of a problem— we see scene after scene of people’s experiences of the creature, which invariably consist of seeing a man in a bigfoot suit who makes spooky sounds and leaves evidence behind in the form of knocked over fences and mutilated livestock, but never attacks until one brief struggle at the end. There’s no real plot; the only progression is people having closer and closer encounters with the monster. The horror here is predicated on the audience’s entertaining the possibility that this could have really happened, which is why it did so well in the paranormal-obssessed Seventies and another reason why it didn’t really work for me as someone who is a total skeptic when it comes to these matters. Trigger warning for a close-up on a real dead cat, for people who care about such things.
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Gripweed posted:[b]#14: Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi File 02: Shivering Ghost People posting about these makes me want to add them to my list. Which goes for a lot of movies here, actually, but these in particular sound right up my alley.
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Repeating my question from the other day, about the "They Always Come Back" challenge: In the past, it was made in such a way that new sequels to existing franchises counted, so that people could count Halloween Kills for it. Is the same thing true for this year for Halloween Ends or Terrifier 2 and the like? (Debating whether I want to use the new Hellraiser for that challenge, or for the "Paperbacks From Hell" one instead.)
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While we're asking, osteology includes teeth, right? Making "Egyptian Rocky Horror" Fangs eligible?
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17. Deadstream Holy poo poo this loving ruled. Immediately into maybe my top 3 found footage movies, genuinely pretty good scares for what's ostensibly a comedy, and the actual comedy loving killed me (the running gag of the different camera names got a laugh every time, especially BEEF CAM). The effects were obviously a little ropey, but totally willing to overlook that given this seems to have been a really small production. Go out of your way to see this, it's fantastic. 5 out of 5! 17/31, watched: Scary Movie, Final Destination 4, Happy Death Day, Final Destination, No One Gets Out Alive, Smile, Freaky, Body Bags, Alien Psychosis, The Invisible Man, The Last Exorcism, Final Destination 4, Werewolves of the Third Reich, Unfriended, Final Destination 3, Hellraiser (2022), Deadstream 
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Movie 7: Shopping Tour (A Perfect Getaway) Where there is Christianity, there can be no cannibalism, you understand? OK. I'm Finnish. When I see a movie about a bunch of Russian tourists coming to Finland and getting eaten by "Finnish cannibals" I am intrigued. I was not aware that cannibalism was a huge problem in my country, and I'm always eager to learn more! Also I don't think I've ever seen a Russian movie, so that's also a plus. So we have a Russian single mother and his teenaged shitbag of a son, who are taking a trip to Finland... with spooky consequences. The father has died at some point in the recent past and the mom still obviously isn't over it. His son being a complete tool doesn't help things and tensions are high even before the cannibals enter the picture. This doesn't really serve any purpose in the movie, it's just something to occupy our time for ~15 minutes the tourist bus spends driving over the border to Finland. The movie is filmed found footage style, with the framing mechanism being the mum has bought his son a video camera (or possibly a phone with a video camera?) and the kid is filming everything. It's filmed on location, and it's kinda wild to see just normal Finnish convenience stores and places in a horror movie being depicted as exotic and strange. The lair of the Finnish cannibals is a Gigantti, a branch of a national electronics store, which is just ... wild. I guess these cannibals just sell TVs by day, and when the Russian tourists roll in, it's eatin' time? It goes from weird to loving hilarious in about 5 seconds flat. The mom and dad discover some blood by the loading dock and a dead Russian guy among the boxes. In the blink of an eye tourists are getting picked off, store clerks are just eating people in the aisles and some guy is chasing people around with a wildly revving chainsaw. The whole movie is just bizarre. It feels like the guys got access to a very limited and strange set of locations, and then just kind of made a movie that takes place there... because. Everything is incredibly cheap and crappy and the film feels like something my friends and I could've made back when we made lovely horror movies as teens. Nobody is mic'd, so all the audio was recorded on the phone (or camera) and at times dialogue is almost inaudible. The special effects are on the "some guy munching on a rubber hand next to a guy who is obviously breathing, but with a bunch of fake blood around him" level. And that would all be fine, but Shopping Tour just kinda feels like it's stuck in first gear. Most of the movie's 65 minute running time is spent either sitting on a bus, walking around the aisles at Gigantti, or wandering down some side roads in rural Finland. The actual horror stuff is