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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 25, 2020 15:11:18 GMT
The Endless - This kind of sucked... interesting premise (even if the whole cult horror motif is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO boring and overdone nowadays) and it's well made... but I just couldn't get into it. To be frank, I didn't have one moment where I was remotely scared.
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Post by LaraQ on Oct 25, 2020 16:39:26 GMT
Rewatched Kill List to remind myself what a talented director Ben Wheatley used to be.Still absolutely bone chilling,one of the best British horror films of the last 20 yrs imo.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 25, 2020 17:01:16 GMT
The Endless - This kind of sucked... interesting premise (even if the whole cult horror motif is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO boring and overdone nowadays) and it's well made... but I just couldn't get into it. To be frank, I didn't have one moment where I was remotely scared. The scariest moment for me was when I had the strongest case of deja vu take over my body and I was tripping balls in the theatre. The part where they go to the cabin and find that guy going cold turkey, I knew I had seen this whole segment before and it was freaking me out. Turns out it was a nod to the same directors earlier film Resolution which I had seen years before.  As for this movie, it has a really cool set up and the section where that old timey dude is stuck in a loop was aces, but there's not much else going on. |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 25, 2020 17:02:19 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    is so good! Are you going to continue with Hammer films? They're not for everyone but I've really got into them the last couple years. |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 25, 2020 17:03:50 GMT
Rewatched Kill List to remind myself what a talented director Ben Wheatley used to be.Still absolutely bone chilling,one of the best British horror films of the last 20 yrs imo. I hear ya. Have you seen Prevenge? It was written and directed by Sightseers's Alice Lowe who also stars. |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 25, 2020 17:28:46 GMT
Are you going to continue with Hammer films? They're not for everyone but I've really got into them the last couple years. Of course. I don't think I'll get to a point where I cancel Hammer unless I've seen 5-6 movies and didn't like any of them. Gotta give them a chance. But I'm gonna pace myself  |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 25, 2020 17:29:47 GMT
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Post by LaraQ on Oct 26, 2020 12:28:27 GMT
Rewatched Kill List to remind myself what a talented director Ben Wheatley used to be.Still absolutely bone chilling,one of the best British horror films of the last 20 yrs imo. I hear ya. Have you seen Prevenge? It was written and directed by Sightseers's Alice Lowe who also stars. Yes,I loved it,such a dark little film.Sightseers was another really good film.Ben Wheatley showed so much promise back in the day. |
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Post by pessimusreincarnated on Oct 26, 2020 15:35:09 GMT
Haunt (2019)- Fun and nifty little haunted house horror with some great kills and practical effects. Surprisingly well-written too for something in this genre, the conceit of the cell phones being used as a foil rather than a lifeline was a very nice touch. Kinda wish they left this more open-ended, because I definitely would've been down for a sequel. 7/10
Joy Ride (2001)- Great first act, but it runs out of gas around the halfway point. Lots of shoddy, plot-hole-filled writing, with some characters blatantly acting as nothing more than devices to further the story. Would've just preferred an entire movie of Steve Zahn and Paul Walker shooting the shit and pranking people over the radio on their road trip, they worked off of each other very well. 6/10
From Beyond (1986)- This was a re-watch. I don't think this works as well as Re-Animator, but it's still a bloody good time. Watching Jeffery Combs, Barbara Crampton, and Ken Foree band together and do battle with interdimensional evil and their own inner demons is just '80s horror heaven. No one did horror quite like Stuart Gordon, RIP to the legend. 7.5/10
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 26, 2020 19:13:15 GMT
Circle of Fear/Ghost Story : At the Cradle Foot (1972) 6/10 - Creepy circus-soundtracked slow motion premonition sets off a father to prevent what he believes is his daughter's future death. Interesting setup but feels like it's missing a middle to connect the characters and missing an ending. Meg ice eyes Foster is in the cast. The Werewolf (1956) 5.5/10 - At best like an amnesia noir where the lead's secret is he's gone werewolf and can't help himself. Lotta chasing around snowy hills, I liked the small-town locations in this and some shots (below) but it's otherwise a pretty standard weakly acted b-movie.   |
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 26, 2020 21:41:11 GMT
Silent Scream - Hammer House of Horror episode (1980) 7.5/10 re-watchI remembered the ending of this but not some of the mechanics - Peter Cushing is great-ish here, all lithe and skeletal, blade-like in appearance opposite Brian Cox. You could actually re-do this as a feature remake and the ending isn't as simple as what you would guess at first either....  |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 27, 2020 0:43:39 GMT
The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven, 1977), on kanopy Early grindhouse. It's not Texas Chain Saw but it's playing the same game. There's a lot to like about this one. The violence is chilling and effective but not overused so it doesn't numb but hold you in a consistent state of unease. The antagonists hold up. Their demented speech and hammy gravelly voices add a touch of madcap ridiculousness and even dark humor to the experience that puts you off balance. What sets this one apart is how Craven frames the violence explicitly through the lens of class. This is a normal, nuclear conservative family. A good family. The dad is a chubby racist ex-cop and the mother is a flimsy vapid housewife. The spoiled, sterile kids moan about taxes. They're outsiders in this wild and lawless place and totally indifferent to its existence and its dangers. They've been protected by privilege all their lives but it won't protect them now. 
