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Mecha-Jerkop said:
Re-watched Halloween Kills. On my first initial viewing I thought some of the scenes of this movie were... Fine to say the least and I was interested in making a fan cut that removed the filler and got down to the important stuff, upon second viewing this movie is unsalvageable and has killed any sort of interest I had in Ends, doesn't help that they're doing a 4 year timeskip with that and making Halloween 3 canon lol
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Elaborate on making halloween 3 canon, I know the silver shamrock masks are a thing, but that's just a fun little Easter egg.
 
God, I should never give Netflix horror movies a 'chance' they're all bad. I watched 'There's Someone Inside Your House' because I like classic teen slasher as a genre but this was insufferable. From the genderfluid girl to the WHITES BAD and COLOURED GOOD shit I was eyerolling my way through it. I only finished it because I thought the suspected bad guy was hot. I can only say the only saving grace was there was not a lesbian in sight and the gay dude didn't smoke poles.

They fundamentally didn't understand why people like slasher movies, however. We root for Jason to kill dumb ass teens because we don't know them beyond the surface. Once you start giving them depth and conflict in their characters it becomes a lot harder to root for their murder. Especially if they're mistakes made by teens and not particularly egregious.

Racism bad! Is not a reason to stab someone in the face. Being a dumb ass making out in an empty cabin on the other hand...totally justified to be whacked by Jason.
 
Watched Victor Crowley, the 4th Hatchet movie. I think it's the best one of the series. Parry Shen plays a way better protagonist than the chick who does Marybeth, she's not very fun or entertaining. Also the guy who plays the boat guide stole the show. But this movie was really great best slasher movie in a long time.
 
GeorgeFloyd said:
Watched Victor Crowley, the 4th Hatchet movie. I think it's the best one of the series. Parry Shen plays a way better protagonist than the chick who does Marybeth, she's not very fun or entertaining. Also the guy who plays the boat guide stole the show. But this movie was really great best slasher movie in a long time.
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I said it before but I hate those movies. I even watched the 4th one hosted by Joe Bob and the characters were so insufferable I couldn't make it past 20 minutes.

I can think of better slashers that came out recently like Haunt and Lake Nowhere. If you want a GOOD slasher comedy then I recommend Dudebro Party Massacre 3.
 
Gaear Grimsrud said:
In the book he's even so obsessed with Michael Myers and all things Halloween that he gets a Thorn rune tattooed on his arm, and he rubs it subconsciously when agitated.
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Did the author of this novelisation forget that only the first Halloween and the 2018 versions are (for now) the only canon ones in the current timeline? Or is this setting up some asspull for Halloween Ends that makes every Halloween movie canon and it's being hinted to us through a book
 
Scarecrows from 1988 is to me a great example of one genre film eventually finding itself in another genre story, even is the pace is somewhat slow in parts. A crew steals the payroll from Camp Pendleton and are on their way to Mexico via a hijacked plane when one of them pulls a double-cross and parachutes out with all of the cash. Unfortunately for everyone involved they end up on an abandoned farm where they find horror in the form of malevolent, well, see title. More horror movies should go ahead and feature unexplained occult terror

 
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Mecha-Jerkop said:
Did the author of this novelisation forget that only the first Halloween and the 2018 versions are (for now) the only canon ones in the current timeline? Or is this setting up some asspull for Halloween Ends that makes every Halloween movie canon and it's being hinted to us through a book
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I don't know if this stuff actually came from the writers of the movie, or if it's just the author's own inclusions to give more detail to the story.

Probably the latter.
 
Commander X said:
Scarecrows (1988) is to me a great example of one genre film eventually finding itself in another genre story, even is the pace is somewhat slow in parts. A crew steals the payroll from Camp Pendleton and are on their way to Mexico via a hijacked plane when one of them pulls a double-cross and parachutes out with all of the cash. Unfortunately for everyone involved they end up on an abandoned farm where they find horror in the form of malevolent, well, see title. More horror movies should go ahead and feature unexplained occult terror

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lAa5K-NrBqM
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On that note, there's another good killer scarecrow flick called Night of the Scarecrow.


If you like gory and cheesy 90's horror flicks then they don't get much better then this.
 
knightlautrec said:
God, I should never give Netflix horror movies a 'chance' they're all bad. I watched 'There's Someone Inside Your House' because I like classic teen slasher as a genre but this was insufferable. From the genderfluid girl to the WHITES BAD and COLOURED GOOD shit I was eyerolling my way through it. I only finished it because I thought the suspected bad guy was hot. I can only say the only saving grace was there was not a lesbian in sight and the gay dude didn't smoke poles.

