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I think it is worth noting that the director, Yann Gonzales, is queer. I read a whole bunch of interviews after the movie because I wasn’t sure about the themes myself. He was partially inspired to make this by a real woman who edited gay porn in the late 70’s (with creative liberties, of course). I got more of a sense of respect and love from the film, even if there aren’t many (or any) healthy relationships. Friends Are Evil fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Friends Are Evil posted:I think it is worth noting that the director, Yann Gonzales, is queer. I read a whole bunch of interviews after the movie because I wasn’t sure about the themes myself. He was partially inspired to make this by a real woman who edited gay porn in the late 70’s (with creative liberties, of course). I got more of a sense of respect and love from the film, even if there aren’t many (or any) healthy relationship. That's good to know, thanks! I think on a second viewing I would see it similarly to you, I just wasn't sure how to take it at first. The tension of a first viewing!
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mary had a little clam posted:That's good to know, thanks! I think on a second viewing I would see it similarly to you, I just wasn't sure how to take it at first. The tension of a first viewing! Of course! When I’m in a spot where I’m trying to figure out what a director’s going for, I usually try to read interviews from them so I can get a good idea of their intentions.
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 #146) The Woods (2006) Tubi. Gotta be honest, what drew me to this movie was the power of that hair-do. Bruce plays the distanced dad of our main character, Heather (played nicely by Agnes Bruckner), who's just enrolled at a boarding school. Heather is also a bit of a pyromaniac, though that only comes up again once. The film is successful with its retro aesthetic, using muted earth tones and grading to suggest the saturation and contrast of older film stock (it actually was shot on Kodak), and the score complements it wonderfully, with choral spookiness and one or two song--drops to let you know the film's set in the '60s. There's a bit of Suspiria atmosphere with the domineering authority figures, setting, and witchiness, but with a much more subdued and classically gothic presentation. I was surprised to find that this was a(n early) Lucky McKee direction; I imagine the multi-year delay with the film's release might have been where he got the anger to make The Woman so much more vicious. Clues to it being one of his works are there, like the ineffectuality of all male characters, but it's still quite distinct from his others. This movie kind of rules, honestly, and not just because of its throwback earnestness. I just wish they'd gone a little lighter on the boarding school cliches, and a little heavier on the queer undertones.  rating: 8/10"Apparently, my father isn't as well-off as he presents himself." "Who is?" Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #11: All Hail The King Darthemed fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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So get this. I legitimately can’t find a horror movie from 1930. Wikipedia has none listed. IMDB basically only lists The Cat Creeps which is apparently a lost film. There’s an ape film called Ingagi that gives me racist vibes but seems lost as well. There’s something called Bat Whispers that was my choice most of the month but doesn’t sound like a horror at all (and kind of sounds like Batman). Its not even terribly easy to search for horrors from 1930 because it keeps getting movies from “the 1930s”. So I’ve debated this all month but I just did one last search and found this odd choice. I’m not sure its horror but I think its honestly the best I’m gonna do.  45 (57). Alraune (1930) Watched on Youtube. In German folklore the mandrake is said to grow from the seed of men hung at the gallows and witches would use it to bear daughters with no soul. An immoral doctor experimenting with the mandrake and artificial insemination in rats decides to impregnate a prostitute with the methods and raises the daughter himself. loving Nazis. 17-years-later Alraune is a wild, sexually promiscuously and manipulative young woman who seems cold to the feelings of others and capable of making men even give their lives to satisfy her whims. So it’s basically horror. Its listed as sci-fi but I guess “artificial insemination” was just a more abstract idea in 1930. The myth is obviously supernatural based and the draw of the story is in her nature and the unethical origins of her birth. So that’s covered. Also of concern, while I was worried about Nazis it seems like all the principle players in this one were enemies of the Nazis and fled Germany when they took power. So whew. There was an early scene of guys doing salutes that had me worried. Brigitte Helm (who quit the business when the Nazis took it over) is in the starring role and apparently also played the role in a 1928 silent version that is considered the definitive version of the story, with this just the talkie remake (although it seems to veer much more grounded with its plot). Helm is best known for Metropolis, yet another classic I’ve never seen and that was on my list this month until I realized it wasn’t actually horror. She does a strong job in a muted but important role. I think. Ok, honestly, the quality of the version I watched was terrible. I don’t know how well I can judge the film or acting when half the time I couldn’t make out someone’s face. And it was in German obviously, subtitled in Danish, and then double subtitled into English. And I’m not really sure how accurate those subtitles are since some of the first we see are literally “???” Beggars can’t be choosers so I watched what I could for 1930, but it definitely wasn’t an ideal viewing. Still of what I did see it was a solid little mood piece, even if it didn’t go quite as far with any of the story elements I expected it to. They really didn’t dig too deep into Alraune’s own feelings of her nature or what her “uncle” had done to her. There’s a story going through the movie that every man who falls for her ends up dead, but at least with the subtitles that’s never really explicitly stated or heavily hinted at. It ends up playing very importantly and dramatically into the final act so I don’t know if its a case of the director trusting his audience to get it themselves, expecting them to be familiar with the myth and story, or just bad translations. Either way I sorta missed it at first glance and it only really clicked as I read up on the myth and was sitting here collecting my thoughts. So yeah, I don’t know really how to judge this one. There’s been a few iffy moments with these older films where I’m not sure what version I’m getting or if the score was “official” or not. But this was the first time I really questioned if I was getting the film. I’ve got another film on my list still where I know the score is a modern one, but I can’t find an alternative for the year. But again, even if I got a distorted version of this film, it was pretty good. And with a little help I picked up on most of the elements in hindsight and appreciate it more.
