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Idle Hands and Superbeasto is a pretty serendipitous matchup vibes-wise but I must admit even as a huge Zombie fan and a movie gimmick that is right up my alley- Superbeasto is dire (edit: that Newgrounds quote is very accurate lol). Also way, way, too much Chris Hardwick. Idle Hands is a lot of fun WeaponX fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Feb 19, 2025 |
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Bloody Birthday rocks. During a party scene, keep an eye out for a very bizarre looking clown, juggling and wearing a shirt that says "I Can't Say No!"
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Idle hands is an easy pick for me over superbeasto. Even as a zombie fan I've always thought it sucked.
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It’s Monday. I’m tired. Vote or dont vote. I’m sorry. Superbeasto gave me a migraine last night and kept me up all night and I feel lousy and exhausted all day. So whatever. You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST February 26th (or when I get to it) Next Week! 3. Mostly Japanese Ghost Cats vs 14. Alexandre Aja 6. Lucio Fulci vs 11. Team Drowning in Atmosphere
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Woke up and watched Tomie. Wasn’t quite sure I was awake. Weird. Feels like a kind of incoherent Alice in Wonderland that focused on weird images that didn’t look that great. Probably just gonna abstain since I was very bored by Bloody Birthday.
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  A decisive week for sure. The slasher Bloody Birthday gets a unanimous victory over the jhorror Tomie 7, albeit with only 6 of 9 voters weighing in on that one. And 90s stoner humor nearly gets the unanimous win for Idle Hands but for that lone vote for 2000s edge lord humor for El Superbeasto. But in the end the Zombie Brothers are headed out the door along with Noboru Iguchi and Darth sends two teams into the Field of 64 with Team Almost Mainstream and Team Kookies with Nuts. Ok lets see what we have up next in the actual seeds for Demons and Dolls… 3. (mbd’s Mostly Japanese Ghost Cats) Yoshihiro Ishikawa's Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit vs 14. Alexandre Aja’s Oxygen  Its the 2024 HalloweeNIT winner mbd’s Japanese Ghost Cats! And its not even our first japanese ghost cat movie of the year but this is the now that won its way through 4 rounds in October to get here. Mind you I poo poo the bed and didn’t watch any of the movies and like 3 people voted but a win’s a win. And now I get a second chance to watch Bakeneko when other people will watch it too. Meanwhile it will be a rewatch of Oxygen for me as I’ve seen this one, but Aja hasn’t been seen in this tournament since way back in the first season when he was one and done against Dario Argento’s Suspiria. Tough draw but 5 years later he’s getting a second chance. Its France vs Japan, a second chance for a director who waited a long time for it vs a second appearance by a team that earned their way in here with wins. Lets see who comes out ahead. Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit is out there and available upon request. Oxygen is available for streaming on Netflix. 6. Lucio Fulci’s The Black Cat vs 11. (Darth’s Team Drowning in Atmosphere) Lawrie Brewster’s The Unkindness of Ravens  Fulci’s had a bad run in Bracketology. Not as bad as some. He’s actually drawn most of his most popular films and he’s picked up some wins. But he’s never managed to build any real momentum and make a run. But with two straight years of Carpenter and Craven wins maybe he’s the next legendary Master of Horror to make a run. He’ll attempt to ride the cat wave here to a win although it sounds like this is barely the Poe story its named after and which we’ve seen a bunch fo adaptions of. Vs him is a newcomer in Lawrie Brewster and a very deep cut, under 500 views on Letterboxd Scottish film that multiple reviews say they found in the dollar store. And in yet another instance of the RNG having a mind of its own it sounds like we have another quasi Poe film with the Raven. So have a sort of Poe Tribute Matchup here as its Black Cat vs Ravsn. Lets see who will live nevermore. The Black Cat is available for streaming on Full Moon, Night Flight, and Pluto. The Unkindness of Ravens is available for streaming on Tubi and Vudu. That’s our week. We got a bunch of cats, some mood movies, some deep cuts, and for I think the first time this season the very rare week with zero American films. Its Japan, Italy, France, and Scotland fighting it out in an international mashup. May the best movies win and may us forget that MAGA hell for a week. As always the goal is to just have fun and watch what you want. We try and make sure every film is reasonably available, some are a little harder to find than others and not everyone has the right streaming services so if you need help finding any of the films ask and help might be right around the corner. I don’t know. But we’ll try. You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST March 4th (or when I get to it) Next Week! 4. Lamberto Bava vs. 13. Teamsidious 5. Ratno Timoer vs. 12. Jack Hill Spreadsheet Letterboxd List STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Feb 26, 2025 |
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The movies about ghost cats were clear standouts to me. Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit looks great and The Black Cat was a very cozy watch, so they got my vote over the Aja movie that I saw three years ago, didn't like, and had completely forgotten about (I'd have rewatched it, but I don't have Netflix anymore) and yet another "the real monster is trauma" movie.
