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Several Goblins
Jul 30, 2006

"What the hell do they mean? Beefcake?"


drrockso20 posted:

The only thing I know about Faust is that it has a really weird fetish scene in it thanks to someone posting a YouTube clip of it on 4chan once

Great. The running theme of my horror movie marathon is apparently fetishes. That's three movies so far. I suppose I'll report back after some Faust.

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gey muckle mowser
Aug 5, 2003

Do you know anything about...
witches?



Buglord
Glad I saw this before May! I have a huge stack of unwatched horror blu-rays so my goal will be to work through 13 of those.

Dr.Caligari
May 5, 2005

"Here's a big, beautiful avatar for someone"
Don't Hang Up A pretty generic movie that takes parts from about half a dozen modern movies. Nothing special, but a decent time waster with tight pacing

Funeral Home Predictable and totally forgettable.

Irony.or.Death
Apr 1, 2009


2. Friday the 13th (1980) - 2/5. One of the things a lot of people in the horror thread say about The Burning is that you could strip out all the horror stuff and be left with the stem of a pretty solid summer camp comedy. That is very much not the case for Friday the 13th; the characters barely exist and they don't get any good dialogue to work with. One of those points is for strip Monopoly and the other is for Betsy Palmer. I actually feel a lot better about this movie now than I did while I was watching it, because the first hour is boring garbage but then Betsy shows up and does a really great job so it leaves a more positive impression than is really warranted.

One of the other things that's come up a bunch in the thread is people watching Crystal Lake Memories and finding out that not only did they kill a snake for the movie, the snake was somebody's pet and the owner was not told they were going to kill it. The snake scene isn't even good so it's hard to shake the impression that everyone involved was just kind of a worthless rear end in a top hat.

I didn't have high hopes for this thing, but I still felt disappointed. On the other hand, the whole Pamela thing I thought had long since been spoiled for me was much better executed than I assumed and really saved the finale.

Finally, the character who most deserves death does not receive it. Just look at this monster failing to close a jar. Closing jars is not hard! What is wrong with you!

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine

Irony.or.Death posted:

2. Friday the 13th (1980) - 2/5. One of the things a lot of people in the horror thread say about The Burning is that you could strip out all the horror stuff and be left with the stem of a pretty solid summer camp comedy. That is very much not the case for Friday the 13th; the characters barely exist and they don't get any good dialogue to work with. One of those points is for strip Monopoly and the other is for Betsy Palmer. I actually feel a lot better about this movie now than I did while I was watching it, because the first hour is boring garbage but then Betsy shows up and does a really great job so it leaves a more positive impression than is really warranted.

One of the other things that's come up a bunch in the thread is people watching Crystal Lake Memories and finding out that not only did they kill a snake for the movie, the snake was somebody's pet and the owner was not told they were going to kill it. The snake scene isn't even good so it's hard to shake the impression that everyone involved was just kind of a worthless rear end in a top hat.

I didn't have high hopes for this thing, but I still felt disappointed. On the other hand, the whole Pamela thing I thought had long since been spoiled for me was much better executed than I assumed and really saved the finale.

Finally, the character who most deserves death does not receive it. Just look at this monster failing to close a jar. Closing jars is not hard! What is wrong with you!



I really need to give The Burning a proper watch one of these days, I gave it a try about 2 years ago but only made it about 20 minutes into it before RL stuff interrupted and I never got back to watching it

Also need to watch The Town That Dreaded Sundown as well

married but discreet
May 7, 2005


Taco Defender
4. Maniac (2012)

A deranged, pathetic loser murders beautiful women, and honestly the movie could stand to be a whole lot more trashy instead of being a bit too enamored with the not quite original idea that the audience is the killer. It's still an interesting movie, shot almost entirely in the point of view of the killer and quite effective at making me uncomfortable (sexualized violence isn't so fun). Nice cinematography and soundtrack too.

married but discreet fucked around with this message at 04:56 on May 8, 2018

Irony.or.Death
Apr 1, 2009


3. Friday the 13th part 2(1981) - 3/5. If the original was a vague outline, this one is a passable first draft. It has a bigger cast but manages to give most of them more character with a shorter run time, looks better, etc. Still not what I would call good, but no hour-long stretches of intense boredom so I'll take what I can get.

