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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 27, 2022 19:43:13 GMT
26. The Greasy Strangler (FTV)
A socially inept man lives with his abrasive father who is trying to steal his girlfriend, not realizing that by night he is a serial killer who costumes himself in a layer of grease.
Somehow I hadn’t heard about this unusual 2016 horror comedy, which seems designed to offend and repulse as much as make you laugh. The humor is along the lines of Napoleon Dynamite or something Todd Solondz would direct, with an emphasis on awkward characters and cringeworthy moments. The film is also designed to disgust us in a humorous way, as if John Waters, the king of making transgressive movies about filthy depraved humans, decided to make a horror movie. It has the feel of an underground comic book, part Daniel Clowes (Ghost World) and part Peter Bagge (Hate), with some of the ugliness of Basil Wolverton thrown in.
While the film is repulsive (prepare your eyes for way too much geriatric male simulated nudity), it’s still a fairly entertaining watch that made me laugh—not every joke lands, and some bits are annoying, but there’s an admirable cohesiveness to how far they dare to take things in this movie. There’s that whole outrageous “did you just see what I saw?” quality that would make this a great film for group viewings, depending how weird your guests are. Also, for a film populated with ugliness, the look of the film is actually really good, high quality, like something Wes Anderson would make if life kicked him the face for the past decade.
Still, the big problem that some viewers might not be able to get past is that this movie is trying way too hard to be weird for weirdness’ sake. The characters all talk in a similar stilted Emo Phillips on downers cadence. While some movies have an artistic vision and end up becoming cult classics almost by accident, this movie is simply pushing that cult movie feeling without ever giving us a chance to decide for ourselves. Sure, it’s intended to make you laugh uncomfortably, and it mostly succeeds at that, so maybe that’s good enough.
3 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2022 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Black Phone 3.5/5 (FTV)
2. The Mummy (2017) 3/5 (FTV)
3. The Anchoress 3/5 (FTV)
4. Antlers 4/5 (FTV)
5. Burn, Witch, Burn 3/5 (FTV)
6. Lamb 3/5 (FTV)
7. Alligator 3.5/5 (FTV)
8. Barbarian 4/5 (FTV)
9. Orphan 3.5/5 (FTV)
10. Terrifier 2 4/5 (FTV)
11. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) 2.5/5 (FTV)
12. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 3.5/5 (FTV)
13. The Uncanny 3/5 (FTV)
14. Baghead 3.5/5 (FTV)
15. House On Haunted Hill (1959) 4.5/5
16. Wilczyca (aka She-Wolf) 3.5/5 (FTV)
17. Black Rainbow 3/5 (FTV)
18. Two Witches 3.5/5 (FTV)
19. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies 2.5/5 (FTV)
20. La Llarona 3/5 (FTV)
21. All Hallows’ Eve 3/5 (FTV)
22. The Sadness 4/5 (FTV)
23. The Third Eye (il Terzo Occhio) 3/5 (FTV)
24. Kill List 4.5/5 (FTV)
25. Nope 3.5 (FTV)
26. The Greasy Strangler 3/5 (FTV)
      
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Post by wireman on Oct 28, 2022 13:33:02 GMT
I'm done for the month at 23. I've got a niece getting married this weekend and I'm going to Georgia for the wedding and I doubt I'll be able to watch anymore. Today is "get my **** together day" and I'm leaving in the morning.
I almost watched all 80s movies this year. The Criterion channel had a bunch of 80s horror on this month and I think I watched most of them.
Thank you fushingfeef for hosting the thread again this year. It's been fun as always.
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Post by osnafrank on Oct 28, 2022 15:12:57 GMT
I'm done for the month at 23. I've got a niece getting married this weekend and I'm going to Georgia for the wedding and I doubt I'll be able to watch anymore. Today is "get my **** together day" and I'm leaving in the morning.
I almost watched all 80s movies this year. The Criterion channel had a bunch of 80s horror on this month and I think I watched most of them.
Thank you fushingfeef for hosting the thread again this year. It's been fun as always.
Thanks for participating. 
Have a great time in Georgia.
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Post by spideyman on Oct 28, 2022 15:15:38 GMT
28. Tales from the DarkSide- the movie-- 1990--A paperboy is captured by a witch and tells her 3 short stories to distract her from eating him. The stories feature a stalking mummy, an unkillable cat and a witness to a bizarre murder.
