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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 18, 2020 3:03:26 GMT
Paranormal Activity 2 - are all the boyfriends/husbands in this series closed-minded tools? Either way, this was okay... really felt like an inferior remake of the first. Still, as far as horror franchise sequels go, this is one of the better ones.
Next up is a horror of a different sort, Terminator: Dark Fate. Pray for me.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 18, 2020 4:56:49 GMT
19. The Hitcher (Robert Harmon, 1986)This was something else. A relentlessly savage cat-and-mouse chase through the lawless desert. There's something inherently primal about Rutger Hauer's sadistic hitchhiker that feels out of time, like somewhere on that rain-drenched highway our hapless protagonist has crossed over into the past and is face-to-face with an ancient, omnipotent, inexplicable evil. features Jennifer Jason Leigh in a significant supporting role, striking cinematography from John Seale, thrilling stunts. 
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 18, 2020 5:32:06 GMT
20. Kill, Baby... Kill! (Mario Bava, 1966) on kanopy A doctor travels to a remote Carpathian village to investigate the mysterious death of a local woman, but the superstitious locals who are terrified by ghostly sightings of a malevolent little girl, undermine his efforts. He soon discovers there are forces at play in the village that science can't explain. Yet another Bava film that I would've probably enjoyed more if I could've got my hands on the Italian cut. That being said, for my money this is probably one of his best, and the cinematography is so gorgeous and the plot so interesting and the conclusion so satisfying that even the dub can't stop me liking it. I feel like every time I watch a new Bava film I'm like "no, this is his best-looking film," but this really is one of his best. Has those rich signature blues and greens, the moody gothic setting with gorgeous matte paintings and lighting, and the slightest touch of fog machine. 
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 18, 2020 9:56:51 GMT
Sennentuntschi (2010) - 7+/10 on TUBIKind of loved much of this Swiss movie in a lot of ways - at first an enigmatic mystery......in its middle part sort of like The Virgin Spring and then an interesting ending to me .........you have to stick with it.......although it's sort of confusingly told in how it juggles all the elements. Based on an old fable, so you sort of have to buy into its more fantastic aspects but I was with it and this movie seems a bit too long until you realize it's also a social critique too and is quite concerned with the all the evil that men do.   |
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Post by speeders on Oct 18, 2020 18:39:34 GMT
Yesterday I watched...
The Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix). I'll save my rant for another day. 5/10
Sleepy Hollow (1999; fourth viewing but first one in 12 years). It was nice to revisit this one after all this time. It went slightly down in my estimation, particularly the acting. The pacing is really brisk. This was more violent and has a much higher body count than I remember. Gorgeous cinematography, great atmosphere and world building, and genuine thrills. Wish studios would have the balls to do more films like this nowadays. 7.5-8/10
Dracula (Netflix/BBC) 1.01: The Rules of the Beas. I only watched the first episode (each episode is 90 minutes and thus feature length), I was quite excited for this but I don't think I want to watch 3 more hours of this. I appreciate them doing something new, but It just didn't work for me. If it ain't broke don't fix it? It becomes frightfully boring, full of "gotcha moments" as if that's substitute for genuine dread and suspense. Claes Bang starts pretty awful but does become pretty damn good towards the end. Dolly Wells has the best Dutch accent I remember hearing in film or TV. Has a few decent lines amongst a ton of cringe-inducing try hard wink-wink ones. 5/10
I'm thinking about tackling either Carnival of Souls or Night of the Living Dead as I've never seen either of them before.
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Post by Sharbs on Oct 18, 2020 20:02:02 GMT
18. Dead Ringers - 8.5
A strikingly singular viewpoint on identity and psychosexual tendencies. I was thinking this would lean into horror elements more often, but glad it went to the places it did.
19. A Page of Madness - 7.5
Cool stuff. This is to be admired When it’s easy to follow the narrative that this film brings forth with the absence of title cards. Some haunting sequences.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 19, 2020 0:46:05 GMT
The Thing rewatch. Not on the docket, just felt like rewatching this stone-cold masterpiece. 
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 19, 2020 3:26:20 GMT
21. Next of Kin (Tony Williams, 1982)A young woman inherits a retirement home from her dead aunt and discovers a history of strange deaths at the property. And although no one seems to believe her, she begins to suspect that sinister forces are still at work. This is a white-knuckle slice of Australian giallo. Moody with a capital M. A slow burn until the last 20 minutes, and then the kill count shoots through the roof to the sound of Jacki Kerin's hysterical screams. The wait is worth it. 