They fundamentally didn't understand why people like slasher movies, however. We root for Jason to kill dumb ass teens because we don't know them beyond the surface. Once you start giving them depth and conflict in their characters it becomes a lot harder to root for their murder. Especially if they're mistakes made by teens and not particularly egregious.

Racism bad! Is not a reason to stab someone in the face. Being a dumb ass making out in an empty cabin on the other hand...totally justified to be whacked by Jason.
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Thoughts on the babysitter movies on Netflix? AFAIK FWIW most people consider that to be one of the better netflix horror originals.


Better than Holidays anyways. I was so hyped when i initally saw that thinking it'd be a cool horror anthology especially when i saw names like Kevin Smith attached (this was pre he-man mind you) but nope.

The worst of the bunch had to the one made for Halloween, which yeah it was by Smith and stared his daughter Harley, and given how its just one big "MEN BAD WOMEN GOOD REEEEE!" message it was clear Smith had lost his touch and we really should have seen where he was going. Avoid Netflix's Holidays like the plague 3/10
 
The ending of the book is the alternate ending of the movie I heard about. Michael kills Karen, and her phone starts ringing. Michael Answers it, and it's Laurie on the other end. Laurie hears Michael's breathing, and she tells Michael that she's coming for him.

The big fight with the angry mob is different. Michael doesn't put the mask back on before the fight begins. Michael gets beaten down, but he's able to muster enough strength to reach his mask and put it on, which makes him "strong again", and he kills everybody.

So according to the novel, his mask is like what spinach is to Popeye.
 
Commander X said:
Scarecrows from 1988 is to me a great example of one genre film eventually finding itself in another genre story, even is the pace is somewhat slow in parts. A crew steals the payroll from Camp Pendleton and are on their way to Mexico via a hijacked plane when one of them pulls a double-cross and parachutes out with all of the cash. Unfortunately for everyone involved they end up on an abandoned farm where they find horror in the form of malevolent, well, see title. More horror movies should go ahead and feature unexplained occult terror

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lAa5K-NrBqM
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BrunoMattei said:
On that note, there's another good killer scarecrow flick called Night of the Scarecrow.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=s6jvLUg82io
If you like gory and cheesy 90's horror flicks then they don't get much better then this.
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The actual good scarecrow movie is Dark Night of the Scarecrow


Mecha-Jerkop said:
Did the author of this novelisation forget that only the first Halloween and the 2018 versions are (for now) the only canon ones in the current timeline? Or is this setting up some asspull for Halloween Ends that makes every Halloween movie canon and it's being hinted to us through a book
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OK, here's my pitch: Halloween Part 3 Part 2. Still a better title than H20. Since we saw that the Halloween film franchise exists in Halloween Part 3 Part 1, it would make perfect sense if druid magic made Michael Myers become real. Actually, one alternate version of Michael Myers for each Halloween movie. Plus an extra for the producer's cut of 6. Then they all team up to fight Silver Shamrock, which is now owned by actress Jamie Lee Curtis.
 
Today's movie was land of the dead from 2005. Another mixed bag. This is yet another film in Romero's X of the Dead series and probably the weakest one.

Despite a zombie apocalypse destroying most of America, Pittsburgh has a walled city of Fiddlers Green. The story follows a group of gatherers who go out into the zombie infested streets around Fiddlers Green to secure supplies for a bounty.

I can say one thing, Romero said that the original night of the living dead was never meant to be political. This movie? Absolutely. The movie is essentially a rich vs poor story with a zombie backdrop.

Some of the acting is mildly poor, but not enough to rip me out of the movie.

I will however praise Eugene Clark and his portrayal of Big Daddy, the leader of the zombies. Despite not saying anything, he's got a better character arc than some of the humans. The dude is also absolutely terrifying, his makeup is amazing, and his build absolutely intimidates.

I'd say it's a 3/5 watch it if you want, but I have one more thing.
Dennis Hopper plays the antagonist Kaufmann. John Leguizamo plays Cholo. The last time these two were in a film, it was The Super Mario Brothers Movie and Dennis played Koopa and John played Luigi. Watching this movie with that in mind makes it absolutely hilarious to me.
 
Zelos Wilder said:
Today's movie was land of the dead from 2005. Another mixed bag. This is yet another film in Romero's X of the Dead series and probably the weakest one.

Despite a zombie apocalypse destroying most of America, Pittsburgh has a walled city of Fiddlers Green. The story follows a group of gatherers who go out into the zombie infested streets around Fiddlers Green to secure supplies for a bounty.

I can say one thing, Romero said that the original night of the living dead was never meant to be political. This movie? Absolutely. The movie is essentially a rich vs poor story with a zombie backdrop.

Some of the acting is mildly poor, but not enough to rip me out of the movie.

