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#52.Faceless (1987). A plastic surgeon kidnaps beautiful to harvest their skin to repair his disfigured sisters face. I was surprised how graphic this was. In one scene a woman is conscious as a surgeon tries to remove the skin on her face, but screws up and rips it. After, while the mangled girl is alive and her eyes are moving, a guy takes removes her head with a chainsaw . Beyond some really graphic kills, there is a surreal erotic tone to the whole flick. Lots of people engaging in sexual escapades, fetish play, and voyeurism. #53Hide and go Shriek (1988). A group of high school graduates sneak into a furniture store to party. Too bad there is a killer in with them. This broke a lot of slasher formulas. It was quite refreshing. At first the killer starts to pick them off one by one, then when the survivors realize what's going on they fight back. Not a lot of blood or gore. The ending was also lackluster. The rationale of the killing was pretty silly too. Luckily the faults didn't outweigh the good. #54.Spookies (1986). A wizard/magician tries to kill a bunch of people who enter a house on cemetery to give the woman he loves life. This movie is rad. The story is disjointed due to it actually being one movie shot into another, but the effects more than make up for it. Awesome monsters and crazy transformations are a plenty. This is a good watch for sure. #55.The Stuff (1985). A new dessert is seeping the nation. However it turns people into zombies that want others to eat it too. A combo of The Blob and a zombie flick, the stuff is a commentary on consumerism. While tongue in cheek at points, it's actually got some gross out moments. #56.Ginger Snaps (2000). A girl who gets her period gets bitten by a werewolf and her sister tries to save her. This is an example of a good modern werewolf movie. The effects were great, the story was engaging, and the characters seemed real. An enjoyable experience for sure. #57.The Lords of Salem (2012). A woman receives a record, when played causes her to have flashbacks and hallucinations. I hate Rob Zombie with a passion. I find his movies lifeless and just plain bad. I enjoyed the cinematography in House of 1000 Corpses, but find nothing else redeeming about his repertoire. However, I do enjoy this flick. It's not so heavy handed on "I know lots of people that were in horror movies" syndrome, which is does a bit, but not nearly as bad as his other poo poo. The narrative, while paper thin, was intriguing. I felt interested in what was transpiring, not just watching a bunch of stupid characters meander from one scene to the next with hopes of overly-brutal kills. I think it's his most visually striking film. I get glimmers of Kubrick at times. In all, this didn't feel like a Rob Zombie film, and that's why I probably enjoyed it. #58.The Devil's Gift (1984). A young boy gets a toy monkey inhabited by an evil spirit for his birthday. This movie felt like an 80's family sitcom with some horror elements. No blood, and you don't really see anyone die. I dug the dad, his reactions to what was going on seemed legitimate for the most part. It's not terrible, but not essential viewing.
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Day 10 - Oculus After the spectacular failure that was The Mirror, I went into watching Oculus with some trepidation. Seeing the WWE Studios logo at the start did not help any. Full Review 3 out of 5
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7) The Conjuring Great movie, great atmosphere, totally ruined with a last act that's just two assholes wrasslin a ghost witch. Also I hate that The Warrens are given more 'legitimacy' as even for paranormal hucksters they were especially vile scammers who did poo poo like ignore obvious cases of sexual abuse to go "NOPE DEMONS".  /58) A Nightmare on Elm Street Fuckin classic, great movie, has some dumb bits but it's all a solid movie with a (for its time) very unique twist on slasher fests. .5/59) A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge I'm one of Those People. I like Revenge better. I unironically think it does its job better than the first one, and is the best Freddy movie done. The tone shift was jarring, I don't hate on people for not liking it, but this is the tone this series needs.  /510) A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors Another one I'm a big fan of, though this is far less unpopular an opinion to say. I will admit despite my love of Revenge, Dream Warriors does do the injections of humor better. Again, excellent tone, keeps the really kinda perverse blend of funny and scary that makes the series iconic, and hands down some of the best effects work yet. /511) A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master Another great. I think Nightmare has the highest ratio of good quality poo poo to the bad periods of any of the classic horror series. Not much more to say at this point, it's just kinda doing what Dream Warriors did but just slightly not as well. Still if you're doing a Freddy marathon don't stop yet. .5/512) A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child Aaaalright, here's where I start to look around for the exit. This is, as a movie, quite good still, but it's a darker (literally and tone wise, holy gently caress who stole the lights) affair this time around. It's not bad by far, but it loses a lot of the reasons I love Freddy with its more gothic atmosphere. /513) Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare Yes, I agree, Freddy is dead. It blows. If you wanna be honest it's a little hard to say if it's PURELY the lovely script and acting here or if it's just the fact that this is the sixth freddy movie and we know his poo poo by now, but by that same token, despite me not liking the shift in atmosphere, 5 had solid scares in it and all. So if they could keep it up that long, it's kinda silly to think suddenly 6 is the magic number that turns a series to poo poo. No, it's just lazy. Lazy writing, lazy acting, lazy effects. It's just a 'hey you know the name Freddy by now, well now we're saying he's DEAD, come check that poo poo out' bait movie with no effort in it. Boo this movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-bxiCp6rJ0 .5/5
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I'm halfway through season 3 of Tales from the Crypt. I just saw the one with Don Rickles. Wow, was that one weird. My movie list- 6. Trick R Treat- This is hands-down my favorite, and a yearly rewatch for me. I could rave about it for a while, but won't. 7. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night- Love the lighting in this movie. It's very very well-shot and pretty. The story is great- I definitely recommend it. 8. Gingersnaps- Another of my favorites. Well-written, female-centric, does a lot with a small budget. 9. Lords of Salem- I feel like I hallucinated this one. 10. The Den- Interesting concept, weighed down by bad acting.
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Namirsolo posted:I'm halfway through season 3 of Tales from the Crypt. I just saw the one with Don Rickles. Wow, was that one weird. That's quite the understatement! And you forgot to mention Bobcat Goldthwaith co-stars.
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Lurdiak posted:That's quite the understatement! And you forgot to mention Bobcat Goldthwaith co-stars. I remember Bobcat in an episode, but for the life of me I can't remember the plot. Could you enlighten me, please?
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Watrick posted:I remember Bobcat in an episode, but for the life of me I can't remember the plot. Could you enlighten me, please? Master and protege ventriloquists.
