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Theatre of Blood is my favorite Vincent Price movie. A hammy Shakespearean actor (Price) fakes his own death and murders all the critics who were harsh on him in elaborate, Shakespearean-themed murders. It's on the Criterion Channel this month and is just loads of fun. In a more serious vein, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) is still really loving creepy. It's shot like a documentary and has lots of creepy pagan imagery like blood runes and bone talismans. MeatwadIsGod fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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Oct 13, 2020 16:11
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Theatre of Blood is my favorite Vincent Price movie. Mine too. It has this great balance between camp humour and grizzly horror and no one else could have sold the theatricality of the character like Price did. The melancholic intro just sets the tone so well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyDsT2z5RDw
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I really liked the original texas chainsaw massacre. I saw the remake in theatres and it's one of the few movies I've ever walked out on. Now all I can remember about it is that someone brought their kids in the theatre with them to see it. Oof, some people. Hey, for a fun stupid halloween time check out House (the american one from 1986, not the Japanese one which is also amazing, watch both of them). House is just the right level of loving stupid, and it has George Wendt in it. The sequel has John Ratzenberger. Weird Cheers theme going on there. I can't recommend the sequel though some people seem to like it. Best vampire movie: Fright Night, the original, with Roddy Mcdowall. It's especially great if you're familiar with Hammer Dracula movies, but you don't have to be to enjoy it.
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I think Abominable Dr. Phibes is the best Price movie, myself, but it and Theatre of Blood would make for an amazing double feature you could title "Vincent Price Kills Some Dudes in Elaborate and Awesome Ways". Also this might be extremely sappy, but on my third date with my wife we planned to watch a movie at her apartment. I took over Dr. Phibes, knowing that she liked horror movies and comedies. She loved it and has since told me that it's one of her favorite memories from when we started dating. Our first dance at our wedding was to "Over the Rainbow", and everybody was like "Oh that's so sweet, from the Wizard of Oz!" but it wasn't, not for us. It's from Dr. Phibes. Edited to add: Hell yeah Fright Night rocks. Amazing special effects, especially Evil Ed turning into the wolf. Speaking of, I feel bad reading up on Stephen Geoffreys, who played Evil Ed. I thought he was really good in this and assumed he was in a ton of horror and genre movies because of it. Nope, he went into hardcore porno for most of the 90s. A Fancy Hat fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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Oct 13, 2020 16:49
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The Blackcoat's Daughter. Watched it earlier this year and it's unsettling as all get out. Kiernan Shipka is really good.
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Oct 13, 2020 17:04
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I really enjoyed The Autopsy of Jane Doe. Brian Cox awesome as always. A bit of gore and violence which I'm not super into, but enough creepy atmosphere and paranormal feeling stuff to offset that. Also didn't rely too heavily on jump scares, which would have been easy to do given the spoooooky morgue setting.
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a mysterious cloak posted:The Blackcoat's Daughter. Watched it earlier this year and it's unsettling as all get out. Kiernan Shipka is really good. Definitely one of the better horror movies of the last several years. I really like Oz Perkins. He's great at understated, slow-burn horror. I really liked I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House too. I haven't seen his Hansel and Gretel adaptation but it looks cool
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bewbies posted:The VVitch: A New England Folktale Rascar Capac posted:For Halloweeney without being horror how about Taika Waititi’s New Zealand vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows? ultrafilter posted:The Evil Dead trilogy. It's a classic and most people have already seen it, but it deserves a space on any list of scary movies. Sloth Life posted:I've not seen anyone mention The Woman in Black. Its definitely old school and some of the acting isn't great but if you are sensitive to atmosphere, it is a good choice. Its a grey and dull film which works well once you realise everyone is grieving a lost child, or desperate to protect their own and once you realise the Woman is in the background A LOT not just in the jump scares it feels quite oppressive. A Fancy Hat posted:The Frighteners might not be exactly a horror movie, but I watched it last night and enjoyed it. Michael J Fox is really good, and there's a lot of darkness that's just under the surface of his character that I really enjoy. But of course, the best part of the movie is Jeffrey Combs. He's completely unhinged as an FBI agent that was sent to infiltrate cults for years and never got the necessary therapy to deal with it. He manages to be funny, creepy, pitiable, and despicable depending on the scene. It sucks this did so poorly in theaters because it could have become a pretty fun series of movies. The original Wicker Man is weird and great. Almost too low-key for a horror film or a thriller, but it's not completely a mystery either. There's just the growing feeling of something being off in some way you can't define until it all comes out at the end, and the ending isn't just boom, now he's dead. They really draw it out so you can feel the main character's growing realization and despair. The (accidental?) references to Iron Age-ish religion and beliefs is also a bonus. And of course Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare is the greatest horror movie ever made.
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Definitely one of the better horror movies of the last several years. I really like Oz Perkins. He's great at understated, slow-burn horror. I really liked I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House too. I haven't seen his Hansel and Gretel adaptation but it looks cool Haven't seen either of those, but I'll check them out! Thanks.
