andrew8798
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Post by andrew8798 on Nov 3, 2018 21:29:23 GMT -5
Next Weeks Sven is The Tingler
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andrew8798
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Post by andrew8798 on Nov 4, 2018 2:21:21 GMT -5
I saw that a few months ago. Not very good
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Post by DSR on Nov 4, 2018 8:13:23 GMT -5
I thought THE TINGLER was so-bad-it's-good, though the last time I saw it was with live riffing from Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff.
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El Pollo Guerrera
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Nov 4, 2018 23:41:06 GMT -5
Just got finished watching "Mandy". It is a great movie, but it is very slow and deliberate in it's pacing (just under 2 hours before the end credits). I'm not even sure I would classify it as 'horror', it's more of an action/revenge movie with an incredible amount of blood and gore and bright colours and neon flashing lights. Amazing imagery, great music, intense performances from Cage and Linus Roache (as the cult leader)... high recommendation.
The biker gang, the Black Skulls, did remind me more than a bit of the Plague from "Hobo With A Shotgun"...
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Post by DSR on Nov 5, 2018 1:48:53 GMT -5
I just finished watching Dario Argento's PHENOMENA (1984). Like his earlier SUSPIRIA, it concerns an American girl attending a boarding school in Europe (though this time in Switzerland). While there, she finds out about a murderer in the area! PHENOMENA's Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly) isn't just a carbon copy of SUSPIRIA's Suzy Bannion, though. She's way more headstrong and sassy AND she has a strange psychic connection to insects. She learns more about the insects from Entomologist John McGregor (Donald Pleasance), who is wheelchair-bound and relies on a chimpanzee for assistance. McGregor will encourage Jennifer to find and expose the killer with the help of a Great Sarcophagus Fly, so named because they are naturally drawn to corpses. I've long held PHENOMENA up as my favorite Argento film, though I couldn't quite grasp why before. On this viewing it hit me: a teenager with extraordinary powers and a bald mentor in a wheelchair...this is an X-MEN movie! And I've been a fan of the X-Men since I was 8. We've also got some heavy metal from the likes of Iron Maiden and Motorhead. It doesn't add to the horror mood of the picture, but it does tap into my nostalgia for MTV's Headbanger's Ball. Basically the entire film taps into everything I loved as a kid at once, and had I seen it when I was a kid, I would've crushed like Hell on young Jennifer Connelly (which is not in any way a knock on the current version...she's almost 50 and still gorgeous). And finally, how could you not love a film that has a fly as its protagonist? Not a dude turning into a fly who's supposed to garner sympathy, but a straight-up born-that-way-fly?! Pictured: A hero.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Nov 5, 2018 22:57:02 GMT -5
I must come out to you all about something: I have a psychological condition in which I randomly remember the way Tom in the original Night of the Living Dead pronounces "windows" as "winduhs." How Pennsylvania of him.
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Post by DSR on Nov 5, 2018 22:58:33 GMT -5
I must come out to you all about something: I have a psychological condition in which I randomly remember the way Tom in the original Night of the Living Dead pronounces "windows" as "winduhs." How Pennsylvania of him. They filmed almost that entire movie in that hahs.
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Post by Chainsaw on Nov 5, 2018 23:39:50 GMT -5
I just finished watching Dario Argento's PHENOMENA (1984). Like his earlier SUSPIRIA, it concerns an American girl attending a boarding school in Europe (though this time in Switzerland). While there, she finds out about a murderer in the area! PHENOMENA's Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly) isn't just a carbon copy of SUSPIRIA's Suzy Bannion, though. She's way more headstrong and sassy AND she has a strange psychic connection to insects. She learns more about the insects from Entomologist John McGregor (Donald Pleasance), who is wheelchair-bound and relies on a chimpanzee for assistance. McGregor will encourage Jennifer to find and expose the killer with the help of a Great Sarcophagus Fly, so named because they are naturally drawn to corpses. I've long held PHENOMENA up as my favorite Argento film, though I couldn't quite grasp why before. On this viewing it hit me: a teenager with extraordinary powers and a bald mentor in a wheelchair...this is an X-MEN movie! And I've been a fan of the X-Men since I was 8. We've also got some heavy metal from the likes of Iron Maiden and Motorhead. It doesn't add to the horror mood of the picture, but it does tap into my nostalgia for MTV's Headbanger's Ball. Basically the entire film taps into everything I loved as a kid at once, and had I seen it when I was a kid, I would've crushed like Hell on young Jennifer Connelly (which is not in any way a knock on the current version...she's almost 50 and still gorgeous). And finally, how could you not love a film that has a fly as its protagonist? Not a dude turning into a fly who's supposed to garner sympathy, but a straight-up born-that-way-fly?! Pictured: A hero. The video cover for Phenomenon still sticks with me because they released it on VHS with the image of Connelly's face half eaten away with a swarm of insects flying around her. It fascinated and horrified me as a kid.
