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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 17, 2022 20:53:45 GMT
16. Wilczyca (aka She-Wolf)
A 19th century Polish soldier must guard a countess who may be the reincarnation of his late wife—and a werewolf to boot.
Another interesting film from the Severin folk horror box set, All Haunts Be Ours, Wilczyca was made by Polish filmmaker Marek Piestrak in 1983 when Poland was still firmly behind the Iron Curtain. Despite being made in the 80’s, it feels more like a 1960’s Hammer film, but it also has a decidedly Polish look and feel. Strong, dream-like imagery abounds, from a hawk picking out the eyes of a dead horse during the opening credits, to in-camera glowing spectral effects as the spirit of the dead woman continues to haunt her husband.
There’s also a mild exploitation feel to the movie, despite its lush filmic visuals—it’s not afraid to flash a little nudity here and there, or spill some of that hyper-red fake blood that we tend to associate with Italian giallo. The movie is a slow burner, often employing lingering shots of gorgeously bleak outdoor settings, and is more of an atmospheric werewolf film than a fast-paced monster movie. This movie was a huge hit in Poland, which is somewhat surprising considering its deliberate pacing, but it tells a strange and spooky tale that is at the same time familiar and feels like a discovery. It’s a werewolf movie with very few familiar werewolf tropes outside of a silver bullet.
The characters probably won’t be sympathetic to modern American audiences (I was often rooting for the animals more than the people), and those looking for a big effects-laden transformation scene will be frustrated—the wolf is more like an elusive ghostly animal than a humanoid monster. But those who like old fashioned horror, combined with a bit of European historical drama, will be rewarded. Oh, and there’s a bloody slow-mo finale that put me in the mind of Sam Peckinpah.
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)
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
  
  
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Post by spideyman on Oct 18, 2022 12:25:18 GMT
18. Amityville: the Awakening- 2017-A single mom moves into a new home with her three children in order to better care for her comatose son James. But when James wakes up, the family discover that his recovery is really a manifestation of evil forces in this spooky horror sequel.
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Post by osnafrank on Oct 18, 2022 18:00:25 GMT
14. Coming home in the Dark (FTV 1,5/5)
Ruthless drifters take a school teacher and his family on a nightmarish road trip that forces the man to confront his past self.
Another movie trying to make some kind of point through pointless violence.
It has been done before and much better.
Just mindless evil where the bad guys get away with everything for far too long.
Not suspense, not horror, not a thriller,not happy I wasted time watching this.
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Post by wolf on Oct 18, 2022 21:45:33 GMT
26. "Leatherface" 2017
 ...good cast, better than I thought it would be. 🙂
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Post by edwardjohn on Oct 18, 2022 23:02:16 GMT
Guys, you have to search the streamers for a movie by the name of Dracula Untold! Its so good!
Here's the trailer:
I recommended it last year and its so good that I'm doing the same this year!
spideyman
Spidey, I believe you checked it out last Halloween with my recommendation, did you like it?
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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 19, 2022 0:29:10 GMT
17. Black Rainbow
A con man’s daughter who is a true clairvoyant foretells the murder of a whistleblower at a chemical factory, and thus becomes the target of a hired corporate mercenary.
Directed in 1989 by Mike Hodges (Get Carter, Flash Gordon), Black Rainbow is very much a product of its times, with themes of corporate contract killers and environmental disaster, but it seems out of step with what was going on in the horror genre at the time. I think they were going for more of an “Angel Heart” vibe where the supernatural is combined with a more conventional thriller/mystery but weren’t entirely successful at either genre.
Still, there’s some things that work in Black Rainbow. I loved the dynamic between Jason Robards and Rosanna Arquette as the father/daughter team, butting heads as they balance showmanship with authenticity. They both feel like real, fully fleshed out characters, a supernatural con family version of Ryan and Tatum O’neal in Paper Moon. Robards character struggles with alcoholism and still hurts from his wife’s untimely death, while Arquette’s character seeks her father’s approval as she struggles with having one foot in the real world and one in the world of the dead. Bi-location is a major theme in the movie, and keeps the movie interesting and mysterious even when the more basic plot elements don’t.