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Watrick posted:I remember Bobcat in an episode, but for the life of me I can't remember the plot. Could you enlighten me, please? Bobcat plays a struggling ventriloquist who goes to his retired childhood hero, Don Rickles, for advice. Turns out Don retired due to a mysterious fire that led to the death of his wife. Bobcat starts to think Don is hiding something that led to him retiring, and might be insane. We then find out that Don was never a real ventriloquist, he just has a horrible mutant conjoined twin brother for a hand who sat inside the dummy. The brother had all the real talent, but was also a vicious monster. Then the greatest fight scene of all time ensues, between two out of shape comedians and a horrible hand mutant.
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Oh yes. Thank you for the refresher.
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#5: The Haunted House (1908) Cute little piece of proto-horror. Three travelers take shelter in an abandoned house; spookiness abounds. Mostly comedic in tone, but it's got a few effective proto-scares, the ending in particular standing out. Some really nice set manipulation near the climax, too. Here's the whole thing, on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo2EKNRIQlE (6 minutes long, so not much of a time commitment, if you're worried about that sort of thing.) Have a couple other movies on the backburner that I started last night, but was too tired/spooked to finish. Something tells me that half of what I watch this year is probably going to be MST3K stuff. 
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#3: Saw (2004) You know what? This movie kicks rear end. It's not perfect, but it has a lot of flair to it (some of which I honestly only noticed on this rewatch, my first time seeing the movie in easily 8 or 9 years), and you can totally see the director that James Wan would become in it. I love the way it handles its violence; every single gore effect that's supposed to be "real" within the diegesis is just shown as a quick flash of a black-and-white crime scene photo. It gives you just enough to go  and doesn't dwell on any of it. Comparing the first movie to its sequels is straight-up Goofus and Gallant. (Don't click that spoiler if you haven't seen the movie, it makes the twist very obvious.)The acting is actually seriously underrated; Danny Glover is fan-goddamn-tastic in it. "Cop who's too old for this poo poo" is already pretty much his wheelhouse, so naturally he plays that aspect of Tapp well; however, he also plays the more unhinged, hosed up aspects of Tapp pretty well (his meltdown after his partner dies is a seriously good scene), and that's something I didn't really expect. Cary Elwes is also really not that bad in it; he's not exactly subtle, but the role doesn't call for subtlety, he's chained to a goddamn bathroom wall and scared out of his wits. Leigh Whannell is the only real weak link, but mostly because the script doesn't do him any favors- for some reason, he gave himself a bunch of cheesy quips, and his delivery of them is hit and miss at best (I unironically love "my name is very loving confused, what's your name?" but the others... blehhhh). The cinematography is fantastic for a movie shot on this low of a budget by a total no-name DP. In genchat, someone mentioned that the entire movie is green as hell; I'm legitimately unsure if they watched the movie, because that color's only notably used for Jigsaw's hideouts, which make up about fifteen to twenty minutes in total of a 90-minute movie. Even there, it fits into the general visual style of the movie- the locations that are supposed to be normal (Gordon's house, the police station, the hospital) are all shot with relatively flat lighting, giving them a "real" feeling, but the places that are supposed to be off in some way are lit in a more surreal and artistic manner. The bathroom is a sickly bright blue that makes Dr. Gordon and Adam look like walking corpses before they suffer any actual wounds, Adam's apartment is pale yellow except for his neon red darkroom (and the use of contrast in the cinematography for that scene is wonderful), Tapp's apartment is almost entirely dark except for two lamps that give it a vaguely orange overtone, and Jigsaw's hideout is an unsettling green with bright red accents. And in the main instance where a seemingly-normal location has poo poo suddenly go down, the contrast turns up drastically and the room is almost entirely shadowed except for the faces of the characters involved; Zepp, however, is clad in black for the whole scene, which makes him almost blend into the background except for the objects he's holding and his black gloves cutting through the light. Honestly, I'm not trying to go too in-depth on this one, because I figure everyone's aware of it to some extent; it's only the aspects of it that I have somewhat hot takes on that I'm actively pointing out here. But honestly, Saw is well worth checking out, regardless of your thoughts on "torture porn." It honestly has more in common with Italian gialli than with anything else (including Se7en, the movie I see it most frequently compared to, for that matter- they're not really all that similar). .5/5
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Oct 11, 2015 01:26
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Watrick posted:#54.Spookies (1986). A wizard/magician tries to kill a bunch of people who enter a house on cemetery to give the woman he loves life. Spookies is a goddamn experience.
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cthulusnewzulubbq posted:Spookies is a goddamn experience. Hell yeah it is. I haven't seen it since I was younger. I don't remember it being as cool as it is.
