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BrunoMattei said:
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.
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I said this before, and I'm definitely going to say it again

Survival was so awful that I feel ripped off when I did finish it, and I saw the fucker for free
 
I rewatched The Witch tonight with family. Nothing new to report: it's fucking great, and Eggers is a crazy-talented director.
 
I’m not as big on Brian Bertino's The Strangers as some are but this recent film of his is a winner. Horrific American Gothic that cuts deep with both human anguish and supernatural dread as siblings start to wonder if there's something afflicting their ailing mother besides grief over her terminally ill husband.

 
So a review dump

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin was.... a disappointment. Not because of what you're thinking though. I mean, kind of. For the first 45 minutes I was actually thinking 'Holy shit this is actually not a bad movie maybe they won't fuck it up. The problem is that by trying so hard to reboot the franchise they forgot to 1) add some scares in the first hour (and not like the second movie where it's long shots with nothing happening, there wasn't even anything like that) and 2) it's current year + 8 so ~subverting expectations~ is what is expected at this point. It's not a bad movie, I'd probably be more generous if it had been it's own IP versus what feels like a tacked on reboot. A weak 3/5

The Battery is by far one of the best movies about Zombies. It's not a zombie movie, though they are there. It's mostly about the two friends who are sticking together and trying to live out the apocalypse, and the shit that happens around them. It's absolutely fucking phenomenal and if you haven't seen it you have done yourself a disservice. Once again, Indie Horror done right (emphasis on Indie). 5/5

Black Mountain Side is about some people working on an archeological dig in the northern parts of Canada who discover a weird structure in the ground, and their sanity starts to unravel when they start having to deal with the madness and terrifying concept of being stuck in Canada. And also the weird shit happening because of the structure. Had lots of potential, but somehow just fucked itself over and ended up being boring 2.5/5

I still have The Dinner Party and today's movie Scream Test to review to wrap up 31 for 31
 
happy halloween you faggots

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anyways, finished off spooky month with a rewatch of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, fucking adore this movie, wonder how the Netflix requel (reboot/sequel, source) is gonna be. Shame that rumor of a TCM game by gun media turned out fake, would've really enjoyed play as Bubba in something that isn't DbD
 
Internet War Criminal said:
Black Mountain Side is about some people working on an archeological dig in the northern parts of Canada who discover a weird structure in the ground, and their sanity starts to unravel when they start having to deal with the madness and terrifying concept of being stuck in Canada. And also the weird shit happening because of the structure. Had lots of potential, but somehow just fucked itself over and ended up being boring 2.5/5
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It had a lot of potential and I still enjoyed it, but you're right. I've re-watched it a few times, and you're still right.

* The structure: Not enough of it shown. Not enough exposition. The camera never got close enough for me to see if the structure "looked" Meso-American. It was fine that most of it remained buried, but I feel there at least needed to be a bit more exposition.

* Clovis findings: I was disappointed because this was an extremely interesting side of the movie with A TON of potential wasted. The MacReady looking guy was a great homage to Kurt Russell and John Carpenter, but again...I got NO exposition. I was left with way more--too many questions--with no answers. And while it's great to have a movie that leaves you with more questions...you don't want to end up with too many.

* Native workers: I was very interested in them and I was disappointed that these characters were a flash in the pan. Their lore was connected with the alleged Clovis findings and the structure. How? What stories did they tell? I wanted to hear about this. I wanted more information about their current settlement and the people living there. What did they know?

I'm not really going to talk about the dear head god. I don't really have much to complain about that aspect as it worked for me as far as playing into the others' paranoia and descent into madness. But I really wanted to learn about the locals and more about the Clovis findings...
 
I watched Society. (1989) It was nuts! Watched it on Shudder with Joe Bob Briggs, which only added to the fun.

Well, that's it. I watched 31 movies. All stuff I hadn't seen before.

