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 Friday the 13th Part 2, 1981 I'm starting my all October marathon with something classy. Or maybe the lack of it. Last year, I saw the first Friday the 13th, so I figured I'd watch part 2 this year and just watch one every year from now on. Even the most casual horror fan know the first one is the one without Jason as the killer, and we all know the second one is the one without the hockey mask. It's starts with some atmospheric shot and a bit clumsy flashback sequence of the main character dreaming about the ending of the first movie before she gets killed. We cut back to the town of the first movie and there's a training camp for summer camp counselors right next to Camp Crystal. Apparently this is five years after the first movie or something, but not like that matters. You know what will happen if you even heard about this movie. Bunch of young adults making out, then get stabbed or slashed. The whole rewriting of the Jason mythos about him living out in the forest is clunky as gently caress and make no sense, but it paved the way for the rest of the series, so I won't complain. And believe it or not, the black guy don't die first or even at all. Not that he had any lines in the movie to begin with. I had a great time watching this. The kills weren't that brutal, but still fun and the jump scares were well earned (not that I was ever scared, just that I felt they landed a lot better than any modern movie I can think of). A good start on this marathon. Hot Dog Day #89 fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Oct 1, 2019 |
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Oh, and watching redneck Jason and his flannel covered arm from his POV shots gave me serious Mr. Plinkett vibes. I half expected to hear Mr. Plinkett's voice in those shots.
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Oct 1, 2019 03:03
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T3hRen3gade posted:It's got one of most amazing kills in the entire franchise, when the dude in the wheelchair gets machete'd in the face and kicked down a huge flight of stairs! F13 Part 2 is maybe my favorite of the whole series, possibly rivaled only by Part 4. Don't get me wrong, that kill was great. Just that as a whole, the movie isn't as brutal as some other movies out there.
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 Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers And just like I've watched the first Friday the 13th last year and the sequel this year, I'm doing the same with the Sleepaway Camp movies. I liked the first one a lot. There was far between the killings and it was just more of an straight up movie about summer camp with the usual rear end in a top hat kids and dipshit staff you deal with. Almost not an horror movie. This one is a straight up slasher and they cranked up the kills in this one. I'd say the first one is a better movie, but this one is sure a lot more entertaining with someone getting brutally murdered all the time. It's a lot more campy this way. And there always heavy metal music blasting from the kid's radios and stuff. There's even a copy of Doomsday for the Deceiver by thrash metal band Flotsam and Jetsam propped up between two dead victims at a scene towards the end for no reason. I loving love it. Definitively a fun movie to just drink beer to and enjoy.
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 The Most Dangerous Game, 1932 This one is pretty straight forwards. Guy survives ship wreckage, ends up on island with a creepy rich dude who hunts people for sports. You don't need to know much more than that before going into this movie. It takes its time to get to the actual hunting part (about 40 minutes into this one hour long movie) and the violent bits aren't as in your face as a modern horror film would be, but I wasn't bored a single second of this. It got that 30s charm and a good atmosphere with the setting and characters. It's gruesome and macabre enough to have that good ol' horror feeling and the villain is the type of creep want to see in such a film. This is one every fan of old school horror should watch, especially if you are looking for 1930s movies outside of the usual Universal Pictures lineup.
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 Mandy, 2018 Everyone was all about this movie last year. I can see why. This is some serious tripped up stuff. The visuals are fantastic and the plot beyond deranged. This is more of a straight up fantasy than anything horror, yet there's no doubt this belongs in the horror genre. Nicolas Cage is known as this actor that takes any role in any poo poo movie to pay for his massive debts and tax gently caress ups, and often his performance is crap. Not in this movie. It's amazing. I haven't even touched on the plot, and I don't need to. It's just one of those movies you should watch drunk or drugged up, and just have a trip that goes from weird to loving crazy. Hot Dog Day #89 fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Oct 4, 2019 |
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 The People Under the Stairs, 1991 How come I haven't watched this movie much sooner? It's just perfect for me. Oddball adventure in some crazy murder house rigged with all sorts crazy contraptions. It's just such a weird movie, almost like a deranged adventure film for kids judging by some of the action and comedy, only with loving swearing and gore to show it's not. A kid from the ghetto joins in on a robbery of their dipshit Landlords house, only for the house to be this hosed up little world of all kinds of morbid poo poo. Stuff gets out of hand pretty fast and he is stuck there with this deranged family with little hope of surviving the ordeal. It's a cute and fun movie in that kid going on an adventure sort of way, only way dark and messed up. It's a very fun movie and I'm surprised it's not more well known. Also this movie is a reminder that landlords are scum and should get shot.
