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Re: Boorette's October 2018 Scary Movie Watching Thread
« Reply #120 on: October 15, 2018, 01:47:28 AM »
Lifeforce is a trainwreck of too many films jammed into a single feature but it's fun.

Prince of Darkness is great. It doesn't have the means to explore all the abstract ideas it evokes (though all the mirror / liquid on ceiling stuff is neat and the dreams works well) but this elevates the scenario nonetheless above being just an horror hook. Besides it has some good structure and the siege plot keeps it very engaging and tense all the way. It's haunting and eerie despite the ridiculously low budget.
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« Reply #122 on: October 15, 2018, 04:55:41 AM »
Just watched the Joe Bob Last Drive-In version of Sleepaway Camp. I so love this movie and I love it more every time I watch it. I’ve probably seen it over a hundred times.
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« Reply #123 on: October 15, 2018, 10:34:01 AM »
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Watching this right now. It's been about 20-30 minutes and nothing has happened.
Pretty bad start for a "horror" movie.
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.
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« Reply #124 on: October 15, 2018, 07:48:05 PM »

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« Reply #125 on: October 16, 2018, 09:36:53 PM »
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Watching this right now. It's been about 20-30 minutes and nothing has happened.
Pretty bad start for a "horror" movie.
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.
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.
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« Reply #126 on: October 17, 2018, 12:31:51 AM »
#10, 11, 12

Halloween (1978, dir. John Carpenter)
Halloween II (1981, dir. Rick Rosenthal)
Halloween H20 (1998, dir. Steve Miner)



Watching the Halloween series to get ready for H40 this weekend. Decided to watch the H20 Trilogy first, then I'll take a break with Season of the Witch before the Curse of the Thorn Trilogy.

Some assorted Halloween II thoughts:
- Donald Pleasence was at his peak Pleasence in that opening part where he's like "Six times, I shot him six times! Six times! He's not human!"

- The part where the cop plows over obviously-not-Michael, hits a van, then his car explodes is hilarious. "I didn't see him, he just came out of nowhere!" Did the van come out of nowhere too, numbnuts? :lol The person in the mask looked like they were about 12, and they're like oh I dunno, I think that was him, I think we got him!   :lol Poor Ben Tramer.

- There's a scene where a person is carrying a boombox over their shoulder and blasting the news.  :lol

- "Amazing Grace, come sit on my face."

- Michael was played by Dick Warlock, which unfortunately is not TVC's legal name. His son Billy, who had a minor role in this movie, starred in Brian Yuzna's Society a few years later.

- Halloween 2 ends with Mr. Sandman playing over the end credits, and H20 opens with Mr. Sandman playing over the opening credits.

One assorted Halloween H20 thoughts:
- This movie has a Creed song playing over the end credits? :lol Good Lord. Just nuke the 90's.

4, 2.5, and 2 "I Guess I'm Entitled to One Good Scare" out of 5
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« Reply #127 on: October 17, 2018, 12:44:35 AM »
Society is better than any of the Halloween movies...

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« Reply #128 on: October 17, 2018, 09:34:24 AM »
That car crash scene in 2 is so needless, random, and over the top it's fucking awesome. :lol

Was the script writer just bored one day or something? :lol

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« Reply #129 on: October 17, 2018, 11:57:24 AM »
Apparently the new Halloween is pretty bland with a ton of bad jokes. :(

Hearing impressions H20 is better, which fair enough, that movie's awesome.

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« Reply #130 on: October 17, 2018, 12:53:45 PM »
Yeah I'm listening to the soundtrack on YouTube and at the very least that part of things will be fucking awesome. :aah



Track titles are (very) minor spoilers but one of my faves so far:

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« Reply #131 on: October 17, 2018, 03:54:04 PM »
I respected Scream 4 a lot back in the day. In the context of what was coming out at the time, and what was going to keep coming out horror-wise shortly after, Scream 4 was a breath of fresh air. Yeah, it was a 90s retread, but at least it wasn't ripping off Saw or Paranormal Activity. I saw it as Papa Craven coming back and swinging his dick in front of his failed horror progeny. "This is how you really do it."

