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Post by diobolic on Oct 29, 2021 13:35:40 GMT
29--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 spideyman on Oct 29, 2021 14:04:27 GMT
29--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 wolf on Oct 29, 2021 15:49:09 GMT
A bio-pic? 
If it is,
I want to see some royalties, damnit! 🤨 $$$ |
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Post by edwardjohn on Oct 29, 2021 17:32:56 GMT
29--Happy Death Day--In this clever and compelling horror mystery, a college student is trapped in a time loop that forces her to keep reliving a birthday that ends with her murder at the hands of a masked madman.
Jessica Rothe was particularly good. I've been a fan of hers ever since her brief role in La La Land. |
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Post by edwardjohn on Oct 29, 2021 17:36:52 GMT
A bio-pic?
If it is,
I want to see some royalties, damnit! 🤨 $$$ |
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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 29, 2021 20:23:39 GMT
29. Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (1973) (FTV)
Young housewife who recently inherited a Victorian mansion unwittingly releases a trio of little goblin-like creatures who begin to menace her.
Another batty made-for-television horror film that aired in October 1973 as the ABC Movie of the Week, I was too young to have seen this when it originally aired and somehow missed it in syndicated reruns. It stars Kim Darby (True Grit), Twilight Zone alum Jim Hutton (Ellery Queen, and father of Timothy Hutton), and of course cranky old Willian Demarest (Uncle Charlie from My Three Sons).
It’s formulaic but effective, covering familiar haunted house tropes (the locked room, the bricked-in wall, whispers in the dark) but also adding bizarre monsters of a type we’ve never seen before. About those monsters, they are pretty silly looking on first impression: they have heads shaped like shrunken lemons, and appear to be wearing gorilla suits. But there’s also something sinister about how they move about in the shadows, and how they don’t move their mouths when they talk. One of them is played by little person Felix Silla, better known as Cousin It from the Addams Family, and through use of scaled up sets and props, they’re fairly convincing as tiny trolls. I’m guessing these guys caused their share of sleepless nights for children who watched this back in 1973.
Fans of 70’s television thrillers will enjoy, although this one isn't aging as well as superior films like Duel. On the other hand, this creepy little film left such an impression on future horror director Guillermo del Toro when he saw it as a child, he ended up producing a big-budget theatrical remake in 2011. Gonna have to watch that one now!
3 out of 5 stars.Bob's October 2021 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It 3/5 (FTV)
2. Possession (1981) 4/5 (FTV)
3. The Endless 4/5 (FTV)
4. Dead & Buried 4/5 (FTV)
5. The Blob (1988) 4/5 (FTV)
6. The New York Ripper 3/5 (FTV)
7. The Day of the Beast 3/5 (FTV)
8. Bad Ronald 3/5 (FTV)
9. A Quiet Place Part II 2/5 (FTV)
10. Popcorn 3/5
11. The Vigil (2019) 4/5 (FTV)
12. Beyond the Door (aka The Devil Within Her) 2/5 (FTV)
13. The Mortuary Collection 3/5 (FTV)
14. The Borrower 2/5 (FTV)
15. Cemetery of Terror 4/5 (FTV)
16. Trick ‘r Treat 4/5
17. 976-EVIL 3/5 (FTV)
18. Halloween Kills 4/5 (FTV)
19. Dr. Cyclops 2/5 (FTV)
20. The Night House 5/5 (FTV)
21. Old 3/5 (FTV)
22. Critters 2: The Main Course 4/5 (FTV)
23. The Brotherhood of Satan 3/5 (FTV)
24. The Funhouse 4/5
25. Snatchers 4/5 (FTV)
26. John Carpenter’s Vampires 4/5 (FTV)
27. The Ghastly Ones (aka Blood Rites) 2/5 (FTV)
28. Night of the Wolf 4/5 (FTV)
29. Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (1973) 3/5 (FTV)
    
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Post by osnafrank on Oct 30, 2021 15:04:26 GMT
20 Dawn of the Dead (4/5)
Survivors of an epidemic which causes the infected to turn into flesh-eating zombies
take refuge in a shopping mall. In addition to battling the undead,
they also have to tackle problems from within.
