Boorette's October 2018 Scary Movie Watching Thread

[Joe Molotov]

Don't be scared. Even though October is still a few days away, doesn't mean it's too earlier to get started. Share recommendations, write reviews, post Booette lewds, fill up your watchlists, and rank your favorite F13 movies.

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Your bonus assignment this year, should you choose to accept it, is to watch Apostle, the new Netflix original movie from the director of The Raid and The Raid 2. It involves cult activity and looks inspired by The Wicker Man, but that's really all I know. Early reviews have been decent. Airs October 12th.



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)

[Yeti]

I started my Halloween movie watching early too, because last year I got too busy to watch too many. Today I watched Hotel Transylvania 3 and It, as well as catching up on American Horror Story and The Purge tv show.

[Tasty]

A Dark Song was a huge nice surprise last year, hoping I find some more this year.

Unfortunately I got bit by the horror bug early so I've been tearing through some movies lately, depleting my pool for October.

- The Guest (9/23)
- Under the Shadow (9/17)
- Kill List (9/17)
- Ju-On: The Grudge (9/10)
- Dreamcatcher (9/4)
- Beyond the Gates (8/31)
- Beyond the Black Rainbow (8/19)

Especially since I try to do 31 each year -- which I actually did hit last year.

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Continually-updated list of the movies I've watched this month and their ratings.

• A Dark Song - 5 / 5
• Lake Mungo - 2 / 5
• Triangle (2009) - 4 / 5
• The Taking of Deborah Logan - 3 / 5
• Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 - 2 / 5
• A Cure for Wellness - 2 / 5
• The Blair Witch Project (rewatch) - 5 / 5
• Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead - 3 / 5
• An American Werewolf in London - 2 / 5
• American Psycho - 4 / 5
• The Hallow - 4 / 5
• The Autopsy of Jane Doe - 5 / 5
• Pandorum - 2 / 5
• Hush (2016) - 3 / 5
• The Vanishing (1988) - 4 / 5
• Fracture - 2 / 5
• Hidden (2015) - 3 / 5
• Playback - 1 / 5
• Visions (2015) - 2 / 5
• Martyrs (2008) - 4 / 5
• Phantasm - 3 / 5
• They Live - 4 / 5
• Sleepaway Camp - 3 / 5
• Sleepy Hollow - 2 / 5
• Gerald's Game - 4 / 5
• It Comes at Night - 4 / 5
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch - 3 / 5
• Cub - 2 / 5
• The Midnight Meat Train - 1 / 5
• Rosemary's Baby - 5 / 5
• Trick 'r Treat (rewatch) - 5 / 5

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

[close]

Would love some recs.

[curly]

booette

[Tasty]

Preliminary list:

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• The Blair Witch Project [rewatch]
• Inland Empire (2006)
• Faust: Love of the Damned (2000)
• Absentia (2011)
• Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
• Red Net (2016)
• The People Under The Stairs (1991)
• Donnie Darko (2001)
• Stephanie (2018)
• Lady in White (1988)
• The Lost Boys (1987)
• Apostle (2018) [release: 10/12]
• A Ghost Story (2017)
• Gremlins (1984)
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
• Only Lovers Left Alive (2014)
• Daughters of Darkness (1971)
• Oculus (2014)
• Halloween (2018) [release: 10/19]
• What We Do in the Shadows (2015)
• Possession (2008)
• The Sandman (2017)
• Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
• Ghost Stories (2018)
• Alien: Resurrection (1997)
• From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• Dawn of the Dead (1978)
• Day of the Dead (1985)
• The Halloween Tree [rewatch]
• Trick 'r Treat [rewatch]

[close]

[Momo]

Watch The Wailing Mr. Tasty.

[Tasty]

Watch The Wailing Mr. Tasty.

I did in March! Great movie. I think I gave it 4/5.

[team filler]

*BOObette

[I'm a Puppy!]

This was terrible, but a mediocre terrible.
Like 5 headed shark attack was terrible, but it was a great fun kind of terrible.
Then there's movies so terrible, they can't be withstood.
This is in the middle. Hilarious though.

[Momo]

Watch 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 melding

[Joe Molotov]

Here's my planned list so far:

Candyman
Cape Fear
Hereditary
It Follows
The Quiet Place
Brain Damage
Annihilation
Castle Freak
It's Alive
Pulse
Suicide Club
The Wailing
Halloween Series (to get ready for Halloween H40)

[Tasty]

Pulse as in the 2008 Pulse starring Kristen Bell?

