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Post by Sundrop on Oct 5, 2018 13:24:13 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/This is a great idea. We can post our movies here, and then easily copy them to the SKMB when it reopens!!! |
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Post by Sundrop on Oct 5, 2018 13:27:48 GMT
Sunny's list so far:
1. The Nun~ (New for Me)
The latest in The Conjuring series relating to the Warrens and their work with the paranormal.
I really enjoyed the story and the scare factor was just enough. You have to pay attention to the end to get how it relates to the Warrens.
I'm giving it 5 out of 5 stars just because I love this particular series of movies and all things relating to Ed & Lorraine Warren.
2. It Follows ~ (New for Me)
Different little twist on sexually transmitted disease. It was worth the watch, but not sure I'd watch it again.
3 out of 5 stars.
3. The Breed ~ (New for Me)
Something about integrating vampires into human society, with a renegade vampire who opposes the action.
I usually love a vampire flick, but this one didn't do it for me. Too much government spy junk involved.
1 out of 5 stars.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2018 16:40:23 GMT
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. Yes there’s nothing wrong with liking Johnny Depp, I’m just getting back at you for saying quote “I like my heroes to be more real” and then talking about how much you like Johnny Depp movies over here. There are plenty of talented celebrities who aren’t very nice people, like Axl Rose, who is at least a celebrity we can both agree on based on your GNR thread on the SKMB. |
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Post by Sundrop on Oct 5, 2018 17:14:38 GMT
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. Yes there’s nothing wrong with liking Johnny Depp, I’m just getting back at you for saying quote “I like my heroes to be more real” and then talking about how much you like Johnny Depp movies over here. There are plenty of talented celebrities who aren’t very nice people, like Axl Rose, who is at least a celebrity we can both agree on based on your GNR thread on the SKMB. I like Axl too. Probably wouldn't like to hang out with him. Creative minds in general tend to be a bit odd, and that can be perceived as not being very nice. Axl does seem to have his bipolar disorder under control at the moment, so that's good. They were amazing in concert last summer. |
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Post by morgan on Oct 5, 2018 23:45:35 GMT
5.) Creep 2 (2017). During the first 5 minutes, I thought this was going to be really bad. It turned around and was actually quite good. Didn't like the ambiguous ending, but I suppose it was for the purpose of guaranteeing Creep part 3. Side note - there's a full frontal nudity scene of Mark Duplass. Ewwww. 
I liked it almost as much as the first one (which was a rec from Sigmund a few years ago for the marathon). Looked up the ratings on IMDb and they were close - 6.3/10 for the first one and 6.4/10 for the second.
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Post by morgan on Oct 5, 2018 23:58:48 GMT
6.) The Village (2004). Re-watch for probably the fourth time. Not sure why I keep watching this movie, because I don't think it's that great.
Not a huge fan of M. Night Shyamalan's work. Except for The Sixth Sense (1999) obviously. And also Split (2016) was excellent. I want to re-watch that one soon.
(I miss Skimom! She calls him Shamalamadingdong or something like that. (rofl) )
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2018 1:13:36 GMT
What are some good older underrated horror movies? Anything 60s-90s would be good.
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Post by morgan on Oct 6, 2018 1:16:12 GMT
What are some good older underrated horror movies? Anything 60s-90s would be good.  |
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Post by hollygolightly on Oct 6, 2018 1:45:59 GMT
Fun! I'll watch you guys watch and make some suggestions! @wayoftheredpanda : old school horror - The Exorcist (my best friend had to have therapy to be able to sleep again after we sneaked and watched it on a movie channel in the early 80s); the original Poltergeist was great in its time - the scares of watching it at 13 with my best friend were great; Texas Chainsaw Massacre of course; oh - without googling this is hard: what was the one with the people discovering the Necronomican  Book of the Dead in that cabin: oh! I got it: The Evil Dead. Halloween *the original* and Amityville Horror (original) were great. When I was 10 my mom took me and my cousins to the drive in to see Jaws and Amityville Horror. HA! What was she thinking? I didn't sleep well for years. I had a crawl space in my closet. Terrified me. Phantasm. From the 70s: Rosemary's Baby; Let's Scare Jessica to Death; That'll keep you busy for a bit - if you trust my opinion. The commercial from Alien in the 70s gave me bad dreams.. I highly recommend finding a thinny and just going back to 1977 for a few years. Those were the days! Bring your roller skates. I loved From Hell, as well as Sleepy Hollow. As with Michael Jackson, so Johnny Depp (on a different level). Media is all about smear and fear. I pay it no mind. Jim Morrison was handsome and arrogant. But I still like him. Though I hated the movie The Doors. Terrible. My oldest daughter would tell you Wizard of Oz and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory were scary. Flying monkeys and Oompa Loompas did her in. Also: morgan : I took my oldest and her best friend to see The Village - her best friend, Teresa, was like: "What? I don't get it? " We had to explain it to her. She was a little bit blondish. I really like M Knight Shamalamadingdong (miss our skimom2 - she's on facebook some - working hard and going to school - she's amazing) Ok - I'm only 1 1/2 glasses into the Chardonnay, but I'm chatty. Wish you all were here. Does that song make you want to cry? It does me, every time. |