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Gils posted:I was really expecting it to be working up to it just being another haunted house. One of the things that seemed to come up a lot in the interview portions was the idea of, what does it take to scare the crowd that's jaded to haunted houses? So a guy says at some point, if being chased by a chainless chainsaw isn't scary, is the next step just putting a chain on? So the main characters get stalked and harassed and kidnapped, but then 'thanks for coming, tell your friends,' because the 'next level' haunted house is losing the feeling of safety. Instead of oh no they're murderers the end. I don't think it would have made it a good movie since a lot of the lead up to New Orleans was pretty dire but it'd be at least a little more interesting. I think I would have enjoyed your version of the movie a lot better. I remember the dialogue you're talking about and it does make sense they would be leading up to it ending up as a normal haunted house, just more 'intense' and less safe. It almost makes me wonder if that was the original ending. The New Orleans > Credits Roll sequence felt so slap-dash and weak to me that it almost feels like it was a rewrite. I felt the lead-up had it's moments though, but that could be a personal relation to the movie. I grew up in parts of the south where random rednecks would throw together sketchy haunted houses in the backwoods and I sure as hell wouldn't want to go to one, so I think I felt worried for the characters as a result. 9. The Hills Run Red 6.5/10 Fairly brutal slasher movie about some film-obsessed friends searching for the last copy of a horror movie that was banned. They discover that the director vanished and eventually track down his daughter, who agrees to lead them to the location where the film was shot. Overall, I enjoyed the ride. It's got a fairly predictable twist, then some weird poo poo that makes the twist a little more unusual. It was alright - the antagonist is creepy. The movie also tries, semi-successfully, to do the Scream thing and comment on the state of horror movies and their tropes. Some of these are funny, some are cringe worthy. 10. John Dies At The End 5/10 It's been a decade or more since I read the original book that this is based on and I couldn't tell you anything about the story. I remember liking it, though I was 16 at the time, so I'm not sure how well the book holds up or how good an adaptation this is. That being said, it's okay. It's silly and reminds me of a poor man's Tucker & Dale VS Evil. The dialogue and characters waver between annoyingly smarmy and clever to genuinely funny. The effects are ridiculous and the story is terrible, but it has clever moments that made the awful parts more tolerable. 11. ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2 2/10 I watched the first one of these forever ago and didn't like it. I don't know why I watched this one. It's terrible. They must have had a great special effects and make-up artist though, the kills are some of the most brutal and horrific I've ever seen. I'm usually not bothered but I found myself cringing a bit and my girlfriend, who's also usually pretty unshaken by movie gore as well, even covered her eyes a couple of times. Still a terrible movie though. Several Goblins fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Oct 11, 2015 |
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A double dose tonight since I didn't write up what I watched last night. Day 9 - I was casting around for why I didn't like A Girl Walks Home At Night Alone. There were lots of things that didn't work for me: the photography, the plot, the actors. There were occasionally good bits to those (mainly when Sheila Vand is on screen), but so many things fell flat for me. Then I realized what the biggest problem with A Girl Walks Home At Night Alone was for me: this is a film in search of a message that it never finds. It feels like it's trying to find a point but just stumbles around for a while before it finally ends. In an Iranian city, a hard working man has his prize possession taken by a drug dealer to cover his heroin-addict father's debts. There's also a female vampire wandering the streets of the city. A chance encounter between the man and the woman leads to... love? Maybe? I think that's what it was supposed to be but she's an inhuman creature of the night and he's a lovely actor so I can't be sure. This movie really suffers from its small scale. There's essentially six actors in it which completely fails to establish a feeling for life in the city. A Girl Walks Home at Night desperately needed more texture (almost literally given how sparsely and haphazardly some of the sets are dressed). The languid pace also really put me off. I'm okay with slow films as long as there's something worth taking the time experience. That wasn't the case here, though it may go back to my original point that the film was desperately looking for purpose. Scenes are drawn out in a way that adds nothing to the film. The one bright spot in the film for me was Sheila Vand. She's the only good actor in the film and I feel like the shots of her menacing someone are the few well done ones. A Girl Walks Home at Night was Ana Lily Amirpour's directorial debut and I think that explains a lot about it. It feels a lot like a student film where the director thinks they're being deep and meaningful but aren't actually achieving anything. A Girl Walks Home at Night Alone is better than Demons which I watched a few days ago, but I don't think that's on Amipour. Day 10 - So at nine o'clock I suddenly realized that I had been so busy today that I hadn't watched a horror movie yet so I jumped onto Netflix looking for something light that I could put on while I continued to work. So this one is for you, Damian. It's all for you! Again. And much, much worse than the first time. After the events of The Omen, every filmgoer in America was well aware that Damian Thorne was the antichrist. With his father dead (well, not his real father), Damian has moved to America and gone to military school. Lots of people realize there's something wrong with Damian and then die under mysterious circumstances. The Omen II has a problem with its story and it's a big one: where do you go from "he's the son of the devil, is going to gently caress the entire world up, and people can't do jack poo poo about it"? There's no conflict there, no tension. What happens in the movie is someone goes, "Holy poo poo! That Damian kid is messed up and/or is the antichrist!" and then they die two scenes later. I'm not joking about that. Anyone who decides that Damian is evil only gets two scenes more scenes. It makes the film incredibly repetitive. It becomes the story of how the devil effortless gets whatever he wants with no consequences. That might function if we were following another character's arc, but we're following Damian for the course of the film. He is, in a sense, the anti-hero of the story. He's the one that's undergoing a developing arc, he's the one who has goals. But he's never really threatened. It doesn't help that the kid playing Damian is not a great actor. There's one scene where they try to give him a touch of humanity and it falls completely flat because he has absolutely no charisma. Time is really weird in this movie. I don't think it's supposed to take place over more than a few months, but the seasons keep changing. Oddly enough, I've seen The Omen III already so I don't have that film to look forward to. Not that I'd be looking forward to it after The Omen II.
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#59.Popcorn (1991). A killer stalks a bunch of college students putting on a horror-a-thon. I've enjoyed this move every time I've seen it. It's self aware in such a way where it's not up its own rear end (unlike Scream). The characters are likable and fun, making their deaths all the more tragic. The effects are wonderful too. This movie really feels like a movie made for horror fans by horror fans. #60.Microwave Massacre (1983). A man kills his wife, and after learning that the only way to "commit a perfect crime" is to eat the evidence, he does so and starts to kill other women to eat them. What a romp. This movie doesn't take itself seriously at all, which helps it. Watching the main character feed his friends human meat is a treat too, everyone loves it. It's also interesting watching the main character's sex life get a jump start from his newly found hobby. #61.Parasite (1982). In a dystopian 1982, a scientist gets infected by a parasite he creates. This was better than I thought it was going to be. What I thought were going to be completely one dimensional characters ended up having a little depth, not a lot mind you, but more than was expected. The effects were good, and they made no qualms about having some visceral scenes. Oh, and apparently it was Demi Moore's first movie, but I can't verify the validity of that statement. #62.The Others (2001). A woman and her two children are living in a haunted house. I love a good haunted house flick. This was alright. There wasn't too much suspense, but I thought it had nice atmosphere. I figured out the twist really early on though. #63.Deep in the Woods (2000). A group of actors are invited out to a huge mansion to put on a play of Little Red Riding Hood. Things go well until someone starts picking them off one by one. It's beautifully shot. The use of shadows is top notch. The shot composition is nothing short of amazing. The acting is great. The kills are tasteful and entertaining. The ending is confusing, and there is a bit of shoddy CG, but whatever. The ride is worth it. #64.The Beyond (1983). One of 'gates of hell' trilogy by Lucio Fulci. The murder of an artist opens a gate of hell allowing the dead to rise. This movie has everything from zombies to man eating spiders. The plot, like most of Fulci's other work has a surreal tone to it. The events that transpire, both big and small, feel almost out of place. Simple exchanges between characters will feel alien and bizarre. The plot moves and it all makes sense in its own, perplexing logic.
