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Title: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 23, 2017, 10:02:06 PM
Let's go!  :D

Your bonus assignment this year, should you choose to accept it, is to watch A Dark Song. I haven't seen it yet, but I've heard it's hella dope and it's on Netflix so no excuse. It's an Irish indie flick about two people casting a spell, but this ain't Harry Potter tho fam, this is like some real Aleister Crowley shit.  :o

(https://i.imgur.com/0Hhghxf.jpg)

Watch List
1. The Blob (1988)
2. Death Spa (1987)
3. The Stuff (1985)
4. A Cure for Wellness (2017)
5. They Live (1988)
6. Vampyros Lesbos (1971)
7. Kill, Baby, Kill! (1966)
8. The Omen (1976)
9. Videodrome (1983)
10. Abattoir (2016)
11. Piranha (1978)
12. Daughters of Darkness (1970)
13. Happy Death Day (2017)
14. The Babysitter (2017)
15. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
16. Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)
17. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
18. Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)
19. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
20. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
21. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
22. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
23. Jason X (2001)
24. Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
25. Friday the 13th (2009)
26. Species (1995)
27. Train to Busan (2016)
28. A Dark Song (2016)
29. Gremlins (1984)
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Post by: Tasty on September 24, 2017, 12:59:06 AM
Continually-updated list of the movies I've watched this month and their ratings.


5 / 5

4 / 5

3 / 5

2 / 5

1 / 5
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Post by: Joe Molotov on September 25, 2017, 10:03:24 AM
Watched Jaws this weekend.

I know Jaws is one of the all-time classics, but I've never been crazy about it. I feel like the first half is a bit of a slog and I've never found it to be scary. The second half is good though, and Quint is a boss (even though Spielberg kills him off like a bitch). The scene were him and Hooper were comparing scars and then Quint goes over the top of him with his war story is the best scene in the movie imo.

"Lifeless eyes. Black eyes...like a doll's eyes."
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Post by: I'm a Puppy! on September 25, 2017, 10:34:26 AM
The oldest two are old enough now to get introduced to some of the less gory stuff and the wife and I hate gore and jump scares so here's what we've seen so far:

Silence of the Lambs (still excellent)
the original IT (has not aged well)
The Shining (everyone loved it)
The Original Blair Witch Project - The kids were sorta like "meh, so what?"
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Post by: Joe Molotov on September 25, 2017, 11:15:11 AM
Picked up Get Out and Split on BD.
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Post by: Tasty on September 25, 2017, 11:48:53 AM
Quote from: Philip Cardgage on September 25, 2017, 10:18:17 AM
The Blackcoat's Daughter

I found this one kinda boring. But people like it so maybe I didn't get it...
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Post by: Tasty on September 25, 2017, 11:59:45 AM
Quote from: I'm a Puppy! on September 25, 2017, 10:34:26 AM
The Original Blair Witch Project - The kids were sorta like "meh, so what?"

If it was the last of the bunch you watched I can probably see why.

I will never not get chills from that movie though.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on September 25, 2017, 12:37:51 PM
Douche chills maybe.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
I've never seen Blair Witch. :shh
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Post by: Tasty on September 25, 2017, 12:53:27 PM
Quote from: Joe Molotov on September 25, 2017, 12:37:51 PM
Douche chills maybe.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
I've never seen Blair Witch. :shh
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Blair Witch was a letdown.

The Blair Witch Project is a horror classic, though. :rejoice
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Post by: Cerveza mas fina on September 25, 2017, 01:02:17 PM
Blair Witch Project was amazing when it came out, maybe its time to rewatch it.

For Halloween Ill finally watch Get Out which just came out on iTunes now.

Usually watch only 1 horror movie a year or something cause Im so bad with them (like I still sometimes dont want to look in mirrors at night cause of that Sunderland movie 10 years ago... ) last one I remember was It Follows which I really liked.
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Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on September 25, 2017, 01:26:25 PM
Been thinking about doing a Kill List rewatch.
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Post by: Huff on September 25, 2017, 04:47:15 PM
I don't really consider jaws too horror-y but it's a fav of mine and I watch it a couple times a year when it comes on TNT or whatever

Otherwise I'm not a big horror fan. Doesn't do much for me.

I did see the new IT which was solid. Probably the last horror movie I watch for a while
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Post by: toku on September 25, 2017, 04:55:08 PM
not really "scary" but if any of you are looking for a fun break in between your marathons this october here is one of my sensitive goth boy favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt8quwcnJgU
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Post by: Tasty on September 25, 2017, 05:38:42 PM
Would Contact count? I want to watch it and it seems eerie enough.
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Post by: Bebpo on September 25, 2017, 10:11:08 PM
Quote from: toku on September 25, 2017, 04:55:08 PM
not really "scary" but if any of you are looking for a fun break in between your marathons this october here is one of my sensitive goth boy favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt8quwcnJgU

That looks fun! Gives off a Dead Alive vibe.
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Post by: Quaker on September 25, 2017, 11:41:21 PM
Contact? The Carl Sagan movie?  :confused
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Post by: Tasty on September 26, 2017, 12:48:08 AM
Quote from: Philip Cardgage on September 25, 2017, 12:56:01 PM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on September 25, 2017, 11:48:53 AM
Quote from: Philip Cardgage on September 25, 2017, 10:18:17 AM
The Blackcoat's Daughter

I found this one kinda boring. But people like it so maybe I didn't get it...

Its one of those movies, like the witch, that use mood to scare its audience. And I loved the twist.

Blair Witch is a travesty of a movie.

You guys should watch this. Pretty interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YASj8IuQ_Yw

Premptive ":badass"

As someone who has gone at length over the past 10 years delving into all aspects of Blair Witch lore, yeah, this is a load of bunk.

Not content with merely rehashing an unfounded theory, this extra shitty video for the YouTube generation adds in all the loathsome aspects of his kin that should be purged from all children of the human race.

As for the theory itself, it's heavily reliant on the second-tier canon source of Heather's diary, and also upon her relationship with Josh, which was clearly changed in the final edit of the film for good reason.

An interesting Buzzfeed though experiment, and not much else.
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Post by: TakingBackSunday on September 26, 2017, 10:24:25 AM
Watched Suspiria in the theaters a week and a half ago – it's this new print they uncovered that included a few deleted scenes.  Print ran a little red but it actually added a lot to the already amazing lighting design of the movie.
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Post by: Brehvolution on September 26, 2017, 10:36:29 AM
Has anyone seen VVitch? VVas is any good?
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Post by: TVC15 on September 26, 2017, 10:39:32 AM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on September 25, 2017, 11:48:53 AM
Quote from: Philip Cardgage on September 25, 2017, 10:18:17 AM
The Blackcoat's Daughter

I found this one kinda boring. But people like it so maybe I didn't get it...

Horror-y critics seemed to like it, but none of the people I know that watched it dug it that much. At least one of them liked I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, which I thought was pretty decent, even if it was a bit dry and felt like it ran longer than its running time. I'll give it a watch eventually, but I have the feeling it's going to be a slow atmospheric type of thing, so it's kind of on the back burner.
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Post by: Tasty on September 26, 2017, 10:53:11 AM
Quote from: Philip Cardgage on September 26, 2017, 10:19:22 AM
Lol jesus. You take this shit way too seriously.

:D
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Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on September 26, 2017, 10:58:31 AM
Quote from: Brehvolution on September 26, 2017, 10:36:29 AM
Has anyone seen VVitch? VVas is any good?

It's excellent. Can't recommend enough.
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Post by: VomKriege on September 26, 2017, 11:05:36 AM
Quote from: BrandNew on September 26, 2017, 10:24:25 AM
Watched Suspiria in the theaters a week and a half ago – it's this new print they uncovered that included a few deleted scenes.  Print ran a little red but it actually added a lot to the already amazing lighting design of the movie.

Are you sure it's not "just" the version that was remastered 10 years or so ago ? They regraded it with the DoP and they went bonkers with the red esp. in the last third.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on September 26, 2017, 11:10:41 AM
Watched Alien last night.

Just a good-ass movie. :lawd RIP Harry Dean Stanton
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 26, 2017, 12:09:36 PM
I rewatched Blair Witch Project last month, it still holds up. Unlike a lot of found footage films, it's actually a GOOD movie that isn't simply reliant on a gimmick. It's a well executed slow burn that pays off at the end.

I also saw like 10 minutes of the sequel, which came on immediately afterward (HBO). Shit was trash, I turned it off with the quickness
 :badass
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Post by: Tasty on September 26, 2017, 12:31:28 PM
I expected to really hate that movie but I'm actually pretty fond of it. :lol
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Post by: TVC15 on September 26, 2017, 12:32:19 PM
Quote from: Phoenix Dark on September 26, 2017, 12:09:36 PM
I rewatched Black Witch Project last month, it still holds up. Unlike a lot of found footage films, it's actually a GOOD movie that isn't simply reliant on a gimmick. It's a well executed slow burn that pays off at the end.

I also saw like 10 minutes of the sequel, which came on immediately afterward (HBO). Shit was trash, I turned it off with the quickness
 :badass

I'm assuming you mean Blair Witch. There is a movie called Black Witch Project, but I see no sequels to it.

I find the sequel slightly intriguing. It's certainly not good by any measure, but it was an (at the time) rare attempt for a major movie to go really meta. It's fun to read up on its production and what Berlinger intended, even though I get the idea that even his ideal version wouldn't have been very good due to things like, say, the cast. I find it vastly more interesting than the recent Blair Witch movie, which is just unambitious and mediocre all around.

The only good thing about the recent one is that I got to go to a pre-screening with the director and they gave everyone Blair Witch stick man pins. The movie was so bad that I left before the Q&A with Wingard though. He disappointed me greatly. Death Note didn't win him any points either. Dude needs another hit.
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Post by: TVC15 on September 26, 2017, 01:04:55 PM
Quote from: Philip Cardgage on September 26, 2017, 12:44:34 PM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on September 26, 2017, 12:31:28 PM
I expected to really hate that movie but I'm actually pretty fond of it. :lol

Same.

Quote from: TVC 15 on September 26, 2017, 12:32:19 PM
Quote from: Phoenix Dark on September 26, 2017, 12:09:36 PM
I rewatched Black Witch Project last month, it still holds up. Unlike a lot of found footage films, it's actually a GOOD movie that isn't simply reliant on a gimmick. It's a well executed slow burn that pays off at the end.

I also saw like 10 minutes of the sequel, which came on immediately afterward (HBO). Shit was trash, I turned it off with the quickness
 :badass

I'm assuming you mean Blair Witch. There is a movie called Black Witch Project, but I see no sequels to it.

I find the sequel slightly intriguing. It's certainly not good by any measure, but it was an (at the time) rare attempt for a major movie to go really meta. It's fun to read up on its production and what Berlinger intended, even though I get the idea that even his ideal version wouldn't have been very good due to things like, say, the cast. I find it vastly more interesting than the recent Blair Witch movie, which is just unambitious and mediocre all around.

The only good thing about the recent one is that I got to go to a pre-screening with the director and they gave everyone Blair Witch stick man pins. The movie was so bad that I left before the Q&A with Wingard though. He disappointed me greatly. Death Note didn't win him any points either. Dude needs another hit.

yeah, I'm sure Godzilla vs King Kong will be the hit he needs.

:six:

Ugh. Bro needs to get away from Hollywood shit.
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Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on September 26, 2017, 01:16:42 PM
I had so much hope for Adam Wingard after You're Next and The Guest..  :-\
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Post by: Tasty on September 26, 2017, 01:53:25 PM
Quote from: BobFromPikeCreek on September 26, 2017, 01:16:42 PM
I had so much hope for Adam Wingard after You're Next and The Guest..  :-\

We all did breh.
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Post by: TVC15 on September 26, 2017, 02:00:36 PM
Quote from: VomKriege on September 26, 2017, 11:05:36 AM
Quote from: BrandNew on September 26, 2017, 10:24:25 AM
Watched Suspiria in the theaters a week and a half ago – it's this new print they uncovered that included a few deleted scenes.  Print ran a little red but it actually added a lot to the already amazing lighting design of the movie.

Are you sure it's not "just" the version that was remastered 10 years or so ago ? They regraded it with the DoP and they went bonkers with the red esp. in the last third.

It was most likely the "new" 4k version. It's screening right now. I'm seeing it this weekend.
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Post by: TVC15 on September 26, 2017, 02:01:02 PM
PS: Deep Red is still my favorite Argento.
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Post by: VomKriege on September 26, 2017, 02:23:29 PM
The one I think of was not 4k (there's a very wide shot of two cops finding the blind man's corpse and basically there was no details and the silhouettes were blurry dots, probably the result of some digital cleaning filter and denoise). It was done over a decade ago but it was still the one used in a retrospective 2 years ago with Argento present... Regardless the grading has been blessed by Argento and the DoP so you're probably bound to find it on any current digital copies even if it's a better master.

Not a big fan of the red color grade to be honest. It's so aggressive the end (which is already vivid red) is overexposed as a result.
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Post by: TakingBackSunday on September 26, 2017, 02:27:39 PM
Quote from: TVC 15 on September 26, 2017, 02:00:36 PM
Quote from: VomKriege on September 26, 2017, 11:05:36 AM
Quote from: BrandNew on September 26, 2017, 10:24:25 AM
Watched Suspiria in the theaters a week and a half ago – it's this new print they uncovered that included a few deleted scenes.  Print ran a little red but it actually added a lot to the already amazing lighting design of the movie.

Are you sure it's not "just" the version that was remastered 10 years or so ago ? They regraded it with the DoP and they went bonkers with the red esp. in the last third.

It was most likely the "new" 4k version. It's screening right now. I'm seeing it this weekend.

Yeah it was this
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Post by: Joe Molotov on September 27, 2017, 11:54:43 AM
I'm knocking out all my favs right off the bat. Last night I watched The Thing.

This movie is John Carpenter at the top of his game, Kurt Russel being badass, and creature effects that will never be topped. I don't mean to go all old fogey over CGI, but the juiciness of the practical gore and creature effects in the movies from this era, there was just a certain weight to them that made them seem more real, even when it looks less real. It was an art form. 

:aah
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Post by: TVC15 on September 27, 2017, 11:59:20 AM
Oh, I should've posted that I watched Poltergeist in this thread.

Well, uh, I also watched the "Are the Zodiac Killer and Unabomber the same person" episode of Unsolved Mysteries last night. 5 stars.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on September 27, 2017, 12:03:28 PM
 :letsfukk
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Post by: Joe Molotov on September 28, 2017, 09:47:48 AM
I watched Evil Dead 2 last night.

(https://i.imgur.com/vegpMAR.gif)
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Post by: Tasty on September 28, 2017, 11:04:26 AM
Quote from: Joe Molotov on September 28, 2017, 09:47:48 AM
I watched Evil Dead 2 last night.

