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I finally watched Criminally Insane AKA Crazy Fat Ethel. I thought I saw it before but it turns out I didn't. Very fun zero budget sleaze flick. There's no nudity. The gore is below H.G. Lewis. But it's fun and there's practically no filler as it's barely an hour long.


Not a lot of good horror coming out next year. There's The Outwaters which looks interesting:


Then there's Bones and All coming out this month:


It's from the director of the Suspiria remake so it might be alright? I might give it a chance?

Then after that the only other thing of note is Evil Dead Rise.
 
Few more upcoming horror movies with trailers

The Menu (out on the 18th)

M3GAN
People are jizzing over this one but just looks like the Child's Play remake to me, however director did do Housebound which was alright.

The Pale Blue Eyes
Good cast and from guy who made Antlers
 
The Menu looks like shit. I'm so sick of seeing that trailer. M3gan might be funny bad. Pale Blue Eyes might be good.
 
M3gan looks promising in my opinion.

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This movie actually made the gorehound in our group feel dizzy. Imagine a spiny parasite that pierces your skin to dig into you and puppets your body with you still inside it, and it doesn't understand how your body is supposed to move. It's a pretty simple production, it all takes place at a gas station, but you can really tell some love and talent went into this movie. I was caught off guard by the acting chops on the nobodies involved in this production. I very much recommend if you're into body horror and appreciate smaller scale horror survival scenarios.
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I love this movie so much. I'm happy everyone enjoyed it. I love how the gas attendant is still aware when we see him affected but can't do anything as the virus is controlling his body.
The movie really makes you want to see the characters make it. The effects are great for a low budget.
Funny enough the main actress of that movie now does mostly Hallmark movies kind of a funny career job.
 
I watched Smile (2022) a few nights ago. It was actually very enjoyable. My expectations going in weren't that high, but I was pleasantly surprised. It definitely reminds me a lot of It Follows (2014), which I've seen many people compare it to. I'm sure we all saw the viral marketing for it at some point (it really was everywhere) with people making those creepy exaggerated smiles, and I must say that those faces do stick with me lol.

Last night I watched Terrifier (2016) and it was decent. I'm not really big on gory horror, but it wasn't anything too crazy. I'll probably watch the sequel today or tomorrow. I do, however, have a complaint which is that the main characters are kind of retarded:

The main character, Tara (the kind of goth looking chick,) is being chased around by the clown. Prior to this she's extremely creeped out by him when she's at the pizza place with her friend. Then he follows her into the old apartment building where she went to take a piss (why she couldn't have just done this outside in an alley is beyond me, but whatever.) After the back and forth with the clown where he attacks and sedates her, she is constrained and forced to watch her friend get brutally murdered by him. After escaping her constraints and then gaining the upper hand on this lunatic; she has the opportunity to kill him, but instead antagonizes him to get up and fight her which of course doesn't end well lmao. Yeah, he has this supernatural thing going where he wouldn't have actually died there anyways, but she didn't know that.

I know it's movie logic akin to a super villain leaving the hero alone in a room full of explosives set to a timer, only for the hero to escape, foil his plans for world domination and save the day, but come on. You just watched your friend get sawed in half beginning from her pussy and ending with her scalp. There's fight or flight, and if you choose the former you don't just wave around a piece of wood like a retard and yell at your sadistic attacker to get up. :story:
 
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I told you fuckers that Smile was gonna be good and no one believed me. Well, there you good. It's pretty good. 8/10

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Totally disagree, I want more of the Richard Brake plot and less of all the faggoty gender subversion and #MeToo commentary.
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The funny thing about Barbarian is that it's almost the anti-#metoo movie, in a way, or rather it shows that women are fucking dumb about it. The main chick acts like a dick and is completely suspicious when it comes to the first guy, when it turns out he's perfectly nice and there's nothing wrong with it, and in fact would have been perfect boyfriend material for her. Even when she tells him about the shit downstairs and he goes 'Well, let me check out what's going on, a room with a bucket and a bed is not enough to run the fuck away leaving everything behind', he's totally right and she's being a huge cunt. She refuses to believe him when they are in the passages, and him arguing with her ultimately leads to his death because she just wouldn't shut the fuck up and follow him.

Second guy, who is an actual scumbag, shows up. Now that's the guy she goes to the bat far, and constantly puts herself in danger even though she has no reason to, only to be betrayed over and over until she almost dies and she's only saved by external elements. She never learns her lesson at any point even though multiple times he leaves her behind.