I keep trying to remind myself that when this was made, much of what it's doing (like cat fake-out -> real dangerous thing) might not have been completely worn into the dirt yet. Maybe. This makes some stuff like Ralph even weirder, though; he gets less screen time and is a little more understated than in the original, but he's still so over the top that I have to wonder if he was a parody of some older character. Certainly all the echoes of him I've seen in other summer camp slashers/parodies of summer camp slashers fail to live up to him.

On the downside, Jason just isn't as compelling as his mom was. His most memorable moments are all him being big and goofy and clumsy; the standout is definitely when he attempts ambush by standing on a chair and the thing just breaks under him. On average I enjoyed watching this more but respect it less, and at present I am not at all looking forward to the rest of the series being all Jason all the time. If only we could combine the original's lady with bad sweater and complete disregared for her personal wellbeing with this installment's having a script and characters.

Samuel Clemens
Oct 4, 2013

I think we should call the Avengers.

I fear for your sanity if you're planning to go through all Friday films and the most charitable description you can give the second one is "passable". Because it's not going to get much better from here on out.

Franchescanado
Feb 23, 2013

If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment

Grimey Drawer
The Burning is pretty much the essential May Horror Challenge movie. It's mostly a day-time movie, it's a summer camp movie, it has Tom Savini gore, and manages to feel charming despite every man in the movie being a toxic piece of poo poo. I hope everyone watches it, it was a standout movie for my horror movie group last year.

Samuel Clemens posted:

I fear for your sanity if you're planning to go through all Friday films and the most charitable description you can give the second one is "passable". Because it's not going to get much better from here on out.

To be fair, Jason almost always gets better with each installment, and he's not even in all of them.

Also any review of Friday the 13th Part 2 that doesn't mention Muffin is criminal.

Leave
Feb 7, 2012

Taking the term "Koopaling" to a whole new level since 2016.
The best Friday is the fourth, but I cannot wait for the 8th and 9th movie reviews.

gey muckle mowser
Aug 5, 2003

Do you know anything about...
witches?



Buglord
I watched all the Friday films last October, and, yeah... you're gonna be sick of them by the end. 4 is great though and 6 is a close second for me. The later ones are pretty bad but they do have their moments (mostly goofy ones) - I recommend watching them with a friend and some beers.

Basebf555
Feb 29, 2008

The greatest sensual pleasure there is is to know the desires of another!

Fun Shoe
As someone who anticipated each Scream sequel and saw them in packed theatres with big groups of friends, I think it's worth remembering that Friday the 13th was like that too. They really weren't made to be watched in one long unbroken marathon, they're designed to give kids a fun, scary, yet familiar theatre experience once a year.

Anyway, I decided to leave Vincent Price behind for now and move to some more recent horror. Did a double feature of "Dark" movies, expecting there to be a bit of Lovecraft in each one but ended up finding a lot more of him in one than the other. First up,


A Dark Song

This a really nice slow burn that's well shot and has two very solid lead performances. A woman hires a man to perform a dark ritual, but her reasons aren't exactly clear and of course weird poo poo starts to happen...

A Dark Song excels at building dread and keeping the tension high even when nothing is "happening" on screen. The score is a huge part of this, it kind of acts as a theme for the ritual itself. Steve Oram, who'd I'd seen before in Sightseers, is great in his role. He's the one who brings the intensity to the ritual, he sells the terror and desperation very well. His performance is crucial because we have to believe that some truly biblical poo poo is stalking them and that they really are on the edge the abyss despite the fact that they rarely ever leave the same three rooms. Catherine Walker is also very good in the lead role.

Solid ending too, it's a good mix of art film sensibilities with the expected horror movie pay-off. A Dark Song definitely isn't for everybody but it's one of the better slow burning indies I've seen in recent years.


