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Post by MsMovieStar on Oct 22, 2020 23:51:48 GMT
 Il Legame (The Binding) 2020. I must be the only one who liked this Italian movie as the reviews are low on IMDB. The whole thing with the folkloric magic fascinated me and I loved the setting in Southern Italy with the rustic mansion and the olive grove. The sick trees. I wonder if cherry68 has seen it? |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 23, 2020 2:49:32 GMT
The Blood on Satan's Claw (Piers Haggard, 1971)A provincial 18th century village begins infected by an evil presence and like a new black plague it spreads quickly through the superstitious community newly tormented by monstrous hallucinations and murdered children. In this idyllic setting Piers Haggard cultivates an atmosphere of depending dread because you can sense that anyone on screen might already be tainted and it's getting worse. Though it has some flaws, overall this is an unsettling slice of UK folk horror in the vein of The Wicker Man and well worth checking out. 
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 23, 2020 3:34:52 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... Glad you enjoyed it! It deserves to be so better known -- especially for Lorre and his incredible get-up.  |
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Post by cherry68 on Oct 23, 2020 5:11:33 GMT
Il Legame (The Binding) 2020. I must be the only one who liked this Italian movie as the reviews are low on IMDB. The whole thing with the folkloric magic fascinated me and I loved the setting in Southern Italy with the rustic mansion and the olive grove. The sick trees. I wonder if cherry68 has seen it? No, sorry. Horror isn't my thing. |
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Post by pessimusreincarnated on Oct 23, 2020 16:22:30 GMT
Color Out of Space (2020)- I'm always jazzed about a Lovecraft story being portrayed onscreen, so I found quite a bit to like here. Some great atmosphere and visuals, and Colin Stetson crafts another memorably chilling score. Nic Cage is a lot of fun, yelling about alpacas and aggressively chucking tomatoes while pulling some very...questionable accents  . I wish the rest of the movie was on the same level of zany, because unfortunately it takes itself wayyyy too seriously, becoming a rather joyless experience after a certain point. 6/10 
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 23, 2020 19:39:49 GMT
Bad Hair (2020) 7/10, Hulu.
Love the whole grain goodness from the Super 16. This works really well as a sinister workplace drama, with Body Snatchers undertones - it shares with Spike Lee’s Girl 6 a female office orb and a pivoting of appearances. The 80s setting is greatly infused into the look and meaning of the movie - a critical period for black hairstyle, as the doc Back to Natural (2019) sees it.
Hair horror is mostly rooted (no pun intended) in Asian lore and Japanese cinema - from Kwaidan to Ringu. Some American movies too - Body Bags (1993), arguably The Strange Possession of Mrs Oliver (1977), somewhat The Long Hair of Death (1964).…. But the mentioned doc argues by looking at black hair just how much you can trace the trajectory of black racial identity and culture and politics and pop culture in America.
This movie pares down those points and its MTV-esque corporate stresses to create such a fascinating surrounding around our meek, seeking protagonist. Where it falters is in its attempted satire; the outright comedy only comes during its horror scenes, replacing the effect of either with a jarring jump-cut awkwardness. Like the in-a-skit Lena Waithe, whose merriment makes the Gorgon-esque villain feel like a joke. On top of that, the main actress isn’t very good, and the ending is weak, the movie just tapers off.
Hair Wolf (2018), a short film, is another visually striking black-hair-horror-satire that at least foregrounds its parody. Here, it’s a stumble that comes too late into the movie. Still, along with Black Box from this year, it proves Peele has the least interesting ideas from black filmmakers working in the genre. This despite its flaws is one of the better horrors of the year…
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 23, 2020 22:45:45 GMT
Bad Hair (2020) 7/10, Hulu. Love the whole grain goodness from the Super 16. This works really well as a sinister workplace drama, with Body Snatchers undertones - it shares with Spike Lee’s Girl 6 a female office orb and a pivoting of appearances. The 80s setting is greatly infused into the look and meaning of the movie - a critical period for black hairstyle, as the doc Back to Natural (2019) sees it. Hair horror is mostly rooted (no pun intended) in Asian lore and Japanese cinema - from Kwaidan to Ringu. Some American movies too - Body Bags (1993), arguably The Strange Possession of Mrs Oliver (1977), somewhat The Long Hair of Death (1964).…. But the mentioned doc argues by looking at black hair just how much you can trace the trajectory of black racial identity and culture and politics and pop culture in America. This movie pares down those points and its MTV-esque corporate stresses to create such a fascinating surrounding around our meek, seeking protagonist. Where it falters is in its attempted satire; the outright comedy only comes during its horror scenes, replacing the effect of either with a jarring jump-cut awkwardness. Like the in-a-skit Lena Waithe, whose merriment makes the Gorgon-esque villain feel like a joke. On top of that, the main actress isn’t very good, and the ending is weak, the movie just tapers off. Hair Wolf (2018), a short film, is another visually striking black-hair-horror-satire that at least foregrounds its parody. Here, it’s a stumble that comes too late into the movie. Still, along with Black Box from this year, it proves Peele has the least interesting ideas from black filmmakers working in the genre. This despite its flaws is one of the better horrors of the year… I've been looking forward to this! |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 23, 2020 22:46:19 GMT
 Xtro II: The Second Encounter (1990, Harry Bromley Davenport) The director of the first Xtro only retained the name and not the story rights, so this has absolutely nothing to do with the first film and is just a really bad Aliens rip off. This is soooooo awful. |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 24, 2020 1:34:44 GMT
Knife + Heart (2018, Yann Gonzalez) Cruising meets The Deuce. Set in Paris 1979, it follows Vanessa Paradis as a producer of cheap gay porn who wants to move up in the world with better projects but her actors are being picked off one by one by a masked killer. Totally get how this is divisive, but I was on board from frame one and this is how you do modern giallo. Love the editing, cinematography and dildo weapon.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 24, 2020 2:49:08 GMT
Hush - really good, but I can't lie... I kept screaming, "no, don't stop!" every few minutes.