That movie could have 100% been written by a ~nice guy redditor~ considering the subtext.
 
Watched The Last House on Dead End Street for the first time in years and I really enjoyed it.

It had a uniquely grimy feeling that comes off as sleazy and creepy even by 70's grindhouse standards, though I sometimes wonder if that's because of all the weird urban legends about its production and the various cuts of the film back when it was more obscure.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
The funny thing about Barbarian is that it's almost the anti-#metoo movie, in a way, or rather it shows that women are fucking dumb about it. The main chick acts like a dick and is completely suspicious when it comes to the first guy, when it turns out he's perfectly nice and there's nothing wrong with it, and in fact would have been perfect boyfriend material for her. Even when she tells him about the shit downstairs and he goes 'Well, let me check out what's going on, a room with a bucket and a bed is not enough to run the fuck away leaving everything behind', he's totally right and she's being a huge cunt. She refuses to believe him when they are in the passages, and him arguing with her ultimately leads to his death because she just wouldn't shut the fuck up and follow him.

Second guy, who is an actual scumbag, shows up. Now that's the guy she goes to the bat far, and constantly puts herself in danger even though she has no reason to, only to be betrayed over and over until she almost dies and she's only saved by external elements. She never learns her lesson at any point even though multiple times he leaves her behind.

That movie could have 100% been written by a ~nice guy redditor~ considering the subtext.
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There's a lot of commentary about trust in Barbarian for sure. Even the flashbacks with Richard Brake show how trusting someone to enter your home just because they say they work for a utility company is exactly how he kidnaps his victims.

In the first act Tess distrusts Keith at every step, and it leads to disaster, so she tries to correct herself by overly trusting AJ, which almost leads to her own disaster several times. Basically the message is for women to not trust men. Meh.
 
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There's a lot of commentary about trust in Barbarian for sure. Even the flashbacks with Richard Brake show how trusting someone to enter your home just because they say they work for a utility company is exactly how he kidnaps his victims.

In the first act Tess distrusts Keith at every step, and it leads to disaster, so she tries to correct herself by overly trusting AJ, which almost leads to her own disaster several times. Basically the message is for women to not trust men. Meh.
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I haven't seen it. But it sounds like the first guy was generally good through.
 
Oats12345 said:
I haven't seen it. But it sounds like the first guy was generally good through.
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Not generally, literally ridiculously perfect (for her, anyway). She proceeds to treat him like shit the whole time. When it comes to the second guy, who's a vain and shallow celebrity, she just keeps going to the bat for him for no reason, even after being shown over and over she shouldn't. Unlike the first guy, when she never trusts him even though she's shown over and over she can trust him.

Cistern Rumbler said:
There's a lot of commentary about trust in Barbarian for sure. Even the flashbacks with Richard Brake show how trusting someone to enter your home just because they say they work for a utility company is exactly how he kidnaps his victims.

In the first act Tess distrusts Keith at every step, and it leads to disaster, so she tries to correct herself by overly trusting AJ, which almost leads to her own disaster several times. Basically the message is for women to not trust men. Meh.
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I disagree that this is the message, simply because if she had trusted the first guy (and shut the fuck while in the tunnels), they possibly could have made it out of there.

I mean it's quite possibly the message they wanted to convey, but if they did, they fucked it up thanks to the first act.
 
Local Fed said:
I watched Smile (2022) a few nights ago. It was actually very enjoyable. My expectations going in weren't that high, but I was pleasantly surprised. It definitely reminds me a lot of It Follows (2014), which I've seen many people compare it to. I'm sure we all saw the viral marketing for it at some point (it really was everywhere) witch people making those creepy exaggerated smiles, and I must say that those faces do stick with me lol.

Last night I watched Terrifier (2016) and it was decent. I'm not really big on gory horror, but it wasn't anything too crazy. I'll probably watch the sequel today or tomorrow. I do, however, have a complaint which is that the main characters are kind of retarded:

The main character, Tara (the kind of goth looking chick,) is being chased around by the clown. Prior to this she's extremely creeped out by him when she's at the pizza place with her friend. Then he follows her into the old apartment building where she went to take a piss (why she couldn't have just done this outside in an alley is beyond me, but whatever.) After the back and forth with the clown where he attacks and sedates her, she is constrained and forced to watch her friend get brutally murdered by him. After escaping her constraints and then gains the upper hand on this lunatic; she has the opportunity to kill him, but instead antagonizes him to get up and fight her which of course doesn't end well lmao. Yeah, he has this supernatural thing going where he wouldn't have actually died there anyways, but she didn't know that.

