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The start buzzer has been hit. 1) Pinwheel - 2017 - TubiTV I have a bit of a soft spot for films centered around a carnival or circus. Something Wicked This Way Comes is one of my top favorites. So, seeing the synopsis for Pinwheel, I figured to go give it a try. After all, woman goes back to the cursed carnival her estranged father ran sounds like it's worth a watch. Welp. If I summarize this movie into two words, it'd be "If Only". The premise is decent, if only it was executed better. If only the cast and crew had a little more experience, it would've flowed better. If only the practical effects were just a bit more consistent... The film's not so much as bad as it is infuriating. There's a lot of potential here that it's just maddening that with just a bit more effort and experience would make a decent film. For anyone who's sat through enough horror films, the plot's pretty bog standard for a creepy carnival story that with the 'almost there' rest of it, just makes for a film that's barely meh. Had the rest been just that bit better, it would've made for a decent film.  2) Hair High - 2004 - TubiTV When it comes to animation, I'm pretty nitpicky. I'm not too big on anime, I can't stand whatever style Steven Universe was drawn in, same goes for whatever style Rick & Morty's done in. I don't particularly like a fair amount of the later Disney style. Doesn't mean they're bad, just that they don't click with me. First time I saw Bill Plympton's art was on MTV's Liquid TV and it just clicked with me. It just worked so incredibly well with the story style. Hair High's no different. Poking fun at the 50s era teen film genre, it takes a delightful turn into Carrie-esque style revenge at the prom. Only reason I didn't recommend this for the CineD Z-Fest is it didn't fit the year requirement. If you're looking for an unusual animation style film, I highly recommend this one.  3) Clown - 2014 - TubiTV As far as body horror goes, this one's not too bad. As far as killer clown films go, it's okay enough. Premise is a guy (Kent) puts on a clownsuit he found to cover for the clown who didn't show up for his son's birthday party and the suit turns out to be something sinister. The backstory on the clownsuit's pretty solid, and the growing horror as Kent futiley tries to resist the changes happening to him is handled well. The clowndog was an interesting concept but I really wasn't big on the dog death that happened. Overall, while I don't regret watching it, I don't think I'll watch this one again if that makes sense.
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Krazyface posted:Is there any restriction wrt the movies being new to me? I mean obviously those should be the majority, but I've got a couple of flicks I've seen before, but not in a while, that might provide some good data. The only restrictions with new-to-you movies are the self-inflicted ones. It's within the spirit of the thread, but in no way mandatory.
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Well, I've decided to inflict on myself the worst kind of 13 movie challenge. Here goes. 1) Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment (ギニーピッグ 悪魔の実験) 2/5 I have to give this one two stars simply on the merit of being a technical demo of sorts. There's no real plot, no connection, no emotion to it, but... Imagine being in the 90s and coming across a tattered VHS copy of this, with its intro disclaimer of being a real evidential torture tape. It's believable, and that's impressive for 1985. 2) Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood (ギニーピッグ2 血肉の華) 3/5 The second entry in the Guineaverse (Pigverse?) ups the ante a bit. There's more of everything. More gore, more plot, more... Cameras? On the one hand, the prosthetic effects are phenomenal for the late 80s. I don't think I've seen a fake severed head that looked that good to this day, let alone 3 decades ago. But on the other hand, the extra effects and extra camera angles and plot and stuff kind of ruin the suspension of disbelief that the first movie had.
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COOL CORN posted:Well, I've decided to inflict on myself the worst kind of 13 movie challenge. Here goes. I will never watch these, but I've heard that the 3rd and 4th are the Actually Good ones.
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Franchescanado posted:I will never watch these, but I've heard that the 3rd and 4th are the Actually Good ones. Mermaid in a Manhole's pretty much the only one I recommend.
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I had no idea there was an extended horror franchise called "Guinea Pig" and it never ceases to amaze me how deep the well of the horror genre goes.
