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31 the stepfather - Fun horror thriller starring a young Terry O'Quinn as a man who murders his whole family and then tries to start over somewhere else with a new family while barely maintaining his sanity. 32 nightmare weekend - I know a lot of 80's horror movies are full of flimsy excuses to show naked ladies, but this is basically softcore porn. I'm not sure why this even on peacock. The few minutes of plot and kills in between the hour of sex scenes was pretty funny though. Exactly the amount of saxophone and mustaches you would expect from a vintage porno. 33 enys men - Neat slow burn about a woman alone on a remote island being visited by ghosts. 34 don’t say a word - This was listed under horror on Hulu. I know thrillers count but this feels more like an action movie. Brittany Murphy does a great job in this. I think everyone forgot this movie exists because it came out right after 9/11.
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Last night: -. The Last Cruise (2018, Uzbekistan again) - A one-minute animated short of a creepy boat. 3/5 47. The Devil's Men / Land of the Minotaur (1976) - Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, but rather dull. 2.5/5 48. The Uncanny (1977) - Peter Cushing discovers that cats are supernatural creatures that secretly control the world. Uhh, duh. Anthology with three cat-focused tales in it, with all three being good but not great. 3.5/5 49. The House that Dripped Blood (1971) - Is Tubi now in charge of the evening? Oh yes. Great Amicus anthology. 4/5 50. Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) ... but it's a train? Greater Amicus anthology. 4.5/5 Then Tubi picked Dead of Night (the 70s one) but I had to go to bed because it was like 3:00 a.m. Okay, I watched "Second Chance" because it's so good and then turned it off. Tonight: 51. Evie (2021) - A girl picks up a cursed necklace from a beach and then nothing happens. 2/5 52. Cemetery (2019, Uzbekistan again because I feel bad about the 1 minute short) - Vimeo rental. Nominally "After a devastating earthquake, Nga, an old elephant and probably the last of its species, and Sanra, his mahout, are about to embark on a journey to find the mythical elephant’s graveyard. The group of poachers following them will die one after the other under mysterious circumstances and spells." Practically, we get half an hour with the elephant, who is a good doggy, despite being an elephant (good), half an hour of dudes with guns walking around (bad), and half an hour of some dark grey stuff happening on a black background that neither my TV nor my Internet connection could handle. 2/5 53. Ashakara (1991, Togo) - A thriller. In the same sense that James Bond is a thriller (including a teen character who refers to himself as "James Bond" when he gets drawn into the intrigue). An African doctor isolates a miracle cure from a traditional medicinal root, and a European corporation swoops in to buy it for a pittance or, if that fails, straight up steal it. Great action throughout as the well-meaning pharmaceutical rep turns to the right side and uses his "portable" (It is, straight up, like a 30" CRT) AI supercomputer to intercept corporate messages, great scenes when the doctor heads out to his village to evade the goonsquad, fun car chases... and the last five seconds of the movie tank it hard. The doctor gets shot in the climax. At his funeral, his daughter is in full pissed-off-at-the-world mode, until the village wisewoman reveal that they found the goonsquad's bag o' cash. Then it's immediate smiles and laughs. The end. Still going to go 4/5, but that might be the fastest I've ever seen a movie gently caress itself. And then there was one.
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27. It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014) This movie has the opposite problem of everyone being in high school and looking 30. I genuinely don't know how old any of these people are supposed to be? They look and act pretty young, but also talk about high school like it was the past. Shoutouts to the protagonist for losing basically all of her survival instincts, including "standing erect to see farther."
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 46. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood The cheese is strong in this one. Thankfully there are plenty of pretty fun kill scenes to make up for the awful.. everything. It's sort of the "so bad it's good". But instead of good, it's just alright. 3/5
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23. The Invisible Maniac A science dork creates an invisibility potion and immediately goes nuts and wants to kill students and look at breasts. This is an awful movie, but it wasn't ever going to be good. There's a few fun deaths and I'm in love with the dark haired girl with glasses. This is definitely one of those "tape movies" you'd rent from a video store when you were, like, 15 and it'd somehow stick with you for 20 years for no real reason. 3.5/5 24. The Dead Pit  An amnesiac is committed to a mental hospital, but all is not what it seems, and after an earthquake, a gate to hell opens up. I can't talk much about this because it was pretty non-descript. I really liked the use of neon, and it's an okay enough zombie movie. Could be worse, but it's not great. 2.5/5 25. Strays  Poindexter from Revenge of the Nerds moves his family to a house hidden in the middle of the woods. Their peace is soon shattered when they're attacked by feral kitty cats. I have no idea why this movie exists, but thank God it does. The idea of having cats be the villain in a horror movie is really funny. They aren't even mutant cats or anything, they're just normal, annoyed cats. 5/5 26. Panic Beats  A man brings his ailing wife to his country manor to help her relax, but little does she know, that her husband has ulterior motives... I can't really say anything about this movie because it's filled with a ton of twists and turns. It's probably too convoluted for its own good, but the story was interesting enough to keep me engaged. 3/5 27. Uninvited  Another kitty cat movie, only this time the cat is a mutant who's trapped on a boat with a few rich criminals and and some horny college kids. This is a deeply stupid movie, but it's pretty funny, and George Kennedy and Clu Gulager are always fun to watch in trash movies. 3/5 28. Targets  An aging horror star prepares for his retirement while an all-American young man carries out a mass shooting. This one was legitimately great. Karloff did a fantastic job, and although the effects are dated, the shootings are all incredibly disturbing. 4/5 29. V/H/S 85  Yet another one of these. I don't know why they keep making these, and I don't know how they stay so consistently bad. None of the stories grabbed my attention. The one that came closest was the first story, but even that ended up pretty aimless and bland. 1.5/5 30. Amityville 3-D  A group of skeptics expose a fraudulent psychic who's set up shop in the Amityville house. The lead skeptic happens to be divorced, so when the realtor offers him the house for dirt cheap, he jumps at the chance. Almost immediately, paranormal poo poo happens, and the skeptic is forced to re-examine what he thinks about the world of the paranormal. Amityville 3D is pretty dire, which is a shame because the concept of a Skeptic facing the unexplained could have been really interesting. Instead, the movie is one giant excuse to shove a bunch of 3D effects in your face. 1.5/5 31. Paganini Horror  A very unfortunate looking woman is stuck in a rut with her pop band, so when her drummer offers her a lost Paganini composition, she takes it. She heads to a derelict mansion to film a music video, but people soon start being murdered by a mysterious masked man. This is one of those weird rear end Italian movies that makes no sense. There's a whole thing about bending time and space and honestly, it was too boring to be funny. Also, why the hell is the Paganini song just Twilight by ELO? 2/5 32. Wicked City  A human and a demon need to team up to ensure a VIP makes it to a peace treaty signing. This is one of those anime that I'd always see on tape at Blockbuster, but was always too nervous to rent. As it turns out, I was right to be cautious. There's some great body horror, and the movie has an aesthetic that's really slick. The only issue is that the movie plays it pretty fast and loose when it comes to sexual assault, which isn't going to be fun for a lot of people. 4/5 33. Don't Open Till Christmas  A maniac is killing people dressed as Santa, which leads to Scotland Yard assigning two investigators to stop the killer before he can strike again. The gimmick of a killer who only targets Santas is pretty goofy, but the movie takes itself far too serious to be funny. That's ultimately the movie's biggest flaw. There's so much you could do with a Santa slasher, but instead it's a very dry police procedural. That being said, it's still a solid holiday slasher. 3/5 34. The Wolf Man  Everyone knows this movie, so I'll skip the synopsis. I was surprised at how sympathetic Lon Chaney plays the main character. By the end of the movie, you really feel awful for the guy. Other than that, the movie is a classic, 4/5 challenges: 34/31 movies ALL CHALLENGES COMPLETE 
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30. In The Mouth of Madness John Trent (Sam Neill), an insurance investigator, is sent by a publishing house to track down the whereabouts of famed horror writer Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow), as well as the manuscript for his new book, "In the Mouth of Madness." Tracking down Cane to the previously-thought-fictional town of Hobb's End, Trent and editor Linda Styles (Julie Carmen) find themselves in a world of the author's creation, with reality falling apart around them. I've covered this twice before I'm pretty sure, but I picked up the Blu-Ray sometime back and hadn't gotten to it until now. This is another case of Carpenter being a little ahead of his time; the film's blend of cosmic horror and surrealist metafiction was perhaps a bit much for audiences and critics who were just getting their heads around the likes of Anne Rice. Indeed this is second crack at unnamable horrors from beyond time and space, after 1987's Prince of Darkness, and while that film is memorable in itself this feels like a more assured take on the genre. The early parts are a little clunky, and there's some dialogue that's a little flat, but it's buoyed by Sam Neill doing a great turn as the classic overly-assured, soon-to-be-far-out-of-his-depth Carpenter protagonist. Much of the joy of the film is watching him crack up as the proceedings unfold. The rest of the fun is from some genuinely stylish visuals and bizarre setpieces, including some really great creature effects by Greg Nicotero's KNB effects group. It actually looks really good for a film that only cost 10 million at most. The cast is absurdly loaded, featuring appearances by David Warner, John Glover, Bernie Casey, Frances Bay, and Charlton Heston. I also like the way the film plays with the contemporary popularity of horror fiction; Cane is clearly meant to remind us in many ways of Stephen King, though his concepts are closer to Lovecraft, and the way the fiction starts to take over the story is downright postmodern. (The illustrations for Cane's novels, which end up being a plot point, are perfectly on point for what horror books looked like at the time, lurid colors and all.) It's a very enjoyable watch and the ending packs a substantial punch, though it's played for black humor as much as anything. Carpenter made something that still really stands out as one of the best examples of this kind of horror on film. A minor classic.
