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Post by quetee on Oct 9, 2020 1:36:20 GMT
Could you guys list where you watched the movie?? Netflix, Amazon. Thanks.
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Post by quetee on Oct 9, 2020 1:37:07 GMT
Did anyone check out the Blumhouse movies on Amazon? Anyone willing to take the bullet and watch Hubie Halloween?
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 9, 2020 1:53:21 GMT
7. The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005)Six female friends go on an expedition to the American boonies to explore a new cave system. Of course they get trapped immediately and that would've been frightening enough as a setup but Neil Marshall is only getting started. Things go from bad to worse to terrible to insane when it becomes clear that they're not alone down there in the darkness. This is a fantastic, relentless horror movie anchored by an all-female cast of badass performances. Shot entirely on sound stages with limited light, it also amazed me how much the DP was able to accomplish with some of these shots A few of these images are breathtaking. (tubi) 
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 9, 2020 4:03:27 GMT
8. King of the Ants (Stuart Gordon, 2004)This was the first of several Gordon films I plan on seeing this month. Can't say I got much out of it unfortunately. A bit too muddled genre-wise and weighed down by an often-implausible story. Plot is a mean-spirited indie remix of Crime and Punishment, only with more torture, more surreal nightmare sequences, more cheesy romance (?), and not an ounce of redemption. This thing went straight to video in 2004 and it shows. Whole project feels surprisingly amateurish and the issues aren't budgetary. (tubi) btw the guy on the right is six-time Emmy nominee (for Cheers!) George Wendt who plays a sadistic goon here. Probably the best thing about the film. 
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Oct 9, 2020 14:02:13 GMT
Did anyone check out the Blumhouse movies on Amazon? Anyone willing to take the bullet and watch Hubie Halloween?I might give it a go Sunday morning. Heard it was actually pretty funny. |
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Post by pessimusreincarnated on Oct 9, 2020 15:51:27 GMT
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)- Highly misguided sequel to a modern horror classic. Whatever interesting commentary about obsessive fan culture and media consumption this movie has up its sleeve is drowned out by horrendously choppy editing, which kills the momentum and tension. It's also not scary at all, forsaking the original's less-is-more approach for a stylistically disorienting approach that just ends up being annoying. Cool score and soundtrack, though. 3/10
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 9, 2020 18:25:51 GMT
Night Fishing (2011) - 33 minutes on TUBI.....7.5-8.0/10Chan-wook Park's "Iphone movie" is the find of this years Halloween for me along with Darling......not really horror but more a meditation on Death, Life, and.........forgiveness, and making amends with some horrific/fantasy supernatural elements involved. Very cleverly shot in how it generates light and also in how it makes nature - trees, water, grass etc. creepy af......also cleverly constructed the "Night Fishing" isn't just random but metaphorical too. I checked this out - very impressive little movie, I liked the scratchy B&W, the sharp transitions, the motif of "separation" - like the beginning song on divorce, the radio talking about North/SK relations (and they filmed those river scenes near the border), life and death, and that cloth-cutting ritual later on. I thought this was darkly funny until it was suddenly so creepy and chilling, I thought it worked well as a quite emotional horror pic. I also peeped Park's Cut segment from Three Extremes which I hadn't seen in forever - a lot more jokey and grotesquely violent than Night Fishing but extremely stylishly designed. |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 9, 2020 18:51:50 GMT
9. May (Lucky McKee, 2003)Loneliness, childhood dysfunction, self-loathing, shitty boyfriends, shitty girlfriends. This movie has something for everyone. It's entertaining, wild, campy, and bloody as hell, but May is a legitimately great character who deserves her own spot in the pantheon of female horror icons, somewhere next to Carrie. Withdrawn, self-sabotaging, and hamstrung by a shitty childhood, she experiences casual betrayals and ostracism for her weirdness and lashes out at everyone, including herself, in a mad attempt to finally be "seen." Through her strange tale, McKee speaks to how lonely & self-destructive people project unhappiness onto themselves. It's also funny as hell. Lots of great one-liners. Performances are top-notch, especially Angela Bettis as the titular character and Anna Faris as her constantly horny lesbian coworker. (tubi) 