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 The Old Dark House, 1932 Not a big fan of this one. I wanted to like it a lot more because it have all sorts of things going for it, but fail to quite hit the mark. It got horror legend Boris Karloff playing a brutish mute butler for some crazy old family in a creepy old mansion, and that rules. What don't rule is this movie is more of a 30s romantic comedy that just happens to take place in a horror setting. I love the setting. A dark house with very much mentally disturbed old siblings that got some dark secrets. Shame it almost gets pushed in the background because the movie focuses on the romantic relations of the people stuck in the place for the night. I mean, it's not a bad movie and I'm glad I watched it, but it was a bit boring because of that. The crazy old people living there and the beast like butler are what makes this movie good, so it's a shame seeing screen time wasted on stuff that's not about them. Cool movie in general, just far from the best old school horror got to offer.
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 The Autopsy of Jane Doe, 2016 Father and son coroners are tasked with doing a late night autopsy of an unidentified female corpse after a mass killing. The police want answers fast to have something to give the press. Nothing about the corpse makes any sense and poo poo just get weirder and weirder as they cut her open. This movie gave me all the good stuff I want in horror. Characters I give a poo poo about, a solid mystery plot, creepy atmosphere and some good and fairly realistic looking gore. Not in any splatter sense, but you do get the feeling they are doing an proper autopsy. The horror isn't just that the corpse got mysteries inside and injuries that makes no sense. Weird poo poo start to happen down in that basement morgue and things goes from dark to grim. This is some top notch modern horror. I'm never scared by any movie, but I sure felt the creeps come over me and I know I'd be scared shitless if I were the type that did get scared from movies. I highly recommend this one.
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 Annihilation, 2018 About time I got some sci-fi into the marathon. This is a very pretty and cool looking movie. Not sure how to give it a plot synopsis that's not just mechanical copy paste, so I'll just go with strange zone where weird poo poo happens, scientists goes in and the main character is depressed and stuff. Something scrambles everything around in the zone, including DNA, so it fucks up all life. I like how it's not very action focused or about mutants killing people. It got that and even some cool gore, but it's hardly the main attraction. It's more character driven and thoughtful next to how most of these type of plots are handled. Lot of the mutations are more pretty and interesting than straight up grotesque deformities, and there's some trippy elements to how things looks, especially towards the end. It got the tone of hard and serious science fiction without going to hard on the scientific explanations. Instead, it's more of an dark adventure into the unknown and facing something something truly alien.
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 30 Days of Night, 2007 This movie was pretty rad. A small town in Alaska is isolated for a month in winter darkness. We got it similar where I live, only we don't live far enough north to have 24 hours of darkness, but this winter darkness is something I'm used to. It's a nice setting for a horror film. The town out in the middle nowhere have all communications cut off by sabotage, people start dying in mass from brutal vampire attacks and poo poo is pretty grim. 30 Days of Night don't hold back on the massacre at all and keep it bleak and brutal. The few survivors have to spend the rest of the month hiding as they get hunted by the vampire horde. It got the elements of a more action driven horror comedy, but instead focuses on more serious horror. So while it got its bad rear end moments and action set pieces, it's the survival element and the horror being hunted that's the main focus. I also dig the vampires. They are the way they should be. Ugly, grotesque and straight up evil. This is definitely one of the best vampire movies of the 2000s. Hot Dog Day #89 fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Oct 9, 2019 |
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 Maniac Cop, 1988 This was a nice movie. Nothing great, but still a worthwhile 80s slasher. It's about a cop killing innocent people. Hows that different from a regular cop you might ask. He kills white people. Either way, there's this big brutish looking cop lurking in the dark streets of New York city that stabs and strangles people. The kills aren't that creative or gory, so the main crux of this film is the mystery of who the killer cop is. Bruce Campbell plays a cop that gets suspected and he is very much underused, which is a pity as his name is featured as selling point to even watch Maniac Cop to begin with. Like I said, it's not a great movie, just nice. You get your 80s slasher fix and there's that magic feel you get from 80s movies, and that's all the reason you need to watch and enjoy something like this. Hot Dog Day #89 fucked around with this message at 10:36 on Oct 10, 2019 |
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 The Little Shop of Horrors, 1960 One of Roger Corman's "classics". He cranked out b-movies nonstop that no one cares about, but this one stuck around with its own cult following. It's a trashy dumb comedy mixed with the horror idea of an overgrown carnivorous plant. Some clumsy dork brings his special plant that he has been growing at home to the flower shop he works at in an attempt to save his job. The plant seem sick, but he finds out it grows and become healthy after he cuts his finger and end up feeding it blood. The plant becomes a sensation as it keep growing, but must be fed every night. You don't have to be genius to figure out where the horror bit comes in. It's a Roger Corman movie, so of course it's trashy and cheap looking. The horror is lame and the nonstop string of jokes are corny. Yet I see why this is a cult classic. It got enough going for it that I never felt bored, and while none of the jokes really landed for me, I was entertained. Not the best movie from the early 60s, but I'm glad I finally watched it.
