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cthulusnewzulubbq posted:Well, drat, I started so I might as well keep track and try to hit a high mark. only ever saw the mystery science theater episode. and it was hilarious
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space-man posted:only ever saw the mystery science theater episode. and it was hilarious The slumber party scene is surprisingly effective for a dudes-in-suits movie.
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I watched Starry Eyes last night. It was really good, I wasn't expecting it to be that good.
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Watrick posted:I watched Starry Eyes last night. It was really good, I wasn't expecting it to be that good. Gonna second the recommendation. I was very pleasantly surprised by it. Also, if anyone here liked Let The Right One In, When Animals Dream is worth a look. Nowhere near as good, but in a somewhat similar vein.
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1. The Horror of Party Beach (1964) 3.5/5 2. Ghoulies 2 (1988) 2/5 Unfortunately not as stupid as Ghoulies 3, but still pretty boring at times. We get to see the Ghoulies walk, which is good. One of them has wings which is ok, I guess. A man falls into a toxic barrel of dry ice in a body shop. The fruity, mewling cat-Ghoulie straight-razors a lady, flies through the air in an oversized boxing glove, and then is eaten by another Ghoulie which has become large. That is Ghoulies 2.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I hope you are going to watch Bud the Chud. Oh man, I was in no way prepared for the huge shift in tone from the original movie to Bud the Chud! It's goofy and funny, but Chud definitely deserved a better sequel than that.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:How much better could a sequel to CHUD possibly be? Bud the Chud is great. They took that sequel in the right direction. Don't get me wrong, I like the first, but Bud is just drat fun. So my pregame so far is: Pelts The Screwfly Solution Dangerous Toys Valerie on the Stairs Starry Eyes Exeter Exeter was pretty fun. Sort of a weird combo of The Exorcist and Night of the Demons. It makes me laugh how people have Internet and use it, but don't call the police when many people are getting slaughtered just so they don't get in trouble.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Tell me about Valerie on the Stairs. It was a Masters of Horror movie directed by Mick Garris. A writer moves into a writers co-op and he sees a girl named Valerie on the stairs. She's sort of a ghost. The other writers tell him he's crazy, blah blah blah. It's more than a ghost story. It's decent. The ending was sort of stupid. Decent gore. It's worth a watch.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:What a waste of a good title. Yeah. A lot of the Masters of Horrors were mediocre.
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1. The Horror of Party Beach (1964) 3.5/5 2. Ghoulies 2 (1988) 2/5 3. The Clown Murders (1976) 3/5 This is an odd, very flawed, slow burning thriller that just sort of drives around in circles but left me entertained. Plus, there's John Candy.
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1. The Horror of Party Beach (1964) 3.5/5 2. Ghoulies 2 (1988) 2/5 3. The Clown Murders (1976) 3/5 4. Sundown (1989) 2.5/5 There's a modicum of fun and some cool scenes in this western-flavored vampire story but overall it's an embarrassing mess and a great supporting cast is largely wasted. At least M. Emmet Walsh gets some screen time.
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Are we just... turning this thread into the new 31 days of horror thread? Because I think that's yet to come.
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Lurdiak posted:Are we just... turning this thread into the new 31 days of horror thread? Because I think that's yet to come. I have absolutely no idea. But there's already a horror thread, sooo?
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Lurdiak posted:Are we just... turning this thread into the new 31 days of horror thread? Because I think that's yet to come. Yeah, that was this thread was generally supposed to be. I didn't want to make it specifically about people just doing the 31 day challenge, as people just want to watch a handful of movies.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I didn't sleep with my light off, in my bedroom, until I was about 12-13 or so at least. Every single night. Embarrassing, but you are all goons. So who cares? We're around the same age and I did something similar for years. I remember when I was like, probably 6-7 maybe, there was a trailer on TV for a horror movie where, as I remember it, a zombie hand bursts out of a wall in a house. It freaked me out and afterwards I would to sleep on the side of the bed farthest away from the wall and over the years it just got to be a habit.
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Vagabundo posted:Speaking of which, a couple of weeks ago, I sent an optional viewing list to my students - "A Week of Wes" This is an excellent list and I'll try to get through them all - will take some persuading of the wife though as she hates horror  If it came to prioritising what I'd want to see out of that lot, I think it would have to be 4, 3 and 2. I have never seen The People Under the Stairs as on the trailers on the old rental VHS's, it looked waaaay to freaky for me. Would like to see it now that I'm about 20 years older though.
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space-man posted:only ever saw the mystery science theater episode. and it was hilarious The Zombie Stomp is a pretty fantastic song though.
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FreudianSlippers posted:The Zombie Stomp is a pretty fantastic song though. The Del-Aires are perfectly acceptable white bread rock and roll.
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Francois_Dillinger posted:This is an excellent list and I'll try to get through them all - will take some persuading of the wife though as she hates horror One of the things that struck me as I was putting it together was how much the idea of the family unit informed Wes Craven's work to varying degrees. Hell, the first half is almost entirely about families.
