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With Halloween night almost being over. I just what to say is that Sleep Away camp is based and redpilled for today. As it doesn't portray the aunt in a positive light for forcing her little nephew into becoming a girl and because of her said girl became a serial killer. The fact that people like that today are giving praises and browny points is true horror there.

Well I hope everyone had a good Halloween
 
Watched "Halloween Kills" with family.

All in all... better than the one with the rapper, better than any of the complete garbage that Rob Zombie shit out.

Having Lorie Strode lecture everyone in a voice over was kind of fucking meh. I didn't mind the part with the crazy guy falling to his death, since it kind of resonated with either 4 or 5, can't remember where the vigilantes shot the wrong kid.

Kind of got a kick out of the fact that it's really hard to fight someone who doesn't feel pain and can't be hurt in the standard ways. This is gonna sound weird, but the part where he kills everyone in that fucking mob was kind of gratifying, but not for the reasons Jamie Lee Curtis would have wanted it to be. I mean, they let up the pressure, then they were dumb enough to let him catch his breath, instead of just fucking doming him with a fucking 12 gauge. He's The Shape, the Embodiment of Evil and I was fine with seeing him rip through a crowd of dumbasses.

Kills were OK.

Supposedly it was homophobic because the two gay guys were killed. Well, maybe they shouldn't have been living in the Meyers house and then gone fucking EXPLORING when they saw the bloody handprint.

The whole "infection" angle was meh.

I'm sorry, but the cops HAVE failed. Repeatedly. When it comes to ol' Mike you're better off hanging with friends or just moving to another city.

One thing I REALLY dislike is they ignored two. It's the same fucking night, it's literally the sequel, and ignoring that to just focus on Part One is stupid. They could have rewrite the ending to Part II and have him live, I'm fine with that.

But I guess you can't, because... um... stronk wymin or some shit.

It's OK. Worth $5 on Vudu or to watch free if you have that option, but not worth paying full ticket price or anything over $10 to own if you just like having all the Halloween movies.

6/10 for horror movies
4/10 for Jamie Lee Curtis's hypocrite ass lecturing me.
 
I watched Friday the 13th Part VI to celebrate Halloween and it was a really fun movie and probably my favorite Friday film since it was just really fun and cheesy in the right ways. It was thoroughly enjoyable and I never found myself bored with this film.
 
I watched Halloween 1978 and Halloween 2018.

Despite being a John Carpenter fan since I was a kid I had never actually sat and watched Halloween before, just one of those movies that felt too familiar by way of osmosis, but I'm glad I finally did as there were a few details I didn't know and overall it's just a well made movie, I like Carpenter's other movies better, but I liked how for a genre known for being sleazy Halloween takes a more Hitchcockian approach, there's not really any actual gore and even the nudity is more matter of fact than leering.

I'm glad I finally filled this pop culture gap because I've seen the lion's share of Carpenters other movies, even stuff like The Fog and I've seen a fair amount of slashers, even stuff like The Burning and The Prowler, but never the one that started it all.

Halloween 2018 is also a pretty awesome movie, it way ups the gore factor but that feels appropriate, despite being Mr 2000s Nostalgia Guy one thing that sucked about the 2000s pop culture wise was all the horror remakes, most of which paled in comparison to the originals and especially in the case of all the John Carpenter remakes they were bad, so it's nice to have a movie that takes a far more respectful and quality approach than fucking Halloween Resurrection and the Rob Zombie remakes, if only more of the pop cultural revivals of the 2010s had been this good.
 
Also, it really tripped me out to see that the kids are actually watching the original The Thing on TV, which Carpenter would later remake, I wonder if that's just a cool coincidence or if that had been a project Carpenter was hoping to make? I also wonder if the fact that they also watch Forbidden Planet means Carpenter had also hoped to remake that and it simply never got off the ground?
 
Last night's movie was a personal favorite of mine. Henry Portrait Of A serial killer.

A dark and fucked up movie that shows exactly the reality is of if you love a serial killer. The violence in this movie is fucking extreme, even including a rape scene. This is the movie that started the career of one of my favorite actors, Michael Rooker.
I'd suggest going I'm blind, so this is shorter than my other posts, but I'm serious. Just put it on and enjoy the ride.


5/5 check it out.
 
OK, time to give it a rest.

43) Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) - The head camp counselor gives his trainees a speech about bear safety. They ignore his warnings and perish. Jason is a metaphor for bears and this film is an allegory about bear-awareness.

