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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 6, 2023 20:41:41 GMT
6. The Brainiac (El Baron del Terror) (FTV)
Sorcerer burned at stake by the Inquisition returns 300 years later as a hairy, fork-tongued, tube-fingered monster who sucks out the brains of the descendants of his tormentors.
Made in 1962 in Mexico by lucha libre director Chano Urueta, The Brainiac is filmed in crisp black and white and has the look and feel of a Universal Studios monster film from decades earlier. The setup feels familiar if you’ve seen “I Married A Witch”, which features a similar revenge plot, but this movie isn’t played for laughs—although the rubber-masked monster is just ridiculous. The actor playing the monster must have been gasping for air, causing the mask to bulge and contract with every breath, and the director must have decided to just leave it in that way.
After a nice atmospheric witch trial setup that feels bigger and better than the film’s remaining budget, we’re left with a fairly repetitive monster movie where the descendants are bumped off one at a time in nearly the exact same manner and stylistic edits. After seeing so many dispatched in a similar manner, the only real tension becomes wondering what the monster will do for the final descendant, who is the protagonist and a beautiful woman—will it be love at first sight, or end with her brains getting sucked out?
Low-budget but enjoyable enough stuff, and part of Indicator Film’s excellent “Mexico Macabre” box set.
3 out of 5 stars.Bob's October 2023 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. Ghostwatch 4/5 (FTV)
2. Wendel & Wild 4/5 (FTV)
3. Dolls 3/5 (FTV)
4. Society 3/5 (FTV)
5. Tombs of the Blind Dead 3/5 (FTV)
6. The Brainiac 3/5 (FTV)
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Post by wireman on Oct 7, 2023 14:44:57 GMT
5. Pet Semetary: Bloodlines
This is kind of a prequel as it tells Judd's stroy from when he was young. For this movie, the young Judd timeline is moved up to the Vietnam War era instead of WW II era. I thought it was fairly interesting and watchable but was lethargic and needed a little more horror. One thing that bugged me were the dark lighting scenes. They were so dark, it was impossible to tell what was going on.
5/10
Pam Grier is in this (haven't seen her in a while). Hard to believe she's 74 now.
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Post by spideyman on Oct 7, 2023 18:12:20 GMT
6. Doctor Sleep- 2019-Struggling with alcoholism, Dan Torrance remains traumatized by the sinister events that occurred at the Overlook Hotel when he was a child. His hope for a peaceful existence soon becomes shattered when he meets Abra, a teen who shares his extrasensory gift of the "shine." Together, they form an unlikely alliance to battle the True Knot, a cult whose members try to feed off the shine of innocents to become immortal.
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Post by spideyman on Oct 7, 2023 18:19:52 GMT
7. The Mist- 2007-After a powerful storm damages their Maine home, David Drayton (Thomas Jane) and his young son head into town to gather food and supplies. Soon afterward, a thick fog rolls in and engulfs the town, trapping the Draytons and others in the grocery store. Terror mounts as deadly creatures reveal themselves outside, but that may be nothing compared to the threat within, where a zealot (Marcia Gay Harden) calls for a sacrifice.
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Post by osnafrank on Oct 7, 2023 19:05:26 GMT
7.) Phantoms (FTV 4/5) Thanks,spideyman 
An unspeakable evil has mysteriously wiped out a whole town.
Two vacationing sisters and a cop from a nearby town try to piece things together with the help of Flyte, an academic.
A well made Horror/Supernatural Thriller, with a good cast.
The plot is full of suspense and leaves the audience waiting for the story to unfold.
Worth a watch just for the unique idea.
It is based on a Dean Koontz book, so i think
the movie is better than the book.
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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 7, 2023 21:27:27 GMT
7. The Visitor (FTV)
Star-loaded cult sci-fi religious horror film with no shortage of bombast, that oddly no one talks about.
It’s 1979, so you write a script that combines elements of The Exorcist, The Omen, Carrie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and (for some reason) The Birds. Then for actors you hire John Huston, Lance Henricksen, Sam Peckinpah, Shelley Winters, Glenn Ford, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Now for a director, hire an inexperienced Italian guy who has only made visual effects for television commercials, but is a big fan of Alejandro Jodorowosky, but who always wanted to make a giallo. Then open your film with a bleach blonde Jesus talking to a group of bald-headed kids about how Satan is really Zateen, an alien from outer space who mated with early Earth apes to create what is known as modern humans. Did you get all that? You’ve just made The Visitor.
