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All of that is what made it so iconic. Then you get garbage like the Rob Zombie remake that just spits in the face of everything.
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I fucking knew it, I knew I had seen some of those scenes from Headless somewhere before. It's actually the full movie that some parts are shown in Found, the movie where a young kid discovers that his brother is a serial killer who has a fixation on decapitation. It's one of the horror movies in his room. It was shot after but the same costume and that guy fucking a decapitated head scene was from
Was thinking back and trying to figure out when was the last time I saw a movie that just felt so relentlessly mean-spirited and the only thing I could think of was the ending of Found, which reminded me of that costume. Thought it was too much of a coincidence.
Was thinking back and trying to figure out when was the last time I saw a movie that just felt so relentlessly mean-spirited and the only thing I could think of was the ending of Found, which reminded me of that costume. Thought it was too much of a coincidence.
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I read an entertaining nonfiction book about Antarctica published by Feral House called Big Dead Place and it confirms the alcohol-fueled fuckfests.
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Weirdly the problem with that movie is the worlds so ugly and fucked their's no stakes since you don't care. Myers needs a pleasent normal world of good people to invade, the casting was good but Rob Zombie doesnt have the discipline required for that sort of movie and the sequel was complete shit.
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I'm trying to improve my knowledge of post-2000 horror films so I watched some recommended ones.
A Quiet Place 1 & 2 (2018/2020) - The first one reminded me a bit of Signs, which is not a good thing, but it had some genuinely tense moments. I wish there would have been more conflict regarding the baby since it's a major liability. The original Dawn of the Dead addressed this problem and zombies are not as threatening as these creatures. The sequel introduced a new monster weakness and they seemed less threatening as a result. Overall, they were decent enough films but not ones I'd put into my all-time favorites category.
The VVitch (2015) - I really liked the atmosphere of this film and I've read several Nathaniel Hawthorne stories and some early American nonfiction so I find this period interesting. It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be, but I appreciated how they focused more on the paranoia that infected the family more than the supernatural elements.
A Quiet Place 1 & 2 (2018/2020) - The first one reminded me a bit of Signs, which is not a good thing, but it had some genuinely tense moments. I wish there would have been more conflict regarding the baby since it's a major liability. The original Dawn of the Dead addressed this problem and zombies are not as threatening as these creatures. The sequel introduced a new monster weakness and they seemed less threatening as a result. Overall, they were decent enough films but not ones I'd put into my all-time favorites category.
The VVitch (2015) - I really liked the atmosphere of this film and I've read several Nathaniel Hawthorne stories and some early American nonfiction so I find this period interesting. It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be, but I appreciated how they focused more on the paranoia that infected the family more than the supernatural elements.
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I'm gonna say it. I always liked The Woman in Black. I thought it was very slow and creepy. No jump scares, just a dread that envelopes you and if you re watch it, you see her in the background a lot and they never acknowledge her.
My own guilty pleasure though has got to be FNAF. Yes, I know, I have the same taste as an autistic 12 year old. But the original was the only game I was ever scared by. FNAF 1 was a master piece and nobody can change my mind. It wasn't just the jump scares because that was the only time I felt relief, it was just that you were sat there and waited for some fucked up robots to fuck up your day. I adore the hidden lore, the fact your power is draining, the use of cameras, just everything. Even funnyboi youtubers (oneyplays and twobestfriendsplay) who snarked at FNAF 1 and then played it admitted it was pure genius. It was just beautiful. Also, the fact that it triggered twitter faggots and twisted Jim fucking Sterling son's XXXXXL panties make me smile. I know the series is an absolute mess and only appeals to children now, but FNAF 1 was the perfect horror game. I hope Scott can retire in peace on his throne of cash.
My own guilty pleasure though has got to be FNAF. Yes, I know, I have the same taste as an autistic 12 year old. But the original was the only game I was ever scared by. FNAF 1 was a master piece and nobody can change my mind. It wasn't just the jump scares because that was the only time I felt relief, it was just that you were sat there and waited for some fucked up robots to fuck up your day. I adore the hidden lore, the fact your power is draining, the use of cameras, just everything. Even funnyboi youtubers (oneyplays and twobestfriendsplay) who snarked at FNAF 1 and then played it admitted it was pure genius. It was just beautiful. Also, the fact that it triggered twitter faggots and twisted Jim fucking Sterling son's XXXXXL panties make me smile. I know the series is an absolute mess and only appeals to children now, but FNAF 1 was the perfect horror game. I hope Scott can retire in peace on his throne of cash.