44) Nosferatu (1922) - A troubling celebration of antisemitic tropes, worth a rewatch every year or two (as are Vampyr and Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)

45) Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (1974) - End of opening credits: "and Boris Lugosi as Ook the Neanderthal".

46) Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982) - My first time watching a film with old-timey red-cyan 3D glasses. It looks kinda 3D but also kinda like having a head injury. This film always provides a fresh experience because I can never remember what happens in it. Friday-2 has plot holes you could drive a fleet of aircraft carriers through but Friday-3 literally does not have a story. Closest thing is a flashback where we learn Jason slipped a girl a roofie, so this time: it's personal.
 
Zelos Wilder said:
Last night's movie was a personal favorite of mine. Henry Portrait Of A serial killer.

A dark and fucked up movie that shows exactly the reality is of if you love a serial killer. The violence in this movie is fucking extreme, even including a rape scene. This is the movie that started the career of one of my favorite actors, Michael Rooker.
I'd suggest going I'm blind, so this is shorter than my other posts, but I'm serious. Just put it on and enjoy the ride.


5/5 check it out.
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Best tag line that was appropriated to a far lesser degree by other shit films: He's not Freddy. He's not Jason. He's real.

Henry is probably a masterpiece. First saw that when I was 12/13 and lucked out when the uncut version was at a Blockbuster. For those who don't know, Blockbuster had a policy against keeping Unrated or NC-17 movies but occasionally they sneaked in. Same Blockbuster had a copy of Burial Ground.

The sequel is not as good but it's still a fine serial killer movie that I'd recommend.
 
My girlfriend picked the movie tonight and picked the Possession from 2012. It was okay, but there's something really distracting.

It features Jeffrey Dean Morgan, AKA Negan. It was okay. Typical early 2010s possession movie. Had a few fun scenes and the little girl who was possessed was a good actress. I just couldn't get involved because I'm just watching Negan. That's my fault but whatever. It's enjoyable if you are into this stuff. You sorta have to turn your brain off though because the parents are actually brain dead.
It's basically a Jewish take on the exorcist now that I think about it.
My takeaway is I watched Jeffrey Dean Morgan and his family get harassed by a Jewish ghost for an hour.
 
Watched Halloween Kills.

Not too bad, I liked it better than some people have, although there are some frustrating story choices and it's not as good as Halloween 2018, but it's really cool that it confirms there's something supernatural about Michael Myers, wonder where they're going to go with that or if they're going to have the balls to try to explain why?

I wish another John Carpenter movie would get this kind of quality continuation.
 
Watched the first August Underground again. It still holds up for what it is, a super-edgy and extreme found footage film from the final days of the VHS era. Never cared for the sequels though.

It's a simplistic over-the-top gorefest and rewatching it that Fred Vogel was trying to do a weird mix of Blair Witch Project and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer while also going above and beyond to "outdo" both. It outdoes both movies in terms of violence, sex, and gore but Henry is still the much better movie in every conceivable way. But the first August Underground works for what it is and does what it sets out to accomplish. it's an edgy fake snuff/serial killer found footage flick that's cheap enough to look plausible.

Keeping in mind that it's from an era where "found footage" had just gotten some mainstream exposure thanks to Blair Witch Project but hadn't become the oversaturated dead horse of a genre it is today helps it a little bit.

The sequels were just too over-the-top and was just Vogel and his friends trying to both somehow top the first film and do gross-out gory edge for the sake of gross-out gory edge. The first film was also just trying to be edgy and disgusting for the sake of it, but it worked when done as a one-off at the time and place it came out in.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Best tag line that was appropriated to a far lesser degree by other shit films: He's not Freddy. He's not Jason. He's real.

Henry is probably a masterpiece. First saw that when I was 12/13 and lucked out when the uncut version was at a Blockbuster. For those who don't know, Blockbuster had a policy against keeping Unrated or NC-17 movies but occasionally they sneaked in. Same Blockbuster had a copy of Burial Ground.

The sequel is not as good but it's still a fine serial killer movie that I'd recommend.
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Follow up: there's a poster done by the great Joe Coleman that was rejected by the MPAA for being too disturbing.

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For fans of the painter Joe Coleman it's become an affordable way to get a poster reprint of one of his works.

Syaoran Li said:
Watched the first August Underground again. It still holds up for what it is, a super-edgy and extreme found footage film from the final days of the VHS era. Never cared for the sequels though.

