Continually-updated list of the movies I've watched this month and their ratings.
- 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)
5 / 5
- A Dark Song
- The Blair Witch Project (rewatch)
- The Autopsy of Jane Doe
- Rosemary's Baby
- Trick 'r Treat (rewatch)
4 / 5
- Triangle (2009)
- American Psycho
- The Hallow
- The Vanishing (1988)
- Martyrs (2008)
- They Live
- Gerald's Game
- It Comes at Night
3 / 5
- The Taking of Deborah Logan
- Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
- Hush (2016)
- Hidden (2015)
- Phantasm
- Sleepaway Camp
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch
2 / 5
- Lake Mungo
- Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
- A Cure for Wellness
- An American Werewolf in London
- Pandorum
- Fracture
- Visions (2015)
- Sleepy Hollow
- Cub
1 / 5
- Playback
- The Midnight Meat Train
Watch The Wailing Mr. Tasty.
Have you watched I saw the devil? Not straight horror, but a fun horror/action/revenge meldingWatch The Wailing Mr. Tasty.
I did in March! Great movie. I think I gave it 4/5.
Have you watched I saw the devil? Not straight horror, but a fun horror/action/revenge meldingWatch The Wailing Mr. Tasty.
I did in March! Great movie. I think I gave it 4/5.
Pulse as in the 2008 Pulse starring Kristen Bell?
+1. Japanese Pulse is one of those few horror movies that has almost no jump scares and manages to terrify entirely through atmosphere and suspense.Pulse as in the 2008 Pulse starring Kristen Bell?
Nah, the Japanese movie from Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It's a great movie, I've seen it before although it's been quite a while.
Try and go in blind, dont watch the trailer it gives away too muchHave you watched I saw the devil? Not straight horror, but a fun horror/action/revenge meldingWatch The Wailing Mr. Tasty.
I did in March! Great movie. I think I gave it 4/5.
Will check it out. 8)
I keep telling people to check As Above, So Below out. Its not a masterpiece by any stretch, but like Ghost Ship, its a really fun watch.
Hell House LLC 2 was pretty bad. I wasn't much a fan of the first, but all of the things I appreciated were ripped out for the sequel.
Will likely watch Fright Fest tonight. Then Trench 11, Fragile, Don't Leave Home, The Last Winter, Ghost Story, Party Night, The Nigh Sitter and maybe finish Slice.
Also, if you guys liked As Above, So Below, add Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum to your list.
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I mean, you can read through this thread?
What are the best horror movies of the 70s?
I mean aside from the ones everyone knows (Halloween, The Omen, The Exorcist, Jaws, Alien, Texas Chainsaw, Dawn of the Dead, etc.)
I keep telling people to check As Above, So Below out. Its not a masterpiece by any stretch, but like Ghost Ship, its a really fun watch.
Hell House LLC 2 was pretty bad. I wasn't much a fan of the first, but all of the things I appreciated were ripped out for the sequel.
Will likely watch Fright Fest tonight. Then Trench 11, Fragile, Don't Leave Home, The Last Winter, Ghost Story, Party Night, The Nigh Sitter and maybe finish Slice.
Also, if you guys liked As Above, So Below, add Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum to your list.
What are the best horror movies of the 70s?you ask just in time for the remake :noah
I mean aside from the ones everyone knows (Halloween, The Omen, The Exorcist, Jaws, Alien, Texas Chainsaw, Dawn of the Dead, etc.)
If I can only watch one movie this year, what should it be?
Last year I watched Get Out, year before It Follows (I think)..
I really cant do ghost movies
Watched this rare piece of work. The most disturbing thing I got from this was that peaches and beans is actually a thing :yuckIf I can only watch one movie this year, what should it be?
Last year I watched Get Out, year before It Follows (I think)..
I really cant do ghost movies
(http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/v22vodart/11861547/p11861547_v_v8_aa.jpg)
LOL me too. Such a PO's movie, the US one I mean. But K. Bell ;)
wouldnt say i hated it, but i'd rather have been crossing something else off the listWatched Hold the Dark, oh boy this movie. Someone with a fursona for sure wrote it.
Hated it. Wanted so much to love it.
I watched all 4 Scream movies last night for like the 80th time. Quality varies greatly, but I think they’re all worth a watch.
The TV show is better than all the sequels tbh. Scream 1 still feels fresher than horror movies being made today. What a gem.
5. Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988): Man, the turn from weirdo S&M gothic bondage horror into full blown Roger Corman schlock is so sudden and hilarious. The second half of this movie is such garbage it's almost hard to hate on it. I knew this was going to be trash when it opened with an X-Men TAS style "previously on..." recap of the first movie, something they do again around the middle of the movie clearly to pad it out after I assume a lot of MPAA cuts. Either that or it just had a terrible editor. That seems pretty reasonable to me considering how much other terrible shit the movie had (optical effects, acting, story, logic). Who wanted to see Pinhead as a nerdy looking balding pasty Englishman? Who wanted to see that nerdy looking baldy pasty Englishman in the Pinhead costume but without the make up? Why/how the fuck was Kirsty wearing Julia's skin at the end? So like....the devil is a big pointy puzzle box and Hell is MC Escher pencil drawings? :lol :lol :lol
The next movie goes straight into cheesy slasher flick with blatant ANOES rip offs, the movie after that tackles both the French Revolution AND space, then the series falls into DTV hell where none of the movies are even written as Hellraiser movies and the Cenobites just get tacked on in the last few minutes. What a trash series.
5. Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988): Man, the turn from weirdo S&M gothic bondage horror into full blown Roger Corman schlock is so sudden and hilarious. The second half of this movie is such garbage it's almost hard to hate on it. I knew this was going to be trash when it opened with an X-Men TAS style "previously on..." recap of the first movie, something they do again around the middle of the movie clearly to pad it out after I assume a lot of MPAA cuts. Either that or it just had a terrible editor. That seems pretty reasonable to me considering how much other terrible shit the movie had (optical effects, acting, story, logic). Who wanted to see Pinhead as a nerdy looking balding pasty Englishman? Who wanted to see that nerdy looking baldy pasty Englishman in the Pinhead costume but without the make up? Why/how the fuck was Kirsty wearing Julia's skin at the end? So like....the devil is a big pointy puzzle box and Hell is MC Escher pencil drawings? :lol :lol :lol
The next movie goes straight into cheesy slasher flick with blatant ANOES rip offs, the movie after that tackles both the French Revolution AND space, then the series falls into DTV hell where none of the movies are even written as Hellraiser movies and the Cenobites just get tacked on in the last few minutes. What a trash series.
The basic story of H2 is that they were originally working off like 2 pages of notes and ideas from Clive, ran out of money, and winged it and didn’t follow the script much because they had to finish on the cheap.
I still find the movie intriguing and recommend it to people that liked the first one. I think there’s enough good in it, and its attempts to expand the mythology of the first movie are interesting, if fumbled.
Hellraiser sucks!
I was going to watch a movie called Halloween Night last night, because the description was a dead ringer for a straight up Halloween bootleg. Turns out it's an Asylum production and it's a bootleg of Rob Zombie's Halloween. :yuck I made it about 5 minutes in and gave up. I'll watch H20 tonight though. I have a very soft spot for it's extreme datedness to 1998.
When I was browsing Amazon Prime last night, I found a movie that I had been trying to think of for a long time. I hadn't seen it in eons and I could only remember that there was a killer clown, but when I looked up killer clown movies, it never came up. Anyway, it was called Out of the Dark, and I had forgotten the one key plot element that would have let me find it easier, and that was that the killer was killing phone sex operators. It had Divine in a small role (as a man) in her final screen appearance, and it features the line "Look at that guy, he probably gets more ass than a toilet seat!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvoUdPv5e5I
I probably saw it edited for TV on USA Up All Night or some equivalent outfit because we didn't have premium cable. Now it's available on Amazon Prime in all it's sleazy glory. What a time to be alive.
The Woman in Black-a fun little haunted house movie
Happy Death Day-not really a horror movie like I was expecting. A mix of Groundhog Day/Mean Girls that isn't as good as either of those
I had the privilege of seeing The Woman In Black 2: Black in the Habit for free at a movie theater and it was without question the single dullest movie I've ever seen in theaters.
I watched April Fool’s Day last night while nodding off. An old favorite. It’s all nonsense that falls apart at the teensiest bit of scrutiny, but it’s a lot of fun and delightfully 80s. I know it’s a cult flick, but if you somehow haven’t seen it, check it out.
Godzilla 2000 most certainly did not rule
8. John Carpenter's Village of the Damned (1995)Saw this at the cinema and my dad rented it on VHS a year or so later. Hated this movie but pretended to love it for whatever reason
Stephen King's finest hour.
Stephen King's finest hour.
The trailer is his finest hour. The movie is honestly terrible, and I have low standards for horror.