Does the movie itself hold up? I can't even say, I barely remember it. But I do remember thinking "Oh thank god, a fucking horror *sequel* instead of a reboot, where 4-5+ previous actors show up, and it's not found footage and torture porn? And it just has a goddamn NUMBER at the end instead fucking it up with some stupid subtitle like 'Scream: Revengerection'? Fuck yeah."

Unrelated to Scream 4 as Craven was running the ship, but as nerdy as it is I always respect it when new creatives on a long-running franchise at least try to respect canon. It shows a level of caring that I appreciate.
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« Reply #132 on: October 17, 2018, 06:36:13 PM »
It’s the worst Scream movie, but I think it’s still worth a watch when I go through them. It at least feels like a continuation of the original series thematically. It’s nice to see the old cast, but there’s not a single good character in the new cast. Scream 2 and 3 are both flicks of questionable quality that are absolutely saved by their casting. Scream 4’s central cast blows.
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« Reply #133 on: October 18, 2018, 01:30:30 AM »
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« Reply #134 on: October 18, 2018, 07:20:09 PM »
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982, dir. Tommy Lee Wallace)



Has there ever been a better plot in horror movie history than evil Irish wizards using pieces of Stonehenge to make microchips that will shoot lasers out of Halloween masks to melt kids' faces into a puddle of spiders and snakes? I can sympathize with him, tbh. Just look at the little bastards, they have it coming. He just wanted to play a practical joke. On the kids. By melting their face into a pile of spiders with a magical Stonehenge lasers. Just let him have this one thing.

I had forgotten this movie does have a very minor connection to Halloween II, besides just the Halloween commercial playing on a TV. In the second movie, Michael writes "Samhaim" in blood in the school, and Loomis explains Samhaim and the druids using human sacrifices to see the future. Then in this movie, Cochran mentions Samhaim and the druids, and the masks were meant to be part of a mass human sacrifice. Just something I hadn't really noticed before when I'd watched it. It's a fun little standalone movie and I think it would have been neat to see a spin-off series of Halloween movies that focused on different Halloween legends and myths and whatnot (kind of like what Michael Dougherty did decades later with Trick 'r' Treat). 3 Happy Happy Halloween Silver Shamrocks out of 5.
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« Reply #135 on: October 18, 2018, 11:42:06 PM »
Made a few pickups at the local video store for this weekend:

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« Reply #136 on: October 18, 2018, 11:45:08 PM »
<3 DEEP RED <3
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« Reply #137 on: October 19, 2018, 06:10:02 PM »
So in your opinion Halloween > III/H20 > 2018 > everything else? I can live with that.

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« Reply #138 on: October 19, 2018, 09:12:32 PM »
I found Halloween to be enjoyable. Nothing amazing or ground-breaking, just a solid horror romp with a dash of comedy [that mostly worked alright].

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« Reply #139 on: October 21, 2018, 11:19:11 AM »
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

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« Reply #140 on: October 21, 2018, 11:37:39 AM »
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

Man, once I realized it was a barely reconceived western in space, I didn't have ANY time for that movie. Hated the ending, too. Glad you found it more enjoyable.

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« Reply #141 on: October 21, 2018, 02:46:00 PM »
#14, 15, 16

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988, dir. Dwight H Little)
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989, dir. Dominique Othenin-Girard)
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995, dir. Joe Chappelle)



Halloween 4 takes no risks and is pretty much a straight up retelling of the first Halloween movie. Which is why it's weird that this movie basically ran the franchise into a dumpster. Sure, the movie itself is a by the numbers Babysitter vs. Michael Myers entry in the series, but it doubles down on the all the garbage that would lead to the darkest Halloween timeline. To be fair, Halloween II is where they started the business about Laurie being Michael sister, but that movie was decent enough on it's own merits that you can forgive that. Halloween 4 had the chance to wipe the slate clean and start over with some new people, but instead they made Jamie into Laurie's daughter and turned Michael's fratricide into a blood curse. This movie also had Michael at his most omnipresent. Despite never moving faster than a slow plod, he was always wherever our main characters where going before they got there, including ridiculously hanging onto the bottom of the truck they were escaping in, despite the truck being parked for about 10 seconds before the main characters ran out of the school where Michael was chasing them.