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 19, 2020 9:30:06 GMT
Cruising (1980) - 7/10 maybe a bit higher; Maniac (1980) - ~less than 6/10 - both re-watches Well, this is more like it - horror that makes you want to take a cold shower afterwards to get the scuzz off...one a big budget affair, the other anything but: Cruising - which is guilty of all the charges filed pro and con against it - unpleasant and homophobic, effectively grisly, and haunting, muddled in narrative/clear in thematic intent........this is a Rorschach test of a movie - if we changed "this" would it have been "better" etc..........well maybe, but it wouldn't be THIS and "this" fascinates and at times genuinely terrifies. I just posted that William Friedkin often misunderstands (profoundly) his own movies for good (The Exorcist) and imo mostly bad (Killer Joe, Bug) .........here he misunderstands it from scene to scene but it doesn't matter in relation to effect. At one time Brian DePalma was attached to this......and if he made this film, with this cast (fnck-off Richard Gere, Friedkin's choice for lead) with De Palma in his great period (!) and we'd still be recovering from it  Maniac - which is not worthy of any of the revisionist praise tossed its way.........except for Joe Spinell and his performance which is distinctive and memorable. The rest of the film is weaker and his performance doesn't transcend material.....and this was done far better, immediately afterwards ( Angst, 1983) .....wished it was better but it's not.
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 19, 2020 16:25:45 GMT
 Audition (1999, Takashi Miike) (on tubi) Been a few days since I watched this one, but ... folks, if you haven't seen this one then you oughta check it out ASAP. All that really needs to be said. I'm not even too sure of my feelings on it at this point, but it's just so absurd, so surprising, and so breathtakingly entertaining in the final stretch that it sorta needs to be seen to be believed... |
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Post by themoviesinner on Oct 19, 2020 16:52:45 GMT
Been a few days since I watched this one, but ... folks, if you haven't seen this one then you oughta check it out ASAP. All that really needs to be said. I'm not even too sure of my feelings on it at this point, but it's just so absurd, so surprising, and so breathtakingly entertaining in the final stretch that it sorta needs to be seen to be believed... Pretty solid film and definitely the best out of Miike's pure horror films (far better than One Missed Call and Lesson Of The Evil for instance), but it's still a far cry from Miike's best, so it's status as his best film is pretty baffling to me. It needs a rewatch though as it was one of the first films I watched from him several years ago and I haven't watched it again since. |
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Post by Sharbs on Oct 19, 2020 16:58:32 GMT
20. La llorona (2020, Jayro Bustamante)
A family deals with the aftermath of the trial in which the patriarch of the family is on trial over whether he committed genocide or not. A gripping slow-burn that sizzles into a masterful final stretch. - 8/10
21. Starry Eyes (2014, hack & hack)
Some cool body-horror elements involved, but this is a tired premise and this wasn't fresh in its execution or ideas in the slightest. - 4.5/10
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Post by Viced on Oct 19, 2020 17:27:49 GMT
14. Hubie Halloween (2020) - this could've been some pleasant Halloween fun if it wasn't so committed to being stooooooopid. Sandler needs to retire that voice once and for all.
15. The Exorcist (1973) - second time this month.... would probably call this a top 10 horror movie now.
16. Spontaneous (2020) - not really horror outside of the whole spontaneous combustion thing... but those moments were grisly enough for inclusion. This was a bit too ridiculous at times but mostly entertaining overall. Also one of the most blatantly anti-Trump movies of the last few years, which was nice.
17. The Unknown (1927) - not sure if this is really horror either (I'm starting to sound like Red-Identity), but this is unsettling enough to leave you horrified, so close enough. The final sequence could've been better executed though... but it was 1927 so I'll cut Browning some slack. Pretty amazing performance from Lon Chaney too.