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Post by DSR on Nov 7, 2018 1:40:04 GMT -5
Tonight I re-watched SON OF DRACULA (1943), directed by Robert Siodmak and written by Eric Taylor from a story by Robert's brother Curt Siodmak. This, the third film in Universal's Dracula franchise, is set in then-present day Louisiana at a plantation house. There, a young woman named Kay (Louise Allbritton) obsessed with death and the occult, marries and lives with Count Alucard (Lon Chaney Jr., of THE WOLF MAN). Her family and friends sense there's something off about the Count, though their disbelieving minds rule out the possibility of bloodsucking until incontrovertible evidence presents itself. Can sister Claire (Evelyn Ankers of THE MAD GHOUL) and former fiancee Frank (Robert Paige of ABBOTT AND COSTELLO GO TO MARS) save Kaye? Does Kaye even want to be saved? Chaney Jr. doesn't have the sex appeal of a Bela Lugosi, but I like the quiet menace he imbues the count with, seldom raising his voice. He's very matter-of-fact about his willingness to get rid of those who interfere in his plans. He's helped out by some neat effects, transitions from bat-into-man (the first time this is shown in cinema) and mist-into-man and back. It's not a perfect picture, though. The bat prop itself isn't very convincing, but I've grown used to that in these films (Hell, Fulci couldn't get a convincing bat in THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY). Aside from that, they really beat you over the head with the "Alucard is Dracula spelled backwards" bit, and then they're vague about whether Count Alucard is the SON of Dracula as the title declares or if he's Dracula himself. It's a brisk 80 minutes, and it's not the best of either Chaney Jr.'s work or the Dracula franchise, but it's a fun picture, with atmospheric cinematography, moody shadows and whatnot.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 7, 2018 14:15:08 GMT -5
Why you should read DVD covers closely...
Was in a store saw a pack of 4 horror films for 5 bucks. Had
The Fly (original) House of the Damned The Alligator People The Cabinet of Caligari
Look close at the last one. I thought I was getting the silent film The Cabinet of DR Caligari, but instead got the 60s film The Cabinet of Caligari. House of the Damned sucked. The Alligator People was boring.
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Post by DSR on Nov 8, 2018 2:00:55 GMT -5
Well, it showed up a full week after Halloween, but I've finally received and watched NEVER HIKE ALONE (2017). This FRIDAY THE 13TH fan film was a labor of love for Vincente Disanti, who co-wrote, directed, and played Jason in the film. The story is that action blogger Kyle McLeod (Andrew Leighty) is hiking in the woods in the Catskills when he stumbles upon a long-abandoned lake...Crystal Lake, to be precise. He wanders around exploring the cabins, with a nagging feeling that something or someone is watching him until...well, you know. I don't usually venture into fan film territory. I've seen horrible no-budget flicks based on original properties, I've seen horror-loving shitheads crank out pure drivel and I largely assume the same is what's in store from folks who post a free video of themselves meandering through the woods in a hockey mask on Youtube. Disanti already had a career in Hollywood before he decided to put together this flick: he was an animator for CGI films, but he was able to make connections from that job to get this project made. The result is that NEVER HIKE ALONE has the look and the feel of a genuine movie. The film has its own original score with real musicians (a genuinely good soundtrack courtesy of Ryan Perez Daple), beautiful woodland cinematography, convincing gore effects, and an actual name actor (I don't want to spoil it for people that haven't seen it). Aside from not having the actual rights to the property, this is a FRIDAY THE 13TH movie! Admittedly, it's not an F13 film in the sense of teenagers getting f***ed and getting killed. This is one man, alone (...ish) in the woods. NHA doesn't follow the kill-every-10-minutes formula, instead building up a sense of isolation and dread for our likable protagonist before the cat-and-mouse game of the second half. It's cool, though, because the threat of Jason builds anticipation for one he will strike. The film is only 54 minutes long and feels like it's half that, and you can watch it for absolutely free on Youtube, so why wouldn't you?! Go check it out!
