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Postby futurist » Sat Oct 26, 2019 2:13 am

theta wrote:i made this list for october but i haven't been able to make much of a dent in it


i haven't been following you!

it's not ~pure~ horror, but The Hitch-Hiker is a really rad movie. one of my favorites. Spider Baby should be near the top of your list too!

i'm ashamed i still haven't seen Kuroneko.. i actually started it the other night but it was too late and i fell asleep. but i've been reading a lot about kaidan and really wanna explore this corner of horror. this is a cool list: https://letterboxd.com/obscureness/list/kaidan/
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Postby futurist » Sat Oct 26, 2019 2:17 am

haven't seen Blood Sisters but i LOVE roberta findlay. missed a lecture/presentation on her a few weeks back, very bummed.
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Postby rixx » Sat Oct 26, 2019 7:03 pm

Anyone watch The Autopsy of Jane Doe? It’s got really strong reviews and stars Brian Cox so I’m in, gonna throw it on
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Postby concerning » Sat Oct 26, 2019 7:09 pm

horror neophyte post incoming: holy shit rosemary's baby was actually the scariest thing i've seen in a while...i expected it to be good but old and surpassed by its influences and it was completely gripping and terrifying the whole way through. the combo of loss of agency and gaslighting w/ revulsion at your own body and being trapped in a relationship......yikes!!!!

i actually have a lot less respect for ari aster after seeing this lol.
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Postby shacky » Sat Oct 26, 2019 7:15 pm

RIXX wrote:Anyone watch The Autopsy of Jane Doe? It’s got really strong reviews and stars Brian Cox so I’m in, gonna throw it on


this is dece yeah
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Postby futurist » Sun Oct 27, 2019 4:27 am

concerning wrote:horror neophyte post incoming: holy shit rosemary's baby was actually the scariest thing i've seen in a while...i expected it to be good but old and surpassed by its influences and it was completely gripping and terrifying the whole way through. the combo of loss of agency and gaslighting w/ revulsion at your own body and being trapped in a relationship......yikes!!!!

i actually have a lot less respect for ari aster after seeing this lol.


don't know if i understand or agree with the aster comment,

but a friend of mine did a very special piece on female autonomy and births & abortions as represented in horror recently i can link u to

edit: i didin't realize u said LESS respect for aster lol. i don't like him much but i'm still curious what u meant
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Postby concerning » Sun Oct 27, 2019 9:00 am

please link me, i'd love to read it!

i just hadn't realized to what extent both his films lift from RB, Hereditary is almost a straight remake plot-wise and treads the same territory w/r/t deception/losing one's grip on reality/revulsion from your child while Midsommar basically updates the John Cassavetes/Mia Farrow dynamic for 2019 and maps that relationship onto The Wicker Man w/ a dash of Hostel. not to mention it literally features a scene where a character is drugged and used in an impregnation ritual while a bunch of naked old people stand in a circle.

i don't mind homages or pastiches at all, and obviously there are a million films that use Exorcist or Dawn of the Dead as a template but the specificity of the similarities to Rosemary's Baby makes the high minded presentation ring a little hollower to me. the superficial similarities in plot in aster's movies would be fine but for the straight lifting of themes and character dynamics as well.
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Postby dan » Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:22 pm

Oct. 26
Back from Hell (1993)
A priest comes to the aid of his friend, an actor who has recently returned from Hollywood. He uncovers a massive satanic uprising taking place and must put an end to it before the entire world is overtaken.

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Fun little homemade splatterfest, the priest and actor are great and have some truly bizarre line readings. The plot is kind of just an excuse to do whatever gory setpieces they can think of (a lot of animal entrails in this), but the They Live style streetlevel conspiracy angle adds a bit more. Just fun ideas like Satan showing up in the body of a dead cop and he talks like this guy from ROTJ, a demonic hand bursts forth from the bible and grabs the priest's dick, and they find a chainsaw hanging off some lawn decoration which leads to maybe the dumbest kill I've ever seen. All this done with no budget whatsoever and some stock sci-fi music playing almost non-stop. Plus the first 30 minutes of endtime prophecy and extreme torture all takes place underneath this Spuds McKenzie poster. B

Oct. 27
Blades (1987)
Mutilated bodies are showing up on the greens of Tall Grass Country Club. The owner looks to quickly solve the matter for fear of ruining a big upcoming tournament. But the recently hired course pro soon uncovers that not all is as it seems and the killer may not even be human.