Venom: Let there Be Carnage. (2021)
Frankenstein 1970. (1958)
Parents. (1989)
The Body Snatcher. (1945)
I Walked with a Zombie. (1943)
The Other. (1972)
Hider in the House. (1989)
The Brain. (1988)
Schizoid. (1980)
The Invisible Man. (1933)
Child's Play. (2019)
Edge of the Axe. (1989)
The Unnamable. (1988)
Halloween 6: The Producer's Cut. (1995)
Halloween Kills. (2021)
Frankenhooker. (1990)
Dracula Untold. (2013)
Terror in the Aisles. (1984)
Slumber Party Massacre. (2021)
Diary of a Madman. (1963)
The Comedy of Terrors. (1963)
The Bat. (1959)
Mystery of the Wax Museum. (1933)
Taste the Blood of Dracula. (1970)
The Sentinel. (1977)
Zombi 2. (1979)
Awakening the Zodiac. (2017)
Karen. (2021)
Last Night in Soho. (2021)
A Bay of Blood. (1971)
Society. (1989)
 
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Constellationzero said:
It had a lot of potential and I still enjoyed it, but you're right. I've re-watched it a few times, and you're still right.

* The structure: Not enough of it shown. Not enough exposition. The camera never got close enough for me to see if the structure "looked" Meso-American. It was fine that most of it remained buried, but I feel there at least needed to be a bit more exposition.

* Clovis findings: I was disappointed because this was an extremely interesting side of the movie with A TON of potential wasted. The MacReady looking guy was a great homage to Kurt Russell and John Carpenter, but again...I got NO exposition. I was left with way more--too many questions--with no answers. And while it's great to have a movie that leaves you with more questions...you don't want to end up with too many.

* Native workers: I was very interested in them and I was disappointed that these characters were a flash in the pan. Their lore was connected with the alleged Clovis findings and the structure. How? What stories did they tell? I wanted to hear about this. I wanted more information about their current settlement and the people living there. What did they know?

I'm not really going to talk about the dear head god. I don't really have much to complain about that aspect as it worked for me as far as playing into the others' paranoia and descent into madness. But I really wanted to learn about the locals and more about the Clovis findings...
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Yeah pretty much summed up all I had to say about this. For a while I thought they were going in a The Thing direction, and they had lots of aesthetics and hints that they were, but then they didn't.

It's like they presented you 10 doors, 9 of them interesting, and they decided to consistently for the most boring one at every turn.

Solar Eclipse Paradox said:
I recently watched the film Man Bites Dog with my father for Halloween. He told me it was unlike any other film he has ever seen before and was like way out there. Seems to give him an insight on these obscure gems that only seems to resonate with extreme and cult film followers.
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Nothing like father-son bonding over some really graphic french rape scenes
 
Gaear Grimsrud said:
Gonna watch The Halloween Tree tonight.

That's the one thing I make sure to watch every single Halloween.

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This has also been my tradition since I was a child, every year.

I wasn't able to do every night this year because of work. October has been an insanely hectic month this year so hopefully next year I can get all 31 nights.
 
Doctor of Autism said:
Get Out was just decent but Peele's horror stuff since then is just bad, especially Us which is fucking stupid.
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I watched both of these for the first time last week. I enjoyed Get Out since I'm fond of paranoia/conspiracy types of horror films and it has a great soundtrack, but Us was a huge disappointment. The doppeleganger idea was cool and creepy, but Peele totally fucked it up with the half assed origin story and the heavy handed social message. It would have been better if he had not provided an explanation for the doppelgangers' existence, though the explanation was integral to the social message which is probably why he did so.
 
frozenrunner said:
I rewatched The Witch tonight with family. Nothing new to report: it's fucking great, and Eggers is a crazy-talented director.
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My best friend and I rented a cabin in bumfuck New England last and watched this, I really loved it, it's right up my alley, I love atmospheric slowburns.

We also watched Haxan and Blood on Satan's Claw, it was a mini folk horror festival.
 
I watched the 2005 American remake of Dark Water.

I remember watching it on dvd as a teen and wasn't too impressed, however this time I really enjoyed it, in fact I don't know why I wasn't more impressed as a teen, but it's a nice little ghost story.

Another really underrated movie I re-watched was Dead Silence, from James Wan, the director of the first SAW movie, Insidious, The Conjuring and the recent Malignant, this was another movie I watched on dvd and liked ok, but enjoyed even more today, I liked it's attempts at having an old school horror atmosphere with foggy graveyards, an old abandoned theater etc, melded with more then modern horror conventions, I loved the creepy dummies, just an overall very fun movie and it's a shame it flopped and we never got a sequel, why does The Conjuring have a million sequels and spinoffs but Dead Silence couldn't even get one sequel?
 
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