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1. Tomb of Ligea. Vincent Price with rad sunglasses and an angry cat hanging around. 3/5 2. Noroi: The Curse. I completely forgot that I'd seen this movie before until halfway through. Trying to explain it to my husband when he wandered in right at the end was interesting. 4/5 3. Starry Eyes. I hated all the characters in the movie. Also there was some intense body horror. 3/5 4. The House That Dripped Blood. Lots of actors I like in an anthology movie. 4/5 5. Zombeavers. I was looking for something quick to watch before sleep and ended up having nightmares about the douchebag dudebros in the movie. 1/5 6. Mad Ron's Prevues From Hell. I could have done with 100% less annoying zombie ventriloquist act. 2/5 7. The Woman In Black (1989.) I got really distracted until I realized that the main character was Harry Potter's dad, then I didn't know whether I should be mad or happy at whoever cast Harry Potter in the remake. 4/5 8. 28 Days Later. A bunch of my friends had never seen it. 4/5 9. Honeymoon. Rose Leslie is a better actor than everyone in the movie, and also better looking. Even when things get gross. 3/5 10. Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II. I had a vivid memory of a movie on HBO when I was little: the prom queen was on fire and her tiara fell to the ground, and the camera lingered on it for a while. I had no idea what this movie was until one of those "Identify this movie" threads last year. So this year I decided to watch it, and it was way more fun than I thought it would be. Also that scene was exactly like I remembered it when I was a screaming terrified four-year-old. 4/5
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Short Night of Glass Dolls This was something. I really don't want to give much away about this, but what starts out as a fairly "normal" film about a journalist's unconsciousness fitting together the events of the last few days that led to him being left for dead on a lawn descends into nightmarish insanity by the final act. Hundu was right, it more than lives up to its title and even manages some satire of the ruling class in the bargain. Dream-like, beautiful, and creepy. (5/5) Waxwork You know, I'm going to take the unpopular route and say I didn't like this much at all. It's not capital B Bad, but I didn't jive with the humor, the gore/creature effects didn't impress, and it seemed very slow as a result. Neither funny nor scary, that leaves me with little to latch onto. I might watch the sequel, however, as the premise sounds ridiculous enough to be more entertaining. (2/5) The Boogey Man (1980) A nice blend of camp and creep. I notice that a lot of these cheaper foreign horror films manage to pull off a good dream-like sequence now and then, and this is no exception. While stretches of the film are campy, this sort of hybrid The Entity+Nightmare on Elm St.+Exorcist worked pretty well for me. It's cheap around the edges, but for what they had they did a decent "stab" (ha ha) at a supernatural slasher film. I would actually like to see this one remade. Does anyone know if any of Uli Lommel's other films are worth a watch? Most of his IMDB appears to be even trashier real life serial killer tie-in fair, like that sleazy BTK movie from the early 2000s. (3.5/5) The House That Dripped Blood Not a bad anthology, but since watching it a week ago I find myself forgetting most of the shorts except for the excellent middle piece with Christopher Lee as a stern father who refuses to let his daughter play with toys or do anything but memorize "rational" things. The daughter turns out to be more than she appears, of course. That one seems to be the most developed one, to me, and while I also recall the final one, with a noted horror actor buying a cape for his vampire role only to find it turns him into a REAL vampire (I wonder if they tried to convince Lee to do that one and he would have nothing of it) it just seemed to be limited to the final shock scene and a few build up ones. Same with the bridging story, revolving around the house: it's ok, but just there to connect everything. The Peter Cushing story is sadly one-note and could use a lot more running time. Still, not a bad film and even a decent one. (3/5) Scourge Let me tell you something about this film: it boasts that it is in the tradition of SPECIES and THE REAPING in the description. If you don't recall, The Reaping was a 2006-2008 Bible-themed horror set in a small southern town, involving the plagues and I think starring Sarah Michele Gellar. It made a decent $60 million on a $40 million budget, but it's probably not one many people remember and didn't lead to a franchise. Anyway, this film has nothing to do with either Species or The Reaping, unless you count The Reaping's poster art: Scourge involves an ancient parasite bug thing that infects people so it can mate and that the Catholic church has hunted for centuries. The creature is shown mostly as a 2007 era CGI bundle. The opening of the film tries to show off some dynamic camera work, but involves a sweeping pan from a CGI cross against a dark sky down to a CGI effect that has to be seen to be believed: it's a burnt to cinders CGI church that is basically copied and pasted over what looks like to be a parking lot. I was in awe. (1/5) Total watched: 12 timeandtide fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Oct 11, 2015 |
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I can tell you with certainty that nothing else Uli Lommel has made, Boogeyman sequels included, is worth a poo poo at all. He made one decent horror movie and then abruptly decided to become a German Ed Wood.
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I'm trying to think of other political Italian horror films, other than Africa Addio type stuff.
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Watrick posted:#60.Microwave Massacre (1983). A man kills his wife, and after learning that the only way to "commit a perfect crime" is to eat the evidence, he does so and starts to kill other women to eat them. The lead character also does Frosty the Snowman's voice, which is how he naturally speaks. I went into it knowing this, and all I could picture is Frosty saying some terrible poo poo. Entertaining movie though. The Beyond is great, and has my probably favorite non-Goblin Italian score Dr.Caligari fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Oct 11, 2015 |
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Dr.Caligari posted:The lead character also does Frosty the Snowman's voice, which is how he naturally speaks. I went into it knowing this, and all I could picture is Frosty saying some terrible poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbAW6If2MAA 20. The Blob (1988) This is a great remake! I've seen it a few times now and I always remember it as "the movie with a bunch of cool, slimy, gore effects" but when I'm actually watching it, I tend to realize just how many of these effects there are. Also, the people who created the titular blob in this movie must have also had a hand in creating the slime in Ghostbusters 2, because they are pretty similar. 21. Shocker (1989) A pretty middle of the road Wes Craven flick. Certainly not his worst, definitely not his best. It looks, sounds, and feels like a long Tales from the Crypt episode, which isn't a bad thing. The plot is pretty much exactly the same as Child's Play, Fallen, Sleepstalker, and all of those other "criminals die but their spirits live on" flicks (with a little "Stay Tuned" mixed in for good measure). This movie is notable as the most times I've seen the camera man's shadow on the actors/ground in any movie. Topper Harley fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Oct 11, 2015 |
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 #10. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981). Watched this one back-to-back with the first one, which was the only entry in the series I'd seen in full before. Part 2 might have suffered from the proximity, because it felt a lot less tightly-executed. The score came across as more developed than the first one, though, and the long tracking shot before the title screen was pretty nicely done. The numerous shots with watching someone through the tress were also cool, as was the call-out to Bay of Blood with the bed-spearing, I guess, though it felt a little truncated with how quickly it happened and cut to the next scene. The continuance of the plot raised a lot of questions that seemed to be brushed under the carpet so they could get on with the series, mostly to do with locating bodies before declaring someone dead. Would have liked a little more exploration of Jason's hide-out, thanks to the TCM vibes of that set. Overall, just not that memorable, but a few nice touches. 6/10.
