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iirc both Blacula movies are actually pretty good.
The core joke is expecting some Dolemite-looking vampire going "bleh! I vant to suck your blood, jive turkey!" But they actually play it straight. The guy playing the title character was a serious business stage guy (Richard Daystrom in Star Trek TOS) and he pulls off a good range of stuff. And the sequel has Pam Grier
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Reacquainted myself with both recently. They don't hold up well. The coffin-on-the-back-of-a-pickup footage in Blacula was lifted from the opening of Count Yorga Vampire. And Scream Blacula Scream, which won a Golden Turkey in the Medved brothers' book, The Golden Turkey Awards, borrows heavily from the plot of The Return of Count Yorga, a vastly superior movie. The director, Bob Kelljan, who helmed both flicks, either had writer's block or a was in a crazy hurry to move onto his next project.

Nigger vampires suck anyway.
 
Antlers

The Good:

Great cast, especially the dorky, malnourished-looking kid. He was an inspired bit of casting. Atmospheric setting. At one stage I thought Sly Stallone was going to come tearing down a sidewalk on a dirt bike, chased by a wailing cop car. Fine cinematography. Technically, the film is top of the range. It looks fantastic, sounds fantastic. No manifest cost-cutting here.

The Bad:

Been-there-done-that story. When a horror film commences with foreboding words of Amerindian wisdom aimed at evil, wicked whitey, you know that the left-leaning filmmakers put politics above originality. Silly monster. It's one third man, one third reindeer, and one third moose. Often slow but rarely rewarding. The effective atmosphere is no substitute for serious scares, for any scares really. Wokeism. Recovering female alcoholic to the rescue!
 
Okay, help me out. A while back I watched a movie that I can't remember the name of.
This was an indie project with about 5 characters two cops, a farmer, his wife and a child. The movie starts off with a man stumbling upon q farmhouse booby trapped and getting killed. The plot is about aliens or angels or something killing and replacing them and they have to defend the farm overnight.
I remember it had a semi edgy title. Maybe had hell in the name.

EDIT: It was Devil's Gate.
 
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Okay, help me out. A while back I watched a movie that I can't remember the name of.
This was an indie project with about 5 characters two cops, a farmer, his wife and a child. The movie starts off with a man stumbling upon q farmhouse booby trapped and getting killed. The plot is about aliens or angels or something killing and replacing them and they have to defend the farm overnight.
I remember it had a semi edgy title. Maybe had hell in the name.
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I'm drawing a blank here.
 
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Just alright is a fair statement for the first one. I can't really remember the second aside from the Cult and the slumber party alien invasion. The slumber party alien was the absolute best one IMO, but I love alien shit.
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The cult one was great. Alien one was good too and I usually love alien abduction shit, but imo it was a little lackluster. I was expecting McPherson tapes and that wasn't what I got.
 
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The cult one was great. Alien one was good too and I usually love alien abduction shit, but imo it was a little lackluster. I was expecting McPherson tapes and that wasn't what I got.
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McPherson tapes was such a good movie. I went in expecting it to be some boring generic stuff, but it was genuinely unsettling and I hated it. The low budget aesthetic absolutely did wonders.
 
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McPherson tapes was such a good movie. I went in expecting it to be some boring generic stuff, but it was genuinely unsettling and I hated it. The low budget aesthetic absolutely did wonders.
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Agreed. Best Alien horror film ever made, and one of the best Found footage films too. It captures the desperation and fear of the family members well. Not to mention the set up is believable. Family accidentally stumbles upon some aliens who crash landed and the ayys decide they need to silence the witnesses. When it first came out, it made the rounds on some TV shows which thought it was real. I remember it on that one Johnathan Franks show being presented as "real" with their experts saying the Aliens in the footage were legit. Controversial opinion, but I also thought the Fourth Kind was equally unsettling and a good horror movie—Mila's shitty acting aside.

Edit: The McPherson Tape got a remake in 98 that was pretty good too. It's called Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County. It's basically just the McPherson Tape with a higher budget.
 
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I've been pretty busy so I've barely watched any movies, but I'm pretty excited for Antlers and a couple of other flicks I have waiting in the pipeline.

Since it's the end of the year, how about we post about Top 10 of 2021 or whatever? If you find good lists from websites and shit, might as well post links too, that's still one of the best way to find out about gems you might have otherwise missed. I usually catch up in January on what I missed that ended up on those lists and a bunch of them end up being pretty good
 
I don't watch that much shit not unless I've heard good things about it or it's from filmmakers whose work I've liked. I still need to watch Antlers.