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Nov 9, 2018 3:11:56 GMT -5
I figured I would at least list all of the movies I watched in October cause why not? Yes, some of them were because I read about them in this thread. I found a good number of movies on Tubi. Also just from stuff being played on TV, so nothing too out of the box this year. 1. Prey (2007) 2. Ghoulies (1984) 3. Life (2017) 4. Lights Out (2016) 5. Blood and Chocolate (2007) 6. Tremors 4 (2004) 7. The Hallow (2015) 8. Devil (2010) 9. The Quiet Ones (2014) 10. Frankenstein (1931) 11. Dementia 13 (2017) 12. Leatherface (2017) 13. Flatliners (2017) 14. Splinter (2008) 15. Harbinger Down (2015) 16. Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943) 17. Bad Moon (1996) 18. Wolves (2014) 19. The Bye Bye Man (2017) 20. Kiss the Girls (1997) 21. The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) 22. Burning Bright (2010) 23. Waxwork (1988) 24. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 25. See No Evil 2 (2014) 26. Dagon (2001) I kind of miss really being into horror movies but at least October gives me a chance to get back to those days for a little while anyway.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Nov 9, 2018 10:15:10 GMT -5
Watched Bram Stoker's Dracula. It gets better and better every I time I watch it. Yes, it's got THAT Keanu Reeves performance, and there are points where I have no idea what the hell is going on, but it's such a visual feast and everyone else is dialing it up to an 11 in the camp department that it seems like a film truly made for me.
Does it get any better than Anthony Hopkins throwing severed heads off a castle yelling "JACKYL" with blood smeared all over his face? Does it, really?
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Post by DSR on Nov 10, 2018 0:01:38 GMT -5
Just got done hanging with some friends. We watched THE GATE (1986), in which a pair of preteen boys try to close a portal to Hell in their backyard with the help of one boy's older sister, who's babysitting them for the weekend. It's basically THE EVIL DEAD for children. Fun for riffing, with vibrant 80s fashions and attitudes, but gets a bit tedious towards the end. Stars Stephen Dorff (of BLADE fame).
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Nov 11, 2018 12:08:42 GMT -5
My review of The House on Sorority Row (1983)
The House on Sorority Row may be partly inspired by Les Diaboliques, but it could just as well pass as a quasi-sequel to Black Christmas. Beyond the “killer in a sorority house” conceit, it traverses much of the same ground and even goes a step further. Bob Clark’s anti-Christmas classic timely dealt with the fallout of Roe v. Wade, but here we go to the next step and see the fallout of a traumatic pregnancy. House mother Dorothy Slater is basically Mrs. MacHenry multiplied by Pamela Voorhees. The killer’s motive veers more into Oedipal territory where as the one in Black Christmas just barely hinted at it. The female lead even has a romantic interest named Peter, much like Olivia Hussey’s Jess did.
Also, much like Black Christmas, it’s got a sense of humor. There are no witty one-liners here, and literally none of the girls can compare to Margot Kidder’s Barb, but there are points when the girls are trying to cover Slater’s murder that it starts to resemble some incredibly dark situation comedy. The girls are such bumbling goofs that it’s hoot watching them decide that even if after they’ve killed a person, the best thing to do is just wait until their grad party is over to deal with it! It’s all so Weekend at Bernie’s before that film ever came into existence.