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2 is the one where we see Jason's face and he just looks like a scarred up version of Mick Foley, right? I liked that reveal. He was still just a mentally slow child (who'd grown up in the woods) back then, not some kinda zombie.
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Yeah, that's the one. And the campfire exposition was a cute touch too, even with the 5-10 minutes of reused footage that opens the movie.
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#6: Monster A-Go Go (1965) My first rewatch of the season. MST3K version, because there's no way in hell that I'm sitting through this piece of trash in its original form. Nothing else to say here, outside of what an awful movie this is. #7: Monster House (2006) Watched this on the Scream Stream last night. Surprisingly fun! I was kinda surprised to learn how much of this movie was shot with performance capture (ala that creepy Polar Express movie). Goddamn, most of the adults are total jerks, though. #8: Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010) Also watched this on the Scream Stream, but this one's actually been on my radar for a while. I really like how the "roles" reverse themselves about halfway through the movie, with Chad assuming the role of the psychopath. The one question I want to know is, what on earth does the opening have to do with anything? I guess that might have been Chad, still alive after the events of the movie, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be a red herring. Excellent movie; if you liked Shawn of the Dead, give this one a spin.
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Lurdiak posted:2 is the one where we see Jason's face and he just looks like a scarred up version of Mick Foley, right? I liked that reveal. He was still just a mentally slow child (who'd grown up in the woods) back then, not some kinda zombie. Yeah, and then in part three his face basically looks like Sloth from The Goonies only more malicious. Thinking about it, something like half of the series shows his face (especially if you count part 5) and each time he looks different. It's weird. Anyways: #18. Body Parts (1991) Bill is a Criminal Psychiatrist, frustrated that no matter his efforts, it seems like there's no real "cure" for people that want to commit evil. Then one day he's in a bad car accident. They can't save his arm, but the doctor has his grief-stricken wife hastily sign off on an experimental limb transplant. It actually goes perfectly for Bill. Only later he starts having odd uncontrolled actions, like violence towards his wife and kids, and strange disturbing dreams. Doing some research he finds out his arm belonged to a vicious killer. He reaches out to the other transplantees that got other limbs, and they seem skeptical at first of anything truly strange in their lives. Soon though, things start getting disturbing for them as well... I will admit, perhaps with my own personal medical history (including two heavily intensive arm surgeries in the past month) this might not have been a wise choice for me to watch trigger-wise, but I enjoyed the film nonetheless. The early 90s have so many ambitious horror movies that just got overlooked by everyone. This one has a pretty great "Hands of Orlac" style story, that goes STRAIGHT off the rails in the third act, and features some heavy gore. It also is filled with underrated talent (Writer Director Eric Red! Jeff Fahey! Brad Douriff! Zakes Mokae! ) and is just the sort of film I was hoping to watch during this 31 day challenge. /5
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Day 11 - Jug Face With a name like Jug Face, I was almost certain that this was going to be a comedy/horror when I started watching the movie. Turns out that it is actually a totally serious look at what happens when you go against the wishes of a spooky pit that sometimes heals people but mostly just murders them and maybe helps with making moonshine? Whatever. Full Review 2 out of 5
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1. V/H/S Getting things started with some anthology horror. This one is great for the most part, 5 short films with a (very crap) wraparound story that features a band of complete shitheads watching the films as they burgle a house looking for a particular VHS tape that they've been hired to steal. Nothing ever really tops the first short (Amateur Night), in my opinion, though they're all thoroughly entertaining despite some ropey acting here and there (especially in Tuesday the 17th, a fun take on the ever-present teleporting killer in slasher movies). Seems to have a common theme across the films and the wraparound in that the men are universally shitheads ranging from a scale from rapey-as-gently caress in the first story to well-intentioned-white-knights in the last one. Pretty awesome, low-budget horror fun that never outstays its welcome. 4/5. 2. V/H/S 2 The sequel kicks things up a notch with four shorts that look to have a much higher budget, and a wraparound story that isn't great but significantly better than the dreck from the first collection, which adds some mythology to these mysterious tapes. The first short, Phase 1 Clinical Trials, started off on a very bad note. It really sucks, redeemed very, very slightly by a pretty funny gag in that there is a character named Clarissa that dumps exposition all over the place, literally 'explaining it all'. The other three films are all fantastic, including a zombie movie from the POV of a zombie, a hilarious but unsettling alien abduction story and my personal favourite of the series Safe Haven, which after a slow start is an absolute rollercoaster of terror. I don't know what it is about air raid sirens but man, this short had me clenching my buttocks so tightly I thought I was going to reverse-ingest the sofa. 5/5 3. V/H/S Viral Oh dear. What the gently caress happened here? This anthology has only three shorts plus a pretty drat incomprehensible wraparound which suggests that the VHS tapes are now on YouTube and making people go crazy. One of the shorts isn't a horror at all, really, but plays like a really lovely version of one of the funnier X-Files episodes, involving a magician and his magical cape. Parallel Monsters isn't bad, and all of the creepy stuff in the parallel universe is pretty unnerving, but it's too long to be as punchy and effective as some of the films in the previous two anthologies and too short to go into any particularly interesting detail about this strange new world. Bonestorm is silly as hell and has some pretty cool effects but manages to have possibly the most irritating characters outside of the wraparound in the first anthology. 2/5. 4. The Descent Man, what a movie. A group of women with some seriously unresolved tension between them go spelunking in an unexplored cave system a year after one of them lost her husband and daughter in a tragic accident. A significant chunk of this movie had me petrified simply because of the claustrophobia it was invoking as the characters find themselves getting trapped in the cave and squeezing, crawling and climbing their way to an unknown exit, and then I won't spoil the rest just in case anybody hasn't seen this gem yet. But holy balls does it all get crazy. Make sure you get the British version (I think it's called the Unrated version in the States) so you don't get the watered down, lovely ending. 4/5. 