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 67 (107). The Zodiac Killer (1971) Directed by Tom Hanson; Written by Ray Cantrell and Manny Cardoza Oh how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. Terribly made. Badly acted. Creepy exploitative idea of making a fictionalized account of an at large real life serial killer while the bodies are still warm. Classy, assholes. A super poor and awkwardly paced narrative that has no real coherent point. Just nihlism or a takedown of those pesky rules cops have to follow being what keeps serial killers at large? hosed if I know. And the misogyny. So much misogyny. The first half hour of the film is basically an exercise in seeing how many ways you can call women bitches. I actually thought the movie’s point was gonna be to play on the paranoia and uncertainty of the Zodiac Killer’s unknown identity by just making every man in the film a disgusting misogynist seeming capable of killing women. But nah, its not that. Its just a lot of misogyny. And a fair bit of homophobia too. I’m surprised we didn’t fit any racism in. Yeah, that’s all I got. This is trash. Screw this film. At least its under 90 minutes.  - (108). Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel (2018) Written and directed by Stephen Cognetti Watched on AMC+/Shudder What the first film succeeds in keeping it simple and minimalistic this one just tries to do too much. That might be a divisive opinion since many find the first one as doing too little. I love it though. This one is never exactly boring or slow but its just all over the place. It is often said that explaining too much can be a mistake and that’s part of it. I don’t need to know that the guys from the first film made a bad financial investment with a demon. At best that’s excessive, at worst silly. That’s probably gonna be the theme. We don’t need the awkward fake magazine tv show. Its an easy way to introduce a bunch of new relatively disconnected scenes and elements like those youtube visitors or the psychic who wants in. But also those elements either could have been introduced with the basic documentary setup. Also they’re really quick stuff that kind of don’t lead anywhere. I like them but the psychic in particular is like one and done. Its weird and kind of ends up feeling like filler. Which is a shame because then I like the idea. I like the idea that after a release of the first film documentary there’d be some more curious documentarians, curious teens, or paranormal investigators. It just feels like instead of really working together a script around these ideas they’re just tossed in with the very janky format. Like who’s editing in the police interview footage? This doesn’t make a lot of sense, guys. You throw a quick thing out there about some other party collecting footage but its lazy and it feels lazy. I don’t hate it. I like the core story and think they do a good enough job of justifying them going into the house and doing a fast paced spin on the spooky house vs the slow mind gently caress of the first film. But it definitely kinda sorta feels like they just felt like they didn’t have enough film so they added all that extra stuff in. And again, I like a lot of that stuff. But there had to be a cleaner way to work it in. Again, you’ve got an investigative documentary film crew. They can collect other videos. Sure that wouldn’t quite fit their serious journalism idea but it also wouldn’t have been as piecemeal as this result. Also like the Lake of Fire stuff is just cheesy. I watched the directors cut of the first film which basically just adds in a bad CGI clip and the film is no better for it. Similarly the franchise or this sequel are not helped by some quick and dirty CGI nor a monologue or two about why this stuff was happening. Although I did a get a kick out of the fact that one of the last things the leader of a satanic cult did before damning his soul to hell for eternity was watch and enjoy and sing along with Beauty and the Beast. Sure he’s a satanic demon but also he’s a Disney Adult. Now are you scared? I dunno. I had some fun with it so I’m not mad at it. But its not really good. I think I like it a little more now talking about it than I did when I finished watching it. Just kind of thinking over the parts that amused me or the silliness of the parts that didn’t work for me. Its a silly film that feels like it does everything wrong the first one does right. But on some level I respect that they tried to do something more than just a rehash. And no hate for someone trying to get some more out of their really good idea. Crank out a Hell House LLC every couple of years. Its ok with me. Gives me an excuse to rewatch the first one and hopefully the next two are at least as much silly fun as I apparently had with this one.  68 (109). Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (1972) Directed by Fred Burnley; Written by Gordon Honeycombe (screenplay) and Rosemary Davies (additional dialogue); Based on Neither the Sea Nor the Sand by Gordon Honeycombe Ladies, is this what turns you on? A romance novel I guess? Like its that old story. Lady leaves her husband, goes on vacation, hooks up with dreamy guy, runs away with him, he dies and comes back as a zombie. Romantic? I dunno. It takes an hour to get to the supernatural or potentially spooky stuff. And its not like a terribly interesting or sexy time getting there. And then when we do get there it doesn’t get that much more interesting. Lady can’t seem to decide if she likes her magic killer zombie boyfriend or not. I actually thought his brother might have been right and she might have been a witch who planned this whole thing. That would have been an interesting twist. but we kind of just have a thing here about a woman struggling with accepting the death of the man she loves (and has known for like a week) because he’s still walking around and boning her. Romantically. Romantic boning. I mean I guess he could be a centuries old vampire who puts her in mortal danger or a time traveler who visits her when she’s a kid. Psychic zombie ain’t that bad. He’s not even eating people. You know, I’m just gonna say its bad. That’s subjective obviously. There’s obviously a whole market for these kind of weird romantic fantasy stories. I guess this is one of them. I dunno. But that ain’t my groove and this is really very dull. And with the typical sketchy romantic lesson. Ladies, don’t kill yourself to be with your zombie vacation boyfriend forever. Please. Let him go.
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34. WE HAVE A GHOST Available on Netflix. Comedy / Supernatural. This is another movie where I'm confused why it's so bad. David Harbour is completely wasted, despite being the main character. Most of the comedy fall flat, the plot elements don't seem to jive (is there a mandated car chase scene?), the mystery that the ghost is not in fact Ernest is interesting for one minute then immediately resolved in a nonsensical way he was murdered by a guy called Ernest who... buried him in a bowling shirt with his name... for reasons.... Jahi Winston as the kid character is extremely stiff and I'm not sure what kind of direction was given to him because he was just dirt awful in this movie, especially put beside Isabella Russo who seemed to be acting circles around him. The movie also hyperfocuses on getting online views but seems to be written by people who don't understand video content creation. Jennifer Coolidge was very funny and underused. I suppose you could youtube that? Bad, 1.5/5 Movies Watched 34/31 COMPLETE! 1. Marry My Dead Body 關於我和鬼變成家人的那件事 2. Influencer 3. Talk To Me 4. Body Melt 5. Suspiria (2018) 6. Outwaters 7. Lost Footage of Leah Sullivan 8. Bird with the Crystal Plumage 9. Huesera The Bone Woman 10. Errementari 11. Perpetrator 12. I See You 13. The Devil's Rejects 14. Suspiria (1977) 15. V/H/S 1985 16. Totally Killer 17. Possession 18. The Wolf House 19. Crimes of the Future 20. Beware: Children at Play! 21. Chopping Mall 22. The Beyond 23. Deliver Us 24. The Nun 2 25. Friday the 13th: Final Chapter 26. Mad Fate 命案 27. Troublesome Night 阴阳路 28. Satan's Slave 29. Satan's Slave 2 30. Saw X 31. Tale of Tales 32. Titane 33. Five Nights at Freddy's 34. We Have A Ghost Genres Horror / Paranormal / Comedy / Thriller / Body Horror / Dance / Found Footage / Giallo / Historical / Crime / Slasher / Anthlogy / Fable / Animation / Sci-Fi / Vaporwave / Troma / Superstition (Feng Shui) / Religion (TradCath, Buddhist/Taoism, Islam) / Gore / Fantasy / Metal Challenges 1. HISTORY LESSON: Bird with Crystal Plumage (70s) / Suspiria (70s) / Possession (80s) / The Beyond (80s) / Friday Final (80s) / Troublesome Night (90s) / Body Melt (90s) / Devil's Rejects (00s) / Tale of Tales (10s) / Suspiria (10s) / etc etc 2. HIFE (LGBTQ+): Marry My Dead Body 3. AROUND THE WORLD: Marry My Dead Body (E.Asia) / Huesera (S.America) / Bird (Europe) / Errementari (Europe) / Satan's Slaves 1&2 (SE.Asia) / Suspiria(s) (Europe) / Tale of Tales (Europe) / Crimes of the Future (Europe) / Saw X (S.America) / Talk To Me (Oceania) / Body Melt (Oceania) 4. SAMHAIN: Totally Killer 5. CHILDHOOD TRAUMA: Beware! Children at Play 6. ROB ZOMBIE: The Devil's Rejects 7. PICNIC IN SPACE: Crimes of the Future 8. NEW TO YOU: All (save Children at Play & Troublesome Road) 9. HIFE (WOMEN): Huesera / Suspiria(s) / Perpetrator 10. MILLER/DAVID: Chopping Mall 11. HIFE (POC): Marry My Dead Body / Huesera / Satan's Slaves 1&2 / Talk To Me / The Wolf House / Troublesome Road / Mad Fate 12. GOAT (HOUSE): Possession / Suspiria (77) 13. HORROR-ADJACENT: Tale of Tales / I See You / Influencer 14. GOAT (TAPES): Suspiria (18) / Titane 15. FvJ: Fri13th Final Chapter 16. BITE-SIZED HORROR: Troublesome Road / VHS85 17. EXORCIST AT 50: Errementari / Troublesome Road / Satan's Slaves 1&2 / Nun 2 / Deliver Us 18. BIG MEAN ANIMALS: Tale of Tales / Outwaters / Possession / Wolf House 19. BOX ART: The Beyond / Perpetrator 20. BIRTH OF HORROR: Possession (adjacent) High Recommendations Talk To Me Bird with Crystal Plumage I See You Suspiria (both) Possession Totally Killer Wolf House Crimes of the Future Friday the13th: Final Chapter Satan's Slaves 2 Titane Chart 
