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Horror Movie Month, Brought to You by SHUDDER®™©
Medium Dave
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It's Halloween month, so let's watch and talk about a bunch of horror flicks.
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A Bucket of Blood (1959)
Eyes Without a Face (1962)
Bird with the Crystal (1970)
Wicker Man (1975)
Hausu (1977)
Shock(1977)
The Shout (1977)
Time Walker (1982)
Human Lanterns (1982)
The Final Terror (1983)
Scream for Help (1984)
Fright Night (1985)
Angel Heart (1987)
Dead Ringers (1988)
The Vanishing (1988)
Pumpkinhead (1989)
The Exorcist 3 (1990)
Bride of Re-Animator (1991)
Dead Alive (1993)
The Dark Half (1993)
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Carnival of Souls (1998)
Perfect blue (1997)
Versus (2000)
Book of Shadows Blair Witch 2 (2000)
Session 9 (2001)
Jason X (2001)
R-point (2004)
Feast (2005)
Next Door (2005)
Strange Circus (2005)
The Victim (2006)
The Boy (2015)
Always Shine (2016)
Insane (2016)
I Am A Hero (2016)
The Eyes of My Mother (2016)
Mind's Eye (2016)
Creepy (2016)
It Comes at Night (2017)
Creep 2 (2017)
Veronica (2017)
Berlin Syndrome (2017)
Tragedy Gilrs (2017)
Suspiria (2018)
Calibre (2018)
Cargo (2018)
The Perfection (2019)
Body at Brighton Rock (2019)
Satanic Panic (2019)
Knife+Heart (2019)
Blue My Mind (2019)
Tigers are not Afraid (2019)
We're gonna end with Hausu on Halloween.
Night 1 - Session 9
It threatens to come apart at the seams towards the end but for what it is, I think it still works. Glad to watch it again after like a decade.
Night 2 - Dead Alive/Braindead
And then the lawnmower shows up. I just assume that they didn't post the rest of the quote from those IT Chapter 2 interviews. "...features the bloodiest scene ever. Except, of course, for literally any scene in Dead Alive. Or the end of Revenge. Does Army of Darkness count or is that partially water?"
The really agro, dickhead priest is great. Everyone is having a good time. I love the scrappy, pull together nature of old splatstick movies and Raimi, Jackson and Gordon were kings of it.
Night 3 - The Vanishing
Not to say it's bad! It was really good. And it's nice to have this subject matter not lurid and salacious - the movie could almost be PG. But it is one of those instances where I wish I could go back and see it before this thing just became another trope. There are instances in the movie that today, to me, come off as funny; I don't know if in '88, they were supposed to be searing insight into the mind of a sociopath. In fact, it's one of the things I really liked about, is that the killer is a fucking dunce. He's clearly smart and wants to kill but the lead up to is stymied so many times, and he's such a goofus GETTING to the place where he succeeds that I hope it was intentional! He's clever, we see it many times. But they also show a lot of the failed attempts and him practicing his abduction technique and it's like watching a nervous young man practicing kissing in the mirror; you know he's a soulless wannabe killer but he's taking a long ramp up to actually accomplish it.
The focus, too, on the deteriorating state of the friend who was with the abducted woman, is a great move. He's just as obsessed with finding her, getting his redemption or revenge, it's a good take and feels different that a lot of these where a dude just gets a gun and stalks through the seedy underbelly of the city looking to kill. He's just a guy, he's doesn't have a ton of money or murder skills or is some slick dick PI so he just has to sit and fret and churn and watch his life dissolve as this incident eats him up inside.
Anyway, good movie, really good. Wouldn't call it a horror movie, it's a thriller and a kind of mild one at that. This is more dual character study with some thrillish instances but I think 30 plus years have, unfortunately, dulled it's "shocking dive into a killer's plans" impact.
Still, quite good and worth watching. And I hear the American remake the director made 5 years later is bad, so there's that.
Night 4 - Jason X
VR Jason is fun (if poorly executed), almost everyone sucks and is a bad actor (not necessarily a negative in this case) and the leather, zipper and gun belt clad robot lady is certainly a fucking THING but unlike most of the Halloween movies, it's actually fun to watch and get drunk to.
Cyber Jason is dumb in a real good way.
Nigh 5 - It Comes At Night
And I see why. It's just kind of fucking depressing and vague for the sake of being vague (or perhaps budget??). I remember the trailers kind of selling it like maybe it was a serious zombie movie but it ain't that. I've also seen Krisha, both by Trey Edward Shults, and I don't think he and I mix. That's ok. It looks good, has a good sense of place and is well acted but it never took me to that stage where I fully embraced it.
Night 6 - Strange Circus
It's vile and gruesome and disgusting and he kinda smartly navigates around some it and there's a good twist at the end but it's a slog through misery to get there and goddamn was it not what I wanted last night. Another well made crawl through broken glass, hurrah.
