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Might get threadbanned for this but anyone else like Murder Party (2007)?
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And, like an African American Family, the creator of the thread finally returns after his months long retrieval of cigarettes' and neglecting his bastard offspring. What astonishing and revolutionary insight must he impart upon us lowly mortals reduced to only crawling on the floor in awe of his immense and all powerful thread creation.

Internet War Criminal said:
Grotesquerie was great and could have been something special right up what might be the single most impressive show shitting its pants and destroying its premise in a single episode I’ve ever seen with the seventh episode.

It’s not like he can’t direct, and yeah Kelce shouldn’t have been stunt casted and the fifth episode felt meandering but the sixth one really fucking picked up and really felt frantic and great in all the right ways…

Then that abortion happened. It’s like he bet he could make the biggest show derailment of all time in a single episode.
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Just came back from seeing Terrifier 3 and I had a great time with it. I prefer Terrifier 2 over it, but it is still really great

Also the ending is unintentionally hilarious because of a film from last year, being The Exorcist Believer

Mainly because both films have a little girl being sent to Hell, yet The Exorcist Believer was preaching about how much it had a hopeful ending, seemingly ignoring that yet in actuality Terrifier 3 of all movies somehow felt more helpful given the fantasy and religious elements it has along with how Sienna is implied to be an Agent of God.
 
urr13 account said:
Those David Gordon Green Halloween movies were all very lame and cringe
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I hated those movies. The first one wasn't too bad overall, but I just can't stand how the people who make these damn movies keep bringing back Jamie Lee Curtis. It was annoying in Halloween II (she's Michael's sister now!), Halloween H20, and Halloween: Resurrection (at least they finally kill Laurie off here). So David Gordon Green decided to retcon all the other sequels and make a direct sequel to the OG film, and what does he do? He brings back Jamie Lee Curtis. What a fucking dickhead. I would've overlooked it if the movies had been good, but they're not. They're fucking garbage. I'll watch Rob Zombie's Halloween movies any day over DGG's movies.
 
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Summer of 84 which I'd rank a bit higher at like an 8. Not much gore in these films but they had a decent story imo. MV5BMzA2OGU4MDMtYjkyNy00ODNlLTlhZTgtNDBkMGFiZjFlMmE0XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg
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I really want to see this. (But not enough to buy the Bluray outright.) I'll watch anything done by the same directing and writing crew as Turbokid.

Speaking of, where the fuck have they been?
 
Internet War Criminal said:
Ryan Murphy
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Why would you watch anything with his name on it by now though? You should know exactly what you're getting into. I gave up on him halfway through American Horror Story Asylum. He was complete trash by then.

I actually did like Murder House more or less though. And the very first episode of Freak Show.
 
Ensok said:
Why would you watch anything with his name on it by now though? You should know exactly what you're getting into. I gave up on him halfway through American Horror Story Asylum. He was complete trash by then.

I actually did like Murder House more or less though. And the very first episode of Freak Show.
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One simple fucking reason:

Scream Queens

The best thing he’s ever done as a whole, fucking consistent throughout, absolutely hilarious, good gore, rewatchable, etc.. He somehow managed to make something great that lasted longer than a season, so he clearly has it in him.

Or more likely he’s just Rob Zombie who made one great movie (The Devil’s Rejects) and everything else just fucking plain sucks because he’s not talented, just got lucky.
 
I checked out the Smile movies recently and I was not impressed at all, they were just so lame. Jumpscares every 15 minutes isn't horror. It's the cinematic equivalent of a mediocre haunted house attraction that gets held in your town every Halloween along with the hayride.

The director puts in vague things about trauma like he's making a point, just really vague, aimless films. The director looks exactly like how you'd think, too.

My eyes rolled involuntarily when he ended the first movie with The Chordettes "Lolipop" playing. Get it, the twee song mixed with horror? Get outta my face with that played out crap.
 
The Nothingness said:
When I heard there would be a new adaptation of 'Salem's Lot, I was confused why I didn't see any theatrical trailers for it. Now I know why.

