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Post by Mattsby on Oct 13, 2020 2:19:01 GMT
Never seen this before! This made me so happy I am quite sure it's added at least a year onto my life. |
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 13, 2020 3:06:25 GMT
 The Return of the Vampire (1943) - I'm rounding up to 7/10 for all its smoggy cemetery scenes, its mingling of the war with vampiric vengeance, the impressive wolfman makeup, and only being 69 min. Also loved the Cockney gravediggers, upon seeing an empty grave: “Blimey, he’s ‘opped! Lord love a duck, who would go and steal a dead corpse?” This was written to be a Dracula sequel, but Universal kiboshed Columbia's try....so they simply changed the names. Muahaha... |
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 13, 2020 3:17:31 GMT
Poker Night - interesting premise, but not very well executed. With that ending in the hands of a better director/script and this could have been aces. As it stands, meh.
I See You - I was really digging this until the second big reveal... which just felt incredibly false to me. Very well made, well acted, but I just couldn't buy the serial killer reveal.
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 13, 2020 3:31:44 GMT
Never seen this before! This made me so happy I am quite sure it's added at least a year onto my life. Tonight was the first time I saw it as well. Just delightful.  |
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 13, 2020 6:57:19 GMT
The Lodge - Don't get me wrong, I love a slow burn... but at some point there has to be some fire. Hell, this had a lot of the slow but it didn't have any of the burn. Somehow this had a positive RT rating. Fucking beyond me how that happened.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 13, 2020 10:23:18 GMT
Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus (remake) - 4/10 ........Ganja & Hess - ~6.5/10........both re-watches. The first a typical botch job by Spike Lee that is neither evocative of the tone nor themes much of the original film despite being at times an EXACT remake - it is not scary or weird or experimental or even reflective of the black experience actually......it's among the worst movies he ever made........... which is really saying something.  Ganja & Hess doesn't justify it's praise in some circles - at times incompetently made and way too long and rambling (sometimes maddeningly so and also the sound of this movie is awful) but at least it has a unifying thematic feel to it......the male vampire character here is out of place in many ways that are not even stressed explicitly - a wealthy, educated black man who is defined in counterpoint by the great (apparently rambling, but not really) speech at the start by writer/director/co-star Bill Gunn about what he needs to "learn" or "know" ........what he finds is in theory horrific and freeing - as opposed to pathetic and trapped as in most current vampire tales. What happens to him (played by Duane Jones of Night of the Living Dead fame) is a transforming positive...........for his partner Marlene Clark too. It works just as a presentation of social ideas - several scenes are choppy, poorly acted (improvised?) or badly edited ......what's missing crucially is an arc, it doesn't build or have any momentum - the peak is that early speech and and then it sputters and when it ends you shrug.......but it has some startling moments and a bunch of good ideas. Not deserving of its reputation as a "classic" - horror or otherwise - it's more deserving of a great remake, but so far that hasn't happened....   |
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Post by pessimusreincarnated on Oct 13, 2020 15:31:42 GMT
All Cheerleaders Die (2013)- I've liked all of Lucky McKee's work that I had seen leading up to this, so despite the low ratings I was excited to see what was in store. Unfortunately, it's definitely his weakest horror film. My biggest problem lies in the production- everything from the lighting to the editing to the sound and visual effects was pretty gaudy and amateurish. And it's not like McKee has never crafted a well-made movie on a shoestring budget before; May, for instance, is a great-looking horror with plenty of effective visual flair. Perhaps it was co-director Chris Sivertson who muddied the water here, but either way the movie inexcusably looks and sounds like garbage. The script is occasionally witty, with moments of dry humor and solid line delivery from the actors punctuating an otherwise joyless affair. The ending is a knee-slapper that leaves the door open for a potentially interesting sequel, but really, if it ends up being as cornball as this, I dunno if I'll bother watching. 4/10 
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2020 16:40:49 GMT
Friday the 13th: Part 3 - Liked the first one well enough, didn't care about the second one...and enjoyed this one more than I had planned. These characters are fun to follow - for one night of course - and the finale between Chris and Jason worked (and looked) better than this series' reputation suggests. Now let's see if it sinks as low as a Halloween 5... 