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 Little Shop of Horrors, 1986 Of course I wasn't going to bed seeing the original without watching the remake. I had this movie taped off TV on VHS as a kid at some point, and I would rewind it a lot to two songs over and over again until it got taped over by some episode of X-Files or whatever. In that sense, it's the first rewatch of this year's marathon. I said songs alright. This one is a musical, all 50s rock 'n' roll and doo-wop. It's amazing stuff. The plot is more or less the same as the original, only handles slightly better in my opinion. The songs are great and the plant looks loving amazing. Maybe it is nostalgia, but this hit hard. The songs, the plot. Such an amazing time watching this. I mean, it got Steve Martin playing the sadistic dentist, and loving Bill Murray to play the masochist patient. I forgot to mention in the review of the original that Jack Nicholson played the role of the masochist getting off on the dentist torture. I think he did a better job playing that role, but Bill Murray did it funnier. An amazing movie that ties in with the 50s nostalgia that was going on in a lot of 80s movies. So glad I watched this.
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I give Bubba Ho-Tep a solid 5/5 and not afraid to say I cried at the end.
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 Bone Tomahawk, 2015 You really don't see western and horror mixed together at all. Bone Tomahawk definitely check both of those boxes. It don't feel like horror most of the time, but it cranks it up all the way towards the end. Most of the movie is spent letting us get to know the characters on their journey towards the horror. It's a very slow movie in that regard, but so rewarding to watch. There's practically no music, just the ambient sounds of the wild. The sounds of the old frontier miles away from any people. The plot is pretty straight forward. Some tribal savages separate and outcast from all the other native American tribes kidnaps some people and the sheriff throws together a small rescue party to go to their land. The horror elements are far and few between until the very end. Then there's some seriously brutal gore and disturbing imagery. This is more a movie you watch when you are in the mood for something more slow, atmospheric and character driven than straight up horror, but drat, the horror bits are just top notch. Maybe one of the best movies I've seen so far in this year's marathon.
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Oct 12, 2019 07:48
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 The Vampire Lovers, 1970 Despite being a life long horror fan, I'm a bit of a latecomer to Hammer Films. In the last few years, I've started to truly discover how great they are. They brought back classic horror in the the late 50s and 60s, only with more blood than what the old film could get away with. They are the very bridge between classic and modern horror. But the start of the 70s is where Hammer Films really started to crank up the sex and violence, and this movie is the start of all that. The Vampire Lovers got it all. Blood, tits, nudity and lesbianism. The plot is fine and all, but what makes these movies so great are they are oozing with style. So I'm not even going to talk about the plot at all. I'm just going to fawn over the set design, the costumes, the blood, the foggy ruins of the castle in the night, the fact Peter Cushing is in it. This is porn for fans of old school horror. I loved every second of this.
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 The Fog, 1980 You can't go wrong with classic John Carpenter. This one being from 1980, it might be a bit tame on the violence, but it sure as gently caress makes up for it when it comes to everything else. On the 100th anniversary of a ship sinking outside a small town, it's revealed that the townsfolk sank it to steal its gold. A 100 years later, the ghostly fog shows up avenge the dead. The dark undead shadows in the fog are great movie monsters in their simplicity, both in motivation and design. Silent and you never get a good look at them. The Fog is a movie that focuses on atmosphere and it's gorgeous setting over jump scares or gore. It got that distinct late 70s to early 80s look that I've often associate with proper horror. I'm glad to finally watched it. Not my favorite John Carpenter movie in terms of being entertaining, but it gets a big thumbs up from me in terms of being well made horror with an eerie feel.
