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BrunoMattei said:
I think his horror cycle wasn't nearly as strong as his contemporaries but there's some "fun" entries like Nightmare City and Cannibal Ferox. Neither of which are objectively good but go balls out with the gore.

Fun drinking game when watching a Lenzi film: take a shot every time a chick is slapped especially if the chick has gone into hysterics and gets slapped to be brought back into reality. It's just something I noticed about his films.

I never liked Eaten Alive very much. After the opening the pacing just goes into the toilet and it re-uses footage from other films -which is amusing but doesn't add anything for me.
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You should try and find a copy of House of Witchcraft it's one of his better later entries. Some creative death scenes and the worm faced grim reaper from Ghosthouse makes another appearance!
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A Rastafarian Skeleton said:
You should try and find a copy of House of Witchcraft it's one of his better later entries. Some creative death scenes and the worm faced grim reaper from Ghosthouse makes another appearance!
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I saw that one. Had a lot of seemingly Fulci-inspired moments but I wasn't impressed. The other TV movie he did had a great scene where a little kid is decapitated by a washing machine.
 
Calandrino said:
If The Menu is a 9.5, Dead Alive is like a 57
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I stand by my score its genuinely great bordering on a 9, biut I can't give it a full 10 because thew films main gimmick of its hyper gore is somewhat counter intuitive in it being truly serious horror flick. It’s just too over the top to be a true masterpiece horror.
 
Anyone check out the South Korean action gore flick Project Wolf Hunting? It starts off as Con Air on a cargo ship, ferrying some of the worst Korean criminals arrested in the Philippines to Busan, only a conspiracy of the prisoners and their allies on the outside results in the ship being hijacked. Unfortunately, there was something else being transported in the depths of the ship and during all of the fugitives' monkeying around it has been woken up. None of the trailers convey how ridiculously bloody this film gets.

 
thegooddoctor said:
You gave The Menu a 9.5 imao. You normally have such great tastes, Its good but not that great, shape up brah.
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Biden inflation, nigga.

Yeah, if you compare it to the greatest movies of all time it's definitely not all the way there, and sure, I'll admit that when I get drunk I tend to overrate stuff I just watched, but as far as current year + 8 horror goes, it's definitely a 9+. You have to keep in mind that there are basically four scales as far as review goes:

Classic Movies
Classic Horror Movies
Regular Movies
Regular Horror Movies

A regular horror movie might deserve a 8 out of 10 on that scale, but compared to actual movies, it might deserve a 6 to 7, and compared to classic horror, it's downright a 5-6 at most.

Compared to the shit that has been coming out in the last year or so, The Menu is definitely worth a 9-9.5/10. It's certainly better than fucking Barbarian's back half. As a regular movie, yeah I agree it's probably a solid 8 or a weak 8.5/10 at best. Next to fucking classics like Dead Alive? At best it's a 7/10 in comparison. Maybe 6.5/10 even. And if you compare Dead Alive to all times best like Casablanca, North by Northwest, Rashomon or Freddy Got Fingered, then yeah even Dead Alive only deserves a 6.5/10 at most in comparison.

Whenever I review shit on here, it's always scaled in the lowest category. Classic Horror Movies nowadays are few and far in between, and The Menu sure as shit ain't one of them. It's definitely worth a watch, though, and definitely better than anything else I've seen that has come out in the last 6 maybe 12 months.

I think the only other movie that even came close to The Menu as far as quality goes was Watcher and it managed to completely shit the bed in the last minute that I now hate it. It would have ranked higher than The Menu and I could have seen it become a classic if they hadn't fucked up so bad. Other than that, it's really been a shit year for horror. What else came close in comparison to deserving a 9/10?

Bodies Bodies Bodie? Fucking Pearl? M3GAN? Deadstream was good, but not 9/10 maybe 8.5/10. Sure as shit wasn't the Hellraiser or TMC reboots. Smile was much better than it should have been, but still a 7.5-8/10 as far as regular horror goes and that's it. Men? lmao.

I think we'll all agree the only truly 10/10 deserving movie was Halloween Ends.
 
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Finally got round to posting in this thread. As someone with a small collection of weird, extreme horror, I’m curious as to if anyone here has seen Niku Daruma?

It’s a fuckin’ nasty one. Mr Fraggle and I came upon it during our online gore quests as late teens and it’s one of the few movies to make me feel a tiny bit sick back then.

It’s basically a porno but they kill the girl at the end, the special effects are pretty shit by today’s standards but late 00s teen me was a little uncomfortable.