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I do recall a couple jump scares but I liked it too, aside from the lame ending. The atmosphere is very tense all throughout.
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Yes the ending was shit. I know it was meant to be a "she will never stop and she will keep killing" thing but it was just a happy ending since the family got together again and walked away happily
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I saw Blacula (1972), wherein a proto-Nazi Count Dracula, who sees nothing wrong at all with black slavery, puts the bite on an uppity darky, turning him into a snarling bloodsucker. Flash forward a couple of hundred years, and a pair of antique-dealing poofters, including one frizzy-haired POC who looks scarier than any of the filem's green-faced, noodle-toothed undead, inadvertently resurrect the uppity darky. All hell then breaks loose in the black parts of LA, discos in particular, as the population is stalked by a growing number of homicidal hominids.
Cinema patrons were given Blacula protection kits when the movie was first released. Nowadays, people just move to whiter parts of the country and stock up on arms and ammo.
Cinema patrons were given Blacula protection kits when the movie was first released. Nowadays, people just move to whiter parts of the country and stock up on arms and ammo.
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Watched Train to Busan last night. It was not as mind-blowing as I had heard it was, and I'm generally sick of zombie movies, but it was a very good film all around. Everyone who likes horror movies and thrillers (and hasn't already fucking seen it somehow) should give it a chance.
(Aside: if you're going to make a zombie movie, you really should reimagine them almost entirely. Why do zombies all sound like the creators took their growling from the same sound library? Otherwise, the movie did a decent job making them "unique.")
I don't know if I'll watch the sequel. I haven't heard good things.
(Aside: if you're going to make a zombie movie, you really should reimagine them almost entirely. Why do zombies all sound like the creators took their growling from the same sound library? Otherwise, the movie did a decent job making them "unique.")
I don't know if I'll watch the sequel. I haven't heard good things.
Does Rogers show her bodacious tatas in this one?
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Nope.
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ok, so ive watched a few movies so far for the spooky month. so far, ive seen The Thing From Another World, Audition (moreso a thriller but thought it was brutal nonetheless), Queen of The Damned, Memories of Murder, Alice Sweet Alice, 30 Days of Night, and The Imp. Im looking to watch Tourist Trap later tonight.
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So yesterday's movie was Ruin Me (2017) where six people go to Slasher Sleepout! which is supposed to be an escape room but slasher movie style.... but then everything goes wrong. Not a bad movie/bad idea, but the main actress drags down the whole thing both her performance and the fact that she's a lying cheating drug addicted cunt. Could have been more, dragged down to the 2.5/5
Tonight's movie is Seventh Moon, where Amy Smart is married to a Chinese man, and I assume the scary part is that she married with a chink and lives in China.
Tonight's movie is Seventh Moon, where Amy Smart is married to a Chinese man, and I assume the scary part is that she married with a chink and lives in China.
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Seventh Moon (2008ish) is what happens when someone says 'hey how about I film a movie in pitch black darkness using shaky cams like it's found footage (but it's not) and you can't figure out anything that's going on because you can't see what the fuck is happening and also lets make the cast entirely chinese people who look like each others except the one white girl because that will make things even more confusing and pointless, so that way people will turn it off before it even ends because im a fucking retard who is riding the coattail of being the second director of the blair witch project but absolutely don't get what made it special (because I was the second director and also a mexican retard)?" and a hollywood producer pre-me too who really wants to eat out Amy Smart's butthole answers him"Sure, here's 8 million dollars, direct it!"
Literally the only moment that made the movie worth watching was an hour and 16 minutes in when there's a brief shot of the moon going down and the sky becoming a brighter blue to show that the night is ending and her nightmare is almost over and it's fucking shot like Michael J Fox is filming the shot with his bad hand while jerking off.
The ending is literally her being chased by chinese men rolled in flour in their underwear, she looks at the sky, she sees the moon, the laughs, another shot of the moon, she's laughing again, cut to the sun, part of the credits, the sun, part of the credits, the sun, part of the credits, the sun with ominous music, the end.
It's fucking cancer, -10/5
Literally the only moment that made the movie worth watching was an hour and 16 minutes in when there's a brief shot of the moon going down and the sky becoming a brighter blue to show that the night is ending and her nightmare is almost over and it's fucking shot like Michael J Fox is filming the shot with his bad hand while jerking off.