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 Suspiria, 2018 Suspiria from 1977 is one of the most iconic and perhaps best horror movies ever made. Its use of color lightning, the witches coven, the music, the gore, the everything. It just hits hard with its dream like story telling and logic. It's pure horror atmosphere. It will always be one of my top films in any genre due to its 70s magic. So how can anyone even dare to remake such a classic? How can you even make it nearly as good as the original? Suspiria from 2018 is how. The plot starts the same. An American girl joins a German ballet academy and the whole witches coven that runs it slowly gets revealed out through the movie as in the original. But that's where it stops being a remake and goes in its own direction. This is a new and amazing new movie based on the original's idea. It takes place in Berlin during the 70s, and the city is its own world in the movie just as much as the dance school is. You got the RAF terrorist and hostage situation going on in the background of the news. The look of everything with the boarder between east and west. It's just so well made. And I haven't gotten to the horror part apart from the witches. It's grim stuff. It isn't as dreamlike as the original, but there's no doubt dark supernatural forces is at bay. What it lacks in straight up wet blood and gore spilling everywhere, it makes up with in equal brutally and disturbing violence, disfigurement and death. Suspiria 2018 is one of the best movies, not just horror, I've seen all year. Hot Dog Day #89 fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Oct 15, 2019 |
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 The Wolf Man, 1941 I'm starting the portion of the marathon where I watch poo poo I've seen before. I like to get at least one movie from the 40s in these, and it's been a few years since I saw The Wolf Man, so I figured I might as well watch it. It's not my favorite when it comes to classic Universal Pictures horror, but it got plenty going for it. It got fog all over the place in the night scenes, a minor role by Bela Lugosi and over all feel of a proper Universal Pictures film. A bit slow as expected, but not boring to me. But I can total see modern horror fans to bored to tears by this. It's Lon Chaney Jr. debut as a minor horror icon and the first proper werewolf movies, so it is an obligatory movie for any horror fan to watch. While the look of the werewolf isn't scary by today's standards, it's still a classic look due to the movie's importance and it being one of the big titles of the Universal Pictures catalog. Not really much more I need to say. I could go over the plot, but it's not that much to go over other than guy gets bit by werewolf, turns into one the next night. Like I said, not my favorite, but still worth watching at least once if you call your self a horror fan.
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 The Wolfman, 2010 The Wolfman is a sort of remake of The Wolf Man from 1941. It got the same basic plot and names of the characters, but this is a very different film all together. Instead of a modern setting, we get Victorian England. Most it takes place in an small English village like in the original, but we also get to see the the horrors of an mental asylum of that time and old London. The story is much deeper and well done instead of the bare bones plot of guy in makeup stumbling around like in the 40s version. The setting is perfect for classic horror. Foggy nights, an old spooky mansion, the old village, the already mentioned asylum. Just everything just hits right when it comes to setting and costumes. I'm also surprised how much brutal, great kills there is with blood, guts and dismemberment in a mainstream big studio movie. You feel that this was made with care and love rather than something shat out to make as much money as possible. The downside are the outdated and less than great CGI. It's not that bad for the most part, but oof, that bear in the gypsy camp looks so poo poo. I get a bit angry each time I watch that scene. That's how poo poo it is. I had games on my old PS2 with better rendered animals. Besides that, this movie is very underrated. It didn't do that good in box office and critics didn't like it. I've only watched the director's cut, so maybe the theatrical version is poo poo. Not unusual for studios to gently caress films over. Watching this, I remembered Universal Picture's many attempts to reboot their classic horror properties into the "dark universe" or something to rival the Marvel Cinematic Universe. All of them poo poo as far as I know. Why couldn't they have just done this? Made a good adaptation of their old stuff. The Wolfman 2010 is very underrated and I strongly recommend seeing the director's cut.
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 The War of the Worlds, 1953 The big great granddaddy of 50s sci-fi horror about killer aliens. Based on one of the first science fiction novels from way back in 1897, War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, this movie helped spawn the whole sci-fi craze that took over horror almost completely through the 50s. Everything about this movie gets it right. The whole great 50s feel and look. poo poo blowing up, death rays, mass destruction, military people standing around talking strategy and scientists standing around saying science jargon. It's all there. And it's greatly done to show how bleak and dark the whole alien invasion is. There's no hope as no weapons work on them. Every time they got a hope, it's taken away as humanity is killed by the millions and cities are wiped out. It's very brutal stuff next to so many other films like these. And I love the design of the alien ships. It got feel of something from another world, yet have that good ol' time sci-fi feel too. A big bonus is that this one of the few films of this time in color, and it looks amazing as an result with all the strange glowing things and death rays. This one won an Oscar for special effects and it's easy to see why. They are outdated effects these days, sure, but they give the alien war that iconic look. If you are new to 50s sci-fi and horror, then this is one of the best introductions as it never gets boring and never feel cheesy like so many other titles. An absolute classic.
