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Post by babyblue on Oct 2, 2018 21:35:43 GMT
Let's do it, people! 31 horror movies in 31 days! My first entry for the 31 in 31 challenge this year is The Lodgers. I feel like this plot had potential but the film just didn't deliver. I wasn't remotely frightened at any point but I thought there were some really beautiful shots and would say it is worth watching just from that perspective. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lodgers/ |
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Post by morgan on Oct 3, 2018 0:52:14 GMT
1.) Hearts in Atlantis (2001). I've watched this several times, but was actually more emotional about it this time around. Still have a hard time with Liz Garfield in this movie. Feel as though I should feel sorrier for her plight...
Realized last night as I was watching it, that the actor who played Bobby Garfield (Anton Yelchin) was the one who died in that freak accident a few years ago. Sad.  He really did an amazing job in this role. (I remember him from the movie Odd Thomas as well.)
Just like on the SKMB, we can watch anything we personally feel is scary (I usually include a lot of films categorized as thrillers because I'm a chickenshyte LOL). I know this movie isn't "horror," but consider all SK movies fair game. I've been saving all my SK movie re-watches for this month. 
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Post by babyblue on Oct 3, 2018 14:08:31 GMT
#2 Delirium - This one was a lot of fun trying to figure out what was real and what wasn't and it even managed to drum up a few scares for me. I really thought Topher Grace did a good job playing something a bit different too.
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Post by morgan on Oct 4, 2018 0:32:05 GMT
2.) Stephanie (2017). I'm still not sure WTH I watched. Bizarre movie. Thought it would be one of those films where everything comes together and makes sense in the last 20 minutes. Not completely in this case. There was a little more information given, but I'm still confused (which is pretty much the norm for me LOL!).
It was sort of a unique storyline, especially since they only give a hint of why things are happening. There was a bit of animal stuff that always upsets me, but seems to be a prerequisite for a horror script. At first I thought the movie was going to be similar to The Girl with All the Gifts (2016), but I was wrong.
The young actress who played Stephanie (Shree Crooks) was absolutely amazing though.
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Post by morgan on Oct 4, 2018 0:39:51 GMT
3.) From Hell (2001). Re-watch. Not the greatest performances and it is entirely too long, but it's a decent movie. I need to read a few books about Jack the Ripper, since I never have.
Always nice to see a young Johnny Depp though, right Sundrop ? 
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Post by hollygolightly on Oct 4, 2018 0:40:11 GMT
morgan - I am a big chicken baby too and but I do love me some Stephen King books. Scary movies just won't get out of my head. I won't be participating in the marathon, but I'll be reading it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 0:48:13 GMT
morgan - I am a big chicken baby too and but I do love me some Stephen King books. Scary movies just won't get out of my head. I won't be participating in the marathon, but I'll be reading it. Doesn’t nessecarily have to be scary, just something that technically falls into a horror category, like all those low budget shark movies (Shark Excorcist, Frankenshark, etc.) |
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Post by morgan on Oct 4, 2018 0:49:20 GMT
morgan - I am a big chicken baby too and but I do love me some Stephen King books. Scary movies just won't get out of my head. I won't be participating in the marathon, but I'll be reading it. The movies stay in my head too, unfortunately. The bad thing about the SK adaptations is that I'll confuse facts from the books with stuff they add to the films and it's hard to separate the novel/short story from the movie unless I've recently done a re-read.
This is mostly true with the more popular adaptations - Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, Pet Sematary, The Green Mile, Carrie, Hearts in Atlantis...I'm sure there are more I should add, but those are the ones that immediately came to mind. |
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Post by morgan on Oct 4, 2018 0:52:53 GMT
morgan - I am a big chicken baby too and but I do love me some Stephen King books. Scary movies just won't get out of my head. I won't be participating in the marathon, but I'll be reading it. Doesn’t nessecarily have to be scary, just something that technically falls into a horror category, like all those low budget shark movies (Shark Excorcist, Frankenshark, etc.) |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 0:55:53 GMT
Does it count if I watched it in late September? I watched Maximum Overdrive, I had a lot of movies recorded but my parents deleted a lot of them to make space for their own shows. I’m thinking about trying to find some old cult horror movies (as in cult classic, not exclusively about cults) Killer Klowns from Outer Space is on my list, and with this weekend being four days I might be able to cram some movies in.
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Post by hollygolightly on Oct 4, 2018 0:58:32 GMT
Somethings are lodged in my brain forever: that dresser moving across the room in The Exorcist (not to mention Regan herself); all the 7 deadly sins represented in Se7en. The guy standing in the corner of the cellar in The Blair Witch Project. The skeletons in the swimming pool hole in Poltergeist! OMG: John Malkovich whispering "Mary Reilly".