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Theatre of Blood is my favorite Vincent Price movie. A hammy Shakespearean actor (Price) fakes his own death and murders all the critics who were harsh on him in elaborate, Shakespearean-themed murders. It's on the Criterion Channel this month and is just loads of fun. Fun Fact: Joan Hickson, probably best known for the best version recorded of Miss Marple, plays the wife of one of the critics. I just recently watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and it's just an astonishingly powerful and haunting film, despite being literally 100 years old. The set design is absolutely masterful. Daughters of Darkness, which I never bothered with for years because, after reading a few synopses, I assumed it was a grubby ''let's all drool over the sexy lesbian vampires' schlock thing, but it's actually amazing; it hinges entirely on a mesmerizing performance by Delphine Seyrig. The remake of House on Haunted Hill is great fun, if not exactly great art. Famke Janssen is wonderful as ever and Geoffrey Rush is just doing his very best coked-to-the-eyeballs James woods impression and it is glorious. edit: And it has Jeffrey Combs as... a crazy psycho doctor! Pookah fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Oct 14, 2020 |
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Pookah posted:Daughters of Darkness, which I never bothered with for years because, after reading a few synopses, I assumed it was a grubby ''let's all drool over the sexy lesbian vampires' schlock thing, but it's actually amazing; it hinges entirely on a mesmerizing performance by Delphine Seyrig. I watched this recently too and Seyrig gives legit one of the sexiest performances I've ever seen. I totally buy that every other character in the film is enthralled by her.
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Crimson Peak was overlooked when it first came out, and even now kind of feels like a "lost" Guillermo del Toro movie. It's sandwiched between Pacific Rim and Shape of Water. The plot's pretty thin, the characters aren't super memorable (except for maybe Jessica Chastain's role as an insane, murderous sister) but it's still a really fun movie. Why? Because the house is possibly the best haunted house ever in film. It's a decaying mansion built over a clay mine. The clay is red, which means the water will run red every time you turn on the water. Red clay oozes from every crack in the house. Black moths are all over the house, fluttering around on exposed beams. And there's a hallway that looks like it was designed by someone who thought "I need to make a hallway that looks like it would eat you". At one point in the movie you hear a mournful howl, only for a character to explain that the house just makes that noise sometimes when the wind blows from the east. There's a kitchen full of decaying herbs and spices, an attic room with terrifying mechanical toys, and a basement that connects to a mineshaft and has giant vats of red clay. And oh yeah, when it snows the loving clay tints the snow bright red. And perhaps even more memorable are the ghosts. Holy poo poo the ghosts. All drippy and gross and beautifully realized. They look like what would happen if you were brutally murdered and then trapped in the mortal realm. Features are all distorted and weird, but still obviously human. Highly recommended October watching.
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I need some new Found Footage to watch. I loved VHS and VHS 2, I wish that format would keep pumping out sequels with new sets of directors tbh. they won't all be winners
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TheAardvark posted:I need some new Found Footage to watch. I loved VHS and VHS 2, I wish that format would keep pumping out sequels with new sets of directors tbh. they won't all be winners WNUF Halloween Special The first Paranormal Activity and PA3 are both good Taking of Deborah Logan Hell House, LLC Lake Mungo Trollhunter (not exactly horror but it's so good) Host (the new one on Shudder that's filmed through Zoom)
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TheAardvark posted:I need some new Found Footage to watch. I loved VHS and VHS 2, I wish that format would keep pumping out sequels with new sets of directors tbh. they won't all be winners I dug Grave Encounters. Went in with low expectations and was delighted by what they managed to pull off. The sequel was fun and goofy and maybe didn't have the verve of the first one but was still worth watching! Also The Taking of Deborah Logan. Check those out if you haven't yet, let us know how you like them 
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MeatwadIsGod posted:I really liked I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House too. Watched this last night. Creepy as hell, and possibly best watched with headphones - the ambient sounds are important, but sometimes really subtle.
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TheAardvark posted:I need some new Found Footage to watch. I loved VHS and VHS 2, I wish that format would keep pumping out sequels with new sets of directors tbh. they won't all be winners Noroi is an amazing film; it's Japanese, and is about a ghost investigator making a documentary about some possibly paranormal events event centred around a strange woman. Entity: A reality TV film crew are making an episode investigating the unexplained deaths of 34 people in a remote Siberian forest. I really enjoyed it They're Watching - a home renovation show goes... a little off the rails. Gonjiam - Korean found footage film in which a group of volunteers livestreams their exploration of a supposedly haunted asylum. Fun fact: I had to go down to our dark, crumbly, old basement to get laundry after watching this and it was not a fun time for me. I went through a spate of watching every found footage scary film I could and these were some of my favourites, along with Grave Encounters and Lake Mungo, though the latter messed me up so much I don't think I'll watch it again. I absolutely hated hated Crimson Peak because to me it was like a very lovely frame around a completely absent picture. The basic plot was almost completely forgotten in favour of a really shiny aesthetic. Pookah fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Oct 16, 2020 |
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I watched Scary Stories to tell in the Dark last night and it was enjoyable. If someone wants a horror movie that's creepy at times, yet light on blood and gore, this is a good one. It would probably work well as a family horror night movie with kids of an appropriate age.