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Post by stephen on Oct 9, 2020 18:53:21 GMT
9. May (Lucky McKee, 2003)Loneliness, childhood dysfunction, self-loathing, shitty boyfriends, shitty girlfriends. This movie has something for everyone. Entertaining, wild, campy, and bloody as hell, but May is a legitimately great character who deserves her own spot in the pantheon of female horror icons, somewhere next to Carrie. Withdrawn, self-sabotaging, and hamstrung by a shitty childhood, she experiences casual betrayals and ostracism for her weirdness and lashes out at everyone, including herself, in a mad attempt to finally be "seen." Through her strange tale, McKee speaks to how lonely & self-destructive people project unhappiness onto themselves. It's also funny as hell. Lots of great one-liners. Performances are top-notch, especially Angela Bettis as the titular character and Anna Faris as her constantly horny lesbian coworker. Interesting you make the comparison to Carrie, as Bettis played Carrie in the underrated-as-hell 2002 failed pilot written by Bryan Fuller. Bettis isn't quite on Spacek's level (but who is?), but she is still fantastic. |
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 9, 2020 19:05:52 GMT
 Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971) - 5.5/10 - This was a letdown considering the idea and the team. You have James Nicholson producing who did dozens of Cormans for AIP, Jimmy Sangster cowriting who did so many tight Hammers, Curtis Harrington at the helm who did the creatively eerie Night Tide, and a solid concept updating Hansel and Gretel set on Christmas (though this lacks a feel for the holiday). With Shelley Winters who around the '70s seemed unfazed by crude, blaring parts (Bloody Mama, Poor Pretty Eddie, Initiation of Sarah, etc).... Mark Lester playing another orphan, and some thankless roles for Ralph Richardson and Hugh Griffith. Winters is better in scenes where she uses the cast as an audience, but mostly doesn't have much fun with it and isn't remotely on par with the great hag-horror perfs from Bette Davis and Geraldine Page. It all plays out rather suspenselessly, flatly, with no style at all to suggest or push it. |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 9, 2020 20:02:26 GMT
Interesting you make the comparison to Carrie, as Bettis played Carrie in the underrated-as-hell 2002 failed pilot written by Bryan Fuller. Bettis isn't quite on Spacek's level (but who is?), but she is still fantastic. Really? I can totally see that. The only Carrie adaptation I've seen other than De Palma's was the 2011 one with Grace-Moretz (and I think I watched it before seeing the original  ). God that was bad. Bettis was great here. Such a fantastic self-aware, almost-campy shtick. |
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Post by stephen on Oct 9, 2020 20:06:24 GMT
Interesting you make the comparison to Carrie, as Bettis played Carrie in the underrated-as-hell 2002 failed pilot written by Bryan Fuller. Bettis isn't quite on Spacek's level (but who is?), but she is still fantastic. Really? I can totally see that. The only Carrie adaptation I've seen other than De Palma's was the 2011 one with Grace-Moretz (and I think I watched it before seeing the original ). God that was bad. Bettis was great here. Such a fantastic self-aware, almost-campy shtick. The Moretz one is unwatchable trash, but I do recommend the 2002 version. Come for Bettis, stay for Patricia Clarkson. |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 9, 2020 22:17:31 GMT
10. Dagon (Stuart Gordon, 2001)This low-budget b-movie Lovecraftian schlock is my ideal spooktober jam. Endlessly atmospheric and well-produced despite the budget. The design of the the fish-people, from the sound effects to the makeup, is effective and gross. I think old H.P. himself would've been proud of what Gordon was able to do here. The isolated seaside Spanish locale gives the film a profound sense of otherworldiness compounded by the bizarre guttural moans and howls of the natives. And it's constantly raining. Everything is soaking wet and mildewy. To watch the movie is to feel like you've stepped into another dimension. Skewed and oppressive and soggy. (tubi) 
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Post by tep on Oct 9, 2020 23:16:48 GMT
Seen quite a few since my last post.
Suicide Club - Sono does it again. 9/10.
A Cat in the Brain - disgusting and batshit in the best way possible. 8.5/10
Malevolent - dull as shit. 4/10.
Salem's Lot (1979) - 8/10.
The Nightingale - fantastic. 9/10
Honeymoon - wasn't expecting much, but I thought this was pretty neat. 7/10.
The Gift - also greatly exceeded my expectations. 8/10.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Oct 10, 2020 15:15:53 GMT
Aliens. Prefer the first one more still but this one is pretty damn great.
