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Post by Mattsby on Oct 24, 2018 0:44:16 GMT
Shocker (1989) ; 5 or 6 /10 Wes Craven tries to recapture Elm Street. There's a loony fevery energy to this but there's no interstitial breathing, it feels very overloaded and too eager to thrill. At 110 min they could've structured this a lot better: there's no coherent development, no build up, just one major metaphysic crisis after another. Though there's some good stuff mixed in - how news footage is incorporated ("If you don't like the news, change the channel"), the body transference, the vivid violent death scenes...
Body Bags (1993) 6.5ish /10 Worth seeing if you're a Carpenter fan. His droll pun-heavy Host character is kinda great. 'The Gas Station' is like a bitesize Halloween, 'Hair' with Stacy Keach is laugh-out-loud hilarous and always relevant too, but the ending twist is very dumb, and 'Eye' is eh ok.
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Post by Viced on Oct 24, 2018 20:22:16 GMT
23. The Quiet Family (1998) - much more comedy than horror... but either way it was mostly fun until it went a little too far off the rails in the final 15-20 minutes. 6.5/10
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 24, 2018 20:30:12 GMT
Don’t mind if I jump into the Elm Street discussion! I binged ‘em all last October - except 6, hmmm. I’ve gotten into very long arguments with friends over how we rank them, like how 2 and 4 are obviously better than 3, amiright? I like the whole series I do, but my problem with Dream Warriors is that they don’t do anything with the interesting but obvious concept, Freddy representing depression, and the film treats death like a missing pair of socks, nothing is much felt, and it’s not even enjoyable - the asylum and set-pieces and fx are just unappealing. Dream Master is more my style, very ‘80s, school-set, a wicked hilarious Freddy, clever use of visuals (mirrors, reflections, shadows). I like Dream Child more than 3 too I think. It has deeper flaws and you kinda have to prepare for its grotesque cartoonish mania, but it’s well shot, the compositions and intense use of color ; it’s like an Alice down the rabbit hole via teen pregnancy panic. New Nightmare is indeed worth seeing btw: utterly ingenious and frightening. I think after the original and New Nightmare I would rank Dream Master in 3rd place, Freddy's Revenge 4th and then Dream Warriors 5th, so we are on a similar(ish) page. I can't get on board with you in relation to 5 though. It and 6 are pretty atrocious and almost ruined the entire franchise for me.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2018 23:42:23 GMT
35. The Amityville Horror (1979) - 5/10
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 25, 2018 3:44:54 GMT
Black Christmas (1974) - 8/10
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - 8.5/10 (brilliant film)
The Blair Witch Project (1999) - 7/10
The Addiction (1995) - 5/10 (first Ferrara film - i wasn't expecting something so pretentious and ham-fisted, oof)
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Post by Viced on Oct 25, 2018 15:03:01 GMT
24. Creepshow (1982) - could have been fun... but it never really clicked with me. 5/10
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2018 3:05:20 GMT
36. Hereditary (rewatch) - 8/10
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Post by Viced on Oct 26, 2018 3:11:51 GMT
25. It Follows (2015) - holds up... prrrrrrrobably my favorite horror of the decade. 8.5/10
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Post by Sharbs on Oct 26, 2018 14:59:50 GMT
1. The Wicker Man (1973) - 7.5/10 2. Cat People (1982) - 6.5/10 3. The Evil Dead (1981) - 7/10 4. Evil Dead II (1987) - 6.5/10 5. Practical Magic (1998) - 8/10 6. Scanners (1981) - 7.5/10 7. The Love Witch (2016) - 9.5/10 8. Audition (2000) - 7/10 9. Who Can Kill a Child? (1976) - 7.5/10 10. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) - 6/10 11. Apostle (2018) - 8.5/10 12. Tenebre (1982) - 8.5/10 13. Hellraiser (1987) - 5.5/10 14. Demon Wind (1990) - 7/10 15. Madman (1982) - 4.5/10 16. Don't Panic (1988) - 6.5/10 17. The Return of the Living Dead - 8/10 18. Halloween [re-watch] (1978) - 9/10 19. Halloween (2018) - 8.5/10
20. Rosemary's Baby [re-watch] (1968) - 9/10 21. Revenge (2018) - 8.5/10 22. Black Christmas (1974) - 7.5/10
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Post by Viced on Oct 27, 2018 2:42:37 GMT
26. The Sentinel (1977) - wastes an incredible cast... but it had enough fucked up stuff to warrant a 5.5/10
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2018 1:40:19 GMT
37. Village of the Damned (1960) - 8/10
38. I Walked with a Zombie - 7/10
39. City of the Living Dead - 8/10
40. Girl House - 4/10
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Post by harlequinade on Oct 28, 2018 10:06:44 GMT
The Prophecy - OMG that was so lame lol. But Viggo as Lucifer was fantastic
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Post by quetee on Oct 28, 2018 16:37:01 GMT
Finally starting watching movies. Well I saw The Hand with Caine and directed by Stone.
