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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 19, 2020 23:10:45 GMT
Mulholland Drive (2001) - 9++/10 - re-watch Yeah I know, it's not horror but the 3rd act is the most horrific thing and it brilliantly mixes that eerie vibe right from the start - heck that espresso scene even scare the fnck out of me  - I never cared for Lynch as much as I do here - where earlier he seemed random here he was just supremely in control of his material ......it's just a masterful film and scary and the more you think on it the scarier it seems.
Vicious (2015) - 12 minutes short on Youtube - Yes I watch 12 minute short films trying to get in as much horror in as possible this month This was recommended to me and it won some awards.....pretty ingenious in how many jumps it gets out of a very simple premise.......not sure what to rate it, but shows a fine use of space, light/shadow, perspective .......heck even the wallpaper is creepy.  
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 19, 2020 23:31:09 GMT
Vicious (2015) - 12 minutes short on Youtube - Yes I watch 12 minute short films trying to get in as much horror in as possible this month This was recommended to me and it won some awards.....pretty ingenious in how many jumps it gets out of a very simple premise.......not sure what to rate it, but shows a fine use of space, light/shadow, perspective .......heck even the wallpaper is creepy. Not sure if you've seen anything from Alter but they have loads of horror shorts if you're craving more. There's some very effective ones! |
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 20, 2020 0:13:35 GMT
Speaking of horror shorts, how 'bout one from our very own! Board frequenter Ugolin directed this 8-minute horror, inspired by the Korean "kumiho" lore, with no budget, and in a language he doesn't speak! It's a tense little movie with very good sound design too. It played at some festivals back in 2016. Check it out and stay for the original score and original drawings during the end credits!  |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 20, 2020 2:46:29 GMT
22. Venus in Furs (Jesús Franco, 1969) on Tubi A jazz musician witnesses a group of wealthy sadists assault and murder a woman in Istanbul, and then questions his reality when he meets the same woman a year later and begins an affair with her. This was my first Jess Franco. All I expected was that it would be trashy, sexually charged, and have a gratuitous amount of titties. I was correct on all counts, and throw in some softcore lesbianism to boot. It's more surreal than I expected, almost at times like something out of the Left Bank and just as narratively muddled. At 80 minutes it felt weirdly long, partly because some of the sex sequences feel like they went on forever and partly because the protagonist is bland af. 
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 20, 2020 3:07:45 GMT
The Wretched (Hulu) - I actually really liked this one. It's a witch movie but has a really cool People Snatchers vibe.
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 20, 2020 18:42:36 GMT
 The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959) 7/10 or more - "Damn thing won't die!" Based on Japan's most famous ghost tale, it's a very good samurai movie before it pivots to disturbing horror. It feels short at 75min, but it has many remarkable anamorphic visuals and tracking shots (the DP later did The Way of the Dragon with Bruce Lee). Fans of Kwaidan would like this. |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 21, 2020 2:20:26 GMT
23. The Burning (Tony Maylam, 1981)This movie begins like any good summer camp slasher should: a prank gone horribly, horribly wrong. Tony Maylam highlights the hormonal teenage sadism (and how the reluctant are roped in by toxically masculine social obligation) in the very first scene with those grotesquely snickering boyish faces at the window gleefully surveying their othered victim's terror. It's effectively sickening. Features several brutal and electrifying sequences with razor-sharp editing and lots of syrupy blood, but narratively the villain's writing leaves a lot to be desired and lacks motivation despite the emphasis on the bullying in the first sequence. You really expect it to be a bullying/revenge story (the IMDB synopsis explicitly describes it as such) but some mixed messaging about who this person really was/is undercuts that reading unnecessarily and ends on a twist reveal that leaves a bad taste in the mouth. 
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 21, 2020 4:40:06 GMT
24. Mark of the Devil (Michael Armstrong & Adrian Hoven, 1970) on tubi (shoutout to cheesecake for bringing this one to my attention) A grindhouse picture through and through. Moral indignance meets lurid exploitationalism. Frames puritanical witchunting as an expression of virulent weaponized patriarchy that can only find fault with women and peasants. There's gore to spare here. Buckets and buckets of fake blood. The obvious fakeness makes it bearable but the performers compensate with dedicatedly terrified performances that really sell the torment and there's at least one scene that's hard to watch. Also features a gorgeous score by Michael Holm that sounds euro-70s in the best way possible and a young Udo Kier as a sexy witch hunter with a redemption arc. 
