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Post by DSR on Feb 15, 2024 20:09:52 GMT -5
Ultimo Gallos, I covered Mississippi with 1975's THE PREMONITION. Thanks for looking out though. 50 States Horror Project: Mississippi THE PREMONITION (1975) comes from producer/director/co-writer Robert Allen Schnitzer. This film concerns 6-year old Janie, who believes her parents to be Physics professor Miles Bennett (Edward Bell, GYMKATA) and his blonde wife Sheri (Sharon Farrell, 1974's IT'S ALIVE). Janie is blissfully unaware that these are her adoptive parents, and her actual mother is a former concert pianist named Andrea (Ellen Barber, BLOOD BRIDE). Andrea lost custody of Janie when she was sent to a psychiatric facility for mental health problems. Andrea never forgot about Janie, though, and is eventually able to track the girl down at school with the help of circus clown Jude (Richard Lynch, PUPPET MASTER III: TOULON'S REVENGE). Some time after Andrea's brief interaction with Janie, she and Jude plot to kidnap Janie and take her back home with them! Sheri is just barely able to thwart those plans, but she begins to have strange, nightmarish visions. Sheri grows to believe these visions are caused by Andrea having put some type of hex on her! Sheri's husband Miles follows typical horror movie husband protocol by remaining skeptical of the things his wife tells him she's seeing. However, one of Miles's colleagues at his college, Dr. Jeena Kingsley (Chitra Neogy, ELIZA'S HOROSCOPE) is conducting research into parapsychology, the study of psychic phenomena. Dr. Kingsley's research leads her to believe there may be truth to Sheri's fears and that the Bennett family may have to find solutions from beyond the physical world in order to locate their missing daughter! THE PREMONITION plays out largely like a psychological thriller and a police procedural, though there are obviously supernatural elements thrown into the proceedings. There are a few scenes that offer experimental camera angles and the film has a haunting score from opera composer Henry Mollicone, but there are also stretches of dry scientific debate about the validity of parapsychology. The middle portion where the husband seems disbelieving felt too formulaic. I liked Richard Lynch's performance. I know I barely mentioned him, but Jude is a pretty captivating character. He seems to really like Andrea and want to settle into a real family unit with her and Janie. Andrea just wants her daughter back and seems to see Jude as a means to an end. The score is good and Richard Lynch is good, but I could take or leave the rest of this picture.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Feb 15, 2024 20:50:47 GMT -5
So hey DSR if you aint did Mississippi yet Mississippi River Sharks ,on TUBI is set in MS and filmed in Ocean Springs MS. I had no idea this was made down that way about 10 years ago. One of the owners of AWA Pro is a Ocean Springs Alderman and while talking to him earlier he mentioned it. Standard shark movie. Got Jason London playing himself,and Cassie Steele as the female lead. I guess it’s not really weird, but it’s interesting that Jason and Jeremy London are still acting and their careers have always been about level as far as I know. In the 1990s they appeared in a bunch of mainstream, popular stuff. Now they’re both acting in low budget stuff. I can only imagine how many times some variation of this conversation has happened… Producer: Get me one of the London brothers for this role! Casting Director: Which one? Producer: Whichever one is cheaper!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Feb 15, 2024 21:16:18 GMT -5
So hey DSR if you aint did Mississippi yet Mississippi River Sharks ,on TUBI is set in MS and filmed in Ocean Springs MS. I had no idea this was made down that way about 10 years ago. One of the owners of AWA Pro is a Ocean Springs Alderman and while talking to him earlier he mentioned it. Standard shark movie. Got Jason London playing himself,and Cassie Steele as the female lead. I guess it’s not really weird, but it’s interesting that Jason and Jeremy London are still acting and their careers have always been about level as far as I know. In the 1990s they appeared in a bunch of mainstream, popular stuff. Now they’re both acting in low budget stuff. I can only imagine how many times some variation of this conversation has happened… Producer: Get me one of the London brothers for this role! Casting Director: Which one? Producer: Whichever one is cheaper! Jason lived in or near Biloxi for years. If rumors are true that last line might be changed ot Whichever one is SOBER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Feb 16, 2024 15:57:40 GMT -5
Barely and hour and still horrid,Sorority Babes in the Slime Ball Bowl A Rama II is barely worth watching off TUBI.