We did watch this for Movie Night on a Friday to celebrate Hanukkah:


It's very padded. There's like 30 minutes of material padded out with Sid Haig and Dick Miller cameos.
 
Best horror movie I've seen in 2021?

It's been a fair to middling year for horror films. There's been a few good'ns, but nothing I'd call great. Caveat, my pick for the best of the bunch, would've been an instant classic if its second half had maintained the stupendously creepy atmosphere it set up in its first.

My pick for runner up is Psycho Goreman, which made me realize how much I miss watching horror flicks with guys in rubber suits. Most of the guys I watch horror flicks with wear regular clothes. It would've taken my number one spot if it had been about a Jew serial killer. I mean, with a title like that.
 
For best recent horror film I'd still go with Brandon Cronenberg's Possessor but that was 2020. I'd still highly recommend it and it's good to see the apple does not fall far from the tree in this instance. I think the only other examples of the offspring of a celebrated director being able to make something great is Mario Bava> Lamberto Bava. Even if Lamberto directed only two great horror films (Macabre and Demons). Then you have George P. Cosmatos and his son Panos who made Beyond the Black Rainbow and Mandy. But I don't think George really has any fans and three movies he is credited as director (Rambo 2, Cobra and Tombstone) have been disputed by the stars of said movies who confessed that they actually directed those films.

I have yet to meet a super fan of Leviathan but I still need to watch Of Unknown Origin with Peter Weller.

Anywho, Antlers. Very, very good film. Highly recommend it. Best of 2021? Sure. Why not? The competition wasn't exactly fierce. I didn't realize the director of Antlers also did Hostiles with Christian Bale and I have to recommend that if you like a brutal and realistic take on the western.

PS: fuck Titane.
 
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I don't think 2021 has been an overall bad year for horror movies however is a year filled with disappointments.
Halloween Kills was very much a filler movie.

Spiral was a Chris Rock ego project.

Willy's Wonderland was great when Nic Cage was on screen but that was like 10ish minutes of a 90-minute movie and the other 80 minutes are just awful.

Slumber Party Massacre while never had high hopes for this one however it still went out of its way to be worse than anyone was expecting.

Black Friday has a great cast but isn't as funny as it thinks it is or as fun as it should be.

Don't Breathe 2 tries to make the blind man a hero and the only way they can is to make the villains even worse than he is yet they still fail and end up undermining why the blind man worked so well in the 1st.

Old, M. Night Shyamalan kind of had a comeback and while this isn't as bad as something like Lady in the Water or After Earth it's still not great. The idea would work great as an episode of an anthology show but doesn't have the meat on its bone to be a full movie.

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, more like the shit spin-off movies than the Conjuring 1 and 2.

Army of the Dead, there is a good 90-minute movie in there but not an over 2 hour one.

Jakob's Wife, Barbara Crampton was great in this but the movie itself is too simplistic and bland.

Demonic, Neill Blomkamp has been putting out great shorts after the train wreck that was Chappie. So the idea of a smaller budget movie he has full control over sounds great but he ended up making his worst movie yet.

Malignant, this movie was alright but could have been so much better if they just leaned into the more cheesy and over the topstuff more.

But the horror movies I enjoyed this year were Titane, Censor, Last Night in Soho, Mad God and Martyrs Lane.
 
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In Christmas horror, I've been returning to various "classic" stories, like Herbert Russell Wakefield's "Lucky's Grove", where a semi-retired self-made businessman who now owns the rural English estate his father labored on decides to have a most cracking Christmas with various guests. His estate foreman, being new to the area and unaware of the local superstitions, uproots a Christmas tree from the titular nearby grove...

I was listening to a recent episode dealing with Wakefield's story, of the A Podcast to the Curious, which focuses on the short fiction of seminal ghost-story author M.R. James and his contemporaries, and those who were later influenced by him, certainly the oft-anthologized Wakefield among them, and there's a reading of it on Youtube by one Julia Morgan


Speaking of old Montague Rhodes James, some of the Cambridge scholar's stories were adapted in the 1970s by BBC One for their "Ghost Stories for Christmas", short tele-films which aired between '71-'78. Oral tellings of ghost stories at Christmas being something of a holiday tradition in England. These adaptions included

The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, where a scholar uncovers the diary of a former archdeacon of the titular church, whose ambition may have cursed him


and the Treasure of Abbot Thomas, where a theologian and his protege discover clues to the location of the treasure a disgraced "mad" abbot hid centuries before

 
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