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I'll be doing at least 31 movies. I'm going to count both new and rewatches, though last year I managed to make it to 31 new on top of a number of rewatches, so we'll see. I'll also be doing all the Fran challenges. Of the new movies, I'm doing seven called shots to clear out some movies I own and haven't seen and the rest I'll figure out as I go: Beyond the Black Rainbow, Castle Freak, Gremlins 2, Phantasm, The Return of the Living Dead, Suspiria (1977), and Westworld. Phantasm won't actually be the version I own, though, since the neighborhood theater near me is doing a midnight show mid-October.
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#1 The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) [Netflix] A fun little ghost/demon story set in a morgue spent almost exclusively with three people: a father, son, and the dead woman whose body they are examining. The movie is slick and has fun with the nude body on display slowly gaining control of the situation without moving a muscle. Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch are both good and believably work as a father/son team. That said, when it descends into straight-up frights rather than just escalating tension it ended up feeling a little less original and the lead actors just running around in terror was, to me, less interesting than watching them grapple with a problem they don't understand. https://i.imgur.com/N8t17nu.mp4 #2 Brightburn (2019) I'm a fan of elseworlds Superman stories, but this one ends up unfortunately muddled. Starting out it could be Man of Steel but with parents that don't do as good a job adapting to their child's special needs. But partway through (and I won't spoiler-tag this, since it's blatant in the trailers), the kid ends up being basically demonically possessed by a telepathic message from his spaceship, which flips the kid's switch from disaffected to psychopathic. It gets entertainingly gory in places, but on the sci-fi side of things everytime they're not directly ripping off the movie they're referencing they end up making the less interesting choice. This was a rewatch to see if I'd like it any more than in the theater, but honestly the missed opportunities were just more apparent and I find myself noticing even more how much less good it looks than the movie it's referencing. https://i.imgur.com/9yBlC6v.mp4 #3 Escape Room (2019) PG-13 Saw, which means less gore, and seemed like it was supposed to mean more engaging puzzles, but that part didn't particularly deliver. It's the sort of movie that has a title card like below. https://i.imgur.com/N0BZDhv.mp4 #4 Aniara (2018) [Hulu] Really loved this one. Swedish sci-fi movie that I wasn't sure would qualify as horror, but I think is bleak enough to count. Highly original and constantly willing to upend the film's status quo, introducing and dismissing plot elements that other movies could over-invest and belabor the point on. The lead actress was really great too and goes through a really impressive transformation. Highly recommend. https://i.imgur.com/L9dgOd5.mp4 #5 Cloverfield (2008) [Netflix] Got it in mind to give this one a rewatch to see how it holds up. Now that we're largely past the found footage event horizon, I don't mind that gimmick so much, and I realized, as a sort of anti-nitpick, that some of the implausibility of how much the cameraman keeps shooting is helped by the fact that this tape was selected by the military from among presumably thousands as one with a lot of good footage. Generally, though, a decent little giant-monster movie that's still fun, shows you the creatures more than I remembered, and presages some of the work with communicating scale that Godzilla (2014) would do even better. Weird seeing T.J. Miller before he was famous enough to be disgraced, though. https://i.imgur.com/YDi0OY9.mp4 #6 Overlord (2018) Bumped this one up in the priority thanks to Franchescanado's strong recommendation, which served me well. Another fine entry into WW2-but-supernatural, this one focuses on speed and gore, moving from gruesome shootouts to freakish monsters at a strong clip. It never quite lives up to the conceptual promise of the thousand-year soldier or brushing against the eternal, but the thrill-ride is so strong I didn't really care. The cast is very good (though the Nazi doctor is under-written and never makes an impression), with Jovan Adepo in the lead a particular standout. https://i.imgur.com/n40Ztmd.mp4 New (4): #1 The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), #3 Escape Room (2019), #4 Aniara (2018), #6 Overlord (2018) Rewatches (2): #2 Brightburn (2019), #5 Cloverfield (2008) Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Sep 30, 2019 |
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Fine, I'll sign up for Shudder for October so I can watch Viy. Is there any reason not to do it through Amazon?