Even if they got cameos from two of the original films cast.
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Post by mystermystery on Feb 16, 2024 20:35:32 GMT -5
I randomly saw a dude wearing a promotional t-shirt for the 2008 movie THE EYE starring Jessica Biel...so I looked up the film and watched it. T-Shirt success?
The CGI is pretty daggone wonky and the editing is quick cut garbage, but the concept is fun in a weird mish-mash of The Ghost Whisperer and Final Destination. Biel plays a blind women who receives a cornea transplant but, whoops, the donor could see ghosts which makes the process of having sight even more difficult than the usual things to overcome. An incredibly young Chloe Grace Moretz plays a child cancer patient and does well in the role.
Anyway, it's not as bad as is reputation might suggest.
I also watched EVE OF DESTRUCTION where a scientist builds a fully functional robot that looks like her and gives it all of her memories (including the traumatic ones?!) in order to prove that efficient machines can be built. This goes badly when the robot's handler is murdered in a bank robbery during a field test and it starts acting on the desires and fantasies of the woman who programmed it. Oh...and did I mention she's a walking nuke? Because of course she is. Essentially a bit of a Terminator rip-off with a non-tap dancing Gregory Hines in the "Gotta take down the machine" hero role. It may be more Sci-Fi Action than Sci-Fi Horror, but near the end the film does add some good tension when the robot plans to kidnap "her child" to take and raise .
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Post by DSR on Feb 17, 2024 1:22:04 GMT -5
So, it's that time of year again. Gorezone.net's doing their annual Best Of poll, so I'm trying to watch a few more horror films released in 2023 so I can put up something of a ballot for it.
HOWEVER, I don't want to spend money on a streaming service, so I'm watching what's available on Tubi for free, or what I can buy from the local Redbox (feels like these are a dwindling thing, but there's still a few around me).
CHILDREN OF THE CORN (2020) is the latest in a long line of films based on Stephen King's short story. It finally got distribution through Shudder last year, so that's why it's eligible. A small corn farming community signed a bad deal with a chemical company, resulting in the town's corn crop dying out. In an effort to save their own bank accounts, the adults in town agree to take a subsidy to destroy what's left of their corn. But the children of town have established their own little community in the cornfields, led by a little girl named Eden (Kate Moyer, 2018's OUR HOUSE). Eden communicates with He Who Walks, a mysterious creature living in the cornfield who doesn't want his habitat taken away, causing Eden to stage a hostile takeover of the town and kill any adults who disagree with her! Caught in the middle of this generational war is Bo Williams (Elena Kampouris, MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 2), who will be leaving town for college in another year, but in the meantime disagrees with the adult's "selling their souls for profit" but also doesn't think the solution is "kill everybody".
The film touches on socio-political themes that are still prevalent, but does so in the most strawman-y way possible. As a scare-a-thon, CHILDREN features some unsettling little kids, but I found He Who Walks to be unconvincing. I didn't think the movie was as out and out terrible as I've seen other reviewers call it, but I honestly can't praise the movie, either. It's got some decent ideas that it just didn't handle well.
FREDDY'S FRIDAYS (2023) is an extremely low budget supernatural slasher. Every Friday for six weeks, a sleazy stockbroker (Jase Rivers, MONSTERNADO) picks up some woman - an escort, a stripper, someone along those lines - and pays her a lot of money so he can take her to a creepy warehouse where he makes her read a Latin sentence. Doing so summons a group of demons who look and act sort of like funhouse animatronics for no discernible reason.
One of the stockbroker's victims had a friend who cared enough about her to go to the police, roping in Detective Lila Jones (Danielle Scott, WINNIE THE POOH: BLOOD AND HONEY) to try to find out what happened. Lila's superior officers are quick to write off a prostitute as simply being holed up somewhere on a drug binge or simply leaving town like a nomad. Lila believes there's something more going on and she's willing to go undercover to investigate!