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Post by Viced on Oct 10, 2020 16:57:00 GMT
 6. Rosemary's Baby (1968)Been suffering through a bunch of horror clunkers lately that I've had to turn off after 20 minutes... so I had to fall back on a proven masterpiece. And masterpiece it is... certainly in the elite bracket of horror movies. And in some ways it doesn't always feel like a horror movie, but it always feels like a nightmare. The conception sequence has got to be the best stretch ever in a horror film (and best blend of nightmare/reality in any film) and everything from there is a living nightmare for Rosemary. Even the small glimmers of hope (the under-60 party and visit to Dr. Hill) never seem quite right. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 10, 2020 19:17:19 GMT
Wordplay - The "New" Twilight Zone - Directed by Wes Craven 1985 7/10Also not horror but a sort of horror scenario where everyone begins using language that a man can not follow or grasp.....as someone whose been accused of using semantics in my movie arguments - do I though - or do I just use words exactly like they mean MAR , ....I relate to this because it's what I also accuse political "progressives" of doing constantly in our times redefining words to own the method of communicating. This episode not only gets the prescient part right it also gets the horror of the world functioning without you.....the way a computer illiterate might say......or a brain injured person........and that's scary in it own way. Annie Potts and Robert Klein talking a lot but not saying anything:  |
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 10, 2020 21:37:27 GMT
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) - ~8.5+/10 Re-watchDirector Werner Herzog's version - the best version actually - of the Dracula tale is beautifully shot and coherent. It also is the first to really get the tragic tale of the bloodsucker, day after day of enjoying/suffering through........as he puts it "the same futile things"..... Starting with an astonishingly creepy skeletal remains catacombs sequence - opening sequences were a Herzog specialty - and including, but not limited to, a ton of rats, Isabelle Adjani's big eyes, really long fingernails and how much it um,you know really sucks to have to sell real estate for a living (um).......the movie only falters at the beginning where it moves a little slow in narrative exposition. Klaus Kinski appears about 30 minutes in and from that point on it's aces and .........timely too, showing the townspeople wasting away from "plague" and eating there last meals while rats (not CGI rats either!) crawl all around and the townspeople go mad and wither away..........sounds like Covid 2020 ammirite?  |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 11, 2020 0:01:52 GMT
The Gift - also greatly exceeded my expectations. 8/10. The 2000 film? |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 11, 2020 0:05:21 GMT
Rewatched The Blob remake today which is such fun. I also love how Shawnee Smith run into other people who either don't believe her and think it's a hoax, or think it must be a sign of the end times. Meanwhile, everyone really sucks at containing it. Timely.
Also finished up the anthology show Monsterland which was an extreme mixed bag. The first episode was quite chilling with Jonathan Tucker getting right under my skin (heh), but it was downhill from there.
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Post by Sharbs on Oct 11, 2020 0:06:22 GMT
9. Hubie Halloween (2020, eh who cares)
Nice story, heaps of stupid humor, a couple incredibly funny lines, Sandler solid. - 5.5/10
10. The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020, Mike Flanagan & co.)
Gothic as a gothic romance can get where every decision is bred out of romance or familial bond whether the outcome tragic, lovely, or necessary (often times all three). - 10/10 keep em coming Flanagan
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Post by mhynson27 on Oct 11, 2020 1:31:51 GMT
Beetlejuice. First time viewing for my 4-year-old. Congratulations, your 4 year old is now traumatised  |
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 11, 2020 9:26:00 GMT
Dead Woman's Shoes (1985) and The Shadow Man (1985) - The "New" Twilight Zone both 7/10Dead Woman's Shoes is an update of an old Twilight Zone with Helen Mirren (!) and directed by Peter Medak .....slight but effective.... The Shadow Man sort of predates the whole Slender Man phenomena and is good Halloween type fun directed by Joe Dante. Only the Shadow knows....  |
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Post by LaraQ on Oct 11, 2020 11:48:50 GMT
Did anyone check out the Blumhouse movies on Amazon? Anyone willing to take the bullet and watch Hubie Halloween? Yes,Black Box was really good.It was more of a thriller than a horror,reminded me a bit of Get Out.Definitely worth a watch.The Lie was ok,a bit contrived and the twist was pretty outlandish.Hubie Halloween was absolute shite. |
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Oct 11, 2020 15:51:28 GMT
Beetlejuice. First time viewing for my 4-year-old. Congratulations, your 4 year old is now traumatised Nonsense, he loved it. Gremlins is up next. |
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). God that was bad. Bettis was great here. Such a fantastic self-aware, almost-campy shtick.