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#7 Replicas (2018) Keanu Reeves's family dies in a car accident, but fortunately he's been working on resurrecting dead soldiers, so it'll be a snap to fix that situation up with no inconvenient complications. The sci-fi aspects of this movie aren't anything you haven't seen before—brain uploading, human minds in robot bodies, clones—but I appreciate how much of the drama of this spins out from human aspects of the story as compared to the standard science-is-bad stance that a lot of movies take. For instance, the problem with resurrecting his wife isn't that she "comes back wrong" Pet Sematary style, but that she might divorce him after she finds him editing their daughter's memories, to which moments Keanu Reeves brings a steady hand at the wheel. Everyone outside the two main characters is pretty thinly sketched, particularly the machinations of the corporation he works for, but that core dynamic is enough to carry the movie. I enjoyed this one. And who doesn't love seeing a robot wearing a business suit? https://i.imgur.com/9CYhhva.mp4 #8 Antiviral (2012) Whereas lack of originality is no problem for this movie. Brandon Cronenberg follows in his dad's footsteps with a grim little movie about the intersection of celebrity worship and biotechnology. The nominal mystery plot of this is very much whatever, but as an excuse to take a tour through the hosed-up world of its main character (Caleb Landry Jones, probably best known as the dickish little brother in Get Out) it's a lot of fun. https://i.imgur.com/qvwoy05.mp4 New (6): #1 The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), #3 Escape Room (2019), #4 Aniara (2018), #6 Overlord (2018), #7 Replicas (2018), #8 Antiviral (2012) Rewatches (2): #2 Brightburn (2019), #5 Cloverfield (2008)
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#9 Higher Power (2018) [Hulu] A mad scientist torments a man into becoming a god in order to save the Earth, in a movie that isn't nearly as interesting as that premise might imply. Two-thirds of the way through this I took a quick break to confirm my guess that, yep, this is a first-time film by a visual-effects artist turned director. The effects are impressive for the budget, and they're able to mostly carry the last act of the movie once things ramp up. Unfortunately, the movie is more than an effects reel, because the characters are uniformly unbelievable and uninteresting, just thinly-drawn vehicles for exposition and ham-fisted motivation to carry the protagonist through a cliched coerced-into-crime plot, which makes most of the actual movie a chore. https://i.imgur.com/NiJ56wn.mp4 New (7): #1 The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), #3 Escape Room (2019), #4 Aniara (2018), #6 Overlord (2018), #7 Replicas (2018), #8 Antiviral (2012), #9 Higher Power (2018) Rewatches (2): #2 Brightburn (2019), #5 Cloverfield (2008)
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#10 A Simple Favor (2018) [Hulu and Amazon Prime] Who knew Paul Feig could direct an actual movie. Blake Lively is surprisingly good and Anna Kendrick predictably good as mismatched moms caught in a web of lies and murder. It's Gone Girl played, if not for laughs, at least amusement with the twists and turns moved rapidly past in recognition that even if their precise details aren't obvious, we all know that nothing will be as it seems at least a few times over. This depends on the chemistry of the leads, and that works, so it's a pretty good time. https://i.imgur.com/7Yy0vNd.mp4 New (8): #1 The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), #3 Escape Room (2019), #4 Aniara (2018), #6 Overlord (2018), #7 Replicas (2018), #8 Antiviral (2012), #9 Higher Power (2018), #10 A Simple Favor (2018) Rewatches (2): #2 Brightburn (2019), #5 Cloverfield (2008)