Dark Waters

Now this is Lovecraft, you know that right off the bat when the film opens with the main character writing a letter to a friend recounting her story. Stories within stories. I can't say I didn't enjoy this film, but it does all unfold somewhat predictably, you know from basically the opening scenes that this convent has obviously been worshipping some sort of ancient evil and protecting it's secret. It's just a matter of the main character unraveling all of it for herself.

Typically the climax in these kind of films is worth the wait and Dark Waters is no exception. I love the little glimpse you get of the "mother"and the final shot of her lair as the main character flees is definitely nightmare fuel. The movie drags a bit in the middle so I'm not sure I can give it an unqualified recommendation but it's definitely something to check out for Lovecraft fans who feel like they're running out of Lovecraftian films to watch. Dagon is better though.

Completed: 1. The Raven 2. The Last Man on Earth 3. The Mad Magician 4. A Dark Song 5. Dark Waters

Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 15:45 on May 1, 2018

El Graplurado
Mar 24, 2004
I do backflips when you're not looking.


Satan's Cheerleaders (Greydon Clark, 1977)
Of course this turned out to be more comedy than horror. Insolent, good-time cheerleaders come across a prude janitor who channels his frustrations into offering them up for a black mass. But naturally Satan prefers cheerleaders to regular joe cultists. Endearingly dumb humour, requisite change room scenes, some nice photography, nothing matters at all. Huge support cast, but the girls would all stop acting in a couple of years. Not a great movie. B

Irony.or.Death
Apr 1, 2009


Franchescanado posted:

Also any review of Friday the 13th Part 2 that doesn't mention Muffin is criminal.

For what it's worth Muffin was omitted mostly because I needed to get to bed, and you can't consider Muffin without diving into all the questions about the endings of both of the first two movies. Dream or real? If dream, what happened to Paul? If real, why is anyone still alive for the paramedics/cops? Was there a second Muffin to make that possible? Was the final Muffin reanimated by whatever spookiness is hanging out in the background of the area?

But then I can only think about that for half a second before I get side-tracked by how much better it worked when (uh, unrelated movie sort-of but not-really spoilers I guess?) Phantasm did it. Phantasm is good and cool.

Sono
Apr 9, 2008




gey muckle mowser posted:

I watched all the Friday films last October, and, yeah... you're gonna be sick of them by the end. 4 is great though and 6 is a close second for me. The later ones are pretty bad but they do have their moments (mostly goofy ones) - I recommend watching them with a friend and some beers.

But at least he gets to cap it off with the greatest of them all, Jason X.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


Sono posted:

But at least he gets to cap it off with the greatest of them all, Jason X.

If he's going in order of release he actually has to end at Freddy vs Jason or the loving remake.

Choco1980
Feb 22, 2013

I fell in love with a Video Nasty
You bastards. Long protracted sigh FINE. I'm in. I don't have the full time set aside like I make for October, but I'll do my best to watch new to me films, as many as I can. I don't have a goal line in mind, and I'm definitely not averaging 3 a day like I did last October challenge, but I'll do what I can.

First up I'm going to be watching The Last House on Dead End Street. Maybe something else tonight if I get time, not sure.

Edit: For example of my business, this weekend I will be at a big general nerdery convention where I'll be giving a panel discussion on The Video Nasties and Censorship. So yeah, I have a plate full. You bastards.

Choco1980 fucked around with this message at 22:35 on May 1, 2018

Sono
Apr 9, 2008




3. The Changer - early 90's schlock that has one review for one star on Amazon? Works for me. Turns out I should have read the review, which states that "(t)his isn't a 'so bad it's good' movie. It's just bad. Bad acting, bad props, bad effects."