FRIDAYS was designed to be a cheapjack cash-grab of FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S in a way that's so blatant I almost admire it. Almost. This film also comes from Jagged Edge Productions, the company behind the aforementioned Winnie The Pooh slasher movie. They've got a bunch of other fairy tale/Disney-themed horror movies in the works and a long line of low-budget monster movies in their back catalog.
I kinda want to be madder at this movie than I am. Like, it feels like it was written by someone who had seen a police procedural once and said "yeah, I can do that". They couldn't. The evil guy behaves in such an obviously evil way that it sorta becomes your fault for doing the thing he wants of you (if a dude shows you a book bound in human flesh and tells you to read Latin out of it, I don't care how much he pays you, that's back out time). But, I dunno, it's kinda brazenly stupid in a way that it comes around to being a tiny bit charming? I'm sorta like those girls, I was given fair warning how stupid the movie was gonna be (look at that title, see the preview image for it on Tubi, you know what the f*** this is supposed to be ripping off) and I went ahead anyway. I just wish the CGI in some of the gore shots was better handled...or do it practical!
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Post by DSR on Feb 17, 2024 1:54:00 GMT -5
That last post was getting a bit long, but I do have one more... DON'T LOOK AWAY (2023) is a Canadian horror flick. A man runs into the street, immediately getting hit by an oncoming car. The driver of that car, a young woman named Frankie (Kelly Bastard, TOMMY AND THE KING) swears that it looked like that man was being chased by a creepy looking mannequin. She doesn't tell this to the police (they wouldn't believe her) but when she finally makes it home, she tells her boyfriend Steve (Colm Hill, AMBER'S DESCENT). In typical horror movie fashion, her man doesn't believe it, either. So she tells some of her friends about what happened, and while they're skeptical at first, they start becoming paranoid as they see the mannequin when they're out and about. It never moves when you look at it, but if you look away and then back, he's gone...or he's closer! Frankie's boyfriend Steve continues to scoff at the idea, though one of Frankie's male friends, Jonah (Michael Mitton, also the film's co-writer) is quick to believe her story. Steve sees Jonah as a threat to his relationship with Frankie and this whole mannequin business as a means of fracturing his relationship. While Frankie and her pals are actually dealing with this murderous entity, Steve starts behaving oddly in his own right: talking to a bartender that's not really there, writing a PHD thesis that's just the word "Mannequin" over and over, and turning belligerent towards his own girlfriend (yeah, this sounds a lot like THE SHINING...a couple of characters are seen watching that movie earlier in the movie, so it's deliberate). Finally, Jonah manages to reach someone who's dealt with this mannequin before and offers to help...but can that guy be trusted?! DON'T LOOK AWAY is a more ambitious flick than FREDDY'S FRIDAYS, with some decent camera trickery, a slick synthwave score, and somewhat better acting. But I still couldn't shake the feeling that they cribbed their monster from the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who (minus their ability to send a person backwards through time), and the elements swiped from THE SHINING don't come off as endearing just because they acknowledge it's what they're doing. I don't expect total originality from a film, everybody has their influences. But the way the makers of DON'T LOOK AWAY approached those influences left me underwhelmed. Also the ending was unsatisfying. I'm probably gonna stop by Walmart before work tomorrow and buy a couple movies that have gotten some positive buzz, so my ballot isn't just this low-budget Tubi stuff. Since I'm talking about it, y'all can head on over to gorezone.net/best23poll.html and submit your own ballot if you wanted. Tell my friend who runs the website that I sent ya.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Feb 17, 2024 12:08:46 GMT -5