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I'll pledge at least 13. 1. In The Mouth Of Madness (1994)  Watched On: Shudder I feel a bit ashamed it took me so long to get around to this piece of Carpenter's work since the plot seems like something I'd really like and I was right. Sam Neill is just a delight, I love how long he clings to everything happening around him being bullshit and then the gradual break as he starts to question even his own existence. Opening theme slaps hard too. I'll probably end up watching The Fog later this month just because the spooky small of Hobb's end was giving me those same vibes. 2. Castle Freak (1995)  Watched On: Shudder Another one that's taken me a long time to finally see and I guess there's no better time than now. Truthfully it kinda wasn't holding my attention too well, granted I had been up for 24 hours and was trying not to ruin my sleep schedule further so that could have something to do with it. Jeffrey Combs though was clocking in a another good performance though I'm not sure I really needed that sex scene.
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STAC Goat posted:I had no idea there was an extended horror franchise called "Guinea Pig" and it never ceases to amaze me how deep the well of the horror genre goes. It's a "franchise" in the same sense as Tetsuo. Except Tetsuo is more interesting, in that it tells more of a story and has themes rather than just being a technical showcase. They're also only 40 minutes each (and don't count for the challenge, sorry), except for Guinea Pig: Mermaid in a Manhole, which is 63 minutes.
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I'll go for 13 horror films I haven't seen before, but I may end up watching more or less, depending on how things shake out. There is a TON of non-horror stuff in my CC backlog that I also want to get to.
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Uncle Walrus' 3 Sentence Review 1. Gothic 1986 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C_xrvI0xQ4 What better way to kick off a marathon than revisiting what is perhaps the most important night in all of the horror genre, that hallowed, fateful evening when Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein? The glasses full of pink water, the immaculate wooden sets, this is the sexiest film that Hammer Studios never made. Sporting a fine cast of madmen, Ken Russell true to form delivers a fevered dream of a movie, the sort of intoxicated hellride that either results in insanity, death or quality cinema. TheOmegaWalrus fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Apr 1, 2020 |
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Franchescanado posted:It's a "franchise" in the same sense as Tetsuo. Except Tetsuo is more interesting, in that it tells more of a story and has themes rather than just being a technical showcase. But the mental anguish lasts longer than 60 minutes God drat it fine, I forgot about that, I'm not going to watch the rest of them.
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COOL CORN posted:But the mental anguish lasts longer than 60 minutes Sorry bud. I genuinely appreciate the effort. Would have warned you about that had I remembered their short run-time. You can still watch Mermaid in a Manhole!
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Friendly reminder that there is a slasher set on April Fool's Day, and it's remake.
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Franchescanado posted:Sorry bud. I genuinely appreciate the effort. Would have warned you about that had I remembered their short run-time. Nah it's all good, I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at myself haha. I'm gonna dig back into actual movies now I think.
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Franchescanado posted:Friendly reminder that there is a slasher set on April Fool's Day, and it's remake. I just watched the original recently and it's decent, is the remake any good?
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gey muckle mowser posted:I just watched the original recently and it's decent, is the remake any good? No idea! But I do like the original quite a bit.
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Looking forward to having some extra structure to my days. A "project" to work on, so to speak. I started a bit early but I'll be going way past 13 so it's nbd. Started last night with the main three Leprechaun sequels I'd never seen.  Leprechaun 4: In Space I actually........really enjoyed this? I think I just liked the very strange mix of this old world Irish legend all the sudden being thrown together with space marines and aliens and bizarre androids. Sure, the movie is relatively cheap looking but I didn't feel like it was just thrown together. There was real effort and ideas put into this. There's a Dr. Frankenstein-type mad scientist running around, a guy with an exposed metal plate replacing half his skull, and a lightsaber. And a scene where the Leprechaun hides inside a guys dick and jumps out when he gets a boner. Sadly the guy didn't survive. So yea, there are many many worse ways you can spend your midnight hours than this. Make sure you have a few beers on hand though.  Leprechaun In The Hood This one I enjoyed as well, it's another very low budget film but still you can tell that it was not low effort. The characters are actually pretty solid, and there are at least a few that you can really get on their side and root for. Davis is really on the top of his game in this one too, he's really reveling in the one-liners and there are a lot of them. Plus, a scene where the Leprechaun smokes a J with Ice Tea, so....  Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha Hood They probably shouldn't have gone back to the hood, to be honest. This sequel actually felt more technically well made, but that didn't make it more fun to watch. It's overly self-serious, at least relative to the ridiculousness of the previous two sequels. None of the characters really stuck with me, but maybe I was just tired. The makeup on Davis is really very consistent in these films though, which I appreciate. It's always very solid and convincing, and really hasn't changed much over the course of 6 films, as far as I can tell.