Found out about it again recently and did a little digging, there’s some (with very little to no evidence but it’s pretty interesting) rumours that the lead actress jumped in front of a train/offed herself through some means afterwards.
 
Commander X said:
Anyone check out the South Korean action gore flick Project Wolf Hunting? It starts off as Con Air on a cargo ship, ferrying some of the worst Korean criminals arrested in the Philippines to Busan, only a conspiracy of the prisoners and their allies on the outside results in the ship being hijacked. Unfortunately, there was something else being transported in the depths of the ship and during all of the fugitives' monkeying around it has been woken up. None of the trailers convey how ridiculously bloody this film gets.
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I like how the movie makes you root for the murdering rapist asshole and the movie is supposed to get a sequel. If it's anything like The Witch 2 and not Train to Busan's sequel, then it'll be decent.
 
The Fraggle Queen said:
Finally got round to posting in this thread. As someone with a small collection of weird, extreme horror, I’m curious as to if anyone here has seen Niku Daruma?

It’s a fuckin’ nasty one. Mr Fraggle and I came upon it during our online gore quests as late teens and it’s one of the few movies to make me feel a tiny bit sick back then.

It’s basically a porno but they kill the girl at the end, the special effects are pretty shit by today’s standards but late 00s teen me was a little uncomfortable.

Found out about it again recently and did a little digging, there’s some (with very little to no evidence but it’s pretty interesting) rumours that the lead actress jumped in front of a train/offed herself through some means afterwards.
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Tumbling Doll of Flesh. Yeah, I've seen that. First hour is a JAV porn but the 2nd hour it's revealed that it's a snuff. Never heard of the actress killing herself later.

As for the flick, I admire it for sticking to the snuff formula as defined by the FBI but I'd rather watch Guinea Pig: Flower of Flesh and Blood instead.
 
She didn't kill herself, she just stopped doing porn and got a normal life and doesn't want to be associated with the shit she did back then. It's all a rumor to make the film even edgier than it is.

Which... why? It's not like it needs the added mystique.
 
9 minutes.

That's how far into the Jeepers Creepers reboot I made it. Between the shoe-horned niggerization and the absolutely shitty car window shots (seriously, I assume most of the movie takes place with people driving, it shouldn't look literally as bad as a Late Night sketch), I had to stop. And about 5 minutes of that was a little somewhat acceptable (but still terrible) prelude featuring old people getting Jeepered in an in-movie-documentary thing. So a little less than 4 minutes is all I could stand of the (what I assume to be) main couple. I mean after dipping out of both the Hellraiser and TCM reboots before the first kills due to how shitty, stupid and annoying literally everything was, I wasn't really expecting much here, but Jesus Fuck it's like they intentionally tried to make something unwatchable. I haven't seen any of the original Jeepers Creepers, and I know they're not horror classics or anything, but they can't possibly have been this bad. Anyway, it's been quite a while since a movie made me say what the fuck and dip out in that small amount of time.
 
thegooddoctor said:
I stand by my score its genuinely great bordering on a 9, biut I can't give it a full 10 because thew films main gimmick of its hyper gore is somewhat counter intuitive in it being truly serious horror flick. It’s just too over the top to be a true masterpiece horror.
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I personally loved The Menu. Easily amongst the top 5 best movies of 2022, at least to me, ranking at number 4.
 
So after being disappointed by TLOU, I decided being disappointed by VHS 99 would cap tonight. I swear if it's shit, I'm fucking done with this series, the two first entries being great doesn't justify the diarrhea that came after.

Edit: Well, the first segment is shit, what's the point of terrible lighting and people being killed in the dark when you can't see anything and you don't really know what's running after them? Shit is so dark I genuinely didn't know what was happening or who was dying at almost any point.How is that supposed to be scary? 0/10

Edit 2: Segment was great until the last two minutes or so. That segment would have been so much better if she had just drowned instead of getting, what, eaten by a chick in a cheap cryptkeeper costume? Or she had survived and gone crazy and fucking buried them alive without any of that gay guiltine shit? 7/10 before the last two minutes, 3/10 after

Edit 3: Third segment was finally great, probably VHS 1/2 level quality. 9.5/10 as far as VHS segments go.

Edit 4: Not terrible, but very reminiscent of the succubus segment. Short and mostly sweet. 7/10

Edit 5: Last segment wasn't the greatest, end is a bit weak, but entertaining overall. 8/10

.... I guess I'm watching the next one, then.
 
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"Film Twitter" guys who always type movie titles in all caps and Redditors when you tell them a new horror movie will feature shitty 90s VHS filters and public domain cartoons

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