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#11 What Still Remains (2018) [Netflix] Christian cultists vs dehumanized ravagers in the post-apocalypse with the protagonist caught in the middle. There's apparently zombies or something but they never appear on-screen. Feels like something they shot on the weekend with borrowed props and sets while The Walking Dead wasn't using them, but they didn't have access to the makeup trailer to do actual monsters. Middling performances of entirely familiar characters. Cannot recommend. https://i.imgur.com/iNKcHp9.mp4 #12 Joker (2019) It's hard to distinguish this one from its obvious influences, but that doesn't detract from how beautiful it is or Joaquin Phoenix's intense performance. Not worthy of even the minor controversy around it, it's still a very good time. https://i.imgur.com/ofOKMTB.mp4 New (10): #1 The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), #3 Escape Room (2019), #4 Aniara (2018), #6 Overlord (2018), #7 Replicas (2018), #8 Antiviral (2012), #9 Higher Power (2018), #10 A Simple Favor (2018), #11 What Still Remains (2018), #12 Joker (2019) Rewatches (2): #2 Brightburn (2019), #5 Cloverfield (2008)
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#13 Bad Samaritan (2018) [Amazon Prime] A valet who robs the homes of the people whose cars he parks stumbles across a situation he's totally unprepared for. Some of the air comes out of this from improbable twists and turns (the bad guy's ability to remove multiple rooms' worth of torture poo poo in a few hours removes any sense that the villain is outsmarting the protagonist rather than merely benefiting from having the production crew on his side), but it's got a solid plot hook, moves along quickly enough, and David Tennant is predictably good.  #14 Constantine (2005) Rewatch. Just an absolute blast. I love movies that peel back the mundane to reveal the supernatural and this one does so super stylishly with a great cast and an absolutely top-tier Satan. https://i.imgur.com/CGw8MwD.mp4 New (11): #1 The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), #3 Escape Room (2019), #4 Aniara (2018), #6 Overlord (2018), #7 Replicas (2018), #8 Antiviral (2012), #9 Higher Power (2018), #10 A Simple Favor (2018), #11 What Still Remains (2018), #12 Joker (2019), #13 Bad Samaritan (2018) Rewatches (3): #2 Brightburn (2019), #5 Cloverfield (2008), #14 Constantine (2005) Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Oct 8, 2019 |
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#15 Chronicle (2012) Rewatch. Was partially curious to compare this to Brightburn as evil-Superman story. The character work for the kid / teen is much better in this, but it jumps so fast from the buildup to the screaming-incoherently-and-making-everything-explode stage of things that there's not much time spent on him abusing his powers, which is where there's more opportunity for the straight-up horror that Brightburn delivers on. https://i.imgur.com/nQH1dtb.mp4 #16 In the Shadow of the Moon (2019) [Netflix] A movie you always feel a step ahead of and that path doesn't lead to anything particularly interesting. The early segments are the strongest, when things are more mysterious and there's more Michael C. Hall and Bokeem Woodbine, whereas the latter segments rely almost entirely on Boyd Holbrook and reveal enough of the sci-fi premise that we can see its logic completely fall apart. I love sci-fi mystery / thrillers, so this was a real disappointment.  #17 Fractured (2019) [Netflix] As someone who has defended Sam Worthington's performance in one role (he's legitimately good in Sabotage), I decided to give this a shot, and it's real bad. The reveal at the end, while super predictable, has a couple creepy moments, but the trip there is nowhere near worth it.  #18 Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) Rewatch. Was curious if I'd like this one any more in the theaters with my expectations recalibrated down from Godzilla (2014). If anything I like it less. Now, instead of being surprised that they completely flipped the premise—from humanity being insects that only through extraordinary effort can gain the attention of the monsters to we're now "alpha predators" on their level—I'm irritated how little they do with it. And, man, Kyle Chandler has been good with good material, but his flailing and mugging to make this character work just make things worse. A real letdown after the last two Legendary movies, even if there are some lovely monster moments. Hopefully Adam Wingard can right the ship. https://i.imgur.com/VUeSxTS.mp4 #19 Suspiria (1977) Absolutely