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Is there a deadline for posting recaps/reviews? I'm going to finish but I've been really busy/lazy with my posts and I'm like 10-12 behind.Friends Are Evil posted:I think it is worth noting that the director, Yann Gonzales, is queer. I read a whole bunch of interviews after the movie because I wasn’t sure about the themes myself. He was partially inspired to make this by a real woman who edited gay porn in the late 70’s (with creative liberties, of course). I got more of a sense of respect and love from the film, even if there aren’t many (or any) healthy relationships. I feel like the mid-credit scene should have clarified any authorial intentions towards the community. It offers a sense of closure and tenderness that most horror movies never think to offer (and a representation of the horrible reality to come in a few years). weekly font fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #11: All Hail The King Now I have to choose which challenge I want to watch Trucks for...
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 SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #10: Navel Gazing Ask for a wild card from someone in this thread, or the CineD Horror Thread.Went with the wild card option, and Anonymous Robot was kind enough to supply me with... #34). The Wailing (2016)  This is the Korean version of "The Exorcist," and it's somewhat confusing as to what the gently caress is actually going on at the end, but upon reflection (and consulting some reviews) I think I have a grasp on what actually happened. This was really good, and I genuinely enjoyed it. My only complaint is that it's very long (just over two and a half hours) and that's a long time to be reading subtitles while trying to follow a fairly complex plot involving a lot of moving parts with intentionally misleading threads. But overall, it's completely worth the investment and is a surreal supernatural thriller that looks beautiful. Jong-goo is a Korean policeman who seems a little inept at his job, but is immediately likable. A slew of strange murders happen in the jurisdiction of his small rural village, and rumors begin to spread about a mysterious Japanese man that might be responsible. This movie is very prejudiced against the Japanese, and considering the historical animosities between the two cultures, I'm not exactly surprised but it's still jarring to see people blatantly refer to "the Jap" over and over again. Jong-goo has a young precocious daughter (who is the absolute highlight of the movie, holy poo poo this little girl can act and is adorable) who becomes seemingly possessed by an evil spirit and develops a rash that matches those found on other people who have gone crazy and committed violent murders, so they call a shaman to cast out the evil. Meanwhile Jong-goo, his fellow deputy and a young man studying to become a priest (who can also speak Japanese) go to confront the strange Japanese man at his secluded house in the forest, and... lots of things happen. It's a long movie, and this is only the first hour or so. What I think happened: The Japanese man really is a demon, and the shaman is working with him. They select a victim, obtain an item of said victim to use as a totem to curse them with some kind of evil rage virus. The families freak out and call in the shaman, who performs a ritual supposedly to cast out the evil, but he is actually countering the mysterious woman (who I haven't even mentioned yet and I think is an angel or "good" spirit, jesus this movie) allowing the Japanese demon man to completely dominate his victim. By the end, Jong-goo doesn't know who to trust and ends up making the wrong choice by ignoring the instructions of the mysterious woman, leading to the death of himself and his entire family. It's a pretty bleak movie, but there is a lot of humor sprinkled in and the lead actor is genuinely likable, as is his daughter. I can't say I'll be revisiting this soon, but it'll stick with me for a long time. Great recommendation! 4/5 Watched: Midsommar; One Cut of the Dead; Apostle; Wolf Creek; Lake Mungo; Viy (Challenge #1); Demon Knight; Witchfinder General; Razorback; Joker; A Quiet Place; Spider Baby, or the Maddest Story Ever Told (Challenge #2); Hereditary; The First Purge (Challenge #3); Killer Condom; Road Games; Next of Kin; Zombie aka Zombi 2; Suspiria (1977) (Challenge #4); Phantom of the Paradise; In Her Skin; Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon; Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead; Troll Hunter aka Trollhunter (Challenge #5); The Tunnel; Profondo Rossa aka Deep Red; Body Melt; Suspiria (2018) (Challenge #6); Sadako vs. Kayako (Challenge #7); Black Christmas (Challenge #8); Unfriended (Challenge #9); Unfriended: Dark Web; Triangle; The Wailing (Challenge #10) Total: 34 T3hRen3gade fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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 #31. