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So I saw this movie in a packed bar.
the response was...
well it was loud but i'm not sure it was enthusiasm
The only thing that really got to me was how much make up and botox Sandra Bullock had going on. I get actresses in mainstream hollywood pretty much have to but it was just depressing.
Yeah it bums me out too how much we as a society force women to continually look like they're in their mid 20's. We're pathologically afraid of letting women just age naturally. It's enraging.
These are movies that start relatively mundane but then...well, the title says it all.
So anyway I watched The Midnight Meat Train followed immediately by Event Horizon.
It's been a long day. My Clives are Barkering.
I ain't watched any Creepshow yet, but Jeffrey Combs showing up is like, the least surprising thing
Hagazussa is very, very good.
The hunting scenes with real kangaroos getting shot en masse is rough stuff.
A writer "kills" his hard drinking, hard writin' pen name only for him to wind up being a real dude!?!?!
Directed by Romero and written by King, I really liked it for like an hour and a half...and it's two hours long. That was my biggest problem. It's a little goofy and cheesy but not bad and then end just kinda went the entire way with it. Overall, though, I liked it! Weird, amusing thing was the idea that the people that read his pseudonym's books would be SO FUCKING PISSED that he wasn't a black boot wearin', straight razor sporting badass that they'd, I don't know, riot? Hunt him down and kill him? I guess King might know more about that than me, though.
Night 12 - R-Point (2004)
Korean soldiers go back into the shit in Vietnam to find out what's going on with a bizarre distress call.
And that's the most interesting part of it, the setting. The scares aren't really scary and it's paced incredibly slowly. Oh well.
Night 13 - Bride of Re-Animator (1989)
Herbert West is at it again!
Certainly not as good as Re-Animator, the sequel is kinda goofier and silly but still alright. You've got a lot of practical gross body stuff, you got more green liquid, you got your experiments! Better than a lot of horror sequels but just doesn't have the same magical touch Re-Animator did.
Tonight is 1983's THE FINAL TERROR!!!
Edit: I really wish the rest of the movie was as ludicrously bad as the talk show/character development segments. The rest is just a watered down version of the first film that feels even more like a lame real haunted attraction than a cursed movie one.
Both dumb and bad and a little boring. Final Terror was pieced together from a bunch of lost negatives and shit and boy was that a waste of time. It DOES have an incredibly young and creepy looking Joey Pants. So young it took me forever to recognize him.
And Time Walker feels like a TV movie they accidentally added some boobs to. A mummy floats around, taking back it's gems and rotting people it touches and oh shit it's an alien and then there's a fat "TO BE CONTINUED" at the end and spoiler........it won't be.
This show is weird
Season 3 veers hard into surreal horror weirdness
gotta light?
Midsommar has a similar vibe and is definitely my favorite of the three, especially:
Hoping to get caught up on some other good ones the rest of the month (REC and I've heard some of The Conjuring movies are good). I would suggest The Invitation if anyone is interested in that ridiculously tense, real world, kind of "horror" movie (in the same vein as Midsommar).
Was looking for somewhere to watch In the Mouth of Madness, searching on google pulled up a Shudder page which still exists, so I started my trial and tried to watch it, and apparently Shudder does not currently have that movie and you indeed cannot find that page if you search internally with Shudder, but the page still exists and is indexed by Google. If you try to start the movie from that page, an error simply occurs.
So I just said fuck it and rented it off Amazon. Still a bunch of stuff I want to watch on Shudder anyway so welp.
If Texas Chainsaw is still available, start there. His Halloween marathon streams 10/25.
That’s a real good slow-burn psychological creepfest that’s dripping with atmosphere and has some real memorable moments in it. I can see why it stuck in my brain to begin with
I’m gonna make a note not to forget it for next year!
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Actually factually starting Hagazussa tonight.
Will def. add to my ever-expanding queue. Hagazussa was very good, up there with Wake in Fright and Spider Baby for my favorite so far. Still kind of processing it.
My fave Italian horror find recently was All the Colors of the Dark.
Kids orphaned by Mexico's drug wars survive on the streets and with some supernatural help, try to get revenge/closure.
It's great. It looks good, the kids are very good, it's very early/mid Guillermo del Toro with the dark fairy tale/magical realism. I can't recommend it enough. AND it's on Shudder.
Sweet, that ones on my list as well.
Think I'm doing Blackcoat's Daughter tonight.
My girlfriend and I do movie/themed cocktails nights with our friends for halloween and Christmas, and i thought about trying Night of the Comet because it’s something that’s influenced things I like but haven’t seen.
But now how do I choose?!
Im also tempted to do Mandy, which is one of the few newer movies I haven’t seen, but that might be one that’s too out there for the normies.