I know it's movie logic akin to a super villain leaving the hero alone in a room full of explosives set to a timer, only for the hero to escape, foil his plans for world domination and save the day, but come on. You just watched your friend get sawed in half beginning from her pussy and ending with her scalp. There's fight or flight, and if you choose the former you don't just wave around a piece of wood like a retard and yell at your sadistic attacker to get up. :story:
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They killed off the main character in a lame, anticlimactic way just to be mega-edgelords and the movie just peters out at that point. Turns out Art's not the villain, he's the Gary Stu protagonist.
 
@Internet War Criminal you're right, maybe the message isn't for women to distrust men, it's a clusterfuck subtextually.

The first act feels somehow separate from the rest of the film. I read somewhere that the whole film grew out of the director writing a short story about a situation where a woman does everything they're told never to do, trusting a stranger, entering a strange house alone with him, staying the night etc etc.

In hindsight it feels like the rest of the film exists to fill out a running time, but is detached from the theme of that first act.
 
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@Internet War Criminal you're right, maybe the message isn't for women to distrust men, it's a clusterfuck subtextually.

The first act feels somehow separate from the rest of the film. I read somewhere that the whole film grew out of the director writing a short story about a situation where a woman does everything they're told never to do, trusting a stranger, entering a strange house alone with him, staying the night etc etc.

In hindsight it feels like the rest of the film exists to fill out a running time, but is detached from the theme of that first act.
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When a CY movie tackles feminist empowerment themes they take it for granted that the audience's sympathy will stay with the female characters. They also like stories where women learn to trust or forgive themselves. So I keep seeing these movies that can easily be read the other way, and basically the women are catastrophic fuck-ups but the movie lets them off the hook. A Quiet Place is one, with the deaf girl. Prey for the Devil is the same deal: the main character screws up big time and the only characters that really call her out are the ones we're not supposed to like. Many such cases!

One moment that stuck out to me was when the MC said that if the positions were reversed, a man would have just forced his way into the house. Pennywise doesn't object, and this is after she's warmed to him, so I guess we're supposed to accept that as a totally reasonable thing to say, even though it seems REALLY unlikely he'd have done that.

I think we're supposed to take it for granted that weird men who try to be friendly towards women should be treated as potential serial killers, and that even though Pennywise SEEMED nice he showed his true toxicly masculine colors when he tried to mansplain that a bucket doesn't sound scary.

tbh the girl Justin Long talks to on the phone that double booked them was the true villain all along.
 
So, is there any good lovecraft movies you can suggest? Color out of Space with Nic Cage was surprisingly good and I've been on a Lovecraft kick.
 
A few confirmed upcoming horrors I'm looking forward to:

Christmas Bloody Christmas
The new Joe Begos movie (Almost Human, The Mind's Eye, Bliss, VFW) about a murderous robotic Santa Claus. Apparently he rented an entire town to make this movie with as much carnage as possible. No trailer yet.

Kids vs. Aliens
By the director of Hobo with a Shotgun. Kids killing practical effects aliens, apparently The Goonies is a big influence. I'll probably see this with my son.

The Pope's Exorcist
I've enjoyed Julius Avery's other films (especially Son of a Gun, and Overlord) so I'm intrigued to see him return to horror again. Even if exorcist stuff is a bit played out. No trailer yet.
 
TV's Adam West said:
So, is there any good lovecraft movies you can suggest? Color out of Space with Nic Cage was surprisingly good and I've been on a Lovecraft kick.
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I think the best ones are much more abstract. The only straight adaptation I like is Stuart Gordon's From Beyond. But I would include Fulci's City of the Living Dead and The Beyond as being very Lovecraftian with direct references. John Carpenter's apocalypse trilogy would also count.
 
Just finished watching Terrifier 2 there a little while ago. It's a very good sequel. Not sure if I liked it more than the first movie or not. The acting is definitely better than the first movie (except for the mom, I didn't think the actress gave a very strong performance at all.) I also appreciated the synth soundtrack even if it's a little cliché these days.

I also remembered that I did watch the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre earlier in the week. There's not a ton to say about it: it's fine for a remake, but it doesn't hold a candle to the original. With that in mind, it should be noted that Jessica Biel in 2003 was peak female performance.

Edit: @TV's Adam West I'll +1 the recommendation of The Void. It's definitely worth checking out.
 
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