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 21, 2020 4:46:45 GMT
sounds almost like Morricone. I'm going to be listening to this on repeat over the next few days.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 21, 2020 7:07:04 GMT
Black Death - really cool premise and a great ending. Add in a really good performance from Bean and you make it a solid horror watch. Not without flaws (character development was shit), but I definitely enjoyed it.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 21, 2020 10:42:06 GMT
The Bride (1973) - aka The House That Cried Murder or Last House on Massacre Street - 6.0-6.5 - re-watch on TUBIClassic of 70s low budget schlock that doesn't work as a movie maybe but as a Freudian deep dive Night Gallery or something like that. Starring acting stalwarts of soap operas - notably Robin Strasser - at her good/awful Kidmanesque best gets anything she wants fron "Daddy" (literally, I WANT IT, daddy ).......this movie anticipates and dovetails with 70s porn in story concept (the woman is bound by convention, yet the bounds of social convention "free" her/empower her).........at the same time she's you know, an f'n nutjob.  |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 21, 2020 11:06:54 GMT
23. The Burning (Tony Maylam, 1981)This movie begins like any good summer camp slasher should: a prank gone horribly, horribly wrong. Tony Maylam highlights the hormonal teenage sadism (and how the reluctant are roped in by toxically masculine social obligation) in the very first scene with those grotesquely snickering boyish faces at the window gleefully surveying their othered victim's terror. It's effectively sickening. Features several brutal and electrifying sequences with razor-sharp editing and lots of syrupy blood, but narratively the villain's writing leaves a lot to be desired and lacks motivation despite the emphasis on the bullying in the first sequence. You really expect it to be a bullying/revenge story (the IMDB synopsis explicitly describes it as such) but some mixed messaging about who this person really was/is undercuts that reading unnecessarily and ends on a twist reveal that leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Did you spot Holly Hunter? I also love seeing baby Jason Alexander and Fisher Stevens as campers. |
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Oct 21, 2020 14:08:47 GMT
Black Christmas (1974). First watch, pretty great.
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Post by speeders on Oct 21, 2020 14:40:07 GMT
The Craft (1996). 5/10 Eh, I should've seen this when I was like 11 to properly enjoy it I think.
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Post by tep on Oct 21, 2020 16:28:41 GMT
Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key - solid, but not quite the masterpiece I was kinda hoping for. 7/10
Bereavement - very dumb. 3/10
Near Dark - 6/10
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 21, 2020 19:06:34 GMT
Did you spot Holly Hunter? I also love seeing baby Jason Alexander and Fisher Stevens as campers. I totally missed her  |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 21, 2020 22:26:12 GMT
Did you spot Holly Hunter? I also love seeing baby Jason Alexander and Fisher Stevens as campers. I totally missed her  |
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 21, 2020 22:32:50 GMT
Okay... someone pick two for me for tonight...
Hush.
Dark Skies.
Villains (new, so people probably haven't seen it).
Hellraiser.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 21, 2020 22:34:50 GMT
Okay... someone pick two for me for tonight... Hush. Dark Skies. Villains (new, so people probably haven't seen it). Hellraiser. & Hellraiser. Dark Skies has its moments though, and while many of my friends dug Villains it didn't really work for me. |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 22, 2020 0:23:56 GMT
 Psychic Killer (1975, Ray Danton)
Entertaining flick about astral projection with some decent kills and the debut of Della Reese. |
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Post by pessimusreincarnated on Oct 22, 2020 13:53:20 GMT
Playing a lil bit of catch-up, this last week and a half has been crazy busy for me with school and work- Re-watched Possession (1981). Remains one of the most unique and harrowing movies I've ever seen. A brilliant example of a director masterfully fulfilling his creative vision. Neil and Adjani give some of the best performances in a horror movie ever, though simply calling this movie a horror does it a bit of a disservice. One thing that really stood out to me watching this a second time was just how subtly and deliberately this movie changes tones: it goes from domestic drama to over-the-top black comedy to surrealist horror often within the same scene. It's just a remarkable wild beast of a film, never seen anything quite like it, and I doubt I ever will. 9/10   ![]() Aaaand then I made the mistake of watching Hostel: Part II (2007). Gigantic waste of time, makes the first one look like a horror masterpiece. I don't think Eli Roth has ever directed a truly good film, but with most of his other stuff you at least get the sense he had a fun time making it. None of that here. Meandering, uninspired, grating, and completely unsatisfying. It has one cool kill and scene up its sleeve, and the five-minute span of time that it lasts does not even come close to justifying the rest of this soulless garbage. 2/10 |
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 22, 2020 17:44:08 GMT
The Driller Killer (1979) 5/10 - Opening shot is a statue of Jesus because this is, after all, an Abel Ferrara movie. He's long reckoned with personal demons demonstrated and religious agony and sickly violent deflection - playing the lead (not a good perf, Abe) he's an artist struggling to pay the bills, the musicians next door expelling their own art irritate him, he takes to the streets to apply his drill to the homeless. (Tommaso this year has a great, sensitively played homeless scene.) This almost works, some vérité, some grindhouse, but is just too cruddy to enjoy, though the ending is surprisingly low-key and creepy.