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52. Tenebrae (1982) Dir. Dario Argento  Compared with Deep Red, this is a more sexual and lurid story involving beautiful young women victimized by a razor-wielding serial killer, who is also obsessed with a visiting American novelist who writes the same kind of stories. Nothing new under the sun there as far as thriller plots, and the 70's bass jam vibes have been replaced with much less interesting new wave 80's sensibility. But it still has those explicit, voyeuristic giallo horror sequences that make it more fun to watch than most similar material from this time period and still aren't like anything getting made now. This earned it a designation as a "video nasty," which in turn led to no worthwhile American version to watch for many years. For an early 80's movie, however, it's very forward-thinking and openly disinterested in the puritanism that dominates American slashers. There's also a lot more Italian accents, even if stuff is still getting dubbed. Every time I watch a new Argento I also feel like I'm seeing more influence on the Resident Evil series (in this we have a prominent Evil Doberman in one of the movie's more outlandish sequences). I would call it a fun time. Ending is great, too.  2020s: The Bogeyman, Cobweb, The Lair, Lockdown Tower, Matriarch, The Meg 2, Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar, Pet Sematary Bloodlines, The Power, Renfield, Slotherhouse, The Superdeep, Titane, Werewolves Within, Willy’s Wonderland 2010s: The Babadook, Baskin, Holidays, The Midnight Man, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 2000s: Dog Soldiers, Texas Chainsaw Massacre ’03 1990s: Bats, Bride of Chucky, Dark Angel: The Ascent, The Haunting, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4 1980s: The Beyond, The Boogeyman, Christine, City of the Living Dead, Deadly Games, Demons, Demons 2, The Howling 2, Nightmare on Elm Street 2, Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Nightmare on Elm Street 4, Prom Night, The Prowler, Slaughterhouse, Tenebrae, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 1970s: Death Line, Deep Red, Night of the Lepus, Petey Wheatstraw, Santo and Blue Demon vs. the Monsters 1960s: The Last Man on Earth 1950s: House on Haunted Hill The Saddest Rhino posted:34. WE HAVE A GHOST Every time I see even a still of We Have a Ghost I just think I'd rather become a ghost than watch it. Jedit posted:14) Frogs (1972) I gave this about fifteen minutes the other day. Usually I can withstand a little bit of Filmed in Shittyvision, but the vaseline-tier transfer quality is not doing the incredibly boring movie any favors either. Name Change fucked around with this message at 11:30 on Oct 29, 2023 |
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 - (110). My Soul to Take (2010) Written and directed by Wes Craven A revisit I didn’t remember a ton about this besides the vague premise. Its not a terrible movie but its a mess for sure and a clear miss. It was five years since Wes’ last film and the only other film he made after was Scream 4. As much as I HATE Kevin Williamson and think he’s a hack I’ll give credit to him for collaborating with Wes and giving him another voice. That feels like its missing here. The plot is filled with lots of ideas - some familiar to past Craven work and some new - and its just kind of too much. Craven definitely needed someone to help him pick and choose a bit. And the dialogue is just weird. Craven definitely could have benefited by working with someone who had spoken to a teenager in the last 30 years or so. I mean I’m old so I don’t know what teens in 2010 sounded like either but what we get is just kind of weird and broad. And combined with the overly messy story and to be honest overly big cast. I wouldn’t say the film is confusing or anything but its never able to just settle into itself or find itself. Credit where its due, there’s a lot of recognizable faces here. Casting did its job. Seeing Frank Grillo and Danai Gurira in there before they broke out was a surprise. The teen cast isn’t house hold names or anything but most of them seem to have had pretty solid careers in the decade+ since. You don’t see that in a lot of middling horror films. Those filmographies tend to be pretty barren or isolated in the gutters of horror. So there’s talent here and I don’t think acting is the problem. And there’s a decent movie in here somewhere. As is its not unwatchable or anything. But nothing does well enough to stick and the film just never comes together. Its a shame but Craven’s comfort with Hollywood had clearly been broken towards the end and to be honest I’ve seen a lot worse from legendary directors past their prime. Wes managed to revolutionize horror decade after decade. I don’t know that he would have done it again but he’s definitely not THAT far off the mark of making something that works here. But he is off the mark. There’s no denying that. Even for a Craven fanboy like myself. I mean what was with the condor? I think you failed to really integrate that, Wes. Still love you and think you’re a genius. RIP.  - (111). Twelve Monkeys (1995) Directed by Terry Gilliam; Screenplay by David Peoples and Janet Peoples; Based on La Jetée by Chris Marker Watched on Starz Another revisit. Not my favorite. I’d seen this a few times over the year and just bounced off it hard. I rewatched it a few years ago with a better familiarity with both the tv show (which I love) and actually knowing who Terry Gilliam is and being familiar with his work away from Monty Python. So the last time I went at it I was a lot more prepared I think and I got it more. Especially Gilliam’s weird humor in the bizarro future world he builds. I got it but to be honest its just not my thing. None of this is really my thing. The weird sci fi or time travel stuff. I think Gilliam does a good job with it it. Its a well constructed film for such a weirdly constructed film. And the performances from Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, and Madaleine Stowe are all excellent. I dunno. Its really just not my thing and I don’t have much to say about it. Its fine. Good even. And if you’re into this kind of weirdness or sci fi or like something like Everything Everywhere All At Once then you should definitely check this out if you haven’t already. I dunno. Just not my thing.  69 (112). 10 Rillington Place (1971) Directed by Richard Fleischer; Screenplay by Clive Exton; Based on Ten Rillington Place by Ludovic Kennedy Watched on Amazon Prime Opening a film with a man murdering a woman and then raping her corpse is pretty much a guarantee to get nothing from me but disdain. That this is also a true crime film exploiting the real life tragedy not only of murder but wrongful execution so soon after the events. Its just a gross thing I really hate. Its good performances. Richard Attenborough is a monster and John Hurt plays the desperate patsy of his incredibly well. Two legendary actors early in their careers putting in great performances. Well I guess this is relatively late into Attenborough’s career but its decades before Jurassic Park or Miracle on 34th Street so you know… dumb brain me association. That Attenborough played such a disgusting role so advanced into his career is a bit of surprise. But I guess I don’t get true crime or its appeal or whatever 1970s British film looked like. Daring, I guess? I dunno. I just don’t like it. I can’t like it. I can’t do anything but feel disgusted. Even my respect for the acting performances just feel academic and cold. I don’t like films that just kind of exist to drag you into the slums of humanity or misery or whatever. And I watch films to be sucked in and just be in their world. So I can say that there’s strong performances here but not enjoy it. And I can say there’s a horrifically effective story here but not only not enjoy it but not really credit anyone since its just a true tragedy they replicated. Combine with a generally dry British approach that I found rather dull and cold. This was a difficult, plodding, slow watch for me and one I really wish I hadn’t kept until so late in the month. But one I’m glad to have behind me if nothing else. 🎃💀Halloween 2023: HooptoberX and HalloweeNIT💀🎃 Watched - New (Total) [i]- (1) Night of the Demons (1988); 1 (2). Night Terrors (1993); 2 (3). Nightbooks (2021); 3 (4). The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023); 4 (5). Atomic Dog (1998); - Violence Jack: Harlem Bomber (1986); - (6). Pumpkinhead (1988); 5 (7). Bird Box (2018); 6 (8). Private House of the SS (1977); 7 (9). Vamps (2012); 8 (10). Red (2008); 9 (11). Malum (2023); 10 (12). The Visitor (1979); 11 (13). The Night Caller (1998); 12 (14). Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini (2015); 13 (15). Older than America (2006); 14 (16). The Boogeyman (2023); - (17). Demons 2 (1986); 15 (18). Night of the Demons 2 (1994); 16 (19). The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (2023); - (20). House on Haunted Hill (1959); - (21). Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1994); 17 (22). Flight 7500 (2014); - (23). Creep (2014); - (24). Pet Sematary (1989); -. A Creepshow Animated Special (2020); - (25). Pet Sematary II (1992); 18 (26). Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022); 19 (27). Wendigo (2001); - (28). Pet Sematary (2019); - (29). Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988); - (30). The Crawling Eye (1958); 20 (31). Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965); 21 (32). Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023); 22 (33). Jack-O (1995); 23 (34). Chemical Wedding (2008); 24 (35). Night of the Demons III (1997); 25 (36). Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes (2006); - (37). Graveyard Shift (1990); 26 (38). Sole Survivor (1984); - (39). Night of the Demons (2009); 27 (40). Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud (2007); 28 (41). Moloch; 29 (42). Depraved (2019); 30 (43). The Carpenter (1988); 31 (44). Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013); 32 (45). From Beyond the Grave (1974); 33 (46). The Ranger (2018); - (47). [REC] (2007); 34 (48). Chiller (1985); - (47). Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948); - (48). Invaders from Mars (1986); - (49). [REC]² (2009); - The Fall of the House of Usher (2023); 34 (50). Dario Argento’s Dracula aka Dracula 3D (2012); - (51). Creep 2 (2017); 35 (52). The Crooked Man (2016); - (53). The Gate (1987); 36 (53). Stage Fright (2014); - (54). Secret Window (2004); - Violence Jack: Evil Town (1988); - (56). Poltergeist (1982); 37 (57). Dogtooth (2009); - Brand New Cherry Flavor (2021); - Violence Jack: Hell’s Wind (1990); 38 (58). Shaky Shivers (2022); 39 (59). Innocent Curse (2017); 40 (60). Old Man (2022); - (61). Grave Encounters (2011); 41 (62). Becky (2020); 42 (83). There’s Someone Inside Your House (2021); 43 (84). Unwelcome (2022); 44 (85). [REC]³ Genesis (2012); 45 (86). [REC]⁴ Apocalypse (2014); - (87). Ready or Not (2019); 46 (88). The Night Stalker (1972); 47 (89). Bedevil (1993); 48 (90). Dread (2009); 49 (91). Super Hybrid (2010); 50 (92). The Wrath of Becky (2023); 51 (93). Night Visions (1990); 52 (94). Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970); 63 (95). Revealer (2022); - (96). Grave Encounters 2 (2012); - (97). Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986); 64 (99). Rope (1948); 65 (100). V/H/S/85 (2023); - (101). The House at the End of Time (2013); - (103). Poltergeist III (1988); - (104). Hell House LLC (2015); - (105). The Exorcist (1973); - (106). The Nun (2018); 67 (107). The Zodiac Killer (1971); - (108). Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel (2018); 68 (109). Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (1972); - (110). My Soul to Take (2010); - (111). Twelve Monkeys (1995); 69 (112). 10 Rillington Place (1971); 🎃 HooptoberX: 40/41 🎃 HalloweeNIT ‘23: 29/31 🎃 Basebf’s SA Challenges: 30/31 🎃 Completed Collections: 7
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Action Shakespeare posted:27. It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014) That could be intentional, the year it takes place in is intentionally ambiguous too. I should watch that again, it’s one of my modern favorites.
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Action Shakespeare posted:27. It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014) "Boy, this 20-year-old actress playing a college freshman looks like she's 30!"  OK, that's a little bit of a potshot, as gmm said and as I pointed out in my own review in May, the film very intentionally plays with ambiguity as to the era it takes place in and there are explicit themes regarding nostalgia and moving into adulthood. I do like the implication that it's a strategic error to stand up tall, as if the supernatural being that inexorably walks towards you no matter where you are on the planet would get confused if you ducked behind a barrel or something. Crescent Wrench fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Oct 29, 2023 |
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God, I'm SOOO behind on my posting. Anyway, #24 A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)  It's a remake of the first movie, more or less. I went in with low expectations, and found that it was... fine. Like a lot of people, I felt the change of Freddy from murderer to child molester was in poor taste. The dynamic in the middle of the movie where it seems like Freddy might have been an innocent man was genuinely very interesting, and I wish it had amounted to more. The nighttime scenes in this movie were surprisingly gorgeous, often tinted red or warm-green, unlike the washed-out daytimes. I liked Rooney Mara as Nancy, though she and the others were maybe the least convincing high-schoolers in the whole series, and that's saying something. But overall, the movie was just too much of-its-era. It was incredibly loud, and had all these miniature dreams peppered into it, which began to lose impact, and had a real trailer-fodder feel to them. Anyway, it wasn't as repellant as the Friday the 13th remake from the same period, but it really didn't bring much to the original series. I was thinking about watching Never Sleep Again as a wrap-up, but I'm pretty burnt out on Elm Street at this point. I think I'll save it for next challenge, when I've got some distance from the series. No challenges here. 2/5 #25 Tales from the Hood (1995)  Three gangbangers, meeting with a mortuary owner for a delivery, instead get an anthology of spooky stories. Rogue Cop Revelation: a revenant and a guilty conscience come after a trio of killer cops. Maybe the most blood-boiling entry, as you watch these guys pull off the most half-assed conspiracy - beating the law, but not justice. Features an excellent zombie. Boys Do Get Bruised: domestic terror, a magical child, and a bookish, mild-mannered protagonist; this one's got a real Stephen King vibe to it. The horror is in the mundane parts of the story, while the supernatural elements come as a relief, which is very grim. The story hinges on a final special-effects sequence, and pulls it off pretty well. KKK Comeuppance: a klansman running for senator is besieged by a collection of killer voodoo dolls in the antebellum plantation he's rented out. Maybe the least substantial entry, but it's fun enough. The dolls, though not high-budget or anything, are convincing both as effects and as threats. Hard-Core Convert: a gang enforcer undergoes experimental treatment mend his violent ways. This one less plotty than the others, more of a mood piece, but that mood is one of overwhelming anger, at protagonist K's complete waste of his life and contempt for his community. It leads you down this path of him being taken advantage of by disreputable scientists, but in fact there's no horror worse than the one he creates for himself every day. A very memorable ending, tying into the frame narrative. This movie could be released today and it wouldn't feel dated. This is my entry for Horror Is For Everyone (PoC). 3/5 #26 Coming Home in the Dark (2021)  A family, touring out in rural New Zealand, is taken hostage by two wanderers. This is a home-invasion thriller, that happens to take place a long way from home. It's based off a short story, and it has that edgy, nightmareish quality that only short fiction can have. Within 20 minutes things have gotten as bad as possible, and then it just keeps going from there. It's not unpleasant or gruelling, though. The situation never settles into a boring dynamic; your understanding of the characters, as well as their struggles to control the situation, are always changing. The performances are excellent, too - very genuine, even when the scenario they're in is so far outside what you can picture yourself in. The villains are great and terrifying without ever seeming unbeatable or inhuman. Just a great film all round.  No challenges here, but I'd strongly recommend it if you haven't done Oceania for Around the World yet. 5/5 #27 The Lords of Salem (2012)  A radio DJ is the subject of some sort of supernatural conspiracy. I remember seeing a trailer for this back when I was just getting into horror movies, thinking it looked cool, and then putting it on the backburner for 10 years. Anyway, it's a solid, moody, psych-horror. It's quite unlike the Firefly trilogy (and the 10 minutes I made it into RZ's Halloween); the characters are almost normal people, at least at first. It's got this great grungey look to it, dirty but not hideous. Regrettably, as things went on it reminded me a lot of Hereditary, which is not the movie's fault (Lords was made first, after all), but it didn't benefit from the comparison. But whatever, there were some cool sequences and some fine creeps and some genuine humanity; it's pretty good if you're looking for a witch-movie. Oh, and the finale was a real feast. This Rob Zombie movie fulfils the Rob Zombie challenge, unless I've misunderstood things gravely. 3/5 #28 From Beyond (1986)  Scientists, investigating the nature of reality, succeed disastrously, and find out that the third eye is not a metaphor. Bit of an unintended double-feature with Lords, as both feature Barbara Crampton and Ken Foree. Anyway, The Thing ran so this movie could also run. It's a goopy, pulpy, horny mess of a movie, a practical effects showpiece, a Lovecraft adaptation. It's gross as hell, and there are some major leaps of logic to it (I missed where Katherine got that bomb from), and is overall very enjoyable, just a pure experience.  I was umming and ahhing over the Back of the Video Store challenge, and decided to watch the next movie I saw in the thread with a cool cover. Anyway, that honour went to The Saddest Rhino on page 42, so here we are. 4/5 And to update:  Five bingos!
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From Beyond and The Beyond are different movies but I also made the same mistake, lol
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The Saddest Rhino posted:
Kazzah posted:
Barbara Crampton up top, Ken Foree and Jeffrey Combs on the row below, I fail to see the difference.