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (Theater) All-American teens Brad and Janet are stuck on a backroad on a rainy night, so they seek shelter in a creepy castle. Turns out that the castle belongs to one Dr. Frankenfurter, the "Sweet Transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania" who is hosting a grand party to unveil his newest creation... Rocky Horror, the blonde muscleman. Can the two kids get away unscathed, or will Frankenfurter awaken them to absolute pleasure? I don't know that I'd ever seen Rocky Horror all the way through before last night... I know I'd seen most of the big showstopper songs, and I think I saw the ending at a Halloween party in high school or college or something at some point. What struck me, watching the film all the way through in one shot, is how little meat there is on its bones. I'm sure that there's a lot of queer symbolism or meaning that is flying over my clueless straight white guy head, but I was struck by how little "story" is actually present. At one point, I noted that there was something like only 2 minutes of dialogue between 4 different songs (Rocky's intro song gets a short dialogue section afterwards, which leads into "Make You a Man," which gets interrupted by Meatloaf's song, which almost immediately leads into a MYAM reprise). So the movie is thin, but it is well acted and the music is mostly good, so it ends up working fine. You're mainly here for young Tim Curry in fishnets anyway, and the movie delivers heartily on that front.  /5For what it's worth, while Rocky Horror as a movie is thin but okay, Rocky Horror as a midnight movie "experience" is thin but annoying. Like, I kinda had to applaud the one lady in the front rows who seemed to be sticking to the script, but the constant audience screams of "rear end in a top hat!" and "Slut!" whenever Brad or Janet appear on screen was really aggravating. It was also weird, that kind of puritanical tone that was taken with Janet as a character. Like, the issue with Frankenfurter isn't that he's open about his sexuality; it's that he is, as Colombia puts it, "an emotional sponge," that he uses and discards people. (Yes, the sex feeds into that, but getting Brad and Janet to be more open with themselves isn't really seen by the film as a negative. So it seems ridiculous to have an entire repertory show experience on hand that stands to refute everything the film is talking about.) That, and while constant shouts of "No Neck!" aren't funny when Charles Gray appears on screen, the drunk 60 year olds behind me trying to embellish it got even stupider ("YEAH BUT WAHT HAPPENED TO YER FUCKIN' NECK THERE?!"). I dunno, I'm glad I saw it this way once, but I don't think I need other people around if I ever watch Rocky Horror again. Oh, and after all that ramble up there, I have to make another request for a recommendation for SS challenge 10. Class3KillStorm posted:Can I make a request for a rec? I have pretty much literally every paid service ever, so go nuts. Watched so far: The Curse of Frankenstein, Villains, Horror of Dracula, You're Next, House on Haunted Hill (1959), Halloween 4, Army of Darkness, A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), The Fly (1986), Joker, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Beyond the Gates, The First Purge, Rodan, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Halloween II (1981), The Addams Family (2019), The Mummy (1932), Jason X, It Stains the Sands Red, The Invisible Man (1933), Zombieland, Terrified, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Chopping Mall, Halloween 6, Thirteen Ghosts (2001), The Wolf Man (1941), Brainscan, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
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My read on The Wailing, for what it’s worth, is that it is a film that is concerned with a perceived spiritual crisis between shamanism and Christianity, but that ultimately, it is less concerned with which is correct than it is that you have conviction in your beliefs and make decisions with confidence. The protagonist doesn’t fail because he chose incorrectly- check out that last scene in the cave with the demon again- he failed because he chose half-heartedly. Also, the scene where the warlock summons up a ghoul and they beat its rear end with bats or whatever whips scrote.