So, it's that time of year again. Gorezone.net's doing their annual Best Of poll, so I'm trying to watch a few more horror films released in 2023 so I can put up something of a ballot for it. HOWEVER, I don't want to spend money on a streaming service, so I'm watching what's available on Tubi for free, or what I can buy from the local Redbox (feels like these are a dwindling thing, but there's still a few around me). CHILDREN OF THE CORN (2020) is the latest in a long line of films based on Stephen King's short story. It finally got distribution through Shudder last year, so that's why it's eligible. A small corn farming community signed a bad deal with a chemical company, resulting in the town's corn crop dying out. In an effort to save their own bank accounts, the adults in town agree to take a subsidy to destroy what's left of their corn. But the children of town have established their own little community in the cornfields, led by a little girl named Eden (Kate Moyer, 2018's OUR HOUSE). Eden communicates with He Who Walks, a mysterious creature living in the cornfield who doesn't want his habitat taken away, causing Eden to stage a hostile takeover of the town and kill any adults who disagree with her! Caught in the middle of this generational war is Bo Williams (Elena Kampouris, MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 2), who will be leaving town for college in another year, but in the meantime disagrees with the adult's "selling their souls for profit" but also doesn't think the solution is "kill everybody". The film touches on socio-political themes that are still prevalent, but does so in the most strawman-y way possible. As a scare-a-thon, CHILDREN features some unsettling little kids, but I found He Who Walks to be unconvincing. I didn't think the movie was as out and out terrible as I've seen other reviewers call it, but I honestly can't praise the movie, either. It's got some decent ideas that it just didn't handle well. I noticed the other day the main redbox in town is unplugged and looks like it hasn't had anything added to it in weeks. COTC 2023 is decent. By now if a COTC sequel isnt a total shitball film I will end up owning it. Die Die Delta Pi-TUBI Wow yea it is barely over an hour and still feels padded and way too long. Kills suck,acting is horrible and I can tell too many younger folk think the 80s were just like what is shown on TV and film....
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Post by mystermystery on Feb 26, 2024 22:40:20 GMT -5
Doug Bradley reading an HP Lovecraft story. Sounds like "horror thread" post material to me.
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Post by Saiyanic Panic on Feb 27, 2024 3:57:22 GMT -5
I found a really nice copy of Teeth for a good price.
Disc itself looks great! Case has some grossness but that's easily fixed. I'll probably be found under a box of empty DVDs someday so that's one less for the pile. No one's handwritten the name of a pedophile on it, I count that as a win.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Feb 27, 2024 10:09:41 GMT -5
I found a really nice copy of Teeth for a good price. Disc itself looks great! Case has some grossness but that's easily fixed. I'll probably be found under a box of empty DVDs someday so that's one less for the pile. No one's handwritten the name of a pedophile on it, I count that as a win. LOL So Buck ZUmhoffe isn't written on it in Sharpie? Glad you found it.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 2, 2024 3:24:44 GMT -5
After avoiding it for years watched Mardi Gras Massacre on Tubi the other day.
And just dropped almost 30 bucks for the blu ray of it.
Imagine if HG Lewis made a remake of Blood Fest but set in late 70s New Orleans.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 5, 2024 14:10:08 GMT -5
Came in today. Also grabbed that Tremors DVD pack of every film plus the TV show and a cheap dvd of recent horror comedy The Blackening.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 5, 2024 16:56:08 GMT -5
Extras on Mardi Gras Massacre are good. Almost finished with The Blackening,which is GREAT!
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Post by mystermystery on Mar 5, 2024 17:17:23 GMT -5
So, while taking a break from watching Pluto TV's Matlock channel, I checked out the On Demand section and discovered that Pluto TV currently has all five PROPHECY movies (and I'll be honest, I think I knew there was five but if you'd quizzed me, I could've potentially guessed three since that's how many have Christopher Walken).
I'd seen the original a long time ago, so I jumped into The Prophecy 2 and thought it was a really good sequel (and that's without qualifying it as "good for a direct-to-video sequel) that really let Walken get his dark comedy on with his sidekick Brittany Murphy (although she gets a great line when he has her work a computer for him and she scoffs "You brought me back from the dead cause you don't know DOS?").
Probably going to work my way through the others in the upcoming days.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 5, 2024 18:15:28 GMT -5
Pluto and TUBI got a decent selection of stuff. But even with them being free they end up costing me money.