I’d want to spend more time discussing what the film can claim as truly its own but, well, it doesn’t really have much. The plot alone is similar to dozens of other early ‘80s slasher flicks. The acting and gore don’t particularly stand out, either. As with any horror film with a predominantly female cast, I’m usually tempted to wring out some weighty feminist meaning to it all, but I don’t even feel too compelled to do that. There is some murky commentary here on the politics of fertility and motherhood, and how that informs Slater’s hatred of the girls, but that’s a thesis paper for another day.
Fortunately, what the films lacks in originality it makes up for in competence. It simply does things better than its contemporaries. It’s better paced, better filmed, and better soundtracked. The film’s finale in the sorority house with Katey and Dr. Beck is beautifully lit in purple and green. At the least, it handles the whodunnit aspect of the plot a bit better than, say, the original Friday the 13th. It creatively dances around presenting the killer’s physical appearance by having him don a clown suit in the film’s final showdown, which is probably the only time the film gets close to being genuinely creepy.
So, yes, The House on Sorority Row doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but to penalize it for that would be to also write off the billions of other slashers that do exactly the same thing and where’s the fun in that? This is still a good way to kill 90 minutes. It’s paint-by-numbers, but it’s the craft behind the paint that proves enough to give it a passing grade.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Nov 11, 2018 14:14:43 GMT -5
Only been able to check out four movies this month so far. They’ve all been horror though.
The Beast Must Die: The poster for this movie is badass and it features Peter Cushing with a rifle. Also, that title is awesome and it comes from Amicus, the studio behind Tales From the Crypt and the Vault of Horror. All that said though the movie is pretty disappointing. It features an eccentric hunter who has several guests out at his remote mansion. They find that a werewolf has been on the grounds and it has to be one of them. As the title says, The Beast Must Die!
The Secret of the Blue Room: A 1933 movie that could be defined as multi genre but IMDB counts one of them as horror, and I will too. The old woman from Titanic is in this and plays the blonde bombshell character. It’s about several potential suitors/friends of hers, three of which try to impress her with a wager. There is a legend that the blue room in the mansion they are staying is haunted so they each day they will spend one night in the room to prove their courage. When the first guy goes missing all heck breaks loose. Not a bad movie and very short at only 66 minutes. It makes for nice brief watch when you want to see a movie, but don’t know if you have enough time.
Creepozoids: This is one of those movies I’ve been waiting over a decade to see. It’s essentially a ripoff of Aliens from Full Moon. It was a fun movie and one that isn’t too long so it doesn’t drag on. The main monster isn’t that badly made either. They definitely should have taken a less is more approach though. For instance, if they showed the monster more briefly and introduced him in quicker shots it would have been easier to suspend disbelief. With longer shots though it becomes too clear that they are Aliens but on a budget. Worse though is that in addiction to the main alien they have these giant rats that just look like stuffed animals and a killer mutant baby. The latter disappointed me especially as I like Full Moon’s killer dolls, puppets, babies, etc., but they have just gone to that well so many times. I just wanted an alien movie. Still, fun and with some nudity if you like that kind of thing.
Barn of the Naked Dead: Speaking of nudity this movie has surprisingly very little of it. It also has to be objectively the worst of the bunch by far. It’s about the mentally unstable son of a circus ring master who lives in the middle of nowhere. When cars break down near him and perhaps in some other ways that aren’t explained particularly well he abducts women and locks them in his barn. Despite the title usually they are alive and clothed. As the plot unfolds it comes out that he thinks the women are animals and he trains them for a circus that only exists in his mind. When they disobey him he punishes them to varying degrees. The movie has a ton of plot holes and the main actor who has appeared in nearly 200 titles described it as the only movie he ever regretted making. In any case it’s still a really fun watch in an, “I can’t believe this actually qualifies as a movie” kind of way.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 11, 2018 14:44:12 GMT -5
Been trying to watch at least a movies every other day.
Poltergeist II Blu Ray -Sounds good,but in some scenes there is this weird haze of grain. No extras really.
House of the Damned DVD- Early 60s tripe. Barely over an hour but feels like it is 3 hours.