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Jaws on a golf course. It's surprisingly not that goofy (but still plenty of levity) nor is it particularly gory. Really just about everything is done right to support and make work the premise that a lawnmower has come to life, gone rogue, and is shredding people on the links. Pretty relaxing watch, although the final act of hunting the mower is a bit long and tedious and I was hoping they would do it up a bit more with some of the kills. B-
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Postby ashtrayheart » Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:37 pm

shacky wrote:
RIXX wrote:Anyone watch The Autopsy of Jane Doe? It’s got really strong reviews and stars Brian Cox so I’m in, gonna throw it on


this is dece yeah

second

some real good spooks
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Postby hiddenicon » Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:44 pm

Experiencing a little burnout for some reason... may scale this back to 50 next year. Got a bit busy with work and other things coming down the home stretch, so the couple extra days at the end of September came in handy. Not sure I would have made it otherwise. Up to 95, but need to bring my list up to speed here:

59. Little Monsters
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I liked this one a little more than I expected too. Zomedies are a bit played out, but the cast (and I normally despise Gad... he's used well here) really deliver and it ended up being fairly self-aware. One of the better (intentional) horror-comedies I've watched in a while.

60. Gwen
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This one was certainly pitched as a horror film in its marketing, but it's more a bleak-as-fuck period drama in horror clothing. I've had a few of those this go around. Gwen was a little sluggish but the atmosphere it creates is pure folk-horror and, much like Anya Taylor-Joy a few years back with The Witch, it's a bit of a coming out party for Eleanor Worthington-Cox. Not an easy watch. Fairly miserable. Still, it's goddamned gorgeous and it accomplishes what it sets out to do.

61. Wax Mask
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Back to pure schlock. Italian remake of House of Wax sorta kinda. Originally meant as Fulci's final film, but he croaked in pre-production and a first timer with a background in SFX came on board last minute and delivered. Shame he didn't direct much more (two other movies, one in 2004 and another in 2013) because his enthusiasm is evident in the look of the film. Skin, blood, inventive visual design... the usual suspects. Again, it's schlock and it goes off the rails entirely by the finale, but a real fun watch if you just want something energetic.

62. The Strangeness AKA Terror Cave
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Sorta loved this dumb little proto-Descent. Even the opening credits brought some game. Really, I am curious if Neil Marshall watched and unintentionally stored this deep in his subconscious, as there are A LOT of similar story beats, just done in a far more amateur and microbudgeted way (quite a few paper mache cave walls). Spelunkers get trapped in a cave with a monster intent on killing them, forcing them deeper into the cave in an effort to find a way out. They come across evidence of previous victims from years before, stumble across a chamber filled with bones, resort to a lot of lighting by red flare, turn on each other. Sound familiar? Quite liked it. It's an odd duck.

63. Rapture (1979)
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Speaking of odd ducks, fuck. The hell was this? Has a lot of support from a vocal sect of film fans, but I just don't know. Yeah, fun ending and fun set-up, but that middle section and the interminable narration and a million other quirks really stunted my enjoyment of this one. Not even really sure how to summarize the plot... filmmaker befriends weirdo who has a story to tell that leads down a weird rabbit hole. Has a very filmschool, arthouse wankery to it, but even with my misgivings I did find a certain respect for it by the end.

64. Thesis
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This is one of my faves. Spanish thriller about a grad student who investigates a possible snuff film only to get pulled into a Hitchcockian web. Not a terribly original premise, but it's all in the execution. Alejandro Amenábar's debut. If you haven't seen it, track it down. It'd make a great double feature with Spoorloos.

65. Amsterdamned
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Really on a roll here. First time with this one (kicking off Sunday with some Full Moon releases) and it was a fucking hoot. Scuba killer terrorizes Amsterdam. High-action giallo that's too busy tossing out some insane set-pieces to worry much about a ton of plot. The boat chase at the center of the movie is one of the most suicidal looking things I've ever seen in a movie. How the hell was that remotely safe? I was hooked from the opening kill.