It will be going straight to Max in the beginning of October.

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Decided to watch it and it just didn't impress me overall, I somewhat liked the book. The only adaptation of it I've enjoyed somewhat was the 1979 version with David Soul.

Mall Goth said:
I watched In A Violent Nature recently and felt it was a bit over-hyped. The concept sounded interesting to me and I don't exactly have high standards when it comes to slashers so I wasn't expecting to be blown away by it, but outside of a couple of the kills (the yoga girl gets mentioned the most, but I thought the log splitter was more drawn-out and brutal) I just don't see what all the fuss was about. It's not a bad film and I wouldn't mind giving the sequel a chance whenever it comes out, but I'm kinda surprised by all the praise it has received.
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I liked it, mainly because of it being from the killer's point of view for much of the film. I did like the log splitter kill and yoga kill the most, the splitter kill felt somewhat more brutal while the yoga kill got me to laugh a lot.
 
So a friend of mine convinced me to watch Terrifier 3 and I was not very impressed. I was actually bored for most of the movie, since most of it was completely isolated vignettes with no narrative structure or connective tissue. There were two types of scenes, boring, poorly written and acted 'character development' scenes that did nothing to endear me to the actors or characters - and scenes where Art/Vicki sadistically kill random people(sometimes 'characters' we saw earlier). It rotates between these two types, and a third of the way through the novelty was spent.

Some other points:
  • The decision to explain Art's invincibility and regeneration as "a demon, lol" was just stupid and generated a lot of idiotic babble on screen. It robs him of any sense of mystery and makes his actions seem even dumber.
  • The constant kid murder was already tiresome by the title card because it reeks of the perennial 12 year old trying to be super 'dark humor' and 'edgy', thus it has no impact. It seems desperate and insecure, and is way overused.
  • Art and Vicki just aren't interesting, funny, or clever. Which could be fine (Jason never had much of a personality) except that every scene is trying to make them seem cool or amusing and they just aren't funny. The 'gags' Art pulls aren't clever, he doesn't even kill people in ironic or interesting ways, he's got this very 2010 "lol so random" affect that does not play at all.
  • While the effects are very good, mostly, they are rarely set up in a way that gels with the script and scene. Worse yet, they usually are shot in a very flat way that lessens their impact and drama. A lot of them are also over the top in gratuitous ways, in a way that sort of flattens the experience because every kill is so similar in execution and intensity that there is no pacing or standout kills. It becomes exhausting.
The overall impression of the film is that is directionless, immature, and ultimately insecure. The maker never developed past the original "regenerating clown kills people gorily, lol" idea and three movies in that simple idea cannot support this shit. This is cinematic tryharding, with a constant cope of trying to overwhelm the viewer with more gore, more sadism, more randomness, all in the hope that something will stick or the audience will simply give up from exhaustion. It doesn't work, the reek of desperation is in every frame.
 
Salem’s Lot should have been a miniseries. Or at the very least a two parter.

It had potential but the major problem with it is that you had zero character development and, even worse, zero character relationship growth.

When the teacher comes in to see Ben at 3am and he goes “bro come back to my house there’s a vampire!” it makes sense in the book because they’ve interacted a lot and have tons in common and you can tell how they clicked etc.

In the movie? They talked once, where he said “you should come talk at my school!” and that was fucking it.

As a result of this the characters end up making decisions and sacrificing themselves for others and you’re like… why?

1/10 read the book don’t waste time
 
How October started:​
  1. Evil Dead 2 (1987)
  2. The Invisible Man (1933)
  3. Dead & Buried (1981)
  4. Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
  5. The Deadly Spawn (1983)
  6. The Beyond (1981)
  7. Horror of Dracula (1958)
  8. Prince of Darkness (1987)
  9. Haunted Mansion (2003)
  10. Inferno (1980)
  11. House by the Cemetery (1981)
  12. House of the Devil (2009)
  13. Funhouse (1981)

    How it's going:

  14. Terrifier 2 (2022)
    All Hallows' Eve (2013)
  15. Xtro (1982)
  16. Nightmare in a Damaged Brain (1981)
    Terrifier 3 (2024)
    Halloween 3 (1982)
  17. Frankenstein's Army (2013)
  18. Puppetmaster 2 (1990)
  19. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
  20. Nosferatu (1922)
    Night of the Demon (1980)
  21. Tenebrae (1982)

Having caught up on the Terrifier Cinematic Universe I gotta say it's not so much the gore they brought back, it's making gore FUN. It wouldn't work if they had some Dr. Killbutcher McDeathsatan type of Rob Zombie edgelord OC instead of Art. When he smiles, the world smiles with him. I found the child dismemberment and genital mutilation scenes to be artistically justified and firmly within the bounds of good taste.

I didn't particularly like Terrifier 1 because of what is probably the #1 most common basic bitch complaint about the movie (yet no less true for it): they did the presumptive Final Girl way too dirty, and the justification that "nobody is safe from Art, not even the narrative structure of our own film" doesn't make it less lame. Apparently they know they fucked up there and somewhat over-corrected in the sequels.
 
Calandrino said:
Having caught up on the Terrifier Cinematic Universe I gotta say it's not so much the gore they brought back, it's making gore FUN. It wouldn't work if they had some Dr. Killbutcher McDeathsatan type of Rob Zombie edgelord OC instead of Art. When he smiles, the world smiles with him. I found the child dismemberment and genital mutilation scenes to be artistically justified and firmly within the bounds of good taste.
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This is a good point: the Terrifier movies do a good job walking the line between edgelord shit like Uwe Boll's Seed (which is so fucking edgy that its opening credits roll over stock footage of real life animal cruelty) and stuff like the Hatchet movies, which are too silly to have any tension.

Actually, prior to seeing Terrifier 3, Hatchet 2 was the last unrated movie I saw in theaters. I remember it being a real pain in the ass to find a theater that was playing it, and apparently it only made $156,190 total on a really short run.

Overall, I think I liked Terrifier 3 slightly more than 2 because the pacing was better, though I enjoyed both a lot.
 
My highlights so far for this month.


Dead End Drive In: Not sure why this one is listed as a horror movie on imdb. It's really not horror at all, but rather a fun riff on Max Mad style movie, mostly set in a drive-in. A lot of the satire in this movie has held up really well.

Poison for the Fairies: A Mexican movie from the 80s about a little girl convincing her school friend she is a witch, and how everything gets out of hand. Rather well-made, it's much more to the drama side than the horror side, however, so it won't be for everyone.

The Bad Seed: The classic 1956 movie about a killer kid. Really well done, and while goreless, I was shocked it was made in the 50s given the subject.

The Eight Immortals Restaurant The Untold Story: The movie is based on a real life murder, but filmmakers felt the need to add even more insanity to the movie, like cannibalism. If you want a Category III movie for this month, not a bad one to go with,

Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell: The movie is really just Japanese Evil Dead. It is only 62 minutes and is well worth a watch.
 
The Bad Seed's Patty McCormack was in a couple of low-budget films in the mid-1990s, where she played a killer mother, Mrs. Sterling, psychopathically obsessed with her 12-year-old daughter's future and prospects. Mommy in 1995 and Mommy 2: Mommy's Day, written and directed by the crime fiction/mystery author Max Allan Collins. Despite the jank of the low-budget, I found them effective, McCormack really nailing it as an obsessed woman, who murders the teacher she holds responsible for her daughter not winning a "Student of the Year" award and trying to make it look like an accident, but some pesky insurance investigator keeps snooping around...the second film has Mrs. Sterling narrowly avoiding the chair, her psychiatrist working out a deal with prosecutors where she'll allow herself to have an experimental implant that secrets anti-psychotic medication put in her. Meanwhile, her sister (Brinke Stevens) and her new husband, a true crime writer whose latest book was all about "The Mommy Murders" have custody of "Mommy's" daughter but a new string of murders occurs that seems to point to "Mommy".
 
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