18. The Lodge (2019/2020) - the first 15 minutes or so make this seem like it's gonna be great, but they're just a tease. Surprised Ari Aster didn't write this because the whole premise is built on incredibly hard to fathom bullshit. Goes from unbelievably boring to unbelievably stupid, and doesn't even have an ending. Yikes.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 19, 2020 18:16:35 GMT
21. Starry Eyes (2014, hack & hack) Some cool body-horror elements involved, but this is a tired premise and this wasn't fresh in its execution or ideas in the slightest. - 4.5/10 yessss go off |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 19, 2020 18:19:34 GMT
Audition (1999, Takashi Miike) (on tubi) Been a few days since I watched this one, but ... folks, if you haven't seen this one then you oughta check it out ASAP. All that really needs to be said. I'm not even too sure of my feelings on it at this point, but it's just so absurd, so surprising, and so breathtakingly entertaining in the final stretch that it sorta needs to be seen to be believed... I've been avoiding this one for years because I'm too chicken. I'm fine with most gore, but eye stuff... no thank you  probably gonna see it as part of my 90s catchup next year, but i'm lowkey dreading it |
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 19, 2020 19:32:17 GMT
Mister Corbett's Ghost (1987) - Directed by Danny Huston, costarring Paul Scofield and John Huston (who died during production), with Burgess Meredith too. This isn't great but a perfectly fine spooky October watch, only 55 mins, inspired by A Christmas Carol but set on New Years Eve. It feels a bit like the Disney horrors - in fact, Huston actually directed a project for Disney the same year, and the editor of Return to Oz worked on it. Scofield who plays the "Scrooge" here may be one of the great ghost actors btwn this and Hamlet a few years later. John Huston as the "Soul Collector" has some dark fun with the part. Produced by Barry Navidi (aka Pacino's bff) - he went to film school with Danny Huston, his only other produced movies are Merchant of Venice and Wilde Salome.  Nature of the Beast (1995) - Ambiguous to a fault, and there's cringe overtones bc of Victor Salva who wrote-directed it. Otherwise, it's an entertaining road-horror (somewhat about evil psychological transference), made by New Line but released straight-to-video. It's like The Hitcher meets homoerotic pulp, costarring Lance Henriksen and Eric Roberts who especially has fun with his menacing drifter, he makes his dialogue sing, and he gets a great introduction in the horizon blur over a 50s song where a girl sings "If you knew him like I do, you wouldn't look at him twice." Henriksen looks twice, of course. |
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Post by quetee on Oct 19, 2020 19:40:20 GMT
14. Hubie Halloween (2020) - this could've been some pleasant Halloween fun if it wasn't so committed to being stooooooopid. Sandler needs to retire that voice once and for all. We are going on 20 years of this already? And people continue to watch. Sandler was the first actor to take Netflix seriously and I guess he's at the point if it ain't broke don't fix it. Who else produces movies in his style? He's the the Nolan of silly movies. You know exactly what you're going to get when you hit play. |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 19, 2020 20:07:51 GMT
21. Next of Kin (Tony Williams, 1982)A young woman inherits a retirement home from her dead aunt and discovers a history of strange deaths at the property. And although no one seems to believe her, she begins to suspect that sinister forces are still at work. This is a white-knuckle slice of Australian giallo. Moody with a capital M. A slow burn until the last 20 minutes, and then the kill count shoots through the roof to the sound of Jacki Kerin's hysterical screams. The wait is worth it. So glad more people are checking this out! |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 19, 2020 20:13:30 GMT
16. Spontaneous (2020) - not really horror outside of the whole spontaneous combustion thing... but those moments were grisly enough for inclusion. This was a bit too ridiculous at times but mostly entertaining overall. Also one of the most blatantly anti-Trump movies of the last few years, which was nice. 17. The Unknown (1927) - not sure if this is really horror either (I'm starting to sound like Red-Identity), but this is unsettling enough to leave you horrified, so close enough. The final sequence could've been better executed though... but it was 1927 so I'll cut Browning some slack. Pretty amazing performance from Lon Chaney too. I'd not heard of Spontaneous so I'm going to look into that. Making my horror retrospectives I pulled a Red Identity daily.  There are so many subgenres and genre blends which often adds even more fun. The Unknown is good stuff and Browning sure had a knack for circus centric films. If you're into other arm-related horror, lol, I recommend Mad Love. |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 19, 2020 21:26:11 GMT