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6) One Cut Of The Dead (2017) This movie surprised me for sure, but not in the way I was expecting! When the movie jumps back a month I was expecting some kind of supernatural twist to come into play for a little while but it ended up being a very sweet comedy. I liked it a lot! I think if I'd known exactly what the movie was about ahead of time I would have jumped on watching it sooner, however going in blind still helped in that I don't think it would have been nearly as fun in the back half of the movie seeing the explanation for some of the weirder moments in the 30 minute short film. It's very fun to see all the little moments from the zombie film that make you think "huh, that's a weird decision by the filmmakers" and realize that those were deliberate setups for punchlines later on in the film.
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Class3KillStorm posted:For what it's worth, while Rocky Horror as a movie is thin but okay, Rocky Horror as a midnight movie "experience" is thin but annoying. Like, I kinda had to applaud the one lady in the front rows who seemed to be sticking to the script, but the constant audience screams of "rear end in a top hat!" and "Slut!" whenever Brad or Janet appear on screen was really aggravating. It was also weird, that kind of puritanical tone that was taken with Janet as a character. Like, the issue with Frankenfurter isn't that he's open about his sexuality; it's that he is, as Colombia puts it, "an emotional sponge," that he uses and discards people. (Yes, the sex feeds into that, but getting Brad and Janet to be more open with themselves isn't really seen by the film as a negative. So it seems ridiculous to have an entire repertory show experience on hand that stands to refute everything the film is talking about.) That, and while constant shouts of "No Neck!" aren't funny when Charles Gray appears on screen, the drunk 60 year olds behind me trying to embellish it got even stupider ("YEAH BUT WAHT HAPPENED TO YER FUCKIN' NECK THERE?!"). I dunno, I'm glad I saw it this way once, but I don't think I need other people around if I ever watch Rocky Horror again. I'm sorry you had a bad experience at a live Rocky Horror showing, the quality will vary from crowd to crowd. For what it's worth, the real live experience depends on how good your main "call-back guy" is, who usually has a mic, and knows the entire off-script reaction responses ala Mystery Science Theatre 3000. It's hilarious if it's done right. As for the audience participation "rear end in a top hat" and "Slut" stuff, I mean... it's supposed to be ironic, and the whole point is to get the audience to participate as much as possible with one of the weirdest and most wonderful movies ever made.  quote:Oh, and after all that ramble up there, I have to make another request for a recommendation for SS challenge 10. Go watch "High Tension," it's on Prime and on Shudder. e: Or watch "Phantom of the Paradise," another horror rock opera ala Rocky Horror. Do a little compare and contrast. T3hRen3gade fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #7 - Monster Mash-Up 35. Sadako vs. Kayako (2016) - New To Me #17  I really didn’t expect much. The more you explain about these kinds of monsters, the less scary they are. But this managed to somehow use both ghosts and their curses to great effect - while less terrifying than watching Ringu for the first time, it was still a fun romp through curseland. There were a few things - I haven’t seen all the Ringu movies, but the parameters of the curse were altered - 2 days instead of 7? That seems… rushed. Take your time, Sadako, it’s ok. Movies So Far - 35: Rewatches: 10 - Deep Red, One Cut Of The Dead, The Endless, Train To Busan, TCM 2, Zombi 2, Halloween 3, The Witch, Jason X, Piranha New To Me: 17 - Dolls, Borderlands, Child’s Play (2019), Memory: Origins Of Alien, Who Can Kill A Child?, The Seventh Curse, Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde, Hell House LLC 2, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, Bones, Hobo With A Shotgun, Without Name, The Doll, The Hitch-Hiker, Hatchet 2, Sadako vs. Kayako Finally Watching Owned Movies: 8 - Werewolf Of London, She-Wolf Of London, Isle Of The Snake People, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Revenge Of The Creature, Paranormal Activity, Eyes Without A Face, Phantom Of The Opera Challenges Filled: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
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Class3KillStorm posted:Can I make a request for a rec? I have pretty much literally every paid service ever, so go nuts. Watch The Seventh Curse, if you haven't seen it already.
