/horror/ general megathread - Let's talk about movies and shit.

[The Nothingness]

I saw a pair of movies on Tubi that both are in the supernatural subgenre, but cater to a different horror audience.

The Decedent (2025): I thought this movie utilized the found footage technique well and had an interesting premise even if the big reveal of the deceased was spoiled in the synopsis. All of the acting from the cast sounded believable and none of the characters were unlikeable (I even felt some sympathy for what happened to the pair of thieves in the third act). The practical effects were really good, especially in the live embalming scene, as was the digital effects given its small budget. I would not mind seeing another installment that is either a sequel or a prequel to show how the first series of killings started.

The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015): I heard this is regard as one of the best horror movies of the 2010s as it's the directorial debut of Osgood Perkins. The cinematography added to slow burn and while I figured out the major twist at the halfway point, the climax was still suspenseful. The way one of the killings was shot had to be a homage to the second killing in the first Psycho.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

Tubi diving brought me to a couple of Japanese horror films I hadn't seen in a while. Doomed Megalopolis,

Seeing this shit on the shelf at Blockbuster freaked me out as a little kid



Now on to IT: Welcome to Derry



"Danny, let me tell you about the time I helped the government try to take down an evil, child devouring interdemensional evil clown with my shine."

Oh my fucking god, I'm cracking up at the native women warrior bullshit. How fucking retarded. The elders and all the warriors are women. I need to go back and see if they had all of the men watching the children and sewing and cooking. What utter nonsense. This fucking show. All the white people are evil and all the blacks and natives are perfect and good.

The black suspect is of course fucking the white woman with the horrible evil slob white man who tells her to make him a steak please.

Oh, Matty showed up and was just Pennywise in disguise? No way, totally didn't see that coming immediately. Then Pennywise chases the kids in the sewers and he just stops so they can have an emotional scene with the black dad shooting the white guy that jumped in front of his gun instead of just pushing the barrel to the side.

And now we're dragging The Shining and Doctor Sleep directly into it with the mental box.

You know, there's a good show in here somewhere but it's just the constant deluge of CURRENT YEAR shoved into the show ruins it. Millennial writers that can't help but shoving their neurotic virtue signaling into it.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

an evil, child devouring interdemensional evil clown

"and he was a good friend"

 

[The Nothingness]

Oh my fucking god, I'm cracking up at the native women warrior bullshit. How fucking retarded. The elders and all the warriors are women. I need to go back and see if they had all of the men watching the children and sewing and cooking. What utter nonsense. This fucking show. All the white people are evil and all the blacks and natives are perfect and good.

The black suspect is of course fucking the white woman with the horrible evil slob white man who tells her to make him a steak please.

You know, there's a good show in here somewhere but it's just the constant deluge of CURRENT YEAR shoved into the show ruins it. Millennial writers that can't help but shoving their neurotic virtue signaling into it.

No wonder it's getting praised by the critics. Slop written by millennials for millennials.

 

[Calandrino]

no bullshit, other than that silent Call Of Cthuhulu is there a single instance where the modern IP hitting Public Domain actually amounted to anything good?

There might be some other weird fiction authors of that era we could dig up. Dracula became public domain in the UK in 1962 and in the USA in 1992. Maybe the recent Great Gatsby movie was good?

You know, there's a good show in here somewhere but it's just the constant deluge of CURRENT YEAR shoved into the show ruins it.

I mean, what were you expecting.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

No wonder it's getting praised by the critics. Slop written by millennials for millennials.

Not shitting, every single episode so far has had the phrase "We're not the South" uttered at some point when a black character insinuates that something racist is going on.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Dracula became public domain in the UK in 1962 and in the USA in 1992. Maybe the recent Great Gatsby movie was good?

Okay there's been some decent Drac stuff, I'll give that
I didn't see Gatsby but I have a bit of a soft spot for Baz's stuff after generally digging Strictly Ballroom

 

[Product Placement]

Finally, I got to watch Trizombie. It was murder to find, then had to translate the subtitles. Overall, it was okay, mostly due to how much of a blast the main cast are having. The movie does lack an ending as it was meant to be a TV show and ran out of budget, so they edited what they had together.

