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Postby hiddenicon » Mon May 27, 2019 5:41 pm

i mean, the fuck is my opinion worth in a vacuum, right?

have you seen Piercing yet?... not really a straight up horror, but it's pretty fucked up and i liked it.
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Postby hiddenicon » Mon May 27, 2019 5:46 pm

(also, thanks for the report futurist...)
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Postby futurist » Mon May 27, 2019 5:48 pm

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) - Amicus just ain't for me. good cast in this one. decent stories. but i was pretty bored outside of the "day of the triffids" story (which it turns out ended up being directed by the director of this anthology. maybe i'll check it out)

The Black Scorpion (1957) - loved the Mexican desert setting of this, and loved the scorpion effects considering it was more stop motion rather than overlaid footage. didn't like the what savior complex but hey, it was the 50s? :roll:
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Postby futurist » Mon May 27, 2019 5:49 pm

hiddenicon wrote:(also, thanks for the report futurist...)


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Postby futurist » Wed May 29, 2019 7:08 pm

Bloody Murder (2000) - not sure why i've seen bloody murder 2 but not this one (i think i thrifted 2 on vhs way back when?) can't remember much about the second, but the first is some fine turn-of-the-millenium crystal lake slasher material. "trevor moorehouse" terrorizing teen campers in a hockey mask. it was fine, not as juvenile as other teen slashers from the time, actually well made.... how low have my standards fallen?

Us (2019) - thought this was great. only complaints are that it runs a little long, and i'm also a little sick of overrun abandoned post-apocalyptic scenarios, a la the purge/walking dead etcToggle Spoiler. will probably write more about this in the thread

Twisted Nightmare (1987) - so compared to Bloody Murder, here's a whole other style of Friday the 13th worship, including reused sets, but i dug it. nice score, kinda comforting.
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Postby futurist » Thu May 30, 2019 8:14 pm

new annabelle trailer looks dumb as hell. what's new. also playing at imax? lol
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Postby cud nylon » Mon Jun 03, 2019 1:39 pm



this might be too icky for me, cgi be damned. I'll brave it though through squeamish eyes.
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Postby Kevin McCallister » Mon Jun 03, 2019 1:51 pm

I guess Oh Susanna isn't going to be in the movie otherwise that image would have made it in the trailer.
That's the one that scared me the most as a kid.
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Postby Riverchrist » Mon Jun 03, 2019 2:11 pm

I don’t know whether this is *strictly* horror but I found it in one of the old Alfred Hitchcock-branded anthologies I had as a kid (full text PDF):

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Postby Patchouli Jim » Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:35 pm

I just finished watching House (1985) and it was not at all like I had expected. For years I had planned to watch this film, and for some reason thought it was going to be really dark and gritty. I didn't realize it starred William Kat. It has a lot of elements from other horror movies at the time - Poltergeist with the kid being sucked into this ethereal dimension for a long period of time and returning as well as that monster that jumps out of the closet seems like a few of the monsters in Poltergeist.Toggle SpoilerThe tone, however, feels like a Peter Jackson horror comedy, as do the monster costumes and puppets. The movie though that I feel it is most kindred to though in the narrative is Jacob's Ladder! A Vietnam vet struggles with his post-traumatic stress from the war, as well as the loss of a young son, and the guilt of these experiences take the form of literal demons he must face off against in order to forgive himself.Toggle Spoiler Really a weird movie, better than I had anticipated.
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Postby futurist » Wed Jun 05, 2019 10:48 am

i think the whole series is a ton of fun. each installment has nothing to do with the last and the tone is all over the place. super goofy.
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Postby Poptone » Wed Jun 05, 2019 10:50 am

Bartatua wrote:poptone post a review of riki-oh


i somehow missed this earlier.

the film's not fresh in my mind anymore but I really dug it!

i'm sure glad human bodies aren't actually that malleable

it felt very much like a video game where Riki is just progressing through the levels onto bigger and badder bosses and i'm not complaining about that
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Postby Kevin McCallister » Fri Jun 07, 2019 1:59 pm

Any of y'all see Ma yet? Can't do a search, too short of a query.
Anyway lemme know if Ma is good or great.
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Postby Mesh » Fri Jun 07, 2019 5:34 pm

House is probably the first horror movie I ever eagerly anticipated and then was disappointed by. Because it was too much funny and not enough scary.
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Postby jalapeño ranch » Fri Jun 07, 2019 5:53 pm

I'm attempting to average one horror film a day this year, and while I've had to wade through some truly terrible movies, I've come across some very pleasant surprises. A few standouts...