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 SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #8: THE HOLIDAY ONE IDK#26 My Bloody Valentine 1981 Hulu Someone described The Town That Dreaded Sundown as “cozy” earlier, and I think that fits this movie as well. It’s honestly a pleasure to look at and just absorb the feel of this small-town early 80’s Canadian mining community. My favorite part of this movie was before any slasher antics began. Unfortunately, most of the movie is slasher antics. And honestly, I’m not a huge slasher fan- I need some sort of gimmick, or a fantasy element ala Nightmare on Elm Street to really draw me in. This is an early slasher, and very much an archetypical generic example. Years prior, a mining collapse caused by a careless foreman on Valentine’s Day led to reprisal in the form of a Valentine’s Day massacre. Since then, the town has had a taboo against celebrating the holiday- until now. The poster of this movie captures my imagination, and I’ve wanted to watch it for years based on how arresting I find the imagery. I like the costume of the killer. The mining suit is tough looking and spookily alienating. And some of the scenes in the mine are interesting in the way they take what is really a quotidian and comfortable location for the miner characters and render it disorienting and slightly hellish (the film makes a point that it is the first time entering the mines for the women characters.) I think that it would have been to the film’s strength if they had played up this aspect. My favorite scene is where the characters are riding on the mining cart and the Miner is slowly crossing from cart to cart to close the distance on them- it’s so dangerous for everyone involved, and there’s truly nowhere for them to run. The best shot in the movie is the final one, where the unmasked killer, instead of being apprehended, chooses to disappear, cackling and raving, into the depths of the mine. I would be interested to know if the modern remake played up the mine setting and made it feel more surreal. Miners have always had a contentious relationship with their employers. They’ve historically been some of the most thoroughly abused laborers in the modern era, but their isolation, and the fact that in recent times their industry has been threatened by technological advances and environmental concerns, means that they’re also more intimately bound to their bosses than the average worker is. The image of the miner, and the mining industry, is a perennial political totem for a reason. As such, this movie’s focus on a miner returning for revenge against careless bosses, and coming into conflict with fellow workers in the process, is a rich idea that is tragically underutilized here. Ultimately, this one didn’t really keep my attention. It’s a lot of teens getting pickaxed right before they were about to have sex. I don’t really care about that kind of thing. Also, the reveal of the killer’s identity didn’t make a lot of sense, or at least felt too perfunctory. 2/5
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Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #11: All Hail The King  #147) Dagon (2001), a.k.a., The Lost Island, a.k.a., Dagon: Sect of the Sea Tubi. I think I tried to watch this back in high school, couldn't get into the tone, and went off to do something else about half an hour in, maybe sooner. Shame on you, younger me. I guess I'm glad of it, though, since it makes for one more Yuzna/Stewart joint that I haven't already seen. A yuppie who's been having strange dreams (and his ship-mates, including his take-charge girlfriend) has a shipwreck off the coast of Spain, and when the nearest village ignores their flare, the couple paddles on over. Of course, this village doesn't welcome outsiders. And the yuppie doesn't speak Spanish. This is an adaptation of The Shadow over Innsmouth, not Dagon, but no one ever accused Gordon of an abundance of source fidelity in his Lovecraft movies. That said, it does have a pretty faithful recreation of the escape route, though we hit that intro to the original story's climax about a third of the way into the movie, due to moving around the placement of back-story to fit the new medium. If your whole village is part of a conspiracy, maybe try playing it cool sometimes when outsiders come calling. Moving things to Spain heightens the sense of alienation (what with all the unsubtitled Spanish), and takes care of some issues that would have come up more strongly otherwise from setting it in modern times. It was certainly one of the wettest-feeling movies I've seen. Rain is almost unceasing, there's sloshing around in flooded rooms, and you can practically smell the permeating mustiness. Big ups to Gordon for that and the running fire vs. water (and their attendant colors) theme. Not as satisfying of an ending, but still enjoyable, and much better than the mass of Lovecraft adaptations out there. rating: 8/10"You can't program life." "Why not? It's a binary system."
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Lumbermouth posted:Watch The Seventh Curse, if you haven't seen it already. Sounds like fun. I'm down for this. Thanks.
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SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #12: Cavalcade of Creepiness   Watch an anthology film you haven’t seen.**If you somehow have seen every horror anthology ever made, you may watch one you haven’t seen in 5+ years Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #12: Cavalcade of Creepiness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1W2UddURXI
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SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #13: Maniac Thanks to M_Sinastri for this torture device  Watch your “guilty pleasure” horror film. And with that, that’s all of the challenges! I hope that they provide a Hell of a time for you! 