(https://i.imgur.com/vegpMAR.gif)

The GOAT.
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Post by: Tasty on October 02, 2017, 10:28:13 AM
1. A Dark Song

Great recommendation by Joe here. Absolutely punishing atmosphere, great music, solid acting, and a deft, subtle direction make this a really solid pick. It's a very slow boil, and the ending isn't for everyone, but I was hooked the entire time. I dislike equating a popular movie with one I just saw, but this really feels like The Witch in terms of craftsmanship and ambiance. Just a great stripped-down, slow-boil horror.

5 / 5
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 02, 2017, 10:41:50 AM
October 1

The Blob (1988)

(https://i.imgur.com/qvTCksJ.jpg)

Oh man, I wonder who's killing and melting people. Is it TROUBLED TEEN(tm) and noted local S A D B O Y Brian Flagg, who smokes and drinks and drives a motorcycle that he launches over sweet jumps? Or is it the Blob, a monster that kills people and melts them? Who can say? Surely there are good people on both sides of the debate. The movie was decently entertaining and had good SFX for the Blob.
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Post by: Tasty on October 02, 2017, 10:44:19 AM
Friday the 13th Rankings

7 > Freddy vs. Jason > 4 > 1 > 3 > 2 > 2009 Reboot > 6 > X > 5 > 8 >>>>>>>>>> infinity >>>>>>>> 9
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Post by: Tasty on October 02, 2017, 10:51:33 AM
I have no love for that fucking cruise ship in 8, but 9 is just so fucking terrible. Jason is a worm more than he's fucking Jason in that movie. I'd take the fake Jason from 5 over that! God it was just fucking horrible and the tone was all wrong. And on top of all that Jason looked like fucking shit in that movie, and not in a cool way.

At the very least, 8 gave us this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mluutEMR3hs

I will never not laugh at this. It's so fucking drawn out and cheesy. :lol
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Post by: TVC15 on October 02, 2017, 10:59:00 AM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on October 02, 2017, 10:44:19 AM
Friday the 13th Rankings

7 > Freddy vs. Jason > 4 > 1 > 3 > 2 > 2009 Reboot > 6 > X > 5 > 8 >>>>>>>>>> infinity >>>>>>>> 9

Pretty good list. I'd update it to:

4 > 7 > 1 > 2 = 3 > X > 6 > 5 > 9 > Remake > 8

8 is the least enjoyable. You can at least derive some enjoyment from the ridiculousness of 9. Not quite sure where I'd stick Freddie vs Jason. Probably between either 6 and 5 or 5 and 9. It has some cool parts, but it's really not paced so well.
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Post by: Tasty on October 02, 2017, 11:02:12 AM
Also my list this year:
Will probably do some things out of order.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 02, 2017, 11:13:55 AM
Elm Street ranking:

1 > 3 > 4 > 5 > New Nightmare > 2 > 6 > Remake

2 and 6 have a strong "trainwreck" factor that makes them entertaining even though they're pretty terrible. I personally feel New Nightmare gets overrated by fans of the series--it's good, but Scream did the meta-horror stuff better and was a lot more fun. New Nightmare may have had some novel ideas, but it's not particularly a blast to watch like other movies in the series. It also features a really annoying child. The less said about the remake the better. At least the beginning of that Friday the 13th remake was pretty fun. There's nothing redeeming about the Elm Street remake.
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Post by: Momo on October 02, 2017, 11:15:37 AM
We doing plug.dj? or some other sync watch thing?
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Post by: TVC15 on October 02, 2017, 11:21:04 AM
Also, that 4 hour Elm Street documentary is really good all the way through. They did a great job on that.
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Post by: Tasty on October 02, 2017, 11:23:14 AM
New Nightmare > 3 > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > 6 > Remake

I really loved New Nightmare.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 02, 2017, 11:30:01 AM
Scream rankings:

1 > 2 > 3 > 4
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Post by: TVC15 on October 02, 2017, 11:36:15 AM
From that list, I'd drop the 2 Exorcist 4s. They're really bad. Watch the TV series or something instead. Sinister 2 is also really, really, really bad.

IIRC, Meat's a big Blair Witch fan, so I'd keep the newest flick on there.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 02, 2017, 11:38:31 AM
Much like Scream, I'd rank the Saw movies in order of release. Maybe swap 2 and 3. I kind of have a soft spot for two since it's the most different of the sequels.
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Post by: Tasty on October 02, 2017, 11:42:30 AM
Quote from: Exodust on October 02, 2017, 11:24:34 AM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on October 02, 2017, 11:23:14 AM
New Nightmare > 3 > 1

You're dead to me.

Friday the 13th (series) > Nightmare on Elm Street (series)
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Post by: TVC15 on October 02, 2017, 11:42:55 AM
Quote from: Philip Cardgage on October 02, 2017, 11:40:57 AM
Quote from: TVC 15 on October 02, 2017, 11:36:15 AM
From that list, I'd drop the 2 Exorcist 4s. They're really bad. Watch the TV series or something instead. Sinister 2 is also really, really, really bad.

IIRC, Meat's a big Blair Witch fan, so I'd keep the newest flick on there.

All the more reason to not watch Blair Witch. Just watch Last Broadcast and pretend its a Blair Witch sequel.

Haha, is Last Broadcast available streaming anywhere these days? That's a fun little movie. With a really stupid ending.
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Post by: Tasty on October 02, 2017, 11:45:30 AM
Quote from: Philip Cardgage on October 02, 2017, 11:30:42 AM
Remove Sinister 2 and Blair Witch and add Sleepaway Camp II and III.

Will consider.

Quote from: TVC 15 on October 02, 2017, 11:36:15 AM
From that list, I'd drop the 2 Exorcist 4s. They're really bad. Watch the TV series or something instead. Sinister 2 is also really, really, really bad.

IIRC, Meat's a big Blair Witch fan, so I'd keep the newest flick on there.

I've seen them all before but never in sequence, and it's been a good ten years since I've seen Book of Shadows. I know it's terrible but I've forgotten so much about it.

I heard Sinister 2 was OK. 🤔 The first was great.

The Exorcist movies I'm watching just to compare. Same script, different directors. Really interested in seeing how that changes a movie.
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Post by: Tasty on October 02, 2017, 11:46:04 AM
Quote from: TVC 15 on October 02, 2017, 11:42:55 AM
Quote from: Philip Cardgage on October 02, 2017, 11:40:57 AM
Quote from: TVC 15 on October 02, 2017, 11:36:15 AM
From that list, I'd drop the 2 Exorcist 4s. They're really bad. Watch the TV series or something instead. Sinister 2 is also really, really, really bad.

IIRC, Meat's a big Blair Witch fan, so I'd keep the newest flick on there.

All the more reason to not watch Blair Witch. Just watch Last Broadcast and pretend its a Blair Witch sequel.

Haha, is Last Broadcast available streaming anywhere these days? That's a fun little movie. With a really stupid ending.

I was actually just about to post the same thing, lol. Pretty creepy but it's clear why Blair Witch blew up and The Last Broadcast didn't.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 02, 2017, 11:55:25 AM
Ugh, last time I resorted to using YouTube to watch a movie was to re-watch The Garbage Pail Kids Movie. I like The Last Broadcast, but it's no The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 02, 2017, 11:57:18 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGmIAzKzC4s
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 02, 2017, 12:48:36 PM
Or have good taste.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 02, 2017, 12:52:01 PM
My scary movie for yesterday was the HBO Slenderman documentary, which was mostly pretty good. There were some aspects I found questionable--mainly in that they spend a good portion of time trying to sell that Slenderman can be seen as a guardian or hero by certain lonely kids, which is something I've never heard before.

It also would've been better if they waited until the case went to trial and was finished up before they made the doc, but the makers probably had no idea how long that would actually take to happen.
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 02, 2017, 12:59:46 PM
Quote from: Joe Molotov on September 23, 2017, 10:02:06 PM
Let's go!  :D

Your bonus assignment this year, should you choose to accept it, is to watch A Dark Song. I haven't seen it yet, but I've heard it's hella dope and it's on Netflix so no excuse. It's an Irish indie flick about two people casting a spell, but this ain't Harry Potter tho fam, this is like some real Aleister Crowley shit.  :o

(https://i.imgur.com/0Hhghxf.jpg)

I thought this was meh but still worth watching

Starts out great but

spoiler (click to show/hide)
the end is very weak. I thought it would end pretty decent, almost like some Hellraiser shit but then suddenly you get hit with terrible CGI and a laughably happy ending that seems to shitcan the entire point of how exhaustive/careful the ritual was initially done. What's the point of all that if you can just get to the end and get a get-out-of-hell-free card from your guardian angel.
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Post by: Tasty on October 02, 2017, 02:30:50 PM
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The entire process was about her trying to forgive herself. She pointedly says early on that "I don't do forgiveness." Her letting go of her own grief was the entire point of the film, and it took her months of agonizing torture (plus losing a finger) to finally get it. I don't know of many instances IRL with that high of a physical price to pay for a mere change in outlook.
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The ending *did* seem a bit rushed to me compared to how deliberate the rest was, but I let it slide since I was enthralled the whole time.

Also, Hellraiser fucking sucks and the fact that a movie is less like it is more of a "pro" than anything in my mind.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 02, 2017, 02:34:09 PM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on October 02, 2017, 02:30:50 PM
Also, Hellraiser fucking sucks and the fact that a movie is less like it is more of a "pro" than anything in my mind.

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Post by: Tasty on October 02, 2017, 02:45:23 PM
Garbage movie for garbage people. :umad
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Post by: TVC15 on October 02, 2017, 02:49:57 PM
It's top 10 horror of the 80s. Maybe top 5. You're trippin'.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 02, 2017, 02:50:50 PM
Shit, it'd be top 10 if the movie were just its score being played against a blank screen for 90 minutes.
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Post by: seagrams hotsauce on October 02, 2017, 02:57:53 PM
Quote from: TVC 15 on October 02, 2017, 11:38:31 AM
Much like Scream, I'd rank the Saw movies in order of release. Maybe swap 2 and 3. I kind of have a soft spot for two since it's the most different of the sequels.

The only SAW I liked was the first one cuz I blew a bunch of my high school GFs xanax and blacked out til the last three minutes or so
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Post by: VomKriege on October 02, 2017, 05:04:30 PM
Saw was a decent flick. Setup is clever and the killer stands put. Don't need much more. Never watched the sequels.
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 02, 2017, 05:14:00 PM
Hellraiser
:rejoice

when Frank crawls towards the camera for the first time :whoo
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 02, 2017, 05:19:04 PM
"Come to daddy."
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 03, 2017, 09:53:06 AM
Quote from: Stro on October 03, 2017, 08:43:11 AM
The best Hellraiser movies are the ones after it went DTV and they started retrofitting spec scripts.

I'm actually starting to the get the mildest of hype for the new Hellraiser DTV sequel.

Quote
The Auditor serves as a clerk in Hell who takes note of a person's sin before passing that person to The Assessor. He is not a Cenobite, as he is part of a faction separate from the Order of the Gash, only one of many orders in Hell. He shares the faction with The Assessor, The Jury, the Butcher and The Surgeon. Other members, named The Bone Collectors, The Seamstress and The Sentinel, were set for introduction but were removed for budgetary reasons. The character's inception was influenced by Sam Lowry from Brazil and Itzhak Stern from Schindler's List.

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Heather Langenkamp is an actress known for her role as Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare on Elm Street.[8][9] In Judgment, she portrays an obscene, cigarette-smoking landlady.

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Judgment includes the Cleaners as a group of aging naked women that force their tongues onto victims as penance.

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The Jury appear in Judgment as three nude women in their twenties with skinless faces that pass verdicts onto victims in Hell

The movie is basically a Hellraiser fanfilm; the director begged Dimension to let him make it (and even tried to Kickstart it with the cenobites removed) and they finally acquiesced because they needed another Hellraiser movie to keep the rights. It'll probably be crap, but at least it'll be crap that somebody cared about.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 03, 2017, 10:10:56 AM
October 2

Death Spa (1987)

(https://i.imgur.com/tKBCq2R.jpg?1)

It's a movie about a haunted health club, yes really (it's the 80's). The wife of the club owner commits suicide after a miscarriage that also left her paralyzed. A year later, weird things start going down at the club and people start having mysterious accidents. He thinks that someone's trying to sabotage the club and/or drive him crazy, like possibly his wife's twin brother that still works at the club on the club's hi-tech computer system. And he was partly right, but also the dude was straight up being possessed by his sister's ghost because she wanted her husband to commit suicide too and join her in Hell. Many exercise related deaths ensue.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 04, 2017, 10:04:57 AM
October 3

The Stuff (1985)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/The-Stuff-poster.jpg)

Larry Cohen, what an auteur. I love the ramshackle way this movie moves from scene to scene. Scene 1, a guy discovered The Stuff bubbling out of the ground. Scene 2, a kid sees The Stuff (now a commercial product) moving around in his refrigerator and we're off to the races.  Chocolate Chip Charlie shows up, is cool, then immediately disappears for no reason and the movie adds an annoying kid to the main party also for no reason. They read about the kid trashing The Stuff at a grocery store in the newspaper (this is national news?), and immediately fly cross-country to snatch the kid from his house, why? What can he possibly do to help you, he's a little kid?? Chocolate Chip Charlie has hands that are registered as lethal weapons and you didn't even want him!  :mindblown You may think that the kid must ultimately do something really heroic to justify his existence, no he does nothing except have to be saved, he's useless. Ultimately, they have to turn to a right-wing miltia and Alex Jones to save the day, which is high problematic and left me legit shook tbqh. Surprised Larry Cohen didn't just put JonTron in the movie. :holeup
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Post by: TVC15 on October 04, 2017, 10:44:35 AM
The Stuff is a masterpiece.

I watched Frankenhooker last night because it's the best movie ever made.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 04, 2017, 11:54:27 AM
Quote from: TVC 15 on October 04, 2017, 10:44:35 AM
The Stuff is a masterpiece.

It needed more Chocolate Chip Charlie or for CCC to kill that kid.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 05, 2017, 09:51:20 AM
October 4

A Cure for Wellness (2017)

(https://i.imgur.com/5ErSAs2.jpg?1)

This movie's nuttier than squirrel poop and I still love it. (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=25046.msg2233931#msg2233931) There's a little bit of Hammer Horror to it and a little bit of Lovecraft, I think that's why I like it so much.
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Post by: Tasty on October 05, 2017, 12:24:27 PM
Gonna watch that next.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 05, 2017, 12:37:45 PM
Tonight's movie is Vampyros Lesbos :tauntaun
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Post by: Bebpo on October 05, 2017, 02:29:32 PM
Is the modern Thing prequel worth watching? Love the original, don't like bad movies.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 05, 2017, 02:34:24 PM
Quote from: Bebpo on October 05, 2017, 02:29:32 PM
Is the modern Thing prequel worth watching? Love the original, don't like bad movies.

Legit forgot that even existed until right now.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 05, 2017, 02:41:31 PM
It's the worst possible thing: excessively mediocre. Worse than bad. Do not watch.
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Post by: Tasty on October 05, 2017, 02:51:40 PM
I actually liked it and thought it was pretty clever. It's a shame they had to scrap all their practical effects for CG ones though. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyOu3j7CtoE

It's not a classic like Carpenter's but Carpenters was like the second remake of the original anyways. Let people make things.
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Post by: chronovore on October 05, 2017, 07:25:15 PM
Quote from: Philip Cardgage on September 26, 2017, 10:19:22 AM
Lol jesus. You take this shit way too seriously.