Dark Skies - I was rather meh on this for the first hour... but that last 40ish minutes were AMAZING.
Villains - what do you get when a movie thinks it's as clever as Tarantino and as twisted as Lynch... but isn't a speck reminiscent of either? Well you get this movie. Jeffrey Donovan is the lone bright spot (who would have killed it in Craig's role in Knives Out).
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Post by notacrook on Oct 24, 2020 13:45:04 GMT
Saw Saint Maud a couple of days ago. Wouldn't really call it an outright horror so much as a very dark psychological drama, but man was it one of the most unsettling films I've seen in a long while. In a fantastically assured and confident feature debut, Rose Glass crafts a haunting character-study of a young girl who becomes increasingly lost in her own tormented desires and struggle to find some form of purpose in her life. Morfydd Clark is a true revelation, and Jennifer Ehle gives a lithely volatile supporting turn. The ending, masterfully done, is one of the most shocking I've seen in recent memory - it's burned into my mind.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 24, 2020 17:42:05 GMT
Saw Saint Maud a couple of days ago. Wouldn't really call it an outright horror so much as a very dark psychological drama, but man was it one of the most unsettling films I've seen in a long while. In a fantastically assured and confident feature debut, Rose Glass crafts a haunting character-study of a young girl who becomes increasingly lost in her own tormented desires and struggle to find some form of purpose in her life. Morfydd Clark is a true revelation, and Jennifer Ehle gives a lithely volatile supporting turn. The ending, masterfully done, is one of the most shocking I've seen in recent memory - it's burned into my mind. I wanna see this so bad.  I feel like it was initially coming out in February which also feels like 15 years ago. What is time. |
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 24, 2020 22:43:24 GMT
Hell House LLC (2015) 6/10 - It's actually a very fun idea for a horror except it really doesn't need the framing device(s) or to even be a found footage pic. It can feel very very amateur at times but it gets a bit better as it goes on and there are some big scares. Hammer House of Horror: Rude Awakening S1 E3 (1980) 7.5/10 - shoutout pacinoyes - Very good episode, about a dream loop snare around a handsy, unnerved Denholm Elliott - in a way it gets into the mental mechanics of madness. And there's a surprising and amazing little perf from Lucy Gutteridge as his secretary, she gets to playfully play several different "parts" in this.
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Post by Archie on Oct 24, 2020 22:57:13 GMT
Cure (1997) - 9.5/10
Best thing I've seen all year. Kinda gave me Cruising vibes.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 24, 2020 23:11:05 GMT
Cure (1997) - 9.5/10Best thing I've seen all year. Kinda gave me Cruising vibes. This has been on my watchlist for years, really need to get around to it. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 24, 2020 23:11:08 GMT
Tourist Trap (1979) - 6.0/10 Never saw this, even though it has a pretty big cult following......miscast in some ways (at least 2) and formulaic but also weird and quirky and has references (or steals from) to a lot of other horror movies (even reminded me of Bava's Blood and Black Lace but run amok with the mannequins like in Sleuth/House of Wax). The use of mannequins/puppets is marvelously creepy and kinda fun/stupid in plotting. The two best things in this aside from the puppets/mannequins are Tanya Roberts - sexy af here resembling a trashy Isabelle Adjani in a tube top (um) - and the score by Pino Donaggio no less which is sort of great-ish.   |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 24, 2020 23:11:40 GMT
In My Skin / Dans ma peau (2002, Marina de Van) New French Extremity horror indeed. This was like Cutting Moments stretched to feature length = really tough to sit through.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 24, 2020 23:14:47 GMT
Tourist Trap (1979) - 6.0-6.5/10 Never saw this, even though it has a pretty big cult following......miscast in some ways (at least 2) and formulaic but also weird and quirky and has references (or steals from) to a lot of other horror movies (even reminded me of Bava's Blood and Black Lace but run amok with the mannequins like in Sleuth/House of Wax). The use of mannequins/puppets is marvelously creepy and kinda fun/stupid in plotting. The two best things in this aside from the puppets/mannequins are Tonya Roberts - sexy af here resembling a trashy Isabelle Adjani in a tube top (um) - and the score by Pino Donaggio no less which is sort of great-ish. Initially saw this about 15 years ago and didn't get the big deal, and I rewatched it earlier this year and nothing had changed. It has its moments but it's nothing really to write home about. |
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Post by tep on Oct 25, 2020 1:37:41 GMT
The Farm (2018) - mostly just boring. 4/10
The Psychic (1997) - 7.5/10
The Blob (1958) - 7/10
The Blob (1988) - 7/10
Manhunter (1986) - 8/10