This isn't a "so bad it's good" movie. It's just bad. Bad acting, bad props, bad effects. 1/10

Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

Put me down for a 13 spot

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

Mahlertov Cocktail posted:

2. Creep 2 - this was a blast. It went in a perfect direction following the first movie; Aaron wanting to make a documentary-finale about his own life as a serial killer made the same framing device as the first movie feel fresh. Sara's commitment to making the movie and working with Aaron, along with her apparently not really believing what he's telling her despite video evidence, opened up a weird relationship dynamic that throws off audience expectations in a neat way. Mark Duplass is great as usual, particularly in showing how unstable and lost he is at this stage in his...career, and Desiree Akhavan offers a cool foil despite her character's internal desperation to get that sweet sweet #content for her youtube channel

I honestly have no idea how the third one is going to end things but I cant wait

Choco1980
Feb 22, 2013

I fell in love with a Video Nasty
1. The Last House on Dead End Street. A group of snuff filmmakers connect with some yuppie 8mm porn producers who try to take credit for their "art". So the pornmakers become the stars of the snuffmakers' next picture.

Well then. I've been warned from so many directions about this film, but I had to go there, as it's kinda what I consider the "lost" Video Nasty film. (At one point it went under an alternate title in England of "The Funhouse", so the Tobe Hooper film wound up on the list in its place). According to interviews with the film's creator/star in Nightmare USA, as much amphetamines went into the making of the movie as film did. Boy does it show. There's a very high, nervous energy to the film that I can only attribute to such. Not only that, but there's some pretty extreme gore by the end, stuff that I don't think gets matched until the Guinea Pig movies nearly a decade later. And all of that ignores the bonkers stuff going on in the movie, like the prominence of a Greek God Theater mask, or how at one point a man is made to fellate a deer hoof. All of that combined with how grungy everything is would make a pretty excellent PSA for why not to do hard drugs, kids. Wow.

STAC Goat
Mar 12, 2008

Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

I'm in. Not gonna gimmick it or get anywhere near the 60 I did in October, but there's a lot of movies I've been putting off watching since October that don't really fit my plans for next October so now is as good a time as any to motivate me to watch them over other stuff.

Snack Bitch
May 15, 2008

Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!
Started off with a double feature Sunday night.

1. Silence of the Lambs - No need to say much about this one, it was great. First time watching all the way through. It was interesting to see how all the random bits and pieces that I have seen on TV over the years fit together.
Rating - Thumbs up.


2.Blood and Black Lace - Until a month ago I had no idea what giallo was so thanks to Shudder I have been fixing that. Overall, I am not sure I can really get into the genre since crime drama, mystery, and older movies put me to sleep. This film though had some cool scenes and I really dig all the neon colors.
Rating - Thumbs up.

El Graplurado
Mar 24, 2004
I do backflips when you're not looking.


Shriek of the Mutilated (Mike Findlay, 1974)
A research excursion in search of a yeti turns into a gourmand professor serving up his students. It’s a pity most of the horror and action is a bit standstill because how demented and unique everything else felt had it on track to be really great. Lots of enjoyable ineptness. Scenes spring up out of nowhere, impressionistically heightening the anxiety and mental collapse the one rational party member goes through. Great mid-autumn setting. Felt shortchanged on the whole yeti thing by the end but it was crazed enough. B

broken sm57
Apr 5, 2015
Put me down for 13. I'm going to try to stick to things I haven't seen before.

Down to take any recommendations. I'm a huge fan of The Church, Koji Shiraishi movies, and thought Cure for Wellness was the best movie to come out last year, if that helps.

Basebf555
Feb 29, 2008

The greatest sensual pleasure there is is to know the desires of another!

Fun Shoe
May Challenge is perfect for....


Tremors(in which they break into the wrong goddamn rec room)

I had no plans to rewatch Tremors but then I was going through HBOGO and saw that the first 4 are all there. Guess I'm doing a Tremors marathon now!(does it count as a marathon if you do it over 3 days?) So heads up to anyone who has HBO, you too can enjoy your own Tremors week.