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 Night of the Living Dead, 1968 Wasn't sure what movie to pick next, so I just went with one of my all time films of all time. Not just horror, but movies in general. It's one of the best and most important horror movie ever made. Not just because it created the zombie genre, but because it's such a masterpiece. One of those low budget movies made at the time by a nobody that just changed everything and pushed boundaries. It's not just great looking despite being in black and white, it looks great because it's in black and white. Seeing those shambling dead come out of the pitch black night into the light of the house where the protagonists are trapped will always look eerie and creepy. There's nothing new I can add that hasn't been said a billion times before. If you are a horror fan and never seen this, then you are like a jazz fan that's never hard Miles Davis or John Coltrane, or a metalhead that's never heard Black Sabbath or Darkthrone. It's that iconic and great.
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 Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954 Another oldie I haven't seen in ages. This is often considered the last of the classic Universal Pictures horror movies and an end of an era. This marks the shift from supernatural horror of the previous decades to the science fiction that would dominate out through the 50s and beyond. Instead of gloomy castles and foggy graveyards, we got an scientific expedition to the Amazons. That's not to say they made a complete jump in style. This feels very much like old Universal Pictures, especially towards the very end in the cave. The main attraction like in most of these movies is of course the monster. Gill-Man is one of the studio's iconic monster despite being such a latecomer and it's easy to see why when watching this film. They made two costumes for this. On for surface scenes and one for underwater. Both look identical of course, but both are amazing when it comes to costume design and special effects of the time. The way the face animates and that they had someone swim around in that is really cool. It's a cool movie after all these years and a lot better both in terms of looks and actually having an descent plot than most of the other monster movies from it's time.
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 The Invisible Man, 1933 Re-watched some classic Universal Pictures last night, so I felt I should keep it up. Too lazy to look up if I also saw this one last year. This is maybe my all time favorite Universal Pictures horror movie right after the three Frankenstein ones with Boris Karloff as the monster. I just love The Invisible Man because he is unapologetic evil and mad. He takes delight in killing people and causing destruction. He is technically speaking a tragic villain in that he was driven crazy by the drugs in the formula that made him in him invisible, but that don't make him any less fun. Guess this is another lazy review in that I've written about this movie before and it's such a classic any horror fan already knows. Just watch it if you haven't seen it for whatever reason.
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 Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, 1920 I got to get at least one movie from the 20s into these marathons and you can't go wrong with Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. Dr. Caligari got this goth as gently caress somnambulist, a sleepwalker, as a sideshow attraction. The somnambulist can answer any question in his death like trance, so that's the show in case you wonder why people would pay to see someone sleeping. Murders starts to happen every night as the carnival stays in town and you don't have to be a genius to figure out who is committing them. What makes this movie so interesting is that it's a part of the German expressionism. You can see the buildings and landscape twisted and crooked, giving the world of the film this a dreamlike, nightmarish even, look. That and the color filters of the film to show the mood makes this a very great visual experience. It was a bit slow and boring for me at the start, but around the half way mark when the action really started to happen, I remembered why I like this movie and had a good time watching it. Dr. Caligari turns out to be more than just a sideshow barker and is a real doctor, so I'm wondering, is he the first mad scientist in cinema history? I know we got Frankenstein from 1910 by Edison Manufacturing Company, so I guess that might be the first, but Frankenstein is from a book. Should Dr. Caligar be counted as the first original movie made mad scientist?
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 Jaws, 1975 I'm just gonna keep going back the classics a few more nights, like Jaws. The movie that started the big blockbuster thing and launched Steven Spielberg carrier as a big name director. It spawned countless attempts at other creature features through the 70s and is to blame for tons of lazy shark attack movies many years later. I feel a bit bad seeing a real animal used as a monster. I get that it makes it more realistic and the horror is something that could potentially happen, but there's no doubt Jaws gave sharks a undeserved bad name. That being said, this movie is loving amazing. The first half of the movie have takes place on a small island that lives off the summer tourism, so we got the mayor trying to downplay the danger of shark attacks to save the town's economy. The second half is the boat trip to hunt down the shark. The second half is the best, with Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss out there with a way bigger and more dangerous shark than they were prepared for. At that point, it feels almost like a great adventure rather than a creature feature. It's hard for me to put words on how great Jaws is. The shark is great and the horror scenes effective, but it's the characters and their interaction that really makes this great. Robert Shaw was drunk for real when he did that iconic scene when telling about surviving that torpedo attack during WW2 and watching his crew eaten by sharks. There's so many great scenes and the over all story is great. Truly a classic.