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Its Monday. I'm tired. You don't wanna hear about my problems again. I should watch some movies and do some writeups. I and you have about 37 1/2 hours left to do so and vote. And you have less to do than me so thats good. You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST March 5th (or when I get to it) Next Week! 4. Lamberto Bava vs. 13. Teamsidious 5. Ratno Timoer vs. 12. Jack Hill
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I’m sorry to everyone. I had a sleepless night, busy morning, and then pre noon nap and I completely forgot about Bracketology when I got up. My bad.  Its a sweep by the cats. No real surprise there. Alexandra Aja’s return to Bracketology is short lived as it took him 5 years to go 0-2. Rough. Team Drawing in Atmosphere is gone too although they had a better showing. You take what you can get. Fulci becomes the latest big name to advance in this tourney and he’s one win away from the Sweet Sixteen. Or Eighteen. Or 28 by the time we’re done. And it will be the HalloweeNIT winner Japanese Ghost Cats going against him in some cat vs cat combat. Ok, this week is some trouble so lets see what gave me a temper tantrum last night. 4. Lamberto Bava’s Dinner with a Vampire vs. 13. (Weapon X’s Teamsidious) Adam Robitel’s Escape Room  While I feel like I’ve been talking a lot about major name directors taking maybe their last big shot this year this is kind of opposite since Lamberto is a nepo baby picking up where his daddy left off in this tourney. Maybe? Its a deep cut here but a weird enough premise that it might work for people here. And Escape Room is way more negatively received on letterboxd then I expected. I mean I remember thinking it was fine but then again I do tend to feel “fine” about mediocre mainstream films that others get REALLY upset about. And being a sort of Saw/Cube derivative probably doesn’t help either since you’ve got cult fans and those intense gore hound fans. So yeah I dunno. I went in thinking Escape Room had the edge here but I came out of the writeup unsure. Guess we’ll find out. Dinner with a Vampire is available for streaming on Youtube. Escape Room is available for streaming on Fubo and FX Now. 5. Ratno Timoer’s The Devil's Sword vs. 12. Jack Hill’s Isle of the Snake People  Ok so I couldn’t find a single Ratno Timoer film to watch. I tried. I looked for every film, lost my poo poo, took a break, and then looked again and I found one film without subtitles. So what can I do? Maybe someone else will have the secret pass put otherwise Ratno is on his own. Although on paper this seems like his to win since weird rear end crazy indonesian horror is a big hit here and Jack Hill’s Mexican Boris films are… well the story as I remember is that Boris Karloff was basically dying and Hill went to his house and filmed a bunch of scenes with him and then just hacked them into bad Mexican films. I’ve seen a couple of these late Boris Karloff films and as much of a hardcore fan of KARLOFF as I am they’re not great. But its also available to watch for basically everyone. So maybe it wins by default? Or maybe people vote on premise? I have no idea. The Devil's Sword is absolutely nowhere I can find. I tried. Isle of the Snake People is available for streaming on Amazon Prime, Tubi, Plex, Cultpix, and like a dozen other services because apparently it wanted to make up for the rest of this week’s movies. That’s our week. A really hard to find set of films this week. Maybe that’s the problem with our tourney not resetting and going deeper and deeper. Or maybe its just a pair of really tough to find directors in the same week along with one mainstream film that just happens to be kind of off the services. I dunno. But its one week and hopefully next week we have films easier to find. Or maybe someone will do what I couldn’t and find these films. But i promise to keep trying. As always the goal is to just have fun and watch what you want. We try and make sure every film is reasonably available, some are a little harder to find than others and not everyone has the right streaming services so if you need help finding any of the films ask and help might be right around the corner. I don’t know. But we’ll try. You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST March 12th (or when I get to it) Next Week! 1. Wes Craven vs 16. Team Kookies with Nuts 8. The Forgotten Heroes of Garbage: The Americas vs. 9. It's Fun to be a Vampire Spreadsheet Letterboxd List