Less successful was the casting of Tom Hulce (Amadeus) as a disingenuous journalist who can scarcely keep from smirking throughout the movie as he delivers a phony sounding southern accent. They really could have used someone who could match the magnetism of Arquette and Robards. He doesn’t quite ruin the movie, but it felt liked a missed opportunity.
Never quite enough supernaturalism to make this a true horror movie, and not enough thrills to make it a thriller, Black Rainbow is a bit of an oddity.
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
17. Black Rainbow 3/5
  
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Post by wolf on Oct 19, 2022 0:36:43 GMT
That Drac flick is good, edwardjohn!
I saw it, but it's been quite some time ago.
Time for a rewatch, if it's still available to me.🙂
Lady spideyman , the remake of "Poltergeist" is also good.
....mmm, different...not going to spoil it by saying anymore. 😉
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Post by wolf on Oct 19, 2022 0:43:03 GMT
"Black Rainbow" 
I like the looks of it,
and would like to see it.
(dinner time here, hope i find something good.
Everyone have a good night   )
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Post by edwardjohn on Oct 19, 2022 11:42:40 GMT
That Drac flick is good, edwardjohn !
I saw it, but it's been quite some time ago.
Time for a rewatch, if it's still available to me.🙂
Lady spideyman , the remake of "Poltergeist" is also good.
....mmm, different...not going to spoil it by saying anymore. 😉
It's a really interesting film in that it makes you root for the vampire over the human. |
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Post by spideyman on Oct 19, 2022 12:08:33 GMT
Guys, you have to search the streamers for a movie by the name of Dracula Untold! Its so good!
Here's the trailer:
I recommended it last year and its so good that I'm doing the same this year!
spideyman
Spidey, I believe you checked it out last Halloween with my recommendation, did you like it? |
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Post by spideyman on Oct 19, 2022 13:19:05 GMT
19. Happy Death Day -In this clever and compelling horror mystery, a college student is trapped in a time loop that forces her to keep reliving a birthday that ends with her murder at the hands of a masked madman.
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Post by edwardjohn on Oct 19, 2022 13:19:07 GMT
Guys, you have to search the streamers for a movie by the name of Dracula Untold! Its so good!
Here's the trailer:
I recommended it last year and its so good that I'm doing the same this year!
spideyman
Spidey, I believe you checked it out last Halloween with my recommendation, did you like it? |
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Post by osnafrank on Oct 19, 2022 18:57:43 GMT
15. Event Horizon (4/5)
When a lost spaceship reappears near Neptune's deteriorating orbit, a team of astronauts is sent to investigate the matter.
Yap, it's the Horror Movie Marathon and as i already said last year,
no Horror Movie Marathon without my favorite SciFi/Horror movie, besides the Alien movies.
Still can't believe,it failed at the Box Office.
It's like a SK Terror Tale in space.
There's a lot of gore, but the film doesn't rely on that
it's a Great psychological horror flick that builds on the suspense.
The visuals are stunning and there’s an authentic sense of horrors too.
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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 19, 2022 19:36:50 GMT
18. Two Witches (FTV)
Two interconnected horror tales involving witches clashing with modern adult lives.
The first tale involves a pregnant woman who keeps seeing an old witch who has given her the evil eye, while her skeptical boyfriend believes she’s just experiencing what he sees as typical hormonal hysteria. When their new-agey friends try to use a Ouija board to see if there’s an evil presence involved, things get decidedly worse, resulting in a spectacularly bloody climax.
The second tale starts out something like Single White Female: an oddly free-spirited new roommate increasingly encroaches on a young woman’s life, her jealousies escalating when she comes into untold witchy powers. There’s a particularly cruel fate awaiting one of the characters, which I won’t spoil here, and we also see a surprise return of some of the characters and themes from the first tale.
Two Witches gets points for energy, if not always originality or the greatest acting chops. Some reviewers have complained about the number of jump scares, but honestly none of them were really scary, just sort of funny. Think of the manic energy of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead films, where things can go from zero to 11 very quickly. This isn’t a comedy, but it doesn’t take itself too seriously either, and can be darkly humorous between the scares. They aren’t afraid to spill the blood, either! Ultimately, there’s also a sense of something larger in scale being launched here, with certain elements hinted at and touched upon, and the wraparound story leaves no doubt that the story can continue onto a next level. I for one hope it does.
