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Post by wolf on Oct 8, 2022 15:41:44 GMT
I've been able to catch some flicks during dinner, and before bed.
I'll post more when I have time. 🙂
7. "Dark Water"
A haunting, very sad horror.
Like "The Grudge" that Lady spideyman saw recently, and "The Ring"
this is an American remake of a disturbing Japanese horror film.🙂
I like all of these films!
Very well done with an outstanding cast!
Jennifer Connelly, Tim Roth, Pete Postelthwait, John C. Riley, Dougray Scott, Cameron Manheim.
And the 2 little girls in this gave awesome performances! 
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Post by wireman on Oct 8, 2022 19:46:10 GMT
7. Road Games (1981) Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis
Stacy Keach plays a truck driver in Australia driving in South Australia when he discovers another vehicle traveling on his route that is being driven by a serial killer the police are looking for. Good cat and mouse game across a desolate area of Australia.
6/10
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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 8, 2022 19:49:48 GMT
7. Alligator (FTV)
Baby alligator flushed down the toilet rises from the sewers a dozen years later, much bigger and hungry for human flesh.
This 1980 gem was written by John Sayles (Piranha, The Howling) and directed by Lewis Teague (Cujo). While the concept of the flushed alligator returning for revenge is based on an urban legend and is inherently shlocky, the movie plays it straight and never winks at the audience. Instead they just deliver the goods, starting with a strong cast: Robert Forster (Jackie Brown, Medium Cool) as the weary cop whose partners keep ending up dead, Robin Riker (Sharon from “Get A Life”) as a sexy herpetologist, Oscar nominee Michael Gazzo (The Godfather II) as the gravel-voice chief of police, and the ever-creepy typecast villain Henry Silva as a big game hunter hired to take the alligator down.
The alligator effects are surprisingly effective, with forced perspective, live alligators on miniature sets, and realistic giant alligator puppet heads held close to the lens, which prove to be more tactile and satisfying than the CGI we would expect to see today. There are a good many kills, and a good many scumbags getting what’s coming to them, but they aren’t afraid to kill off innocent bystanders, and even a kid who picks a really bad time to play “walk the plank” off a diving board. My favorite scene was where the alligator runs amok at a wedding, causing much running and screaming as people are consumed whole down the giant ‘gator’s gullet.
It would be easy to dismiss this as yet another “animal horror” knock-off version of Jaws, but it stands out from the many imitations churned out during that era with a sense of assuredness and good humor that holds up well.
3.5 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)
      
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Post by wolf on Oct 8, 2022 20:57:13 GMT
"Lamb"....a remote farm (anywhere) and a sheep-human hyrid?
That's a horror movie to me, right there! 
 But seriously, fushingfeef , I would like to see this one!
It sounds good.
Thank you (and everyone else too)
for telling us about all of these movies!
I have watched quite a few Scandinavian films on hulu,
and have found many of them to be very well done and
engrossing.
Movies from police dramas/thrillers/mysteries,
to fantasy horrors.
Of the latter category I was telling wireman and others
about "Border", a Norwegian film, I think.
It is definitely 'different' and weird!
And another Finnish film, "Exotic Exports".
Lol, that one was out there,
and darkly comedic along with the good scary stuff. 😄
"Q"....Taco Man, I saw that on when it first came out in '82.
Quet'zal quatl, (spelling is probably all wrong there  ) the feathered serpent Aztec god! 😄
I'd like to see that one again, it's been so long.
I think I remember an Aztec priest being in New York committing murders
that summoned the winged reptilian beast.
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Post by wolf on Oct 8, 2022 21:16:22 GMT
8. "Edward Scissorhands"
Tim Burton (like Guillermo Del toro) always has
a beautifully crafted tale delivered in a visual feast. 
Can't resist this surreal retro fairy tail loosely based on
'Frankenstein and Pinocchio',
during the Halloween movie season.
Nor can I ever resist seeing
ever handsome and distinguished great 'Vincent Price',
and hearing his distinctive, wonderful voice.
Especially in what I believe is his last film.
He was a great actor, and I loved him in this film! a054
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Post by spideyman on Oct 8, 2022 21:23:18 GMT
7. Final Destination-When he has a vision of his flight to Paris crashing, a teen travelling with his French club makes a scene and they are all kicked off the airline. The plane goes down and the survivors are grateful, but Death hunts them down.
8. House of Wax- Wax sculptor Henry (Vincent Price) is horrified to learn that his business partner, Matthew (Roy Roberts), plans on torching their wax museum to collect on the insurance policy. Henry miraculously survives a fiery confrontation with Matthew and re-emerges some years hence with a museum of his own. But when the appearance of Henry's new wax sculptures occurs at the same time that a number of corpses vanish from the city morgue, art student Sue Allen (Phyllis Kirk) begins suspecting wrongdoing.
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Post by wolf on Oct 8, 2022 21:29:18 GMT
7. Final Destination-When he has a vision of his flight to Paris crashing, a teen travelling with his French club makes a scene and they are all kicked off the airline. The plane goes down and the survivors are grateful, but Death hunts them down.