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 1. Bliss (2019) Dir: Joe Begos A little too self-conscious about wearing its influences on its sleeves, but I enjoyed this! Sometimes, it feels like a mashup of Abel Ferrara ideas, particularly The Addiction and Driller Killer (both movies you should consider for the challenge), grungy metal bar aesthetic, and Liquid Sky levels of neon. I swear to god I saw them in Saint Vitus at one point. But if you're going to borrow from other films and filmmakers, those aren't bad influences to borrow from. The last half-hour of this delivers on making this its own frenetic thing.
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 Unfortunately I had to remove Disco Beaver from Outer Space from my list as it's only 51 minutes, but I thought I'd mention it as it includes a musical number called "God is dead", and has the best camp Dracula parody in the history of film. I also had to remove Kiss of the Damned, because as soon as I began watching it I realised I'd seen it before. I'm not sure if that's more of a comment on the movie or my memory. 1. The Midnight Meat Train (Amazon Prime) has pretty amazing gore, a few meh digital effects aside. There's tons of blood, a nice inventive decapitation, and a scene which seems like it was plucked straight from Blood Feast. The film in general is nicely shot, the plot is wonderfully demented, but the characters are all generally unlikable, and paper thin. Vinnie Jones and Brooke Shields both gave pretty great performances though. I think if it wasn't for them and the gore pulling the movie along, there wouldn't be a lot to recommend. 2. Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives (Tubi) is rape/revenge queerploitation comedy. The standard of humour, performance, and sensitivity is around the bad Rupaul's Drag Race sketch level. What's bizarre is that the horror segments are actually pretty good, well performed, and mostly played straight. If the whole film was just the segments between Krystal Summers and Tom Zembrod it'd actually be worth recommending. 3. Mausoleum (Amazon Prime) I loved it. "So bad it's good" is a really overused phrase, but it definitely applies here. It's just such a joyful, trashy mess. The film undulates wildly between softcore erotica, everyday boring americana, and insanely histrionic possession scenes. The film follows Susan, a suburban stepford wife, whose body becomes host to a possessing demon. Initially the possession grants her the power to exact revenge on men who try to hit on her, but soon her rampage increases to the dizzying heights of stealing a cheap looking painting with zero plot relevance. Can our hero, a dumpy middle aged therapist, stop her rampage in time!? The film also includes Matthew Mcconaughey's haggard doppelganger. 
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Basebf555 posted:Lep in the hood come to do no good Which has been your favorite so far? For me, I like 3 and In The Hood the most.
