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horrorfan89 said:
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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The Penultimate Warrior said:
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.
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Shout/Scream Factory released a 4K Blu-Ray of it for like, $20s, haven't seen any reviews of it yet though. Watched it for the first time myself last week and have been humming the Silver Shamrock commercial ever since.

Also rewatched Army of Darkness today, whilst not a true "horror" so to say its became one of my favorite "adventure-horror" movies ever since I watched it a few years ago, is the Shout factory blu-ray still being produced? I don't think AoD is on digital and I've been wanting to own it properly for a while now
 
Tonight's movie is gonna be Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin. I know it's gonna suck, I feel like I've been hurt over and over again by this series. PA1 and PA3 were so good, 4 was decent enough, 2 wasn't terrible... and everything else was absolute shit. I don't know why I still bother, but I'm hoping it won't be fucking shit.

Quickly, two more reviews, two other netflix productions

There's Someone in the House is an attempt at making a millenial Scream and... if fucking sucks. The gore is pretty good, the whodunit isn't bad either, but the problem is that all the characters you're supposed to root for are 1) degenerates and 2) really fucking annoying. Which makes it nice when they get killed, but everything inbetween fucking annoying. It's still not terrible, and if you got nothing to do, meh, there are worse ways to waste your time 2.5/5

Intrusion follows the guy from Upgrade who marries a nosy pajeet woman who won't stop interfering with his shit even though she clearly lucked out and would have ended up gangraped in the gange (both what her taint is called and the actual river) if it wasn't for that guy marrying her and taking care of her and giving her a house way bigger than she deserves. Anyway, they get robbed one night after they went out to eat and shit really spirals the fuck down afterwards. She's an annoying cunt, but it's a good enough movie, nice tension, good story. 4/5

I'll take care of PA:NoK with The Battery and The Dinner Party tomorrow
 
Today's movie was wrong turn 2.

I'm gonna spoil the surprise. 5/5 straight out the gate for Henry Fucking Rollins.

Honestly, it's the best of the wrong turn movies. With the premise of sending a bunch of soon to be dead people into the woods for a survivor knock off reality show, our contestants are picked off one by one. It's a fun little little horror romp filled with blood and boobs.

Henry Rollins is absolutely a treasure in this as the host of the game show Dale Murphy. Henry brings some well used aggression to this movie and doesn't fuck around.

The rest of the cast is serviceable, most of them getting minor character development at least.

I can't even pretend that the gore wasn't good. It's very nice. I enjoyed this movie a lot. If you like a good slasher, check it out.
 
Zelos Wilder said:
Today's movie was wrong turn 2.

I'm gonna spoil the surprise. 5/5 straight out the gate for Henry Fucking Rollins.

Honestly, it's the best of the wrong turn movies. With the premise of sending a bunch of soon to be dead people into the woods for a survivor knock off reality show, our contestants are picked off one by one. It's a fun little little horror romp filled with blood and boobs.

Henry Rollins is absolutely a treasure in this as the host of the game show Dale Murphy. Henry brings some well used aggression to this movie and doesn't fuck around.

The rest of the cast is serviceable, most of them getting minor character development at least.

I can't even pretend that the gore wasn't good. It's very nice. I enjoyed this movie a lot. If you like a good slasher, check it out.
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It's one of those instances where the straight to video sequel is way better than the original movie that got a theatrical release. The rest of the Wrong Turn sequels are fun slasher trash as well. At least up until the most recent one that's a reboot.

Rollins is great in Feast as well but he has a much smaller role.
 
Finished watching The Fog today. I think I admire its craftsmanship more than I genuinely loved it, but it scratches a certain itch. Not scary, but spooky. Looks shockingly good for its budget. And seeing a young, adorable Jamie Lee Curtis was fun... and Adrienne Barbeau has such a sexy radio voice. Fun Halloween movie.

I'm starting Prince of Darkness now. Probably won't finish it today, but I love the tone of it already.
 
frozenrunner said:
Finished watching The Fog today. I think I admire its craftsmanship more than I genuinely loved it, but it scratches a certain itch. Not scary, but spooky. Looks shockingly good for its budget. And seeing a young, adorable Jamie Lee Curtis was fun... and Adrienne Barbeau has such a sexy radio voice. Fun Halloween movie.

I'm starting Prince of Darkness now. Probably won't finish it today, but I love the tone of it already.
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That's the general consensus nowadays. It's a well made film with great atmosphere but it's kind of forgettable.
 
Went to see Last Night in Soho.

It was pretty good.

The trailer seems like it's telling you the whole story, but there's big twists in the third act.

It's not particularly scary though. The horror aspect is the weakest thing about it.
 
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actually watched Shock Waves from start to finish, 1977 Peter Cushing known for being The Movie With Aquatic Nazi Zombies, Peter Cushing, and a Carradine.
It's not the Italian gore trashy shitfest you'd expect.
It's pretty subdued and moody, clothes are mostly left on. It's actually kind of really good as a quiet-ish horror movie rather than "lol zombie aqua nazis"
 
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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Weakest one? It's bad compared to the original trilogy but just wait until you watch Diary and Survival of the Dead. Diary has some great moments but it's even worse with insufferable characters and Survival is so bad that I couldn't finish it and it legit makes Land of the Dead look like a masterpiece.
 