If anybody has some more good recs to check out, I'd be very thankful! I can also upload what I've seen if anybody else wants them.
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Postby emotional fascism » Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:32 pm

Love The Mephisto Waltz. Jacqueline Bisset chanting out to Satan topless on a bathroom floor is seared into my brain.
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Postby futurist » Sun Jun 09, 2019 10:42 pm

race with the devil rules
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Postby Peter Criss » Tue Jun 11, 2019 11:07 am

do you mind upping all 3 jalapeno? I haven't seen any of them and they all sound dope
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Postby aububs » Tue Jun 11, 2019 1:17 pm

devil times five is an absolute classic and one of the best psycho kids movies. iirc the kids kill a guy and then turn him into a snowman, one of the kids dresses up in womens clothes and puts on makeup and acts like he's gonna seduce an old man? woman gets eaten by pirhanas in the bath i think?...turns out the kids are all from a mental asylum and just kill fuckin everyone, very coolToggle Spoiler
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Postby jalapeño ranch » Tue Jun 11, 2019 1:30 pm

Peter Criss wrote:do you mind upping all 3 jalapeno? I haven't seen any of them and they all sound dope

Will up them once I get off work tonight.
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Postby Patchouli Jim » Tue Jun 11, 2019 1:33 pm

does anyone have the manitou?
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Postby Peter Criss » Tue Jun 11, 2019 1:44 pm

jalapeño ranch wrote:
Peter Criss wrote:do you mind upping all 3 jalapeno? I haven't seen any of them and they all sound dope

Will up them once I get off work tonight.


Thanks so much! No rush
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Postby jalapeño ranch » Wed Jun 12, 2019 1:20 am

Peter Criss wrote:
jalapeño ranch wrote:
Peter Criss wrote:do you mind upping all 3 jalapeno? I haven't seen any of them and they all sound dope

Will up them once I get off work tonight.


Thanks so much! No rush

All three should be up now.
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Postby Peter Criss » Wed Jun 12, 2019 9:30 am

Thanks again buddy, excited to watch
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Postby haddonfield » Wed Jun 12, 2019 10:44 am

Spooky Jim wrote:does anyone have the manitou?

seconding this.

also, just watched tales from the hood for the first time and man it's so good
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Postby ero guro vidal (aka todd) » Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:11 pm

Some micro reviews of recent watches:

Demons 2 - probably more fun than the first Demons. Lot of pieces of business that get dropped inexplicably, like asia argento's fate. It dares to not only endanger a cute child, but straight up turn him into a nasty ass demon. The zombie coming out of the t.v. bit was great, and this was the same year as the video dead. kinda had a shivers vibe to the contagion that's contained within a very modern high rise complex (if lacking all the psychosexual repression/body horror). Sick soundtrack. The only bummer is that it never has a scene that looks like the one in the women's bathroom from demons 1, where there's this pale, industrial gold lighting pouring in from some unknown location.

Lords of Chaos - not really horror, but it keeps getting praise in horror circles. it's not good and is tonally inconsistent and scattered. you think it's going to be a mock, self-aware biopic, but oscillates between that tone and trying to play it straight. And then it hits you with bursts of violence replete with horror sound drops and makes you sit with protracted scenes of stabbing (two different scenes). it gets real disturbing, but immediately undercuts that with a jarring jump to bad humor. also, kinda obnoxious that it scrubs all the race/nationalist shit from that scene. it's a movie that just doesn't want to deal with it, but it's like, then why do this story? sky ferrera is a cipher who exists just to humanize the fuck main character and make his fate sad.

The Perfection - i just didn't like this. like, it's an exploitation flick that wants to trade on subversive signifiers - a biracial lesbian romance, the survival of trauma - but really just uses it as set dressing for a dumb/ugly movie that feels like an American adaptation of one of the shittier french extremity movies from 14 years ago. i mean, rape revenge is a viable exploitation genre and amazing writers like Kier-La Janisse and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas have written very thoughtful things on the potency and power of i spit on your grave, ms. 45, etc. but, like, this thing doesn't carry that weight. it doesn't have a look to it. it doesn't feel ugly and grainy or have a point of view (visual or otherwise). it doesn't have anything to say. the different acts being different genres (protege obsession, early 90s erotic thriller, pandemic horror, torture porn) is a gimmick rather than saying something about them and just feels scattershot. I read a real dumb review about shepard trying to pull a haneke with the rewind stuff, but that's such a vacuous thing to say. haneke's use of rewind is to deliberately take away the plot's catharsis and make the viewer confront/sit with the fact that ugly violence is the mechanism through which they feel satisfaction. this movie doesn't have anything to say, and once again, the rewinding is just a gimmick. it doesn't even unspool and undo the events. it just does this as a stylized way to get to a flashback. even the final shot, which everyone talks about, is like just subpar hannibal tv show shit. watch boxing helena or audition if you want that shit to look good. oh, and we're supposed to buy marnie emancipating dear white people by orchestrating a dumb series of events that leads to her chopping off her own hand. i get that plot isn't really important in these things if style, mood and tension are, but there's none of that. it's straight up netflix algorithm genre smash-up without a voice or interest in look. it's like, black swan, hannibal season 2, high tension, the piano teacher and inside thrown in a shit blender.Toggle Spoiler

starry eyes - second watch. i mean, it's a straight-up ifc midnight version of mulholland drive with some really ugly shit in it. it's fine.
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Postby aububs » Wed Jun 12, 2019 1:43 pm

lords of chaos is so bad. is it really getting praise in horror circles? figures
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Postby ero guro vidal (aka todd) » Wed Jun 12, 2019 3:19 pm

all the horror pods i listen to seem to hype it up. i think it's bad.
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Postby haddonfield » Thu Jun 13, 2019 6:02 am

what are some movies that feel like the mangler. or like, other 90s really atmospheric stuff.
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Postby FourLegsGood » Thu Jun 13, 2019 6:08 am

In the mouth of madness?
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