fairly limited, and I would absolutely have been down for what we got a brief taste of: if we'd had more of chainsaw guys running around and wild cannibal murder orgies the movie probably would've been fun. So what we're left with is kind of a lame and boring, but also extremely formulaic horror movie. While there's not a lot of actual horror it's still kinda hilarious to see a version of Finland where the employees of Gigantti, the friendly young lady at the gas station, the local police and even adorable little children are secret cannibals who can't wait to tear into the flesh of unsuspecting Russian tourists. The leader of the cannibals makes a long speech about how Finland has really high suicide statistics at Midsummer, but it's really because people can't handle how awesome Midsummer is and want to go out on top, and it doesn't really matter anyway because about half of them would've drunk themselves to death the next day anyway. "We are but a small nation, and we would rather die happy than live miserable". It's just bizarre. It's like someone read a blurb about how in America a lot of turkeys die around Thanksgiving, and then extrapolated from this that Americans are actually fighting a clandestine war against turkeys and there's a big battle every year in November. It would be interesting to hear if these plot elements are just something the movie's writers pulled out of their sleeve, or if they're based on some kind of fears or stereotypes Russians have about Finland. I have to say even though the "Finnish cannibals" are the bad guys here, the movie doesn't also paint Russians in a super positive light. As the group are crossing the border, a woman is caught trying to smuggle a shitload of cigarettes over in a juice carton and after she gets busted, decides to throw a sit down tantrum until she's dragged off by border guards. It also doesn't have any bearing on the rest of the movie, so it feels like the film makers just wanted to throw in some pot shots at their countrymen. And hey, if I was making a film about Finnish tourists going to Estonia to get eaten by Estonian vampires, I would probably also put in a guy who gets busted at the border with 5000 liters of booze and carted off to jail. If you know, you know. And if you didn't, now you know. /5My October 2022 Movies: 1. Nope, 2. Night at the Eagle Inn, 3. Day of the Mummy, 4. Freaky, 5. Choose or Die, 6, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, 7. Shopping Tour 
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7 Doctor X (1932) Bingo: Golden Years A string of murders during a full moon are linked to a research academy run by Doctor Xavier. But which of the scientists working there is the culprit, or has the butler done it? I did not realize that this was in color, must be the oldest color film I've seen. And the two-color technicolor looks really good too! Michael Curtiz manages to frame and light some beautiful shots which make the movie feel more modern than it is. The sets are great, the overly elaborate laboratories in a gothic mansion make a great combo. The movie itself moves along at a brisk pace, and the climax is just fantastic. Definitely recommended! 8 Disturbing Behavior (1998) A teen moves to a new town, but there is something strange about the clique of popular kids at his new high school. Woof what a stinker. This just did not work for me at all, the plot is derivative and predictable and the dialogue insufferable. William Sadler's Deus ex machina character is just bizarre, although his scene in the finale is great just for how ridiculously dumb it is. Still, if you want a 1998 teen high-school body snatcher movie just watch The Faculty instead. 9 The Crazies (2010) Bingo: They Always Come Back I've never seen the Romero original, but this was better than I had expected. A pretty standard zombie-origin beginning, but the crazies maintain enough of their personality and ability to perform complex tasks that they feel different from standard mindless brain-eating zombies. From early on when the military get involved there is a real sense that our characters are hosed no matter what. 
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 5. Lake of the Dead (1958) This movie really pulled me in with its premise, a group of friends going to visit a cabin on a lake, both of which had a violent history. The violence taking place in these locations was turned into a tale of a haunted lake by the locals. This all sounded so interesting to me but unfortunately I have to say I was really let down by how the rest of the film played out. There was some great atmosphere and really fun ideas peeking out from a huge amount of scenes of the group of friends just talking about what they think was happening in the area. It's a bummer because whenever the film veered into the atmospheric and surreal it did it really well, but all of that imagery was cut short by blabbering hypotheses about ghosts and quackery. The conclusion of the film was also just explained by one of the characters who apparently figured it all out super quickly but for some reason just decided to let all of his friends continue to wonder. Made in 1958, using it for 'Golden Years' bingo square. recap/bingo:  1. Eyes of Fire (1983) | 2. Leptirica (1973) | 3. Witchhammer (1970) | 4. Viy (1967) | 5. Lake of the Dead (1958)
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