Is there any point in me stating that this movie was bizarre and made little sense? Even the actors interviewed in the extras said they had no idea what was going on. There’s so much to pick apart here, but really it’s just one of those ones you have to see to believe. Oh, and the music is so over-the-top dramatic, merely people walking across a room gets treated as if it’s the most tense thing ever. Did I mention the corporate boardroom of Satanists led by Mel Ferrer? The use of Satanic powers to influence the outcome of an NBA game with an exploding basketball? How about the fishing line noose put around a woman’s neck while she sits in a wheelchair at the top of a staircase? The lead little girl who occasionally has a southern accent and swears loudly while playing Pong on a CRT projector screen, who pulls a loaded pistol out of a gift box at her birthday party?
Yeah, it’s that kind of movie.
3 out of 5 stars.Bob's October 2023 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. Ghostwatch 4/5 (FTV)
2. Wendel & Wild 4/5 (FTV)
3. Dolls 3/5 (FTV)
4. Society 3/5 (FTV)
5. Tombs of the Blind Dead 3/5 (FTV)
6. The Brainiac 3/5 (FTV)
7. The Visitor 3/5 (FTV)
 
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Post by wireman on Oct 7, 2023 23:50:39 GMT
6. Prom Night (1980) Jamie Lee Curtis
Not bad but it needed a little more tension. One thing I thought was clever was how the premise of Halloween was used for misdirection. This is grouped with the slasher flicks but it's not really like most slasher flicks. 6/10
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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 8, 2023 21:10:23 GMT
8. Talk To Me (FTV)
Hand sculpture that lets those who grasp it be possessed by wandering spirits. What could go wrong?
A24 studios once again gives us something fresh in the horror genre, and let’s get this out of the way: by all means you should see this movie. Talk to Me combines elements of the “Bloody Mary” dare with the lure social media fame as the ultimate form of peer pressure. Despite the novelty of this angle, I can’t really say anything here was particularly new in the actual scares department, and this was arguably the least arty of the A24 films. Still, Talk To Me is an entertaining ride from beginning to end, but it seems a bit afraid to give the audience much time to think or figure things out for themselves.
Not too surprising when you consider this was made by a pair of Australian YouTube stars used to making content for shortened attention spans, but you’d be hard pressed to find a better horror debut this year that’s not based on existing intellectual property. There’s already talk of a sequel and/or prequel, but I’m interested to see what direction these guys go artistically now that they have the confidence of a success on their resume. Or, Hollywood will come knocking and slowly destroy them like M. Night Shyamalan.
4 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2023 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. Ghostwatch 4/5 (FTV)
2. Wendel & Wild 4/5 (FTV)
3. Dolls 3/5 (FTV)
4. Society 3/5 (FTV)
5. Tombs of the Blind Dead 3/5 (FTV)
6. The Brainiac 3/5 (FTV)
7. The Visitor 3/5 (FTV)
8. Talk To Me 4/5 (FTV)
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Post by wireman on Oct 9, 2023 1:20:54 GMT
7. Bucket Of Blood (1959)
A Roger Corman flick about a guy how starts making clay statues out of people he's killed. A combo of horror and comedy. This movie hilariously skewers the beatniks of the era. 8/10
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Post by spideyman on Oct 9, 2023 11:26:01 GMT
8. The Colony- 2021- An astronaut is shipwrecked on a long-decimated Earth during a research mission. With her crew mates killed or wounded, she alone must decide the fate of the wasteland's remaining populace.
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Post by spideyman on Oct 9, 2023 11:28:43 GMT
9. Cold Creek Manor- 2003-When filmmaker Cooper Tilson (Dennis Quaid) and his wife, Leah (Sharon Stone), tire of life in New York City, they buy a decrepit house in rural Cold Creek, N.Y., and move their family up there. However, soon the former owner, a menacing local named Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff), arrives. When Dale, who has just been released from prison, asks to be hired to help repair the house, the Tilsons agree. But soon Cooper starts believing that Dale may be even more dangerous than he seems.
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Post by osnafrank on Oct 9, 2023 18:50:08 GMT
8.) Underwater (3/5)
Norah and her team find themselves in a dangerous situation as they work at the bottom of the Mariana Trench and clash against an unidentified species.
If you liked Alien (i don't know anyone who didn't) and The Abyss,
you'll like this movie, because it feels like a crossover.
A classic B movie monster/disaster flick, but with stunning cinematography and gritty sets,
very claustrophobic.
This Movie would have made a perfect "Cloverfield" Prequel,
because the monsters at the end, looked, sounded and acted
like the monster in "Cloverfield" (Just my two cents)
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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 10, 2023 0:06:36 GMT
9. Young Frankenstein
Classic Mel Brooks comedy where a descendant of Dr. Frankenstein follows in the family footsteps.
What can I really say about this movie, it’s a classic and I’m sure you’ve all seen it or at least have familiarity with it. Gene Wilder is at peak lunacy and the supporting cast of characters are memorable and hilarious. Many great quotes from this one: “Frau Blucher”, "Walk this way", “Abby Normal”, “Puttin’ on the Ritz”, and of course anything with Marty Feldman’s “I-gor” never fails to get laughs.