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)
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)
  
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Post by wolf on Oct 20, 2022 12:41:32 GMT
15. Event Horizon (4/5)
When a lost spaceship reappears near Neptune's deteriorating orbit, a team of astronauts is sent to investigate the matter.
Yap, it's the Horror Movie Marathon and as i already said last year,
no Horror Movie Marathon without my favorite SciFi/Horror movie, besides the Alien movies.
Still can't believe,it failed at the Box Office.
It's like a SK Terror Tale in space.
There's a lot of gore, but the film doesn't rely on that
it's a Great psychological horror flick that builds on the suspense.
The visuals are stunning and there’s an authentic sense of horrors too.
I've always thought of it as a kind of haunting Space Horror...like a 'ghost ship' in space. |
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Post by wolf on Oct 20, 2022 13:06:08 GMT
Wasn't feeling too good the other night,
TCM was good to me and I found a less rambunctious
silent haunt with really beautiful music.
Great story
(reminiscent of Dickens)
that has wonderful FX and acting for it's time.
27. "The Phantom Carriage" 1919 ....
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Post by spideyman on Oct 20, 2022 13:13:35 GMT
20. Tremors5-Bloodlines 2015--The tunnelling monsters are on the loose again, this time in Africa.
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Post by edwardjohn on Oct 20, 2022 17:37:53 GMT
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
I know what you're thinking, no, a Doctor Strange film can't be classed as horror! But it totally is! I remember last year I posted on the 2021 Horror Movie Madness about Army of Thieves, which I don't think a lot of people would consider a horror film, so maybe this'll be a tradition. 
This is the sequel to the very good 2016 film, expect this time Sam Raimi is in the director's chair and you can really tell. From that opening sequence of an evil, alternate Doctor Strange you know that this is no normal MCU film. There's a lot of Evil Dead style camera work going on; I remember a particular sequence when Strange and Chavez are fleeing from Wanda in a series of tunnels, it's a lot like the sequence at the start of Evil Dead 2 when Ash is running through the woods back to the cabin. And the villain is a witch! That's totally a horror movie, Sam Raimi trope!
This film, as you can tell by the title, deals with the multiverse, which means we get a lot of different, often completely different versions of characters we already know. That adds to a lot of the fun with this one. I won't go into spoilers, but I will say that I highly recommend it. I liked this a lot more than I thought I would. This is by far the best thing that this current phase of Marvel has put out.
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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 20, 2022 18:40:36 GMT
19. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (FTV)
A carnival gypsy hypnotizes local fun seekers, transforming them into an army of disfigured zombie henchmen.
The 1964 horror film for which director Ray Dennis Steckler is most infamous, “Strange Creatures” has often been called the worst movie ever made, but it’s not, by a long shot. Yes, there’s tons to make fun of: the ultra-low production quality, the hilariously bad acting, the special makeup effects that look like dried oatmeal, and the many random insertions of girly show music and dance numbers which were obviously only there to pad out the run time. This one has Mystery Science Theater written all over it, and if you like “so bad it’s good” movies, you’ll have plenty to sink your teeth into.
But really, how can this be the worst movie ever made when it’s so watchable and even occasionally intentionally entertaining? I can’t really say I ever got bored, there was just too much ridiculousness going on all the time, and you just can’t believe someone thought this stuff would be good enough to put in a movie. I appreciated the old-fashioned amusement park setting, (The Pike on Long Beach which was later demolished), so this feels like a real time capsule. The girly show music and dance numbers just take the lunacy to a different level, especially considering that they weren’t even rehearsed—choreography mistakes abound. Of course, the director himself stars in the movie (under the super cool stage name “Cash Flagg”), looking like a beady-eyed and balding Nicholas Cage.
This film is actually an early slasher, so there’s several instances of Psycho-like knife hacking, and the zombies are more the voodoo “do my bidding” type of zombies than they are rotting undead that George Romero would later invent. Sure, the movie is no Citizen Kane, but I’m still glad it exists--it's the kind you'll want to show your friends, or maybe your enemies!
2.5 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)
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)      
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Post by wolf on Oct 20, 2022 18:57:48 GMT
OooOooo!..."Strange Creatures" looks like
'diobolic Dio Chow', to me!
A 1964 feast for his eyes and mind,
when those hippie days' psychedelic flashbacks come around. 
I'd like to see it! 
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