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 4) D-Railed - 2018 - TubiTV Considering I'm mostly working through my watchlists and I do have a bad case of 'hmm, poster looks good' syndrome, my general expectations aren't too high. Going from the poster for this one, I was expecting a standard type monster flick. Turns out I was expecting wrong for the most part, and it is good. It didn't help seeing Lance Hendriksen at the beginning since we've all sat through stinkers that had a genre big name in it who was probably in the film because they had to make a bill payment. I was thinking this was going to be another case of that, but nope. Film holds its own quite well. Only reason I'm not giving a quicky synopsis is because there's such twists and turns in this film, I'd be spoiling it and in this case it'd ruin the experience. Effects were good, monster design's good and I honestly didn't expect the ending it had. Overall, a pleasant surprise viewing.  5) Scareycrows - 2017 - TubiTV All the signs for a potentially bad film were here. Cutesy spelled title, short for a modern film runtime, indie film that had to resort to a kickstarter at some point, listed as a horror-comedy which requires a careful balancing act. Somehow, the director manages to make it all work and turn this into an overlooked gem. There is a cat death in the beginning which happens offscreen, but unlike most films that utilize it for a quick shock or gutpunch, it serves an actual purpose of highlighting a particular character's nature. Set in an English coastal town during the Scareycrow festival which celebrates when the town fended off French raiders centuries ago. Depending who's asked, it was when the women of the town used scarecrows from the fields to trick the raiders into thinking it was heavily fortified or when the raiders attacked, the town's witch animated the scarecrows who hacked the raiders to mush. We can pretty much guess which telling of the legend's true. Overall, the story's pretty solid. The motive behind the events instead of going the expected cliche route goes more into the 'It's complicated' aspect. I liked the portrayal of the scareycrows, it was a refreshing change from the general run of killer scarecrows. If you're looking for something that knows when to take itself seriously and when not to, give this one a watch.  6) Dying God - 2008 - TubiTV This one's a clunker. There's no amount of mental gymnastics that can salvage this one. Story's essentially a knockoff of the 80s era Breeders, and that one at least had the excuse of it being the first non-porn film of the director's so he was still learning. The characters are lovely people, more rape than you'd care to sit through, and even closeups of the monster's retractible penis. Even as a free stream, I'm annoyed at the time I spent watching this clunker.
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OK, after some thought I hav decided to make this more complicated for myself I will watch 13 horror movies I haven't seen before. In keeping with the spirit of the times, all the movies will deal with one or more of the following topics -Disease -Contagion -Hospitals/medicine/medical procedures -Large scale disasters -Societal collapse I would appreciate some recommendations. I'm keeping "Contagion" pretty broad mainly because I want to watch Colour Out Of Space
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The Crazies (either one) The Bay The Last Man On Earth
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Gripweed posted:OK, after some thought I hav decided to make this more complicated for myself Epidemics: Movies about Disease & Sickness
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Before anyone asks, The Stand is a mini-series, and doesn't count.
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morestuff posted:The Crazies (either one) I think I haven't seen the original The Crazies. I thought the remake had a lot of not well executed potential, so I should give the original a try. The Bay is really good and The Last Man on Earth kicks rear end, but I've seen them both unfortunately Oh hey this is great, thanks It's got The Stand, I've always wanted to wa Franchescanado posted:Before anyone asks, The Stand is a mini-series, and doesn't count. goddamnit
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Franchescanado posted:Which has been your favorite so far? 3 is the best of the first "trilogy", but of the second trilogy I think I liked In Space the most. It was just a very weird mix that for whatever reason I ended up really enjoying.
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I won't go as hard at it as in October, but I'll at least do thirteen. Hopefully okay to ask for a recommendation. What's a good horror movie/thriller about a small group of people encountering strange phenomenon in a relatively desolated area? E.g., in the desert, etc. And hopefully something more otherworldly and strange than just, like, cannibal freaks. There's a number of these set in the woods/forest/lush environments (the various Blair Witches, The Ritual, The Endless, Annihilation,..), but are there any good ones set in more inhospitable environments?
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Sir Kodiak posted:I won't go as hard at it as in October, but I'll at least do thirteen. The Ruins.