Anyway, this is a perfect summer horror series. The sun, the desert, the dirt, the hats, the horses, Tremors has it all. The original in particular has a fantastic cast. Ward and Bacon have amazing chemistry of course, but the side characters are endlessly entertaining. Michael Gross, Reba Mcentyre, , Victor Wong, Tony Genaro, Finn Carter, the guy who plays Nestor, they all add something important to the mix. The film is an absolutely perfect monster flick for kids of a certain age. It's not overly violent, but at the same time it doesn't pull punches. People die and are eaten by monsters, it's scary! But also they're playing the-floor-is-lava in the general store!(why no, I never played along with the movie in my own basement as a kid, why do you ask?)

Excellent, unique, and memorable monster design as well. You get a few initial moments where it seems like we're just gonna have a little movie about overgrown sand snakes, ho hum, but then the ground begins to swell....

I doubt there are any people in this thread who have never seen Tremors, but if there are lets take care of that ASAP!


Tremors 2: Aftershocks(in which Burt is denied critical, need to know information)

So ok, things go immediately downhill with this series but I certainly wouldn't say it drops off a cliff. This is still a very entertaining monster flick, especially if you enjoy the Burt and Earl characters from the original. And as would become tradition with the Tremors series, the grabboids "evolve" into a new form that shakes things up and prevents the movie from feeling like a pointless rehash of the original.

You could even argue that Tremors 2 is scarier than the original, I think it's certainly more violent. It's just not as charming because the supporting cast isn't as solid all around. The acting isn't as consistently competent as you get with character actors like Victor Wong. Still definitely recommended if you're a fan of the original(and who isn't?)

Completed: 1. The Raven 2. The Last Man on Earth 3. The Mad Magician 4. A Dark Song 5. Dark Waters 6. Tremors 7. Tremors 2: Aftershocks

Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 15:39 on May 2, 2018

Franchescanado
Feb 23, 2013

If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment

Grimey Drawer
My biggest complaint against Tremors 2 is it has a much much smaller body count. Besides that, Grady is the best foil to Burt. It's certainly a worthy sequel.

Serious question, is there a better monster creature feature than Tremors? (Jaws, I guess, but I count that as a nature creature feature; Jurassic Park?)

Basebf555
Feb 29, 2008

The greatest sensual pleasure there is is to know the desires of another!

Fun Shoe
Yea it depends on how far you want to stretch the definition of creature feature. Jurassic Park is like the ultimate B-movie just made with the weight and resources of one of the most iconic directors of all time behind it. The Thing is another one that could be considered a creature feature but it doesn't usually end up getting that label I guess because of the sci-fi bent and also the constantly changing "creature".

deedee megadoodoo
Sep 28, 2000
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one to Flavortown, and that has made all the difference.


Franchescanado posted:

Serious question, is there a better monster creature feature than Tremors? (Jaws, I guess, but I count that as a nature creature feature; Jurassic Park?)

Alien and Godzilla are the two that immediately come to mind.

Franchescanado
Feb 23, 2013

If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment

Grimey Drawer

very stable genius posted:

Alien and Godzilla are the two that immediately come to mind.

Alien and Aliens are strong contenders. Godzilla is an interesting one, because I always think of that as a kaiju or disaster film.

The Blob remake is a good creature feature. If we're counting Alien, then we can for sure count Carpenter's The Thing.

Basebf555
Feb 29, 2008

The greatest sensual pleasure there is is to know the desires of another!

Fun Shoe
Because Godzilla basically spawned it's own subgenre, it usually isn't mentioned as a creature feature. Giant monsters is a different subgenre than regular sized monsters I guess.

A key thing with creature features is the creature design though, which for me puts The Blob out of the running.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


Let's be real, the actual creature in most Godzilla films doesn't look nearly as good as the Graboids. The suits are charming, sure, but they're not the masterpieces that are those weird sluggy monsters. And they don't use every trick in the book to make them seem truly alive like Tremors does, they just put a guy in a suit and call it a day.

Samuel Clemens
Oct 4, 2013

I think we should call the Avengers.

Franchescanado posted:

Serious question, is there a better monster creature feature than Tremors?

Them!