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 Teen Wolf, 1985 And I'm back to seeing movies I never seen before. I would have watched this much earlier in the marathon, but the DVD was broke and I had to ask for a replacement. Yes, I'm using physical media. A) because I like to collect poo poo and B) I don't want to pay for 50 different streaming services to see what I want to see. A DVD is more or less permanent. Anyway, the only link to the horror genre is the werewolf stuff. This is a straight up 80s comedy that just happens to feature them. And when I say 80s comedy, I mean 80s as gently caress. Like peak 80s. So of course I loved teen Wolf. The plot is simple. Michael J. Fox's character is this loser on the school's poo poo basketball team going through changes. Not puberty, but werewolf changes. Turns out lycanthropy is hereditary and his dad is one. Also, that the powers can be used at will, not just during a full moon. He becomes a basketball star and the biggest name in high school, but learns that maybe the fame isn't worth it and he isn't him self. There's no horror stings beside the werewolf stuff, so no killings or anything like that. Still a very fun movie from the most rad decade of pop culture. Hot Dog Day #89 fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Oct 24, 2019 |
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Oct 24, 2019 07:40
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 The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1975 What do I even say about this movie after seeing it every year for such a long time? Do point out its perfect blend of 50s rock 'n' roll with 70s glam rock? Its tributes to old sci-fi and horror? How prefect Tim Curry is as Dr. Frank-N-Furter - A Scientist? I've never watched Phantom of the Paradise from the year before. Maybe that's the perfect horror musical. But after so many years of watching this every year drunk. After watching so many times outside these marathons just as something to pass out drunk to, I'll always hold it up as the greatest horror musical. It's just perfect. Hot Dog Day #89 fucked around with this message at 11:31 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Oct 25, 2019 11:28
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 It Came from Outer Space, 1953 You can't go wrong with some 50s sci-fi horror. It's either gonna be a shitfest you can make fun of or an actually good movie, so it's a win-win either way. It Came from Outer Space is the later type. It got an interesting mystery going and it don't feel as dumb as most of these low budged alien movies. What appears to be an meteorite is actually a spaceship crash landing on earth. The first to investigate the crater sees that, but the ship gets buried soon after and no one believes him. Strange poo poo starts to happen and people go missing. It's surprisingly well done and feels eerie in some scenes. It Came from Outer Space is not as stiff or cheesy as you'd expect it to be. The aliens look very much alien and they way they imitates humans are creepy enough. It's a slow movie like most from this time, but never boring. No forced romance plot and not filled with scenes of people just talking about stuff to pad the run time. If you've gotten the taste for 50s sci-fi horror, then you should watch It Came from Outer Space.
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 The Evil Dead, 1981 I really love Evil Dead II from 1987. It's not just one of my all time favorite horror comedies, it's one of my all time favorite movies ever. It's just a perfect movie to get wasted to. And the sequel Army of Darkness from 1992 is also really great. I watch those movies almost every year. Not necessary as part of this marathon, but any time of the year. But I hardly watch the original movie from 1981. Not because it's a bad movie. It's just not as funny as II. They are pretty much the same movie plot wise, just with the first being more serious while II is a comedic remake/reboot. People go to a cabin, they play the tape, incantations awake the evil dead and poo poo gets hosed. There are obviously differences in how it goes down and the characters in it, just that the basic gist is the same. But watching the original again for the first time in quite a few years, I realize I how awesome it is and I should watch it more often. It got that low budget magic with its low budget monster makeup and low budget gore effects. It just looks so great because of it. I just love how it just builds up toward the climax of everything going from crazy to really hosed up. It's so much fun while having a good horror atmosphere despite how goofy things get at times. I can see why people thought this was the scariest movie of all time back then. And Bruce Campbell takes a real beating in this like he does in the later movies. It never gets old watching him get thrashed around even if it don't have the straight up slapstick feel of the followup. And on top of being a classic, it inspired on of Death's best song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEYCcW0nh4c
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 Lady Frankenstein, 1971 While I spend most of the marathon watching movie I like or know I will like, I got to squeeze in some b-movie poo poo in so I get something to complain about. There's always some poo poo in that b-movie DVD boxset I got. Almost disappointingly, this wasn't as bad as I hoped for. It was bad, but not so much that I hated it. It's the classic Frankenstein story. Frankenstein tries to create life from dead matter, it turns out to be a monster and you know the rest. And that's why I couldn't hate this. It's the good old school poo poo with the castle, the lab full of buzzing machines, science equipment and flasks with bubbling stuff. You just got love that. And the monster looks cool enough. Like what you want a Frankenstein monster to look, but not a compete ripoff off the iconic Boris Karloff look. Wgat make this different from yet another retelling of Frankenstein is the titular main character played by Italian b-movie icon Rosalba Neri. She is great in role of Frankenstein's daughter coming home from medical studies. Her father's experiment is an success, only he hosed up by using a damaged brain, so he is killed by his own creation. The monster roams around the countryside, killing people while our lady takes over, wishing to make her own creation. I make this movie sound very awesome to any horror fans, but trust me, it's kind of poo poo. The scenes with the monster killing is corny and stupid because people run into the monster for no reason, and the script isn't all that good at times. It don't help this wasn't very well mixed sound wise, so you got dialog almost drowned out by the music. It's not very good, but it got all the charm I talked about earlier, so it's very much worth watching to get your b-movie fix.