5. The Descent Part II Yup, this really didn't need a sequel. Following on from the ending of the not-British version, the worst police in the universe insist on taking a clearly traumatised survivor back into the caves because reasons, and proceed to act like complete idiots. From the moment the idiot cop said he insisted on taking his gun, despite being warned that firing it wildly into the air could cause a cave-in, I knew there was going to be a cave-in because there's no way he'd resist firing his gun wildly into the air. Skip this one, seriously. 1/5. 6. Insidious Part III I quite liked the first one, kind of like Poltergeist for a generation that has grown up watching dumb ghost hunter shows on TV, and it had a few decent jump scares in it. The second one was pretty bad, but was bound to happen given the obvious sequel-bait in the first movie. This one though? Pretty unnecessary. It's a prequel, focussing on a young aspiring actress that ignores the advice of a medium and inadvertently invites a malevolent spirit into her home. There's some decent family drama here, to be honest, with a single dad trying to raise his kids and struggling to deal with what he considered to be 'mom stuff'. But the scary bits are so telegraphed that they didn't even get a single jump from me. 2/5. 7. The Exorcist After two bad nights in a row I had to resort to my personal favourite horror movie. I first saw this the year it was finally unbanned in the UK (1999, so I would've been 15) and it affected me like no other film. I spent three days downloading a DivX rip on a 33.6k modem to watch this, and I must've watched it five times in the following month. I still watch it at least once a year. I'm not even slightly religious, but something about The Exorcist scares the poo poo out of me. My older brother is the same, even though he was in his twenties when he first saw it. Everything about this movie is perfect, barring some aging effects. In fact, some of the dodgy effects actually add to the impact for me; they feel wrong. Not wrong as in bad, just like something totally hosed up is happening. An ex-girlfriend of mine mocks me to this day about how I find the scariest bit of the film to be right after the daemon opens the drawer during the interview, and when asked to do it again merely stares and says “In time...”. That Mercedes McCambridge didn't win every goddamn award under the sun for that voice, and was even uncredited originally, is a crime. I'm now in my thirties and I still know I won't get a good night's sleep after watching this, yet I still do it to myself; I wouldn't call this my favourite film of all time, because I often feel like I'm not enjoying myself watching it, but because of the way it makes me feel I have to say that it's the best film I've ever seen. Just don't watch the 'Director's Cut' or 'Version You've Never Seen' because they go a long way to destroying a masterpiece with completely unnecessary bullshit and CGI demon faces haunting vent hoods for no loving reason. 5/5. If there's a score higher than 5/5 then this film deserves it. 8. Theatre of Blood After last night's experience, I wanted something a bit different. So I watched this classic Vincent Price comedy horror. I think some of you might disagree with me on the comedy bit, but I find big chunks of this film to be hilarious. True story, first time I saw this I was five years old and for some reason my dad thought it was appropriate for me and my ten year old brother, possibly because it involves Shakespeare. I vividly remembered the Titus Andronicus bit with the poodles, but that was about it. Largely because my mum came in and insisted that I left immediately and chewed out my dad (though my brother watched the rest). Watching it again after all these years, though, brought back a lot of memories. It's a marvellous piece of cinema, and Price is hamming it up expertly as he murders his critics Shakespearian-style. Definitely worth checking out. 4/5. 9. Until Dawn I'm cheating here, because this is a video game. But only barely; the term 'interactive movie' is probably more apt. Until Dawn is a walking-simulator with QTEs galore telling the story about a bunch of teenagers (who all look like they are in their mid 20s, like all good horror movies) staying at their rich friend's cabin in the woods on a mountain on the anniversary of a prank-gone-wrong that resulted in the rich guy's sisters going missing, presumed dead. The story starts out as a ghost story featuring the horror-trope characters of Scream that turns into a home-invasion movie, then into Saw, then The Descent, then The Grudge and whole bunch of other horror movies along the way. Turns out the cabin is near an abandoned insane asylum and on top of a mine where a whole bunch of people died, which in turn was dug in an ancient Indian burial ground because literally every horror trope you can think of (including zombie movie “I can't shoot them! It's my friend!”) is worked in here. And even though that sounds like a clusterfuck of ideas, it handles them incredibly naturally and seamlessly moves from one to the other. Larry Fessenden (horror movie veteran that appears in The Battery and Stakeland amongst dozens of others) wrote this and briefly acts in it. If you like games like The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us or Life Is Strange, and you have access to a PS4, then you need to play this. It'll only take you 6-8 hours for a playthrough, though, so maybe consider renting unless you can find it on the cheap. 5/5. 10. The Evil Dead (1981) Probably don't need to write much about this because you've probably all seen it. I can't believe how well this holds up. Really innovative and interesting camera work means we never actually see the big-bad but we know it's there and we know it's deadly. I watched this one with a mate that had never seen it before and had no idea who Bruce Campbell was, and he winced at the pencil-in-the-achilles shot and cheered gleefully at Ash vs the claymation. This is by far my favourite entry in the franchise, because it's so mean and unpleasant compared to the slapstick insanity that Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness are known for. It doesn't have the acting talent of The Exorcist, obviously, but it's pretty similar in terms of how exhausted and genuinely hosed-up the cast look at various points. Great use of makeup and practical effects make this movie that is banging on 35 years old look way better than CGI gore-fests of today. 5/5 11. Evil Dead (2013) Probably the only time I have ever been excited for a reboot/remake, so it's good that I wasn't completely disappointed when I went to see it on opening night. But watching this for the first time since seeing it in the cinema, I'm way more critical of it. This one keeps the mean-spiritedness of the original, unfortunately minus the black humour. It unashamedly tries to ramp up from its predecessor; the opening shot is like the famous part of the original where Sam Raimi was hanging from the rafters in the cabin, except it's being done from a helicopter. There's more of a plot here than 'bunch of teenagers in a cabin in the woods', as it's based around trying to dry-out a junkie as she goes cold turkey, but it's largely unnecessary and pretty much forgotten by half way through the film (though I guess there is the 'battling inner demons' idea). There's some dumb 'girl with wet, dark hair moving slowly' cliché bits that I can't see the point of at all, beyond introducing stupid jump scares with loud orchestral stings. And what is the deal with all the edgy crap written in red marker in the Necronomicon, with such phrases as 'burn the bitch' and 'SATAN'S BITCH' and 'Leave this book alone'? It's a book made of human skin, for gently caress's sake, we know it's bad. All that said, it's really nice to see a big, gory display of practical effects – and some truly spectacular makeup and prosthetics – and the blood rain scene is awesome. Not to mention the big twist in who the hero turns out to be, which I still enjoy. And the needle-through-glasses and the nailgun stuff was great. But really, this is a perfect example of how telling is worse than showing, and showing too much removes the fear of the unknown that the original did so well. But the effects are that good that I'll give this 3/5. Quote-Unquote fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Oct 11, 2015 |