Still, Halloween 4 is still a enough movie and a good return for Michael all things considered, but 5 is where it really all goes to shit. They clearly had no clue what to the do with the ending of Halloween 4, and basically threw that right out. They killed off a decent character from the last movie in the first act (Rachel) and turned H5 over to a minor returning character (Tina) who is kind of annoying. And for what reason? Tina's only connection to Jamie is that she was friends with her foster sister,  but now she basically has to become her surrogate big sister for the movie plot to work. The bumbling cops with their own goofy theme music. Jamie's psychic connection to Michael. Dr. Loomis going full nutter and screaming at a little kid, then convincing the police they had to take her to the old Myers' house to use as bait. A mysterious man in black and the thorn tattoo that the movie never bothers to explain. Halloween 5 is dumb as hell, and it only gets worse from there.

It was 6 years later before The Curse of Michael Myers belatedly showed up and continued to crap on the franchise. The Curse of the Thorn and the man in black were finally, but it was all as dumb as you'd expect from this garbage fire movie. The only redeeming value is a young Paul Rudd being a total creeper. The "Producer's Cut" doesn't really make it much better, this was just destined to be bad, studio meddling or not. There aren't enough good parts here to make a movie out of. Just terrible.

2, 1.5, and 1 Michael Myers' incestuous rape babies out of 5


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Halloween: Resurrection  (2002, dir. Rick Rosenthal)



This is the one where Micahel Myers goes on Celebrity Big Brother and gets kung fu kicked in the face by Busta Rhymes. So sad that they followed up the effective H20 with the laziest, ugliest, most unnecessary, most unwatchable sequel yet. And that's saying a lot for this franchise. And it was directed by returning director Rick Rosenthal that helmed the first and arguably best sequel, Halloween II. What happened? 0 ICQ friends out of 5

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Halloween (2018, dir. David Gordon Green)



Oooo baby, that original orange Halloween font, complete with the pumpkin opening. The rotten jack o'lantern reinflates and becomes fresh again. Is this intended to be a reference to the franchise itself? In any case, they more or less pulled it off. It's not a perfect movie, it's got a lot of eye-rolling scenes and generally silliness, but overall it's pretty dece. They could have been more ambitious and tried to tie together some of the random bits of Halloween continuity together, but instead they ignored everything (including the last movie that ignored everything) and made a fairly lean and effective thriller. You do have to turn off your brain a little bit and accept that Michael is seen as this infamous killing machine when almost all the previous continuity and kills have been jettisoned (something referenced and then handwaved away by characters in the movie) but I'll accept that. There are a lot of cute callbacks and references to previous Halloweens (even the Silver Shamrock masks are in the movie somewhere, although I missed them) but it doesn't feel too fanservicey. 3 Michael Breathing Over the End Credits out of 5.
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« Reply #142 on: October 21, 2018, 10:22:56 PM »
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.

Ah, you're right. I had to go back and check, but I was getting her confused with Lindsey from H4. I had thought they were the same person, which actually made it make more sense in my head than it does in reality. :lol
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« Reply #143 on: October 21, 2018, 10:33:17 PM »
#19

Night of the Creeps (1986, dir. Fred Dekker)



A campy homage to all things horror, from B&W 50's creature features, to zombies, to modern (at the time) 80's slashers. Tom Atkins (Halloween III) kills it in this movie. This is a fun one. 3 Brain Slugs out of 5
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« Reply #144 on: October 22, 2018, 06:09:59 PM »
From catching up on this thread I'm getting that I should watch Halloween II, III and H20. I'd only seen the original Halloween before seeing 2018. Just like with Friday the 13th I've only seen the original and Jason X. I kinda figure most of the middle ones are fillerish?

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« Reply #145 on: October 22, 2018, 08:59:23 PM »
apostle: wtf and not in a good way or a bad way but rather an ooooooookay why kinda way
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« Reply #146 on: October 22, 2018, 09:02:53 PM »
pretty solid trepanation scene tho 10/10 would drill again
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« Reply #147 on: October 22, 2018, 09:38:32 PM »
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
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« Reply #148 on: October 22, 2018, 09:57:47 PM »
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


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« Reply #149 on: October 23, 2018, 11:11:55 AM »
#20

Deep Red (1975 dir. Dario Argento)



"That was good. It was really good. Maybe too good. Too clean, too neat, too precise. It needs to be more trashy."