66. Seedpeople
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Well, they can't all be slamdunks, though this incredibly stupid movie has some charm and off the wall monster design. Essentially just a straight up Invasion of the Bodysnatchers rip-off, right down to it's framing device, but with the added bonus of rubber suit monsters. Extra points for the clearly adult woman playing what was supposed to be a weirdo 13-year old? Is that a Critters ball?

67. Necropolis (1986)
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I could have posted another screencap... THE screencap, but I'll keep it clean. You can look it up yourself. You can probably skip the movie. It's all downhill after the opening dance sequence. A witch from the 17th century arrives in 80's LA to rejuvenate and raise some minions. It's all pretty dull but if you're into crazy dubbing and dark alleyways where sets should be, give it a shot I guess. Another one nowhere near as good as its poster.

68. Cannibal Terror (1980)
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That guy... up top there... he's one of your head cannibals. This is all so pathetic and embarrassing and so, of course, a great time. Sean Baker (Tangerine, Florida Project) compared this to The Room on Letterboxd and he isn't wrong. It feels so bizarre. Just everything about it and it all just piles up so fast (from a "the fuck are they doing?" standpoint) that I think this may cry out for a rewatch sometime soon. Everything from editing to set dressing to music choice. Everything. Just layers overlapping layers overlapping layers. Pure lunacy. This should be in a goddamned museum.

69. Totem (1999)
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Crazy night continues. I think I liked this one a bit more than Dan. Maybe not "liked". I don't know what. Yeah, the sway cam is the first sign of just how rough things will get (well, the opening credits are the first sign, but following seasick-o-vision cements it). Really, this is a treatise on the illusion of choice. Somehow, all the dudes keep their shirts on for this one. Dave Decoteau's Cabin in the Woods.

70. Ghostkeeper
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Stranded in a snow lodge with a nutjob and a wendingo. That's it. Great use of location. Very patient (some might say boring) set-up. Not a lost classic by any means but perhaps a little under seen. Cool ambient score. Just a confident lil' horror film from the early 80's.

Back to it. I have another 16 ready to go that'll I'll continue posting tomorrow or something.
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Postby hiddenicon » Sun Oct 27, 2019 7:34 pm

Guess I'll do a few more.

71. City of the Living Dead
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Another rewatch of a fave (and one I've posted before). Still love it. No movie pukes its innards out and bleeds from the eyes quite like this one.

72. The Nesting
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Haunted house/ ghost revenge movie with a way too specific plot and shaky lead performance. Has some stuff to recommend for sure... bizarre mood throughout, wackadoo dream sequences, a cool scene on the roof of an even cooler mansion. Perfectly fine and mostly effective placeholder. Again, I think I'm just hitting some burnout (another reason I'm scaling this back next year... feel like I'm wasting some enjoyment).

73. Mansion of the Doomed
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Fairly miserable experience, notable mainly for an early part for Lance Henrikson, some early Rick Baker FX, and its shameless riffing on Eyes Without a Face (but flipped around... surgeon tries to bring his blind daughter's sight back by stealing people's eyes). Yeah, it's a mostly miserable watch.

74. The Bloodstained Shadow
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Mostly a giallo (unsolved murder kicks off string of murders decades later as an investigation connects the dots). Looks nice. Some cool kills. Easy twist you can see coming early but its all executed well in the end. Jesus, my blurbing fingers are tired.

75. Killer Workout AKA Aerobicide
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Schlock classic and for good reason. It's not Death Spa, but it has a Z-grade charm and stupidity that delivers if youre into that sorta thing. The kills really lack after the opening. Absurdly lazy. The killer uses a giant safety pin to off people. Borderline pornographic aerobics classes.

76. Lyle
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Short little Rosemary's Baby riff that doesn't overstay its welcome and gets the job done. Not quite mumblecore but it has that superindie vibe. Extremely simple premise with a satisfying conclusion.

77. Prince of Darkness (1986)
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One of my few theatrical screening this year... had planned to see more, but I think after I watch the new 4K scan of The Fog next week, that'll do it (going to miss a double feature of Piranha and Humanoids From the Deep... too busy). This was also a new 4K scan and looked breathtaking. Such a great movie. Easily a top 25 horror movie for me.