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Oct 11, 2015 23:22
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Tusk Horror comedy is extremely difficult to pull off, so it's hard to blame Smith for failing even if I am not much of a fan of his. The horror part is done decently, though I felt it undercut just due to the animal that Michael Parks wants to turn Justin Long into is a walrus, which just seems inartistically goofy--that said, Smith nails the helplessness in the first half of the film and even some body horror. There is even one scene that I would call easily the best he has ever done, this Lynchian cut from Long falling unconscious from Parks' drugged tea to his girlfriend addressing the camera as Void Music plays and she reveals that their loving relationship was half a sham, with him cheating on her constantly and generally being a piece of poo poo, an unseen man's hand stroking her cheek as she says it. Unfortunately, the second half of the movie happens. The comedy in this just does not work and actually undercuts the mood Smith has built up, by the ending 180ing into an absolutely absurd almost self-parody as Michael Parks dons a plastic walrus costume to shove shoulders with Justin Long's transformed body as some party music plays. Johnny Depp shows up and sort of saves the film, but he is also a problem: the character he is playing is done well by Depp, but he's so over-the-top a parody of the French Canadian that there is Parisian music (?!?) playing in one scene where he talks to Michael Parks. Speaking of that scene...Depp's flashback of talking to Parks while Parks puts on a Milton-in-Office-Space voice was downright awful, probably the lowest point in the film. Had Depp appeared for a scene or two, it would have been a nice cameo, but he essentially takes over the film for the entire final act--a problem Tusk shares with Red State, though I felt that even that one managed the switch between the teens and Goodman a bit smoother. (3/5 for the first half, 1.5/5 for the second half- maybe a generous 2.5/5 total?) Knight Chills A Dungeons and Dragons Goes Wrong horror film that is probably made by people who actually play D&D...in 2002, not the 1980s. It boils down to some nerdy nerd deciding to swerve off the road into a tree because the woman who plays an enchantress with them refuses his advances when he asks in front of her boyfriend, who he knows and one dude laughs at him. This isn't a film so much as someone's home movie project with the camera they happen to have - no one is a professional actor, there is essentially no attempt at lighting, even staging seems to boil down to shifting a few things in a friend's house about - so there is a certain element of charm to it that a lot of "Bad Movies" lack. As far as that goes, it's actually pretty humorous due to all the flubbed lines, someone putting their actual 5 year old son into the film, and the fact that the D&D group is utterly bizarre: Nerdy Dude, High School History Teacher and his Wife (both 50+), rear end in a top hat Ex-Army Jock who crushes beers on his head, Slightly Chubby Girl, girl protagonist is attracted to, 30 year old burnout stoner, and Guy In Superman Shirt. Oh, also the film seems to take no real position on whether we're supposed to think the nerdy suicide guy is Good, Evil, or Misunderstood; he even kills a woman in the group that basically did nothing at all to him, but spares one of the older men for being nice to him while also taking the soul of his 5 year old child (?!?). If you find the idea of this or a scene where they're gaming and the Nerdy Dude decides to get back at the jock for throwing a snowball at him before the game by tossing his D&D character off his horse, in turn escalating to an IRL fist fight as they shout in-game dialogue at each other, this movie is for you. This is streaming for free on Amazon Prime if anyone wants a good laugh; it's funnier than Tusk, at least. (4/5 on Bad Movie scale, 1/5 on Actual Movie scale.) Nothing But the Night What if I told you Chris Lee and Peter Cushing TEAM UP to stop someone from harming children with witchcraft? Sounds exciting, right? Strange you haven't heard of it, right? The first and last 10 minutes of this are great. Unfortunately, the movie between them frequently turns away from Lee and Cushing, when it features them they barely do anything of note (I'm not just talking, say, fighting but also in terms of giving them dramatic material to chew on or even some decent investigating scenes...they mostly wander into scenes, exposit a few lines, and then leave). They are the main characters, but only feature in maybe 50% of the film. Worse: there are several things that happen that theoretically up the stakes, like a boat blowing up and a small child being ritualistically murdered, but it really has no true impact on the rest of the film, leaving that entire 70 minute chunk with no sense of escalation. We watch the detectives some, then the children, the potential murderer, then back to the detectives - it all feels like the film killing time and running in circles. This is more of a rough draft of a classic than a finished film. 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Day 11 - Probably the biggest gap in my horror film viewing is Hammer. I've heard about their films forever, but I've seen two of them: Dracula AD 1972 and The Vampire Lovers. Let's just say that those aren't exactly the greatest. However, I am going to fix that this week and my plan is to watch a ton of Hammer horror films over the week starting with The Horror of Dracula. If you haven't read Dracula or watched the 1931 film, I definitely recommend that you do. The book is good and Bela Lugosi is good. And the Hammer version is good and Christopher Lee is good. It's very different from the book and previous film (which was based on a stage play version of Dracula anyway), but it owns its adaptations. They've narrowed the scope and cranked up the action for this version and it works because Christopher Lee is an action movie kind of Dracula instead of the more sophisticated aristocrat of Lugosi's. I can see why people loved this style of horror movie so much. Everything looks terrific and the deaths are particularly gruesome for something released in 1958. Dracula's death is spectacular (spoiler! Dracula doesn't survive to the end of the movie!). My plan was to watch two of the Dracula movies, two of the Frankenstein movies, and one Hammer's other films to fill things out. Now I'm thinking I could cheerfully watch a lot more than that this month.