[Tasty]

Watch 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 melding

Will check it out.

[Joe Molotov]

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.

[Tasty]

Ah I only saw the remake.

It was some fun trash.

Actually despite the movie itself being pretty bad, I really dug the style, atmosphere, and ideas, but I would guess most of those are lifted from the original. The actual plot and characters in the movie were just...

"Oh hey all of society is getting mysteriously abducted by computer ghosts. Better do my laundry!"

<5 seconds later>

[Momo]

Watch 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 melding

Will check it out.

Try and go in blind, dont watch the trailer it gives away too much


EDIT: also The Mimic (2017) scary as absolute fuck

[Tasty]

K, so adding:

- Pulse
- I Saw the Devil
- The Mimic (2017)

[Bebpo]

Started early and watched As Above, So Below, Creep 2 and Murder Party.

As Above, So Below was...surprisingly an Uncharted x Tomb Raider x Dante's Inferno movie? Like it's not great, but I thought it was pretty passable and enjoyed what it was going for with the treasure hunting mythos lore straight outta a videogame. Like this movie could've been a videogame. Was surprised that the RT is like 29%. Was expecting more like 50%ish. Although I read some reviews and a lot of reviews nailed the movie hard on the technical aspects of really awful shakey cam where you can't make out what's going on, which is completely true but I only found that a minor annoyance and it didn't really detract from the movie for me.

Creep 2 was pretty good. I was like how are you going to do a sequel to this without it just feeling the same? But they introduce a neat twist with a main character that throws the killer out of his element. The only thing I didn't like is it let me down in the end because I felt like it ditched that and went back to just killer vs victim whereas I would've liked to see a better twist in the end based on the main character fucking with the serial killer.

Murder Party was lol. I love Saulnier and can't wait for Hold the Dark. As his first amateurish film, it's a fun little bloody comedy. It's not great, but there are a bunch of good bits in it. It also has some nice direction here and there as shows glimpses of where Saulnier will go. It's not Blue Ruin or Green Room, but it's a good enjoyable movie and worth a watch. Also it was just added to Netflix recently which is what got me to finally watch it.

[Tasty]

I thought As Above So Below was going to be some "Stay Alive"/"Feartdotcom" level piece of found footage shit, but it's actually really solid. One of my biggest pleasant surprises, horror-wise. I kinda wanna rewatch it. I'm so glad I ended up buying it and not renting it, I thought I'd made a mistake right after hitting "purchase" but after seeing the movie I'm glad I did.

[Akala]

I remember liking As Above, So Below but only vaguely remember it. 

We saw Hereditary the other day and thought it was pretty good, although nowhere near as scary/good as people were making it out to be.

[Momo]

 

[Tasty]

You mean Blair Witch 2016?

I might have to agree. At least Book of Shadows had some cool ideas, and can be a fun hate/laugh-watch.

[Tasty]

They need to do a Director's Cut of the movie.

I think TVC told me there's a fan edit that's basically what the director said he wanted to do, but I haven't been able to find it.

[Tasty]

Yes yes, lol. Sorry.

2016 is lame and can't be redeemed. Adam Wingard is overrated.

[Bebpo]

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.

I liked Gonjiam’s build up but the second half was weak af generic to me. Also it has like no plot, which is something I need in a horror film usually. I’d take As Above, So Below over it any day.

[Madrun Badrun]

What are some legitimately good horror movies? 

[Tasty]

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.)

[Madrun Badrun]

...

I mean, you can read through this thread?

No I said legitimately good. 

[Joe Molotov]

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.)

The Abominable Dr. Phibes 

I also enjoy The Sentinel, Piranha, the 70's remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and David Cronenberg 70's output (Rabid, Shivers, and The Brood).

[TVC15]

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.

I liked the first one. It wasn’t great or must see, but I thought it was fun.  I tried to watch the sequel last night and couldn’t even finish it.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Watching this bad boy right now

[Momo]

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.)

you ask just in time for the remake

[Cerveza mas fina]

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

[Joe Molotov]

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

[Momo]

okay, that looks legit 

[I'm a Puppy!]

Welp, I know what I'm watching this weekend!

[Joe Molotov]

She plays the shark.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Watching the mothman prophecies. Still good!

[TVC15]

I watched this last night. It's a dark thriller, so close enough to horror. It's abysmally terrible. It's so terrible I watch it every couple of months.