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Oct 28, 2019 09:48
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 The Others, 2001 The Others is one of my all time favorite haunted house movies. It takes its time to build up the horror, with a focus on the atmosphere and slowly revealing its mystery plot. There's hardly anything that can be called jump scares, if any at all, and the horror don't come from any in your face spooks or demons or whatever. Instead we start off with a hysterical mom living alone with her two children in dark old mansion. She instructs her newly hired servants on how all doors should be locked at all times and not to let light into the rooms while her children are there. She is convinced they are allergic to bright light, so the rooms are kept dark. It turns out the servants have worked in the house before she moved in and that they know some secrets about the house. Slowly, she has to face the fact that there are others in the house besides them. That they aren't alone. I just love every second of this film. It's dark, with very moody lighting from the candles, oil lamps and the few rays of sunshine peaking behind the curtains during the day. Not to mention the increasingly thickening fog that surrounds the gloomy mansion. This is a perfect balance between a psychological thriller and a haunted house movie. If you are looking for blood and monsters, then this isn't the movie for you. But if you are looking for a spooky time that slowly builds up, then this is a modern classic you need to watch.
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Oct 29, 2019 09:53
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 Peeping Tom, 1960 I love this movie so much. Without a doubt one of the best movies to ever come out of the UK. It killed Michael Powell's carrier due to the moral outrage, but it was worth it to get such a masterpiece out there. There's been a few movies that's followed the serial killer, but few as great as this. We follow Carl Boehm, a disturbed young man, with an obsession with capturing fear on his camera, and he is willing to kill to do that. We get to see the sleazy world of pornography and prostitution in the late 50s/early 60s, with it's, by today's standards, vintage look. We get to follow our main character from working in that world as a photographer, then home, trying to act as normal as he can around this young lady that he is renting out a room to. It's such a sweet scene as they talk for the first time, with him trying to not mess up things with his introverted personality, only for her to get that uncomfortable look into how messed up he is. His awkwardness and realization on how he became the broken man he in the story is revealed very early on. Rarely do you ever see a portrayal of a serial killer that is this sympathetic. It's not driven by cruelty or hatred, but by a broken person that grew up with a scientist father that inflicted fear on him in order to study it. And now he inflicts fear on his victims in order to capture it on film, with his camera turned into his weapon of execution. This is truly a beautiful movie. It got all the dark gritty elements to get you hooked, only to make you feel sorry for the killer because you get to see what a sad person he is. Everything in Peeping Tom looks great and this is truly a classic that should be talked about more.
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Oct 30, 2019 10:24
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 Curse of the Fly, 1965 If you are a horror fan, you've watched The Fly. You've watched The Fly from 1958 starring horror icon Vincent Price. A bit slow and tame movie by today's standards, but still a great watch. And you've watched The Fly from 1986 starring Jeff Goldblum and directed by horror legend David Cronenberg. A true classic in body horror that's very deep and well written despite being a gross out monster flick. And you probably know both of these got some lovely sequels. The 80s one got The Fly II from 1989, stupid, but fun b-movie, and the original 50s one got Return of the Fly from 1959, an insultingly bad shitfest. But the 50s one got a second sequel that no one talks about. A good one in fact. Curse of the Fly from 1965 is an underrated, close to a masterpiece of horror. It briefly acknowledges the two first films, but there's no lovely and embarrassing scenes of some idiot stumbling around with a fly mask like in Return of the Fly. Instead, Curse of the Fly is surprisingly closer to the body horror of the 80s one (which isn't a remake in my book, but rather a completely new story based on the same basic idea). It opens with a girl running away from a mental asylum in her underwear, so that's a classy way to get thing started. She is picked by a scientist and they fall in love. It also turns out the scientist got some strange medical issues, and so does his father. They are of the Delambre family, descendants of the scientist of the first movie, and they too have been experimenting with teleportation. poo poo hasn't gone too well for them when it comes to health and there might some failed experiments in the past. There's things in this move that's surprisingly grotesque and morbid for a 60s film and stuff gets pretty dark towards the end. This movie deserves so much more attention from horror fan. If you love The Fly movies and older horror, then treat your self with Curse of the Fly. Hot Dog Day #89 fucked around with this message at 09:53 on Oct 31, 2019 |