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A Fancy Hat posted:Crimson Peak Atmosphere for days. It kinda feels like an old Vincent Price era gothic horror, but in colour and with modern special effects. Not an action packed thrill ride, but it is excellent at being what it wanted to be.
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TheAardvark posted:I need some new Found Footage to watch. I loved VHS and VHS 2, I wish that format would keep pumping out sequels with new sets of directors tbh. they won't all be winners have you seen the original REC from Spain? that's a good one.
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Just watched an anthology horror movie called Tales From the Crib: American Nightmares that felt like a better sequel to Tales From the Hood than the actual sequel. It even has Clarence Williams III in it, but he’s not the horror host this time around. Danny Trejo enjoys that honor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StgB2j2vUTM Steaming on Tubi ruddiger fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Oct 16, 2020 |
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Oct 16, 2020 18:51
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watch "The Shrine", its good also there was a Spanish movie i watched years ago about interdimensional travel / doppelgangers that was pretty good but i can't recall the name at all
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Watched some horror movies lately. The Video Dead from 1987 is a very bad movie that attempts comedy and fails miserably. It has perhaps the most convoluted zombie rules I've seen and the kills are mostly uninteresting and awkward. Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers is also very bad, but at least it has Linnea Quigley in it. I've never actually watched Halloween before and that is a very good movie with incredible atmosphere. Halloween 2 I did not find very interesting, very much just another slasher movie. Anyway, the The Witch is great and people who don't think so are wrong.
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im waiting for it to get dark out and then im going to put on some horror movies that have been recommended here in this thread  might even make some posts while im at it 
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Oct 16, 2020 23:13
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Recently I (again) watched Curse of Chucky and Cult of Chucky. They're both great for what they are. And Brad Dourif's daughter, Fiona Dourif, is the main character in both which is just awesome. I also finally saw Trick 'r Treat yesterday and thought it was pretty good. Sam is so adorable.  edit: here's a toy of Sam because a 30 second search didn't give me what I wanted 
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I rewatched The Ritual last week. Still so good. I have to put on subtitles because my dumb Texan ears can't understand their accents. I love the monster design in it so much. Had anyone mentioned Shadow of the Vampire with Willem Dafoe? It's not scary but it's creepy and neat. He makes a perfect Nosferatu.
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TheAardvark posted:im waiting for it to get dark out and then im going to put on some horror movies that have been recommended here in this thread  it's dark out just gotta get the Hard Lemonade Seltzer™ chilledstarting with Host which i told hgb i was gonna watch weeks ago
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Video Nasty posted:Download it from me here (self-hosted Scooped this up. Gonna transfer it to the comp and peep it out
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I just watched Hereditary and holy gently caress it might rival The Witch as the best horror film of the last 30 years.
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Just watched Army of Darkness 
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a mysterious cloak posted:The Blackcoat's Daughter. Watched it earlier this year and it's unsettling as all get out. Kiernan Shipka is really good. Seconding the Blackcoat's Daughter. It's a really well mad film. VVitch was excellent too.
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Watched The Invisible Man reboot. Pretty good. Does a decent job of building tension and planting seeds that payoff later (both in your face and not). It also plays off a few horror tropes in a fun way since the 'monster' is invisible. The ending was ok. You could figure out where it was going after a certain point, but it was still fine. A big plus is a general lack of musical stings during spooks. They were there, but not overused IMO.
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if a movie's going to do music, they have to go all in on it, like suspiria
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I saw The Evil Dead at a drive-in last week, which was probably my favourite drive-in experience ever. A recent horror movie that's stayed with me is Relic. I was so unnerved by how close some of the imagery looks like some of my nightmares, that I got in touch with the director to let her know and she was pretty tickled by it.
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thank the lord those guys who used to do those awful parody movies in like 2005 aren’t active anymore or we would have ended up with something called “the bvitch” where the goat raps
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Zippy the Bummer posted:watch "The Shrine", its good That sounds like Timecrimes but it's been a minute since I've seen it so I might be mixing it up with something else. I just finished the Borderlands after hearing about it in this thread and man. It is mostly typical found footage ghost stuff but I did not expect the ending at all. "You said it wasn't real!" 
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bones 4 beginners posted:That sounds like Timecrimes but it's been a minute since I've seen it so I might be mixing it up with something else. All I can recall of the premise is that a married couple move into a new apartment that has some kind of dimension-portal and the husband gets trapped in the other dimension and tries to figure out how to escape...or something. Also they might have a kid. I remember it being very creepy and well done for a low-budget film I'd never heard of, and there is a nice cliffhanger at the end. It reminded me of Picnic At Hanging Rock, another spooky film that gave me nightmares as a child.
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fauna posted:thank the lord those guys who used to do those awful parody movies in like 2005 aren’t active anymore or we would have ended up with something called “the bvitch” where the goat raps
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