The ending is literally her being chased by chinese men rolled in flour in their underwear, she looks at the sky, she sees the moon, the laughs, another shot of the moon, she's laughing again, cut to the sun, part of the credits, the sun, part of the credits, the sun, part of the credits, the sun with ominous music, the end.
It's fucking cancer, -10/5
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Was watching VHS94 and while I haven't been a big fan of this franchise, (VHS: Viral was abominable) I found some enjoyment in a couple of these segments. The wraparound story, as usual, is weaker than watered down beer; they shouldn't have even bothered with a wraparound if this was the best that could be done. The "Storm Drain" segment directed by Chloe Okuno is some effective sewer-set horror but it does end on a somewhat silly note, but out of them all Timo Tjahjanto's "The Subject" is the one I'd say I really liked, it had a really grimy vibe, sort of an early-90s cyberpunkish vision of mad-science misdeeds, and the only one among the bunch that has a distinct personality stamped on it by the director.
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A movie I'm more than interested in, Severin is releasing a Blu-Ray of the 1983 low-budget independent feature Eyes of Fire, where in Colonial days, a group of settlers under the sway of their silver-tongued preacher are forced to move further on after his latest adulterous antics got them chased out of a settlement. One of their number, a woman with actual mystical abilities, has been watching out for them but soon they come to put down roots in a valley that all of the local natives shun and for good reason. From what I have heard, the restoration is almost like watching a whole new movie, especially if you remember watching some grainy VHS copy.
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Salem's lot (1979) be warned though because it was a TV mini series that aired as two separate parts in November, not only has it been toned down to comply with 1970's standards and practices, it's over 3 hours long. Also there's no widescreen version available. Which makes sense seeing as there was no widescreen TVs back in 79. So why bother filming in cinematic aspect ratio when it's just gonna be cropped for standard 1:33 broadcast aspect ratio anyways?
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I started reading the Salem's Lot novel last night.
I've been meaning to read it for a long time, and watching Midnight Mass on Netflix put me in the mood for a vampire story, so I finally cracked it open.
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I'm ahead of schedule. This is not a responsible rate of media intake. I'll quit in November, honest.
7) Monster A Go-Go (1965) - Prescient tale of an insufficiently-tested vaccine (for radiation) which (possibly?) transforms an astronaut into a monster. "The line between science fiction and science fact is microscopically thin! You have witnessed the line being shaved even thinner," observes the narrator, astutely. Distressingly, might not be the worst movie I've seen lately.
8 ) Xtro 3 (1995) - X-Files crossed with Predator from the early DVD era, with customary synth orchestra soundtrack, stock Doom sound effects, and Sliders-tier CGI. Think of a mediocre episode of 90s Outer Limits and you've got it. Features the guy from Wishmaster, Tom Hanks's brother, and the writer of Friday the 13th VII (both acting and writing). The three Xtro movies are unconnected plot-wise, but share a director. In an interview, said director claims that he is not ashamed of this movie... good for him.
9) Night of the Werewolf (1981) - Opens with a scene set hundreds of years ago of Satanists being executed. They are later resurrected in the present. Then, some women wander through a spooky castle and take their tops off. Arguments ensue about which of them gets to have sex with Paul Naschy. Every Spanish horror movie is like this. I spent the whole movie trying to figure out if I've seen this one before, and I'm still not sure, although it's this is definitely one of the stronger movies of its type.
10) Challenge the Devil (1963) - Italian gothic horror with attempts at surrealism and symbolism, then recut by distributors to have more of the musical sequences audiences demand. Christopher Lee appears as Spooky Castle Guy, but the adorable googly-eyed spider steals the show. This movie is so obscure that I can't find a screenshot of him.
11) Ozone: The Attack of the Redneck Mutants (1986) - Zombie movie shot on Super 8, on location in north Texas. There's some cool gore and a rudimentary plot and it's not boring. Better than low-budget digital movies that get dumped directly onto streaming services nowadays, honestly.
12) Nightmare Castle (1965) - Barbara Steele stars and Ennio Morricone scores, and naturally it's a gothic Italian movie. They are indeed in a castle, nightmares are had, ghosts menace the living, and a mad scientist performs unholy experiments. Prominent church organ music and variations on Dies Irae absolutely never fail. So this has every element necessary for a real winner.