The ending’s sexual hijinks sound a false note to a modern audience’s eyes (you know what scene I’m talking about), but hey that was the 1970’s and Mel Brooks is gonna Mel Brooks. Essential viewing for comedy fans and horror fans alike.
5 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2023 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. Ghostwatch 4/5 (FTV)
2. Wendel & Wild 4/5 (FTV)
3. Dolls 3/5 (FTV)
4. Society 3/5 (FTV)
5. Tombs of the Blind Dead 3/5 (FTV)
6. The Brainiac 3/5 (FTV)
7. The Visitor 3/5 (FTV)
8. Talk To Me 4/5 (FTV)
9. Young Frankenstein 5/5
     
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Post by wireman on Oct 10, 2023 9:29:21 GMT
8. Island Of Lost Souls (1932)
An early adaptation of The Island Of Dr Moreau. This movie was made before the Hollywood standards code and is a bit more radical than films made after this during the early days of Hollywood. This movie pushed the boundaries of disturbing content of the time. It's 90 years old and still rather disturbing. A real gem that you never hear about. I saw this on The Criterion Channel. HG Wells was still alive when this was made and I was wondering what he thought of it and found this in the trivia section on IMDB
Author H.G. Wells disliked this movie adaptation of his novel 'The Island of Doctor Moreau'. Wells felt the film's emphasis on horror overshadowed the novel's philosophical themes.
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Post by osnafrank on Oct 10, 2023 18:48:46 GMT
9.) The Return of the Living Dead (3,5/5)
When foreman Frank (James Karen) shows new employee Freddy (Thom Mathews) a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse,
the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout Louisville.
An amazing cult classic.
A wonderful blend of comedy, horror, gore and genuine creepiness.
This movie screams 80s in the best way, the wardrobes,
the soundtrack, the dialog, it's all corny fun.
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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 10, 2023 22:23:06 GMT
10. The Exorcist II: The Heretic (FTV)
Four years after the events of the original, an ancient demon returns to threaten Regan and a priest.
This is perhaps not only the most maligned sequel of all time, but also one of the most hated movies of all time. I’m not here to defend this as some sort of overlooked gem, but having seen many terrible horror movies, this is quite far from the worst. Director John Boorman (Deliverance, and perhaps more apropos here, Zardoz) was no fan of the original and wanted to take things in a different direction. Maybe it wasn’t the best decision by the producers to hire someone who disliked the original, but Boorman deserves credit for being bold rather than just repeating what was done in the original. This movie is more concerned with why the most innocent and “good” person (Regan, again played ably by a then 18-year-old Linda Blair) would attract the most evil entity, and the role that goodness plays in keeping the moral balance of the world.
Unfortunately, the original script was passed around and re-written so many times, the story is crowded with at least two major elements that don’t belong. One is a sci-fi aspect where a therapist uses a strobe machine to essentially “mind meld” with patients. It doesn’t help that the therapist is played by a more or less catatonic Louise Fletcher, hot off the heels of an Oscar win (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) but apparently suffering from a gallbladder infection. (She would later appear as a scientist in “Brainstorm”, another intriguing but imperfect film involving a consciousness-sharing recording device). This part of the film is not essential to move things forward and feels like the remnants of another script adapted to fit (poorly) into this one. We don’t need to “science up” The Exorcist.
The second thing that doesn’t belong in a sequel to The Exorcist is a flashback subplot involving the original priest Father Merrin (again played by Max von Sydow) that takes us to an unnamed African country plagued by locust swarms, and the young boy who grows up to be a scientist who studies ways to get the “good” locusts to influence the “bad” ones to prevent disaster. Did you get all that? I see what they were trying to do here, but this has to be the clunkiest allegory ever crammed into a movie script. Once again, I suspect one of the producers was influenced by the success of all those 70’s “animal disaster” movies and forced them to include this in the story. The Exorcist doesn’t need bugs, not even if James Earl Jones wears a silly tribal bug costume.
With that setup, critics and audiences were justified in hating this movie, because they expected a sequel to The Exorcist and were instead given three movies, only one of which felt like a continuation of the original story, and nothing really scary. So why watch it at all? Despite these structural flaws, we’re left with Boorman’s flair for visuals, which in itself is a reason for watching. We also get a haunting score by Ennio Morricone, an apparently drunk Richard Burton who still manages to convey intensity while obviously reading cue cards, and a baby-faced Regan tap dancing and nearly falling off a New York high rise (no stunt double was used). This movie was a bit of a mess, but it’s not an incoherent mess—it just made some bad choices in story. If you watch this movie, make sure you watch the original theatrical cut, not the hastily shortened cut that they forced Boorman to do after the critics howled.