Murder Party (2007) - 6.5/10
Cure (1997) - 9/10
The Witch (2015) (rewatch) - haven't seen it in several years. More of a masterpiece than I remember. 9.5/10
Little Shop of Horrors (1986) - a lot of fun. 8/10
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 25, 2020 4:18:29 GMT
Occulus - Bah! The first half hour is basically Karen Gillen talking into the camera "this mirror was in Joe Schmoe's house in October 1864 and the father killed his children with a garden hoe... in July of 1911, this mirror was in the house of blah blah blah"... oof.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 25, 2020 5:40:43 GMT
Hellraiser - I honestly liked this a lot more when there weren't the cenobites (however you spell them) around. Gore and body horror really aren't my thing, but considering the budget and time period, I couldn't help but think this had some really good makeup. I also didn't like how easy it was to get rid of the demons (if you think this is a spoiler, guess what, there are like 10 of these movies).
Also, I tend to keep my acting critiques to a minimum with horror movies, but this had some truly awful acting.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 25, 2020 6:58:22 GMT
been getting lazy with updates. Saw The Fog (1980) a few days ago. Somewhat underwhelmed. I loved the vibe but the fog itself features too briefly (shows up just just at the beginning and then not again until the last 25 minutes) making the film feel too narratively loose. But I liked the characters and was chuckling a lot. The 90 mins flew by way too fast. yesterday I watched The Shout (1978). Very strange little movie. Surreal in tone. Much eerier than I was expecting. The sound of Bates' yell is really out of this world. Sounds like it was recorded in Hell. How scary can a yell be, you're wondering (as I was). Well, pretty fuckin scary. Didn't recognize Susannah York until I looked at the credits later but she's good here. Bates is the standout as the alpha home invader, John Hurt as a reinterpretation of Hoffman's beta hubby from Straw Dogs. No bear traps this time around, just aboriginal magic. annnnd Twins of Evil (1971), my very first Hammer horror. I'm sorry to say I didn't like it at all. Felt simultaneously risque and conservatives at the same time, and campy but not enough to be my jam. Story and characters were all over the place, the evil characters aren't really evil, they mostly like talking about doing evil things. It bares its teeth in the last 20 minutes with some nudity and gore but overall it was pretty boring. Probably an unfair comparison but Blood on Satan's Claw with a similar setting/tone came out the same year and was much more effective in every respect. btw all these posters are killer    |
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Post by Lubezki on Oct 25, 2020 7:38:38 GMT
 It doesn't even have to be Halloween to get myself in the mood to watch this because it's an absolute hidden gem in the large catalog of fantastic Japanese horror. Noroi plays out more like a nightmarish mystery that slowly builds into a tremendous and quite tragic climax, purely because the narrative skillfully weaves in and out of the sheer menace of a demon and the consequences of allowing oneself to delve deeper into uncovering the truth of such a dangerous existence. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 25, 2020 10:05:20 GMT
Dementia 13 (1963) - ~7/10 rewatch; The Black Cat (1981) - slightly less than 6/10Dementia 13 - directed by Francis Coppola - has a great opening, several jarring kills, including the first one which is just brilliantly done (the first murder) - and a too long and convoluted 3rd act for such a short movie (75 minutes!)........worth it for the set pieces though which are aces. The Black Cat - directed by Lucio Fulci in the period where I find him pretty much only a gore-master (I prefer his best giallos to his zombies  ) actually suffers from not being that much like Fulci in this period at all. Pretty dull and restrained with a couple of standout moments and a greatish performance in a way by Patrick Magee (also in Dementia 13) and a fine Pino Donaggio score........this movie - an adaptation of the Poe story - is the only time that Argento/Fulci covered the same material. Argento's version with Harvey Keitel blows this out of the water....   |
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Oct 25, 2020 15:05:48 GMT
Sisters. First watch. Pretty interesting early DePalma work.
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. I wish the rest of the movie was on the same level of zany, because unfortunately it takes itself wayyyy too seriously, becoming a rather joyless experience after a certain point. 6/10
I feel like it was initially coming out in February which also feels like 15 years ago. What is time.
) actually suffers from not being that much like Fulci in this period at all. Pretty dull and restrained with a couple of standout moments and a greatish performance in a way by Patrick Magee (also in Dementia 13) and a fine Pino Donaggio score........this movie - an adaptation of the Poe story - is the only time that Argento/Fulci covered the same material.