Thanks to TVC(pbuh) for recommending this, it was a great movie. It's the cinematic trashy brothel jazz that I needed in my life. I'm not a huge fan of giallo, but this is no question the best one I've seen. I want to do a rewatch of Suspria and Phenomena before the month is over, but I think this tops them. It's visually stunning and that Goblin soundtrack is banging. The plot doesn't always make sense but that's pretty common for giallos, and Deep Red had such a soothing, dreamlike quality that I was quickly sucked in. Even at 2+ hours, it didn't feel long to me. 4.5 Liberated Women out of 5.
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« Reply #150 on: October 24, 2018, 03:40:39 PM »
#21

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988, dir. Stephen Chiodo)



In the same vein as Night of the Creeps, I also decided to watch Killer Klowns from Outer Space, which I think is a little bit better. The creativity of the Chiodo Brothers with what was a minuscule budget is incredible, the effects and the costumes are a great. The movie is a blast to watch, and John Vernon is legend. 3.5 Whoop dee goddamn dee doos out of 5.
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« Reply #151 on: October 24, 2018, 03:44:47 PM »
I gave 5 stars to Rosemary's Baby and Godzilla.
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« Reply #152 on: October 24, 2018, 04:04:22 PM »
I rewatched most of my slam dunk 5/5's for Halloween last year (The Thing, Evil Dead 2, The Omen, Videodrome, Alien) and I don't feel like rewatching them yet. :trumps
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« Reply #153 on: October 25, 2018, 10:33:26 AM »
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The 'burbs (1989, dir Joe Dante)



"Ricky Butler says they're nocturnal feeders."

This is for you Stro, one of my all-time most favoritest horror/horror-adjacent movies ever. I've seen it at least a dozen times since the age of 8. I loved it when I was a kid, I still love it now. Joe Dante's best movie. Tom Hanks best movie. Carrie Fisher's best movie. Corey Feldman's best movie. Jerry Goldsmith's best movie. Give everyone an Oscar. 6 Pizza Dudes out of 5.

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« Reply #154 on: October 25, 2018, 12:13:49 PM »
I watched most of the workprint version last night too (it's a bonus feature on the Blu-Ray, taken from a VHS master Joe Dante had in his collection). There's not much difference, just a few extended scenes, alternate shots, obvious placeholder music (more Ennio Morricone), some effects weren't added yet (the opening Universal logo zoom-in), and a few minor subplots that were dropped from the final cut. Ray is supposed to be on vacation, but in the workprint he actually got fired and he's just lying to his wife about taking a vacation. Also, Ray actually fixes the BBQ instead of just telling his wife he's going to fix the BBQ, omg!  :hyper

The biggest change was the ending, which has the same basic flow but it was super weak in the workprint. Dr. Klopek tries to kill Ray in the ambulance, but instead of Hans stealing the ambulance and crashing it into Art's house and Ray and Dr. Klopek rolling the down the road on the stretcher and then Ray going "Citizen's arrest! Citizen's arrest!", in the workprint Carol, Art, Bonnie, and Rumfield open the ambulance and see them tussling and then in the next scene Dr. Klopek is being put in handcuffs.  It doesn't have the scene of them finding the skulls in the truck of Dr. Klopek's car; it doesn't even have the scene where Rumfield tackles Hans and then grabs him by the throat and says "I was 18 months in the bush and I could snap your neck in a heartbeat." :yuck It just has Reuben saying something about how people in the suburbs are crazy and Hans says "It was never like this in LA!" :zzz  Both end with the Klopeks arrested and Ray and Art getting off the hook, but the theatrical ending was dynamic and funny, the workprint ending was boring af.
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« Reply #155 on: October 25, 2018, 01:56:24 PM »
The Burbs is a legitimately great movie.
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« Reply #156 on: October 25, 2018, 03:07:19 PM »
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

You're not the only person to think that because I found this in a GIS. :lol

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« Reply #157 on: October 26, 2018, 10:41:09 AM »
#23

The New York Ripper (1982, dir. Lucio Fulci)



"He could have done a slightly better job if he had more time. But overall, it was a good, efficient butchery. "