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 13, 2020 18:01:57 GMT
been a slow few days horror-wise. Started going to the gym again (exhausting), finished listening to A Room with a View (it's ok), started Stephen King's The Drawing of The Three (Dark Tower Book 2), and finished watching ZeroZeroZero (pretty solid, Dane DeHaan is shockingly good)
Last two horrors I watched were Ginger Snaps (great) and Scream 2 (disappointing) a couple days ago. Will be watching stuff today and tomorrow.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Oct 13, 2020 18:20:55 GMT
Friday the 13th: Part 3 - Liked the first one well enough, didn't care about the second one... The second one is the only one I've seen, and I only watched it last year because I read someone say it has one of the greatest final girl sequences of any slasher film. I did find that part entertaining, though I was bored by the rest of the movie. |
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 13, 2020 19:16:47 GMT
    Upped my giallo-ish intake..... Two from the same year with Jean Sorel, A Quiet Place to Kill (1970) 5/10 - It's nice to look at for sure, but the whole tone and plot which should've been a saucier Purple Noon fell flat pretty quickly despite a very appealing Carroll Baker (one of a bunch she did with Umberto Lenzi) as a racecar driver turned murder co-conspirator. Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It (1970) 7+/10 - What a title. This has surprisingly rich dialogue, all sorts of family suspicions, and perverse sexual obsessions which it leans into slightly in favor of the murder mystery. Editor did The Conformist and Last Tango (which he cowrote too) and this has a really snappy cutting to it, and actually plays a bit like a Bertolucci giallo, some Before the Revolution and Spider Stratagem, with a suggested lineage of violence, though the producer did Fists in the Pocket which lines up too and shares a similar younger POV and wicked family dysfunction. Ennio's score is remarkable as usual and oddly jolly (one of nearly 100 scores he did between '69-'72), and I like how this kept the mystery mostly in the air - when the main kid falls sick, is it an extension and physical surrender to his disturbed mind, or is it the doing of his family proving his dark suspicions? Sorel's part is small, as the main kid's business-end older brother, but he's quite good. And two from Antonio Margheriti, The Long Hair of Death (1964) 7+/10 - starring Barbara Steele as a ghost-zombie-witch. This sort of runs off Black Sunday, the cursed and the avenger, but also feels a bit like Universal monster/Hammer mix in its design and with the gaslighting, all the storms and plagues and stuff. And for a tonal switch, there's the vibrantly colored Naked You Die aka The Young the Evil and the Savage (1968) rounding up to 7/10 - the surprise twist is ruined bc of a dubbing decision, and the characters can get annoying, but this may be the first sorority slasher as we know it, slightly silly but I was very entertained. Between the eager students and the "campus" huge and mostly empty... it's like an easy-picking environment for the killer. As the theme song goes, "There's no one to save you from this nightmare." |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 13, 2020 20:29:07 GMT
All Cheerleaders Die (2013)- I've liked all of Lucky McKee's work that I had seen leading up to this, so despite the low ratings I was excited to see what was in store. Unfortunately, it's definitely his weakest horror film. My biggest problem lies in the production- everything from the lighting to the editing to the sound and visual effects was pretty gaudy and amateurish. And it's not like McKee has never crafted a well-made movie on a shoestring budget before; May, for instance, is a great-looking horror with plenty of effective visual flair. Perhaps it was co-director Chris Sivertson who muddied the water here, but either way the movie inexcusably looks and sounds like garbage. The script is occasionally witty, with moments of dry humor and solid line delivery from the actors punctuating an otherwise joyless affair. The ending is a knee-slapper that leaves the door open for a potentially interesting sequel, but really, if it ends up being as cornball as this, I dunno if I'll bother watching. 4/10 I haven't seen this but can't imagine it being worse than Kindred Spirits.  May is sooooo good, shame about most of his output since. |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 13, 2020 20:30:19 GMT
been a slow few days horror-wise. Started going to the gym again (exhausting), finished listening to A Room with a View (it's ok), started Stephen King's The Drawing of The Three (Dark Tower Book 2), and finished watching ZeroZeroZero (pretty solid, Dane DeHaan is shockingly good) Last two horrors I watched were Ginger Snaps (great) and Scream 2 (disappointing) a couple days ago. Will be watching stuff today and tomorrow. Not sure if you plan on continuing with the Ginger Snaps series, but I really like the second one. It's got baby Tatiana Maslany in it as well. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 13, 2020 20:54:22 GMT
Demon (2016) - ~7.0/10 Interesting and baffling Polish film from director Marcin Wrona who killed himself after this film ..........part horror, part mystery and a morality play about the Jews in Poland and skeletons buried both literally and figuratively. Actually works better as a set-up to a horror film then becomes an Exorcist like family horror and does more effectively in acts 1 & 2 than it does in Act 3 when it has more weighty subjects on it's mind..... 
