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Just ticked Exorcist 3 off my "really should have watched it but for some reason never got round to it" list, and glad I did as it's excellent and feels like the true sequel to the original rather than the mess that was Heretic. Personally I never found the original that scary, perhaps because it's been parodied so much, and always though the creepiest scene was the opening in Iraq. So whilst I'd say 3 is scarier, I'd need some repeat viewings to decide which I think is better.

The hospital scene has one of the all time great jump scares as well. 99% of horror films would have had rising music and the camera following her to build up tension. This scene does the complete opposite to much greater effect.
 
Best Movies of the Year:


My top 3

Censor it's everything Last Night in Soho wanted to be but failed miserably at. Fucking awesome with great 80s video nasty/giallo vibes

and... that's it. I can't think of another movie from 2021 that deserves a spot in my top 3. This year did suck for horror.


Worth a Watch

Don't Breathe 2
Werewolf Within
Come True
Psycho Goreman
The Night House
Seance
Antlers
 
Oof. I didn't watch many horror movies from this year.

Spiral was an absolute waste of time that I regret watching.
Candyman >Jordan Peele
Didn't watch.
Halloween kills was fun and had some good kills.
Fear Street was praised by James A Janice of dead meat, so seems fitting they were mediocre.
The Wrong Turn Reboot was at least interesting and had a few good kills.

Tie it between Wrong Turn and Halloween.
 
KaibaCorp ToeSucker said:
If I was Syfy i'd bring back Blood Drive. I was really into that show until it got canned after one season for no reason.

I also liked Stan against evil, but that was IFC and not Syfy tbh.
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Blood Drive was awesome until the last two (I think?) episodes, where the character stuff fell apart. I don't know what the hell happened in the writer's room. (I also wish it had gotten a second season. Colin Cunningham is a treasure.)

Stan Against Evil was hilarious. I can't believe they even bothered canceling it. How high was the budget for each episode, 100K?
 
Internet War Criminal said:
Well, then, take a seat, you're about to get clockwork orange'd.
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I didn't like the actress and the story felt cliche.

We'll settle this like men and not with your gay "Turkish wrestling" we will arm wrestle with the officially sanctioned way of arm wrestling.

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Sat down to reacquaint myself with Trick 'r Treat, one of the best horror anthologies on film, a few evenings ago. Five minutes in, the pirated copy I was watching experienced technical difficulties and I ended up watching Invitation on Shudder. I didn't make it to the end of that film either. It experienced screenwriting difficulties.

The front yard filled with ghosts in white sheets in the opening scene of Treat is the most unsettling Halloween display I have ever seen. No way would I be knocking on that front door.

Here's to that movie getting a release on 4K disc sooner rather than later.
 
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I saw Possession uncut (1981) for the first time not too long ago. I'm not sure what to say about it. It is probably the most insane film I've ever seen. I can't even say that I enjoyed it, though it was a spectacle to be sure.

I'd say you should watch it because it's an experience unlike any other film I've seen.
 
I watched this recently:


This guy playing Bronson's long lost twin has been headlining several action flicks in the last few years. What makes it better is that he's dubbed. I really enjoyed this entry. Imagine if Bronson did a slasher film ala the Chuck Norris flick Silent Rage. The premise is basically a crazed billionaire holds a Running Man kind of snuff film thing with a slasher picking off people left and right. The killer seems to be a rip off of The Trapper from Dead by Daylight:

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The killer in Cry Havoc even has the same kind of jagged flail you'd find in a junkyard as a weapon. Even though the Trapper was a ripoff of the killer from the obscure flick The Hills Run Red (which isn't very good):

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But I digress. Fun slasher trash. Check it out. It has plenty of gore and most of the gore is made up of practical effects.

I also came across The Sadness:


Looks good.
 
The Black Phone looks the most promising of the current bunch of yet-to-be-released horror flicks. Ethan Hawke's in it. He was in Sinister, one of the top 3 horror flicks of the past decade, so maybe that's a good sign. I'm not holding out much hope for the sequel to Terrifier, also one of the top 3 horror flicks of the past decade. But I'll be happy to proved wrong on that one. The trailer to the Scream reboot or sequel, whatever they're calling the bleeping thing, is one of the worst I've seen in a fair while. As you would expect, it's plenty diverse.

 
Okay guys, which version of the Zombie theme do you prefer?


It was first used in this Eyetalian re-edit of the original Godzilla (nicknamed Cozzilla because the maker of the re-edit was Luigi Cozzi). It's very common for composers to reuse music they've used before, use off-cuts, or re-work it. For an example, Alan Silvestri used this piece of music in Predator and Back to the Future:



Then there's the City of the Living Dead version:


I kind of prefer the City of the Living Dead version because it's more doomy.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Okay guys, which version of the Zombie theme do you prefer?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=taS2xo9TepE
It was first used in this Eyetalian re-edit of the original Godzilla (nicknamed Cozzilla because the maker of the re-edit was Luigi Cozzi). It's very common for composers to reuse music they've used before, use off-cuts, or re-work it. For an example, Alan Silvestri used this piece of music in Predator and Back to the Future:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UomI5-5axnY
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1fZXZq24fW4
Then there's the City of the Living Dead version:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Xp9nVYBg3w
I kind of prefer the City of the Living Dead version because it's more doomy.
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Always loved the Zombi version the best. It's the most atmospheric to me.
 
Zombi is the definitive classic, CotLD is too much of a banger in comparison for it to work for me. It's that extra snare that kills it as the definitive number 1
 
And after not watching any horror movies for about two months...

Ogroff aka The Mad Mutilator - This certainly gets one back into the spirit of things: French and shot on Super 8, so you know it's going to be nutty. I was worried this might be too disgusting a movie to be enjoyable, but if you're not offended by violence against mannequins, it's nothing gross. It's good, honest entertainment with plot twists you won't see coming because they make no sense. A transcript of all the dialog would probably be longer than this post. And here's the soundtrack, nice wobbly 80s synth: https://specific.bandcamp.com/album/ogroff-aka-mad-mutilator

Jack Frost - Sort of like a high-budget Troma movie, or a low-budget anything else. This is the one where a living snowman possessed by a serial killer rapes and murders a pre-implant Shannon Elizabeth (played for laughs). But not too long before, a character happens to remark that "she's only 18". The character lives with her parents and seems to be a high school student. I can actually imagine the filmmakers thinking "wow, we better clearly establish that she's old enough to legally consent to being murder-raped, or people are going to think we're sickos".

BrunoMattei said:
Okay guys, which version of the Zombie theme do you prefer?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=taS2xo9TepE
It was first used in this Eyetalian re-edit of the original Godzilla (nicknamed Cozzilla because the maker of the re-edit was Luigi Cozzi). It's very common for composers to reuse music they've used before, use off-cuts, or re-work it. For an example, Alan Silvestri used this piece of music in Predator and Back to the Future:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UomI5-5axnY
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1fZXZq24fW4
Then there's the City of the Living Dead version:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Xp9nVYBg3w
I kind of prefer the City of the Living Dead version because it's more doomy.
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I haven't seen Cozilla and didn't know it originated there. I guess I'd go with the CotLD version, but it's nice to have three different takes.
 
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