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 7) Frankenstein - 2015 - TubiTV Doing a modern version of an old film's a valid reason to make one. Same goes for trying to make one based in reality. With that said, certain elements of attempting either might not work out well in the final product. This film's a remake of the 1931 version with elements of Bride of Frankenstein sprinkled in. Like I said with other remakes such as Poltergeist, it feels like a checklist was made of iconic moments from the original which were connected slapdash and without knowing what made those iconic moments iconic. Case in point, in the original, Adam and the Blind Hermit bond over their shared loneliness, here the Blind Street Musician hooks him up with a prostitute. The concept of using modern science to create Adam rather than the corpse parts is fine, but having him as a full grown adult with an infant's mind and needing to be tended to like a baby just didn't work. Maybe I've spent too long on the Internet, but it felt more like someone's fetish fic. I wouldn't say this is a bad film in the traditional sense, but more there didn't seem to be much critical thought put into fully thinking on what modernizations should be done and how to implement them with the correct emotional impact.
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4. Ticks (Amazon Prime) Starring baby Seth Green, baby Alfonso Ribeiro, and a veritable who's who of "oh hey, it's that guy from that one thing". The plot is your basic cabin in the woods structure, with camp counsellors, sketchy locals, and mutant critters. There's lots of pretty nice body horror, and critter effects, which then combine in a pretty amazing finale. The design of the monsters is nice too, but I feel like they didn't push the concepts quite far enough, perhaps for budgetary reasons. I'd love to see what you could do with the psycho-neurotoxin, chest-bursting, giant ticks if you amped them up to Return of the Living Dead levels of insanity. 5. When Animals Dream (Amazon Prime) HELL YES. Beautifully shot. Great atmospheric soundtrack and soundscape. I wish I could have seen this is in the cinema, but in lieu of that good speakers are definitely recommended. This is definitely a film you want to go in blind on, so I wont go into any detail about what happens, other than to say that it's absolutely rich with themes. It's also a great example of show don't tell, so much of the plot is told in looks and gesture, and it just perfectly balances sweet, tender, unnerving, horrific, and heartbreaking moments. Easily one of the best films I've seen this year.
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I guess I'll use this opportunity to fill in some of the (embarrassing) bits of the TSZDT list that I haven't seen. 1. Zombie / Zombi 2 / Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979) It certainly could have benefitted from having Tom Savini on board, because hoo boy the zombie effects were mostly bad. But what a fun film. 2. Frankenstein (1931) What can someone say about this movie that hasn't been said in the near-century it's been out? It's a classic, and you can really feel the tonal difference between this and the Hammer pictures. This has a much lighter and entertaining feel. Way less oppressive. 3. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) This movie came out ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. That absolutely blows my mind. The story is compelling, the acting (though silent) is good, and the set design is INCREDIBLE. I managed to watch the 4K restoration which is far better than it has any right being. What a joy this was to watch.
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1. Day of the Dead - Yeah , I had already previously watched NOTLD and DOTD so I started my 13 Romero film viewing with day. This is such a great movie. I mean you the special effects in this are just top notch all around. Also fun fact this had its budget cut because Romero wanted to release unrated and not R. It shows it has probably some of the most realistic gore you'll ever see, all done masterfully
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 8) Arachnoquake - 2012 - Prime After my last two watches, I was more than up for something 'big, dumb, fun'. This definitely fit the bill. Story's pretty basic, earthquakes in New Orleans unleash prehistoric monster spiders that spit fire. Cast is pretty much a roster of 'oh, hey it's that character actor'. I went in expecting a cheesy spiders run amok movie and I got that with a giant spider fight at the end. Definitely the sort of film to sit through with friends and decent beer.  9) Forget Me Not - 2008 - Prime As far as vengeful ghost films go, this one had an interesting angle which the title alludes to. The plot's a pretty much by rote one, but with each person who gets killed by the ghost ends up being forgotten by the others in the group. I felt it added a refreshing nuance to what could've made this film a 'something to have on for background noise' into something to pay more attention to.