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 Death Proof, 2007 It's Halloween in America and I plan to just watch movies and gulp down beer until I pass out or puke all over my self. Whatever comes first, I hope to get at least four movies done before that happens. I'm Starting off with this thriller. I remember Grindhouse from 2007, but missed seeing it in theaters, so I didn't get the experience with the double feature and all the fake grindhouse trailers (some which went on to become real movies down the line). It was set up to give that 70s grindhouse feel with grainy footage and all that with the double feature being Planet Terror and Death Proof back to back. Planet Terror is a great gorefest and probable a better choice for this marathon in terms of it being a straight up horror comedy, but I feel it was too big scale and over the top to be a grindhouse film. Death Proof may be more of a thriller with few horror elements, but with its more simple premise, it feels and looks like a grindhouse film from the 70s. Sure, they got cellphones and there's modern cars driving around, but apart from that, I could by this as a low budget 70s thriller. Its made by Quentin Tarantino, and holy poo poo is it a Quentin Tarantino movie through and through. So much of it is just characters sitting around talking bullshit and shots of girls feet. It even opens with shots of girls feet. The horror is minimal. It takes over 40 min before anything happens, where we get the serial killer of the movie making his strike. He is an old stuntman driver and uses his car to kill. That's the basic stuff I expect from an old grindhouse movie. And it's great. I think you could trim off a lot off the scenes of people talking, but I wasn't bored by any of it and didn't mind. It adds to the feel of the film, and it is so worth it to see some of the best stunt driving and action scenes ever towards the end. If you hate Tarantino, you'll hate Death Proof, but if you are looking for an old school thriller, then loving watch it. Its great.
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 Intruder, 1989 The second movie of the night is one of my favorite underrated slashers of all time. Most slashers got a douchebag cast you want to see killed, this one takes its time to build up a cast you can sort of give a poo poo about. You can feel sympathetic with them. But this being a slasher, you kind of want to see the gruesome ways they'll die. The plot takes place in a convenience store after closing time. All the staff got to work overtime to half price everything as the store has been sold and is to close down permanently, so they are stuck there for the evening. And it being a slasher, they get picked off one by one. I never worked in one, but I've been in the back of one, and there's a big press to crush cardboard boxes. You can bet your rear end it will be used to kill someone. And it got its own butchery, with a saw to cut up chunks of meat. Again, you know there's a brutal kill there. All the posters brag about Bruce Campbell, but he just show up as a cop a few seconds at the very end, so don't expect to him beyond that. But if you want a top quality slasher that got some great kills besides some stabbings, loving watch Intruder.
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Nov 1, 2019 07:08
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 Evil Dead II, 1987 Do I even have to write anything? I saw the original not that long in this marathon and it was great. This on will always be my favorite movie of all time. It will always be funny. It will always be entertaining. Yet, the horror is so amazing among the jokes and gags. What is wrong with you if you don't watch this regular basis? gonna make something to eat before I hit on a third movie.
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Nov 1, 2019 09:06
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 Bubba Ho-Tep, 2002 The third movie of my drunken binge. drat, I love this one. Bruce Campbell, no other, plays Elvis Presley stuck in an nursing home for the elderly. Turns out he changed places with an impersonator to get away from it all, only to loose the paperwork in a BBQ fire and the impersonator's death loving him over. Turns out JFK survived the assassination, but was turned into an black man through surgery. But the main thing in this movie is that's there's ancient Egyptian mummy sucking souls through anuses. A nursing home for the elderly is a perfect cover as the mummy can kill every night without being suspected. With Elvis and JFK on the case, they fight to stop him. It's very much a horror comedy, but few movies get the tear flowing like this one. Partly in how badly and disrespectfully the elderly are treated, but that scene at the end. Elvis looking up at the sky as he is dying. I was in tears the moment I picked the DVD of the shelves for this rewatch.
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 Bad Boy Bubby, 1993 I did not mean to end my horror marathon on this movie, but being Europe and it being the first of November in our time zone, it turns out I got a family gathering in a about hour and i I got to finish on this. A movie only loosely related horror at the start. It's horror the same way Pink Flamingos is horror movie. A guy, whatever the technical term for autism brought on by neglect, has been raised in isolation discover there's a world outside of his apartment after killing his mom. Look, this movie is one of my all time favorite movies and I got to finish it here without the time to write a proper review. Just loving watch it. Now I got to take a shower and pretend I haven't drunk three six pacs + booze. What end to this when I had so many movies planed. I'll score all I've seen later.
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