 

[unholysedation777]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fEs3zkAmS-E
Finally, I got to watch Trizombie. It was murder to find, then had to translate the subtitles. Overall, it was okay, mostly due to how much of a blast the main cast are having. The movie does lack an ending as it was meant to be a TV show and ran out of budget, so they edited what they had together.

Oh hey we watched this during the Kiwifarms movie-night, I was absolutely dumbfounded by the absurdity of the concept but we all ended up weirdly loving it in the end. Shame that the ending felt so shambled together, that was quite a letdown.

 

[Product Placement]

Oh hey we watched this during the Kiwifarms movie-night, I was absolutely dumbfounded by the absurdity of the concept but we all ended up weirdly loving it in the end. Shame that the ending felt so shambled together, that was quite a letdown.

I was one that brought it, was glad it went over well.

 

[Arbiter]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fTPHkslPCr0
Watch the Official Trailer for Return to Silent Hill, an upcoming action horror film distributed by Konami and Cineverse. Witness the thriller that's inspired by the iconic video game franchise with Return to Silent Hill, in theaters on January 23, 2026.

When a mysterious letter calls him back to Silent Hill searching for his lost love, James finds a once-recognizable town and encounters figures both familiar and new and begins to question his own sanity.

Return to Silent Hill stars Hannah Emily Anderson, Jeremy Irvine, Robert Strange, Evie Templeton, Pearse Egan, Eve Macklin, Emily Carding, and more. The film is directed by Christophe Gans and written by Christophe Gans, Hiroyuki Owaku, and William Josef Schneider.

Return to Silent Hill is in theaters on January 23, 2026.

Interesting, this might mean the return of the Silent Hill house at Halloween Horror Nights.

Speaking of Horror Nights, I got some insider info of potential house ideas being pitched for 2026 that I'm not supposed to share with anybody, but I will with you guys because you're cool:
The list had all the popular horror movies as you'd expect, so I'll mention the other stuff. Silent Hill and Resident Evil were on the list, but interestingly so were Gears of War (mentioned multiple times), Call of Duty, Monster Hunter, and Fortnite. Dead by Daylight as well. One movie that stood out to me was Shaun of the Dead (love that movie, so it would be cool to see it adapted as a house, but I don't know how great the chance will be). 28 Days Later was on the list, and I suspect this will be a frontrunner because of the new movies. Several anime/animated properties were on the list, including Chainsaw Man, Demon Slayer, Attack on Titan, Death Note, and K Pop Demon Hunters. Castlevania was mentioned, specifically the "anime", so this probably means they would adapt the Netflix series rather than the games. We might see the return of the Trick 'r Treat house, which would be very cool. Talk to Me was being floated, so good on RackaRacka. The Boys was on the list. I haven't seen the show, so I'm not sure how that would be adapted into a haunted house. What surprised me was the consideration of Poppy Playtime. I know it's the big mascot horror at the moment, and I believe a movie is in early development, but it took FNAF already having a feature film before Horror Nights gave it a house. It seems like they want consider IPs outside of mainstream movies, branching out more to standalone video games and anime. Several musical artists were mentioned, so it looks like they want to do another house like the Weeknd had.
My vote is for Doja Cat.

All of the mentioned video games make me dream of a Halo house. Imagine if because of the Halo CE reremake coming out, they had a house where you had to escape the Flood. That would be so cool. Imagine the ambiance:

Spoiler

Alas, no mention of Halo.

Anyway that concludes my haunted house rambling (for now).

 

[Big Miss Steak]

no bullshit, other than that silent Call Of Cthuhulu is there a single instance where the modern IP hitting Public Domain actually amounted to anything good?

There's been some pretty neat Sherlock Holmes stuff. Anthony Horowitz's House of Silk and Moriarty are both very good novels that have been accepted into official Sherlock canon. To keep this on a horror topic, Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened are both good, horror-ish Sherlock games. Sherlock catches Jack the Ripper and takes down a cult trying to awaken Cthulhu, respectively. The remake of The Awakened is okay. IIRC there are genuinely unexplainable things that happen in the original, while the remake more implies Sherlock is insane.

 

[HowlingChasm]

Spit take watching Earth vs the Spider. That’s whole ass WW2 vet.

 

[Calandrino]

Spit take watching Earth vs the Spider. That’s whole ass WW2 vet.
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Speaking of spiders, I feel like black-and-white photography and jazz music go a long way towards making gratuitous nudity and rubber spider monsters seem classier.