78. Wounds
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This was a big step back for the director after his debut ghost story Under the Shadow. Can barely believe it's the same director. A miscast Armie Hammer finds a cell phone that goes all Ringu on him. Zazie Beetz again gets annoyed by the shitty men in her life. Dakota Johnson wets herself. Weird shit happens because, you know, horror movie. It's one of those. Sorta liked the ending but not enough to save it. Here's hoping for a better follow-up from Babak Anvari... I'd hate to see him flame out so quickly.

79. Nothing But the Night
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Poor man's Wicker Man, right down to Christopher Lee facin' down the fire. This one went down easy and had a solid ending... goddamn, I'm getting pretty broken record with this shit. I don't know, guys... Peter Cushing. Young Michael Gambon. Maybe evil kids. English countryside. 70's. Horror movie.

80. The Lift
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Killer elevator. Dick Maas does about as well with that premise as you could hope for. I mean, how threatening can a killer elevator really be? Maas, amusingly, remade this in 2001 with James Marsden, Naomi Watts, and Michael Ironside. Someone go watch that one and tell me what they think.
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Postby odilon redon » Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:10 am



first reaction: :?

after watching trailer and seeing previous credits of the director: :ahuh:

plus its not like the og american remake is good at all
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Postby Poptone » Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:27 am

Man I haven't been posting updates at all. Rapid-fire rundown!

12. Lake Mungo (2008) 3.5/5
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I dunno; maybe this one has been too hyped-up over the years and I set expectations higher than they should be. Enjoyable but not sure it had anything super profound to say, and I didn't find it scary. Like, at all.

13. The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962) 2.5/5
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Surprising subject matter given the time frame, what with a necrophiliac doc playing some very dangerous role play games. Never as trashy as it needs to be; treads the line between straight-laced gothic horror and lurid pulp but never nails either.

14. Dark Shadows (2012) 2.5/5
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Rewatched. This is real real bad but honest talk I crush so fucking hard on Eva Green in this that I can't objectively value it. Her and Jackie Earle Haley (sp?) are the only ones who came to this shoot prepared to work.

15. In the Tall Grass (2019) 1.5/5
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This was a film.

16. House of 1000 Corpses (2003) 3/5
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First rewatch of this ever. I used to HATE it. I don't now. Progress?

17. The Devil's Rejects (2005) 2.5/5
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Again, first rewatch in a decade-plus. This should be so much fun but the pacing is...way off. How you gonna hire Trejo and then give him NOTHING to do?
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Postby dan » Mon Oct 28, 2019 7:07 pm

Oct. 28
Deadly Love (1987)
Two love-sick teenagers named Buddy and Ann decide to elope, but Buddy is murdered. Twenty years later, Ann uses black magic to summon long-dead Buddy to her bedroom every night until local teenagers drive her to suicide. When Ann's niece inherits the home, she's plagued by violent teenagers, a homicidal maniac and a walking dead man - all the nightmares that come with the house.

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Very peaceful movie with a slightly weird (hate to say Lynchian but nothing else is coming to mind) vibe. The pace is glacial; the whole first 45 minutes probably would have been the first 5 minutes of any other movie and the rest isn't exactly action packed, mostly some rowdy teens getting scared by a barn. I liked the first half and then really zoned out hard on the second, very little happens but it was nice to chill out to this and admire the woods while listening to the same song 18 times. C+
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Postby rixx » Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:39 pm

ashtrayheart wrote:
shacky wrote:
RIXX wrote:Anyone watch The Autopsy of Jane Doe? It’s got really strong reviews and stars Brian Cox so I’m in, gonna throw it on


this is dece yeah

second

some real good spooks

I did like this a lot. Got a little silly for a while but i think the twist redeemed it. Also Emile hirsch needs to stop being in movies

Anyway I’m gonna watch this tonight

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Postby FourLegsGood » Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:43 pm