The Alligator People DVD -Late 50s creature Feature with Lon Chaney JR. MEH.
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Post by DSR on Nov 11, 2018 21:06:05 GMT -5
So, since April 1st, I've been trying to challenge myself to watch at least one movie a day for a full year (I didn't start in April for any particular reason, it's purely arbitrary). Anyway, I've missed a couple days here and there, but I ramped it up for October. Now I'm back down to one a day. When I watch something horror I'll mention it, but obviously other stuff wouldn't apply here. Anyway, here's the stuff I watched yesterday and today:
MURDERS IN THE ZOO (1933) is a quick, early horror from Paramount Pictures. In it, Lionel Atwill (one of the unsung icons of horror, starring in this, SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE VAMPIRE BAT, and others) plays a trapper of wild animals for a major American zoo (I don't recall the name, but some area kids have thick New Yawk accents). The animal collector also has a beautiful wife (Kathleen Burke) who doesn't love him, and when other men threaten to take her away, he gets violently jealous.
Pretty grisly for the time period, the film actually shows a man with his mouth sewn shut, a victim of Atwill's character. Though there is plenty of comic relief, as the top-billed man in the picture is actually Charlie Ruggles, a comedian. At any rate, it's a solid little picture, just barely over an hour. If you like 30s horror, it should be right up your alley.
THE FINAL GIRLS (2014) stars Taissa Farmiga of American Horror Story (multiple seasons). Taissa plays Max, a teenaged girl who's mother (Malin Akerman, of WATCHMEN) died in a car accident three years ago. Now, on the anniversary of her mother's death, Max and her friends attend a screening of CAMP BLOODBATH, the mid-1980s slasher film Max's mom starred in prior to giving birth to Max. A freak accident causes a fire in the theater and the girl and her compatriots attempt to escape through an exit behind the film screen. Only, they wind up exiting into the film (a la LAST ACTION HERO). Now these modern day, real-world teens have to learn to survive the 80s...well, a version of the 80s with a machete-wielding killer on the loose. Not only that, but the still-grieving Max has to process spending time with her mother's character from the movie, who is destined to be slaughtered.
At times an affectionate parody of slasher cliches, at other times a touching mother-daughter drama, this film isn't scary, but it's excellent at the modes it's reaching for. Supporting roles are filled by young comic talents, like Alia Shawkat (of Arrested Development) Adam DeVine (Workaholics), Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley) who are all delightful. The dramatic scenes between Farmiga and Akerman tug at the heartstrings well. There's a great synth score by Gregory James Jenkins, dizzying and disorienting camerawork, and a color-palette that's evocative of what people nowadays kinda sorta wish the 80s actually looked like. Also, the film was co-written by Joshua John Miller, son of Jason Miller (who played Father Karras in THE EXORCIST), so clearly he knows a thing or two about being the offspring of a horror film star. And while the FRIDAY THE 13TH franchise is the most obvious of the homages, the film also references THE BURNING, PIECES, and CHOPPING MALL, probably more I'm forgetting. Definitely check it out.
I watched the version on OnDemand from Freeform, so some dialogue is edited, but I don't mind. The first time I watched most slasher movies was on basic cable. Even the dialogue changes felt nostalgic to me.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Nov 13, 2018 6:52:33 GMT -5
My only other viewing for October Horror wise was Halloween (2018) Which I enjoyed a lot.
Is it as good as the original? No.
Is it on par with Halloween 2? Yes but I like the different take this one had of not being related to Laurie.
Is it better than Season of the Witch, Return, Revenge, Curse, Water, Busta Rhymes Kung Fu, Zombie 1 & Zombie 2? Yes of course it is.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Nov 13, 2018 13:45:08 GMT -5
Just finished the classic Skinned Alive.
Probably would have been a lot of fun in better, more capable hands, but dear lord...
I know the blame lies in the low budget, but dear lord...
The stomach being skinned looked more like someone slicing through a bloody birthday cake.
I had bad movie fun with this one but anyone even slightly honest will admit it's a piece of cap.
The long lost cousin of the mom from Sleepaway Camp didn't help.
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