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To be honest, my entire horror fan existence has been either people who think horror is dumb/bad so I just go "whatever" or people like this place that are really open to different tastes. I'm not sure i have a "guilty pleasure" horror movie. I'll have to think about that one.
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#56: Annabelle A very pregnant lady gets stabbed and put on bedrest until the delivery because if she does anything strenuous, she and her baby will die! And then, oh no, her husband has to go on a one day business trip, she's gonna be alone in the house for one day. The idyllic postwar suburban house, that they once thought was completely safe... And then at the end of the first act she has her baby and they're both fine and they move out of the house to an apartment building. It sucks so much! They had this really good horror set up of a super vulnerable woman alone in the house, spooky stuff is gonna happen, she's gonna have to make serious choices about how to respond to it because any activity could be lethal! And also this very simple but effective horror theme of the place/life thought safe turning out not to be. And they loving throw it all away after the first half hour! And that first act ends with a big set up horror thing with a blaring tv and a sewing machine and a fire, and she's gotta get out of the house before she dies of fire, but just trying to get out of the house could also kill her and her baby, and it's great. But that's the movie completing shooting it's shot, nothing as exciting or complex or dangerous happens ever again for the entire run time, it sucks! We are literally told to think of the cult that attacks the lady as being like the Manson family. A new reporter says, "they're like the Manson family!" Which is a great world building shortcut if you don't give a poo poo. But then, we find out they were satanists trying to Great worldbuilding for your new shard horror universe, guys. I'm really getting a handle on the lore. And then at the end, the whole thing is solved by the only black character willingly and without a moment's hesitation, killing herself to fix all the white family's problems. The End. I hate it.
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Oooooh, guilty pleasure. That's a tough one because all the movies I love are pretty highly regarded here 
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Class3KillStorm posted:Sounds like fun. I'm down for this. Thanks. I just watched this for the same challenge and it is bugfuck insane lmao
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STAC Goat posted:To be honest, my entire horror fan existence has been either people who think horror is dumb/bad so I just go "whatever" or people like this place that are really open to different tastes. I'm not sure i have a "guilty pleasure" horror movie. Yeah I've been loudly, frequently, and completely sincerely singing the praises of Jason X, I'm way past the idea of "guilty" pleasures
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Oh gently caress, I've got it. I unabashedly love Freddy Vs. Jason even though I know it's objectively terrible.
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I guess I feel guilty about Re-animator because it's technically got a scene of sexual assault in it but also I am nakedly manipulating the rules so I can watch Re-animator.
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COOL CORN posted:Oh gently caress, I've got it. I unabashedly love Freddy Vs. Jason even though I know it's objectively
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Dr. Puppykicker posted:I guess I feel guilty about Re-animator because it's technically got a scene of sexual assault in it but also I am nakedly manipulating the rules so I can watch Re-animator. Ok, if that's a standard to go by then I guess Rosemary's Baby is my guilty pleasure since I absolutely love it but haven't been able to bring myself to watch it for a very long time now. But I'm not sure that covers the "pleasure" part.