beautiful, which is good because the actual plot is nothing much of anything, which makes me wonder why someone apparently bothered to remake it. A very simple idea executed on perfectly. Great score, sound design, wonderfully shot and dressed. Really enjoyed this one. https://i.imgur.com/y02G1Px.mp4 New (14): #1 The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), #3 Escape Room (2019), #4 Aniara (2018), #6 Overlord (2018), #7 Replicas (2018), #8 Antiviral (2012), #9 Higher Power (2018), #10 A Simple Favor (2018), #11 What Still Remains (2018), #12 Joker (2019), #13 Bad Samaritan (2018), #16 In the Shadow of the Moon (2019), #17 Fractured (2019), #19 Suspiria (1977) Rewatches (5): #2 Brightburn (2019), #5 Cloverfield (2008), #14 Constantine (2005), #15 Chronicle (2012), #18 Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Oct 13, 2019 |
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gey muckle mowser posted:Have you seen the remake? It's quite good and wisely takes the same basic premise (dance school that's actually a coven of witches) but runs in totally different directions with it. Worth it for Tilda Swinton alone. It's got issues, like being way too long, but as a huge fan of the original (<-- see avatar) I enjoyed the remake a lot and would suggest checking it out. I haven't seen it. Seems like if you run with it in a totally different direction there's no reason to call it remake, considering it's legal to reuse such a basic premise as witches-at-a-dance-school, but I guess I won't get hung up on that and check it out. I, like all good people, do like Tilda Swinton.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I mean apart from the publicity value of being able to advertise "Suspiria remake" instead of "movie with a similar concept", it's the sort of thing you don't want to chance- even if it's legal you might get threatened anyway and best to save the trouble. Yes, I should clarify that there's not "no reason," there's just only reasons that I think are unfortunate.
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#20 Happy Death Day 2 U (2019) First one of these was a surprisingly good time. Can't say I enjoyed this one quite as much—the attempts to expand the concept are nice, but digging into there being some sci-fi cause to the situation doesn't prove particularly fruitful. But, as any number of others have said before me, the lead in this is great and carries the movie. #21 Predators (2010) Rewatch. Thought it was just okay the first time, but there's so much "actually it's good" that I figured I'd give it another shot, and still found it just okay. There's a lot more conventional action than the first movie and it's all pretty indifferent, the characters don't really stand out beyond their broadest stereotype, and Walton Goggins is criminally wasted. https://i.imgur.com/Z7JS5V7.mp4 #22 Ma (2019) Octavia Spencer does everything she can to make it work, and that's a lot, but the movie gets a lot less interesting and distinct when her character goes from being weird and awkward to full-on psycho. https://i.imgur.com/hPpjLTM.mp4 #23 The Predator (2018) Rewatch. Actually has some solid moments, the action is snapper than Predators, but it becomes more and more disjointed over time as what seem like some significant reshoots take over the movie. #24 In the Tall Grass (2019) Patrick Wilson moves beautifully between affable and menacing, and the tall grass itself looks great, with some really nice illustrations of the shifting environment, but the big evil ends up fairly undefined and the movie doesn't add up to all that much. #25 Us (2019) Rewatch. Great cast, Lupita Nyong'o in particular puts in a really creepy performance, but like Get Out it's never all that scary. https://i.imgur.com/oS5Uxx3.mp4 #26 Phantasm (1979) I enjoyed this a lot. There's a flatness and awkwardness to a lot of it, but that's kinda charming, and when it gets into the sci-fi/supernatural elements it really pops off. Got to see this in a theater, which was fun. Might give one of the sequels a shot next year. https://i.imgur.com/86kO8u3.mp4 #27 Triangle (2009) Rewatch. Was curious whether anything interesting would stand out on a rewatch given I know how the movie