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I think this is the right one - The Devil's Sword on Dailymotion
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I went with Escape Room and Devil's Sword. I had seen Dinner with a Vampire previously and completely forgot that until about 30 minutes into the movie lol. The comedy bits don't work very well, the dude playing the vampire is having a great time though. The film has a cool premise but bad execution. Escape Room is just a bit better, I dig how the rooms are just over the top in design. Goat kinda tees up the next match perfectly. The Karloff film is rather dull, he's a highlight when he's present and i did like the one scene where the leading lady is running in the cave and then has a snake belt. it's also pretty effective in making everything look hot and humid lol. Devil's Sword is a weird trip down a fantasy horror hole and had me hooting a few times at the fight scenes. theres also crocodile men. I was able to get a dubbed copy if the dailymotion link doesn't work.
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Yeah Dinner With A Vampire kind of doesn’t seem like it knows whether it wants to be a comedy or not. Half the cast are hamming it up and half the cast are way too boringly serious. It’s at best a bunch of interesting ideas executed poorly into a boring film. I would have rather watched the film within the film. That seemed kinda cool. But then I realized even that is basically a recycled element from Bava’s Demons movies. So just a strike out for me. And yeah three different posters are found links to Devils Sword. So thanks to all of them and apparently I suck. But if you need one let me know and I’ll provide links. And there’s an internet archive copy. I’ll edit these into the writeup post. https://archive.org/details/the-devils-sword STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Mar 8, 2025 |
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I watched all four films! Escape Room gets my vote over Dinner With a Vampire easy. Escape Room is just kinda alright. I dig the cast, really enjoyed Deborah Ann Woll in an action role, it’s got some solid elaborate trap sets/scenes, but it sort of goes off the rails at the end. There’s less of a third act for this film than a first act for the next film which is disappointing, deflating, and a pet peeve. Still I enjoyed the road there and Dinner is just bad. A few campy performances aside there’s just nothing positive to take from that. So easy vote. Isle of the Snake People is also an easy vote for me although im certain I’ll be in the minority on that. And I’m fine with that. I can’t claim it’s a good film or better than Devils Sword. But while that Indonesian/Shaw brothers kind of bad isn’t my thing the voodoo/mexican/vaguely Bava vibes of Isle is my thing. Toss in Karloff in actually more of a role than I was expecting. It’s not a good film and I won’t be rewatching it. But I had more fun with it than Sword. Even if I fully expect to be the lone vote for it.
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Its Monday. For once I'm not busy out of my mind. Well busy but doing household chores and watching movies. And maybe starting writeups? Time yet to do so. Just under 47 hours to watch, vote, and discuss this week's movies. You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST March 12th (or when I get to it) Next Week! 1. Wes Craven vs 16. Team Kookies with Nuts 8. The Forgotten Heroes of Garbage: The Americas vs. 9. It's Fun to be a Vampire
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STAC Goat posted:I watched all four films! I voted with you in both matchups. I wouldn't normally expect to vote for Escape Room(like you said, it's just ok), but for whatever reason I just never seem to click with Lamberto. In the other matchup I really enjoy the vibes of both, despite the flaws, but Karloff tipped the scale just enough.
