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It's very fun. But FFS it's not a masterpiece. It is not the definitive 80's horror film or whatever the fuck
Honestly, my favorite “Someone in our town is an actual monster and we need to find out who/prove it to everyone.” movie is Silver Bullet. I’ve seen some pretty divided reviews on it, but I love it, and I originally found out about Fright Night in the first place by looking for movies in that vein.
 
Honestly, my favorite “Someone in our town is an actual monster and we need to find out who/prove it to everyone.” movie is Silver Bullet. I’ve seen some pretty divided reviews on it, but I love it, and I originally found out about Fright Night in the first place by looking for movies in that vein.
Yeah, Silver Bullet, I like that one a little bit more. I think my main issue with Fright Night is that the main character is a complete weenis.
 
Not specifically for October but sorta pencilled in to watch with the wife was something that came up on my youtube subs "Polterheist"
some crooks have to get the ghost of the crime boss they killed to get his money
Sounds like a fun enough dumb time
 
Schizophreniac: The Whore Mangler
The second sequel to that, The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell, is one of my favorite films ever. It's a total mess of a film, absolutely a love it or hate it kind of thing, but nothing makes me feel like I'm having a fever dream like it does. It's the kind of thing you just have to show to somebody, that's how I first saw it.
Are you talking about the original from Romero or the 2010 remake?
Original, didn't even know there was a remake.
 
The second sequel to that, The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell, is one of my favorite films ever. It's a total mess of a film, absolutely a love it or hate it kind of thing, but nothing makes me feel like I'm having a fever dream like it does. It's the kind of thing you just have to show to somebody, that's how I first saw it.

Original, didn't even know there was a remake.
I enjoy the remake. It's got a few creative kills. Definitely leans a bit more towards the action side than horror. I remember seeing the movie in theaters and the baseball game scene was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. When it ended there was like a legitimate weight off my shoulders.
 
Anyone see the movie Talk To Me? It was kinda decent at times. Felt like it would be a good segment in V/H/S or something. The troon was disgusting, and low key the movie felt like a cautionary tale about leaving an impressionable 15 year old incel alone with a tranny, even for a minute.
I mean, every time he wakes up after he gets possessed, he tries to 41% himself.
It would make sense, right? Doesn't Australia have some kind of hate speech laws? Maybe the directors wanted to make a statement about the dangers of trannies without actually saying so.
 
I saw The Nun II and it was...about what one would expect.

Same sorts of scares, with characters wandering off alone into creepy dark hallways and needlessly creepy parts of buildings that have no windows or lightbulbs despite being in 1950s France. Then there's silence, the character looks around or slooowly walks towards something that caught their eye and...OOGA BOOGA BIG LOUD ROAR AND MUSICAL SCORE RAAAGH! Same jumpscare setups that anyone that's watched any horror movie could see coming from miles away. Also the priest from movie is just dead of some sickness, and I feel like it was for diversity reasons. The good nun's sidekick this time is some random black nun that forces herself into the plot and basically accomplishes nothing. Reeked of needing brownie points so a black female lead was thrown in. In fact, the only prominent male character is Frenchie, who is possessed and needs saving. I can't help but look at movies through this bullshit political lens, and I'm just stating what I saw.

Also this is the second time in the timeline that Valak totally certainly died, but also just survives because ??? reasons. I guess if he can survive the Blood of Christ, he can survive anything. Valak's powers are of course really vague, like he lifts up a priest in the opening and burns him into a crisp within seconds. Yet he can't do it to the main cast. He actually tried to do it to the good nun, but she just sort of made him...stop...somehow. And he also kills off this random kid and the head of the boarding school that the film mostly takes place in for no real reason. The head mistress is actually killed by the ghost of her son and he literally beats her to death with a thurible and it made me laugh out loud.
 
Has anyone seen Dream Home? It has some fresh kills and a novel premise. No otherworldly beings, no revenge from beyond the grave, no heartbroken ex-lovers. This is a killing spree to lower property values in order for the protagonist to purchase a condo.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5YoNNVb-V_k
I have seen this one! It's easily the last good Hong Kong genre film you will ever see ever again for obvious reasons. The gore is really good and strives for realism.
 
Going to Tubi to watch some 80s through 2000s low-budget horror. Any suggestions?
 
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Going to Tubi to watch some 80s through 2000s low-budget horror. Any suggestions?
Can't go wrong with the Bill Lustig classics: Maniac and the Maniac Cop movies.

Murder Party (horror-comedy that was the first movie made by the guy who did Blue Ruin and Green Room).

Cruel Jaws - Italian plagiarism at its finest.
 
Going to Tubi to watch some 80s through 2000s low-budget horror. Any suggestions?
I finally signed up for tubi and tried to stack a watch list. Even though I was warned, I was still not prepared for how much of a pain it is to actually find anything. Their "recommended" algorithm ignores the watch list altogether, the "show similar movies" feature makes you scroll through only five movies at a time, yet the search function somehow turns up similar movies. I had my best luck searching for "evil dead" and infinite scrolling through all the random crap it turned up. Turns out it has "There's Nothing Out There!", which is supposed to have had a similar premise to Scream, but a few years before Scream (plus monsters instead of a slasher movie).

Did anything decent come out in the pasf 25 years or so? I assumed not...
 
I finally signed up for tubi and tried to stack a watch list. Even though I was warned, I was still not prepared for how much of a pain it is to actually find anything. Their "recommended" algorithm ignores the watch list altogether, the "show similar movies" feature makes you scroll through only five movies at a time, yet the search function somehow turns up similar movies. I had my best luck searching for "evil dead" and infinite scrolling through all the random crap it turned up. Turns out it has "There's Nothing Out There!", which is supposed to have had a similar premise to Scream, but a few years before Scream (plus monsters instead of a slasher movie).

Did anything decent come out in the pasf 25 years or so? I assumed not...
Your best bet if you're looking for something on Tubi is to use clickbait sites that have "best on Tubi" lists. Their search engine really sucks but at least you can search by actor or director. You can't search by uploader which is a big mistake.
 
Ok so I watched indie movie Found (2012), which for most of its run is basically Stand By Me if the one kid found out his brother is a serial killer and doesn't know how to deal with this shit.

It didn't really feel like a horror movie for most of its run, but the child actor and his brother are really good together, so I didn't mind. I was confused as fuck as to why this was called horror though. Then the ending came. Made it all worth it.

3.5/5 not the greatest but worth of watch
Sorry vvv late and all but I was looking back through the thread for something new to watch.

Totally agree about the ending - wow.

And the full film is on YouTube:

 
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