goes, but, honestly, not so much, given how much time is spent making everything super clear the first time through, which is hardly a problem. Not sure I can see myself returning to this one again. https://i.imgur.com/2zrkUBW.mp4 #28 Glass (2019) Rewatch. I'm a fan of Shyamalan's embrace of camp and I was all-aboard for a sequel to Split and Unbreakable, but Bruce Willis brings another one of the disinterested performances he's been doing lately, so it's just time spent away from James McAvoy. #29 Personal Shopper (2016) Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #4: Inktober I had this movie, about a woman coping with the death of her brother, in my Netflix queue, and given both me and my deceased mother (the person in my family I was probably the closest to) have a numerical relationship to 22 in our birthdays, this seemed like what I had to do. I can't honestly say that this really resonated with me in regards to all that, but I still very much enjoyed this. Kristen Stewart is very grounded, which fits well with a ghost story that spends much of its time on her day-to-day life. I was actually wondering if there would be an overtly supernatural stuff, and while I wouldn't have minded that necessarily, the times it went for it were low-key creepy. I'd recommend if you're up for a relatively low-stakes ghost story. New (19): #1 The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), #3 Escape Room (2019), #4 Aniara (2018), #6 Overlord (2018), #7 Replicas (2018), #8 Antiviral (2012), #9 Higher Power (2018), #10 A Simple Favor (2018), #11 What Still Remains (2018), #12 Joker (2019), #13 Bad Samaritan (2018), #16 In the Shadow of the Moon (2019), #17 Fractured (2019), #19 Suspiria (1977), #20 Happy Death Day 2 U (2019), #22 Ma (2019), #24 In the Tall Grass (2019), #26 Phantasm (1979), #29 Personal Shopper (2016) Rewatches (10): #2 Brightburn (2019), #5 Cloverfield (2008), #14 Constantine (2005), #15 Chronicle (2012), #18 Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), #21 Predators (2010), #23 The Predator (2018), #25 Us (2019), #27 Triangle (2009), #28 Glass (2019) Super Samhain Challenges (1/13): (#4: Inktober) Personal Shopper (2016)
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Pick a film that you haven't seen that corresponds to any of the Inktober prompts. Please make sure to list which Inktober prompt you are using, and maybe a little detail on how you chose your film.
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#30 Death Proof (2007) Rewatch. The beginning is a little slow with the first group of girls, who aren’t quite as compelling as the second, but things accelerate from there and the ending chase is fantastic. https://i.imgur.com/HiMSUjm.mp4 #31 The Perfection (2018) Dueling cellists are just the start. The sheer pace of the twists and turns makes this one work with an increasing intensity, and the two leads are both compelling. Very good for a Netflix thriller. #32 White Chamber (2018) A less compelling Netflix thriller. A series of pointless torturous experiments in a scientific facility, which is unfortunately ill-defined enough to run past a point about how war makes monsters of us all to a seeming full-on rejection of political belief. #33 From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) Rewatch. Harvey Keitel is good in this, but the vampire stuff kinda sucks, and the faux-Tarantino before it isn’t much better. https://i.imgur.com/2NoH58j.mp4 #34 Child’s Play (2019) Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #6: Sometimes They Come Back I was very surprised to like this one more than the original. I liked that one, but the sci-fi/capitalist-satire aspect of this one is pretty neat, the kid crew is a fun addition, and Mark Hamill works as a replacement for Brad Dourif given that he also needs to do the non-evil version of the doll. https://i.imgur.com/SrVpkBT.mp4 #35 Pooka (2018) Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #8: Happy Holidays! Christmas! Didn’t much care for this. The Pooka costume/doll itself is a nice piece of design, and scene-to-scene it’s frequently well-made, but it didn’t really come together for me. I get why, in terms of the overall whatever that is happening, that it