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  So to my complete shock I was on the right side of both votes this week. Escape Room picks up its win over Lamberto Bava’s Dinner with A Vampire and KARLOFF and the Isle of the Snake People beat out the wacky Indonesian swords and sorcery Ratno Timoer’s Devil’s Sword. Which genuinely surprised me. But that means goodbye Lamberto and Ratno and a matchup between Jack Hill and Teamsidious next round. Lets see what we have this week. 1. Wes Craven’s Scream 3 vs 16. (Darth’s Team Kookies with Nuts) Chris Walas’ The Vagrant  Last year’s champion is back and with one of his big two franchises. Mind you you don’t run in this tournament for five years and make a championship run without burning a lot of your best films so what we have now is Scream 3. Which fair minded people can have disagreements over and do. Like many films it seems like Scream 3’s meta pulpy campy take on the franchise is more appreciated today in retrospect than it was at the time. Again, we can agree or disagree. And its competition is gonna be what sounds like another campy film from the 80s starring a familiar face in the late great Bill Paxton. Not to mention the likes of Michael Ironside and Colleen Camp. I don’t know what to expect from this matchup but it seems like its gonna be a campy star studded double feature at least. Sequel Alert: Scream 3 is of course the third Scream movie. If you’re here I assume you’re familiar with the Scream franchise but just in case, yes, this one is fairly continuity heavy. I mean you could probably watch Scream 3 all on its own. There’d be a lot of characters and references and jokes you won’t get but the Scream films do kind of start and stop at their own story. But if you don’t know who Sidney Prescott, Gayle, and Dewey are you should probably check out at the very least the first Scream. Plus its an all time classic so yeah. Watch Scream if you haven’t. Scream 3 is available for streaming on Max. The Vagrant is available for streaming on fubo, MGM+, and Tubi. 8. (Demonia Azul’s The Forgotten Heroes of Garbage: The Americas) Arch Hudson’s Tortured Females vs. 9. (Kangra’s It's Fun to be a Vampire) Wolfgang Groos’ Vampire Sisters  The Tortured Females reviews made me google what the hell a “roughie” is and apparently its an Australian goldfish, but that can’t be right and the Oxford English Dictionary website says there’s three meanings but I have to subscribe to see them? What the gently caress?! What has happened to our society!?!?! Oh also the movie is probably gonna piss me off too, right? But can’t accuse it of not warning you. And similarly I assume Vampire Sisters is a movie about two german teenage vampire sisters. Seems straightforward. This was actually a HalloweeNIT team/film and I had a complete emotional breakdown trying to find these films and like rage quit Bracketology but a bunch of people went and did the work to find a bunch of these movies. So I have Vampire Sisters and will finally watch it. And I guess I’ll watch that other one too. And vote. And you can too. Tortured Females is available for streaming on The Internet Archive Vampire Sisters is out there and available upon request. That’s our week. We’re back in America for 3 out of 4 films this week with a heavy helping of camp and trash. When the most mainstream film of the bunch is the one where Parker Posey fancams her way through As always the goal is to just have fun and watch what you want. We try and make sure every film is reasonably available, some are a little harder to find than others and not everyone has the right streaming services so if you need help finding any of the films ask and help might be right around the corner. I don’t know. But we’ll try. You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST March 19th (or when I get to it) Next Week! 2. Ishirō Honda vs 15. Team Almost Mainstream 7. Acolytes of Corman vs. 10. Team Ladies Love Cruel Jams Spreadsheet Letterboxd List
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Its Monday. Its St Patrick's Day. I have 3 kinds of irish beer and 2 kinds of irish whiskey and some corned beef and I'm gonna enjoy it. But I also have some movies to watch and writeups to finish and by the activity of the thread I bet there's some people here who have movies to watch too. But that's ok because there's still 48 hours left and that should be enough time to get recklessly drunk, sober up, and do what I need to do, right? You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST March 19th (or when I get to it) Next Week! 2. Ishirō Honda vs 15. Team Almost Mainstream 7. Acolytes of Corman vs. 10. Team Ladies Love Cruel Jams
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I'm curious to see what Ishirō Honda has left in the tank, and what Team Ladies Love Cruel Jams will come up with. I didn't end up voting in the Scream 3/The Vagrant matchup, because I've seen both those films before but can't remember them well, and gave them both a 2.5 on Letterboxd, which led to me not wanting to watch them again just to figure out which I disliked less. I voted for Tortured Females because I thought it was kitschy fun, albeit being as close to rape porn as was acceptable in 1965, and Vampire Sisters is a kids' movie and I just felt dumb watching it as a forty-six year old man.