I'm LTTP, but I'd like to voice support for Tasty Meat's mania.

He's a filmmaker, it makes sense that he should obsess about film. The last guy that weirded me out by knowing more about movies than I did worked at Video Archives in Manhattan Beach, and he turned out to be something else.
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Post by: chronovore on October 05, 2017, 07:35:18 PM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on October 02, 2017, 02:30:50 PM
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The entire process was about her trying to forgive herself. She pointedly says early on that "I don't do forgiveness." Her letting go of her own grief was the entire point of the film, and it took her months of agonizing torture (plus losing a finger) to finally get it. I don't know of many instances IRL with that high of a physical price to pay for a mere change in outlook.
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The ending *did* seem a bit rushed to me compared to how deliberate the rest was, but I let it slide since I was enthralled the whole time.

Also, Hellraiser fucking sucks and the fact that a movie is less like it is more of a "pro" than anything in my mind.

I take it all back! Tasty Meat is a hack! A damned hack who is wrong about everything!
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:-*
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Post by: chronovore on October 05, 2017, 07:40:14 PM
Quote from: Bebpo on October 05, 2017, 02:29:32 PM
Is the modern Thing prequel worth watching? Love the original, don't like bad movies.
tl;dr: Fun, but loses steam, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead is too pretty.

Starts strong with great homage shots to John Carpenter's original, as well as set design, color palette, and even type-treatment for the opening credits. Character introduction is tight and competent. And then it turns out that the first two acts are much better than the third act. It largely eschews the paranoia of the first movie for a straight-up monster chase format, which is not great. It is not well-served by a scene straight-outta-Jurassic-Park scene: a character hiding in a kitchen while the monster comes through swinging doors to look for them.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 06, 2017, 10:29:36 AM
October 5

They Live (1988)

(https://i.imgur.com/wUOTUos.jpg?1)

RIP RowRod. He came to kick bubblegum and chew ass, and he was all outta ass.  :'( That scene where him and Keith David are just kicking the crap out of each other will never not be awesome. Also, Roddy flipping the aliens the bird as he died like a boss.

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Post by: TVC15 on October 06, 2017, 03:09:09 PM
Last night I ended up watching Rosemary's Baby with two friends that had never seen it before.

As the movie went on, I realized I forgot to tell them that the movie was a slow, tense boil, and they were mostly silent as they were watching it. They were definitely weirded out by the notorious dream sequence. As the movie was wrapping up, I was worried they didn't like it, and I was getting a bit bummed because it's one of my favorite movies period.

It turns out they were both absolutely floored by it and were quiet because they were so wrapped up in it. I felt really happy then. We talked about it for about an hour before I had to get home to watch Vampyros Lesbos at a decent hour.
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Post by: Mupepe on October 06, 2017, 03:23:11 PM
I showed my wife Rosemary's Baby the other day.  It was background noise for me and I was pretty surprised after a while when she started asking questions and was into it.  She tends to hate horror movies or anything creepy and I have to usually get her to sit still for slow burns.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 06, 2017, 03:26:57 PM
It's a fantastic movie. It's one of Roman's several tickets into heaven. He can seriously commit about 3 history textbook-level atrocities and still get into heaven.
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Post by: Tasty on October 07, 2017, 12:56:37 AM
I wish I could direct my debut feature film 1/100th as well as Raimi did for The Evil Dead. The budget was like, twenty bucks and they still pulled off all sorts of shit. Respect.
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Post by: chronovore on October 07, 2017, 03:03:17 AM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on October 07, 2017, 12:56:37 AM
I wish I could direct my debut feature film 1/100th as well as Raimi did for The Evil Dead. The budget was like, twenty bucks and they still pulled off all sorts of shit. Respect.

I loved that their "steady cam" was a camera tied to an office chair. :lol
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Post by: TVC15 on October 07, 2017, 04:20:54 AM
Quote from: Stro on October 07, 2017, 04:03:58 AM
Sure, but that doesn't mean it was a good or even entertaining movie. Everything good about The Evil Dead was redone better in ED2, AOD, even Darkman and Spiderman. It's not a classic horror movie, but it is a great demo reel for Raimi.

(https://media.giphy.com/media/3oz8xLd9DJq2l2VFtu/giphy.gif)
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Post by: D3RANG3D on October 07, 2017, 04:57:24 AM
There is a new Chucky movie on netflix.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 07, 2017, 05:29:09 AM
Quote from: Stro on October 07, 2017, 05:17:02 AM
Quote from: TVC 15 on October 07, 2017, 04:20:54 AM
Quote from: Stro on October 07, 2017, 04:03:58 AM
Sure, but that doesn't mean it was a good or even entertaining movie. Everything good about The Evil Dead was redone better in ED2, AOD, even Darkman and Spiderman. It's not a classic horror movie, but it is a great demo reel for Raimi.

(https://media.giphy.com/media/3oz8xLd9DJq2l2VFtu/giphy.gif)

You can suck my hog. Things better than The Evil Dead in the the Evil Dead franchise: Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead reboot, Ash vs Evil Dead (even season 1), the PSX/PS2 era video games, the pitches for (but not the executions of) Freddy vs Jason vs Ash and the sequel.

https://youtu.be/oFlUCr42qzI
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 07, 2017, 07:52:13 AM
October 6

Vampyros Lesbos (1971)

(https://i.imgur.com/8kvaym6.jpg?1)

Thanks to TVC for reminding me to watch this. It's a foreign, arthouse movies so the rest of you probably wouldn't be interested.  :snob

That soundtrack though, holy shit.  :lawd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ-LirFsq6c
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Post by: Tasty on October 07, 2017, 08:03:23 AM
2. Lake Mungo

I forgot I watched this already a few years ago, which is really all there is to say. Pretty cool what they were able to do with basically no budget, but I think it was ahead of its time - some of the video footage really is just too grainy. Normally I'd say that adds something in a horror film, but not here. I will say the ending was pretty cool. Overall though, pretty forgettable.

2 / 5


3. Triangle (2009)

Very, very inventive movie. It's hard to talk about it without spoiling things but this kind of movie is exactly up my alley. Basically, group of friends goes sailing and gets caught in a storm, then finds a ghost ship passing by and hop on board. It's hard to explain but this one feels more scifi than supernatural, but I guess that's up to interpretation. The movie escalates sharply with each act, and has an odd, dream-like atmosphere that's hard to describe. I always love it when I see a movie with a cool premise that actually does more with it than I thought it would.

4 / 5


4. The Taking of Deborah Logan

Pretty good spin on a possession movie. Great actors. Some incredibly tense moments. After a while I forgot it was found footage, which may be the highest recommendation I can give to some people. Felt very grounded and natural with no filler or fake-out bullshit.

3 / 5
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Post by: TVC15 on October 07, 2017, 03:16:58 PM
Evil Dead 1 is also a great one to watch in theaters for fun crowd reactions.
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Post by: chronovore on October 07, 2017, 06:58:37 PM
Quote from: TVC 15 on October 07, 2017, 03:16:58 PM
Evil Dead 1 is also a great one to watch in theaters for fun crowd reactions.

And being forced to reconsider pencils.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 08, 2017, 12:04:53 PM
October 7

Kill, Baby, Kill! (1966)

(https://i.imgur.com/Aa96Bun.jpg?1)

Decided to stay on the euro horror theme (and get some more value out of my free Shudder trial) by firing up a little Mario Bava, and it doesn't get much better than Kill Baby Kill. The title makes it sound way more exploitative than it actually is, it's really just a creepy gothic ghost story that totally nails the atmosphere.

Week 1
1. The Blob (1988)
2. Death Spa (1987)
3. The Stuff (1985)
4. A Cure for Wellness (2017)
5. They Live (1988)
6. Vampyros Lesbos (1971)
7. Kill, Baby, Kill! (1966)
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 10, 2017, 10:04:05 AM
October 8

The Omen (1976)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/Omen_ver4.jpg)

Jerry Goldsmith winning an Oscar for a song about worshiping Satan. The 70's were pretty wild.

October 9

Videodrome (1983)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/Videodromeposter.jpg)

This is my favorite horror movie. David Cronenberg + body horror + sci-fi + paranoid thriller + Alt-Right asshole James Woods + Blondie + pornography + Howard Shore crushing it + stomach vaginas = :lawd
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Post by: TVC15 on October 10, 2017, 10:11:00 AM
I'm really bad at planning what to watch in advance. When I sit down in front of the tube, I basically just go by my whim at the time. Whatever I had planned on watching suddenly seems uninteresting.

Last night, I ended up watching Hell House LLC, which was a pretty serviceable found footage flick. It has a pretty stupid ending that kinda feels like it was maybe made up without any thought at all, but up until then it's a pretty fun ride. You could do a lot worse if you want to watch something new that doesn't require paying too much attention.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 10, 2017, 10:20:21 AM
Quote from: TVC 15 on October 10, 2017, 10:11:00 AM
I'm really bad at planning what to watch in advance. When I sit down in front of the tube, I basically just go by my whim at the time. Whatever I had planned on watching suddenly seems uninteresting.

I'm the same way, I don't know what I'm gonna watch until I sit down to watch it, and sometimes I'll turn on a movie and immediately be like "meh" and then turn it off and browse Netflix/Hulu/Amazon for the next half hour.
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Post by: Tasty on October 10, 2017, 11:08:27 AM
5. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

This is an aggressively terrible movie that actually falls into "so bad it's good" territory for me (most of the time.) I never liked Burn Notice dude when he was on Burn Notice but there's some kind of self-aware element here - or maybe I'm just imagining it. Sort of a fun hate-watch, and I do think the ending is a little too clever for the rest of the movie.

2 / 5


6. A Cure for Wellness

Big shades of the original Ring here, which I loved. Great cinematography, cool score, decent acting. Unfortunately it's let down by a plodding plot and absolutely schlock ending. Disappointed - there was a lot of potential here, but it all falls apart by the end. Dane Dehaan can get it, though.

2 / 5
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Post by: TVC15 on October 10, 2017, 11:10:38 AM
I forget, did you watch Blair Witch 3, Meat? I really prefer Book of Shadows to it. I'll take bad but kinda novel over a mediocre rehash any day.
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Post by: Tasty on October 10, 2017, 11:13:33 AM
I saw it in theaters last year, it came out on my birthday!

Yeah it's hard for me to say which I liked more. I'm rewatching the third one soon just so I get a refresher on the comparison. I remember walking out of the theater thinking BW3 was OK but I've soured on it the more time has gone on.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 10, 2017, 03:00:26 PM
I still find Scream 2 and 3 to be generally entertaining, if sillier, movies. Well, 2 more than 3. 3 has Queen Parker Posey though.
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Post by: Tasty on October 10, 2017, 04:45:12 PM
Parker Posey :lawd

Josie and the Pussy Cats :bow
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Post by: chronovore on October 10, 2017, 10:23:25 PM
Parker Posey…!! She’s entrancing.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 11, 2017, 12:36:18 AM
Watched the brilliant Ken Russell's brilliant Lair of the White Worm. Weird and awesome, it features one of the very few depictions of a sexually attractive human female in recorded history.

(http://bh-s2.azureedge.net/bh-uploads/2016/06/Lair-of-the-White-Worm-1-Vestron-Pictures.jpg)
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Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 11, 2017, 02:02:24 AM
I really don't like gore, that makes this exercise difficult. So much modern horror is just torture/gore porn.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 11, 2017, 08:48:31 AM
Lair of the White Worm is great, I rewatched it a few months ago.
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Post by: Tasty on October 11, 2017, 03:25:05 PM
7. The Blair Witch Project (rewatch)

Forgot to mention that I rewatched this before Book of Shadows. Still a masterpiece.

5 / 5


8. Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

It's Troma and Lloyd Kaufman. It has all the blood, shit, and irreverent jokes as you could get away with in 2006. It's schlock but it made me chuckle a few times. Sometimes you just need a braindead piece of entertainment to unwind (especially after watching Blade Runner 2049 as I did. :lol)

3 / 5
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 11, 2017, 04:00:44 PM
Quote from: I'm a Puppy! on October 11, 2017, 02:02:24 AM
I really don't like gore, that makes this exercise difficult. So much modern horror is just torture/gore porn.

Understandable (I'm actually not much of a gorehound either) but I think the pendulum has actually swung away from gore/torture porn movies since the heyday of Saw and Hostel about a decade ago. There have been some good horror movies released in the past two or three years that aren't overly violent. The Visit, Split, Get Out, It, Don't Breathe, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Conjuring, Oculus, Cure for Wellness (YMMV on quality, but it isn't violent), Krampus, etc.
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Post by: Tasty on October 11, 2017, 04:23:12 PM
Yeah, torture porn started to end in like 2010 when Paranormal Activity blew up. And only now are we finally moving out of the age of everything being found footage.

Slow burn horror seems to be making a big comeback (see Joe's examples.) Couldn't be happier.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 11, 2017, 05:20:55 PM
Chilling!
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Post by: Tasty on October 11, 2017, 05:29:11 PM
Maybe he's what killed the dinosaurs :ohhh
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Post by: TVC15 on October 11, 2017, 08:45:22 PM
Quote from: Stro on October 11, 2017, 04:25:58 PM
What about Below Zero, starring Ed Furlong and Michael Berryman?


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTkzMjQwNjQ0MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDc1MTEzOA@@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,711,1000_AL_.jpg)

 :doge


The Crow sequel with Furlong, Fat David Boreanaz, and Tara Reid is amazing. Will check this out.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 12, 2017, 10:52:13 AM
October 10

Abattoir (2016)

(https://i.imgur.com/XYll1Ld.jpg?1)

I remember seeing the trailer for this movie about a year ago, and the premise was so stupid and awesome that I needed to see it. A guy is building the most haunted house in the world by buying houses where people had been murdered, and then tearing out the room where the murder took place and building a house out of all the stitched together murder rooms. It sounded great but.... unfortunately this movie totally sucks ass. 2/3rds of the movie is exposition, and the writing is not good. It's unnatural, weird, and mad cliched (there's an unironic usage of the "we're not so different, you and I"  :doge ). Once they finally get to the house in the last 20 minutes, it's all just loud noises and whispy smoke ghosts swirling around. This movie only wishes it could be as good as the 13 Ghosts remake. :zzz


October 11

Piranha (1978)

(https://i.imgur.com/rXFopVf.jpg?1)

This is good Joe Dante. My favorite Joe Dante movie (and low-key one of my favorite movies ever) is The 'Burbs,  but Piranha is super good as well. I'd probably give him a pass if he accidentally killed 2 or 3 more kids.