42 of 31 done. Pardon my blogging.

33) Count Dracula's Great Love (1973) - A bunch of women travel to Paul Naschy's castle and have sex with him, blah blah. If you think "misunderstood" Draculas are insufferable, wait till you see what Naschy's ego does with the part. The version I watched was part of "Elvira's Movie Macabre" series, so the transfer is 4:3 and utterly terrible but the host sections made it bearable.

34) Night of the Creeps (1986) - Watching the director's cut in full for the first time. The theatrical ending blows. I would expect even John and Jane Q. Normalfag to prefer the original one. Just an asinine and pointless change, thankfully now rectified.

35) Night of the Demons (1988 ) - Rewatching one of Hollywood's stabs at doing Evil Dead. Some great effects that would catch a first-time viewer off-guard even today but I wouldn't be surprised if the script was just: "say something a retarded teenager would say, I don't care what". I remember Night of the Demons 2 being the same yet better.

36) The Beast and the Magic Sword (1983) - Paul Naschy journeys to the Orient to have sex with Asian women and, most importantly, fight a fucking tiger in full werewolf makeup. There are also topless ninja girls and ghost samurai and disembowelments and so on, but mostly one wonders how many uncredited stunt doubles that fucking tiger tore limb from limb before they finished getting the shots they needed, because there's not a lot of trick photography involved. Really outdoes Zombi 2's shark fight, I must concede. Of the too-many Naschy movies I've seen, I'd say this one's probably best, but not representative - for one thing, Naschy has an actual co-star, playing a heroic samurai.

37) Castle of Blood (1964) - "Based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe" lies the opening credits; Poe does appear as a character within the story however. A skeptical man stays the night in a haunted castle to win a bet - yes they actually did that fucking plot unironically. It is the "partying teens get drunk at site of notorious murders" of the 1960s. Another pretty-looking black-and-white Barbara Steele Italian gothic horror movie that is worth watching but only if you don't want to watch Black Sunday again. Apparently there's a remake with Klaus Kinski.

38 ) Mil gritos tiene la noche aka Pieces (1982) - Seeing the director's cut for the first time, although it's new to me in the sense that I could barely remember anything about it, other than a scene of gratuitous pants-wetting. So: a serial killer wearing a black trenchcoat, black gloves, black hat and black mask murders college girls on campus in public in broad daylight with a fucking chainsaw, taking the time to dismember them and walk off with entire appendages as trophies. Naturally, there are no witnesses and the police have no leads in identifying this elusive master criminal. Just so you know, the maps, flags, and t-shirts in every scene clearly indicate that this is definitely taking place in America and not, say, Spain. This is a quite retarded mashup of whatever had been making money recently: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, Halloween, and giallos generally. The interminable dull police procedural scenes really sap the fun out of it, particularly as they make no sense. The parts with tits/blood at least have tits/blood in them, if that helps, and it has a great ending. A cult classic! Apparently!

39) Demonia (1990) - Turns out this lesser-known Fulci movie deserves its awful reputation. Fulci himself plays an interpol agent and although he's dubbed with an earthy American voice he can't tone down his MAMA MIA SPICY MEAT-A-BALL hand gestures. This is not the kind of nunsploitation movie where nuns have to spank schoolgirls as punishment for their Satanic lust, if that's what you wanted. In this one, nothing happens for like an hour, and then adorable cat puppets maul a woman.

40) The 7th Victim (1943) - Finally hitting one of the few Val Lewton movies I hadn't seen. This must be the most subtle and weird of the whole weird, subtle lot, and it's a wonder it made it past the censors. Quite a downer.

41) Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) - One of the greenest and sunniest horror movies and probably enjoying some renewed interest now that VVVVVVVVitch has taught some more people the term "folk horror". Satan starts his own Manson Family cult in a 17th century English village. Lacking any real central narrative or a protagonist, the movie plays like a historical dramatization.

42) Satan's Slave (1980) - Indonesian; kinda like if Evil Dead celebrated and promoted traditional Islamic family values in a heavy-handed manner. So, not so much like Evil Dead, maybe. Wouldn't be surprised if the 2017 remake was better.
 
Calandrino said:
42 of 31 done. Pardon my blogging.



34) Night of the Creeps (1986) - Watching the director's cut in full for the first time. The theatrical ending blows. I would expect even John and Jane Q. Normalfag to prefer the original one. Just an asinine and pointless change, thankfully now rectified.

35) Night of the Demons (1988 ) - Rewatching one of Hollywood's stabs at doing Evil Dead. Some great effects that would catch a first-time viewer off-guard even today but I wouldn't be surprised if the script was just: "say something an exceptional teenager would say, I don't care what". I remember Night of the Demons 2 being the same yet better.