13) The Demons of Ludlow (1983) - Another Bill Rebane flick. This movie rules. The setup is pretty standard: a small New England town is under the curse of colonial ghosts. But these ghosts don't fuck around with subtle haunted house shenanigans or try to scare people away, they go straight for disembowelment, decapitation, animated demon hands and so on. I thought this was a classic example of weird 1970s horror until I checked the date... it's a few years late, but definitely has that feel. Apparently they collaberated with the guys making Devonsville Terror, a similar movie featuring Halloween's Donald Pleasance, during the production.
14) Die! Die! My Darling (1965) - I saw "screenplay by Richard Matheson" in the opening credits so I figured this wouldn't be half-bad, and hey, it's definitely not. Misfits have a song named after this. And I'll spoiler this, but it doesn't give much away to note that it must have inspired a much more famous book and film: Stephen King's Misery. Donald Sutherland plays a retard. It's weird seeing him in these early "character actor" types of roles, since I know him more for portraying urbane intellectual types.
15) Grave Robbers (1989) - Gritty and brutal Mexican slasher flick with some quite decent gore. If I had a nickel for every Spanish-language movie where an executed devil-worshipper comes back to life, I'd have, like, a dollar at least. Anyway, any movie with this many tombstones and cobwebs can't miss in my book. Only maybe three minutes of it take place in daylight and there's no long boring part at the beginning with nothing happening like 80% of American slasher movies have. The ending is incongruous and might have been changed for test audiences or by producer demands. I also notice that the virginal "final girl" is utterly useless and the actual hero is a cop who is, by first-world standards, pretty corrupt. Cultural differences.
16) Child's Play (1988 ) - Rewatching in anticipation of the upcoming TV series. Compared to other horror franchises that started as indies and became surprise hits, this is very 1980s Hollywood, complete with car crashes, explosions, one-liners, and every cliche in the book played completely straight. Chucky's has a great, drawn-out death.
17) Child's Play 2 (1990) - Picks up where the last one left off in a fairly logical way. Out of all the 70s/80s slasher mascot franchises, Child's Play is basically the only one that bothered to have real continuity or keep track of what the story is supposed to be or even address what happened to the characters from the last one. This is almost as good as the original.
18 ) The Game (1984) - Bill Rebane makes a movie that's cheap by Bill Rebane standards. A group of whoevers are invited to an empty hotel by crazy millionaires; last one to be frightened away gets a million dollars, nobody is sure whether people are dying for real etc etc. I guess the idea was ahead of its time since this sort of thing is still getting done to death to this very day, but the movie is a real mess, hard to follow, and never settles on a tone. There's a fair bit of nudity, if that helps.
19) Crypt of the Vampire (1964) - Another black and white, atmospheric gothic Italian movie, and one of the trillion or so loose adaptations of Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla. Christopher Lee plays a character named "Count Karnstein" and he's not a vampire or even a villain, if you can believe it. The two female leads are constantly looking into each other's eyes and complimenting each other's beauty, but it's a 60s movie so they don't fuck, sorry. Even so, it's pretty entertaining.
20) Child's Play 3 (1991) - Chucky goes to military school and tries to put his soul into the world's stupidest kid. Nice that the series never fell into formula, but "Child's Play meets Full Metal Jacket" just doesn't work. This is the lamest and most boring Chucky movie. Due to an eight-year time skip, this would have to take place just prior to Bride of Chucky, or something.
7) Monster A Go-Go (1965) - Prescient tale of an insufficiently-tested vaccine (for radiation) which (possibly?) transforms an astronaut into a monster. "The line between science fiction and science fact is microscopically thin! You have witnessed the line being shaved even thinner," observes the narrator, astutely. Distressingly, might not be the worst movie I've seen lately.
8 ) Xtro 3 (1995) - X-Files crossed with Predator from the early DVD era, with customary synth orchestra soundtrack, stock Doom sound effects, and Sliders-tier CGI. Think of a mediocre episode of 90s Outer Limits and you've got it. Features the guy from Wishmaster, Tom Hanks's brother, and the writer of Friday the 13th VII (both acting and writing). The three Xtro movies are unconnected plot-wise, but share a director. In an interview, said director claims that he is not ashamed of this movie... good for him.
9) Night of the Werewolf (1981) - Opens with a scene set hundreds of years ago of Satanists being executed. They are later resurrected in the present. Then, some women wander through a spooky castle and take their tops off. Arguments ensue about which of them gets to have sex with Paul Naschy. Every Spanish horror movie is like this. I spent the whole movie trying to figure out if I've seen this one before, and I'm still not sure, although it's this is definitely one of the stronger movies of its type.