"Terror, Horror, Death. Film at 11."
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Post by: TVC15 on October 12, 2017, 11:06:17 AM
Watched this last night.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Poster_of_the_movie_The_Baby.jpg/215px-Poster_of_the_movie_The_Baby.jpg)

I watch this pretty frequently. Non-experimental movies don't get much weirder than this. It's not really horror, but I'm not sure what the fuck I'd call it. It's on Shudder, and if you haven't seen it, you really should. It turns up on "so bad its good" lists, but I think that has more to do with its crazy concept than anything. I think it's a pretty decent flick, all things considered. Don't read too much on it. It has a fun ending that shouldn't be spoiled.
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Post by: Tasty on October 12, 2017, 12:54:12 PM
Apparently they swapped out the music for that scene cause they couldn't get the rights. I think it was originally Black Sabbath or something.
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Post by: VomKriege on October 12, 2017, 12:58:31 PM
Quote
I'd probably give him a pass if he accidentally killed 2 or 3 more kids.

Are you thinking of Landis ?
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Post by: TVC15 on October 12, 2017, 12:59:58 PM
I'd give Landis a pass if he murdered his awful son on live TV.
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Post by: Mupepe on October 12, 2017, 01:04:18 PM
I watched Pet Sematary 2 last night.  I can't believe I used to really think it was better than 1 when I was a kid.  The music is ridiculous and it's all just so cheesy.  Still a fun movie though.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 12, 2017, 01:05:47 PM
Quote from: Mupepe on October 12, 2017, 01:04:18 PM
I watched Pet Sematary 2 last night.  I can't believe I used to really think it was better than 1 when I was a kid.  The music is ridiculous and it's all just so cheesy.  Still a fun movie though.

Bore loves Furlong confirmed  :uguu :uguu :uguu :uguu

Someone find an appropriate Furlong emote pic.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 12, 2017, 01:42:36 PM
Quote from: VomKriege on October 12, 2017, 12:58:31 PM
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I'd probably give him a pass if he accidentally killed 2 or 3 more kids.

Are you thinking of Landis ?

The Howling and American Werewolf always make me think Joe Dante and John Landis are the same person. I even remembered I was thinking of Landis and left that line out, then edited my post to put it back in for some reason, rip brain.

The point stands though.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 12, 2017, 01:48:36 PM
I pretty much like The Howling more than American Werewolf in London. I honestly never saw American Werewolf as a great movie despite its reputation.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 12, 2017, 01:56:13 PM
Quote from: Stro on October 12, 2017, 12:56:54 PM
I don't think there is any piece of music that it would make sense to dance to like that particular dance.

https://gifsound.com/?gif=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/522a2049e4b0a0ce717e990c/t/59df8b199f7456e38dec228c/1507822407293/crispin%252Bdancing.gif%3Fformat=750w&v=Nt81gzIAt18&s=8
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Post by: Valkyrie on October 13, 2017, 04:53:36 AM
It's Friday 13th, bitches. Time to get fucking spooked.
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Post by: Tasty on October 13, 2017, 12:00:51 PM
Part 5 sucked but it did have that awesome chocolate bar scene. :lol
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Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on October 13, 2017, 01:35:07 PM
Watching Friday the 13th tonight because it's literally Friday the 13th and these are the types of things you do when you're a white male in your 30s.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 13, 2017, 02:10:06 PM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on October 13, 2017, 12:00:51 PM
Part 5 sucked but it did have that awesome chocolate bar scene. :lol

And the second best dance scene in the series.

https://youtu.be/ZzHlN498Iyw
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Post by: Valkyrie on October 13, 2017, 03:28:37 PM
Quote from: BobFromPikeCreek on October 13, 2017, 01:35:07 PM
Watching Friday the 13th tonight because it's literally Friday the 13th and these are the types of things you do when you're a white male in your 30s.
I'm also white and old, time to check what's on Netflix tonight. lol
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 13, 2017, 04:50:57 PM
October 12

Daughters of Darkness (1970)

(https://i.imgur.com/ieZeibC.jpg?1)

Mmmm...70's Belgium lesbian vampire movies.  :hyper It's actually pretty light on the lesbianism and the vampirism (no one gets their neck bit on screen and most of the sex is hetero :donot ), but high on the dreamy Euro weirdness that's common in these movies. It stars the main actress from Last Year at Marienbad, and actually reminds me somewhat of that movie, especially with most the action taking place is a spacious hotel. A good movie.



October 13

Happy Death Day (2017)

(https://i.imgur.com/9oQEOM3.jpg?1)

It's like Groundhog Day, but replace Bill Murray with the cast of Mean Girls, and then just kill them over and over again until they learn the true meaning of something something and wanna have sex with beta nerds. Yeah it's not the most original plot ever, and maybe it's a little bit misogynistic (like that would be a new twist for the horror genre), but it was an okay watch. Jessica Rothe plays the only major character in the movie (whose name is Tree for some fucking reason, damn hippie parents) and she's able to carry the movie pretty well. The minor characters just mostly exist for her to scream at and to pad out the roster of potential murderers. Which of these bitches is bitchy enough to want to kill her for being a mega bitch? Find out!  :o
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Post by: TVC15 on October 13, 2017, 05:25:13 PM
I might do Happy Death Day tonight if I can't find a good older movie in a theater to watch.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 13, 2017, 11:57:10 PM
Happy Death Day wasn't the only horror movie that was released today, there was also...

The Babysitter (2017)

(https://i.imgur.com/O3ofGrA.jpg?1)

Directed by McG. *insert Obi-Wan "now there's a name" gif* Well, it's better than Terminator Salvation at least. And it fills that "kids in suburbia doing pop culture references and weird shit happens to them" gap while you're waiting for Stranger Things Season 2 to start.  It was aight. CONTENT WARNING: Contains an extended lesbian kiss with lip biting and tongue, a google image search for the word "orgy", and one of finest disinterested handies ever captured on film.
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Post by: Bebpo on October 14, 2017, 12:12:12 AM
Can we talk about how fucking good Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross' arrangement of the Halloween theme is? Like I've found the duo pretty zzzzzz since Social Network but this is freaking good especially when it kicks into gear in the middle. Total treat for horror fans:

https://youtu.be/DAbDvqPFXvQ
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Post by: Tasty on October 14, 2017, 12:35:43 AM
Quote from: Bebpo on October 14, 2017, 12:12:12 AM
I've found the duo pretty zzzzzz since Social Network

:jeanluc  :mindblown :badass :beli :picard :pacspit :paul
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Post by: Bebpo on October 14, 2017, 01:20:58 AM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on October 14, 2017, 12:35:43 AM
Quote from: Bebpo on October 14, 2017, 12:12:12 AM
I've found the duo pretty zzzzzz since Social Network

:jeanluc  :mindblown :badass :beli :picard :pacspit :paul

Hot take as a ex-hardcore NIN fan: Old man Reznor is zzzzzzz (Outside this Halloween track which is rad)
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Post by: TVC15 on October 14, 2017, 03:49:09 AM
That song NIN did on Twin Peaks was the best thing they’ve done in years and years. Probably since The Fragile.
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Post by: chronovore on October 15, 2017, 08:50:28 AM
Case 39: Renee Zellweger, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper. Nonsensical. Tremendous waste of resources. Apparently it kicked around in postproduction looking for a reason to come out. It should have stayed in the can.

Shutter: The lucky boyfriend from FRINGE and Jessica Jones' non-superpowered BFF star in a Japanese horror film. Seriously, it's got a Japanese director of photography, director, other production staff, and the ghost is Megumi Okina who was in mostly other Japanese horror films. It has all the right sensibilities, and works overall. I liked the wrap-up, and the whole thing works better as a ghost story than Ju-on, which literally doesn't give a shit about internal consistency.

Mirrors: Jack Bauer and the hot agent from Mission Impossible Dubai are an estranged married couple. He's a detective who killed someone, took up drinking, which ruined his family life, and is now trying to get back on his feet. He takes a job as a night guardsman at a haunted department store. It's not a bad start, but then Alexandre Aja decides that digital effects, speed ramping, and boo scares are what should be the core of the scares in a movie about mirrors in dark spaces, a subject that doesn't need any fucking help to be scary. No, seriously, I've got a thing about them, and was put off from seeing this movie for years because I thought it might be scary. It isn't.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 15, 2017, 02:39:42 PM
October 14

Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) and Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)

(https://i.imgur.com/aEC4AuO.jpg?1) (https://i.imgur.com/uouKump.jpg?1)

I decided to watch the F13 sequels because I'm never actually seen them before (besides the New Line sequels). Part 2 was pretty good, but Part 3 was borderline amazing. Jason coming at you in 3D! Arrows flying in 3D! Eyeballs popping in 3D! Marijuana cigarettes being passed around IN 3D!!!! :omg And it's capped off with that goofy dream sequence of Pamela Voorhees jumping out of the lake ala the original F13. :lol

Also, Harry Manfredini dropping some funky beats with that Friday the 13th Dance Mix. :lawd
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Post by: TVC15 on October 15, 2017, 06:51:15 PM
Watched Gummo last night. Not a horror movie. I watch it like once a month when I need something to put me in the mood.
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 15, 2017, 09:13:28 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/DymMUoa.jpg)

Rewatched last night. Great movie on multiple levels. Keanu Reeves is pretty trash in it, but thankfully he doesn't have much screen time. Outside of him the cast is very strong. I really like how the film manages to touch various genres (horror, adventure, romance) simultaneously without feeling all over the place.

This is a very good looking film. The sets, costumes, shot composition...everything is on point to create a well realized world that pulls you in from beginning to end. And the soundtrack is dope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqnKBVyP_2I
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Post by: Tasty on October 16, 2017, 02:27:57 AM
9. An American Werewolf in London

Lots of good scenes, not really much of a good movie. Ending is completely farcical. How anyone can watch it and not shout out "That's it?!" as it smash cuts to credits is beyond me. Great creature effects... about half the time. The full werewolf running around is kinda laughable. Nurse subplot went nowhere. Investigator subplot went nowhere. A very sloppy, but occasionally humorous, film.

2 / 5


10. American Psycho

Gonna contradict myself here, since this movie is also a loose collection of individually entertaining scenes with not much of a plot through-line (except the investigation, which doesn't amount to much), but it still comes out of things fairly well, mostly due to: 1) Christian Bale's phenomenal acting, 2) a fascinating look at an absolutely psychotic yuppie in 90s New York, and 3) each scene on its own being chock full of memorable and quotable moments.

4 / 5


11. The Hallow

Really great, eerie movie with an intriguing premise and great pacing. Normally in a movie like this, I would have expected shit to go down 1/2 as quickly as it actually does, and that's a breath of fresh air. The atmosphere doesn't really suffer for it either. Props for the creature effects which really hit the mark (most of the time.) The ending is a bit too unambiguous for my tastes, but overall this movie delivered.

4 / 5


12. The Autopsy of Jane Doe

I haven't been this creeped out or genuinely scared by a movie in quite a bit. It also probably helps I love Brian Cox in everything, and Emile Hirsch does a great job too. While generally in movies like these I eye-roll at the "backstory" moments since they usually come off as desperate to establish an emotional core, here you really buy it because of the performances and subtleties in the writing. And yeah, I thought it was pretty fucking scary. I'm also just a sucker for "bottle plots" in general and this tickled my fancy there quite well.

5 / 5
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Post by: Mupepe on October 16, 2017, 07:59:14 AM
They did great on The Vietnam War for Ken Burns. 

And I quite enjoyed The Babysitter.  Pretty funny, gruesome and whatsherface is super hot.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 16, 2017, 09:53:44 AM
October 15

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/Friday_the_13th_part_4.jpg)

JESUS JUMPING CHRISTMAS FUCK! That funky chicken dance got Crispin Glover laid in this movie? I guess there's hope for us all. Otherwise, this one was pretty meh. Teddy sitting on the couch watching pornos while everyone else has sex is a little too real.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 16, 2017, 10:14:03 AM
Shut the fuck up, Joe. It's the best in the series by virtue of Corey Feldman.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 16, 2017, 10:26:42 AM
Little Baby Feldawg went ha(i)m on Jason.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 17, 2017, 11:26:36 AM
October 16

Friday the 13: A New Beginning (1985)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Friday_the_13th_part_V_a_new_beginning.jpg)

Haha, oh man what a clusterfuck. Roy the Paramedic, brehs. Roy the effing Paramedic was Fake Jason. The guy that showed up for 10 seconds fifteen minutes into the movie. He was so broken up over seeing his son killed, his son that he loved so much that he sent him to live at a orphanage and never told anyone that he had a son (but yet still carried around a recent photo of him in his wallet, along with pictures of Jason lol wtf). What a trashfire of a twist. And so many random goofy side characters, like Ethel and Junior being hillbilly af and Demon getting killed on the trailer park toilet while singing his #1 hit song "Oh Baby Oh Baby Oh Baby (Oh Baby)". This is by far the worst of the sequels so far. At least F13 3D was funny.

Already looking forward to Jason Lives, cuz I watched the first 10 minutes and Jason's rotting corpse getting electrocuted back to live was hella lit. :lol RIP in Peace Roy the Paramedic, you will not be missed.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 17, 2017, 11:27:50 AM
I forgot the Oh Baby scene is in that one.

Between that, the goth chick, and the Feldman cameo, it's probably the second best in the series.
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Post by: Tasty on October 17, 2017, 11:33:01 AM
(http://jarviscity.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/friday-the-13th-new-beginning-joey.jpg)

You can forget it!!

spoiler (click to show/hide)
^ My thoughts on this movie. :D
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Post by: TVC15 on October 17, 2017, 11:35:28 AM
Oh man, that scene, too.

That one really has it all, aside from the shitty non-Jason thing.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 17, 2017, 11:39:40 AM
Victor snapping and then axing that annoying dude was a better twist than the ending. I didn't see that coming, I kept thinking it was gonna be another fake-out dream sequence.
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Post by: Tasty on October 17, 2017, 02:06:13 PM
Carrie vs. The Terminator :rejoice

I think that was my first Friday 13th I saw and it's still my favorite.
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Post by: Tasty on October 17, 2017, 05:14:33 PM
13. Pandorum

This movie is like a eighth-generation incestual love grandchild of Alien Resurrection and Event Horizon. For some that might be cool, but for me it fell mostly flat. The directing here can be truly bizarre at times, and you can mostly see every plot beat coming after the opening scenes. Still, I really dig "abandoned in space" movies so I was satisfied on some level.

2 / 5
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Post by: Tasty on October 18, 2017, 01:53:32 AM
14. Hush (2016)

Pretty good high concept horror flick (What if the main character was a deaf-mute?) Good pacing and acting help sell this more than otherwise, though I found all the characters pretty flat and uninteresting. Still, probably worth a watch if you're looking for a good home invasion movie.

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(https://img00.deviantart.net/ebf2/i/2007/149/5/8/laughing_man_icon_by_coyotetracks.gif)
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3 / 5


15. The Vanishing (1988)

Suspenseful, unnerving, and deliberate pacing place this movie firmly in above-average territory to me. The greatest horror films, to me, are the ones that stick with you; maybe I can get lost in the woods and feel hunted (The Blair Witch Project), maybe there is something more behind those bumps in the night (Paranormal Activity), maybe a nuclear holocaust really is almost upon us at any given time (Threads), etc. This is one of those movies. There's really nothing horrifying in the movie itself, but I can bet it'll be impossible to ignore my memory of this movie on future road trips.