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I started Hammer Dracula and Frankenstein films about midway thru the October challenge last year. They are terrific and I am going to watch more of them this year, but I have been saving them for later in the month
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Oct 12, 2015 01:50
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My fave Hammer film is Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires and I'm not ashamed.
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Oct 12, 2015 02:51
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Dr.Caligari posted:I started Hammer Dracula and Frankenstein films about midway thru the October challenge last year. They are terrific and I am going to watch more of them this year, but I have been saving them for later in the month I hope you get to Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed if you haven't already. It's one of my all-time favorites, and Peter Cushing just kills it in a role where Victor isn't sympathetic in any way whatsoever.
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Oct 12, 2015 02:58
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Random Stranger posted:Day 11 - Probably the biggest gap in my horror film viewing is Hammer. I've heard about their films forever, but I've seen two of them: Dracula AD 1972 and The Vampire Lovers. Let's just say that those aren't exactly the greatest. The Vampire Lovers is pretty drat great.
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Oct 12, 2015 03:01
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October Tally - New (Total) - (1). Scream (1996) / 1 (2). Shocker (1989) / - (3). Grave Encounters (2011) / 2 (4). The Babadook (2014) / - (5). Beetlejuice (1989) / - (6). House on Haunted Hill (1999) / - (7). The Leprechaun (1993) / 3 (8). As Above, So Below (2014) / 4 (9). The Possession of Michael King (2014) / 5 (10). The Unborn (2009) / 6 (11). They (2002) / 7 (12). Devil's Due (2014) / 8 (13). Ouija (2014) 9. (14) Oculus (2013) - 21-year-old Tim is released from a psychiatric prison after spending the last 11 years coming to terms with the horrific deaths of his parents only to find out his sister Kaylie has spent those 11 years planning an elaborate revenge on the supernatural force she blames for their parents' deaths - the same one Tim just convinced himself didn't exist. Opps.  I LOVED this. I loved the idea of Kaylie and Tim both being so sure that the other was deluded and trying to convince each other. I love the way the film made it unclear which was right and played so much with what was real and what wasn't. I loved the way it felt almost like two movies, the original story of a family being haunted and a sequel of the kids wanting revenge. I loved the way the two stories were told between each other further blurring the lines between reality and delusion. I loved the incredible sense of dread and heart sinking that the movie left me with, how I have that little lingering uncomfortableness with the hairs standing up on the back of my neck and I keep peering behind me. I love/hate that I'm pretty sure I'm going to cover the mirror in my bedroom before I go to bed. About the only thing I didn't love was Karen Gillian's wavering accent. But that's about the most criticism I can wrack up for this movie right now. I thought she did a great job acting as did the male lead really selling the dread and sheer confusion of being uncertain if the things you were seeing were real or not, or if you even wanted them to be. I'm honestly kind of tempted to give this one a 5, but I'm going to restrain myself and go with 4.5/5. Man, I really loved this one. I liked it so much that I kept waiting for the bottom to fall out and for it to disappoint me and it just never did. Oh, looking it up the director also made Absentia, a movie that really surprised me a few years ago for its great sense of dread and eery feeling much like this one. He also is making Ouija 2. I don't what to think that the guy who made maybe my favorite film so far of this marathon is making the sequel for my absolute worst. Now do I have to watch that crap next year? STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Oct 12, 2015 |
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October 8th: The Believers (1987) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092632/ Martin Sheen is up against a voodoo cult that wants to sacrifice his son. This one's pretty good, some silly moments aside. The best part's when the spiders burst out of Helen Shaver's face. Really creepy stuff. October 9th: Tusk (2014) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3099498/ Meh. Not good, not horrendously bad. Just mediocre. But then I'm not really a big Kevin Smith fan. October 10th: Antibodies (2005) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337573/ Basically just a goofy, German Silence of the Lambs rip-off with a male protagonist who's badly influenced by the villain. Something about evil being contagious. It's not that great, but I liked it well enough. October 11th: Cards of Death (1986) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3828160/ A movie infamous for its former unavailability, Cards of Death recently received a limited re-issue. I wish it had gotten a wider release, because it's a must-see for any shot-on-video horror lovers. It's about this weird, underground gambling ring where the winner has to kill the loser or be killed themselves. Bodies have been piling up, and the local cops and their captain's son are desperate to find out who's behind everything after the captain falls victim to the game's organizer and his henchwomen. It's a sleazy, bloody mess that never takes itself too seriously, and I loved it. The villains are ridiculous, the cops are walking clichés, the soundtrack is cheap, the editing is jumpy, and the lights and colours will either make your eyes bleed or give them an orgasm. This movie is fantastic, go watch it. I've been feeling under the weather and too lazy to write anything lately, but I think Cards of Death reinvigorated me. I feel like a new person!
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1.10.2015 - Homicycle (2014) 2.10.2015 - A Christmas Horror Story (2015) 3.10.2015 - It Follows (2014) 4.10.2015 - Insidious (2010) 5.10.2015 - 13 Sins (2014) 6.10.2015 - Shaun Of The Dead (2004) 7.10.2015 - Always Watching - A Marble Hornets Story (2015) 8.10.2015 - The Hitcher (1986) 9.10.2015 - Into The Grizzly Maze (2015) People with issues go on a hike. People meet bear. Bear eats people. It gets a tad more complicated than that but not by much, this is a movie that sticks very close to what it promises on the cover. Special effects were great, the cast features some surprising depth with people like Thomas Jane and Billy Bob Thornton and there are a few scenes that build up some solid tension. Surprised me positively. 10.10.2015 - Let Us Prey (2014) Set in a remote Scottish town, where the local cops haul in an assortment of townies plus one mysterious stranger who nobody knows. Spooky things start happening and order quickly breaks down. Great performances from the cast, and as for skeletons in the closet these characters def. have some. The finale came a bit out of the left field but was gnarly enough that I didn't mind much. 11.10.2015 - Last Shift (2014) More supernatural happenings with cops. Rookie officer, fresh from the academy, gets to spend her first ever shift babysitting a decrepit old police station on its last official night of duty as the only person in house. Things quickly start escalating and reality starts warping as an unknown force assaults the station. I wasn't completely sold on the antagonists and their three-person satanic cult but the effects were solid and things got unreal real fast.
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