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Post by Sundrop on Oct 6, 2018 2:02:00 GMT
Fun! I'll watch you guys watch and make some suggestions! @wayoftheredpanda : old school horror - The Exorcist (my best friend had to have therapy to be able to sleep again after we sneaked and watched it on a movie channel in the early 80s); the original Poltergeist was great in its time - the scares of watching it at 13 with my best friend were great; Texas Chainsaw Massacre of course; oh - without googling this is hard: what was the one with the people discovering the Necronomican Book of the Dead in that cabin: oh! I got it: The Evil Dead. Halloween *the original* and Amityville Horror (original) were great. When I was 10 my mom took me and my cousins to the drive in to see Jaws and Amityville Horror. HA! What was she thinking? I didn't sleep well for years. I had a crawl space in my closet. Terrified me. Phantasm. From the 70s: Rosemary's Baby; Let's Scare Jessica to Death; That'll keep you busy for a bit - if you trust my opinion. The commercial from Alien in the 70s gave me bad dreams.. I highly recommend finding a thinny and just going back to 1977 for a few years. Those were the days! Bring your roller skates. I loved From Hell, as well as Sleepy Hollow. As with Michael Jackson, so Johnny Depp (on a different level). Media is all about smear and fear. I pay it no mind. Jim Morrison was handsome and arrogant. But I still like him. Though I hated the movie The Doors. Terrible. My oldest daughter would tell you Wizard of Oz and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory were scary. Flying monkeys and Oompa Loompas did her in. Also: morgan : I took my oldest and her best friend to see The Village - her best friend, Teresa, was like: "What? I don't get it? " We had to explain it to her. She was a little bit blondish. I really like M Knight Shamalamadingdong (miss our skimom2 - she's on facebook some - working hard and going to school - she's amazing) Ok - I'm only 1 1/2 glasses into the Chardonnay, but I'm chatty. Wish you all were here. Does that song make you want to cry? It does me, every time.Yep, the song reminds me so much of my brother.....it's been 20 years, and sometimes I still bawl like a baby when I think if him. He loved Halloween and scary movies as much as I do and we used to try to see who could scare who the most. Yeah, I've always been twisted. f010 |
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Post by hollygolightly on Oct 6, 2018 2:15:26 GMT
Oh Sundrop - I know you do! It's so good that you and your brother were close. It's a loss for you, for sure. But such love! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2018 2:23:13 GMT
Fun! I'll watch you guys watch and make some suggestions! @wayoftheredpanda : old school horror - The Exorcist (my best friend had to have therapy to be able to sleep again after we sneaked and watched it on a movie channel in the early 80s); the original Poltergeist was great in its time - the scares of watching it at 13 with my best friend were great; Texas Chainsaw Massacre of course; oh - without googling this is hard: what was the one with the people discovering the Necronomican Book of the Dead in that cabin: oh! I got it: The Evil Dead. Halloween *the original* and Amityville Horror (original) were great. When I was 10 my mom took me and my cousins to the drive in to see Jaws and Amityville Horror. HA! What was she thinking? I didn't sleep well for years. I had a crawl space in my closet. Terrified me. Phantasm. From the 70s: Rosemary's Baby; Let's Scare Jessica to Death; That'll keep you busy for a bit - if you trust my opinion. The commercial from Alien in the 70s gave me bad dreams.. I highly recommend finding a thinny and just going back to 1977 for a few years. Those were the days! Bring your roller skates. I loved From Hell, as well as Sleepy Hollow. As with Michael Jackson, so Johnny Depp (on a different level). Media is all about smear and fear. I pay it no mind. Jim Morrison was handsome and arrogant. But I still like him. Though I hated the movie The Doors. Terrible. My oldest daughter would tell you Wizard of Oz and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory were scary. Flying monkeys and Oompa Loompas did her in. Also: morgan : I took my oldest and her best friend to see The Village - her best friend, Teresa, was like: "What? I don't get it? " We had to explain it to her. She was a little bit blondish. I really like M Knight Shamalamadingdong (miss our skimom2 - she's on facebook some - working hard and going to school - she's amazing) Ok - I'm only 1 1/2 glasses into the Chardonnay, but I'm chatty. Wish you all were here. Does that song make you want to cry? It does me, every time. Thanks Holly, I’m looking for underated movies though, I’ve seen or heard of all of the movies you mentioned. I’m trying to find foreign/not well known movies from that generation. Yes finding a thinny to the past would be nice, although I’d go for 1967 before 1977. |
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Post by scratch on Oct 6, 2018 4:57:03 GMT