It's a bit uneven and flawed, but yeah, this one's gonna be with me for a long time.

4 / 5


Almost halfway done but still two movies behind as of today. :whew
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 18, 2017, 02:54:02 PM
Great new RLM two-fer review of Reanimator and From Beyond, two GOAT-tier movies from Stuart Gordon. :lawd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAPeMftLe_o
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Post by: TVC15 on October 18, 2017, 02:56:10 PM
All things considered, the Reanimator sequels aren’t bad. That’s probably 95% on Jeffrey Combs being amazing.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on October 18, 2017, 11:37:27 PM
I was watching the opening to Jason Takes Manhattan and I was thinking that it would be a totally amazing movie if it was a traditional 80's cop movie but with Jason as a cop.
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Post by: VomKriege on October 19, 2017, 04:07:09 AM
Quote from: TVC 15 on October 18, 2017, 02:56:10 PM
All things considered, the Reanimator sequels aren’t bad. That’s probably 95% on Jeffrey Combs being amazing.

ReAnimator 2 is great, as good as the original.
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Post by: chronovore on October 20, 2017, 12:27:22 AM
Finally watched the first Silent Hill movie. The CG-heavy creature effects didn't age well, but the environment effects were top-notch, and the analog makeup is also really good. I'd heard that Roger Avary, friend of Tarantino and video store alumnus, had done a better-than-needed job on the script. I agree that it's a competent horror-videogame-to-movie adaptation, but it is by no means a good script on its own. I liked the ending.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 20, 2017, 02:05:58 AM
Friday the 13th Part VI, VII, VIII, Jason Goes to Hell, Jason X, Freddy vs Jason, and Friday the 13th: Killer Cut (1986, 1988, 1989, 1993, 2001, 2003, 2009)

(https://i.imgur.com/XzEot1C.jpg?1)

"Welcome to my nightmare."

I was getting burned out on watching F13 movies, so instead of just not watching anymore like a normal person, I binged the rest of them so I'd be done with it. My thoughts are as follows. VI was okay, but it shot it's load early with that hype af opening scene with Jason coming back to life. VII was pretty good. VIII makes me feel like that NYC cruise that sails out of Crystal Lake is probably not Carnival's most lucrative line. Also, it needed more Jason rampaging in New York. Jason Goes to Hell I have seen before. It was shit then, and it's still shit now. Why did New Line even buy the franchise just to make another "hey what if Jason was kinda the killer, but not really tho?" sequel? Disgusting. Jason X I hadn't seen in about 15 years, and it was definitely better when I was in college. Not as funny as I remembered, although I will never not love the ridiculousness of Mecha Jason. Freddy vs Jason is still pretty dece. The Friday the 13th reboot I had not seen before, but it was less offensive than I expected. It leaves the OG Friday the 13th's plot intact as backstory, and pretty much feels like it would be right at home as a mid-80's F13 sequel. Teens come to Crystal Lake and "hey did you hear the legend of Jason Vorhees? well, it's just a story but..." then they screw and smoke pot and get killed. 

II > I > VII > VI > FvJ > IV > III > Reboot > VIII > V >  X > Jason Goes to Hell
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Post by: Tasty on October 20, 2017, 02:15:00 AM
Finally someone agrees that Jason Goes to Hell is garbo.

Also Silent Hill is great but I wish they had kept to the script and had less Sean Bean being irrelevant.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 20, 2017, 02:23:27 AM
Jason Goes to Hell was the first F13 movie I ever saw. Just imagine how baffling that was. :lol I mean, it was only the first and only F13 movie released in the 90's and Netflix hadn't been invented yet!
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Post by: team filler on October 20, 2017, 02:24:22 AM
silent hill sequel was not completely horrible
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Post by: TVC15 on October 20, 2017, 02:27:53 AM
Who doesn’t think Jason Goes to Hell is trash? It might be one of the worst sequels ever. Mathematically.
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Post by: Tasty on October 20, 2017, 02:38:05 AM
Quote from: filler on October 20, 2017, 02:24:22 AM
silent hill sequel was not completely horrible

It was schlock. Entertaining but schlock.

None of the atmosphere of the first, but Kit Harrington is p.cool.
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Post by: Tasty on October 20, 2017, 03:30:41 AM
Sorry, I meant to say "the worst garbo." IIRC it's dead last on only my list and now Joe's.
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Post by: Purrp Skirrp on October 20, 2017, 02:31:07 PM
Somehow I've managed to never see the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Which ones are worth watching? I got the original, Dream Warriors, and New Nightmare on my watchlist.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 20, 2017, 02:33:17 PM
4 and 5 aren't bad. They follow the template established by 3 to more mixed results, but some of the best kills in the series are in there.

2 is pretty much worth watching for all the wrong reasons.
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Post by: Tasty on October 20, 2017, 02:55:50 PM
Quote from: Purrp Skirrp on October 20, 2017, 02:31:07 PM
Somehow I've managed to never see the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Which ones are worth watching? I got the original, Dream Warriors, and New Nightmare on my watchlist.

These are the only ones you need to see.

2 and 4 are entertaining and pretty watchable (especially 2. :drool)

5 and 6 are trash.
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Post by: Tasty on October 20, 2017, 11:25:24 PM
16. Fracture

Basically Hannibal Lecter vs. Ryan Gosling. TBH I had never heard of this movie before now and wouldn't begrudge anyone for the same. It's honestly pretty forgettable outside Anthony Hopkins. I felt completely cheated by the ending - I thought it was the middle of the movie and shit would start to get more real after that. :lol But no. I can see what they were going for but the movie feels like the prologue to a much better film.

2 / 5


17. Hidden (2015)

A perfectly serviceable post-apocalyptic survival movie from the Duffer Brothers (of Stranger Things fame.) Points to the actors and writing for evoking true empathy for the family before shit goes down. Neat little twist. Wasn't really scary or even that tense at parts, though it does get close in one sequence.

3 / 5


18. Playback

One of the worst horror movies I've ever seen. Scrapes the bottom of the barrel alongside other incomprehensible "horror" snorefests like Stay Alive, fear dot com, and The Bye Bye Man. Christian Slater plays a pedo cop for... some reason. And then he dies. Nobody really has any impact on the plot and you can just tell how hard the writer/director is straining through the screen to convince you the movie is "cool" and "edgy." This skirts "so bad it's good" territory but never really achieves it. On top of that, it's like 105 minutes long or some shit. Ain't nobody got time for that.


1 / 5
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Post by: chronovore on October 21, 2017, 01:21:14 AM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on October 20, 2017, 02:15:00 AM
Finally someone agrees that Jason Goes to Hell is garbo.

Also Silent Hill is great but I wish they had kept to the script and had less Sean Bean being irrelevant.

My suspicion is that they wanted Sean Bean for his name value, but had to keep his shooting schedule to a minimum for contract reasons.

**wikipedias that shit**
"When the script was finished, a studio memo was sent to Gans and Avary that voiced concerns about the lack of a male presence in the film, since the original story contained a nearly all female cast. Gans and Avary added Christopher's character (named after Gans) and subplot and the script was approved.[11]"

Huh.

Well, it explains why he feels tacked-on.
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Post by: Tasty on October 21, 2017, 02:58:06 PM
Quote
Hard to say if this is worse than 7

:confused

7 is the best one though. :dunno
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Post by: Vertigo on October 21, 2017, 03:27:03 PM
Quote from: Purrp Skirrp on October 20, 2017, 02:31:07 PM
Somehow I've managed to never see the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Which ones are worth watching? I got the original, Dream Warriors, and New Nightmare on my watchlist.

Those are the best ones, I'd throw in the second movie for all the ott gay subtext. And slow kinda effective buildup.

New Nightmare is still bloody unnerving. Wish they'd do another film in that vein. Make Freddy into an actual scary force again.

First movie haunted me for years. Like Freddy is a very nasty piece of work in that movie and they keep him to the shadows and glances of him. Very effective.

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Post by: Tasty on October 21, 2017, 05:41:28 PM
That ending battle tho :whew
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Post by: TVC15 on October 21, 2017, 06:52:01 PM
Quote from: Stro on October 21, 2017, 05:40:10 PM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on October 21, 2017, 02:58:06 PM
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Hard to say if this is worse than 7

:confused

7 is the best one though. :dunno


7 is the worst until Jason X, dawg.

WTF jason X is awesome. I kinda consider it its own thing though.
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Post by: Tasty on October 21, 2017, 11:17:06 PM
X was was a welcome return to fun schlock after 8 and 9.
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Post by: Tasty on October 22, 2017, 02:50:10 AM
19. Visions (2015)

Isla Fisher can't act, and that's honestly my main problems with this one. I was also distracted by her character's husband being Anson Mount of Inhumans infamy. At least in this one he flexes a bit of actual acting chops.

The plot involves Isla accidentally killing a kid in a traffic accident then being haunted by various spooky visions (oh hey, that's the title! ...fuck off.) It basically meanders around without a plot until the last 20 minutes where "it all comes together." I do have to say, the way it does come together is slightly clever, but that's really the only reason why this is a 2 on my scale instead of a 1.

2 / 5


20. Martyrs (2008)

I am by most measures vehemently opposed to the "torture porn" genre. It's not that I can't handle it - some of my favorite movies include scenes of abject gore. I just feel that most of the time, it's used in place of an actual plot or characterization. Oh, this person is getting their leg sawed off - we have to feel for them because we know how sucky it would be to happen to us. It's the bottom rung of empathization.

That said, I thought (the original) Martyrs rose above it's constant use of gore and shock moments. They're here in abundance, but there's a lot to pick at and digest under the surface too. I was actually really loving this movie until around the last act, when it does indulge its torture porn sensibilities just a bit too much. Even still, if you can stomach it, this is probably worth a watch.

4 / 5


21. Phantasm

Weird, weird movie. The thing is, for most of it I was on board with the direction - this movie does a thing where a character will begin talking in one scene and then it suddenly shifts to a future scene that they're describing, and I thought it was used really well. Great creepy atmosphere, with several shots in particular I wouldn't mind having framed on my walls. The plot is where it's sort of a letdown to me, though. It feels very muddled, and not in a Lynchian "this all makes sense I'm sure" way, more of a "the director had these cool ideas but couldn't properly communicate them" kinda way. In any case, it's worth a watch just because it feels unique and fresh (despite coming out almost fourty years ago.)

3 / 5


22. They Live

Don't know how I avoided this until now but yeah, it's another Carpenter classic. This reminds me of a lot of Black Mirror episodes I love - I love them mostly because I came up with similar concepts and stories as a kid. :lol Pretty self-serving, but I do enjoy seeing others take such concepts to their completion.

4 / 5


23. Sleepaway Camp

Laughed out loud several points in this movie. Dunno if it's "so bad it's good" but it's up there. It's not actually terrible - it's a pretty generic slasher mystery, sure, and even the camp feels cribbed from Friday the 13th, but it's pretty entertaining seeing the younger age group curse and bully just as well as their college-age F13 cousins. I knew about the twist years ago but even still it's hilarious - had no idea they'd show the penis, nor would it have bush, nor would Angela's face actually be so fucking weird at the end. :lol Not much of a plot but points for inventive kills - the beehive one was particularly ingenious.

3 / 5
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Post by: TVC15 on October 22, 2017, 03:22:13 AM
Love Phantasm. Not making much sense is part of the ride. Phantasm II is really good, too. Maybe on par with the original.
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Post by: Mr. Gundam on October 22, 2017, 03:25:17 AM
whoops, thought this was general movie thread
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Post by: Tasty on October 22, 2017, 03:25:18 AM
Quote from: TVC 15 on October 22, 2017, 03:22:13 AM
Love Phantasm. Not making much sense is part of the ride. Phantasm II is really good, too. Maybe on par with the original.

Something else that held it back for me is that it's clear they could only build two sets, and they were proud as fuck of the mausoleum one.

I'm also not really a fan of "it was all a dream... or was it?!" scenarios.

GREAT main theme music though.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 22, 2017, 03:29:34 AM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on October 22, 2017, 03:25:18 AM
Quote from: TVC 15 on October 22, 2017, 03:22:13 AM
Love Phantasm. Not making much sense is part of the ride. Phantasm II is really good, too. Maybe on par with the original.

Something else that held it back for me is that it's clear they could only build two sets, and they were proud as fuck of the mausoleum one.

I'm also not really a fan of "it was all a dream... or was it?!" scenarios.

GREAT main theme music though.

That funeral home building is just a few miles from me. I want to go there sometime.
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Post by: Tasty on October 23, 2017, 01:44:21 AM
24. Sleepy Hollow

Fairly preditctable Burton tripe, but at least in this instance the material feels like a great match. I enjoyed seeing Depp as a giant pussy for most of the film, but despite being in love with almost every single fucking shot (seriously, this cannot be understated, the movie is a fucking New England Halloween dream come true), the ridiculously over-convoluted plot and lack of agency on the part of the Horseman makes this almost a miss for me. But yeah, it's somewhat salvaged by the cinematography and original source material.

2 / 5


25. Gerald's Game

A classic that stumbles in the last 20 minutes or so. I was completely absorbed until...

spoiler (click to show/hide)
she left the house and began writing her letter. If the movie had ended with her being recovered from the car crash, this would probably be 5/5 for me.
[close]

Despite all this I was enthralled for almost the entire time, and as I said earlier I just love "bottle movies." Good shit. The less you know going in, the better.

4 / 5


26. It Comes at Night

Nice little movie with direction that elevates it a cut above. The plot is basically a single chapter of The Walking Dead comic stretched out to film length, but everything is so competent and deliberate that it works far better as a self-contained film than an idea in a comic. For the record, this movie has no zombies or shit, but the idea of paranoia and "can we really trust what this guy says?" in a post-apocalyptic scenario is a trend well-tread. Knocking off a point mostly because the ending is a bit too nihilistic for my tastes. Normally I wouldn't mind, but in a movie like this that deliberately leaves out the context of its world and scenario, some moment of catharsis is needed for a climax to feel rewarding.

4 / 5
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Post by: Tasty on October 24, 2017, 12:46:50 PM
27. Halloween III: Season of the Witch

Really great atmosphere at the expense of a snoozer of a plot. Only really interesting shit happens in the last 10% of the movie, the rest is a mystery setup but if you know anything about the plot of the movie it's like watching a guy stumble around in the darkness of his basement trying to reset the fusebox. I'm gonna disagree with Stro here - the ending is not a downer ending, because there is no ending. He yells into the phone over and over, cut to black. It actually would have been a better ending for him to see the signal on TV and the camera zooms in on his horrified face or something.

Ah well. And yeah the music is dope. :rock

3 / 5
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Post by: ToxicAdam on October 24, 2017, 01:05:23 PM
I've always had a soft spot for Halloween 3. I love the vibe it created, I just wished it were a better movie overall.