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 27, 2020 1:07:18 GMT
Obsessions (1969, Pim de la Parra)
DePalma levels of Hitchcockian homage in this Scorsese written and Herrmann scored Peeping Tom tale. Eh, it has its moments.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 27, 2020 1:29:02 GMT
Runaway Nightmare (1982, Mike Cartel)
Two worm wranglers are kidnapped by a gang of women as part of a plot to steal plutonium from the mafia. As you do. This was some How Did this Get Made? shit and has a goofy charm about it. The acting is so bad every voice sounds dubbed.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 27, 2020 3:31:43 GMT
Lyle (2014/2015) 6.5 - on TUBIRosemary's Baby rip-off with a twist, Gaby Hoffman (quite good) and Michael Che (um, wtf) and some creepy details that are left vague in a good way. Only 62 minutes which makes it weird to call this a "slow burn" but it sorta is. Worth a watch if you're trying to kill (no pun) an hour......  |
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 27, 2020 7:01:54 GMT
The Girl with All the Gifts- Starts out well.... but I'm pretty sure I lost a solid inch of my hairline while watching this with the amount of times I was going "what, WHYYYYY?"
And it got more and more WTF as it went on... WHAT WAS THAT ENDING?!
Whatever, I need hair plugs. It started promising, had some real big plot armor... and ended with... that. Okay.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 27, 2020 18:46:05 GMT
Long Weekend (1978) - Free on Youtube ~7/10Love it or hate it, too long Aussie movie that plays like if Terrence Malick did a hippie horror about Mother Nature taking revenge on Man and his disgusting disregard of it dammit! Some of this feels rushed and other times silence plays a very creepy role and other times it's just maddeningly and dull silence ......it's something though, a genuine curiosity movie with some memorable scenes. Very much an Australian 70s movie.....  |
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 28, 2020 0:30:18 GMT
The Hills Have Eyes (1977) rewatch. My grandma showed this to me and my brother when we were like 8... and I haven't been to a nuclear-testing desert site since, or ever for that matter! I forgot about the weathered John Steadman, I like his perf as the old stressed out gas station owner, his character/backstory is tough and interesting and slightly heartbreaking, otherwise I like how unexpectedly some of the violence comes at you, right to the abrupt ending. But.....putting dogs and an infant against prolonged and extreme violence, when it doesn't really have to, is just off-putting to me now and I think I prefer most of Wes' other work over this. Also went thru a bunch of HBO's Tales from the Crypt in the past few days. Side note - Showtime had gold with their similarish Body Bags, they should've went forward with that as a series....and hot take, as far as punny hosts go, Carpenter's coroner >>> Cryptkeeper. Just gonna single out this three stretch of eps..... S2E11 Judy, You're Not Yourself Today - Carol Kane is body-swapped with an old witchy cosmetics saleswoman, very fun, strangely funny episode with welcome use of wide lenses. S2E12 Fitting Punishment - Rather serious even as it introduces killer Nikes! and the underrated Moses Gunn gives a violent, disturbing perf. Directed by Jack Sholder whose first three movies (Alone in the Dark, Elm Street 2, The Hidden) should've led to a better career. S2E13 Korman's Kalamity - "Draw a monster, something repulsive." Cartoony grotesque fun, and meta about an artist working for Tales from the Crypt who learns his drawings are coming to life. With a winking, funny ending. Directed by Rowdy Herrington (Jack's Back, Road House).   
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Oct 28, 2020 16:05:08 GMT
I Know What You Did Last Summer. I enjoyed this a lot more when I saw it in the theater at 15.
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 28, 2020 17:56:15 GMT
 The Innocents (1961, Jack Clayton) (on youtube) Rewatch for me after first checking it out a couple years ago -- glad I gave it another look since it didn't leave much of an impression on me the first time, on rewatch this is an all-timer piece of horror. Preserves the ambiguity of James' novella beautifully and lets the creepiness of its setting, characters, and small details work wonders rather than overwhelming your senses. Lots of extraordinary surreal sequences here and, holy shit, the cinematography is all-time great -- absolutely astonishing deep-focus cinematography that gives the film its unnerving look and atmosphere. |
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 28, 2020 21:41:57 GMT
 The Tenant (1976) 10/10, rewatch. “pale as the tenant of a tomb, a menial entered upon tiptoe.” |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 29, 2020 0:17:00 GMT
The Innocents (1961, Jack Clayton) (on youtube) Rewatch for me after first checking it out a couple years ago -- glad I gave it another look since it didn't leave much of an impression on me the first time, on rewatch this is an all-timer piece of horror. Preserves the ambiguity of James' novella beautifully and lets the creepiness of its setting, characters, and small details work wonders rather than overwhelming your senses. Lots of extraordinary surreal sequences here and, holy shit, the cinematography is all-time great -- absolutely astonishing deep-focus cinematography that gives the film its unnerving look and atmosphere. So good.  |
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 29, 2020 0:58:17 GMT
The Forest of the Lost Souls (2017) - 7+/10 on TUBIEerie, a conceptual fake-out Portuguese movie that serves as an answer to people who romanticize Death.......very short (71 minutes), vaguely unsatisfying at first......... but not if you remember discussions on the "theory" that dominate the first half.......and gorgeously shot too.  |
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 29, 2020 3:27:18 GMT
Silent Hill - holy hell, this needed some serious trimming. There's a halfway decent movie in there somewhere but there's just so much filler and some weird necessity to show us 30 different kinds of monsters. K.I.S,S!
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 29, 2020 5:35:52 GMT
 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986, Tobe Hooper) (on Prime) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has been my slasher of choice for the past few years now, but I actually had never checked out the sequel until tonight. It has a hell of a lot of fun at taking the Evil Dead II approach a year before Evil Dead II did. Hooper isn't quite as successful at making the leap into gonzo absurdity as Raimi was, but it still feels like the perfect direction for this sequel and holy hell am I glad that that was the direction he took it in. This thing plays waaay too long for sure (really has no business being 100 minutes), but from chainsaw-wielding Dennis Hopper to the gloriously macabre production design there is just so much to love here. And the make-up is astonishing! |
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As for this movie, it has a really cool set up and the section where that old timey dude is stuck in a loop was aces, but there's not much else going on.