21. Next of Kin (Tony Williams, 1982) So glad more people are checking this out! I forget, didn't it feature in one of your lists in the last couple years? If so that's probably what got it on my radar. Although lately I've been adding a ton of horrors to my watchlist lol. This one was so good though. The last 15 minutes were BRUTAL and the twist was satisfying (though a bit confusing tbh, I probably need to watch it again to figure out exactly what happened  ) Wish Jacki Kerin had more of a career. Really attractive here and so. good. at. screaming. The look on her face near the end was constant terror. Reminded me of Marilyn Burns from Texas Chain Saw honestly. It was that intense! |
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 19, 2020 22:10:09 GMT
So glad more people are checking this out! I forget, didn't it feature in one of your lists in the last couple years? If so that's probably what got it on my radar. Although lately I've been adding a ton of horrors to my watchlist lol. This one was so good though. The last 15 minutes were BRUTAL and the twist was satisfying (though a bit confusing tbh, I probably need to watch it again to figure out exactly what happened ) Wish Jacki Kerin had more of a career. Really attractive here and so. good. at. screaming. The look on her face near the end was constant terror. Reminded me of Marilyn Burns from Texas Chain Saw honestly. It was that intense! "Liiiinda..." I watched this back in April but it's the best horror I've seen all year, maybe my fav first-watch of the whole year. The filmmaker clearly is incredibly talented, I wish he had worked more. People - it's on Youtube and, in better quality, Tubi (who at this point should be paying us as a sponsor!) |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 19, 2020 22:21:15 GMT
People - it's on Youtube and, in better quality, Tubi (who at this point should be paying us as a sponsor!) It's also on Kanopy you don't need a library card to use Tubi! I've been stunned to discover how much is on that platform. It really is a goldmine for horror. Everyone who uses letterboxd who hasn't done this yet needs to go to click "edit profile," on their home page, go to "stores & streaming," select Tubi as a "favorite service," and then head over to their watchlist, narrow the results down to horror and select Tubi under services... they'll be shocked at how much is there.  |
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 19, 2020 22:27:52 GMT
People - it's on Youtube and, in better quality, Tubi (who at this point should be paying us as a sponsor!) It's also on Kanopy you don't need a library card to use Tubi! I've been stunned to discover how much is on that platform. It really is a goldmine for horror. Everyone who uses letterboxd who hasn't done this yet needs to go to click "edit profile," on their home page, go to "stores & streaming," select Tubi as a "favorite service," and then head over to their watchlist, narrow the results down to horror and select Tubi under services... they'll be shocked at how much is there. Oooo good tip, thank you. And yesss.... Tubi is awesome. At this moment there's a 99% chance pacinoyes is surfing Tubi (and wondering why Red Vines are so much better than Twizzlers). I've been championing them for years, they've always had their hands on great, varied, and obscure stuff and almost always in better quality than you think. Several of the horrors I've seen this month were on Prime and Tubi - and comparing their qualities like a mad scientist, Tubi always won out! |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 19, 2020 22:58:27 GMT
So glad more people are checking this out! I forget, didn't it feature in one of your lists in the last couple years? If so that's probably what got it on my radar. Although lately I've been adding a ton of horrors to my watchlist lol. This one was so good though. The last 15 minutes were BRUTAL and the twist was satisfying (though a bit confusing tbh, I probably need to watch it again to figure out exactly what happened ) Wish Jacki Kerin had more of a career. Really attractive here and so. good. at. screaming. The look on her face near the end was constant terror. Reminded me of Marilyn Burns from Texas Chain Saw honestly. It was that intense! Yep, I had it on last year's 31 Days of Horror. It's shocking that was Kerin's only feature film (rocking it on TV looks like though), but I'm glad John Jarratt had some staying power in the genre. |
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 19, 2020 23:00:54 GMT
People - it's on Youtube and, in better quality, Tubi (who at this point should be paying us as a sponsor!) It's also on Kanopy you don't need a library card to use Tubi! I've been stunned to discover how much is on that platform. It really is a goldmine for horror. Everyone who uses letterboxd who hasn't done this yet needs to go to click "edit profile," on their home page, go to "stores & streaming," select Tubi as a "favorite service," and then head over to their watchlist, narrow the results down to horror and select Tubi under services... they'll be shocked at how much is there. That is so handy! Thank you. |
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There are so many subgenres and genre blends which often adds even more fun. The Unknown is good stuff and Browning sure had a knack for circus centric films. If you're into other arm-related horror, lol, I recommend 
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