I'm late! A lot of mine will likely be public domain ones I'm doing for the station so many won't be very good. 1. Horror Express. With Cushing and Lee this one can't lose. Telly Savalis even makes an appearance at one point. An archaeologist brings his latest find aboard a train where it awakes and mind wipes some folks and takes over others. Not bad. Not the scariest I've seen but if you like glowing eyed menace in a Murder on The Orient Express setting then this is for you. It has been said The Thing is the base for this but... yeah I don't know about that. Not quite. What I liked in reading the synopsis for my chatter in introducing it was learning that Cushing had lost his wife of many years a year earlier and didn't think he could do it. He was having night terrors, the poor guy. Couldn't sleep. So Christopher Lee, who was his long time friend, slept in the bed with him to help. I thought that was really sweet of him. 2. Spider Baby. One of the last films for Lon Chaney Jr., one of the last sober ones anyway, and he does a pretty good turn as the kindly caretaker of a family degenerating into madness. I like this one. It even has a young Captain Spaulding in it (real name Sid Haig). Rob Zombie liked this one too. Spider Baby steals the show. She is kind of sexy except for the killing folks and eating bugs thing. Not a shocking plot by today's standards but not bad either when you consider it was one of the first dysfunctional family horrors. Maybe THE first. Unfortunately Jill Banner who played her was killed by a drunk driver in the early eighties. Damn. She was evil insane sexy. More later. Cool that y'all continued this here. Oh! If anyone wants to see me introduce Horror Express it will be on here- www.hillcountrynetwork.net/live tomorrow at eight pm. I introduce and do a goofy thing with red lights behind my glasses. Then you can watch the movie of course. |
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Post by osnafrank on Oct 6, 2018 17:57:29 GMT
The Void
A throwback to the Days, when splatter was hot and romero and co ruled the horror scene
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Post by hollygolightly on Oct 6, 2018 19:14:09 GMT
Very cool, scratch ! I've bookmarked it and plan to watch! When I was a kid in the 70s, living in Northern KY, we had a show on UHF 13 called Creature Feature - it showed all those old Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price movies. I loved those. My thing was to sit in a laundry basket right in front of the TV and watch it. I don't know why the laundry basket, but it's what I did.  |
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Post by neesy on Oct 6, 2018 20:00:16 GMT
Very cool, scratch ! I've bookmarked it and plan to watch! When I was a kid in the 70s, living in Northern KY, we had a show on UHF 13 called Creature Feature - it showed all those old Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price movies. I loved those. My thing was to sit in a laundry basket right in front of the TV and watch it. I don't know why the laundry basket, but it's what I did. Hi Holly!
Is this you?
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Post by scratch on Oct 6, 2018 22:29:56 GMT
LOL Neesy.
#3. Werewolf in a Girls Dormitory. It was made in 1961 and you can tell it. Not very scary, in fact more of a murder mystery. It shows the werewolf several times so at least it has that going for it. It wasn't real cheesy exactly but more like an episode of Perry Mason with a werewolf. I also expected more titillation given the title but it's pretty tame. Meh.
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Post by morgan on Oct 6, 2018 23:47:46 GMT
7.) The Witch (2015). Not sure what to say about this one. Personally, I felt guilty for watching it, it felt a bit blasphemous to me. Was unsure about the accents. The actor who played the father (Ralph Ineson) has such a deep voice that it was almost distracting.
Anya Taylor-Joy did a good job with her role. I felt the ending was idiotic. IMDb scored it 6.8/10! I probably wouldn't have scored it higher than a 5.3/10. Obviously it wasn't my kind of movie - to each their own. |
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Post by morgan on Oct 6, 2018 23:52:06 GMT
8.) Secret Window (2004). It's been a while since I watched this one. Not the greatest SK movie, but definitely not the worst! For some reason, I forgot Maria Bello played Mort's wife. I think she's definitely more on my radar since Big Driver (2014).
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Post by morgan on Oct 6, 2018 23:57:58 GMT
9.) House of Wax (2005). Typical teenage slasher flick. Not my thing. But, if you would enjoy seeing Paris Hilton half naked and eventually stabbed in the head (at least I think that was her demise - I watched a lot of this through splayed fingers! Lol) then this movie might be right up your alley! 
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Book of the Dead in that cabin: oh! I got it: The Evil Dead. Halloween *the original* and Amityville Horror (original) were great. When I was 10 my mom took me and my cousins to the drive in to see Jaws and Amityville Horror. HA! What was she thinking? I didn't sleep well for years. I had a crawl space in my closet. Terrified me. Phantasm. From the 70s: Rosemary's Baby; Let's Scare Jessica to Death; That'll keep you busy for a bit - if you trust my opinion. The commercial from Alien in the 70s gave me bad dreams.. I highly recommend finding a thinny and just going back to 1977 for a few years. Those were the days! Bring your roller skates.