3 out of 5 stars.Bob's October 2023 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. Ghostwatch 4/5 (FTV)
2. Wendel & Wild 4/5 (FTV)
3. Dolls 3/5 (FTV)
4. Society 3/5 (FTV)
5. Tombs of the Blind Dead 3/5 (FTV)
6. The Brainiac 3/5 (FTV)
7. The Visitor 3/5 (FTV)
8. Talk To Me 4/5 (FTV)
9. Young Frankenstein 5/5
10. The Exorcist II: The Heretic 3/5 (FTV)
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Post by wolf on Oct 10, 2023 23:53:15 GMT
5. “Appendage” 2023
A birthmark gets ….weird.
And GROWS. 
…..and…..DOES THINGS.
(Time for a refreshing rewatch of ‘The Exorcist III’ fushingfeef ! 😊  🍿
’Cold Creek Manor’ is a really great Quaid film, Lady spideyman 😊
Have been a fan of Dorff since 1987’s ‘The Gate’.
Another really good Quaid movie is 2019’s ‘The Intruder’.
If you haven’t seen it, you might like it.
Cool ‘role reversal’ for Dennis. 😊😉🍿👏👏👏)
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Post by osnafrank on Oct 11, 2023 19:09:33 GMT
10.) Spiral (FTV 2/5)
Working in the shadow of his father, Detective Ezekiel "Zeke" Banks and his rookie partner
take charge of an investigation into grisly murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city's gruesome past.
I haven't watched a Saw Movie since part three.
This one isn't completely awful, it has an okay plot,
but it felt more like a "good cop-bad cop" movie, than a horror thriller.
There were four deaths and they didn’t come near as scary or gruesome as what were used
in the movies i've watched.
The acting is horrendous, and sometimes the film is just plain stupid.
"I recognize this building, it's the court house" on a sign that said court house on it.
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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 11, 2023 22:09:07 GMT
11. Creepshow 3 (FTV)
Anthology of short horror films with characters that overlap between storylines.
Made in 2006 on a low budget by filmmakers who seem to specialize in making low-budget sequels to George Romero films (they also made “Day of the Dead 2”), Creepshow is really only a sequel in name only. It didn’t have Stephen King’s, George Romero’s or Tom Savini’s input or blessing. The original Creepshow is a near-perfect horror film, the sequel has its weaknesses but is still a decent watch, so I was hoping that Creepshow 3 would at least be average. Sadly, it’s pretty far below even that low standard.
The stories are stupid, uninvolving, non-intriguing, highly predictable, and populated by annoying and loathsome characters. The acting is often embarrassing. Like the original, there is some animation, but the animation in Creepshow 3 looks nothing like comic book art, more like Adobe Flash animation that someone made on their laptop over a weekend. Like the original, there’s some attempt to put humor in the horror, but the humor mostly falls flat.
There are five short films plus a wraparound story, but by the time we got to the middle of the second story I really just couldn’t even bring myself to care about what was going on. One of the tales (where two students suspect their professor’s wife is a robot) had potential to be like an old EC comics story, but the gory practical effects were wasted on bad characters with no story. The whole thing has the feel of a crappy made-for-cable movie made by people who don’t really understand what made the originals so fun. They would have been better off using the movie's budget to buy bread to feed ducks.
It’s not just bad as a Creepshow sequel, it’s just plain bad. A bomb, a stinker, a waste of time.
1 out of 5 stars.Bob's October 2023 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. Ghostwatch 4/5 (FTV)
2. Wendel & Wild 4/5 (FTV)
3. Dolls 3/5 (FTV)
4. Society 3/5 (FTV)
5. Tombs of the Blind Dead 3/5 (FTV)
6. The Brainiac 3/5 (FTV)
7. The Visitor 3/5 (FTV)
8. Talk To Me 4/5 (FTV)
9. Young Frankenstein 5/5
10. The Exorcist II: The Heretic 3/5 (FTV)
11. Creepshow 3 1/5 (FTV)     
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Post by spideyman on Oct 11, 2023 23:29:00 GMT
10-PROPHECY (1979)
Director John Frankenheimer’s “nature run amok” environmental horror film Prophecy doesn’t have a good reputation, but if you can get on its wavelength it’s actually extremely creepy. The story follows a couple (Robert Foxworth and Talia Shire) who have been sent into the Maine wilderness by the EPA to look into a dispute between a Native American tribe and a paper mill. What they discover is that something this paper mill is doing is having a serious impact on the environment, resulting in large, mutant creatures. What makes this especially unsettling is the fact that Shire’s character is pregnant, so we know she should not be in this area. The longer she’s here, the bigger the risk to her unborn child. Then there’s a rampaging mutant bear (Jason Lives director Tom McLoughlin and Predator‘s Kevin Peter Hall both wore the costume) that sometimes looks goofy going after its victims, but there are some great moments involving this thing as well.
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