The Village falls in that category also.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 24, 2017, 01:24:56 PM
Happy Happy Halloween Halloween Halloween Happy Happy Halloween Silver Shamrock!
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Post by: Tasty on October 24, 2017, 02:56:27 PM
Evil Dead 2013 is fucking great.
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Post by: Mupepe on October 24, 2017, 03:32:59 PM
Agreed.  I didn't understand the hate it got from some.
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Post by: Tasty on October 24, 2017, 03:51:39 PM
Quote from: Mupepe on October 24, 2017, 03:32:59 PM
Agreed.  I didn't understand the hate it got from some.

I can sorta understand. It's VERY far removed from Evil Dead 2/Army of Darkness wackery and it was the first entry since that movie.

These days though we've got (at least) three seasons of Ash vs. Evil Dead so the people wanting Ash and wacky horror hijinks can get their fill.
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Post by: Tasty on October 24, 2017, 05:00:45 PM
Quote from: Stro on October 24, 2017, 04:52:21 PM
ED 2013 is for sure better than Ash vs Evil Dead, tho.

Haven't seen more than the first couple eps so I couldn't say. Hit my fanspot as a Evil Dead fan though.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 25, 2017, 11:56:21 AM
#26
Species (1995)

(https://i.imgur.com/tufBG2P.jpg?1)

This movie was made about 10 years too late. If it was made in the 80's, it would have cost a few hundred grand, starred the director's nephew, and been released by Roger Corman or Troma under the title Space Nymphos from Planet X. And it would have been amazing. Instead, it's the 90's, we gotta class the shit up. Give us Ben Kingsley, give Michael Madsen, give us Forrest Whitaker (reading all his lines like he's shooting an ASMR video), give us cutting-edge (lol) mid 90's CGI. Let's be real, people were only watching this movie for one reason. Hot alien sex. People didn't need to see some blonde supermodel grinding on Alfred Molina's dick; it could have been anyone's dick and it still wouldn't have gotten rented out at Blockbuster.

The Sil design was good (I mean, it's HR Giger) and the practical effects and puppet work was good, but whenever Sil went into CGI mode...oh lawd have mercy. :yuck Thankfully the worst of it was contained to one scene at the end, but it's still more unintentionally horrifying than anything else in the movie was on purpose. Needless to say, I would not describe this movie as a "Sci-Fi jolt-a-thon!"

Natasha Henstridge was hot, tho.
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Post by: studyguy on October 25, 2017, 11:57:40 AM
Quote from: Joe Molotov on October 25, 2017, 11:56:21 AM
#26
Species (1995)

(https://i.imgur.com/tufBG2P.jpg?1)

This movie was made about 10 years too late. If it was made in the 80's, it would have cost a few hundred grand, starred the director's nephew, and been released by Roger Corman or Troma under the title Space Nymphos from Planet X. And it would have been amazing. Instead, it's the 90's, we gotta class the shit up. Give us Ben Kingsley, give Michael Madsen, give us Forrest Whitaker (reading all his lines like he's shooting an ASMR video), give us cutting-edge (lol) mid 90's CGI. Let's be real, people were only watching this movie for one reason. Hot alien sex. People didn't need to see some hot blonde model grinding on Alfred Molina's dick; it could have been anyone's dick and it still wouldn't have gotten rented out at Blockbuster.

The Sil design was good (I mean, it's HR Giger) and the practical effects and puppet work was good, but whenever Sil went into CGI mode...oh lawd have mercy. :yuck Thankfully the worst of it was contained to one scene at the end, but it's still more unintentionally horrifying than anything else in the movie was on purpose. Needless to say, I would not describe this movie as a "Sci-Fi jolt-a-thon!"

Natasha Henstridge was hot, tho.

Pretty sure this film inspired a number of young degenerates to awaken to their weirdo guro/vore fetish, or at the very minimum love for monster girls before they were a thing later in life.
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Post by: Quaker on October 25, 2017, 07:18:25 PM
1. Gerald's Game (Netflix)

Surprisingly good one-location film adapted from a Stephen King story. Yeah, it kind of shits the bed with the epilogue but the climax was so well executed that I really care that much.

2. Mimic (HBO)

The last one of Del Toro's movies that I hadn't seen. The narrative isn't much and it's not that "scary" but it's a strong, silly monster movie that plays a bit like a silly version of Alien with roaches towards the end with Del Toro's signature aesthetic and production design. Plus I really liked Josh Brolin and F Murray Abraham in this.

3. 28 Days Later

Great cast, doesn't go on too long, and Danny Boyle's manic style really goes well with the more thrilling scenes. Only big bummer for me is that this was the first time seeing it blown up at the theater and he really did a disservice to the film by shooting 99% of it(the last scene with the valley and the fighter jet was shot on 35mm and it shows) on shitty consumer level digital cameras. I just imagine how much better it'd look if he was using whatever Michael Mann used on Collateral like two years later.

4. The Babadook (Netflix)

The allegory is a little heavy handed but I appreciate what they were trying to do.

5. Ravenous (Netflix)

Probably my favorite find this month. Great offbeat, horror Western. It was kind of bittersweet realizing that I'm getting old now that I can start seeing movies from the late 90s get that patina that 70s and 80s films have now that they're no long contemporary.

6. What Lies Beneath (Amazon Prime)

It's Robert Zemeckis doing his Hitchcock homage. It's a slow burn and there's not really too much going on but I'll take just watching Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer for two hours now that they're not really around anymore.

7. Hellraiser (Netflix)

Hmm, there's obviously a lot of talent and skill behind the gore effects but I was just kind of frustrated after a while. Made me appreciate something like The Thing or Cronenberg in general that are able to have great body horror effects in service of a strong narrative or characters.

8. The Hills Have Eyes (Original) (Showtime)

Similarly, it's cool that Wes Craven is able to do so much with so little but I didn't find it added up to anything particularly substantial.

9. The Cell (HBO)

Love The Fall and I hadn't seen this one yet. The narrative doesn't really make too much sense but it's worth it just for the visuals. Between this and Out of Sight, I think Jennifer Lopez gets a bad rap versus someone like Jessica Alba, who I still can't think of having a single worthwhile performance.

10. It Follows (Netflix)

I didn't like it as much on this rewatch now that the novelty of someone doing neo-Carpenter is gone but there's still something there.
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Post by: Tasty on October 25, 2017, 07:32:34 PM
Hellraiser sucks!
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 25, 2017, 07:47:48 PM
Nope!
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Post by: Quaker on October 25, 2017, 08:14:23 PM
11. The Ninth Gate (HBO)

Going into it knowing it was a movie about the occult directed by the guy who made Chinatown, The Pianist and The Ghost Writer I expected something more like Rosemary's Baby but it's basically a silly genre movie playing it straight like those old Christopher Lee vampire movies, but with a slightly classier, modern presentation...which wasn't bad, actually.

12. The Blackcoat’s Daughter (Amazon Prime)

Emma Roberts and the daughter from Mad Men are pretty good, but I didn't find a lot here aside from the atmosphere.

13. Donnie Darko (Netflix)

Yeah, it's kind of embarrassingly emo but it's a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, largely because of the 80s setting?

14. Raw (Netflix)

Really liked this one. It's another cannibal movie but it has some really great, cringe-worthy body horror and I liked the allegories and undertones too.

15. An American Werewolf in London (Amazon)

I think that was the first time I had seen it all the way through from beginning to end after seeing extended parts of it on TV like 30 times. Liked the characters, the setup, the effects and it's nice and brisk too.

16. The Sixth Sense (Netflix)

First time rewatching it since it came out, I think. I've said it before after watching Unbreakable but it's crazy how...mature and understated his earlier movies are.

17. The Ring (HBO)

I didn't think much of it at the time, but on rewatch it's surprisingly effective and Verbinski's style is pretty impressive. Feels very slick for a movie that's 15 years old by now. Plus Naomi Watts. :heartbeat

18. The Conjuring 2 (HBO)

I liked the first one a bit but I was still skeptical going into a broad sequel like this. I actually ended up enjoying this quite a bit even though I still get a little incredulous by the "based on a true story" angle, but I don't think jump scares are that bad of a thing.

19. Hannibal (Showtime)

Yeah, this movie was actually a lot smaller than I remember it being. It's pretty much carried by Hopkins' performance, the material is pretty trashy and it sucks that we get Julianne Moore doing a bit of a Jodie Foster impression but I kind of like it and Red Dragon, despite the silliness.

20. The Purge: Election Year (HBO)

Yeah, I gave it a chance because I've heard good things about it but it really felt like a huge waste to me. I didn't find it particularly compelling and instead felt like someone trying to adapt a Payday or Left 4 Dead mashup with a $2 budget.
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Post by: Tasty on October 26, 2017, 09:50:02 AM
Jason Goes to Hell is the worst movie in the series, bar-none. What the fuck was Sean Cunningham thinking with this piece of garbage.

I mean, I get it, 8 sucked and all, but Jesus you didn't have to jettison the entire fucking series tropes because of it.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 26, 2017, 10:10:31 AM
We need a Friday 8.5 explaining how this bounty hunter learned the nursery rhyme and obtained the magical dagger that could kill Jason.
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Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on October 26, 2017, 05:46:45 PM
Stro I am effing loving your work in this thread.

You're doing fine work here, I give sincere and voluminous thanks to you.
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Post by: Bebpo on October 26, 2017, 06:22:47 PM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on October 24, 2017, 02:56:27 PM
Evil Dead 2013 is fucking great.

Yup. This and Don't Breathe were great.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 26, 2017, 07:30:42 PM
Quote from: Stro on October 26, 2017, 06:27:32 PM
Quote from: HyperZoneWasAwesome on October 26, 2017, 05:46:45 PM
Stro I am effing loving your work in this thread.

You're doing fine work here, I give sincere and voluminous thanks to you.


(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/522a2049e4b0a0ce717e990c/57e0b416f7e0abb31473a3b3/57e0b416bebafbf5f8ef645d/1474343969438/freddy+laugh.gif)

Last year I did all the ANOES and Halloween series, year before assorted stuff. All can be found at the site if you haven't checked it out. In the planning stages for next year's Halloween Havoc. Can't decide if I want to do the entire Alien/Predator universe, or the whole TCM series plus assorted randoms.

Do all the Hellraisers. It is your destiny.
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Post by: TVC15 on October 26, 2017, 07:41:07 PM
(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/522a2049e4b0a0ce717e990c/t/54bdbd92e4b069dab26ffc9c/1421720998233/?format=750w)
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Post by: Tasty on October 27, 2017, 02:50:57 AM
Quote from: HyperZoneWasAwesome on October 26, 2017, 05:46:45 PM
Stro I am effing loving your work in this thread.

You're doing fine work here, I give sincere and voluminous thanks to you.

But... I... he...

whtever.
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Post by: Cerveza mas fina on October 27, 2017, 02:53:26 AM
Ill prob watch that Babysitter Netflix movie tonight on my flight
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Post by: Valkyrie on October 27, 2017, 07:25:50 AM
Quote from: Quaker on October 25, 2017, 08:14:23 PM
Yeah, it's kind of embarrassingly emo but it's a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, largely because of the 80s setting?
Don't feel guilty, Donnie Darko is an amazing movie and needs to be treasured for what it is. I've yet to meet anyone who didn't like it, and I always recommend it for those who hasn't seen it.
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Post by: Para-Medic on October 27, 2017, 11:27:54 AM
While it's still free on Amazon Prime I'd recommend "The Blackcoats Daughter" for a movie which is straight up dread and weird beginning to end.

Also "The Witch: A New England Folktale" which is so heavy handed in it's own setting that people often complain they have a hard time following the dialog. For me though, it just made it even more interesting.

Hulu has the new Blair Witch movie but I've heard nothing but awful things about it. :( That's upsetting as I actually do really like the first movie.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 27, 2017, 03:14:23 PM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on October 27, 2017, 02:50:57 AM
Quote from: HyperZoneWasAwesome on October 26, 2017, 05:46:45 PM
Stro I am effing loving your work in this thread.

You're doing fine work here, I give sincere and voluminous thanks to you.

But... I... he...

whtever.

Maybe you’d get more props if you weren’t a Hellgator. :bolo
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Post by: Tasty on October 27, 2017, 04:22:02 PM
:dead
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Post by: Purrp Skirrp on October 27, 2017, 04:23:52 PM
Anybody got a link to last years thread?
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Post by: Joe Molotov on October 28, 2017, 12:32:32 AM
Quote from: Purrp Skirrp on October 27, 2017, 04:23:52 PM
Anybody got a link to last years thread?

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=44494.0

#27
Train to Busan (2016)

(https://i.imgur.com/IzAQrjM.jpg?1)

aka Korean War Z. It's been a while since I've watched a zombie movie, so I wanted to get one in before the end of the month and I'd heard this one was supposed to be pretty good. And it was. It didn't exactly break new ground in the zombie genre, but it was exciting and it had a good pace even though it was 2 hrs long. It also skipped over the "no one's ever heard of a zombie before" and the "person gets bit and tries to cover it up" and the "yeah my wife got bite, but she's not going to turn into a zombie, I won't leave her behind!" tropes, so that's nice.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Freyj on October 28, 2017, 05:31:08 PM
Shudder is doing 30 days for free with “HALLOWEENUS” code. Some good stuff on there.

We watched WNUF and Ghostwatch the other night. Really good stuff in both for completely different reasons.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Tasty on October 28, 2017, 08:47:47 PM
Jason X was good schlock and an enjoyable return to form after JGTH.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 28, 2017, 10:13:02 PM
:lol
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: TVC15 on October 28, 2017, 10:36:23 PM
Quote from: Stro on October 28, 2017, 11:21:09 AM
https://legitshook.squarespace.com/movies/jason-x-2001


Jason X (2001). The dirt fucking worst piece of trash in a pretty shitty franchise. Utterly contemptible and I hope to never speak of it again.

(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/522a2049e4b0a0ce717e990c/t/5851d21dbebafb62967220a5/1509204001937/?format=500w)

Even if you don’t like X, I don’t see how it’s possible to like JGTH more than it. There’s a divide by zero error going on in your brain somewhere.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: TVC15 on October 28, 2017, 11:12:09 PM
Stro, I love you, but bitch you’re crazy. David Cronenberg’s presence alone makes X the better film.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: TVC15 on October 28, 2017, 11:30:33 PM
I didn’t like Map to the Stars! We agree on that!
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: TVC15 on October 28, 2017, 11:56:54 PM
I really only care about modern Danson. He was great on Cheers, but he was never hot. Never saw Becker, but it was a CBS sitcom so, uh, no reason to go there.