This is the sort of thing TVC would have loved, if he was still alive. Just a sleazy, nasty slasher with no real plot or purpose other than balls to wall sex and violence. And yes, this is the one where the killer quacks like Donald Duck for some reason. Just a great time for the whole family, really. I could only recommend this movie to hardcore gorehounds, there's really not a lot else on offer here. Several women get gutted, there's a nipple slash, and an eyeball slash. This isn't my type of movie. I can handle gore but this movie just made me feel grimy. It's not a fun movie to watch. 2 Live Nude Girls out of 5.
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« Reply #158 on: October 27, 2018, 10:54:38 PM »
I'm so fucking behind it's not even funny. I'll only be posting ratings and not reviews for my stuff when I do it. I also may take until the first week of Nov to finish all my movies. :(

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« Reply #159 on: October 28, 2018, 03:07:54 PM »
#24, 25, 26

Silver Bullet (1985, dir. Dan Attias)
Bad Moon (1996, dir. Eric Red)
Howling III: The Marsupials (1987, dir. Phillipe Mora)



You meddling little shit!

I have declared it to be Werewolf Weekend, and got things kicked off with the cheese-tastic Silver Bullet. You know it's gonna be corny when it opens with a voiceover that sounds like something straight out of the Waltons. Add a handicapable Corey Haim with a motorcycle-wheelchair and a drunk Gary Busey, and you've got a cheesefest that could only have come from the coked up mind of Steven King. It's been about 20 years since I've seen this movie, so I'd forgotten almost everything about it, but it still hits a nostalgia sweet spot despite not....really....being very good. Despite the fact that this is rated R, it seemed like they were going for a kid-friendly angle with this movie. There aren't very many sweet werewolf kills, most of them are quick or off-screen. 2.5 Holy Jumped-Up Baldheaded Jesus Palaminos out of 5.

Get the fuck off my son!

Bad Moon, more like Bad Movie! *rimshot* Seriously, this movie stinks. It had a solid opening with some coitus interuptus werewolfus but after that it goes straight down the toilet. After getting bitten by a werewolf during an Amazon expedition, Ben moves in with his sister and nephew, in hope that's being with his family will help curb his savage new tendencies (spoiler: it won't). Except for some more werewolf action at the end, the rest of them movie is some sub-Lifetime Channel Original tier crap about mom's dangerous new boyfriend moving in (except in this case it's her brother, make of that what you will). Warning sirens are going off, but she ignores them, will she figure it out in time to save her son? (spoiler: of course) Apparently the book it's based on is written mostly from the dog, Thor's point of view. The dog knows that something is wrong with Ben, but he can't convince the family. Ben decides to use this convince the mom that the dog is dangerous and get him sent away to the pound, culminating in a hilarious scene where Ben pees in the doghouse to assert his dominance over the dog. :lol Sadly, that's basically the high point of the movie. Even at a brief 80 minutes, this movie is a snoozefest. It's also got one of the worst werewolf transformation effects that I have ever seen (although the wolf suit itself was pretty decent). 1 Flopsy out of 5.

You know this movie's about pop culture? In the 60s, Andy Warhol showed us how Pop could be high art. That everything is high art. That's what this is all about. For example, in your first scene you'll be gang raped by four monsters.

OMG, Howling III was so off-the-rails I don't even know what to say. It starts with wolf-girl Jerboa escaping her Mad Max meets The Sister Wives village and running away to Sydney and accidentally getting cast in horror movie. She starts dating a production assistant on the movie and gives birth to a naked mole rat and places it inside her kangaroo pouch, that somehow the dude didn't notice when he was getting it on. There are scientists that are trying to save the werewolves, there are military guys that are trying to kill them, it's got the guy that played Pointius Pilate in Ben-Hur as a flamboyant Alfred Hitchcock, it's got werewolf bushmen, it's got werewolf sister-wives dressed as nuns, it's got a woman wolfing out while winning an Academy Award, it's got a longer denouement than Return of the King. After this movie was over, I had to check to make sure there wasn't a gas leak somewhere in the house, and we don't even have gas. This movie wasn't good. At all. But it was so stupid, that I actually kind of loved it. 3 Soviet Werewolves out of 5
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Re: Boorette's October 2018 Scary Movie Watching Thread
« Reply #160 on: October 29, 2018, 07:28:24 PM »
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Wolfen (1981, dir. Michael Wadleigh)