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66. Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (1987) I was told that the third act twist in this movie was an all-time great completely insane twist and I still wasn't ready in the slightest. I don't think I could have predicted a single second of it. It's masterful in its incoherence and impressive how little it is set up. Great stuff. Magnificently incompetent. We watched a version that was in 4:3 despite seemingly being shot in widescreen. Sometimes a demon attacks people. It's a pretty normal bad slasher with hair metal interludes and funny-looking creature effects, albeit with bad acting and non-diegetic diegetic music and out-of-focus shots, until all of a sudden it goes completely batshit. Hilarious stuff. I feel better about my lyrical ability now. Why did the little creatures look like those McDonalds chicken nugget puppets? This is a special kind of bad movie. Much like New York Ninja, nothing is funnier to me than vanity projects where the leads just kind of look terrible. I do not want to listen to your band, Mr. Thor. But I will watch your movie again and again. Rating: 0.5 Cans of Coke Out Of 5
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gently caress, I realised that right after I made the post, when I went to close the tab with your previous post on it I feel like getting hoodwinked by an awesome poster for a similarly-named movie is true to the spirit, at least. What the hell, The Beyond is only 87 minutes and I've got a free day, I'll watch that too. Kazzah fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Oct 29, 2023 |
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The Spook-a-Doodle 2023 High Recommendations list is now 530 films! 30) The Exorcist: Believer (2023, David Gordon Green) 1 froggy voice out of 5 Horror Subgenre Lists (Ranking): Possession Ranked 69/95  This is one of the most pointless movies ever released, a shot-for-shot remake would have felt more engaging. Two girls go missing in the woods as they attempt to contact the dead, when they return it seems that they have brought something back with them. I am literally feeling the will to write about this drain as I type; it looks like a U.S. advert for medicine, it has no frantic pace or interesting twists. Just goes through the motions, low-effort, terrible. Dislike it more and more with each passing moment. I'd rather watch The Heretic. 31) Evil Toons (1992, Fred Olen Ray) 2½ boobs out of 5 Horror Subgenre Lists (Ranking): Trash Ranked 39/60, Occult/Demonic Ranked 84/121 Challenges: "That Guy" Challenge (Dick Miller)  I knew this was going to be a bit softcore porn-ish from the blurb, after about twenty minutes I had given up hope it would do anything much else. Then it started to land a fair amount of funny lines one after the other, Dick Miller at home was just entertaining as hell, and it built up more laughs than most modern comedies. It disappoints with only having the one evil toon (we were promised TOONS!) and depends on "scream queen" scenes where some women walk around in skimpy outfits whilst churning out bad dialogue quite a bit. Overall though, I didn't hate it. 32) The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976, Charles B. Pierce) 3 potato sacks out of 5 Horror Subgenre Lists (Ranking): Serial Killer Ranked 47/97, Slasher Ranked 84/167 [Bingo Square] Challenges: "You Will Not Leave This House" SA List  A man wearing a hood stalks the town of Texarkana The thing that really jumps out is the corny comedy which for the most part isn't funny or endearing, it gets in the way of this becoming THEE proto-slasher of note. Which is a shame because there are some really good stalking scenes, filmed well and memorable enough to stick at the back of your mind when locking your door. This is based on a true story, which makes the decision to have matinee comedy even stranger, but let's not focus on that. There's a really powerful narrator voice throughout, I thought it worked really well, especially driving home the ending (featuring a queue to the movie we are watching right now!). I'd be interested in seeing a no-joke cut. 33) Violation (2020, Dusty Mancinelli, Madeleine Sims-Fewer) 4 swimming noodles out of 5 Horror Subgenre Lists (Ranking): Revenge Ranked 14/144, Serial Killer/Murder Ranked 72/97, Women In Horror Ranked 42/174  When her trust is crushingly betrayed, a woman takes revenge on her brother-in-law. This is probably the film from this batch that has stuck with me. It's very art-house, close up shots of animals and nature, a sound design that blows up small intimate moments and it's shot very well. It has a non-chronological timeline, which creates an intriguing mystery and satisfying payoff. Very oppressive mood, a dark atmosphere and disturbing scenes - this should be lauded a lot more. 34) Five Nights at Freddy's (2023, Emma Tammi) 2 children's drawings out of 5 Horror Subgenre Lists (Ranking): Horror Sci-Fi Ranked 199/217  The love interest from Hunger Games has to work as a security guard in old family-themed restaurant with animatronic mascots that seem to come to life. A horror movie for young teenagers, every scare in this seems to be a remake of the same scenes you'd get when you died in the video game. I didn't really like it, but it is kind of mad seeing the creepypasta vibe get some production budget. Matthew Lillard shows his face and it's just kinda nice seeing him - he was the highlight. 35) La Llorona (2019, Jayro Bustamante) 3 wet floors out of 5 Horror Subgenre Lists (Ranking): Mythical/Folk Horror Ranked 55/83, Revenge Horror Ranked 73/144 Challenges: Around the World (South America - Argentina)  The story is based around a real Guatemalan general who had died a year earlier. A housebound General is haunted whilst on trial for crimes against humanity. It's obviously very hard to talk about this without mentioning that an actual genocide is literally happening whilst the world watches it on social media right now. If ghosts were real, I'd hope they'd have the power to distribute justice. This is a slow burn set in a mansion, feels a bit like The Devil's Backbone or The Orphanage if those are your vibe. It's shot really well, with good performances and is a neat twist on the La Llorona legend. 1) Mosquito, 2) Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys 3) Don't Be Afraid of the Dark 4) The Invisible Man Returns 5) Monster Dog 6) The McPherson Tape 7) Vampir Cuadecuc 8) Poison 9) The Love Witch 10) The Other Side of the Underneath 11) The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh 12) The Oblong Box 13) V/H/S/85 14) The Boogeyman 15) DeepStar Six 16) The Houses October Built 17) The Night Eats the World 18) Freddy vs. Jason 19) The Ghost and Mr. Chicken 20) Da Sweet Blood of Jesus 21) Haunted Mansion 22) The Cat and the Canary 23) The Medium 24) Spring 25) Saw X 26) Fanatic (or; Die, Die, My Darling) 27) Symptoms 28) Images 29) The House That Jack Built, 30) The Exorcist: Believer 31) Terror Toons 32) The Town That Dreaded Sundown 33) Violation 34) Five Nights at Freddy's 35) La Llorona Completed Challenges: Big Mean Animals (Mosquito), FvJ (Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys), Birth of Horror (Monster Dog), History Lesson (Mosquito 90's, Puppet Master vs. Demon Toys 2000's, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark 70's, The Invisible Man Returns 40's, Monster Dog 80's), Childhood Trauma (The McPherson Tape), New (Mosquito, Pm vs. Dem Toys, Don't Be Afraid..., The Invisible Man Returns, Monster Dog, Vampir Cuadecuc, CineD Poll (The Love Witch+The Town That Dreaded Sundown), Picnic in Hanging Rock... IN SPACE!!! (The Oblong Box), Bite-Sized Horror (V/H/S/85) The Samhain Challenge (The Houses October Built), Rob Zombie 20th Anniversary (The Night Eats the World), Horror Adjacent (The Ghost and Mr. Chicken), Horror is for Everyone (Da Sweet Blood of Jesus), The Exorcist 50th (The Medium), That Guy (Evil Toons)Bingo Card #7 
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17. Sister Death (aka Hermana Muerte) Netflix  Paco Plaza has credit for life among at least some of us for providing the REC series, one of the few franchises I look at and think "I get it now" when it comes to people with unabashed love for found footage. I admit to not having seen much of his work outside of that. Dropped this weekend to Netflix is Sister Death, a new 90-minute prequel to one of said works (Veronica) about a girl named Narcisa who, a decade after experiencing miracles, joins a convent she isn't made to feel welcome in, between antagonistic nuns, story-telling children, the chair that keeps tipping over in her room, and the box in her closet containing a picture of a dead nun nobody who knew her wants to talk about. Secrets come out, as they tend to do, whether you want them to or not Of the five or so religious horrors I've seen in the last two months (this, Exorcist Believer, Devil on Trial, Pope's Exorcist and Nun 2 all come to mind immediately), Sister Death is the best of the bunch. The most tense, and has a couple genuinely surprising moments. Plaza isn't afraid to show what religion is willing to look the other way on, and in the process displays a tormented character of Narcisa who goes through hell and back and yet can never really be blamed for her reaction to it throughout I'd never heard of Veronica before I was about to click play on this and decided to look up a brief "what is this". I thought my next/possibly final film for Shocktober would be the new Hell House LLC that's out tomorrow; maybe I'll watch Veronica next instead **** 17/31 (NightMare, Appendage, VHS85, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, Totally Killer, The Pope's Exorcist, It Lives Inside [2023], The Puppetman, The Conference [2023], The Devil on Trial, Night of the Hunted [2023], Lockdown Tower, 15 Cameras, The Exorcist: Believer, Dark Harvest [2023], When Evil Lurks, Sister Death)