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Post by wolf on Oct 28, 2022 16:20:18 GMT
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Post by osnafrank on Oct 28, 2022 18:37:46 GMT
21. Army of Darkness (3/5)
Zombie-battling hero Ash takes on an army of skeletons after being sent back in time.
The first two films were pretty graphic, but this one was low on the gore and is a comedy unlike the first two.
BRUCE CAMPBELL kills it in this movie... literally.
Though it's cheesy at times, it's in a self aware kind of way.
There are some very quotable moments and it's just an all around good time.
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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 28, 2022 23:11:12 GMT
26. WNUF Halloween Special (FTV)
Turn the clock back in this 2013 parody purporting to be a 1987 Halloween live local news broadcast investigating a haunted house.
For those of us who grew up in the VHS era, you’ll immediately be on board with the format and feel of this horror comedy—it’s as if you discovered an old unlabeled tape in a box at a flea market. The hairstyles, clothes and mannerisms are pretty much on point, and the commercials especially feel authentic to the 1980’s, with cheesy period synthesizers and jagged graphics.
There’s about 15 minutes of news stories and commercials, including a nod to Satanic panic, then we get into the meat of the story, which is a live paranormal investigation of a local murder house. It’s as if a local news crew had their own version of Geraldo Rivera looking for Al Capone’s locked vault. There is a paranormal investigator couple, obviously based on the Warrens, and a jittery priest who is an expert on exorcisms. Some of the best comedic moments come from the awkward reactions of the local citizens mugging in the background of the shots, and the prank callers who call in on the phone during a live broadcast of a séance, much to the chagrin of the psychics.
As someone who enjoys horror mockumentaries such as “What We Do in the Shadows” and “Wellington Paranormal”, I have to admit that WNUF Halloween Special is more charming than it is actually funny. Most of the commercials will make you smile knowingly, but aren’t really jokes so much as recreations. The news bits were pretty funny, but once the live investigation begins, the movie’s laughs become less frequent, and things feel spread pretty thin. I suspect this would have worked better if it had all been wrapped up in under an hour.
Regardless of its weaknesses as a “film”, horror fans who lived through the 80’s should at least enjoy having this on in the background during a Halloween party, it would be a great joke to play on unknowing guests.
3 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2022 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Black Phone 3.5/5 (FTV)
2. The Mummy (2017) 3/5 (FTV)
3. The Anchoress 3/5 (FTV)
4. Antlers 4/5 (FTV)
5. Burn, Witch, Burn 3/5 (FTV)
6. Lamb 3/5 (FTV)
7. Alligator 3.5/5 (FTV)
8. Barbarian 4/5 (FTV)
9. Orphan 3.5/5 (FTV)
10. Terrifier 2 4/5 (FTV)
11. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) 2.5/5 (FTV)
12. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 3.5/5 (FTV)
13. The Uncanny 3/5 (FTV)
14. Baghead 3.5/5 (FTV)
15. House On Haunted Hill (1959) 4.5/5
16. Wilczyca (aka She-Wolf) 3.5/5 (FTV)
17. Black Rainbow 3/5 (FTV)
18. Two Witches 3.5/5 (FTV)
19. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies 2.5/5 (FTV)
20. La Llarona 3/5 (FTV)
21. All Hallows’ Eve 3/5 (FTV)
22. The Sadness 4/5 (FTV)
23. The Third Eye (il Terzo Occhio) 3/5 (FTV)
24. Kill List 4.5/5 (FTV)
25. Nope 3.5 (FTV)
26. The Greasy Strangler 3/5 (FTV)
27. WNUF Halloween Special 3/5 (FTV)
  
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Post by wolf on Oct 28, 2022 23:27:31 GMT
"Wuff!" for WNUF!  😋🐺 OfALpnZviWOj0akpbNcg
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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 29, 2022 20:22:52 GMT
28. Incubus (1966) (FTV)
A succubus has plans to seduce and destroy a virtuous man for a change, but falls in love with him and incurs the wrath of the Incubus.
This oddity of film, once lost for three decades, has some notoriety because all of the dialogue is in Esperanto, one of the very few films to ever try this, and probably the only horror film. Also of interest is that it stars a pre-Captain Kirk William Shatner. A more sobering bit of trivia is that two of the actors involved with this film, Milos Milos (The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming) and television actress Ann Atmar committed unrelated suicides within a year of completing this film.