10) Challenge the Devil (1963) - Italian gothic horror with attempts at surrealism and symbolism, then recut by distributors to have more of the musical sequences audiences demand. Christopher Lee appears as Spooky Castle Guy, but the adorable googly-eyed spider steals the show. This movie is so obscure that I can't find a screenshot of him.
11) Ozone: The Attack of the Redneck Mutants (1986) - Zombie movie shot on Super 8, on location in north Texas. There's some cool gore and a rudimentary plot and it's not boring. Better than low-budget digital movies that get dumped directly onto streaming services nowadays, honestly.
12) Nightmare Castle (1965) - Barbara Steele stars and Ennio Morricone scores, and naturally it's a gothic Italian movie. They are indeed in a castle, nightmares are had, ghosts menace the living, and a mad scientist performs unholy experiments. Prominent church organ music and variations on Dies Irae absolutely never fail. So this has every element necessary for a real winner.
13) The Demons of Ludlow (1983) - Another Bill Rebane flick. This movie rules. The setup is pretty standard: a small New England town is under the curse of colonial ghosts. But these ghosts don't fuck around with subtle haunted house shenanigans or try to scare people away, they go straight for disembowelment, decapitation, animated demon hands and so on. I thought this was a classic example of weird 1970s horror until I checked the date... it's a few years late, but definitely has that feel. Apparently they collaberated with the guys making Devonsville Terror, a similar movie featuring Halloween's Donald Pleasance, during the production.
14) Die! Die! My Darling (1965) - I saw "screenplay by Richard Matheson" in the opening credits so I figured this wouldn't be half-bad, and hey, it's definitely not. Misfits have a song named after this. And I'll spoiler this, but it doesn't give much away to note that it must have inspired a much more famous book and film: Stephen King's Misery. Donald Sutherland plays a retard. It's weird seeing him in these early "character actor" types of roles, since I know him more for portraying urbane intellectual types.
15) Grave Robbers (1989) - Gritty and brutal Mexican slasher flick with some quite decent gore. If I had a nickel for every Spanish-language movie where an executed devil-worshipper comes back to life, I'd have, like, a dollar at least. Anyway, any movie with this many tombstones and cobwebs can't miss in my book. Only maybe three minutes of it take place in daylight and there's no long boring part at the beginning with nothing happening like 80% of American slasher movies have. The ending is incongruous and might have been changed for test audiences or by producer demands. I also notice that the virginal "final girl" is utterly useless and the actual hero is a cop who is, by first-world standards, pretty corrupt. Cultural differences.
16) Child's Play (1988 ) - Rewatching in anticipation of the upcoming TV series. Compared to other horror franchises that started as indies and became surprise hits, this is very 1980s Hollywood, complete with car crashes, explosions, one-liners, and every cliche in the book played completely straight. Chucky's has a great, drawn-out death.
17) Child's Play 2 (1990) - Picks up where the last one left off in a fairly logical way. Out of all the 70s/80s slasher mascot franchises, Child's Play is basically the only one that bothered to have real continuity or keep track of what the story is supposed to be or even address what happened to the characters from the last one. This is almost as good as the original.
18 ) The Game (1984) - Bill Rebane makes a movie that's cheap by Bill Rebane standards. A group of whoevers are invited to an empty hotel by crazy millionaires; last one to be frightened away gets a million dollars, nobody is sure whether people are dying for real etc etc. I guess the idea was ahead of its time since this sort of thing is still getting done to death to this very day, but the movie is a real mess, hard to follow, and never settles on a tone. There's a fair bit of nudity, if that helps.
19) Crypt of the Vampire (1964) - Another black and white, atmospheric gothic Italian movie, and one of the trillion or so loose adaptations of Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla. Christopher Lee plays a character named "Count Karnstein" and he's not a vampire or even a villain, if you can believe it. The two female leads are constantly looking into each other's eyes and complimenting each other's beauty, but it's a 60s movie so they don't fuck, sorry. Even so, it's pretty entertaining.
20) Child's Play 3 (1991) - Chucky goes to military school and tries to put his soul into the world's stupidest kid. Nice that the series never fell into formula, but "Child's Play meets Full Metal Jacket" just doesn't work. This is the lamest and most boring Chucky movie. Due to an eight-year time skip, this would have to take place just prior to Bride of Chucky, or something.
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