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Weekend catch-up time. #35. Re-Animator (Vudu) Herbert West has invented a special "reagent" serum that can bring the dead back to life... but not all that well. And his hubris will only come back to bite him and his partner Dan. Was having trouble making a decision about what to watch on Friday night, so I decided to just throw on an old favorite I hadn't seen in a while. That turned out to be the wisest choice. I love this film - it's smart, it's scary, it's can be existentially horrifying if you think about the implications enough. I love Jeffrey Combs and his performance here, and while he steals the show, the secret sauce is that the whole thing is really Dan's story. And I love that the film is smart enough to lay out its thesis - "Your compassion is commendable, Cain, but a good doctor knows when to quit" - and pay it off to brutal effect by the end. West and Dan just absolutely refuse to learn their lesson about tampering with the laws of nature, and it owns watching their various experiments continue to fail and produce horrible naked monstrosities. This movie is flat fantastic, and if you somehow haven't seen it yet that needs to change.  /5 #36. Scars of Dracula (Vudu) After being resurrected, Count Dracula kills a wayward drunkard who stumbles into his castle. The man's brother and girlfriend come looking for him, setting off a chain of horrifying events. On paper, this should be one of the better films to come out of the venerable Hammer "Dracula" series. I love that it starts right away, with Dracula being resurrected before the title card as opposed to waiting around for 30 or 40 minutes before he gets there. I love that he's resurrected because a downright terrible bat puppet shows up to vomit blood all over his remains. I like that this is one of the rare "Dracula" sequels where Christopher Lee talks, as opposed to just hissing like an animal and running all around; it's easy to forget that Lee can be effortlessly charming in this role, if he ever cares enough to play it that way. I love that Patrick "Second 'Doctor Who'" Troughton shows up for a substantial bit part - he should have been in more horror movies, he's great in anything. So, there's a lot to like here, but unfortunately there's a lot to dislike, too. It's very slow and talkative, as most Hammers are. It feels very repetitive, especially when we have to have both brothers go through the same "descend down the side of the castle slowly into Dracula's crypt" sequence. Or how there's one innkeeper character who seems to only have two or three lines of dialogue, but we have to revisit him like half a dozen times throughout. It's weird that plot points get picked up and resolved super fast with no real seeming character motivation, like how Troughton seems to betray Dracula by helping the lead, then betrays the lead by cutting his rope, then changes his mind again and helps him escape, all in the span of less than 10 minutes. The ending is weird - the hero is seemingly unable to accomplish anything, so God apparently intervenes on his behalf and ends everything with an errant lightning bolt - and then abruptly jumps to credits. It's like the film said "we've done all we can do here, we may as well just cut our losses and get out quick." So, plenty to like, plenty that doesn't work. It's like we're bumping up on the ceiling of what Hammer was able to accomplish with this character and these scenarios, and it works out okay, but only just. If you have to go with a Hammer series entry as opposed to one of the weirder stand-alones, make mine a "Frankenstein" entry; those always seem to turn out a little better. /5 #37. Tales From the Crypt presents: Demon Knight (Vudu) After getting trapped inside of an abandoned church turned into a hotel/brothel, a group of people must protect a magic key from a group of demons. So, last night my sisters threw me an early birthday party where the main gimmick was watching movies out in my mom's yard on a projector. Everyone expected me to go with a slasher film, possibly a Chucky one, but I wanted to throw them a bit of a curve ball to start, and hopefully something that would be a crowd pleaser. In my mind, something like Demon Knight here fits the bill - it's fun, a little bit scary, a little bit goofy, a little bit sexy, the Cryptkeeper cameos at the beginning and end... it has almost everything you'd ever want from a movie. I don't know that the assembled audience got a lot out of it, and without proper sound speakers it's probably a hard film to follow. Plus, we started late enough (due to my small nephew being around) that we were only able to fit one film in. Still, I think this is a pretty solid choice if you only have one option you'll be able to get through. /5Watched so far: As Above So Below, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, Saw IV, The Exorcist, One Cut of the Dead, Slugs, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Saw X, The Return of the Living Dead, Tales of Halloween, No One Will Save You, Destroy All Monsters, Cujo, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, Hocus Pocus, A Bucket of Blood, Mama, Child's Play 2, Friday the 13th Part 6, The Mummy's Ghost, Brain Dead, Saloum, Perpetrator, The Blob, The Vampire Lovers, Wake in Fright, The Evil of Frankenstein, The Faculty, Ernest Scared Stupid, Cobweb, The Birds, Censor, Slash/Back, The Lost Boys, Re-Animator, Scars of Dracula, Demon Knight Individual Challenges = 13/13 NEW-TO-YOU = 6/6 HISTORY LESSON = 5/5 AROUND THE WORLD = 4/4 HORROR IS FOR EVERYONE = 3/3 Halloween Bingo = #15 (COMPLETE)
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42. The Blair Witch Project (1999) Still the gold standard to which I will hold all other found footage movies. Everything just works so well together, really nailing the student film feel, even the really minor stuff like the narration at the start of the movie having little stumbles left in, or the little bit in the car where the cameraman explains the shot was out of focus because he mixed up feet and metres on the chart. The "people really thought this was real" always feels super exaggerated, but the level of verisimilitude it has is perfect. I always see a lot of people saying it's "boring" but I just don't understand how anyone could find this boring, the entire second half is just constant white-knuckle tension. "What's your favourite thing to do on a Sunday?." "It used to be driving to the woods and going hiking. That might change." 4 out of 5! Watched so far: Saw X, Wishmaster, F13 Part 6, One Cut of the Dead, The Exorcism of God, The Stuff, Razorback, The Curse of Frankenstein, Demon Knight, Freaky, V/H/S, Trick 'r' Treat, Goodnight Mommy. Matriarch, Last House on the Left, Phantasm, Dude Bro Party Massacre III, Exorcist: Believer, No-One Will Save You, VHS/85, Hellraiser, Totally Killer, Beaten to Death, Hellraiser II, Annabelle: Creation, Unfriended: Dark Web, House of 1000 Corpses, Phantasm 2, Re-Animator, From Beyond, Terrifier 2, TCM '03, Devil's Rejects, The Exorcist, Would You Rather, Lords of Salem, Pumpkinhead, Maniac Cop, The Blob, It Lives Inside, Drag Me to Hell, Phantasm 3, Phantasm 4, Phantasm 5, Five Nights at Freddy's, Ready or Not, Child's Play, Blair Witch Project
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Biff Rockgroin posted:31. Paganini Horror Holy crap, you're totally right.
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67. Trick or Treat (1986) Oh this movie is a joy. After Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare, my partner wanted to watch an actually good (but just as fun) movie about rock and horror so we put this on. As a kid I loved reading about the backmasking hysteria and hidden messages in Beatles songs and Judas Priest albums - thanks, Snopes - and I spent a lot of my childhood cutting together mixtapes and recording faux-radio shows on a Talkboy I took from my brother. My parents had all kinds of hi-fi equipment and one of my prized possessions is my mother's own vinyl copy of Bat Out Of Hell that she gifted me. Basically, you give me a loud rock-and-roll cult classic slasher and I'll want to be nice to it. The story is simple but strong - a bullied high schooler who loves metal (and has the coolest hi-fi set I've ever seen) is devastated after the death of one of his favorite acts, a counter-culture shock rocker named Sammi Curr. He goes to a radio station to meet with the local rock DJ who lets him have a studio demo of Sammi's last song. He plays the record, and, whoops, Song's Haunted! We then get a really fun story about the protagonist losing himself to darkness and basically becoming Emo Peter Parker and getting revenge on his bullies until it goes too far and he has stop the resurrected and homicidal shock rocker before his music infects everyone. The movie understands the rhythm of a horror, just pounding to the beat and backed with some awesome hair metal. When Sammi finally emerges from the evil record it's been built up so well and his powers are so awesome that you can almost forgive that Sammi himself...just kind of looks like a scarred Alice Cooper. I think that's the one thing that stops this movie from being a stone cold classic. He has tons of absolutely awesome kills, including a few involving a CRT television that measure up to any Freddy or Jason kill, and he has great scenes including a killer musical number at a Halloween-themed prom, but his design and personality just don't spark like the rest of the movie. It's a bummer. Other highlights of the movie are the awesome use of 80s technology - reel-to-reels, tape players, Walkmen, speakers, all of it is a feast to someone like me who grew up loving radio and even working in it for a while. Also, Ozzy Osbourne has the absolute funniest cameo ever. Gene Simmons as a take on Wolfman Jack is also a highlight. This movie loves music and metal and is having a ton of fun, with the only thing other than Sammi holding it back being that it doesn't really have much depth in terms of what it has to say. Also, the title is bad! I don't care if Sammi sings a song called Trick Or Treat and the movie's climax takes place on Halloween! It's not good enough! I watched this on Screambox, which is a brand new 4K transfer that will be getting a physical release from Synapse in the near future. It looked amazing! The effects absolutely crackled, with beautiful luminescent electricity and stunning fire. The music is loud! I'm definitely going to have to pick this disc up. This is my kind of fun and trashy 80s cult classic that really holds up. Rating: 3.5 Birthday Bear Costumes Out Of 5
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Does You Won’t Be Alone “count” as Australian for the purposes of the World metachallenge? It’s an Aussie-UK-Serbian co-production. I don’t particularly care either way and haven’t even committed to watching it yet, I’m just figuring out what I’m watching in the final stretch to tick off the last challenges.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Does You Won’t Be Alone “count” as Australian for the purposes of the World metachallenge? It’s an Aussie-UK-Serbian co-production. I always vote "beg for forgiveness" when it comes to the challenges, but I think a co-production is totally valid. (Personally I'd say skip this movie, though. What a turgid slog.)