 

[Commander X]

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Speaking of spiders, I feel like black-and-white photography and jazz music go a long way towards making gratuitous nudity and rubber spider monsters seem classier.

The MST3K episode featuring this had one of my favorite riffs near the end, as the rescued women sail away from the island to the strains of clarinet-infused jazz music

MIKE NELSON (narrating as Woody Allen): "So anyway, that was my experience on the island of the girls when I became a spider. Did it teach me anything? Maybe not. But you know, really, in the end (music abruptly stops with the silent smash cut to THE END) … hey!"

 

[HowlingChasm]

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Speaking of spiders, I feel like black-and-white photography and jazz music go a long way towards making gratuitous nudity and rubber spider monsters seem classier.

Oh the 60s are my favorite decade for horror the way the sleaze of grind house is starting to slip in but it’s still teeny bopper creature features. It’s a fever dream.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Oh the 60s are my favorite decade for horror the way the sleaze of grind house is starting to slip in but it’s still teeny bopper creature features. It’s a fever dream.
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Eulabelle did nothing wrong

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Bit of a wandering sperg thought: I wonder if Serge Gainsbourg would have been game for 1950s - to early-mid 1960s horror films. Perhaps, and I'm only saying this really, 'cos he was French, he would have been the lead in a Bluebeard film that never was. In fact, and maybe I'm getting mixed up with Svengali, wasn't it John Barrymore that was Bluebeard in a really old flick?

Nope! John Carradine, who's a balding ginger git, in the original 1944 film. Svengali was about 13 years before OG Bluebeard.



Ah... turns out he (Serge the Perv) was a police inspector, a scruffy (but cleaned up nicely for him) Clouseau-type, in a 1973 giallo murder-horror mystery called Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye. Jane Birkin's in it, too.



Here's a JewTube video of a few scenes from John Barrymore as Svengali, AKA Grigori Rasputin, who, not unlike John Barrymore, was reputedly a bit of a randy bastard. John Barrymore, from what I read in The A-Z of Hellraisers: A Comprehensive Guide of Outrageous Insobriety, it sounds like he was more of a raging sex maniac than Rasputin. Supposed to run in the men in the Barrymore family, as his old man Maurice, got syphilis and died in a mental hospital (sanitarium, at the time). John tried to shag a 15 year old Tallulah Bankhead, too. It's positively astonishing how stable Drew is. Being a bloke with that bloodline sounds like a genetic curse.

I'll shut the fuck up now, and let you enjoy Svengali... Svengali... SVENGALI...

Okay there's been some decent Drac stuff, I'll give that

I like the new one with Caleb Landry-Jones. It channels quite a bit of Francis Ford Coppola and Gary Oldman's Bram Stoker's Dracula, but, and this'll sound weird, even though I'm not the biggest fan of the 1992 Dracula, I enjoyed the nod they made to that version of the Count and former warrior prince, with what happens to him to become King of the Vampires, and his feeble ancient look, with the white hair.

Anthony Hopkins, who was also a Romanian priest in the 1992, 1462 prologue, because, well, it's implied that Van Helsing is also a reincarnation of someone who died 400+ years previous, like Mina, is the best film Abraham Van Helsing to me, as much as I like Christoph Waltz in just about anything he's in. Just putting it out there. I like how obsessive and bloodthirsty he is.

A clip from Bram Stoker's Dracula, which I reckon someone here will appreciate. Van Helsing's nutter excitement at tracking down his nemesis, which starts at 22 seconds in, is morbidly infectious. I know everyone knows the classic rivalry between Christopher Lee Dracula and Peter Cushing Van Helsing, but... I don't really care. Certainly not about Peter Cushing.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

so what the hell was the deal with the end of Him?
I mean I think I mostly get the events leading up to it and the ending, but suddenly letting The Asylum guest-direct the CG for the big end thing was an odd stylistic decision which confuses me

 

[ihaveelbows]

I'm actually enjoying the liberties theyre taking with IT in Derry. They've done Skarsgard's reveal as Pennywise. I still enjoy how they play off everyday 'horror' but attribute it to IT i.e. The atomic bomb, manufacturer preindustrial laws, racism etc.