It's a simplistic over-the-top gorefest and rewatching it that Fred Vogel was trying to do a weird mix of Blair Witch Project and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer while also going above and beyond to "outdo" both. It outdoes both movies in terms of violence, sex, and gore but Henry is still the much better movie in every conceivable way. But the first August Underground works for what it is and does what it sets out to accomplish. it's an edgy fake snuff/serial killer found footage flick that's cheap enough to look plausible.

Keeping in mind that it's from an era where "found footage" had just gotten some mainstream exposure thanks to Blair Witch Project but hadn't become the oversaturated dead horse of a genre it is today helps it a little bit.

The sequels were just too over-the-top and was just Vogel and his friends trying to both somehow top the first film and do gross-out gory edge for the sake of gross-out gory edge. The first film was also just trying to be edgy and disgusting for the sake of it, but it worked when done as a one-off at the time and place it came out in.
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Pretty much in 100% agreement. The first August Underground is okay for what it is, a zero budget indie horror film. The sequels were so ott that it became a comedy. Vogel tried to branch out and do other things with middling results. The closest he came to competence was the flick Redsin Tower which was "okay" then made a Faces of Death style flick that I've never seen but looks awful. Then he tried, emphasis on "try", to do a drama/horror in the tradition of Deathdream (1974) that had Camille Keaton from I Spit On Your Grave and it looked very amateurish.
 
That posters art style is really fucking neat. Almost reminds me of the video for Pink Floyd's The Trial. I may have to snag a reprint.

On an unrelated note, my girlfriend doesn't like horror movies. She likes the possession stuff but can't handle anything more than that. She wants to get into the horror genre but doesn't do well with gore, what would you suggest we watch? I was thinking of the original Halloween, but I'm open to your input.
 
Zelos Wilder said:
That posters art style is really fucking neat. Almost reminds me of the video for Pink Floyd's The Trial. I may have to snag a reprint.

On an unrelated note, my girlfriend doesn't like horror movies. She likes the possession stuff but can't handle anything more than that. She wants to get into the horror genre but doesn't do well with gore, what would you suggest we watch? I was thinking of the original Halloween, but I'm open to your input.
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Possession flicks? Exorcist 3, easily. The Alien Trilogy (just make sure to get the Assembly Cut of Alien 3) is great. The first Alien is maybe a little slow for some people. For more recent-ish shit I'd recommend Session Nine, Chasing Sleep and American Psycho. None of those go for the gore that much except for the chest bursting scene in Alien and Alien 3 has quite a bit more gore.
 
Zelos Wilder said:
That posters art style is really fucking neat. Almost reminds me of the video for Pink Floyd's The Trial. I may have to snag a reprint.

On an unrelated note, my girlfriend doesn't like horror movies. She likes the possession stuff but can't handle anything more than that. She wants to get into the horror genre but doesn't do well with gore, what would you suggest we watch? I was thinking of the original Halloween, but I'm open to your input.
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If she doesn’t like the gore?

Village of the Damned (not the remake)
The Conjuring
Dracula (the Francis Ford Coppola one. It’s also mildly hilarious!)
Creep
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Get Out

If you wanna make gore funnier for her so she feels less grossed out you could start with the old Hammer Horror films. They’re a lot of fun especially with that good ol’ Christopher Lee Dracula.
 
slimes said:
If you wanna make gore funnier for her so she feels less grossed out you could start with the old Hammer Horror films. They’re a lot of fun especially with that good ol’ Christopher Lee Dracula.
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Could go all out with Peter Jackson's Brain Dead AKA DeadAlive as the ultimate stress test. Unless she's seen some shit (not trying to probe) the gore shouldn't offend because it's so comical. Same with The Story of Ricky.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Could go all out with Peter Jackson's Brain Dead AKA DeadAlive as the ultimate stress test. Unless she's seen some shit (not trying to probe) the gore shouldn't offend because it's so comical. Same with The Story of Ricky.
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The Story of Ricky never fails to crack me up and I’d kinda forgotten it existed til you brought it up so I know what I’m watching later!
 
BrunoMattei said:
Could go all out with Peter Jackson's Brain Dead AKA DeadAlive as the ultimate stress test. Unless she's seen some shit (not trying to probe) the gore shouldn't offend because it's so comical. Same with The Story of Ricky.
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So, a while back, I tried to get her to watch Scream, sorta selling it to her as it's got a lot of comedy (and she has a crush on Matthew Lillard. ) she couldn't get past the first kill where the lights turn on and you see the boyfriend.
She also can't handle return of the living dead which was a shame because she really liked the comedy before she made me turn it off.
 
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