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Haha yea I didn't watch Vampire Sisters but I still voted for it because vampires. Also voted for Wes because this is probably his last hurrah and I also do enjoy Scream 3, maybe more than most. It's not as good as the first two but I'm someone who has never really been into the more recent sequels so that first trilogy always seems to look better and better as the years go by.
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Bracketology will be a little late today. Doctor stuff. But it will happen. I voted Sisters and Scream. I don’t really know what Tortured Females was. It felt more like a badly made fetish film than a movie. Even the horrific content is somehow delivered without any horror because of the incompetence of the production and acting. I routinely forgot that these women were kidnapped and being abused because the film doesn’t care. The weirdest thing is how the entire film is this woman who just escaped telling her story to the cop and the entire time she’s standing there in her torn dress with a breast hanging out and no one cares and there’s no vibe that she’s a victim even from her. It’s just really incompetent and I don’t get the appeal at all. Vampire Sisters is just a fun cute kids film which was at least competently made. Vagrants amusing thanks in large part to Bill Paxton but I kind of got tired of it half way through. Like it runs out its premise and then gets weirder and dumber and sillier almost becoming a different movie. And I just lost interest. Scream 3 is a mess but they’re pretty similar in a lot of ways and ultimately Wes and Scream and all the cast and characters and meta stuff just works a bit better for me.
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A fetish film is exactly what Tortured Females is. I found the limits of their production capabilities charming though, and the content quaint.
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  Wes keeps his winning streak going from last year with a clean victory over The Vagrant. The Scream crew live to fight another day and joining them will be The Forgotten Heroes of American Garbage because Tortured Females inched out a victory over Vampire Sisters. So it will be a team I hate vs Wes in the second round as nature demands it. Lets see what we have for our last first round matchup of this conference. We’re moving along. 2. Ishirō Honda’s King Kong Escapes vs 15. (Darth’s Team Almost Mainstream) Rodman Flender’s Eat Brains Love  Honda’s had a mixed road in Bracketology which is probably to be expected considering his large catalogue of monster flicks that run the gauntlet between cult classic and camp not greatness. And that’s kind of where he is again here with King Kong Escapes, a not super well remembered or regarded sequel to an anime or a crossover or something that introduces Mecha-Kong before Mecha-Zilla. Its an odd bird on paper for sure. But then again so is Eat Brains Love. Rodman Flender picked up one win with his 90s cult classic stoner comedy Idle Hands and now he’s back for a second with… another stoner comedy twenty years later? That’s always a good thing, right? 50 year old dudes doing movies with teenagers and stuff? That never goes wrong. Reviews are pretty mixed with some digging it and some not at all. Which feels like it makes this matchup a real tossup of which imperfect film you vibe with more. Sequel Alert: Kong Escapes IS the fourth King Kong film. I think its sorta a sequel to King Kong vs Godzilla? It actually seems to be an adaption of a Rankin/Bass King Kong anime made by Toho? Its sorta confusing but I don’t think it really matters unless you’re a crazy like me. Its a King Kong movie. He’s a giant gorilla. Things get smashed. Enjoy. King Kong Escapes is available for streaming on The Internet Archive in English and Japanese. Eat Brains Love is available for streaming on Freevee, Tubi, Roku, and Shudder. 7. (Weapon X’s Acolytes of Corman) James Cameron’s The Terminator vs. 10. (Darth’s Team Ladies Love Cruel Jams) Caitlin Cronenberg’s Humane  Roger Corman is already in the Sweet Sixteen but can his Acolytes join him? Well James Cameron and Arnold is a drat good way to get there. It almost seems unfair really but the one thing that feels like it could stop Terminator short is its shaky qualification as a horror film. The argument has and can be made that its a slasher. Arnold is a monster killing people for sure. If he were a zombie instead of a robot there wouldn’t be much question. Still its definitely a bit of outside the box thinking to call it a horror film. And “outside the box” might be the theme here since we have the daughter of legendary oddball David Cronenberg making her Bracketology debut. Its an interesting deal since