I think I first started falling in love with him on Curb.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: TVC15 on October 29, 2017, 12:40:41 AM
Young people are generally awful. Daddies forever.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: bdoughty on October 29, 2017, 09:36:28 AM
Friday the 13th turned to crap after 6. First two were top notch, 3D was okay, 4 went back to form and 5 & 6 were tolerable.
Halloween turned to crap after 4. Season of the Witch is great but I do not include it with he rest of the movies. Once they went they went with the Thorn stuff (6) I just watched them for the laughs, including those Zombie remakes.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Bebpo on October 30, 2017, 11:47:07 PM
Cult of Chucky - kinda surprised by the good reviews. It’s well made by it’s just a bunch of gore kills. Like it never feels the characters have even a fighting chance since

spoiler (click to show/hide)
there’s an army of chuckys

Ok, the scenes between the chuckys are pretty funny
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Like horror films only have some tension if at least people have a chance. Eh, pass. Should’ve watched Raw or The Babysitter instead for my horror fix today.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Bebpo on October 30, 2017, 11:53:08 PM
Quote from: Stro on October 30, 2017, 11:49:30 PM
Watching Raw in 2017  :crazy

Didn’t it just come out last year?
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: TVC15 on October 31, 2017, 01:07:31 AM
Quote from: Stro on October 30, 2017, 10:00:36 AM
https://legitshook.squarespace.com/movies/2016/12/15/friday-the-13th-2009

Friday The 13th (2009)

Obviously the best of the series from a quality and production view, but the sheen of reboot money also takes away from the charm of the series. Things that looked gross or cheap in the past was because...they had no movie and had to find shit. The gritty, grimy aesthetic of all the Platinum Dudes reboots worked, but sometimes worked against their source material. I liked that they tried to come up with plausible ways as to how he stays alive and can seemingly teleport, but ultimately, it's not very important. That's kind of the beauty of this specific franchise: It's basically infinitely rebootable. There's no overarching story or characters, all you need is a big guy, the mask, and blood.

(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/522a2049e4b0a0ce717e990c/t/5852bdef414fb525e55ea60f/1509370279021/?format=500w)

(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/522a2049e4b0a0ce717e990c/t/5852bf13197aea16b2261422/1509370476952/?format=500w)

:six:
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Bebpo on October 31, 2017, 02:13:59 AM
Raw (not the wrestling thing) was awesome. Been a while since I saw something crazy in a good way. Loved it.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: etiolate on October 31, 2017, 03:47:22 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_P4C8x9S28

Currently watching this and its cinematic excellence

Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 31, 2017, 10:10:56 AM
#28
A Dark Song (2016)
(https://i.imgur.com/Jno6IzA.jpg?1)

Well fuck my cunt, this is a really good movie, innit? I know I'm the one that suggested it in the first place, but I was gonna wait and make it my Halloween movie (but instead I think I'll watch something more iconic today). It's definitely the best movie that could be fairly described as "two people in a house and nothing happens" since The Innkeepers. The atmosphere was great, the music was oppressive, the the actors were incredible. Yeah, *end spoilers*
spoiler (click to show/hide)
the demons were just a bunch of ashy dudes and the angel CGI probably cost about $10
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but I still loved it, it was very cool.

#29
Gremlins (1984)
(https://i.imgur.com/8kqhUlZ.jpg?1)
After the tension of the previous movie, I just wanted to Netflix and Chill with some lighter fair, and it's been about a million years since I've watched Gremlins. It's a fun movie, but I gotta say, watching it again just cements my position that The 'Burbs is Joe Dante's best movie (and yes, I remember who Joe Dante is now :maf).
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: TVC15 on October 31, 2017, 10:52:14 AM
Quote from: Stro on October 31, 2017, 02:17:00 AM
Quote from: TVC 15 on October 31, 2017, 01:07:31 AM
Quote from: Stro on October 30, 2017, 10:00:36 AM
https://legitshook.squarespace.com/movies/2016/12/15/friday-the-13th-2009

Friday The 13th (2009)

Obviously the best of the series from a quality and production view, but the sheen of reboot money also takes away from the charm of the series. Things that looked gross or cheap in the past was because...they had no movie and had to find shit. The gritty, grimy aesthetic of all the Platinum Dudes reboots worked, but sometimes worked against their source material. I liked that they tried to come up with plausible ways as to how he stays alive and can seemingly teleport, but ultimately, it's not very important. That's kind of the beauty of this specific franchise: It's basically infinitely rebootable. There's no overarching story or characters, all you need is a big guy, the mask, and blood.

(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/522a2049e4b0a0ce717e990c/t/5852bdef414fb525e55ea60f/1509370279021/?format=500w)

(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/522a2049e4b0a0ce717e990c/t/5852bf13197aea16b2261422/1509370476952/?format=500w)

:six:

I wish Ted Danson was in a horror movie and got killed in the first reel  :pacspit

There’s always Creepshow.

Btw, How Did This Get Made? did Jason X last week. From the several minutes I heard, they didn’t like it.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: ToxicAdam on October 31, 2017, 12:11:09 PM
I listened to that podcast. Apparently the director admitted to never have watching a 'Friday the 13th' movie before and the writer had zero experience and wanted to write an Aliens script instead.

Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: TVC15 on October 31, 2017, 12:46:51 PM
Quote from: ToxicAdam on October 31, 2017, 12:11:09 PM
I listened to that podcast. Apparently the director admitted to never have watching a 'Friday the 13th' movie before and the writer had zero experience and wanted to write an Aliens script instead.



Coincidentally, Leprechaun in Space feels very similar in tone, like a Syfy tongue-in-cheek Aliens.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Momo on October 31, 2017, 12:52:10 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBSJEsSrsMo

Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 31, 2017, 03:42:36 PM
Quote from: TVC 15 on October 06, 2017, 03:09:09 PM
Last night I ended up watching Rosemary's Baby with two friends that had never seen it before.

As the movie went on, I realized I forgot to tell them that the movie was a slow, tense boil, and they were mostly silent as they were watching it. They were definitely weirded out by the notorious dream sequence. As the movie was wrapping up, I was worried they didn't like it, and I was getting a bit bummed because it's one of my favorite movies period.

It turns out they were both absolutely floored by it and were quiet because they were so wrapped up in it. I felt really happy then. We talked about it for about an hour before I had to get home to watch Vampyros Lesbos at a decent hour.

janet and i watch this every halloween. sorry, social studies warriors: this movie is a veritable new york pizzeria basement full of offsets.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 31, 2017, 06:02:42 PM
 just watched "a dark song". overall good stuff -- good acting, pacing, claustrophobia, dialogue. shame about the last 20 minutes.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
dat feel when yer guardian angel was made with an amiga 3000 and video toaster, and your demons look like tent city junkies  :cmonson
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Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Tasty on October 31, 2017, 07:03:48 PM
Halloweentown 1 and 2 were my shit back in the day. Kischy and probably unwatchable these days but fond memories of it.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 31, 2017, 08:22:56 PM
seriously, the more i think about a dark song and all its crowley-esque trappings, they shoulda made the guardian angel some fucked up shit inspired by the enochian apocrypha or the goetia. the demons shoulda stayed weird shadowy shit, like lucid dreams gone awry.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: TVC15 on October 31, 2017, 08:32:25 PM
Quote from: Van Cruncheon on October 31, 2017, 06:02:42 PM
shame about the last 20 minutes.

This could be the final line of like 95% of horror movie reviews.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Bebpo on October 31, 2017, 08:37:18 PM
Still thinking about Raw today. Man, that was so good. Probably my favorite horror flick in the last year or two.

Quote from: TVC 15 on October 31, 2017, 08:32:25 PM
Quote from: Van Cruncheon on October 31, 2017, 06:02:42 PM
shame about the last 20 minutes.

This could be the final line of like 95% of horror movie reviews.

And the other 5% being Ti West films where the last 20 mins are the best part!
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Tasty on October 31, 2017, 08:52:44 PM
Ti West is as overrated as Adam Wingard.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 31, 2017, 09:07:35 PM
you may know movies, tasty, but bebs knows ghosts so stay in yer lane
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 31, 2017, 09:19:03 PM
did he do bone tomahawk? that was good.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Bebpo on October 31, 2017, 09:35:58 PM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on October 31, 2017, 08:52:44 PM
Ti West is as overrated as Adam Wingard.

Ti West would have to be rated in the first place. Outside hardcore horror circles he's unknown. Wingard's You're Next and The Guest both put him on the popular map.

Also West hasn't made anything particularly bad, but he hasn't made anything as good as House of the Devil since either. Then again almost no one has made a horror film as good as House of the Devil in 10 years, so that's a high bar. I liked Innkeepers.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Tasty on October 31, 2017, 10:17:42 PM
I probably have to rewatch it but I didn't find House of the Devil all that compelling. I remember it being very good™. If I make it far enough, it'd be a huge achievement to make a horror movie that's as good as it, but as a viewer it didn't grab me.

Innkeepers was a step down but still good. Goes full stupid in the last 15 mins though.

The Sacrament had some great tension, but how do you make a horror movie that's less horrific than the real life events? Jonestown was fricking NYC compared to the camp in that one.

Anyways these are just my opinions of course. :yeshrug Also I wasn't talking mainstream popularity, but popularity like, here, where people know who Ti West is. I see him brought up as frequently as Adam Wingard in horror discussions here so that's what I was addressing.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: toku on October 31, 2017, 10:46:13 PM
http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/horror-movies-are-now-officially-preferable-to-real-life.html
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Mupepe on October 31, 2017, 10:54:33 PM
Mike Flanagan is another with great potential except he hasn't let me down.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Tasty on October 31, 2017, 11:00:57 PM
Quote from: Mupepe on October 31, 2017, 10:54:33 PM
Mike Flanagan is another with great potential except he hasn't let me down.

:thinking

Hmm you may be right. Though none of his movies are really that standout except Gerald's Game (which falls off the rails at the end.) Never saw Oculus but Hush and Ouija Origin were really pleasant surprises for me.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Bebpo on October 31, 2017, 11:57:01 PM
Quote from: Mupepe on October 31, 2017, 10:54:33 PM
Mike Flanagan is another with great potential except he hasn't let me down.

Love Absentia.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Tasty on November 01, 2017, 12:04:11 AM
28. Cub (also known as "Welp")

This Dutch film is sort of a cross between Friday the 13th and the real life Cub Scouts. Unfortunately, as trailers and online commenters do, this one was overhyped. It never gets particularly tense or scary outside the first 15 minutes or so, and wastes a somewhat neat if tried concept with the feral boy.

It also pulled the cardinal sin of the "twist" ending making no goddamn sense and nothing really being explained. If the movie had set up the twist earlier, or if they had played it less on the nose, or even if the rest of the movie had been more "vague," maybe it wouldn't have landed with such a thud for me.

2 / 5


29. The Midnight Meat Train

This movie was so fucking "2000s" that I was fucking gobsmacked when I saw it was made in 2008. As the movie went on I knew I was watching that particularly special brand of stupid movie, and got pretty excited at how off the rails it could possibly go.

And wheeeeeewwww boy, does it ever get stupid. For most other movies that'd bump up the score I give it by one, but almost everything else in this movie drags it back down.

1 / 5


30. Rosemary's Baby

Holy cow, this was David Lynch before David Lynch! Despite being over two hours long, not a single scene is wasted, and it's paced impeccably - each reveal or or character interaction is exactly where it needs to be in the overall narrative structure. The actors, particularly Mia Farrow and the elderly couple, absolutely sell the movie, with the latter in particular providing some needed levity that makes the darker elements stand out as all the more twisted.

And man, that final scene. :whew

The talk earlier in this thread pushed me over the edge and I'm glad it did. This movie rules.

5 / 5


31. Trick 'r Treat (rewatch)

This and The Blair Witch Project are always my October staples, for good reason. Blair Witch gets things off on the right foot with unsettling atmosphere and grounded human drama, while Trick 'r Treat rounds out the month with a massive injection of Halloween spirit. Not much to say for this other than between this and Krampus, Mike Dougherty is the fucking man.

5 / 5


And with that, we done here boys. :obama

spoiler (click to show/hide)
I've already bookmarks five new horror flicks to watch when I get the itch and/or might go on my list next year.
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Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Tasty on November 01, 2017, 12:06:53 AM
My full list and accompanying scores! (With links to the full reviews.)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
  • A Dark Song - 5 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2298236#msg2298236)
  • Lake Mungo - 2 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2300387#msg2300387)
  • Triangle (2009) - 4 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2300387#msg2300387)
  • The Taking of Deborah Logan - 3 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2300387#msg2300387)
  • Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 - 2 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2301390#msg2301390)
  • A Cure for Wellness - 2 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2301390#msg2301390)
  • The Blair Witch Project (rewatch) - 5 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2301892#msg2301892)
  • Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead - 3 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2301892#msg2301892)
  • An American Werewolf in London - 2 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2303201#msg2303201)
  • American Psycho - 4 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2303201#msg2303201)
  • The Hallow - 4 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2303201#msg2303201)
  • The Autopsy of Jane Doe - 5 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2303201#msg2303201)
  • Pandorum - 2 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2303602#msg2303602)
  • Hush (2016) - 3 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2303771#msg2303771)
  • The Vanishing (1988) - 4 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2303771#msg2303771)
  • Fracture - 2 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2304948#msg2304948)
  • Hidden (2015) - 3 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2304948#msg2304948)
  • Playback - 1 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2304948#msg2304948)
  • Visions (2015) - 2 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2308229#msg2308229)
  • Martyrs (2008) - 4 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2308229#msg2308229)
  • Phantasm - 3 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2308229#msg2308229)
  • They Live - 4 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2308229#msg2308229)
  • Sleepaway Camp - 3 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2308229#msg2308229)
  • Sleepy Hollow - 2 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2311829#msg2311829)
  • Gerald's Game - 4 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2311829#msg2311829)
  • It Comes at Night - 4 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2311829#msg2311829)
  • Halloween III: Season of the Witch - 3 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2317879#msg2317879)
  • Cub - 2 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2329930#msg2329930)
  • The Midnight Meat Train - 1 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2329930#msg2329930)
  • Rosemary's Baby - 5 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2329930#msg2329930)
  • Trick 'r Treat (rewatch) - 5 / 5 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45110.msg2329930#msg2329930)
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5 / 5

4 / 5

3 / 5

2 / 5

1 / 5
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Mupepe on November 01, 2017, 09:26:15 AM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on October 31, 2017, 11:00:57 PM
Quote from: Mupepe on October 31, 2017, 10:54:33 PM
Mike Flanagan is another with great potential except he hasn't let me down.