Not technically a werewolf movie, I think they might have been ghost wolves? Or wolf gods? It's hard to say. They were sort of worshiped or at least held in high regard by the Native Americans, but none of them would tell Albert Finney what the Wolfen were, just that "they might be gods." I guess this is an eco-horror movie, about the dangers of relying on too much on fancy new technology, and tearing down the old places to make way for progress. In the end all of our human progress meant nothing in the face of the ancient Wolfen. Really makes you think, or something. 3 300-lbs Haitans wearing a Voodoo Ring out of 5.
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« Reply #161 on: October 31, 2018, 11:20:03 AM »
#28, 29

Bubba Hotep (2002, dir. Don Coscarelli)
Nomads (1986, dir. John McTiernan)



"Come and get it, you undead sack of shit."

Bruce Campbell makes Bubba Hotep. No offense to Ossie Davis, he was great in it too, but try to imagine some rando instead of Bruce Campbell and it's shit. You put Bruce Campbell in talking about a growth on his pecker and how it's been two presidential elections since he's had a hard-on, and it's gold. This is one of those "I don't know how this even got made, I'm just glad it did" movies. 4 Dog Dick of Anubis' out of 5.

"We are so very far from home, you know. All of us. We have wandered so very far from home."

Nomads was a movie I didn't know very much about at all.  It's directed by John McTiernan just before he did Predator, and stars Pierce Brosnan as a French anthropologist who's spent years living among and studying nomadic cultures, but decides to settle down and take a teaching job at UCLA for the sake of his wife. The first night at his new house, he discovers a street gang loitering around near his house and graffiti on his garage. Inside his garage, he finds a memorial to a murder that was committed in his house before he bought it, and more graffiti saying that the killer was a hero. He downplays the vandalism to his wife, telling her it was just some kids and they don't need to call the police, and instead he starts spying on the gang. They remind him of the nomadic tribes that he lived with, and so he starts following them around town and photographing them. After 30 straight hours of following them, he realizes that they don't seem to sleep or have a home, just traveling from one side of the city to other in their van. He goes back to his house and develops the film he took of them, only to discover that it's all blank.

All this is actually told in a flashback. The movie starts out with Pierce Brosnan's character, Pommier dying in a hospital ER. He was extremely panicked and rambling in French before finally the life just seemed to go out of him. His whispered something to the ER doctor on the scene, Flax, and the next day she starts having visions of Pommier's last week of life, reliving and acting out everything he saw and did. While she's trying to piece together what happened to Pommier and what his last words meant, she sees a vision of Pommier being chased around the city by the hoods in the black van and hiding out in an abandoned church, where he meets a nun who tells him that the people chasing him are not people, they merely take on human form and that most people will never see them or if they do see them, will never think twice about it. But now that he's become aware of them and they've become aware of him, the only thing to do is leave the city and run as far away as possible. The gang is actually a group of demonic spirits that he first learned about when he was living with the Inuit people. They feed on human souls and they're drawn to places of death and misery, in this case, his house where a murder took place.

Pommier goes home and tries to get his wife and escape, but and this point his sainty was already slipping away and wasn't able to escape the nomads, eventually winding up in the hospital and ultimately dead. Flax, still following Pommier's memories, goes to Pommier's house and tries to fullfill his last wish by getting his wife away from the house. While Flax tries to explain to his wife what's happening and that they need to leave, the nomads show up and start attacking the house. Flax and Pommier's wife hide in the attic, but eventually one of the nomads smashes through the attic door and begins to menace them, as Flax breaks down sobbing. Ultimately, it was content to merely terrorize them for now, and eventually the nomads leave after trashing the entire house. The two women leave the house and start driving as far and as fast as they can.