Unfortunately, these interesting tidbits of information about Incubus are really all that’s interesting about the movie, which itself is lifeless, awkward, and turgid. It so badly wants to be deep and arty, and carry the thematic weight and look of an Ingmar Bergman film, but instead comes off as boring, pretentious, and stiff. Not helping is the dark, low-contrast look of many “day-for-night” shots, alternately combined with actual night shots, and a soundtrack that features a constant background drone of wind. The film couldn’t find a distributor in America so the only public screenings were in France, where an audience of Esperanto enthusiasts loudly jeered the actors’ incorrect pronunciations (they had been fed each line phonetically).
A few scenes are effective from a horror movie standpoint, such as the initial reveal of the winged demon-like Incubus, the underwater close-up of a man’s face as he is drowned in shallow waters, and the final scene where the Incubus transforms into a demonic goat actually packs some punch. But to get to the good stuff, we have to wade through endless scenes of actors walking across fields and through woods, and awful stilted dialog that reads even worse than it sounds in subtitle form.
For curiosity seekers and Shatner completists only.
2 out of 5 stars.Bob's October 2022 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Black Phone 3.5/5 (FTV)
2. The Mummy (2017) 3/5 (FTV)
3. The Anchoress 3/5 (FTV)
4. Antlers 4/5 (FTV)
5. Burn, Witch, Burn 3/5 (FTV)
6. Lamb 3/5 (FTV)
7. Alligator 3.5/5 (FTV)
8. Barbarian 4/5 (FTV)
9. Orphan 3.5/5 (FTV)
10. Terrifier 2 4/5 (FTV)
11. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) 2.5/5 (FTV)
12. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 3.5/5 (FTV)
13. The Uncanny 3/5 (FTV)
14. Baghead 3.5/5 (FTV)
15. House On Haunted Hill (1959) 4.5/5
16. Wilczyca (aka She-Wolf) 3.5/5 (FTV)
17. Black Rainbow 3/5 (FTV)
18. Two Witches 3.5/5 (FTV)
19. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies 2.5/5 (FTV)
20. La Llarona 3/5 (FTV)
21. All Hallows’ Eve 3/5 (FTV)
22. The Sadness 4/5 (FTV)
23. The Third Eye (il Terzo Occhio) 3/5 (FTV)
24. Kill List 4.5/5 (FTV)
25. Nope 3.5 (FTV)
26. The Greasy Strangler 3/5 (FTV)
27. WNUF Halloween Special 3/5 (FTV)
28. Incubus (1966) 2/5 (FTV)
     
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Post by wolf on Oct 30, 2022 0:18:20 GMT
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Post by scratch on Oct 30, 2022 1:10:06 GMT
Although I haven't participated this year I always get some good recommendations from this thread so thank you for those.
I did see two good ones today. Both of them could conceivably happen.
The first, The Little Girl Who Lives down the Lane, is one I had always wanted to see but somehow never made time for. It stars Jodie Foster at 13, which happened shortly after filming started, and even begins with her birthday in the film. It's about an unusual girl all alone and the adults who are either concerned for her or want to prey on her. Martin Sheen plays a very convincing creep in this. I enjoyed the tension of something terrible happening even when it didn't... always.
The second was The Visit. It too built tension. It's about two kids who have never visited their maternal grands before but want to make space for their mom to have a new relationship and be happy so they allow her to have a week long cruise with her new man while they get to know these two old people. It starts out very normal but with a few quirks. The quirks are dismissible enough at first. It soon becomes apparent there is some trauma here that we do not understand. When finally we do understand it in no way makes it better. Near the end there is one sentence which turns it into a true horror very quickly. It's an old theme, Poe did it, but it's done well in this movie.
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Post by spideyman on Oct 30, 2022 3:03:52 GMT
29. Dracula- 1931-
Bela Lugosi sinks his fangs into the role that made him a star in the original 1931 version of the vampire classic
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Post by spideyman on Oct 30, 2022 3:08:03 GMT
30. The Invisible Man- 1933 A mysterious man arrives in a hotel and requests to be left alone. Soon after, harmless pranks around town turn to cold blooded murder, but no one can see the culprit. A scientist learns that the criminal is his former partner, who has discovered a mixture to turn a person completely invisible.
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Post by spideyman on Oct 30, 2022 14:16:56 GMT
31- Goosebumps 2- Haunted Halloween- 2018- When two boys stumble upon an old abandoned house, they open a locked book titled "Haunted Halloween". What they unleash is the stuff of Halloween scares - including witches, werewolves.