jumps into the craziness stuff immediately, but it means the movie sort of idles in middle gear for the first two-thirds rather than ramping things up. #36 Underworld (2003) #37 Underworld 2 (2006) Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #13: Maniac Rewatch, of course. God knows I can’t claim that these are good, but as someone with nostalgia for everything they’re borrowing from I can’t help but enjoy them, though the first far more so than the second, which spends too little time on the Matrix / White Wolf / hidden city stuff to do monster poo poo. https://i.imgur.com/NWxDYqb.mp4 #38 Westworld (1973) Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #9: Hackers Accomplishes more in an hour and a half than the show has in two seasons of standing around staring at things. A fun first draft on Jurassic Park that leans into Michael Crichton’s clinical verisimilitude, with a delightful villain performance by Yul Brynner. https://i.imgur.com/ff8b714.mp4 #39 Monster Squad (1987) Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #7: Monster Mash-up Godawful. #40 Ghost Stories (2017) Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #12: Cavalcade of Creepiness The actual anthology stories aren’t particularly good or scary, but the wraparound sequence is really fun. #41 Castle Freak (1995) Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #11: All Hail The King Really enjoyed this. The two leads and the titular freak are all great. It’s my second Stuart Gordon film and I’m really enjoying the way he presents the wild gore in a way that’s relatively un-stylized. https://i.imgur.com/QNlpnYt.mp4 #42 Bone Tomahawk (2015) Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #2: Dead & Buried Well-made and impressively gory, but there’s this retrograde vibe to its treatment of the natives, women, it’s worship of strong but civilized men, that makes it hard to love, which makes it hard to fully enjoy it when it so clearly is in love with itself. Wish Sid Haig was in this more, both for his performance and because he's the reason I watched it. #43 Gremlins 2 (1990) Franchescanado posted:Super Samhain Challenge #1: The Best Month Delightful. https://i.imgur.com/yGMmHRu.mp4 New (29): #1 The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), #3 Escape Room (2019), #4 Aniara (2018), #6 Overlord (2018), #7 Replicas (2018), #8 Antiviral (2012), #9 Higher Power (2018), #10 A Simple Favor (2018), #11 What Still Remains (2018), #12 Joker (2019), #13 Bad Samaritan (2018), #16 In the Shadow of the Moon (2019), #17 Fractured (2019), #19 Suspiria (1977), #20 Happy Death Day 2 U (2019), #22 Ma (2019), #24 In the Tall Grass (2019), #26 Phantasm (1979), #29 Personal Shopper (2016), #31 The Perfection (2018), #32 White Chamber (2018), #34 Child’s Play (2019), #35 Pooka (2018), #38 Westworld (1973), #39 Monster Squad (1987), #40 Ghost Stories (2017), #41 Castle Freak (1995), #42 Bone Tomahawk (2015), #43 Gremlins 2 (1990) Rewatches (14): #2 Brightburn (2019), #5 Cloverfield (2008), #14 Constantine (2005), #15 Chronicle (2012), #18 Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), #21 Predators (2010), #23 The Predator (2018), #25 Us (2019), #27 Triangle (2009), #28 Glass (2019), #30 Death Proof (2007), #33 From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), #36 Underworld (2003), #37 Underworld 2 (2006) Super Samhain Challenges (10/13): (#1 The Best Month) Gremlins 2 (1990), (#2 Dead & Buried) Bone Tomahawk (2015), (#4 Inktober) Personal Shopper (2016), (#6 Sometimes They Come Back) Child’s Play (2019), (#7 Monster Mash-up) Monster Squad (1987), (#8 Happy Holidays!) Pooka (2018), (#9 Hackers) Westworld (1973), (#11 All Hail The King) Castle Freak (1995), (#12 Cavalcade of Creepiness) Ghost Stories (2017), (#13 Maniac) Underworld (2003) Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Nov 1, 2019 |
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Watch a horror remake you haven't seen.
Watch a horror film that you haven't seen that takes place on a holiday that isn't Halloween, All Hallow's Eve, Samhain, (edit) Dia De Los Muertos, etc.
Watch your “guilty pleasure” horror film.
Watch a horror movie you haven't seen about CYBERSPACE/computers/haunted technology/etc.