Night of the Comet. It's on Prime right now so please check it out if you haven't seen it. I'm shocked prime has it.
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Post by quetee on Oct 28, 2018 16:38:32 GMT
Has anyone seen Happy Birthday To Me? I have $3 in no rush money expiring in two days and I need to find cheap movie.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2018 17:31:57 GMT
Has anyone seen Happy Birthday To Me? I have $3 in no rush money expiring in two days and I need to find cheap movie. Its worth the $3.
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Post by quetee on Oct 28, 2018 19:35:17 GMT
Has anyone seen Happy Birthday To Me? I have $3 in no rush money expiring in two days and I need to find cheap movie. Its worth the $3. Thanks. I read somewhere that it had a good twist or ending or something like that.
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Post by Viced on Oct 28, 2018 19:36:04 GMT
27. The Omen (1976) - haven't seen this one in a long long time... it's not consistently great but definitely has some amazing moments. And Gregory Peck really carries the hell out of it. 7ish/10
28. Chopping Mall (1986) - the first half hour was fun....... the rest....... not so much. 5/10
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 28, 2018 22:08:42 GMT
Still of the Night (1982) ; I guess 6/10, it's a decently made "noir" but really marred by the bland characters and anodyne approach. Props to Robert Benton and Streep for doing this directly following their Oscars wins - a pure Hitchcock riff - but it's much too sanitized to connect. I'm mentioning it in this thread bc there are giallo and horror elements, a few jump scares. This could've easily been pushed just a little further into proper horror territory. It's better the darker it goes - like the terrifying dream sequence. This is the first performance in a long time where I thought Streep was off. She plays the femme fatale as too sensitive and distressed to lift (or play with) the shady construct.
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) ; 7/10 for sure. Wes Craven streak continues! A lot of fascinating elements - the macabre religious sorcery and the politically-agitated culture, the on-location filming, some memorably freaky sequences, like the beautifully haunting candlelight scene, a terrific climactic build-up reminiscent of Polanski (note the wider lenses), Bill Pullman's committed performance. The postmortem "consciousness" immediately reminded me of Short Night of Glass Dolls which I just watched. Touch of Herzog with its eye on mystic cultural practices. And the protagonist (under journalistic pretense) and politic context def calls to mind Year of Living Dangerously. Not to mention Val Lewton, too. Flaws: awful voiceover which highlights that most of the dialogue isn't very good, and the first act jumps the gun - should've built the Haitian myths and rumors <at Harvard> which would've intro'd Pullman's anthropologist instead of slinging him down a mud hill in the first two seconds.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 0:16:35 GMT
41. A Tale of Two Sisters - 7/10
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 22:24:12 GMT
42. The Terror - 7/10
Well, I've finished my initial watchlist. Shit... that was a lot of fun. At this point I'm trying to see a couple extras before Halloween. Including:
43. Killer Movie - 3/10
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 22:28:49 GMT
42. The Terror - 7/10Well, I've finished my initial watchlist. Shit... that was a lot of fun. At this point I'm trying to see a couple extras before Halloween. Including: 43. Killer Movie - 3/10Nice, man. I haven't seen nearly as much as I was hoping to get to in this month but I should hopefully be able to squeeze in another couple before the month's end. This question goes for you as well as everyone else: favorite horror viewing of the month? I would go with Night of the Demon, but Pulse has lingered in my mind and comes in at a close second.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2018 0:31:06 GMT
For me it's gotta be I Saw the Devil, which I seem to like more and more as time goes by. Flesh for Frankenstein and Onibaba aren't far behind, though.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 30, 2018 3:03:57 GMT
I did re-watches of:
Tale of Two Sisters - 10/10 - a masterpiece and a deeply emotional and resonant one as well. In a league with Mulholland Drive as a great mindf*ck of a film.
The Bird With The Crystal Plumage - 7/10 - it's all here in its simplest form - the black glove, the answer, in a painting (natch), dual killers, the awkward stilted dialog. Argento would go on to top it but he was already working out his themes - 2 of which are integrated in full display here (beautiful women bleeding red...........on white surfaces).
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Post by Viced on Oct 30, 2018 3:16:42 GMT
29. Let the Right One In (2008) - good stuff... Oskar was a great character. 7/10
30. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) - way too slow... I feel like it's better on reflection than it is in actual execution. Definitely some strong moments though. 6.5/10... sorry pacman.
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Post by mhynson27 on Oct 30, 2018 3:56:43 GMT
Tomorrow night (which will be Halloween here), me and my friend are doing a triple feature at the cinema of Ghost Stories, Halloween '78 and Halloween '18.
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