Daddy David and Brother Brandon have both been in Bracketology and come away winners. So can Caitlin become the first ever 3rd family member to pick up another Bracketology win for the Cronenberg Clan? I really wish I had made that team now. The Terminator is available for streaming on Fubo, Hoopla, MGM+, Roku, Tubi, and Vix. Humane is available for streaming on AMC+, Hulu, and Shudder. That’s our week. King Kong and Arnold showing up in this one plus a third Cronenberg. Also a zombie rom com stoner film. An interesting one for sure. Bracketology randomness on full display. March Madness indeed. As always the goal is to just have fun and watch what you want. We try and make sure every film is reasonably available, some are a little harder to find than others and not everyone has the right streaming services so if you need help finding any of the films ask and help might be right around the corner. I don’t know. But we’ll try. You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST March 26th (or when I get to it) Next Week! 1. Wes Craven vs. 8. The Forgotten Heroes of Garbage: The Americas 12. Jack Hill vs. 13. Teamsidious Spreadsheet Letterboxd List
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Humane is an ok flick, and Terminator is a great one. Sorry other Cronenberg. Will have to check out the other matchup
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I never take genre gatekeeping into consideration here, unless it's a real obvious outlier like that detective show pilot See China and Die where someone just misapplied a genre tag on TMDb because Larry Cohen's name was on it. So yeah, Terminator has my vote in the bag unless I somehow fall in love with a movie that has a 2.7 average on Letterboxd. It's possible, but unlikely. I have a feeling I'll be voting for King Kong Escapes, but we'll see.
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Terminator definitely feels like horror when I'm watching it. Arnie is a slasher villain in that movie.
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Basebf555 posted:Terminator definitely feels like horror when I'm watching it. Arnie is a slasher villain in that movie. I'm thinking of the shot where his eyebrows are missing and he's driving the cop car. Seriously sinister.
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Terminator is definitely horror in my book
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Eat Brains Love wasn’t bad but I’m voting against it purely because it ended before it finished its loving story. The movie narration literally says “I finally have a direction” and then ends. gently caress that. Make a tv show if you want to do that.
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About 2 mins into Humane my wife commented on how Canadian it was and that was all I could the entire rest of the time (she didn't even know it was a Cronenberg) It was good, but it's no Terminator
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Its Monday. I think. I've been under the weather and spent the day in bed so my timetable is a little off. But I think I'm on the right day. And I think there's still about 45 hours left to vote in this week's matchups and then a new one! Your bracket may be busted elsewhere but ours keeps going. You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST March 26th (or when I get to it) Next Week! 1. Wes Craven vs. 8. The Forgotten Heroes of Garbage: The Americas 12. Jack Hill vs. 13. Teamsidious
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Voted for Honda, we must continue to have giant monsters in this competition. We must not allow a giant monster gap!
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I voted for King Kong and Arnold. Watched Humane last night and it was fine enough but nothing super unique or memorable. I mostly came away thinking I'd never want to go to a family dinner with the Cronenbergs. I'm not as high on Terminator as most probably just because I'm not as into the dystopian sci fi stuff or 80s action stuff. But its a good film and a iconic film. And I was probably never gonna gatekeep it for not being horror but watching with that in mind I definitely noticed the slasher/monster influences more especially in the ending. So no problems voting for it. I think I already said my thoughts on Eat Brains Love but its fine but it annoyed me by not actually telling a complete story and nothing it did was good enough to overlook that. I haven't rewatched King Kong Escapes yet and I know its not the best. I plan to get it in today. But at the very least I'm pretty positive I'll have more fun with its dumbness than the EBL's. Now I just have find the energy to do writeups. I might be late tomorrow. I'm sick and have been pretty useless. But I'm working on it.