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SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #10: Navel GazingFranchescanado posted:Have you seen Fido from 2006? It's on Amazon Prime. Thanks Fran!  30. Fido (2006) (Prime video) This is a zombie film set in the sort of idyllic 1950's suburb that exists only in old sitcoms and in the minds of Reagan Conservatives. Years ago some space radiation caused the dead to return to life, which led to the great Zombie War. Now, society has mostly returned to normal - the living dead are still around, but they are kept in line by special collars and used as servants. Timmy is a young kid who gets bullied at school (because he's a total weenie), and when his family buys a zombie he names it Fido and they quickly become friends. One day at the park, Fido's control collar breaks and he kills an old woman, which kicks off a series of zombie attacks around town. The plot is basically like those old movies where a kid adopts a dog and then it gets taken away from him, except the dog is a zombie and also Timmy's mom wants to gently caress it. This was a pretty fun movie! The faux-'50s aesthetic started to get a bit old by the end, but it's full of pretty good gags and some excellent hammy acting. I especially liked Tim Blake Nelson as the friendly neighbor with a zombie girlfriend, and both Carrie-Anne Moss and Henry Czerny give some really fun performances as well. This leans way more towards comedy than it does horror, and the tone is pretty light and silly throughout. There are a couple scenes with some blood and guts, but nothing too explicit. If you're looking for something on the lighter side, I think this is worth checking out. It's not on the level of something like Shaun of the Dead, but it's better than a lot of the other "zomcoms" out there. 3/5 Total: 30 Watched: Dead of Night | Child's Play (2019) | Escape Room | Hell Night | The Wind | Evil Dead (2013) | Cure (Challenge #1) | Tigers Are Not Afraid | The Craft | Tower of London | In Fabric | Popcorn | Cube | Uninvited | Galaxy of Terror (Challenge #2) | Brightburn | Body Bags | The Tingler | The Wax Mask | Cube 2: Hypercube | Dark Water (2002) | The Ruins (Challenge #4) | Viy | The Haunting | Bones (Challenge #3) | A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) (Challenge #6) | November (Challenge #5) | The Monster Squad (Challenge #7) | April Fool's Day (Challenge #8) | Fido (Challenge #10) Samhain Challenges:
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STAC Goat posted:So get this. I legitimately can’t find a horror movie from 1930. Wikipedia has none listed. IMDB basically only lists The Cat Creeps which is apparently a lost film. There’s an ape film called Ingagi that gives me racist vibes but seems lost as well. There’s something called Bat Whispers that was my choice most of the month but doesn’t sound like a horror at all (and kind of sounds like Batman). Its not even terribly easy to search for horrors from 1930 because it keeps getting movies from “the 1930s”. So I’ve debated this all month but I just did one last search and found this odd choice. I’m not sure its horror but I think its honestly the best I’m gonna do. It's only about 30 minutes long, but there's The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case that is absolutely appropriate Halloween viewing. Could double it up with the 15 min short film The Devil's Cabaret.
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Oct 25, 2019 21:39
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HOUSE, HOME and/or ROOM OF HORROR And now, the conclusion to DON'T WEEK! Don't Open the Door... Don't Go in the House... Don't Look in the Attic... Don't Look in the Cellar...  28) Don't Look in the Basement (1973) - watched on Tubi Trailer - the trailer and poster claim this is from the "makers of" "Last House on the Left" (?!) to indicate how scary this movie is, and haha wow it's nowhere even close. I looked on IMDB and I can't see any crew that they shared. Charlotte Beale has just accepted a new job as a nurse at the isolated Stephens Sanitarium, where the doctor is using radical treatments on the mentally ill contained there (think "Oz" - he lets them roam the grounds freely). After the doctor is accidentally killed by one of the patients, his second-in-command reluctantly allows Charlotte to stay. As Charlotte learns more about the various people staying at the asylum, it appears that things are not what they seem, and that the patients may truly be running things... Ah, S.F. Brownrigg again. To think that a month ago I had never heard his name, and now I've seen three of his movies (this, The House Where Hell Froze Over and this week's earlier Don't Open the Door). So how does Don't Look in the Basement stack up? Well, it's shot much more competently than the former, but it's still a bit of a rougher go than the latter. The story just sort of starts, then meanders for a while before abruptly wrapping up (spoiler: the titular basement doesn't appear until the last 10 minutes, and they're only there for like 3 minutes. False advertising, but then again, this was originally released as The Forgotten). The acting isn't too bad, and I see some familar faces here - Brownrigg has a troupe of regulars, from what I've read online. But the whole thing is essentially "focus on one of the patients for five minutes, see them do something creepy/strange, Charlotte reacts, repeat." It's an alright concept but it could have been fleshed out more, but that's low-budget cinema for ya.