:thinking

Hmm you may be right. Though none of his movies are really that standout except Gerald's Game (which falls off the rails at the end.) Never saw Oculus but Hush and Ouija Origin were really pleasant surprises for me.
Oh you need to fix that.  Oculus is his stand out IMO. 
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 01, 2017, 10:11:47 AM
#30
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
(https://i.imgur.com/baLQ5vA.jpg?1)

#31
The 'Burbs (1989)
(https://i.imgur.com/kTYn45p.jpg?1)
Theoretically, how big of a sex pervert would Tom Hanks have to be to no longer be beloved? Like, if he felt up a 16 y/o at a party, people would be like "Wow, not cool Tom Hanks" but we'd all let it slide.  It'd have to be at least Cosby levels, right, if not more? I'm trying to decide whether him being white would give him more of the benefit or less of the benefit of a doubt, considering today's political climate, but I'm not smart enough to figure it out.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 01, 2017, 10:16:54 AM
Also, Meat wtf @ giving Meat Train a 1 out of 5? Does your hate boner for Clive Barker know no bounds? I feel like you're just trying to make me mad at this point, but it won't work. You cannot break into my mind palace.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 01, 2017, 10:19:26 AM
Watch List
1. The Blob (1988)
2. Death Spa (1987)
3. The Stuff (1985)
4. A Cure for Wellness (2017)
5. They Live (1988)
6. Vampyros Lesbos (1971)
7. Kill, Baby, Kill! (1966)
8. The Omen (1976)
9. Videodrome (1983)
10. Abattoir (2016)
11. Piranha (1978)
12. Daughters of Darkness (1970)
13. Happy Death Day (2017)
14. The Babysitter (2017)
15. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
16. Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)
17. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
18. Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)
19. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
20. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
21. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
22. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
23. Jason X (2001)
24. Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
25. Friday the 13th (2009)
26. Species (1995)
27. Train to Busan (2016)
28. A Dark Song (2016)
29. Gremlins (1984)
30. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
31. The 'Burbs (1989)
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 01, 2017, 02:13:56 PM
i love lake mungo, but that's more of a personal preference thing.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: TVC15 on November 01, 2017, 02:21:32 PM
Watched Creepshow with good pals last night. I looked up Ted Danson’s age when he was in it, and he was a year younger than me :( I never got to look like Ted Danson :( Want to die :( Creepshow Ted Danson is forever younger than meeeeeee :sad
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Mupepe on November 01, 2017, 02:28:31 PM
Quote from: Stro on November 01, 2017, 01:55:59 PM
Oculus sucked, gtfo
You're a terrible person.

But I still love you.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Tasty on November 01, 2017, 02:31:27 PM
Meat Train was Clive Barker? :lol

I honestly had no idea. No wonder that movie's trash. :lol :lol
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Bebpo on November 01, 2017, 02:41:34 PM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on November 01, 2017, 02:31:27 PM
Meat Train was Clive Barker? :lol

I honestly had no idea. No wonder that movie's trash. :lol :lol

Not only Clive Barker

but also directed by Metal Gear Solid The Twin Snakes's cutscene director, Ryuhei Kitamura in his first US film debut!

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Actually Kitamura was originally pretty awesome with Versus and a couple other cool JP flicks, but MMM marked the beginning of the end of his career.
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Quote from: Stro on November 01, 2017, 01:55:59 PM
Oculus sucked, gtfo

Absentia > Oculus > Hush > Gerald's Game (I still need to see Ouija 2).

For Flannagan I prefer his supernatural/creature stuff over realism horror of Hush/Gerald.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: TVC15 on November 01, 2017, 02:44:19 PM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on November 01, 2017, 02:31:27 PM
Meat Train was Clive Barker? :lol

I honestly had no idea. No wonder that movie's trash. :lol :lol

smh. It’s not bad. A little over-directed. It fits in nicely with the other urban horror stories of his that have been adapted. The visuals for the creatures in the ending weren’t great to me. It was a nice treat.

Hellraiser = Candyman > Midnight Meat Train > Nightbreed
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Bebpo on November 01, 2017, 02:45:34 PM
Quote from: TVC 15 on November 01, 2017, 02:44:19 PM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on November 01, 2017, 02:31:27 PM
Meat Train was Clive Barker? :lol

I honestly had no idea. No wonder that movie's trash. :lol :lol

smh. It’s not bad. A little over-directed. It fits in nicely with the other urban horror stories of his that have been adapted. The visuals for the creatures in the ending weren’t great to me. It was a nice treat.

Hellraiser = Candyman > Midnight Meat Train > Nightbreed

I think MMM was pretty bad, even as a Barker & at the time Kitamura fan. Never seen Nightbreed, but yeah Hellraiser & Candyman are great.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: TVC15 on November 01, 2017, 02:56:04 PM
Quote from: Bebpo on November 01, 2017, 02:45:34 PM
Quote from: TVC 15 on November 01, 2017, 02:44:19 PM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on November 01, 2017, 02:31:27 PM
Meat Train was Clive Barker? :lol

I honestly had no idea. No wonder that movie's trash. :lol :lol

smh. It’s not bad. A little over-directed. It fits in nicely with the other urban horror stories of his that have been adapted. The visuals for the creatures in the ending weren’t great to me. It was a nice treat.

Hellraiser = Candyman > Midnight Meat Train > Nightbreed

I think MMM was pretty bad, even as a Barker & at the time Kitamura fan. Never seen Nightbreed, but yeah Hellraiser & Candyman are great.

The biggest faux pas in MMT for me is the modernization of the setting. It should’ve been grittier like the 80s New York of the original.

Nightbreed is a mess, even in the director’s cut. There’s a lot to like, but it just doesn’t quite come together. Still, it has David Cronenberg, so it’s awesome. It’s a must if you like fancy ass monster costumes and makeup. It’s porn for that.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Mupepe on November 01, 2017, 03:02:12 PM
Quote from: Philip Cardgage on November 01, 2017, 02:56:50 PM
You guys should watch Blood Rage.
aka menstrual cycle
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 01, 2017, 06:47:10 PM
He just looks like Robert Downey Jr. on a bender in the last pic.
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Post by: Tasty on November 01, 2017, 07:28:40 PM
Joe what are your thoughts on Clive Barker's Jericho™ (by Clive Barker®)?
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 01, 2017, 07:41:16 PM
I've never played it, but IIRC Prole liked it and said that it had  giant demon cocks in it.

Clive Barker's Undying though is a minor masterpiece. :lawd
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Bebpo on November 01, 2017, 08:01:35 PM
Oh man, I remember that crappy game.

It's a shame all the horror games based on horror short stories/novels turn out bad. Especially because there are lots of good horror games and good horror novels. Just doesn't seem to cross over well. I know there's another Call of Cthulhu game coming out or something but not expecting much. I have no mouth and I must Scream is probably the only good one.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Tasty on November 02, 2017, 12:55:29 AM
Quote from: TVC 15 on November 01, 2017, 02:44:19 PM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on November 01, 2017, 02:31:27 PM
Meat Train was Clive Barker? :lol

I honestly had no idea. No wonder that movie's trash. :lol :lol

smh. It’s not bad. A little over-directed. It fits in nicely with the other urban horror stories of his that have been adapted. The visuals for the creatures in the ending weren’t great to me. It was a nice treat.

Hellraiser = Candyman > Midnight Meat Train > Nightbreed

*tokes*

"So like there's this vegan photographer-"

"Uh, OK"

*tokes*

"And like, there's this subway train, that like... kills people"

"Umm..."

*tokes*

"But it's not the TRAIN, it's a guy IN the train. And he wears this suit and he has no tongue. Cause if he did he would talk about his killings-"

"Couldn't he just, like, write them down-"

*tokes*

"But he's killing people to feed these creatures we'll shittily knockoff from The Descent..."

"Why don't we make uhh, something original?"

*tokes*

"And if he doesn't feed them they'll like, escape and wreck the world or some shit. But we'll only ever show like two of them in the whole movie."

"Couldn't the Army easily take care of some backwards creatures from the stone age-"

*tokes*

"ANYWAYS, the photographer, like, he's vegan right? And the whole schtick is feeding human meat to these monsters-"

"Why human meat? Why not breed, like, cows?"

*tokes*

"So as the movie progresses, like, this vegan photographer starts craving meat more and more."

"That's not a bad idea, actually. Does that lead anywhere?"

*tokes*

"Fuck no."

"Oh. Wait, these sound like two almost completely separate movies."

*tokes*

"That's the genius of it! The photographer is dared by some art critic chick to get more 'dangerous' photos, putting him closer and closer to the murdering-butcher-plus-train-and-demons plot!"

"Uhh, I think I should go-"

*tokes*

*inadvertently hotboxes the movie exec*

*movie is made and bombs, making back just 23% of its production budget (not including marketing)*

*clive barker kills himself*

*the world rejoices*
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: TVC15 on November 02, 2017, 01:01:10 AM
Most of that isn’t from the original story, and Clive didn’t write the movie. I don’t think much (possibly any) of that is objectionable in a horror flick either.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Tasty on November 02, 2017, 01:03:57 AM
I'm talking purely about the movie.

And the movie is utter dogshit. I think Fear dot Com was less objectionable at times.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: TVC15 on November 02, 2017, 01:12:30 AM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on November 02, 2017, 01:03:57 AM
I think Fear dot Com was less objectionable at times.

Dude. This doesn’t even deserve a : six:
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Tasty on November 02, 2017, 01:50:12 AM
Fear dot Com had a far less stupid ending, which is saying a lot. It also had some weird/inventive direction. The direction on MMT is just bargain-basement early-2000s schlock, which might be forgivable if it was from the early 2000s. But nope. Reminds me a lot of Stay Alive, except Stay Alive at least came out two years earlier. And was also less stupid.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: TVC15 on November 02, 2017, 01:56:39 AM
Stay Alive? You’re trolling has gone too over the top. You need some thorazine and a nap, duder. Sleep it off.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Bebpo on November 02, 2017, 10:14:49 PM
I know earlier in the thread there was some talk on how Jason X isn't a real Jason film and feels like an Alien-wannabe, but what's the difference? I've seen all of the Jason movies (including X) and I thought X was ok so-bad-it's-ok, but it was basically invincible monsters Jason goes around kill people on a ship and can't be stopped until the end where they try to stop him. How is that different than the other Jason movies? I haven't seen any of the older ones since like the 90s and probably saw X a decade ago or more.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Bebpo on November 03, 2017, 02:09:15 PM
Oh, so taking it away from the lake is a big deal because it’s a big part of the mythos? Was the lake in all the other movies? I thought only a couple.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: ToxicAdam on November 03, 2017, 02:24:27 PM
They actually try to jam 'the lake' in there through a VR game. (Which somehow Jason could still kill you in?!)

All I need to show you is this one scene and it will spell out to you why this movie is a disaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9ZUF1odoLU


Tonally it's a mess. They tried to make it funny, gory and campy but completely missed.

Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Bebpo on November 03, 2017, 04:03:00 PM
Quote from: ToxicAdam on November 03, 2017, 02:24:27 PM
They actually try to jam 'the lake' in there through a VR game. (Which somehow Jason could still kill you in?!)

All I need to show you is this one scene and it will spell out to you why this movie is a disaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9ZUF1odoLU


Tonally it's a mess. They tried to make it funny, gory and campy but completely missed.

I'm gonna be the weirdo and say while that scene was very poorly directed & made, I can't hate on the space campy style.

The problem is that when you get past like 3 sequels in horror movies, there's not much new you can do so I appreciate stuff like Jason goes to Hell, Leprechaun in the Hood or even the terrible Freddy v Jason just because at least they're trying something different. Even if it fails it just becomes another bad sequel in the list of bad sequels and no one cares until 20 years later when there's a bore halloween thread that dissects Jason X.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 03, 2017, 04:06:24 PM
Quote
the terrible Freddy v Jason

 :crazy
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Tasty on November 03, 2017, 04:46:15 PM
FvJ :rejoice
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Purrp Skirrp on November 03, 2017, 05:32:02 PM
REC 2 sucked. Just a retread of the first while worse in every way. I'm not fucking with 3 or 4. REC still dope tho.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Bebpo on November 03, 2017, 06:11:15 PM
Rec 2 is the RE2 to Rec 1's REmake. Rec 3 is sorta RE3.

The series is pretty much the Spanish Resident Evil, especially at this point.
Nothing wrong with that either. I liked 1-3, haven't seen 4. Original is the best though, yeah.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Tasty on November 03, 2017, 09:46:15 PM
Nah. AvP is a stain because both Predator and Alien/Aliens were great movies, art even.

Nightmare and F13 were always pretty trashy overall, and FvJ is a fun sendup that still shows it actually does care (a little) about each series' legacy. I haven't seen a better "versus" movie except maybe Godzilla vs. King Kong.

James Rolfe says it better than I can:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDcwBYFKyt8
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Tasty on November 03, 2017, 09:46:58 PM
Stro and I really see the F13 series completely differently, lol. Maybe it's an effect of growing up and seeing it when I was younger (and not all at once) versus critically marathoning the entire thing as an adult.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: TVC15 on November 05, 2017, 01:54:17 AM
I know I made a crack about horror movies having shitty endings, but man, A Dark Song’s ending really soiled what was a pretty good flick up until that point.

Also, FvJ... I liked it when I first saw it, but upon repeat viewings, it really takes a while to get going. There’s fun to be had, but it should start faster.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: chronovore on November 05, 2017, 07:24:42 AM
Quote from: Exodust on October 31, 2017, 09:23:37 PM
Nah, his was called In a Valley of Violence. Still need to see Bone Tomahawk now that you mention it.
Seriously good movie. Not genius film stuff, just good suspense and action, with some witticisms and manly tears for good measure.
Title: Re: October 2017 Scary Movie Watching Thread | Say hi to mommy...in hell!
Post by: Quaker on November 05, 2017, 12:44:59 PM
...because I'm lazy AF...

21. Cube (Netflix)

Starts off kinda cringeworthy but once I got acclimated to the $2 1990s production the novelty of the concept kept me interested and I left pretty impressed with what they were able to do. It helps that it's less than 90 minutes.

22. Night of the Living Dead (Amazon)

Hadn't really seen the whole thing through from beginning to end before but I thought it really held up and the 1960s production and execution really helped keep it feeling pretty timeless and not schlocky at all.

23. What We Do in the Shadows (Amazon)

Hmm, it's really well done but even on rewatch and as a Flight of the Conchords fan I wasn't really able to go all in on this. More thinking "that's clever" or "that's funny" than actually laughing.

24. Sleepy Hollow (Netflix)

Quite liked this, largely because of the cinematography(Emmanuel Lubezki!) and production design, not so much because of the narrative or Johnny Depp.

25. The Blair Witch Project (HBO)

First time watching this. Very effective considering they basically made it out of nothing. Wish I could have been there to get caught up in the hype and meta of the movie when it was contemporary aside from the dumb runny nose spoofs.

26. Blair Witch (Amazon)

Hmm, didn't like this as much on rewatch but it wasn't bad. Some good body horror and jump scares. Biggest gripe is they don't really pay off the drone.

27. The Girl with All the Gifts (Amazon)

Really well done, little British zombie movie that operates somewhere between 28 Days Later or actually The Last of Us and something more Young Adult -y, but not toothless. Really liked the supporting cast too(Paddy Considine!).

28. Videodrome

:bow Cronenberg :bow2

29. The Cabin in the Woods

Whedon's stuff always comes across as a little too precious/cute for it's own good, but this one's pretty fun once it gets going.

30. The Fog

Hadn't seen this one before, I think I've actually seen more distinction given to the theme song than the movie online in passing so I wasn't really expecting too much. The atmosphere and build up are sooooo good that it's a bummer that the pay off isn't really there. Still liked it quite a bit though.

31. The Exorcist

It's been a while since I'd seen it(usually I pick The Shining to rewatch instead) but I've seen The French Connection and The Conversation recently so I thought it'd be cool to revisit it to see if it personally held up. Yep, not only does it have fantastic characterization and atmosphere but it backs it up with strong traditional horror elements. I mean, JFC at the bloody crucifix scenes.