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#1 One Cut of the Dead I saw how y'all acted last October, everybody watching One Cut of the Dead and being like "DO NOT read spoilers for this, go in blind, pretend you never even heard of the movie before, as if you're a new born baby chick and this is the first moving image you ever saw" and I was like, c'mon. It's not gonna be that big a deal. I bet you can at least explain the basic loving premise of the movie with out ruining it. This is goddamn spoiler culture run amok. I bet it's fine to talk about before seeing it. And I started watching it and I'm like, really? this is what nobody could talk about before seeing the movie? Oh wow the director did a thing oh no that would've ruined it if I knew beforehand! *jerkoff motion* loving spoiler culture. Don't read this spoiler if you haven't seen the movie You people hosed me! I literally just hours ago made a big thing about how I was only going to watch movies about diseases and societal collapse, and so of course I assume a movie about zombies would fit. But no, it's a charming loving family comedy! You assholes! Your goddamn spoiler culture ruined my entire April scheme right out of the gate! First goddamn movie I watch ruins the whole thing! Goddamnit! And the no spoilers thing isn't even because of mind blowing twists, it's just to stop people from watching for the wrong things in the first half hour. You watch the first half hour as if that's the movie and then you are more delighted when the behind the scenes shenanigans are revealed. If you knew going in what was going to happen, you'd spend the first half hour watching for stuff that you expected to be explained later, which would kinda ruin it. So I have no choice but to maintain your monstrous charade, even though it ruined my entire deal! You bastards! So yeah, One Cut of the Dead is really good. Don't read any spoilers, go in blind
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 1. The Crazies (1973) 4/5 Watching this, it occurred to me that the thing I love most about Romero's movies is his depiction of the early stages of a crisis. Late night phone calls, emergency midnight planning, warbly radio transmissions that might contain a vital piece of information. This movie is tense right from the start, and like so many of Romero's other movies, the decisions that bring everything down aren't clichéd horror tropes like going into the basement alone, but real-world mistakes based on breakdowns in communication. This isn't Romero's best film, but it's drat good.  2. Shutter (2004) 3/5 Solid example of mid-2000s Asian horror. Overshadowed by its contemporaries, but has some fun scares and an absolutely killer final shot. The only thing keeping this from a four-star score is that the structure feels a little worn.
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It doesn't look like I'll be leaving the house for the month, and I might as well make things interesting. 100. 1. The Unwelcoming House - Prime From the Bad Ben school of "a guy, an iPhone, and a house," Joe Covarrubias stars as, umm, himself. On the plus side, there's a really strong creep factor throughout, and a couple of very well timed jump scares, so well worth the watch. On the minus side, the acting is exactly what you'd expect from a "friends and family" cast. Joe himself is fine when he's narrating, to the extent that I thought I may have stumbled across some semi-famous podcaster's home movie. (He has a YouTube channel with 145 subscribers.) He's not bad at reaction shots to the creepiness/jumps. But in any dialogue, he's just reciting lines, and the rest of the cast (his aunt and a voice on the phone) are worse. There are also a bunch of plot holes that you could drive a truck through. (Apparently when you sell a house and the buyers change their minds a few months later, it's on you to resell it.) There are some minor vfx, but he seems to have had the good sense to be realistic about his capabilities and not try something that would end up laughable. Overall, worth a watch for the creep factor. 3/5 The Unwelcoming House 2 - Prime "gently caress you in the name of Jesus." "Cocksucker. Shut Up." I mean, once you've spent the money on an iPhone and a house, you might as well keep making movies. Apparently, playing the ghost of a murderous pedophile didn't work out nearly as well for Joe's uncle as it did for Robert Englund, so the ghost has been replaced with a wendigo, which is also a demon, pretending to be the ghost of said murderer. Voice on the phone (Jacob)'s family is revealed to consist of at least three generations of the dumbest assholes to ever walk the face of the Earth, escalating "a murder in jail awaiting sentencing for his crimes" to "literally, Satan." The second one leans heavily right in the direction where the first was weakest - anyone except Joe talking - to explain all of this. None of this makes sense. It's still quite creepy and has plenty of good jump scares, but everybody talks way too much. 2/5.
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Gripweed posted:
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Well, yesterday I dumped 47 films on an October Horror Films Challenge list, so I'll just cannibalize 13 for this instead. Was already planning to watch Fright Night tonight.
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