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24. Videodrome Super Samhain Challenge 1 I believe this is my first full feature Cronenberg. I've seen parts of The Fly and I think Scanners but never a full feature length movie. Videodrome certainly lived up to his reputation. Beginning to end top notch body horror. Some wonderful visual effects when James Woods is having his hallucinations. Speaking of James Woods, I really got a kick out of the fact that if anyone would start a project like Videodrome today, it would be Woods and like minded individuals. "Society and Media have made these millennials too weak! We must use mind control and torture to make them tough!". Anyways, Long Live the New Flesh. 25. Viy Super Samhain Challenge 5 What a treat this was. The english dub somehow only enhanced the film and only seemed to add to the overall feel of the movie. This is not something I probably would have ever picked to watch on my own so the challenges are doing their job. For the entire length of the movie our protagonist never stops getting dunked on and he deserves every second of it. If I have one complaint its that as incredible as the climax is, I wish that we would have gotten a few more hints of it distributed through out the movie. A spooky goblin person here and there never hurt anybody (that was watching them in a movie). 26. Night of the Comet Super Samhain Challenge 8 I've been looking forward to watching this movie for a few challenges now but somehow never found its way into my lists. I'm glad I finally found a reason to force myself to watch it. I went in prepared for a badass 80s zombie movie. I was surprised to find out that this is only as much a zombie movie as it is a Christmas movie, which is to say, on the fringe. This is really more of a female empowerment in the face of the apocalypse movie, and let me tell you there are not enough of those. Two bad rear end sisters and Hector kicking zombie scientist rear end and taking names! Great use of a callback at the very end of the arcade machine initials. That was a shoe I kept waiting to drop and never did until I had completely forgotten about it. A common thread in all 3 of these movies is that I found them all incredibly humorous (even if Videodrome isn't supposed to be).
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Oct 25, 2019 22:04
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 #148) Jack's Back (1988), a.k.a., The Ripper. a.k.a., A Knife to Kill Tubi. James Spader and Robert Picardo and Chris Mulkey! Someone's imitating Jack the Ripper's murders on their 100th anniversary, and doing it in LA. Spader plays twins, one of them a doctor, the other a black-leather-jacket-wearin' bad boy. Picardo plays an FBI agent, trying to find the Ripper wannabe, and Mulkey is a copy trying to catch the guy for the local force. Young and lean Spader is nice, but I felt like too much of the ripper imitator's crimes were d had some wilder scenes than this.one off-screen. The movie spends a lot of time on the 'wrongly-accused man' angle, and does it well enough, but it's not as violent or generally off-the-wall as I'd been hoping. I mean, Tuff Turf had wilder scenes than this. It feels like the main hook of the dangled plot (someone imitating Jack the Ripper) is almost a forgotten piece of what's actually in the movie. The actual culprit was easier to guess than a Scooby villain, too. Lots of solo sax while Spader stares moodily into the distance, though, so that makes up for a lot of my complaints. Eh, too many holes in it to be a real success, but there's enjoyable scenes. rating: 6/10"You're Italian, girl, you've got hot blood."
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Oct 25, 2019 22:12
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Sorry wrong thread
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Oct 25, 2019 22:46
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 16: Boa vs Python Challenge 7: Monster Mash - For the challenge I just searched Prime horror category for "vs" and picked one. A rich entrepreneur who enjoys arranging big game hunts smuggles in a giant python, and no nobody's surprise it escapes into a water treatment facility before the hunt can begin. Meanwhile an FBI agent recruits a scientist specializing in dolphin bionic implants and a snake scientist who specializes in having bred/modified a giant boa, and the two join forces to put the implants in the boa and release it in the water facility. The government/scientist group and the hunting group both follow the two snakes, and manage not really have any impact on the fight, and die in stupid ways. It has decent production values, but is absurdly inaccurate, the side characters are beyond stupid/worthless, and the entrepreneur and his girlfriend/partner don't really have any motivation to be evil and are kinda bad just for the sake of being bad (and his girlfriend has a giant snake tattoo on her back but 'hates snakes'). A couple kinda alright snake fights, and there's definitely a lot of worse stuff out there, but this isn't very good. - 2/5Goals - 13/13 - 1: K-12 2: Gozu 3: The Wailing 4: Phantom of the Paradise 5: Viy (SC1) 6: One Cut of the Dead 7: Happiness of the Katakuris 8: Little Monsters 9: Shadow of the Vampire 10: Bone Tomahawk (SC2) 11: Ichi the Killer 12: The Witch 13: Hereditary 14: Tammy and the T-Rex (SC4) 15: The Purge: Anarchy (SC6) 16: Boa vs. Python (SC7) Rewatches - Event Horizon, In the Mouth of Madness, The Cell
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Oct 25, 2019 23:11
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Isn't that the movie where a snake goes down on a girl and she thinks it's her girlfriend.
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Oct 25, 2019 23:16
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Lurdiak posted:Isn't that the movie where a snake goes down on a girl and she thinks it's her girlfriend. I think so, right?
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Oct 25, 2019 23:31
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Yeah, her boyfriend gets yanked out of the car and she doesn't notice for a bit.
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Oct 25, 2019 23:35
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