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Post by osnafrank on Oct 30, 2022 16:42:06 GMT
22. Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities Part 1+2 (FTV 4/5)
An anthology of sinister stories told by revered horror creators.
Now this is what we all need for Halloween.
Amazing Show, from the directing to the cast, each episode has a different story.
Anything from Guillermo Del Toro never disappoints me.
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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 30, 2022 20:19:48 GMT
29. Army of Darkness
This third film in the Evil Dead series sends our arrogant hero Ash to the medieval era to battle an army of Deadites.
I first saw this film way back in 1993 when it was released in theaters, and although I was familiar with the Evil Dead movies titles, I hadn’t actually watched any of them, so this was my introduction to the series. This is essentially Bruce Campbell’s show, where he really came into his own, playing multiple roles and hamming it up to the max. All the typical Sam Raimi touches are here, with great use of sound, breathtaking sudden camera movements, but surprisingly blood and gore is kept pretty minimal. Let’s face it, skeletons do a lot of things, but they don’t bleed.
It's great to see large scale use of stop motion animation, and while not all of the optical effects work perfectly, there’s no CGI, which gives the movie a nice handmade charm. Although there are monsters, zombies, witches and skeletons, as well as magical incantations and spells, the movie really feels more like a fantasy adventure than a horror film, with lots of laughs and quotable lines along the way. There isn’t much for women to enjoy here (Ash is pretty much a heel to all females) so some of the humor and attitudes haven’t aged well, but we’re not really expected to look up to Ash, just laugh at his cartoonish overconfidence.
It may not quite stack up to the high standard set by the first two Evil Dead movies, but Army of Darkness delivers the goods and puts a smile on your face.
4 out of 5 stars.Bob's October 2022 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Black Phone 3.5/5 (FTV)
2. The Mummy (2017) 3/5 (FTV)
3. The Anchoress 3/5 (FTV)
4. Antlers 4/5 (FTV)
5. Burn, Witch, Burn 3/5 (FTV)
6. Lamb 3/5 (FTV)
7. Alligator 3.5/5 (FTV)
8. Barbarian 4/5 (FTV)
9. Orphan 3.5/5 (FTV)
10. Terrifier 2 4/5 (FTV)
11. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) 2.5/5 (FTV)
12. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 3.5/5 (FTV)
13. The Uncanny 3/5 (FTV)
14. Baghead 3.5/5 (FTV)
15. House On Haunted Hill (1959) 4.5/5
16. Wilczyca (aka She-Wolf) 3.5/5 (FTV)
17. Black Rainbow 3/5 (FTV)
18. Two Witches 3.5/5 (FTV)
19. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies 2.5/5 (FTV)
20. La Llarona 3/5 (FTV)
21. All Hallows’ Eve 3/5 (FTV)
22. The Sadness 4/5 (FTV)
23. The Third Eye (il Terzo Occhio) 3/5 (FTV)
24. Kill List 4.5/5 (FTV)
25. Nope 3.5 (FTV)
26. The Greasy Strangler 3/5 (FTV)
27. WNUF Halloween Special 3/5 (FTV)
28. Incubus (1966) 2/5 (FTV)
29. Army of Darkness 4/5       
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Post by osnafrank on Oct 31, 2022 15:57:08 GMT
23. Fear Street Part One: 1994 (FTV 3,5/5)
After a series of brutal slayings, a teen and her friends take on an evil force that's plagued their notorious town for centuries.
I absolutely loved the soundtrack, the colors, and the actors were very good,
you can see the chemistry the cast has through the screen.
Great story telling, funny dialog, adventurous at certain part,
packed with thrilling actions and big fan of the mystical aspect of this movie.
Perfect blend of corny slasher story progression and interesting plot line to keep the audience watching.
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Post by wolf on Oct 31, 2022 16:05:47 GMT
39. "Hell Baby" 2013
Yeah.... crazy stupid funny.
It was good. 
("Maison de sang".
Lol, they thought that was so cool
'til they found out what it meant. 😂)
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Post by osnafrank on Oct 31, 2022 16:08:02 GMT
Looks dang funny wolfie
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Post by wolf on Oct 31, 2022 16:14:08 GMT
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😋🐺 OfALpnZviWOj0akpbNcg 
....I really enjoyed that, more than I thought I would. 