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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2017 18:20:02 GMT
The Night of the Hunter (1955) 10/10
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2017 18:20:33 GMT
Willard (1971) 8/10
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Oct 25, 2017 23:30:03 GMT
Evil Dead (2013) - Decent for what it it was. It obviously has nothing on the original though, and kinda annoyed me at points too. Dumb teenagers and all. - 7 / 10
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 26, 2017 0:11:25 GMT
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Terrifically icy cold-war espionage thriller. Bridge of Spies it ain't.
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 26, 2017 1:04:00 GMT
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). Absolutely bonkers. I loved the shit out of it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2017 1:05:37 GMT
Goodnight Mommy- After a really great, suspenseful build-up, I honestly didn’t think the film could pull off a decent final act.... but that’s exactly what the final act was: decent. It didn’t fully deliver, but it didn’t disappoint either. The film as a whole was really solid tho. 7-7.5/10Oh, and I figured out the twist pretty early on. Half of it anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2017 20:32:23 GMT
Halloween (1978) 9/10
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 27, 2017 1:55:49 GMT
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Like a stream-of-consciousness version of Funny Games. It's overall a bit too oppressive for my liking, but it does its job in spades in terms of reaching new levels of unsettling human behavior. Rooker is unforgettable. Might like this more with a re-watch.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2017 10:32:19 GMT
The People Under the Stairs (1991) 8.5/10
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2017 12:02:05 GMT
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Like a stream-of-consciousness version of Funny Games. It's overall a bit too oppressive for my liking, but it does its job in spades in terms of reaching new levels of unsettling human behavior. Rooker is unforgettable. Might like this more with a re-watch. I highly recommend rewatching it ASAP. First time I saw it I liked it okay, but now after several revisits it's an all-time favorite of mine.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2017 7:18:47 GMT
Ben (1972) 6/10
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2017 16:32:58 GMT
Eyes Without a Face and Diabolique were both excellent.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2017 0:42:19 GMT
The Ring
Night of the Living Dead
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Post by Martin Stett on Oct 30, 2017 2:12:17 GMT
It Comes at Night
Post-apoc is my jam, and this doesn't disappoint. The lighting is especially wonderful, selling just how dark the darkness is. The characters are all a tad too... ugly and mean, I guess? We're not given any real sense of their humanity, just their inhumanity. There's no sense of who they were before life turned to shit. But as an oppressive thriller, this movie does its job.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2017 3:30:50 GMT
Black Christmas (1974) 10/10. Landmark of a horror movie.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2017 19:33:42 GMT
The Babadook (2014) 6.5/10
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2017 21:59:57 GMT
Carnival Of Souls (1962) 7/10
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Post by tobias on Oct 30, 2017 22:29:42 GMT
Blair Witch Project (1999) - Went in with moderately high expectations and was overwhelmed. This is definitely the best horror film since this was made. There is a lot to be said in its favor but much of it is hard to put into words. I especially enjoyed how it slowly became a study of societal disintegration within a group, the video aestehtics (which anchors it in a very certain era which this film just oozes with) and the meditative ordinarity of the scenario and staging - which is very similar to the appeal of Van Sant and at times Rohmer, the events gain additional impact because you experience, not that you could do this yourself but that you have done this yourself alalready (in this case the essence is basicly just walking through a forrest, in Elephant it's going to school, in The Green Ray it is going on holiday). It is partly a sentimentality of life (as the instinctual memory of such a banal act awakes in you and teaches you that you can do it again) and partly something much deeper and archaic, a way to reafirm being, existence itself. You film it, so it must be.
Besides all of this, it is a very well narrated and acted film. The scenario is not only believable (which is in itself not a big feat, I can go out with my camera too and go for a walk and shoot until the battery runs dry, that would be 100 % real) but it is dynamic and properly paced without losing the repition that is essential to ground it in reality. And at the same time it is real, not the persona of the characters, not the "blair witch" or even the myth but the scenario of them going out in the woods and making a film.
Aside from that some of the moments are beautiful. When they sit around in the twilight in the forest and the rest of the world is of no more concern, that's beautiful, when the rain falls on a lonely tree, when the trees on the B/W 16 mm film, only seem like black lines on the white sky, when Heather if filmed with that weird look in profile with the forest behind her, even the short moments of absolute blackness and the screams which sound so convincingly like the missing friend (though in this last case the beauty is of course darkly romantic, the conventional framing would be "disturbing", the dark beauty of it is that it serves as a memento mori and echoes the posibility that the lost friend might still be out there and well, it reminds you to be good to your friends while you can).
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Post by tobias on Oct 30, 2017 22:30:10 GMT
Carnival Of Souls (1962) 7/10 Rating is too low
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Post by speeders on Oct 31, 2017 0:18:25 GMT
Happy Death Day (2017) - 4/10. This could've been a lot of fun (and the trailer is a lot more fun and feels more creative than the movie itself) but is just too damn lazily made to become worthwhile. Skip this one.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2017 0:24:38 GMT
The Haunting (1963)- Solid character study with a very strong eerie atmosphere as a backdrop. I was a bit disappointed, but I still think it was well worth seeing.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2017 17:45:07 GMT
The Wizard of Gore (1970) 3/10
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2017 17:45:55 GMT
I just would like to add this map I found:
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 31, 2017 22:13:31 GMT
Off to a showing of Rocky Horror tonight. Happy Halloween everyone!
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Post by countjohn on Nov 1, 2017 3:34:54 GMT
The Haunting- 7/10
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