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Man, I'm kicking myself that I've missed this thread solely because it's stickied.  Anyways, I'm a horror fanatic, and I even have a film degree, but like Pennywise above me, I only come into CD this time of year, cause I'm a single minded nerd. Anyways, last year I went ahead and played the 31 in 31 challenge, with the caveat that it had to be movies that I'd never seen before. I managed to hit 37. I just decided tonight to think big and better myself, getting at least to the 40s. I honestly don't care if this ends up being the 31 in 31 thread, or if it gets its own. Over the last few weeks I've been making a list to try to think up stuff to watch besides the random surprises in Lurdiak's streams (I'll totally do that again this year, it was a blast last year, and I recommend it) and the whim picks off netflix or my rather large collection (which I'm sure is dwarfed by some in here, but I haven't properly cataloged it. I'm sure I'm in the 4 digits by now). I add things to my list when they occur to me, when I see people talk about them here, or even in fb groups I'm in, so it's pretty random and disjointed. I have...broad horror tastes: quote:noroi Yes there are a few on there I'm ashamed I haven't seen yet. I've also done a little bit of pre-game watching of new stuff while I've been working out at night. I've watched: Demons 3: The Ogre (1988): 1/5 it's pretty lame, and wasn't listed as Demons 3 til the US release like a decade ago, and was originally one of four TV movies by Lamberto Bava. An American family vacationing in Italy. The wife/mother is a successful horror writer and uses the castle they rent to help inspire her next piece. But then strange things start happening leading her to believe the castle is the same as one from her recurring childhood nightmare, wherein a monster stalks her in the basement... It's got some interesting ideas under the surface about meta-fiction and author-created monsters ala In the Mouth of Madness, but it wastes all of the potential and does nothing to it. It also has a very rushed ending. Zombie Flesh Eaters 2 aka Zombi 3 (1988): 2/5 After a group of terrorists steal a biological weapon from a Philippine/US Army Base, it mutates and causes a severe outbreak of zombosis. A group of young people join together to try to survive the plague. Meh, it's alright zombie fare. There's a lot worse out there. In fact I found myself actually enjoying it more than Fulci's first Zombie Flesh Eaters film. But like it, it's a lot of slowness and poor acting punctuated by a handful of absolutely amazing moments, such as when a zombie head attacks without a body. Also, it's noteworthy that the zombies here are fast, talk, remember who they are, and use tools. The ending you can see coming, but it's still fun. Also I ended up watching that Bohemian Grove documentary tonight posted earlier. I dunno if that counts. I do like that the filmmaker kinda just has us slide down an ever sharpening slope regarding Alex Jones' sanity. Like, at the beginning they paint him as a smart, sane, responsible person, but just more and more he gets weirder and weirder as the show goes on, culminating in his wackadoo screaming fit at the end. Also, at the time of the documentary, 2000, he's the oldest looking 26 I've ever seen. I'd have pegged him at being close to 50 in the video.
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Choco1980 posted:Man, I'm kicking myself that I've missed this thread solely because it's stickied. Speaking of which. Lurdiak, do you plan on making your own thread when the season of evil begins?
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Speaking of which. Lurdiak, do you plan on making your own thread when the season of evil begins? Lurdiak posted:Just wanted to pop in to say that if you guys can't decide on what to watch during October, you're all welcome at the Scream Stream (thread pending), which will be showing Horror/Halloween themed films every weekend for all of October. Yes, I do.
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Choco1980 posted:Man, I'm kicking myself that I've missed this thread solely because it's stickied. It's funny how this happens
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Lurdiak posted:Yes, I do. Any ideas of what showing at the Scream Stream? How often are movies shown?
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Watrick posted:Any ideas of what showing at the Scream Stream? How often are movies shown? I have the lineup mostly locked down unless a great find or suggestion upsets my plans. This year's theme is going to be modern horror, so everything I'm showing will be from 2000 or later. The stream shows 2 films every Friday, Saturday and Sunday for all of October.
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Neat. That pretty much means a much stronger chance than last year of me seeing things for the first time (there were a handful from the stream, but most were old hat and just for me to enjoy and shoot the poo poo with y'all).
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Oh yeah, I forgot, remakes are disqualified, so don't worry about having to sit through the NOES remake or House of Wax or anything like that.
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Lurdiak posted:Oh yeah, I forgot, remakes are disqualified, so don't worry about having to sit through the NOES remake or House of Wax or anything like that. House of Wax isn't a remake - just the same title. You can show it!
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CopywrightMMXI posted:House of Wax isn't a remake - just the same title. You can show it! No thanks!
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Lurdiak posted:No thanks! 
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Ah, bad CGI. The reason people prefer 80s horor. Also, I looked into it, and it's totally a remake. Don't lie to me!
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It's a "remake" that doesn't resemble the original at all except for both involving wax statues, basically.
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So this Universal Monsters blu ray set did me in, I couldn't resist getting a jumpstart on the season. I won't write anything up until the new thread starts though. I'm watching mostly sci-fi horror right now and other stuff that doesn't quite fit in with Halloween 100%. I had the day off of work yesterday and watched Lifeforce and Under the Skin, which make a great double feature for obvious reasons. In the evening I watched Creature from the Black Lagoon and loved it. If all of the other films in this set look as good as this then I'm in for a great October.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:It's a "remake" that doesn't resemble the original at all except for both involving wax statues, basically. Remake or not, it's not very good. I watched it for free and I was pissed. I was a projectionist, so no stealing involved.
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