Body Snatchers (1993) 7.5/10 - Ferrara started production on this less than two months after wrapping Bad Lieutenant. Here he proves he could've made any number of studio genre fare effectively - he has an uncanny control of mood here, within every single scene. The sound/score are great, the visuals are amazing (one shot blew my mind where I couldn't tell if it was a dissolve or a window reflection - an apt analogy to the themes here of displaced people, displaced emotions - even if they're "gone" are they any different?). The flaw here is it's way too short at 80m - we want more! Ferrara seems to relish in the refs - to the other Snatchers, other military movies in the names and casting, etc. He also adds a signature touch, a sort of darkened sexuality the way some of the pod people use their bodies to lull. Gabrielle Anwar hello. Meg Tilly very very good here and creepy!
Dracula (1979) - 6.5-7/10. I seem to like all the Body Snatcher and Dracula movies. This one is well done if unremarkable, a bit dry - not just bc of the desaturated colors - but Frank Langella is quite good (he does this jittery eye thing that freaked me out) and I can watch Pleasence and Olivier kvetching in caves all day. The director John Badham did this after Bingo Long and Saturday Night Fever and went on to make a shocking amount of purely-fun films.
The Caller (1987) - 5.5/10. Loved the beginning of this.... Malcolm McDowell is kinda great and the interplay is playful, suspicious, romantic, creepy all at once. But this movie, for what it is and with only the two actors, shouldn't be more than 70m, and the sci fi twist I thought was dumb as a thumb.
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Post by Sharbs on Oct 22, 2020 18:15:21 GMT
22. The Tenant (1976, Roman Polanski)
Great flick. Watching Polanski for 2+ hours hampered my viewing ngl, but I liked the absurdity of a handful of the sequences. - 8/10
23. Theater of Blood (1973, Douglas Hilcox)
This movie fails without Price, but that’s kind of obvious because I can’t imagine someone even making this without him. He’s tremendous and might be my tops for best actor for ‘73. Super fun there isn’t 10 minutes of runtime between over-the-too kills. A hoot. I skipped watching this in a packed theater last October and am kicking myself. That would’ve been a blast and a half. Falters a bit in the end for me - 7.5/10
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 22, 2020 18:30:38 GMT
22. The Tenant (1976, Roman Polanski) Great flick. Watching Polanski for 2+ hours hampered my viewing ngl, but I liked the absurdity of a handful of the sequences. - 8/10 23. Theater of Blood (1973, Douglas Hilcox) This movie fails without Price, but that’s kind of obvious because I can’t imagine someone even making this without him. He’s tremendous and might be my tops for best actor for ‘73. Super fun there isn’t 10 minutes of runtime between over-the-too kills. A hoot. I skipped watching this in a packed theater last October and am kicking myself. That would’ve been a blast and a half. Falters a bit in the end for me - 7.5/10 The Tenant is great. A bonkers gender-bending Polanski perf, Philippe Sarde's haunting score, Nykvist's moody sepia-tinged visuals, AND it's still the worst of the Apartment trilogy. Going to be watching Theater of Blood soon. Excited  |
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Post by Viced on Oct 22, 2020 20:16:15 GMT
19. Mad Love (1935) - shoutouts cheesecake. This was damn good... had an interesting supernatural angle that fooled me more than it probably should've before a certain twist at the end. Peter Lorre was terrific... chilling, creepy, weird, and kind of sympathetic... 20. The Birds (1963) - first watch since I saw it in theaters five-ish years ago. Such a weird ass premise for a movie but the opening stretch is so strangely gripping. Some clunky stretches hold this back from greatness, but every moment with the actual birds is terrific. 21. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) - this was high on my watchlist (for any genre) for sooooo long... but it left me a little underwhelmed. Could've been great if it were 20 minutes shorter... everything with Victor Buono especially seemed frivolous (that weirdo really got an Oscar nom for this?). But a lot of it was still pretty great. I thought the opening flashback scenes were perfect set-up, and the final sequence at the beach was pretty remarkable. And Bette Davis was probably legendary... but I think I wanted Jane dead too much to fully appreciate her performance.  |
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- I never cared for Lynch as much as I do here - where earlier he seemed random here he was just supremely in control of his material ......it's just a masterful film and scary and the more you think on it the scarier it seems.