Several hours later, Flax was asleep in the back seat of the car and awakens as a black motorcycle with a black clad rider pulls along beside them. Fearing that it's another one of the nomads, she tells the other lady to keep driving and don't stop no matter what happens. The biker drives in front of them, takes off his helmet, and looks back, revealing that it is Pommier, his soul taken by the nomads and now one of them. The car races ahead, crossing the California state line, and Pommier turns back and drives away, seemingly at the edge of his haunting range. All in all, pretty dece movie. 3 French Remmington Steeles out of 5. 
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Re: Boorette's October 2018 Scary Movie Watching Thread
« Reply #162 on: October 31, 2018, 03:07:18 PM »
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.

Allow me to recommend Icebreaker, starring Sean Astin, Stacy Keach, and a bald Bruce Campbell as the villian, and directed by the director Time Chasers from MST3K.
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Re: Boorette's October 2018 Scary Movie Watching Thread
« Reply #163 on: October 31, 2018, 06:40:42 PM »
No great loss, the guy from that last movie was doofy af.
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Re: Boorette's October 2018 Scary Movie Watching Thread
« Reply #164 on: November 01, 2018, 10:46:29 AM »
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Apostle (2018, dir. Gareth Evans)



I love a good "efffed up cult doing effed up stuff" movie. Apostle started out strong, I loved the setting, I loved Thomas exploring the island community and planning his moves. Everything in the first half of the movie, I was pretty on board with. Where Gareth fumbled the ball IMO was trying to humanize the cultists. They're an effed up cult, who cares? Just give us the juicy bits, my dude. Quit cutting back to these minor characters and their boring subplots. I don't need to see these intra-cult squabbles playing out. Oh, but the cultists aren't really bad guys, you see, they're just misguided. Oh, but the leader isn't a really a bad guy, he just accidentally happened to be running this cult that deals in murder, kidnapping, and blood sacrifices but he feels real bad about it and he wants to do the right thing.  :zzz This movie is over two hours long, they could have cut 30 minutes of this bullshit out and probably had a pretty badass movie. As it stands, it's not a bad movie, it just spins its wheels a bit in the second half instead of just getting to the good stuff. Give me more Ragman throwing people in the meat grinder, less young cultists in love having a secret tryst. 2.5 HER out of 5.

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
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Re: Boorette's October 2018 Scary Movie Watching Thread
« Reply #165 on: November 01, 2018, 01:50:02 PM »
Kara and I watched Zombie Nightmare, Werewolf, and Final Sacrifice on MST3k. 5 Zapp Rowsdowers out of 5.
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« Reply #166 on: November 01, 2018, 03:23:28 PM »
1. Blood Diner (1987, dir. Jackie Kong)
2. Castle Freak (1995, dir. Stuart Gordon)
3. Dead of Winter (1987, dir. Arthur Penn)
4. The Endless (2017, dir. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead)
5. Godzilla (1954, dir. Ishiro Honda)
6. Rosemary's Baby (1968, dir. Roman Polanski)
7. Pumpkinhead (1988, dir. Stan Winston)
8. Harbinger Down (2015, dir. Alec Gillis)
9. Lifeforce (1985, dir. Tobe Hooper)
10. Halloween (1978, dir. John Carpenter)
11. Halloween II (1981, dir. Rick Rosenthal)
12. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982, dir. Tommy Lee Wallace)
13. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988, dir. Dwight H Little)
14. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989, dir. Dominique Othenin-Girard)
15. Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995, dir. Joe Chappelle)
16. Halloween H20 (1998, dir. Steve Miner)
17. Halloween: Resurrection  (2002, dir. Rick Rosenthal)
18. Halloween (2018, dir. David Gordon Green)
19. Night of the Creeps (1986, dir. Fred Dekker)
20. Deep Red (1975 dir. Dario Argento)
21. Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988, dir. Stephen Chiodo)
22. The 'burbs (1989, dir Joe Dante)
23. The New York Ripper (1982, dir. Lucio Fulci)
24. Silver Bullet (1985, dir. Dan Attias)
25. Bad Moon (1996, dir. Eric Red)
26. Howling III: The Marsupials (1987, dir. Phillipe Mora)
27. Wolfen (1981, dir. Michael Wadleigh)
28. Bubba Hotep (2002, dir. Don Coscarelli)
29. Nomads (1986, dir. John McTiernan)
30. Apostle (2018, dir. Gareth Evans)
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« Reply #167 on: November 01, 2018, 03:40:27 PM »
See above:

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
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