Joe Bob's Halloween Hootenanny is on Shudder now. He covers Halloween, Halloween IV, and Halloween V.
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Postby rixx » Mon Oct 28, 2019 9:42 pm

nvm watching “Await Further Instructions”
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Postby futurist » Tue Oct 29, 2019 2:21 am

how do i have zero recollection of texas chainsaw 3-d. i think i've seen it twice.

i might try it again and try giving it a break...
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Postby jalapeño ranch » Tue Oct 29, 2019 2:38 am

I'm three movies away from hitting my 365 horror movie mark and also please kill me why did I decide to do this?
Celiac Cruz wrote:This one has no real explanation:
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Postby it's the suspense that gets me » Tue Oct 29, 2019 2:45 am

texas chainsaw 3d has a scene where trey songz listens to trey songz

it's not 'good' but i think it's easily the most fun sequel in the franchise after the second film
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Postby light rail coyote » Tue Oct 29, 2019 4:07 pm

theta wrote:i made this list for october but i haven't been able to make much of a dent in it


same. between being busy and getting sick this year was kind of a wash for me.

oh well.
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Postby dan » Tue Oct 29, 2019 6:37 pm

Oct. 29
Screaming for Sanity: Truth or Dare 3 (1998)
Mike Strauber, the copper-masked madman of Truth or Dare? is back... And this time, it's for real.

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Back to the madness again, this time things center on Clive, a grief-stricken husband who lost his wife and son in the rampage from the first movie, and Dr. Hess who failed to stop the rampage in the first place. Clive pays hookers to cut his chest up while he boils over with disdain and Hess is being hounded by people thinking he's behind a new rash of slayings. This takes a total 180 from Wicked Games: Truth or Dare 2: the rage is now mostly focused inward toward personal failure rather than angrily out at the rest of the world, and the violence is targeted at the people exploiting tragedy rather than...uh...women in general. The sex has also been drastically toned down and is sort of done with a storytelling purpose even. Coming from the constant delusions and mindless butchery last installment this almost functions as a real (albeit zero-budget) movie. But to balance that good is the bad that the uninhibited zaniness of the first two movies is almost totally gone, and that actually too much of the movie is just basic plot progression with scenes that could have been copy-pasted from any other movie. I think if things would have just focused fully on Clive this could have all been avoided as the Hess stuff never really clicked. Still feel like I need to complete the journey with the remaining two films, but as of right now I can't find them. Also do want to praise the knockoff Metallica song in this that has a spoken word section where the singer reads the encyclopedia entry for AIDS. C
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Postby futurist » Wed Oct 30, 2019 6:09 am

WOW!! WOWWWW

why did nobody tell me that The Witch Who Came From The Sea wasn't a period piece about a witch??? (i'm not super drawn to those things.)Toggle Spoiler

fucking amazing.

Night Tide meets A Woman's Torment (if i had so describe it for fun.)

exploitation/video nasty that doesn't rely on the exploitative or the nasty.

would a brilliant film, can't believe i put it off for so long.
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Postby Disko aka Disco » Wed Oct 30, 2019 8:43 am

RIXX wrote:nvm watching “Await Further Instructions”

I wanna see this and girl on the 3rd floor this week..
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Postby dan » Wed Oct 30, 2019 5:30 pm

Oct. 30
Horror (2003)(I imagine it's impossible to google this so I'm linking the IMDB)
This visually arresting chiller concerns a group of runaway teens that escape from a drug rehab and encounter demonic forces in a rural farmhouse.

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I could do at least 5 more goat gifs that's how much he's in the movie (the goat provider is thanked in the opening credits even) and how much he crushes it every scene. When the movie's not on the goat it's on these mushroom popping teens wandering aimlessly around the farmhouse, cut against flashbacks to a revival preacher poisoning his daughter inbetween snowy sermons with his congregation of freaks, cut against a 68-year old Amazing Kreskin doing his act dressed as a priest named Salo, who's name he makes everyone shout a hundred times after he mentally paralyzes someone. It sounds like the best movie ever from all that but then there's all the boring bits which are much harder to describe and are mostly just wandering around, waiting, or stumbling past zombies in the snow. I appreciate the ambition and tone on display here and I'll check out some of the director's other horror movies sometime, including the one starring Vincent Pastore. C+
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81. Strange Behavior
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100% serviceable way to kill ninety minutes. Watched this one a couple times over the past decade. Mad scientists dick around with the brains of teens to turn them into mind-controlled slasher villains. Soundtrack by Tangerine Dream, The Birthday Party, and Lou Christie. Never watched it back to back with the director's bizarro 50's sci-fi homage (and second film in a cancelled thematic trilogy) Strange Invaders. I prefer it to Behavior, though this is the much more sturdily built film. Laughlin only made one more movie after Strange Invaders, the 1986 Jodie Foster/John Lithgow movie Mesmerized... can anyone tell me if that's worth my time?