Watch an anthology film you haven’t seen.*
Watch an H.P. Lovecraft adaptation you haven't seen
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#44 Tales from the Hood (1995)Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #3: Horror Noire Was kinda surprised how much this hammered on black-on-black violence. The doll segment, which is more of a straightforward revenge story, was definitely the most enjoyable. https://i.imgur.com/Ecj2vkk.mp4 #45 Baskin (2015) Franchescanado posted:SUPER SAMHAIN CHALLENGE #5: Tourist Trap A lot of this seemed a bit thin, with characters that didn't feel particularly developed, unless that's just me struggling with not having a lot of familiarity with Turkish culture. But the big villain was captivating and the ritual stuff suitably creepy, so a fine one to go out on. New (31): #1 The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), #3 Escape Room (2019), #4 Aniara (2018), #6 Overlord (2018), #7 Replicas (2018), #8 Antiviral (2012), #9 Higher Power (2018), #10 A Simple Favor (2018), #11 What Still Remains (2018), #12 Joker (2019), #13 Bad Samaritan (2018), #16 In the Shadow of the Moon (2019), #17 Fractured (2019), #19 Suspiria (1977), #20 Happy Death Day 2 U (2019), #22 Ma (2019), #24 In the Tall Grass (2019), #26 Phantasm (1979), #29 Personal Shopper (2016), #31 The Perfection (2018), #32 White Chamber (2018), #34 Child’s Play (2019), #35 Pooka (2018), #38 Westworld (1973), #39 Monster Squad (1987), #40 Ghost Stories (2017), #41 Castle Freak (1995), #42 Bone Tomahawk (2015), #43 Gremlins 2 (1990), #44 Tales from the Hood (1995), #45 Baskin (2015) Rewatches (14): #2 Brightburn (2019), #5 Cloverfield (2008), #14 Constantine (2005), #15 Chronicle (2012), #18 Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), #21 Predators (2010), #23 The Predator (2018), #25 Us (2019), #27 Triangle (2009), #28 Glass (2019), #30 Death Proof (2007), #33 From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), #36 Underworld (2003), #37 Underworld 2 (2006) Super Samhain Challenges (12/13): (#1 The Best Month) Gremlins 2 (1990), (#2 Dead & Buried) Bone Tomahawk (2015), (#3 Horror Noire) Tales from the Hood (1995), (#4 Inktober) Personal Shopper (2016), (#5 Tourist Trap) Baskin (2015), (#6 Sometimes They Come Back) Child’s Play (2019), (#7 Monster Mash-up) Monster Squad (1987), (#8 Happy Holidays!) Pooka (2018), (#9 Hackers) Westworld (1973), (#11 All Hail The King) Castle Freak (1995), (#12 Cavalcade of Creepiness) Ghost Stories (2017), (#13 Maniac) Underworld (2003) Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 10:33 on Nov 1, 2019 |
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Final thoughts: I got to 45 movies, of which exactly 31 were new to me, which I'm quite pleased with. I was up to 4:00 am, but I got it done. My number one new movie would probably be Phantasm, though Gremlins 2, Overlord, Aniara, and Castle Freak deserve honorable mentions. Worst new movie was easily Monster Squad; just awful. I named seven movies I was hoping to get to and got to five of them. There was a middle period of the challenge where I was basically just checking out middling Netflix/Amazon poo poo where I probably just have peppered in those last two, but it's actually better than I did last year on the called shots, so some improvement there. Did 12/13 Samhain challenges, missing #10 Navel Gazing. If there was a movie I'd first heard of in this thread I would have gone for it, but everything interesting I saw first somewhere else, like in the horror or genchat threads. Could have done a wildcard, but I have no interest in being given a specific assignment by some random person. So I'm happy with my performance here. All in all in a fun year that got me to watch some movies I really enjoyed that I otherwise might not have put in the effort to put on. Thanks to everyone who participates and makes it such a fun community event.
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