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 13, 2020 21:18:07 GMT
Demon (2016) - ~7.0/10 Interesting and baffling Polish film from director Marcin Wrona who killed himself after this film ..........part horror, part mystery and a morality play about the Jews in Poland and skeletons buried both literally and figuratively. Actually works better as a set-up to a horror film then becomes an Exorcist like family horror and does more effectively in acts 1 & 2 than it does in Act 3 when it has more weighty subjects on it's mind..... Yeah, I thought it fizzled as it went along but it had its moments. |
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Post by pessimusreincarnated on Oct 13, 2020 21:19:47 GMT
All Cheerleaders Die (2013)- I've liked all of Lucky McKee's work that I had seen leading up to this, so despite the low ratings I was excited to see what was in store. Unfortunately, it's definitely his weakest horror film. My biggest problem lies in the production- everything from the lighting to the editing to the sound and visual effects was pretty gaudy and amateurish. And it's not like McKee has never crafted a well-made movie on a shoestring budget before; May, for instance, is a great-looking horror with plenty of effective visual flair. Perhaps it was co-director Chris Sivertson who muddied the water here, but either way the movie inexcusably looks and sounds like garbage. The script is occasionally witty, with moments of dry humor and solid line delivery from the actors punctuating an otherwise joyless affair. The ending is a knee-slapper that leaves the door open for a potentially interesting sequel, but really, if it ends up being as cornball as this, I dunno if I'll bother watching. 4/10 I haven't seen this but can't imagine it being worse than Kindred Spirits. May is sooooo good, shame about most of his output since. I haven't checked out Kindred Spirits yet and I don't think I'll bother to. The last worthwhile thing he did was probably The Woman, I know a lot of people hate that one but I found it to be very effectively unnerving. It's another example of McKee working well within a tight budget. I'm not sure what's happened since. |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 13, 2020 21:47:10 GMT
Not sure if you plan on continuing with the Ginger Snaps series, but I really like the second one. It's got baby Tatiana Maslany in it as well. oh I will  |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 13, 2020 23:33:31 GMT
13. Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992)My favorite so far. A vicious, crisply directed atmospheric chiller with a plot precipitated on an act of racist violence and endemic systemic racism which still exists years later in the decaying urban sprawl of Chicago. Virginia Madsen plays Helen, a university student researching the local Candyman legend following a series of grisly murders. Upon getting too close, she triggers a blood-soaked spree. The directing by Bernie Rose combined with the A-class acting and Phillip Glass's legendary gothic score make this a classy affair, and the story steeped in carnage framed around racist oppression and urban neglect strikes tones of tragedy and mournful indignation. 
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 14, 2020 1:44:18 GMT
14. The Pit and the Pendulum (Stuart Gordon, 1991)Third Gordon joint so far. Only one more to go. Can't say I enjoyed this one much. An unpleasant and low-budget adaptation of the Poe story featuring a gloriously OTT Lance Henriksen as a sexually-repressed Torquemada, who tortures women who turn him on. Whole affair is quite stuffy and cheerless apart from a whimsical performance from Jeffrey Combs as a foppish inquisitor. Not as gory as you'd expect but pretty unpleasant due to questionable production value and some weak acting (including Oliver Reed sporting an amazingly bad accent). 
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Post by dadsburgers on Oct 14, 2020 2:43:52 GMT
Finally watched The Platform-- more gruesome/intense than I was expecting, but overall I liked the movie more than I thought I would
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Oct 14, 2020 3:39:40 GMT
13. Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992)Phillip Glass's legendary gothic score I wish he composed for more horror films... he's a natural fit for the genre. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2020 8:28:04 GMT
Friday the 13th: Part 3 - Liked the first one well enough, didn't care about the second one... The second one is the only one I've seen, and I only watched it last year because I read someone say it has one of the greatest final girl sequences of any slasher film. I did find that part entertaining, though I was bored by the rest of the movie. It is indeed the most memorable bit of that episode. So good in fact that they begin part 3 with a 5-minute recap of it! |
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 14, 2020 9:25:56 GMT
The Canal (2014) - slightly above a 7/10 - re-watch Underrated especially among horror fans for being predictable (which is true, but.....) but it still pushes all the right buttons and works anyway. This movie evokes the very scary first half of Sinister (right down to the grainy "old footage") but unlike Sinister it doesn't go haywire when it then tries to resolve. The mechanics of the plot work quite well even as a domestic drama - you really feel this guys madness and the walls encroaching and you ache for his family situation while fearing for the worst for several characters .....a full POINT lower than Sinister on IMDB user ratings (5.8 to 6.8) - Nowhere to run:  |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 14, 2020 11:17:14 GMT
14. The Pit and the Pendulum (Stuart Gordon, 1991)Third Gordon joint so far. Only one more to go. Can't say I enjoyed this one much. An unpleasant and low-budget adaptation of the Poe story featuring a gloriously OTT Lance Henriksen as a sexually-repressed Torquemada, who tortures women who turn him on. Whole affair is quite stuffy and cheerless apart from a whimsical performance from Jeffrey Combs as a foppish inquisitor. Not as gory as you'd expect but pretty unpleasant due to questionable production value and some weak acting (including Oliver Reed sporting an amazingly bad accent). What's the last Gordon film you plan to watch? He's rather hit or miss but I love Re-Animator, Dolls has its moments and Stuck is rather effective. I love that he wrote Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 14, 2020 11:18:06 GMT
The Canal (2014) - slightly above a 7/10 - re-watch Underrated especially among horror fans for being predictable (which is true, but.....) but it still pushes all the right buttons and works anyway. This movie evokes the very scary first half of Sinister (right down to the grainy "old footage") but unlike Sinister it doesn't go haywire when it then tries to resolve. The mechanics of the plot work quite well even as a domestic drama - you really feel this guys madness and the walls encroaching and you ache for his family situation while fearing for the worst for several characters .....a full POINT lower than Sinister on IMDB user ratings (5.8 to 6.8) - Nowhere to run: I love this movie. Completely blew me away when I stumbled on it two years ago. The IMDb rating is ridiculous. |
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