82. Who Can Kill a Child?
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Another rewatch and a favorite...though if you've yet to see it, do yourself a favor and get the shorter cut. I watched the longer version for the first time, and the already fucked-up visuals of actual human atrocity that runs under the opening credits is padded out to about 3 times its original length. Bit of a buzz kill for an otherwise perfectly executed take on the killer kids subgenre. Bad child actors have ruined many a horror film, but this one is impeccably cast (the adults maybe a bit less so.) Great mix of nausea and glee when it comes to the answer to the titular quandary. Such a barren, hopeless atmosphere to the whole thing while still maintaining an exhilaration factor. Tough tightrope act... wobbles a few times but still pulls it off with gusto.

83. The House That Screamed
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First time. Won't be the last. Decided to watch back-to-back with Who Can Kill a Child as they're both from director Narciso Ibanez Serrador (a director who just didn't make enough features, though apparently found a pretty solid career in TV... more on that in a moment). Lands somewhere between Picnic at Hanging Rock and Suspiria (the vibe and dinged up visuals of the former, the giallo and genre conventions of the latter). Killer at a Victorian-era school for wayward girls. Feels a solid decade younger than it is. The horror is doled out frugally, then when it arrives it's stylish and confident. Just a great, lived in horror movie with plenty of those ASMRy perks... rainstorms, dark corridors, candle lit murder. It's a bit soapy at times (in the best ways) and could easily get by excised of its non-horror elements as just a solid drama. One of the better first watches of this year's hundo.

84. To Let
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A revisit as well (from the red envelope days) but I only remembered the barest of details. While looking through Serrador's filmography (he of the previous two movies above), I noticed he first came to fame with a Spanish television anthology series called "Historias para no dormir" (Stories to Keep You Awake), directing and writing all 29 episodes from 1966 to 1982 (Who Can Kill A Child and House That Screamed were made in between all those). Anyway, that series had a brief revival in the mid-2000's with 6 feature length episodes. This was one of 'em, a dopey but fun little movie about a deranged landlady who attempts to rent out her building by force, keeping her new tenants prisoner. It's all super silly stuff, but a lot of fun regardless. Director Jaume Balagueró clearly used this as a trial run for the film that'd gain him some international fame with "Rec" the following year.

85. The Baby's Room
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Another rewatch and another from "Stories to Keep You Awake" revival. This one is a bit better regarded than "To Let" (basically a story of new parents accidentally discovering a window into supernatural shenanigans via their baby monitor) though I found it just a bit padded out. Its highs are pretty solid though and it has some effectively chilling visuals (that screencap above looks like a lo-fi premonition of Mike Flanagan's career). And, burying the lead, the director is no slouch himself...Álex de la Iglesia has a few minor genre classics under his belt (understatement) with Day of the Beast, Witching and Bitching, The Last Circus, etc., all of which you should check out as well.

86. Madhouse (1981)
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Don't know why I found this one so unpleasant (might be the graphic animal deaths), but this mean little fucker didn't sit as well with me as it does other horror fans. Standard issue psycho revenge story delivered in a very non-standard way (largely in the jaws of a demonic Rottweiler). The shift of tones from zany to vicious mixed with a twisty narrative just didn't land for me, though I was amused by the performance of the head psychopath and the whole movie just radiates energy. I don't know... I probably just wasn't in the right mindset. I can imagine revisiting this one more favorably in the future.