Tonight, a complete change of pace, Scream for Help, which I watched 10 minutes of and stopped because I HAD to watch it with someone else. It looks like a real fun garbage fire in the best possible way.
So far: At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul, Body at Brighton Rock, Witchboard, Grabbers, Tragedy Girls, Train to Busan
On deck: Cannibal Ferox (which I expect to hate)
After being pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed The Invisible Man and The Invisible Man Returns, The Invisible Woman is such a dip in quality.
So far Frankenstein remains my favorite series. I finished Wolfman most recently.
The Invisible Man is my personal favorite. It really holds up, and the gags still play
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This is the worst fucking movie I've ever seen.
Well there's your problem!
Watch One Cut of the Dead.
Then go through the Movies thread - a bunch of people provided good rec lists for Shudder not too long ago.
Cold Hell and Revenge are two exclusives and great.
Tonight I ended up watching Nightbreed
Holy shit this was AMAZING. Amazing trash, to be fair, but what fun.
It's essentially Nancy Drew, but R RATED MOTHERFUCKERS WE'RE ADULTS. And it's fantastic. High school girl thinks her stepfather is trying to kill her and her mom "and no one will listen to me!!" There's a ton of awful vo that doesn't match the tone of the rest of movie. The lead says everyone's full name all the time, "We have to stop Paul Fox from doing this!" The direction of it is bad, the music is so out of place, the performances are laughable, the plot, my god. It's a great collection of things that could, in the right hands, be successful. But when the director of Deathwishes 1-3 steps up to the plate, well........
I loved it? It's a really fun bad movie with a fucking ludicrous final 20 minutes. Cannot recommend it enough.
Is he made of teeth? could...could he please not be?
Just has a spigot of listerine I bet. Fills the tub, sloshes around.
This is Lon Cheney, Jr. on vocals trying as hard as he can to have a Monster Mash style hit and boy is it wonderful.
But the tooth boy is
Cold Prey
The Hamiltons
Dying Breed
Julia's Eyes
Deathgasm
Pathology
Blood Punch
The Woods
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Hausu
Splinter
Breathing Room
There's a quick list of you need something to watch and you're unsure. If you pick something from this list it has my seal of approval (whatever that is worth)
It still is and i absolutely added it to the watch list. Sounds like............................a bloody good time
Anyway
Halloween Night 8 - Cat People (1942)
A Serbian lady is scared that acting on her horniess will cause her to turn into a panther and kill her lover.
It's cool that, in 1942, they were able to roundaboutly talk about female sexuality. And there's some nice, moody lighting.
But man, for a 77 minute long movie, it felt like it crawled. I've watched plenty of movies from this era, even other horror movies, and this one just didn't do it for me. The subversiveness they were able to put in is nice but I didn't really get a horror-ness from it, or even like an eerie vibe or creep factor. It's fine but I won't be revisiting it.
I'd have four dimes.
nah it's cool i'm just bored.
When I assume control, any critic who compared Grabbers to Tremors, and recommended it based on that premise, will be among the first up against the wall, along with those who favour waffles over pancakes, those who favour American style pancakes over thin pancakes, those who favour smothered pancakse over rolled up pancakes, and my mate Peter (he knows what he did).
Anyway, Grabbers is okay, but not great.
Grabbers was ok in the light of day, but I liked it when I was drunk quite a bit.
Some other notable horror films I've seen recently:
- The Wind
- The Furies
- Haunt
- Satanic Panic
- The Hole
- I Trapped the Devil
All were varying degrees of "decent" with some being quite excellent.
We're gonna do Satanic Panic tonight, in fact.
I quite enjoyed it! I still think I've liked Spring the most from these guys but the Resolution-Endless pair is also compelling
I like wet practical effects. I don't like the wealthy.
Pretty good movie.
that would be quite an achievement considering her level of acting
one of the few horror movies where "i eat you by fisting" is a thing
we need more of it, tbh
Boy oh boy, it's a shame Ready or Not just came out because, while Satanic Panic is solid, Ready or Not is great and they're both just so similar.
SP has lots of gore, though, lots of good practical guts flopping around. It feels a little overwritten, humor-wise, in the same way that a lot of video game humor just feels like someone trying to do a Joss Whedon. It also has a bad case of what David Wong once called "rape tourettes" where people are talking a lot about gruesome, Satanic sexual assault in an entirely too flippant way and it feels...yeah.
But other than that it's good! It's solid! It's lit like a budget digital movie so it looks kinda fakey and bad and maybe that's the point because it's where the richies live. You get to see Rebecca Romijn eat raw human hearts while wearing a flowing red robe and that's alright. And you get lots of chanting of "Hail, Satan!" which is always fun.
Hey, she's great in Exorcist 1 and 2 (which also had good set design, but was awful). She was also fun is Repossessed.
I assure you that seeing Savage Streets during the early throes of puberty has nothing to do with my love for her...