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Post by HELENA MARIA on Oct 31, 2020 8:05:53 GMT
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 31, 2020 14:38:27 GMT
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 31, 2020 14:44:08 GMT
Happy Halloween everyone! Thanks as always for reading and following this all month. This year's list can be found here (and previous lists dating back to 2013 are also on Letterboxd as well). I have write-ups and trailers ready for up to 2023, so end of the world permitting, buckle up for more fun in the future. Hope you all have a spooooooky good day!
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 31, 2020 16:32:20 GMT
Thx for another great year! I always really look forward to this thread every October. ~ I haven't seen Satan's Slaves yet but what an in-sync coincidence - I just looked up Joko Anwar yesterday and watched some of his stuff, Impetigore (2020) - loved the first half, and it's a certainly well made folk horror and extremely creepy, though all the baby violence puts a knot in my stomach - and a 50m part of an HBO anthology Folklore: A Mother's Love (2018) that is like The Babadook, again well made/acted. Gotta see some more from him, I feel like he's bound to make an astounding movie.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Nov 1, 2020 6:45:58 GMT
Thanks Cheesecake! Always a pleasure to follow this series and broaden my horror horizons. Added several more to the ole watchlist, lord help me. Most intriguing entries were Birdboy, Last Shift, Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, and Satan's Slaves. I wonder if I'll watch any of them next year
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Post by Christ_Ian_Bale on Nov 1, 2020 17:05:39 GMT
Excellent presentation as always! Love this series for unearthing so many movies I can't believe I never knew existed, as well as whetting the appetite for filmmakers I've yet to fully explore. So many great and exciting entries and so many to look forward to. Got behind on all my horror watches after a hectic month, but I'm planning to just continue seeking these out and more through this month as well. After all, I can only imagine, one way or the other, November of this year and horror will go hand in hand perfectly!
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Post by Mattsby on Aug 10, 2021 17:21:24 GMT
One of my fav horrors. Idk if anyone else likes it besides me you and getclutch ~ Back in 2018, film/tv academic and horror buff Amanda Reyes was doing a "#SlasherSisters" rundown on Twitter where she discussed how friends were portrayed in slashers, where it worked where it didn't and why it mattered, and she called this movie the best of 'em. That's how I came to it. And back in 2018-19 it was rated 4.7 on IMDb (now a whopping 5.1) which is scarily low for such a fun movie. The movie-within-a-movie-within-a-movie opening sets the tone for what's primarily a genre-deconstructing and silly satiric movie. The notion of pranks and fake-outs is pervading here and play into its college culture, subvert our expectations, and gets into a deeper idea that life is light, a joke, until it isn't. Fun fact - the production designer did Porky's, and the production manager did Prom Night 2 which shares an 80s-frill excess. The DP followed this with The Stepfather, and The Serpent & the Rainbow. Back to the Party. The credits montage of our three leads is ridiculously lovely and autumnal and collegey... and we sort of instantly sense a close friendship amongst them. My favorite of them is the cute-dorky Sherry Willis-Burch (her only other movie is Final Exam). It's a pretty loose, hilarious movie before settling (unsettlingly) into a horrorshow - a triple swirl of sorority slasher, haunted house, and demonic possession. Conditioned by this point with its wittiness and false-starts, the violence comes as a genuine shock, as it would, and the ending note is one of the most chillingly sad of any movie I've seen. The director William Fruet started as a playwright and his debut Wedding in White is an underseen and devastating domestic tragedy, starring Carol Kane and Donald Pleasence. So the core dividing here of relationships and sullying of innocence is what he had aced before, but the playfulness, rerouted genre tropes, and the beam of it comes as a surprise. And it's unsung as a campus horror - like The Initiation of Sarah - college as selective, maniacal, a trick. www.shoutfactory.com/product/killer-party?product_id=7700Majorrrrrr release. It's only been available Standard Def (uck) and on YouTube in a cut-down version. As my dear Sherry character says, "You know what the biggest room in the world is... the room for improvement." New release : October 26 - just in time for you-know-what! Also one of Shout Factory's employees said it'll be "packed with new extras."
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Aug 10, 2021 17:31:22 GMT
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