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Crescent Wrench posted:I always vote "beg for forgiveness" when it comes to the challenges, but I think a co-production is totally valid. (Personally I'd say skip this movie, though. What a turgid slog.) Lol, then I'll probably just back burner it to the big list of "I'll Get Around To You". I'm just nipping at the edges so I'm flexible still ; I basically just have a spare World (Not Asia or Africa or Europe), with the other 2-3 odd locked in somewhere else. Thanks, hoss.
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26. Horror Express Just a nice cozy horror movie set on a train and starring some stellar actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee plus Terry Savalas. Excellent horror movie. ----------------
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6: Lost Boys (Challenge: Birth of Horror) - Very much a classic - haven't seen this one in forever, but it's great. I liked all the slice of life scenes that really lay out the setting. The fashion really stands out here, with the boys looking fantastic. Just a well written adventure that's a good ride throuhout. Also loved that the implied sex scene is just a cloud flythrough. 4/5 7: People Under the Stairs (Challenge: horror adjacent) - A young kid in a soon to be evicted family joins an on a scheme to rob their landlord, and it turns out the house and landlord are much more than they expected. Filled with traps, mechanisms, shortcuts and people living within the walls. Had a great time with this. The antagonists were comically cheesy and wild - starting fairly standard but slowly revealing more and more crazy. Just a really fun time, and was constantly surprised. Fun ending. 4/5 8: Vampires vs the Bronx (horror is for everyone)- This was just such a generic forgettable movie. Nothing is even wrong enough to laugh at, it's just that....nothing very interesting happens, it doesn't stand out in any way. 2/5 9: Frailty - A man comes to a detective to recount his experiences watching his father receive visions instructing him to kill demons. Different pace then most of the rest I've seen in a while - very close look into a killer's mindset, and incredibly gripping. Lots of uncomfortable moments watching the son unable to act, then the twist unreliable narrator and that they really are killing demons felt earned. Very good with great performances, though not the lightest watch. 4/5 10: Talk to Me - A group a friends finds a hand that lets them talk to the dead - but the risks are high. Great opening scene that sets the tone for the entire movie. the chemistry between the friends felt right and scary scene pacing felt good, it was always firing. The seance scenes were particularly strong and it kept the dread level high throughout. I think maybe the latter third is a little weaker but liked final scene a lot. Overall this movie was really well done - certainly the best 'dead spirits' movie I've seen. 4/5 11: Malignant - Rewatch - This is such a great movie - it just gives 110% at all times. Every time I see it I appreciate something new - the camerawork in the house, the fight choreography, the soundtrack timing. It's so weird that this movie exists with this concept and also level of quality but I love it. 5/5
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54. Neptune Frost (2021, Rwanda) - Beautiful music-driven Afro-futurist film about the oppressed rising up against a totalitarian regime. A little bit horror-adjacent. 5/5 And with that:  Done, including all the ones that are too small to see on the map. 55. Amityville Gas Chamber (2022) - Shrecknet posted:It isn't even the best Amityville movie to be one long fart joke Hmm, on the one hand, Amityville Death Toilet has a plot. On the other hand, Amityville Gas Chamber has a cat, some ferrets, and a chinchilla (?), interesting facts, and enough respect for the hearing impaired to differentiate between "fart," "clown fart," and "tragedy" in the subtitles. Edge: Gas Chamber. 4/5
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When Evil Lurks On Shudder (Film 26/31) gently caress, this is just good. It's extremely very good. Bad stuff is afoot, and a father finds himself way out of his depth. 5/5
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27. I, Monster This is a Amicus production adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Its a just excellent adaptation of the story with small changes though to the ending of the film. Again another cozy horror movie. ----------------
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 34. Frankenstein dir. James Whale (1931)  I managed to see Bride of Frankenstein without having seen this first. This is kind of unfair, because this is great but has trouble comparing to Bride. It has to set up the monster and personal life of Dr. Frankenstein, which is fine but can't quite compare to Karloff getting to drown and murder people right off that bat in Bride, as much as I love his gentler scenes here. Still, obviously a classic of gothic horror. /5, and a few flowers to have fun throwing in the water with a new friend.  31 Films Complete  Challenges Completed (13/13): 1. CineD Horror thread poll GOAT Goats (REC from Tapes list, Ringu from House List), 2. Horror Adjacent (Night of the Hunter), 3. That Guy (Keith David in The Thing), 4. Exorcist 50th anniversary (Exorcist III), 5. The Birth of Horror (Trauma in Minneapolis), 6. Animals of Unusual Size (Godzilla and Anguirus in Godzilla Rides Again), 7. Rob Zombie (Dawn of the Dead's Zombies), 8. Back of the Video Store (Sole Survivor), 9. Picnic in Space (History of the Occult, period piece), 10. Bite Sized Horror (Creepshow), 11. FVJ (Friday the 13th (1980)), Samhain (Night of the Demons), Childhood Trauma (28 Days Later)  Meta Challenges (18/18): New to Me (6/6), Around the World (4/4, Europe/Asia/Australia/South America) History Lesson (5/5, 2000s/1950s/2010s/1980s/1990s) Horror's For Everyone (3/3, POC/Women/LGBT) Bingo card 22 Complete! 
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Lol. For the first time since the 2nd of the month, I actually bothered to check how I'm doing on the challenges. I'm at 30+ total movies and I've done most of the challenges and metachallenges by complete accident ; I basically just need to plug a few holes and I'm done with room to spare. I guess it provides an idea of how difficult the challenges are. So from here on out, if it looks like I'm checking movies off a random assortment of the challenges, it's because that's exactly what I'm doing.  Upstate New York is full of stuff like this. The Poughkeepsie Tapes Poughkeepsie, NY is right across the river from me. It's where I go for contradances. I know it well : it's sort of like if you made a toilet out of deindustrialized depression and one way streets. The helicopter shots focus on the Mid-Hudson Bridge and they're from a distance for a reason : if they pan the wrong direction, they'll shoot the vast wastelands of concrete or the enormous open air quarry that dominates the south, and that'd ruin the whole "sleepy town of 3,000" vibe they're trying to give. It's also absolutely loving full of raccoons, huge mean ones ; that Girl Scout the killer almost abducted is a liar. They mess up the geography once and put where a body is found on the wrong side of the river, in a different town. A spot that happens to be where my local bluegrass jam meets, so I'm gonna lol about that the next time I go. But the real reason I watched this is because it's everything I hate about that era of horror, the late 2000s. O wow your serial killer that you're making up is so cool and edgy that he can't be caught by the police you also are writing? That's like trying to impress me with a game of chess against yourself. And it's all just too-edgy-for-you and a lot of violence against women and I was so much happier trying to spot a Stewart's in the background than paying attention to it. gently caress the Poughkeepsie Tapes. Why does Cheryl wear a Hot Topic dirndl anyway?  Doesn't this look extremely my poo poo? The Heretics First, I technically didn't suggest the Cool Box Art category, feedmyleg did. I just agreed with it right away and I'm very, very loud. All credit to feedmyleg, it is a great idea for a category. This was kind of liberating. I compulsively look up everything before watching it, probably too much, and carefully selecting a mystery bag by tummy-feels was fun. Just sail by anything I've ever heard of and see what catches my eye. Well, this has creepy masked people in the woods and the name is vaguely religious, so maybe it's a folk horror thing. I'm a total sucker for a hat with antlers on it too : that's how I've wound up watching 2 entire seasons of Yellowjackets. And it was fine, I guess? It didn't do anything wrong except fail to catch my interest. Girl who was kidnapped by a cult is kidnapped by the cult again, she has a demon inside her, internal Satanic schism, demon appears, woobly boobly spookily. Honestly typing that was more exciting than anything in the actual movie. I did really like that the protagonist girl and the secret-mole Satanist were in an open same-sex relationship which got completely unremarked upon by everyone involved, functionally identical to a straight relationship. For most of film history that wasn't an option, and I guess it was in 2017. Mediocre genre fiction as a tiny mark of societal progress?  Another great Schmuck Actor That Guy Dick Miller It's a good rear end documentary, Dick Miller's a legend. Everyone should watch it.  You can't complain about spoilers if it's part of the advertising. Gaia I think I'm good on fungus zombies for a bit. This was nice, but I think we've reached the cultural high water mark in terms of flesh-eating mycomorphs, we don't need to redo the whole over-played zombie thing but now they go well with a little nutmeg and a garlic-wine sauce. That said, this is a cute little movie and on another day it might have completely wowed me. It kind of bounced off me today, but I think that's mood more than anything. Good performances, well shot, some nice thematic resonance, at least a solid B. Just didn't grab me for whatever reason.