Both leads are so terrible. This is John Cusack at his absolute worst. He almost out-terribles the chick from Dexter, who is also terrible here. The thing is, you can tell that the people making this piece of absolute trash thought they were making the next Silence of the Lambs.

[I'm a Puppy!]

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

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Watched this rare piece of work. The most disturbing thing I got from this was that peaches and beans is actually a thing

[Momo]

glad quan chi got his own movie

[TVC15]

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.

[Momo]

Watched Hold the Dark, oh boy this movie. Someone with a fursona for sure wrote it.

[Joe Molotov]

I watched Pulse this weekend. A ghost story where the true horror is being alone and depressed.  :'(

[Great Rumbler]

LOL me too. Such a PO's movie, the US one I mean. But K. Bell 

Why did you watch the American remake?

[Joe Molotov]

Anyone watch Hell Fest?

[Momo]

Watched Hold the Dark, oh boy this movie. Someone with a fursona for sure wrote it.

Hated it. Wanted so much to love it.

wouldnt say i hated it, but i'd rather have been crossing something else off the list

[I'm a Puppy!]

Watched Alien love me some Sigourney Weaver

Also watched Horror Express hilarious 70s horror with Christopher Lee and Telly Savalas.

[TVC15]

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.

I disagree on the TV show. I don’t remember specifics, but I hated the first season. I didn’t watch any more after that. Actually I may have bailed on the last couple eps. Maybe I should rewatch.

[TVC15]

I remember hating the dude that was the equivalent of the Jamie Kennedy character. They also made him more prominent than Jamie’s character. Maybe he was kinda thecomain charcter?

[TVC15]

Alright, I need something to watch tonight. Someone recommend something or I’ll watch the entire I Know What You Did Last Summer trilogy. They all suck. And the sequels are nearly as bad as the Halloween sequels.

[TVC15]

Hmm, I wonder if that’s legally available now. I had to pirate it a few years ago because it wasn’t streaming anywhere.

[Joe Molotov]

“This is the best friggin veggie burger I’ve had in a sunuvabitch long time!”

“We can’t just be nude aerobicizing cheerleaders, we have to be the best nude aerobicizing cheerleaders.”

[TVC15]

Oh, I watched Toxic Avenger again over the weekend. Not really a horror movie, but still the best movie ever made.

[TVC15]

I am 38 minutes and 52 seconds into Terrifier and... daddy like.

[TVC15]

I endorse Terrifier. If you like seeing white women get stalked and butchered like animals in explicit detail, this movie’s for you. There’s no plot to get in the way.

[TVC15]

Watching Scream TV. I forgot another thing I disliked: in their effort to cast young people with distinctive faces, they cast a few that look like muties.

[TVC15]

And what high school teaches The Castle of Otranto?

[Joe Molotov]

#1

Blood Diner (1987, dir. Jackie Kong)



This movie is pretty wild. It's about two brothers that run a vegetarian diner that's actually a front for the blood cult operated by their dead uncle, who's brain they reanimated and put in a jar. They're trying to resurrect their goddess, Sheetar, by killing slutty girls and sewing their various body parts together to make Sheetar's earthly vessel, before finally performing a virginal sacrifice as the moon aligns with Jupiter. None of this is played straight, it's all played for laughs and it's deliriously over-the-top. In one scene, a girl is having sex with her boyfriend in a cave during a thunderstorm, one of our protagonists rushes in a knocks out the boyfriend and then attacks the girl with an axe, only to have the naked girl beat him up with kung-fu before ultimately having a stalactite break loose and hit her on the head and kill her. In another scene, our heroes bust into a nude cheerleader aerobics session wearing Reagan masks and shoot everyone with a tommy gun that the police mention was stolen from the gangster museum downtown.

All the killing culminates with the "Blood Feast", a big stew full of body parts that they encourage the patrons of the club to eat with "hunger pills" that literally just turn them into zombies. The soundtrack alternates between a punk band playing "Stud Pony (Kick in the Stalls)" and classical orchestral music while the brothers perform their ritual to resurrect Sheetar and zombies riot on the dance floor. The cops eventually show up and shoot everyone that isn't already dead ("Is there anyone left alive?" "No." "Good, you did a good job. Now maybe the streets are safe from these freaks.") except for the virgin girl, who naturally survives.

Blood Diner has lot of blood & guts and T&A and from a director too, nice. I give this movie 3.5 Friggin Vegan Burgers out of 5.

[TVC15]

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?   

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.