9. John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001)
While this isn't a good movie, I don't think it's bad enough to be a "give up on your whole career" movie, either. In fact, I'd say if it was released a handful of years later, it'd probably live on as a SYFY cult classic kind of deal. It's definitely weird, and it definitely suffers from the same tone that every sci-fi/space movie had in that time period. It's a fairly bizarre mishmash of Assault on Precinct 13, Escape from New York, The Road Warrior, The Fog, campy 50's scifi, cop drama, Verhoveen-esque satire, trashy 70s exploitation movies, and Lovecraftian bullshit. It's fair to say it doesn't really work most of the time, and I'd say it'd work a lot better watching it on TV on some lazy weekend as opposed to paying to see it in a theater setting. It would actually benefit from ad breaks where you kind of forget the trash you're watching by the it comes back. It already feels like it's been edited for commercial fade outs to begin with.
Idk I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't like SYFY original tier movies, and it does bum me out to see how Carpenter went from Halloween/The Thing eventually to this, but it does have some neat music, some neat shots, an interesting cast, and is watchable. Ish.
5 It Was A Good Days out of 5
13. American Psycho 2: All American Girl (2002):
There's no way this wasn't an unproduced script written in 1998-2000 that was just hanging around when Lion's Gate decided maybe American Psycho was successful enough to do a cash in sequel. I mean I know it was written as a completely unrelated film and the Bateman connection was (very) hastily written in last second, but I'm saying this feels like it would have been written at the same time as Idle Hands or I Still Know what You Did Last Summer. Actually, it has a very Dexter like vibe to it as well.
Tbh, it's not that bad. It's a terrible follow up to such a great movie like American Psycho, and seeing as it wasn't written as a sequel, it has none of the commentary and satire that sets American Psycho apart. If you can overlook that and treat it as it's own thing, it is enjoyable in that late 90s teenage/college pretty people doing everything with an ironic smirk subgenre kind of way. Plus William Shatner.
The story is that Mila Kunis's babysitter took her on a date with one Patrick Bateman. Bateman killed the babysitter, and young Mila killed Bateman, then decided she wanted to be an FBI profiler, and sets up the next 10 years of her life to get to Quantico. This includes killing anyone who might get in her way. The funniest part is they don't even try to get a guy who looks like Christian Bale. In the flashback to the crime, it's a guy with brown hair in a smock and the eyebag mask and you really only see him from behind, but later they show a picture of Bateman and it doesn't even look like a knock off :lol :lol :lol
It's so unnecessary, but it's actually better than some sequels to the big horror series. :yeshrug
5 Reservations at Dorsia
S. Darko isn't available to me for free and I will not go out of my way to find it so I'll have to pass, sadly. I'm open to other barely connected after the fact sequels though.
American Psycho 2 is abysmal. I”d be surprised if S. Darko is worse!
As you watch, the first thing you think is that the worst part of it is going to be Mila Kunis’s voiceover work. It’s really really bad and ubiquitous. But then you get to see her do actual acting, and it’s even worse! She is truly an untalented person! So then you think you’ve seen the worst thing the movie could offer, but then the movie’s terrible twists start kicking in. Some of them are puzzling in their pointlessness. It’s like a producer said “Didn’t American Psycho have a twist or something?” and then decided to force a couple of especially dumb ones into this.
It also has the production quality of like a c-tier episode of The OC (although it still looks more professional than Tales from the Hood 2). There are -no- good kills. Most of them don’t even really happen on scene. No blood, no gore, no nudity (iirc). There’s no tittilation here, even of the juvenile kind. It is a bad movie...
...except when Shatner is on screen. Then it’s pretty much gold. So basically there are like ~10 worthwhile minutes here. Shatner da Gawd.
If you watched through your cable company, it's the SYFY/TV cut so I assume there's probably a little more gore in the real version but maybe not. I figured you'd enjoy it. Perhaps it wasn't quite trashy enough for you?
I like Noonan as the best Dolarhyde.(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/6/6e/Dolarhyde_Manhunter.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150830081229)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/Cthulhuposter07.jpg/220px-Cthulhuposter07.jpg)Holy crap. This movie was god awful. It left me feeling as angry as Assi on a normal day. It's a movie called "Cthulu" but no Cthulu shows up in it. No eldritch horror, poor story telling, plot holes so massive you could fit entire other movies in. Nothing scary about this movie. At all. It's a disgrace to its name sake.
Watching this right now. It's been about 20-30 minutes and nothing has happened.
