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TVBForever said:
Some of these are things I'm watching just for shits and giggles, with some I'm rewatching again, and some I'm watching out of curiosity

Terror Train
Alien from LA
Snuff Movie
Joy Ride
Madman
Blink
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1934)
Rosemary's Baby
The Lawnmower Man
The Swarm
Sharkula
The Angry Red Planet
Tokyo Ghoul (2017)
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
Beetlejuice
Suburban Sasquatch
Virus Shark
The Omen (1976)
Ju-On: The Grudge
Student Bodies
Silent Hill
I Know What You Did Last Summer
From Hell it Came
Class of 1999 II: The Substitute
Them!
Dream House
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I'd add more 1920s and 30s movies so Jekyll and Hyde doesn't stick out lol
 
AskeDead said:
They've got a bunch of Friday the 13th films up on HBO Max now, I might start a marathon of that to get in the spooky season mood
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I watch the Friday the 13th movies about once a year, as they are my '80s comfort movies, and I still enjoy them. The DVD and Blu-ray commentaries are also a great listen. The 80-hour (exaggeration intended) Crystal Lake Memories documentary is a great walk down memory lane, as well.

There is also a Nightmare on Elm Street documentary, by the same guys, that is a good watch. For general horror documentaries, the In Search of Darkness series is pretty good, albeit there are some annoying talking heads in it. Here's a pretty good list of horror documentaries if you have a hundred or so hours to kill. I seem to have gone on a horror documentary tangent...
 
Michael Wade said:
Silent hill is legit good in my opinion. Not an exact remake of the 1st game, but I enjoyed the alt take it had on things and the increased focus on religious themes. (aka is silent hill really real? or is it hell/purgatory?)

It helps that most if not all the monsters are legit practical effects and they nailed the environments and tone.
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It's ehh for me. The ending was shit.
The Cunting Death said:
I'd add more 1920s and 30s movies so Jekyll and Hyde doesn't stick out lol
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I'm actually fixing on adding Freaks, White Zombie and Dracula's Daughter (and two other 90s movies) on the list
 
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Product Placement said:
Has anyone made an October horror movie watch list for themself yet?
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I just play it by ear, I've got a general watchlist and a pile of physicals.

TVBForever said:
I'm actually fixing on adding Freaks, White Zombie and Dracula's Daughter (and two other 90s movies) on the list
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Island of Lost Souls is probably the best Island of Dr Moreau adaptation. Not that I watched the relatively newer ones, they look seriously shit though.
 
Product Placement said:
Has anyone made an October horror movie watch list for themself yet?
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no doubt I won't get to all of these, but current list is something like this:

Night of the Demon
Demons 1 & 2
Demonia
City of the Living Dead
The Beyond
The Exorcist 1-3
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Bogeyman
The Fan (1982)
Cathy's Curse
Night Tide
Bad Taste
The Frighteners
Arachnophobia
Body Bags
Somebody's Watching Me
Corruption
Schizoid
X-Ray
Pieces
Madman
Maniac (1980 & 2012)
From Beyond
Faust (1926)
Nosferatu, the Vampire
Nosferatu in Venice
Impulse
I Eat Your Skin
I Drink Your Blood
The Invisible Man
The Crazies
The Cremator
Eyes Without a Face
Faceless
Bloody Moon
Castle of the Creeping Flesh
Alucarda
Mark of the Devil 2
Bloody Pit of Horror
Planet of the Vampires
Return of the Vampire
Mr. Sardonicus
Blood Harvest
Carrie (1976)
Freaks
Parents
A Haunting
The Tingler
House of Wax
Fiend Without a Face
Them!
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920, 1931, & maybe 1942)
Paganini Horror
The Black Cat (1934, maybe 1981, & 1989)
The Burning
Nekromantic 1 & 2
Evil Dead 1 & 2
Psycho 1-4
Prophecy 1-5
The Dentist 1 & 2
Warlock 1-3
some of the later Chuckie movies
probably a Friday the 13th and Elm Street or two
 
Michael Wade said:
Silent hill is legit good in my opinion. Not an exact remake of the 1st game, but I enjoyed the alt take it had on things and the increased focus on religious themes. (aka is silent hill really real? or is it hell/purgatory?)

It helps that most if not all the monsters are legit practical effects and they nailed the environments and tone.
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It's at least respectful to the source material and as far as videogame adaptations, it's one of the best.
 
Michael Wade said:
Silent hill is legit good in my opinion. Not an exact remake of the 1st game, but I enjoyed the alt take it had on things and the increased focus on religious themes. (aka is silent hill really real? or is it hell/purgatory?)

It helps that most if not all the monsters are legit practical effects and they nailed the environments and tone.
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It definitely could have been better but like @TV's Adam West said it's one of the best video game adaptations we've had. I prefer Jacobs Ladder a lot more but Silent Hills a fun watch.

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I don't have a list for my Halloween movies yet and that sucks, but I'll probably just steal Brunos. They got similar enough taste to me, and they showed me Schizophreniac: The Whore Mangler, which was great to show my normie friends.
 
These are some great lists for next month. I'll try and watch some. I usually try and go to the movie theater but there's nothing worth a fuck coming out in October.
 