8. House of Wax- Wax sculptor Henry (Vincent Price) is horrified to learn that his business partner, Matthew (Roy Roberts), plans on torching their wax museum to collect on the insurance policy. Henry miraculously survives a fiery confrontation with Matthew and re-emerges some years hence with a museum of his own. But when the appearance of Henry's new wax sculptures occurs at the same time that a number of corpses vanish from the city morgue, art student Sue Allen (Phyllis Kirk) begins suspecting wrongdoing. WUITIIQGUyMrvFxIgkNw ....like both of those! |
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Post by wolf on Oct 8, 2022 21:35:29 GMT
9 and 10 coming soon. 🙂  
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Post by wireman on Oct 9, 2022 2:33:42 GMT
8. Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
A bit of a ridiculous premise but still an entertaining Hammer film. Hippies raise Dracula from the dead in swinging 70s London and Van Helsing’s grandson has to track him down.
6/10
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Post by spideyman on Oct 9, 2022 13:59:07 GMT
9. The Thing-American paleontologist Kate Lloyd and a team of Norwegian scientists fight a shape-shifting extraterrestrial at a remote outpost in Antarctica.
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Post by wolf on Oct 9, 2022 17:45:10 GMT
9. "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" 2010
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Post by wolf on Oct 9, 2022 17:49:27 GMT
10. "Hellraiser" 2022 ...on Hulu
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Post by wolf on Oct 9, 2022 17:50:48 GMT
11. SK's "Trucks"
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Post by edwardjohn on Oct 9, 2022 17:54:25 GMT
I want to see that "Village of the Damned" remake Lady spideyman ! 😊
3. Rob Zombie's "Halloween 2".
I like Rob Zombie's weird,
kinda quirky jerky white-trashy style and take on things.
He's always got a awwwrrrrrsome cast and primo gory FX! 😊....
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Post by edwardjohn on Oct 9, 2022 17:55:45 GMT
7. House of Wax- 1953-Wax sculptor Henry (Vincent Price) is horrified to learn that his business partner, Matthew (Roy Roberts), plans on torching their wax museum to collect on the insurance policy. Henry miraculously survives a fiery confrontation with Matthew and re-emerges some years hence with a museum of his own. But when the appearance of Henry's new wax sculptures occurs at the same time that a number of corpses vanish from the city morgue, art student Sue Allen (Phyllis Kirk) begins suspecting wrongdoing. |
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Post by edwardjohn on Oct 9, 2022 17:56:37 GMT
8. Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
A bit of a ridiculous premise but still an entertaining Hammer film. Hippies raise Dracula from the dead in swinging 70s London and Van Helsing’s grandson has to track him down.
6/10 |
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Post by edwardjohn on Oct 9, 2022 17:57:32 GMT
9. The Thing-American paleontologist Kate Lloyd and a team of Norwegian scientists fight a shape-shifting extraterrestrial at a remote outpost in Antarctica. |
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Post by wireman on Oct 9, 2022 17:59:37 GMT
8. Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
A bit of a ridiculous premise but still an entertaining Hammer film. Hippies raise Dracula from the dead in swinging 70s London and Van Helsing’s grandson has to track him down.
6/10 |
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Post by edwardjohn on Oct 9, 2022 18:05:46 GMT
2. The Mummy (2017) (FTV)
A grave-robbing soldier is pursued by a female mummy set on using his body as a vessel for the evil entity that made her immortal.
Sure, it’s easy to bag on this 2017 financial and critical flop—it’s big, dumb and loud, attempts to force yet another movie universe franchise down our throats, and it stars Tom Cruise, firmly planting its flag in a deep stack of establishment Hollywood dollars. This movie was never going to slip under the radar or be a sleeper hit, this was made to have its images splashed across school lunchboxes and Happy Meal cartons. So it must suck, right? Well…
Putting aside preconceived notions, what we are left with is a harmless fun big-budget B movie. Is it original? Absolutely not. Are the characters paperboard cliches? Yup. Is it mostly just a succession of action-packed set pieces, barely pausing to take a breath? You know it. Would it have been better as an R-rated movie? Probably. But was it an enjoyable watch? Most definitely yes. I for one laughed more than I rolled my eyes, and many scenes stand out—the zero-G airplane scene, a Mummy sucking people dry of their life essence, giant practical sets, an army of swimming underwater mummies, Russell Crowe as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Tom Cruise giggling as the Mummy inadvertently tickles him with her bony fingers (yes, that really happened)!
For whatever reason, the general public turned against this movie, probably the same people who embrace stuff like Independence Day, Pirates of the Caribbean or the equally cheesy but fun 1999 The Mummy movie. I actually think it’s a shame there aren’t going to be any more movies set in the Dark Universe due to the financial failure of this first one. But as we all know in the horror genre, nothing truly ever dies.
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)
I think a lot of the problems with the movie stems from its really formulaic nature. And if you're wondering why it is so formulaic, then a lot of that has to do with the people involved with the film, namely: Alex Kurtzman (this is his directorial debut). Kurtzman's very much a JJ Abrams disciple, being very involved in his Bad Robot production company. And a lot of the disciples of Abrams have a lot in common because a crap ton of the modern blockbusters have them involved as a writer of director.
To be fair, that isn't their fault, its these massive studios that are hiring these guys; its not their fault that they're getting hired all the time. But they do have their tropes: ground everything in realism, have an object that's the key to everything, etc.
Its really strange that Cruise would agree to appear in this. He must have known that it wasn't up to the standard of his recent outings, but perhaps the appeal of being a Tony Stark like character for a Monsters Universe was too much to pass up on.
The official start of the monster universe was Dracula Untold. And that's the complete opposite of this movie: DU does something completely left field with the Dracula story. |
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Post by wolf on Oct 9, 2022 18:05:57 GMT
12. "The Book of Eli" 2010
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But seriously, 
) the feathered serpent Aztec god! 😄