I will however praise Eugene Clark and his portrayal of Big Daddy, the leader of the zombies. Despite not saying anything, he's got a better character arc than some of the humans. The dude is also absolutely terrifying, his makeup is amazing, and his build absolutely intimidates.

I'd say it's a 3/5 watch it if you want, but I have one more thing.
Dennis Hopper plays the antagonist Kaufmann. John Leguizamo plays Cholo. The last time these two were in a film, it was The Super Mario Brothers Movie and Dennis played Koopa and John played Luigi. Watching this movie with that in mind makes it absolutely hilarious to me.
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One of the few good things you can say about land is this, It's not a one to one translation of the story Romero originally had wanted to make for Day of the dead 20 years before but it was inspired by it and uses a lot of ideas he wanted in that movie.



EDIT: Also Bruno you may call me a boomer a lot but just a friendly reminder:

Michael Myers: Born October 19, 1957
Jason Voorhees: Born June 13, 1946.
Charles lee ray: Born January 24th, 1950

All are full on boomers and Freddy Kruger is even older technically a silent gener being born in 1942, Elliot Spencer Aka pinhead was born in 1887! he was a hundred years old by the events of hellraiser.
 
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Available at Archive.org is the 1992 BBC mockumentary "Ghostwatch" which featured actual BBC on-air personalities as 'themselves', and maybe spooked a few people who thought it was real. The fallout was big for this one within and without the Beeb, and they never aired it again.

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Writer Stephen Volk penned "31-10", a sequel to Ghostwatch where as the scripter he's brought back reluctantly in for a tenth-anniversary revisit


In the wolfish hunger for so-called reality TV after three mega-successful series of Big Brother, it wasn’t difficult to see where the Powers-that-BBC was coming from, in its Greg Dyke-driven quest for ratings.
The proposal was a simple one. Put forward, no doubt over a lunch at Groucho’s by a producer I’d never heard of, who had been twelve at the time of the original broadcast, and who now, at twenty-two, was inexperienced enough to embody the yoof audience BBC1 desperately wanted to attract. At that stage yours truly, the humble writer, of course, was not deemed necessary to consult, even though technically the concept was still legally my property, though the rights in the programme itself rested with the Beeb. Nevertheless at this meeting, otherwise known as a lunch, the produceress, in designer glasses way more trendy than Parky’s in his 1992 Specsavers commercials, evidently pitched a sequel: Ghostwatch 2, Return to Studio One. And they clapped till their hands bled. Or at least didn’t say no.
My own reaction to the proposal was predictable.
My body went into spasm.
I didn’t jump at the idea. I didn’t rise to the occasion, or the bait, in writing, by phone call, by e-mail. Pleading, moaning, cajoling, didn’t shift me one iota. I don’t know what did, in the end.
I think the fact that fear, real palpable terror bubbling up from inside -- a pure, physical, ectoplasmic surge in my gut -- said, Aha! I have you! And I wanted to prove it wrong. I wasn’t afraid. Not now.
Not ten years later, for God’s sake.
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Watched Halloween 3 for the first time, and can only think that people hate it because it has nothing to do with the rest of the franchise. I found it to be an atmospheric and creepy film with a great soundtrack, where I'm glad they had the balls to go for the darker ending. Plus that jingle will be stuck in my head for a long time to come. The quality of the DVD I watched was atrocious though, and it's another franchise I wish there was an affordable blu ray box set for.

Only thing I didn't like was the romance sub plot, which was completely unnecessary and the wrong sort of creepy.
 
I watched Karen. (2021)

What a piece of shit.

They tried to sell this as a horror movie, but it's not. It's like a shitty domestic drama with really over the top racial bullshit,

They should have embraced the schlock, but it takes itself too seriously and acts like it's saying something important.

That's a 3 out of 10 from me, dawg.

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The Penultimate Warrior said:
Plus that jingle will be stuck in my head for a long time to come.
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Join the club pal it's been accepting members since 82.

Anyways, not watching the movie itself just yet but I'm watching the bonus features for the 03 Remake of Texas Chainsaw massacre. I gotta say that remake is better than most entries in the long line of remakes of classic horror that took up a good chunk of the 2000's and even today. Going by the making of features it was clearly a film made with respect for the source.


R.I.P Tobe Hooper January 25, 1943-August 26, 2017,


EDIT: Teaser Trailer for a new jeepers creepers dropped so far it looks legit, like the real deal and not a fan thing or a hoax.

It looks....mixed. To be fair this IS just a teaser so we can't know much for certain just yet but idk about this one. Some things look promising though, like the ax from the original and the use of the song jeeper's creepers being back. That song was brought up as a plot device signaling when the creeper's around in the original but it was dropped from both 2 and 3.
 
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