Calandrino said:
Island of Lost Souls is probably the best Island of Dr Moreau adaptation. Not that I watched the relatively newer ones, they look seriously shit though.
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I'm also thinking of rewatching both that and the infamous 1996 movie again.
 
bifftango said:
I watch the Friday the 13th movies about once a year, as they are my '80s comfort movies, and I still enjoy them. The DVD and Blu-ray commentaries are also a great listen. The 80-hour (exaggeration intended) Crystal Lake Memories documentary is a great walk down memory lane, as well.

There is also a Nightmare on Elm Street documentary, by the same guys, that is a good watch. For general horror documentaries, the In Search of Darkness series is pretty good, albeit there are some annoying talking heads in it. Here's a pretty good list of horror documentaries if you have a hundred or so hours to kill. I seem to have gone on a horror documentary tangent...
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There's definitely something about the Friday series. The original is a cheap, rushed Halloween cash grab with a whodunnit where the killer doesn't even show up on screen until the final act. Or Jason Takes Manhattan, which mostly takes place on a boat that can travel up river from Crystal Lake to New York because reasons. Or the coked out insanity of V where the killer is someone who had about a minute of screentime. Of all of them I'd say 6 is the only one that gets close to being an objectively good film. Yet somehow, they all work (except Final Chapter, which is just shit) and as you say are great comfort films.
 
The Penultimate Warrior said:
There's definitely something about the Friday series. The original is a cheap, rushed Halloween cash grab with a whodunnit where the killer doesn't even show up on screen until the final act. Or Jason Takes Manhattan, which mostly takes place on a boat that can travel up river from Crystal Lake to New York because reasons. Or the coked out insanity of V where the killer is someone who had about a minute of screentime. Of all of them I'd say 6 is the only one that gets close to being an objectively good film. Yet somehow, they all work (except Final Chapter, which is just shit) and as you say are great comfort films.
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Or that time Jason took a trip to space in the future. Or that time there Jason's killing antics was in 3D.
 
Ged! said:
no doubt I won't get to all of these, but current list is something like this:

Night of the Demon
Demons 1 & 2
Demonia
City of the Living Dead
The Beyond
The Exorcist 1-3
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Bogeyman
The Fan (1982)
Cathy's Curse
Night Tide
Bad Taste
The Frighteners
Arachnophobia
Body Bags
Somebody's Watching Me
Corruption
Schizoid
X-Ray
Pieces
Madman
Maniac (1980 & 2012)
From Beyond
Faust (1926)
Nosferatu, the Vampire
Nosferatu in Venice
Impulse
I Eat Your Skin
I Drink Your Blood
The Invisible Man
The Crazies
The Cremator
Eyes Without a Face
Faceless
Bloody Moon
Castle of the Creeping Flesh
Alucarda
Mark of the Devil 2
Bloody Pit of Horror
Planet of the Vampires
Return of the Vampire
Mr. Sardonicus
Blood Harvest
Carrie (1976)
Freaks
Parents
A Haunting
The Tingler
House of Wax
Fiend Without a Face
Them!
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920, 1931, & maybe 1942)
Paganini Horror
The Black Cat (1934, maybe 1981, & 1989)
The Burning
Nekromantic 1 & 2
Evil Dead 1 & 2
Psycho 1-4
Prophecy 1-5
The Dentist 1 & 2
Warlock 1-3
some of the later Chuckie movies
probably a Friday the 13th and Elm Street or two
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Madman and The Burning are two of the best slasher movies of all time. Stage Fright from 1987 is up there too. Night of The Demon is the greatest Bigfoot movie ever made, PERIOD.
 
A Rastafarian Skeleton said:
Madman and The Burning are two of the best slasher movies of all time. Stage Fright from 1987 is up there too. Night of The Demon is the greatest Bigfoot movie ever made, PERIOD.
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You added Madman just because of the theme:


Otherwise I agree. I don't hate Madman. I think it's fine and has some classic slasher moments but I wouldn't have it on a top 10 list kind of thing.
 
After years of loving the original and being…ambivalent about the sequel, I finally watched the Fright Night remake. It wasn’t that bad honestly, I don’t understand horror remakes (or remakes in general) that are just a beat for beat copy of the original, so David Tennant’s Peter Vincent being a washed up Vegas magician instead of an old school horror host appealed to me. Colin Farrell was good too, but he usually is.

I’d put this up there with the newest Friday The 13th in the pantheon of modern remakes that aren’t terrible.
 
barbieQ said:
After years of loving the original and being…ambivalent about the sequel, I finally watched the Fright Night remake. It wasn’t that bad honestly, I don’t understand horror remakes (or remakes in general) that are just a beat for beat copy of the original, so David Tennant’s Peter Vincent being a washed up Vegas magician instead of an old school horror host appealed to me. Colin Farrell was good too, but he usually is.

I’d put this up there with the newest Friday The 13th in the pantheon of modern remakes that aren’t terrible.
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It's an okay remake. Colin Farrell is a super fan of the original and had the whole "Chris Farely Show" nervous fan thing going on meeting the original Jerry Dandridge actor.

I've gotten more annoyed with Fright Night over the years because it's a good film. It's very fun. But FFS it's not a masterpiece. It is not the definitive 80's horror film or whatever the fuck. There's other better 80's vamp films like The Hunger. Shit, I prefer Lost Boys more. Once again, I'm not shitting on Fright Night, I would just give it a solid 8/10 rather than 11/10 and constantly bring it the fuck up.

Also, I'd recommend checking out the short lived comics because they were actually really good.

 
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