Franchescanado
Feb 23, 2013

If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment

Grimey Drawer
Magic (1978)
Shudder



A failing magician finds success after reinventing himself as a ventriloquist magician with a foul-mouthed puppet, but is forced to hide from the limelight right before his big breakthrough.

An evil puppet movie usually doesn't have a sincere cult following. I hadn't really heard of the movie until I first signed up for Shudder and saw the icon with a young Anthony Hopkins holding a creepy puppet. He's not the only name attached: the film is directed by Richard Attenborough, written by William Goldman (Princess Bride), and the DP is Victor J. Kemper (Dog Day Afternoon, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure)

And it's not an evil puppet movie. Not really. Our grip with reality hinges on Corky (Hopkins), who's losing control--of his career, of his life, his sanity, and his puppet Fatts. Early on we are told the fragile act of misdirection that a magician must have. There is no movie magic subterfuge here--at least not on the surface. Magic tricks are performed right in front of you by Hopkins himself (compared to something the body double juggling of the Goblin King in Labyrinth) early on, Fatts is clearly voiced and operated by Corky, we are shown how Fatts the puppet is animated soon after he is introduced...But then later, during a heated argument between Corky and Fatts, how are Fatts eyes moving around when Corky is clearly on the other side of the room? It's unnerving, for sure, but not because the puppet is spooky and evil, but because Fatts is as much of a character as his owner. The terror isn't in the possibility of the puppet walking around on it's own and attacking someone, it's in the owner believing that it might.

It's not a perfect movie. Attenborough's direction keeps the film subtle, grounded and vague, which allows the story to breathe and twist and turn and the actors to pop off the screen. In fact, I will say that it is a must for any fan of Anthony Hopkins, because his performance as Corky and Fatts is unreal.

:spooky::spooky::spooky::spooky: \ 5, highly recommended.

Movie List | As Above, So Below | Mirror, Mirror ('90) | Magic |

Also, for those who have Shudder, please check out the mini-documentary Primal Screen, made by the filmmakers behind The Nightmare doc and Room 237. It has a person recount a story of seeing the trailer for Magic and it developing his phobia towards puppets. It's a fascinating story, and it was apparently such a common reaction that they had to pull the trailer from being broadcasted.

TrixRabbi
Aug 20, 2010

Time for a little robot chauvinism!

Choco1980 posted:

1. The Last House on Dead End Street. A group of snuff filmmakers connect with some yuppie 8mm porn producers who try to take credit for their "art". So the pornmakers become the stars of the snuffmakers' next picture.

Well then. I've been warned from so many directions about this film, but I had to go there, as it's kinda what I consider the "lost" Video Nasty film. (At one point it went under an alternate title in England of "The Funhouse", so the Tobe Hooper film wound up on the list in its place). According to interviews with the film's creator/star in Nightmare USA, as much amphetamines went into the making of the movie as film did. Boy does it show. There's a very high, nervous energy to the film that I can only attribute to such. Not only that, but there's some pretty extreme gore by the end, stuff that I don't think gets matched until the Guinea Pig movies nearly a decade later. And all of that ignores the bonkers stuff going on in the movie, like the prominence of a Greek God Theater mask, or how at one point a man is made to fellate a deer hoof. All of that combined with how grungy everything is would make a pretty excellent PSA for why not to do hard drugs, kids. Wow.

I gotta wonder if Tracy Letts has seen this.

Irony.or.Death
Apr 1, 2009


4. Friday the 13th part III(1982) - 2/5. Half a step sideways, three steps back. This is sort of a mashup of the first two movies but worse than either for the first hour or so. We've got the original's complete lack of characters and the second movie's, uh, footage. A solid five minutes of it right at the beginning. I know I am more down on recaps than most people and try to remind myself that, as a couple of you have mentioned, the movies were not meant to be marathoned, but this is just pathetic.