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 0:59:28 GMT
Doesn’t nessecarily have to be scary, just something that technically falls into a horror category, like all those low budget shark movies (Shark Excorcist, Frankenshark, etc.) I like old horror movies with great practical effects (If you’ve seen my posts on the SKMB you might know I love to ramble about The Thing and I’ve also praised American Werewolf in London) I don’t mind gore as long as the kills are entertaining to watch like in old slashers. If the plot isn’t well thought out a horror movie at least has to have some creative ways to kill its characters. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2018 1:02:50 GMT
Somethings are lodged in my brain forever: that dresser moving across the room in The Exorcist (not to mention Regan herself); all the 7 deadly sins represented in Se7en. The guy standing in the corner of the cellar in The Blair Witch Project. The skeletons in the swimming pool hole in Poltergeist! OMG: John Malkovich whispering "Mary Reilly". The one horror movie that has truly stuck to me is Little Shop of Horrors, it might be a more light-hearted comedy horror movie but I saw parts of it at the age of three and that was enough to make me never want to watch the film again as to not reseruct the many nightmares a younger me had of Audrey the plant. |
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Post by morgan on Oct 4, 2018 1:14:59 GMT
Does it count if I watched it in late September? I watched Maximum Overdrive, I had a lot of movies recorded but my parents deleted a lot of them to make space for their own shows. I’m thinking about trying to find some old cult horror movies (as in cult classic, not exclusively about cults) Killer Klowns from Outer Space is on my list, and with this weekend being four days I might be able to cram some movies in. Well, some people are sticklers for the rules. LOL I watched the entire seventh season of American Horror Story (Cult) in the last few days of September.
An additional reason I didn't add it to my list...Several years ago it had been approved that we could include two episodes of a horror-type TV show (AHS, TWD, etc.) as one entry because they are about 45 minutes long and an hour-and-a-half is a standard movie length.
Well, for some reason, I got called out for it last year. Maybe because I had 72 entries logged for the month and was crushin' it! Ha ha. A few years ago, a member had over a hundred movies for the month (she'd just had surgery and was watching movies while recovering IIRC). It's supposed to be fun, but there are always those who take things more seriously than others.
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Post by doccreed on Oct 4, 2018 1:27:28 GMT
Somethings are lodged in my brain forever: that dresser moving across the room in The Exorcist (not to mention Regan herself); all the 7 deadly sins represented in Se7en. The guy standing in the corner of the cellar in The Blair Witch Project. The skeletons in the swimming pool hole in Poltergeist! OMG: John Malkovich whispering "Mary Reilly".
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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When Leatherface pops out of the woods and cuts up Franklin in the wheelchair. The sounds, lighting, the unexpectedness of it. |
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Post by Sundrop on Oct 4, 2018 11:43:44 GMT
3.) From Hell (2001). Re-watch. Not the greatest performances and it is entirely too long, but it's a decent movie. I need to read a few books about Jack the Ripper, since I never have.
Always nice to see a young Johnny Depp though, right Sundrop ? 
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Post by osnafrank on Oct 4, 2018 17:09:14 GMT
#4 Baskin
A Horror Film from Turkey.
A squad of unsuspecting cops go through a trapdoor to Hell when they stumble upon a Black Mass in an abandoned building.
It's an atmospheric, genuinely nightmarish Horror Movie
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Post by morgan on Oct 5, 2018 0:30:41 GMT
4.) The Babysitter (2017). I think it was fushingfeef who gave an excellent, in-depth review on this movie last year. Wasn't expecting too much, but liked it a bit more than I expected to. Campy, cheesy...fine holiday fun. 
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2018 1:21:23 GMT
3.) From Hell (2001). Re-watch. Not the greatest performances and it is entirely too long, but it's a decent movie. I need to read a few books about Jack the Ripper, since I never have.
Always nice to see a young Johnny Depp though, right Sundrop ?
And you criticized Jim Morrison for being an egocentric a*s lol. |
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Post by Sundrop on Oct 5, 2018 13:18:10 GMT
Johnny Depp is always a bonus in my book!!  And you criticized Jim Morrison for being an egocentric a§§ lol. I'm a child of the 80's....what can I say?? I like who I like. .....and I don't believe a lot of the junk the media slings around today as being wholly factual. |
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He really did an amazing job in this role. (I remember him from the movie Odd Thomas as well.)