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43. When Evil Lurks (2023) I need a warm drink and a lay down, my nerves hurt. I really don't wanna say too much, because this is still fairly new, and it really strikes as a movie you should go in as blind as you can, but Jesus Christ that is a Bad Time movie. Just when it seems like the worst possible thing has happened, it gets worse. Repeatedly. There are a whole lot of scenes that are going to stay with me for a long loving time. "God is dead, and the age of churches ended quickly." 5 out of 5! Watched so far: Saw X, Wishmaster, F13 Part 6, One Cut of the Dead, The Exorcism of God, The Stuff, Razorback, The Curse of Frankenstein, Demon Knight, Freaky, V/H/S, Trick 'r' Treat, Goodnight Mommy. Matriarch, Last House on the Left, Phantasm, Dude Bro Party Massacre III, Exorcist: Believer, No-One Will Save You, VHS/85, Hellraiser, Totally Killer, Beaten to Death, Hellraiser II, Annabelle: Creation, Unfriended: Dark Web, House of 1000 Corpses, Phantasm 2, Re-Animator, From Beyond, Terrifier 2, TCM '03, Devil's Rejects, The Exorcist, Would You Rather, Lords of Salem, Pumpkinhead, Maniac Cop, The Blob, It Lives Inside, Drag Me to Hell, Phantasm 3, Phantasm 4, Phantasm 5, Five Nights at Freddy's, Ready or Not, Child's Play, Blair Witch Project, When Evil Lurks
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21. Ringu 2 (oct 24) CHILDHOOD TRAUMA revisiting terrors from my high school years! i saw this in year 10, after seeing the american remake, then the original japanese film. honestly ringu 2 strikes me more than the first; it leans into the sci-fi trappings a little more, setting up cameras and electronics and observation of horrifying phenomena. this also is 4/4 for my AROUND THE WORLD challenge! hooray. 22. Monster! (Humanoids From The Deep) (oct 26) HORROR IS FOR EVERYONEnotable for being james horner's first movie score. also notable for being Barbara Peeter's direction, as well, although she tried to disown it after Corman shoved a load of rape into the movie. honestly there's some gorgeous 70's stuff in here, alongside all the 'men in creepy rubber suits doing creepy things'. some cool vibes and some jokes that actually land, but ultimately made me sad that the end result is so far removed from what Peeters wanted. really enjoyed this shot in the opening credits:  23. Saw X (oct 28) Tobin Bell's Jigsaw has slowly turned into Clint Eastwood's hard-boiled miser from Gran Torino (and every other Eastwood movie these days). this isn't a bad thing; in fact it rocks. turning to Kramer's perspective is the sort of "oh poo poo why didn't we do this sooner" dynamic turn the franchise needed. Cecilia is a terrific character too; a different sort of cutthroat antagonism, with no moral compass at all. dunno how they hell they did it but i'm really excited for the eventual Saw XI.  two bingos is a nice treat, but i reckon i can knock out one or two more.
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28. Scream and Scream Again I haven't seen this one in a while but its got what I consider the holy trinity of horror which is Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Its a Amicus production and honestly its pretty good. Also cozy horror. ----------------
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 26)Amityville 3D challengesbirth of horrorBINGO CARD COMPLETE!Just what I needed. The flies in 3D. And a spooky boom mic That said 3D gimmicks aside, our protagonist is a skeptic debunker who buys the house on the cheap. And doesn't believe even with a variety of mysterious and often cruel deaths. The movie is kind of dull, and most of the interesting characters-Dr West, a psychic researcher, Our protagonist's daughter'(lori loughlin!)'s bff (meg ryan!) are barely in the movie. Hell it's mostly our protagonist not believing until the last 15 minutes when he lets Dr. West (ha) go in and open a portal to hell. Things get bonkers and it whips. West and his whole drat team get taken out by the house It's not a terrible haunted house movie, but it always sits with me wrong when a real life murder is exploited like this. And really should have been about Dr West and his team, and not our milk toast protagonist. /51)My Little eye 2)Terrifier 2 3)A Nightmare on Elm Street 4:The Dream Master 4)A Nightmare on Elm Street 5-The dream child 5)Freddy’s Dead The Final Nightmare 6) Wes Craven’s a New Nightmare 7)V/H/S 85 8)totally killer 9)May 10)def by temptation 11)friday the 13th part V:a new beginning 12)friday the thirteenth part vii:the new blood13)Jason goes to hell:the final friday14)daughters of darkness 15)Saloum 16)Prophecy 17(Bay of Blood18)history of the occult 19)the undead 20)Slotherhouse 21)talk to me 22)Dog Soldiers 23)Psycho Shark 24)The changeling 25) Halloween 07 26) Amityville 3D 
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 47) Night Vision (1987) (Fan-made) trailer Seen on: Tubi A naive small-town Kansas writer moves to the Big City, where he doesn't fit in among the hardened and calloused cityfolk. Amid falling in love and befriending the best short gangster you'll ever see, he winds up with a demonically possessed VCR in his apartment that allows him to see the future and possesses him. Hope you like "you're not in Kansas anymore" jokes! This was not what I expected from something with that cover. The horror element of a cult who videotapes their ceremonies and curses a VCR feels completely tangential to everything else going on. What takes up most of the running time is a coming-of-age or fish-out-of-water drama with some comedy and romantic elements with the horror stuff bolted on. The main character feels like he belongs in a 1984 afterschool special and everyone he runs into is a very, very broad stereotype (the hardened, guarded girl with a heart of gold, the short guy who acts tought to survive, the nosy battleaxe of a boarding house owner, etc.). There's not a whole lot I found interesting here, it's not scary or particularly interesting, and the tone is all over the place (some very, very broad comedy here too), but it does have heart, I guess. Just don't expect Videodrome.  48) Macabre (1980) Trailer Seen on: Tubi One year after a woman witnesses her lover die in a gruesome car accident and is released from a psychiatric hospital, she moves back into the boarding house where she held her affair. The nice young blind guy who takes care of the place suspects something's up though when he hears the woman talking to her lover in the throes of passion...is she nuts, or is he back from the dead? The answer will shock and terrify you! In past challenges, I've seen Lamberto Bava's The House of Exorcism (wild trash) and Shock (standard giallo elevated by a good Daria Nicolodi performance). Macabre is what he directed after those films, and it definitely lives up to the title. Bernice Stegers (wife of Mike Newell!) really goes for it as a woman who doesn't give a poo poo about her family - her pre-teen daughter is a Bad Seed-style little poo poo who is not afraid to lie, murder and blackmail people, as a result - and who is obsessed with her dead lover, a little too much. This is one of those films where you go "no, that's not what's happening, that's too easy a guess" but it does it anyway and then it keeps going. What's interesting is most of the movie is sort of told from the point of view of the blind character, and we're shown things he can't see, which leads to some tense scenarios. The last half hour keeps escalating everything, and the last shot of the film is a classic Italian horror non-sequitor  moment that was not informed or telegraphed at all by anything that came before it. A fun watch, if you can keep your head about you. 49) Don't Go In the Woods (1980) Trailer Seen on: Tubi In the forests of Utah, an unseen animalistic killer is mowing down campers left and right. That's it, that's the movie. Another slasher film with a video box I remember from when I was a kid, Don't Go in the Woods is a bad movie, but fortunately, it's a so-bad-it's-good movie and it kept me fascinated and entertained. I'll give it this much, it rarely gets boring - there's killings nearly every five minutes here, like an extraordinary amount of victims and gory kills! The movie will cut away from our ostensible main characters just to introduce one or two people who'll act goofy for a few minutes (including goofy synth music on the soundtrack) and then they die. Jason would be envious of this guy! Speaking of the music, it's a terrible synth soundtrack that will live in your head for days, with its weird squawky/blippy minimalistic sounds and tonally inconsistent composition. The "killer is stalking someone" music just sounds like a clumsy synth version of the Jaws theme and it's played CONSTANTLY. The acting is wooden, the handheld camera bounces all over the place, and I'm pretty sure all the dialogue in the film is ADR'ed. The killer's costume is great too, my notes say "Viking who went to Mardi Gras" and apparently some other people on other review sites were thinking the same thing when I checked. Look, I can't promise that this is a good movie or worth anyone's time, but I can't say it was the worst thing I watched this month either.
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Yeah the spoilered part owned. When I watched through the first 10 or so of these the other year, this one really struck me as trying something different because it's the first time in three movies that they actually have a scientific crew come check it out instead of just defaulting to the church.
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