Jason is substantially more capable in this one than he is in part 2, and in fact this appears to be where pretty much everything associated with the character in pop culture started. Well, everything other than stashing dead bodies all over the place, which was present (and better executed) in part 2. I'm not sure any of it's an improvement. Without the clumsy overgrown child thing he had going on last time around, there's just not much left to him as a character. I guess you could maybe spin all the overt retreads of the original (bed/hammock kill, body through the window, etc.) as things he learned from watching his mom, but for the most part just kind of boring.

I was all set to give this thing a zero, but it pulls up a little bit towards the end. Once they get over pretending to be coy and lifting things directly from the previous movies there are one or two good kills; I love the eyeball popping out in the head-crushing. A couple of the jokes finally start landing too, like the extended series of frightening logs and ducks in the canoe and the lake jumping retread.

This franchise seems to have been born in self-parody (see: Ralph) and rapidly ran out of ideas from there, but at least one of the people involved had a genuinely solid sense of humor. It is a shame this person was not involved in dialogue. At this point, though, I'll take what I can get. 25% done with the Friday line, maybe I'll survive this after all.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


Part 3 was rushed into production after the success of the 2nd one, and you can really tell the director was phoning it in. It doesn't innovate at all from part 2, which itself had some notable changes from the first one. For better or worse it's the film that really set the series in stone.

Money Bags
Jun 27, 2013

Put me down for 13.

I watched Nosferatu and The Blackcoat's Daughter last night and I'm including them... will post reviews soon. My next film will be The Birds which I currently have on loan from the Library. After that I may need recommendations.

Edit:

Nosferatu

This one almost put me to sleep at 6:00pm but I stuck it out, if nothing else for the visual of Nosferatu rising out of the coffin. There were other neat visuals but a lot of bad editing. The ending could be seen coming w/ the naked eye about 1/4 of the way through the movie but this may be a bit of unfair criticism considering its age. Three out of five spooky jack-o-lanterns!

The Blackcoat's Daugther

The slow burning atmosphere, the draper girl character, and a few choice visuals (mostly taking place in the boiler room) elevate this movie. I would definitely recommend this to fans of the horror genre. One and a half spooky ghost-thumbs up!

Money Bags fucked around with this message at 07:50 on May 3, 2018

gey muckle mowser
Aug 5, 2003

Do you know anything about...
witches?



Buglord
1. Night Train to Terror (1985)
Holy poo poo what an insane movie. I don't think there is any point in the movie where more than a minute goes by without something completely bonkers happening. It's an anthology film about God and Satan arguing over who gets the souls of the various characters in the stories. The framing "story" is super dumb, basically just some kids playing the same terrible rock song over and over again while doing a choreographed dance on a train. The three segments are all loving ridiculous too. I don't really want to spoil anything because I think going in knowing nothing and being constantly surprised really added to the experience.

People throw around the phrases "so bad it's good" and "unintentionally hilarious" a lot, but I don't think that's being fair to this movie - there is no way a movie can be so fun and goofy by accident. I had a stupid grin on my face the entire time, and was laughing out load constantly. Very highly recommended to fans of over-the-top silly 80's horror.

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gey muckle mowser posted:

1. Night Train to Terror (1985)
Holy poo poo what an insane movie. I don't think there is any point in the movie where more than a minute goes by without something completely bonkers happening. It's an anthology film about God and Satan arguing over who gets the souls of the various characters in the stories. The framing "story" is super dumb, basically just some kids playing the same terrible rock song over and over again while doing a choreographed dance on a train. The three segments are all loving ridiculous too. I don't really want to spoil anything because I think going in knowing nothing and being constantly surprised really added to the experience.

People throw around the phrases "so bad it's good" and "unintentionally hilarious" a lot, but I don't think that's being fair to this movie - there is no way a movie can be so fun and goofy by accident. I had a stupid grin on my face the entire time, and was laughing out load constantly. Very highly recommended to fans of over-the-top silly 80's horror.

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I actually agree with you, I think it was last May that people did a punishment stream of Night Train to Terror for people that hadn't reached 13 movies. I watched it and enjoyed it, didn't seem like a punishment to me!

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