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Hey, I'm basically on time. Insomnia sometimes helps.  Two pretty decisive and unsurprising wins here. I guess? I wasn’t sure Honda and Kong would take this one but they did. Ultimately its tough topple the Titans. And to no real surprise Terminator dominated and grabs the second shutout of the tournament going Curse of Frankenstein, which seems appropriate. That sends Team Almost Mainstream and Ladies Love Cruel Jams home for the year and moves Ishiro Honda and the Acolytes of Corman into the last matchup of this round. So lets get the second round started. 1. Wes Craven’s Vampire in Brooklyn vs. 8. (Demonio Azul’s The Forgotten Heroes of Garbage: The Americas) Sidney Drew’s A Florida Enchantment  Ok my take on Vampire in Brooklyn is that its another film where Wes was stuck with the limitations of a mainstream studio demands, although in this case its because he was unlucky enough to catch Eddie Murphy in that period of his career where he decided he didn’t want to be be funny anymore and wanted to be taken seriously. So this film has serious tonal issues between its comedy with the likes of Kadeem Hardison and John Witherspoon and its pretty serious straight Dracula story with Murphy and Angela Bassett. But the thing is both of those parts are good and that cast is amazing and this film is a mess but its better than it should be. Is that gonna be enough to get Wes back into the Sweet Sixteen? His opponent is a film that seems more notable than necessarily well regarded. There’s some differences of opinions of what or how exactly its working as one of the first queer films but its clearly at least notable in film history for that. But its also a silent film and those are always working with a handicap. So does it have enough to knock off last year’s champion? Vampire in Brooklyn is available for streaming on fubo and Paramount+. A Florida Enchantment is available for streaming on MGM+, fubo, and really just about anywhere because its public domain including the Internet Archive. 12. Jack Hill’s Blood Bath vs. 13. (Weapon X’s Teamsidious) James Wan’s Saw  Kind of a reverse of the other matchup here where it feels like the mainstream film is gonna roll over the deep cut here. Its a film that is hard to get a read on from reviews since many call it a mess thanks to it being one of those Corman produced films that saw multiple recuts/reshoots but also it sounds like for some people that really kind of made the film’s “artsiness” work for them. But I mean, Saw. The film that basically not only started the arguably largest horror franchise of all time but also started a whole era of horror films and shaped a generation of horror fans (for better or worse). For me it was the horror franchise that my normie friends brought me to go see. But maybe it ages bad? Maybe we just don’t want to revisit that time and the gimmick wore thin? Or maybe the OG still has the chops? I’m kind of personally on the fence of whether I’m gonna bother rewatching a film I’ve seen plenty of times or maybe watch it as an excuse to watch the one sequel I haven’t seen yet? But it feels like Hill (and Co) are drawing dead here. But I’m kind of looking forward to this double feature? Blood Bath is available for streaming an Amazon Prime. Cineverse, MonsterPulp, Plex, Screenpix, Tubi, and The Internet Archive Saw is surprisingly not streaming anywhere officially but IS available for streaming on The Internet Archive That’s our week. I think actually a pretty interesting lineup of movies this week with a mix of mainstream and deep cuts and four different decades, even if we’re all in America. A tough call matchup and a maybe not tough call. We’re two weeks away from a much needed Spring Break but we can’t take the foot off the gas as we’re deciding who makes the Sweet Sixteen! As always the goal is to just have fun and watch what you want. We try and make sure every film is reasonably available, some are a little harder to find than others and not everyone has the right streaming services so if you need help finding any of the films ask and help might be right around the corner. I don’t know. But we’ll try. You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST April 2nd (or when I get to it) Next Week! 2. Ishiro Honda vs. 7. Acolytes of Corman 3. Mostly Japanese Ghost Cats vs. 6. Lucio Fulci Spreadsheet Letterboxd List
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Blood bath ruled!
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Blood Bath was pretty solid. A bit shallow but solidly spooky and I got a kick out of the quasi Bucket of Blood remake aspect. Leaning towards voting it over Saw. I’ll see if I feel compelled to rewatch it to win the vote back.
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Its Monday. I almost forgot. Well not really but I've been sick and today was the first day I felt good and I was doing a lot and I kind of just kept putting this aside. My bad. But enough of that. This isn't blog. This is Bracketology. And there's still about 39+ hours to watch, vote, and discuss in this week's matchups. And then we get the last of the Demons & Dolls bracket (have we had any demons or dolls in it? It probably should have been the Kaiju & Cats bracket.) Whatever. Then Spring Break! You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST April 2nd (or when I get to it) Next Week! 2. Ishiro Honda vs. 7. Acolytes of Corman 3. Mostly Japanese Ghost Cats vs. 6. Lucio Fulci
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