Pretty bad start for a "horror" movie.
https://youtu.be/uRKKfaWGZ2c
:gladbron
Actually, in thinking about this, I am being unfair. There was Tori Spelling in a bra in this. So I guess there actually was something scary in it.(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/Cthulhuposter07.jpg/220px-Cthulhuposter07.jpg)Holy crap. This movie was god awful. It left me feeling as angry as Assi on a normal day. It's a movie called "Cthulu" but no Cthulu shows up in it. No eldritch horror, poor story telling, plot holes so massive you could fit entire other movies in. Nothing scary about this movie. At all. It's a disgrace to its name sake.
Watching this right now. It's been about 20-30 minutes and nothing has happened.
Pretty bad start for a "horror" movie.
5. Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988): Man, the turn from weirdo S&M gothic bondage horror into full blown Roger Corman schlock is so sudden and hilarious. The second half of this movie is such garbage it's almost hard to hate on it. I knew this was going to be trash when it opened with an X-Men TAS style "previously on..." recap of the first movie, something they do again around the middle of the movie clearly to pad it out after I assume a lot of MPAA cuts. Either that or it just had a terrible editor. That seems pretty reasonable to me considering how much other terrible shit the movie had (optical effects, acting, story, logic). Who wanted to see Pinhead as a nerdy looking balding pasty Englishman? Who wanted to see that nerdy looking baldy pasty Englishman in the Pinhead costume but without the make up? Why/how the fuck was Kirsty wearing Julia's skin at the end? So like....the devil is a big pointy puzzle box and Hell is MC Escher pencil drawings? :lol :lol :lol
The next movie goes straight into cheesy slasher flick with blatant ANOES rip offs, the movie after that tackles both the French Revolution AND space, then the series falls into DTV hell where none of the movies are even written as Hellraiser movies and the Cenobites just get tacked on in the last few minutes. What a trash series.
The basic story of H2 is that they were originally working off like 2 pages of notes and ideas from Clive, ran out of money, and winged it and didn’t follow the script much because they had to finish on the cheap.
I still find the movie intriguing and recommend it to people that liked the first one. I think there’s enough good in it, and its attempts to expand the mythology of the first movie are interesting, if fumbled.
Could you explain what you think the mythology of Hellraiser is
9. John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001)
While this isn't a good movie, I don't think it's bad enough to be a "give up on your whole career" movie, either. In fact, I'd say if it was released a handful of years later, it'd probably live on as a SYFY cult classic kind of deal. It's definitely weird, and it definitely suffers from the same tone that every sci-fi/space movie had in that time period. It's a fairly bizarre mishmash of Assault on Precinct 13, Escape from New York, The Road Warrior, The Fog, campy 50's scifi, cop drama, Verhoveen-esque satire, trashy 70s exploitation movies, and Lovecraftian bullshit. It's fair to say it doesn't really work most of the time, and I'd say it'd work a lot better watching it on TV on some lazy weekend as opposed to paying to see it in a theater setting. It would actually benefit from ad breaks where you kind of forget the trash you're watching by the it comes back. It already feels like it's been edited for commercial fade outs to begin with.
Idk I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't like SYFY original tier movies, and it does bum me out to see how Carpenter went from Halloween/The Thing eventually to this, but it does have some neat music, some neat shots, an interesting cast, and is watchable. Ish.
5 It Was A Good Days out of 5
Also Tina is not a minor character from 4. She's not in it at all, nor is she even mentioned, despite being Rachel's best friend. Akkad also admitted he regretted killing off Rachel and she should have been the lead in 5.
Maybe critical and financial success of this will gives us one more movie with Robert Englund as Freddy :lucas
I fucking wish. It would be criminal for all these revivals to happen without the best slasher performer coming back for one last go.
Maybe critical and financial success of this will gives us one more movie with Robert Englund as Freddy :lucas
I fucking wish. It would be criminal for all these revivals to happen without the best slasher performer coming back for one last go.
Sorry, you'll just have to make do with this :teehee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBJmber-LJk
I haven't seen it since I was a kid but that neighbor who Jay Bausman would play in a remake always creeped me out
I think you could really use "thank god Bruce Campbell is in this" for about 95% of the movies and TV shows he's been in. He elevates some quite terrible pieces that would otherwise have nothing at all to offer if he wasn't in them.
Oh, and my 31st movie was going to be The Giant Gila Monster, one of my favorite bad monster movies, but I fell asleep watching it. rip