38 ) Mil gritos tiene la noche aka Pieces (1982) - Seeing the director's cut for the first time, although it's new to me in the sense that I could barely remember anything about it, other than a scene of gratuitous pants-wetting. So: a serial killer wearing a black trenchcoat, black gloves, black hat and black mask murders college girls on campus in public in broad daylight with a fucking chainsaw, taking the time to dismember them and walk off with entire appendages as trophies. Naturally, there are no witnesses and the police have no leads in identifying this elusive master criminal. Just so you know, the maps, flags, and t-shirts in every scene clearly indicate that this is definitely taking place in America and not, say, Spain. This is a quite exceptional mashup of whatever had been making money recently: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, Halloween, and giallos generally. The interminable dull police procedural scenes really sap the fun out of it, particularly as they make no sense. The parts with tits/blood at least have tits/blood in them, if that helps, and it has a great ending. A cult classic! Apparently!

39) Demonia (1990) - Turns out this lesser-known Fulci movie deserves its awful reputation. Fulci himself plays an interpol agent and although he's dubbed with an earthy American voice he can't tone down his MAMA MIA SPICY MEAT-A-BALL hand gestures. This is not the kind of nunsploitation movie where nuns have to spank schoolgirls as punishment for their Satanic lust, if that's what you wanted. In this one, nothing happens for like an hour, and then adorable cat puppets maul a woman.


42) Satan's Slave (1980) - Indonesian; kinda like if Evil Dead celebrated and promoted traditional Islamic family values in a heavy-handed manner. So, not so much like Evil Dead, maybe. Wouldn't be surprised if the 2017 remake was better.
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I never got into Night of the Creeps. I know it has a following but I just never felt a spark from it.

Night of the Demons is okay. Again, I never felt a spark from it or the sequels. As an aside, I love Night of the DemoN, the killer bigfoot flick.

I can't get into gothic horror anymore. I liked that genre as a child but as an adult I just can't get into it.

There's no real director's cut of Pieces. There's a cut with different music but that's it. Fulci's frequent contributor Fabio Frizzi did some of the music, most notably the main theme that plays over the opening credits. It's a masterpiece of the slasher genre: it works as a so bad it's good flick and as a conventional slasher because it excels in giving the audience what they want to see.

Demonia is a sad watch. One of the last things Fulci did that wasn't even released until after his death and it was only released on video in Japan. You can squint and see the old Fulci here and there and you just wish the man had a decent budget to execute the ideas better. It's a decent trashy watch. The Blu looks fantastic compared to the old DVD but the film critic commentary is obnoxious.

Satan's Slave I remember nothing about but I think I could be confusing it for The Killing Of Satan.
 
BrunoMattei said:
I never got into Night of the Creeps. I know it has a following but I just never felt a spark from it.

Night of the Demons is okay. Again, I never felt a spark from it or the sequels. As an aside, I love Night of the DemoN, the killer bigfoot flick.

I can't get into gothic horror anymore. I liked that genre as a child but as an adult I just can't get into it.

There's no real director's cut of Pieces. There's a cut with different music but that's it. Fulci's frequent contributor Fabio Frizzi did some of the music, most notably the main theme that plays over the opening credits. It's a masterpiece of the slasher genre: it works as a so bad it's good flick and as a conventional slasher because it excels in giving the audience what they want to see.

Demonia is a sad watch. One of the last things Fulci did that wasn't even released until after his death and it was only released on video in Japan. You can squint and see the old Fulci here and there and you just wish the man had a decent budget to execute the ideas better. It's a decent trashy watch. The Blu looks fantastic compared to the old DVD but the film critic commentary is obnoxious.

Satan's Slave I remember nothing about but I think I could be confusing it for The Killing Of Satan.
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I would consider Deadly Spawn the true king of slug monster movies, over NotC, Slither, and even Shivers. My preferred Night of the Demon would be the Lewton movie aka Curse of the Demon, but the Bigfoot one is pretty crazy.

My copy of Pieces purports to be the director's cut... it's three minutes longer and in Spanish. Maybe you know all this. I don't know the movie's full story.
 
Watched Get Out. Honestly I could just stop it there. Didn't know what to watch tonight and saw this had good reviews.
Jordan Peele needs to stay out of horror.
 
Mecha-Jerkop said:
Shout/Scream Factory released a 4K Blu-Ray of it for like, $20s, haven't seen any reviews of it yet though. Watched it for the first time myself last week and have been humming the Silver Shamrock commercial ever since.

Also rewatched Army of Darkness today, whilst not a true "horror" so to say its became one of my favorite "adventure-horror" movies ever since I watched it a few years ago, is the Shout factory blu-ray still being produced? I don't think AoD is on digital and I've been wanting to own it properly for a while now
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I know it's not much of a barrier but I still need to get a multi region blu ray player, most or all of their stuff seems to be region A. For some reason the UK seems to miss out on loads of releases, which mainland Europe and Australia still get.
 
The Penultimate Warrior said:
I know it's not much of a barrier but I still need to get a multi region blu ray player, most or all of their stuff seems to be region A. For some reason the UK seems to miss out on loads of releases, which mainland Europe and Australia still get.
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4k blu rays are thankfully all region free, however, yeah scream factor blu rays themselves are region A locked.
 
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