Last week watched Mardi Gras Massacre on Tubi. Oh crap that is great I want a copy. Oh the Blu ray iss OOP and almost 30 bucks later I got a copy on the way.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Mar 9, 2024 20:01:38 GMT -5
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Plot: A mad scientist in 19th century Paris kidnaps and murders women in seek of blood to create the perfect mate for his ape Erik.
Murders in the Rue Morgue was Universal’s first in a series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations and it, much like the films that followed, bears little resemblance to the source material. But, hey, who cares? Universal certainly didn’t. Following the huge success of Dracula and Frankenstein, the former making a star out of Bela Lugosi, the studio was hungry to churn out more horror pictures, faithfulness to Poe be damned! They even upped the budget on Murders in the Rue Morgue and extended the length of its production. It didn’t quite work, as the film drew poorly in its original theatrical release, but there’s still quite a bit to like in its short 61-minute runtime.
The film is by far one of the darkest and most violent Universal horror films of its era. Paris is cast in smog and German expressionistic shadow, immediately setting a grim, foreboding tone to the story. There’s a whole ass crucifixion sequence where a woman is tortured to her death, which was about as controversial as things could get in its day. But the most revelatory part, to me anyway, is Lugosi’s performance as Dr. Mirakle. At a time when he was already subject to being typecast, it’s a standout performance. Even if he’s overacting a lot, he seems to enjoy reveling in the sadism of his character. I seriously wonder how much Lugosi would’ve flourished in an era that wasn’t so censored. In another life, he was a star of trashy grindhouse horror films, taking delight in spilling blood and entrails.
The plot is where the film falters. What exactly is Dr. Mirakle’s end game? Is he trying to create some sort of new race by having women mate with an ape? Is there some bestiality thing going on here? And what the hell was up with the ‘30s and ‘40s and their fascination with big killer ape movies anyway? Lugosi would go on to star in several of them. A killer ape was seen as a movie monster on the same level as Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster back in the day and I really don’t know why. The ape Erik in this film isn’t particularly menacing. There are a few scenes where it’s obviously some guy in a suit. It just sorta takes me out of the movie, especially when everything else surrounding it is first-rate. It’s almost like a gritty crime thriller spliced with a bad Three Stooges short.
I’m not sure if Murders in the Rue Morgue is must-see, but it’s definitely worth checking out if you enjoy Universal’s horror output of this era. If you just want to see a good showcase for Lugosi, then it’s also worth checking out. Parts of the film show its age to the point where it seems silly, but its darker and more visceral tone is anything but monkey business.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 10, 2024 16:15:53 GMT -5
So am I the only one already getting their 31 films for October picked out?
Thinking this year gonna try to hit up more stuff I have never seen. And get some unwatched dvds/vhs/blu rays/LASERDISCS(yes LASERDISCS) watched.
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Post by DSR on Mar 10, 2024 16:23:48 GMT -5
So am I the only one already getting their 31 films for October picked out? Thinking this year gonna try to hit up more stuff I have never seen. And get some unwatched dvds/vhs/blu rays/LASERDISCS(yes LASERDISCS) watched. Not intentionally, but I have picked up some DVDs and Blurays recently that probably won't get watched until then. *shrug*
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Mar 10, 2024 16:55:05 GMT -5
So am I the only one already getting their 31 films for October picked out? Thinking this year gonna try to hit up more stuff I have never seen. And get some unwatched dvds/vhs/blu rays/LASERDISCS(yes LASERDISCS) watched. I wish I could swap October with another month lol. The last couple of years my work schedule has been insane in October so I’ve been unable to participate in the 31 day festivity. But then other months are less insane so I could do 31 films then. Like in January my broken arm was just beginning to heal so I watched the most movies I’ve watched in one month for a while then. I’m not sure when I’ll get back to watching more horror, but hopefully soon. I just got some more stuff for my unwatched pile which at this point is so massive it may soon become sentient. In particular I’m interested in Sexandroide (1991) and Back From Hell (1993).
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