87. All the Colors of the Night
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I've bitched and moaned about my imperviousness to the charms of most straight-forward giallos on these lists for a couple of years now. Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome, but I'm starting to really come around. Sorta loved this satanic twist on all the old tropes. Sex, murder, black masses, nonsensical plotting (though this one seemed pretty streamlined by the giallo yardstick). Edwige Fenech seems custom ordered for this shit, and she and all the other pretty boys and girls blend nicely with the English vistas, complete with old castles and mod designer duds. Such beautiful transcendent trash, this one. A new fave.

88. Island of the Fishmen AKA Screamers
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And so now I'm chasing down more Sergio Martino films, leading me to fall face first into Island of the Fishmen. If Humanoids of the Deep fucked an old-school voodoo zombie movie, this'd be it. With Joseph Cotten and, thankfully, far less rape. What a weird goddamned movie this is... Island of Doctor Moreau that has itself been Moreau-ed with other genre affects. Sort of loved it, though I'm a little ashamed to admit that the studio mandated, tacked-on opening (meant to up the film's gore and Cameron Mitchell quota) is probably my favorite part....much like the studio interference that made Humanoids so memorable, it has a zeal to it the rest of the film lacks. Luckily, the rest of the movie makes up for it in a milkshake of sheer crazy plot developments and rubber monsters.

89. Torso (1980)
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More Martino. This is his best known film and is pretty much straight giallo, no chaser. And it fucking rocks. An hour of set-up with some great (jesus, i'm going to say it again, aren't I?) set pieces leading to a final act that's essentially a single location cat-and-mouse chase that is genuinely tense and, again, bursting with style. And with this, Martino is becoming a quick favorite and I can't wait to delve into his other stuff (though, as it turns out, our paths already crossed thanks to my love of schlock sci-fi... hello "2019: After the Fall of NY" and "Hands of Steel").

90. Paganini Horror
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Another first timer. Saw this one on the release schedule for upcoming remastered blu rays and thought I'd jump the gun and watch a shit analog transfer, the way God intended. An all girl rock band awakens a violin playing demon and then I felt like I was Robotripping so I'm not exactly sure what. Such a beautiful embarrassment. Happy to see this one will find a new audience. Looking at the world around us, we deserve it.

Got one last update I'll throw up tomorrow (not changing the phrasing on that). About to watch number 100 right now. :)
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Postby FourLegsGood » Wed Oct 30, 2019 9:20 pm

So far this October... mostly normie stuff

Candyman
The Beyond
Nightmare on Elm Street IV
Nightmare on Elm Street V
Nightmare on Elm Street VI
The Old Dark House
The House That Dripped Blood
Twins of Evil
Halloween
The Exorcist III
Torso
Suspiria (2019)
The Ghoul
The Pit and the Pendulum
Ice Cream Man
Ma
The Haunted Strangler
The Bride and Beast
Cat People
Patrick
Dial M for Murder
The Convent
Santa Sangre
Carnival of Souls
Brain Damage
Two Thousand Maniacs
Bucket of Blood
Godzilla
Color Me Blood Red
Orphan
Deep Red
Cutting Class
Popcorn
Motel Hell
The Stepfather
Friday the 13th, pt III
War of the Worlds (1953)
Barbarian Sound System
Never Sleep Again
Crystal Lake Memories
Document of the Dead
Escape Room
Retro Puppet Master
The Invitation
Viy
Diabolique
Eyes Without A Face
Tusk
Eli Roth's History of Horror
The Lodger
Firestarter
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Postby FourLegsGood » Wed Oct 30, 2019 9:24 pm

No possible way to break 100 but maybe I can break 60 by tomorrow night
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Postby Rainbow Battle Kid » Thu Oct 31, 2019 8:36 am

hit 17 yesterday, probably 18 if we watch somethin tonight

am I crazy for thinking Carnival Of Souls feels like an influence on Silent Hill? (and Lynch obv)
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Postby concerning » Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:40 am

Rainbow Battle Kid wrote:hit 17 yesterday, probably 18 if we watch somethin tonight

am I crazy for thinking Carnival Of Souls feels like an influence on Silent Hill? (and Lynch obv)


i just watched carnival of souls and definitely got this vibe!!

just watched jason x on 35mm, that movie is a hoot. fixing to hit 30 for the month unless i can squeeze one more in today somehow before halloween 3.
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