A fantastic zombie horror film filled with great kills ,
tough choices that the characters have to make
and good acting from the entire ensemble.
Exciting, fast-paced, blood thirsty fun.
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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 30, 2021 20:11:58 GMT
30. The Witch (aka The VVitch: A New England Folktale)
Family banished from a 1600’s New England Puritan colony are soon beset by witch problems.
I saw The Witch back in 2015 during its theatrical run but I haven’t seen it again and wanted to see how well it held up. It’s pretty much exactly as I remember it: a haunting, deeply atmospheric, beautifully shot horror slow burn with excellent performances by the entire cast. Directed by Robert Eggers, who went on to direct 2019’s challenging but excellent The Lighthouse, The Witch gets nearly everything right, with dialog that is comprehensible but unmistakably of the period, and nightmarish visuals that get under your skin. The film is also is also notable for the remarkably assured debut of a young Anya Taylor-Joy, in the film's most pivotal role.
It is a very simple, some would say slight, story, so those who want action-packed plots and excess jump scares should look elsewhere. But although the film appears to be smaller in budget and scope, it never feels cheap, or like it holds back in any sort of way. It's gorgeously bleak. The isolation and loneliness are precisely the point, in a young America that still feels wild and magical in an old European fairy tale, albeit a very grim one.
5 out of 5 stars.Bob's October 2021 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It 3/5 (FTV)
2. Possession (1981) 4/5 (FTV)
3. The Endless 4/5 (FTV)
4. Dead & Buried 4/5 (FTV)
5. The Blob (1988) 4/5 (FTV)
6. The New York Ripper 3/5 (FTV)
7. The Day of the Beast 3/5 (FTV)
8. Bad Ronald 3/5 (FTV)
9. A Quiet Place Part II 2/5 (FTV)
10. Popcorn 3/5
11. The Vigil (2019) 4/5 (FTV)
12. Beyond the Door (aka The Devil Within Her) 2/5 (FTV)
13. The Mortuary Collection 3/5 (FTV)
14. The Borrower 2/5 (FTV)
15. Cemetery of Terror 4/5 (FTV)
16. Trick ‘r Treat 4/5
17. 976-EVIL 3/5 (FTV)
18. Halloween Kills 4/5 (FTV)
19. Dr. Cyclops 2/5 (FTV)
20. The Night House 5/5 (FTV)
21. Old 3/5 (FTV)
22. Critters 2: The Main Course 4/5 (FTV)
23. The Brotherhood of Satan 3/5 (FTV)
24. The Funhouse 4/5
25. Snatchers 4/5 (FTV)
26. John Carpenter’s Vampires 4/5 (FTV)
27. The Ghastly Ones (aka Blood Rites) 2/5 (FTV)
28. Night of the Wolf 4/5 (FTV)
29. Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (1973) 3/5 (FTV)
30. The Witch (aka The VVitch: A New England Folktale 5/5
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Post by wolf on Oct 30, 2021 21:11:05 GMT
30. The Witch (aka The VVitch: A New England Folktale)
Family banished from a 1600’s New England Puritan colony are soon beset by witch problems.
I saw The Witch back in 2015 during its theatrical run but I haven’t seen it again and wanted to see how well it held up. It’s pretty much exactly as I remember it: a haunting, deeply atmospheric, beautifully shot horror slow burn with excellent performances by the entire cast. Directed by Robert Eggers, who went on to direct 2019’s challenging but excellent The Lighthouse, The Witch gets nearly everything right, with dialog that is comprehensible but unmistakably of the period, and nightmarish visuals that get under your skin. The film is also is also notable for the remarkably assured debut of a young Anya Taylor-Joy, in the film's most pivotal role.
It is a very simple, some would say slight, story, so those who want action-packed plots and excess jump scares should look elsewhere. But although the film appears to be smaller in budget and scope, it never feels cheap, or like it holds back in any sort of way. It's gorgeously bleak. The isolation and loneliness are precisely the point, in a young America that still feels wild and magical in an old European fairy tale, albeit a very grim one.
5 out of 5 stars.Bob's October 2021 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It 3/5 (FTV)
2. Possession (1981) 4/5 (FTV)
3. The Endless 4/5 (FTV)
4. Dead & Buried 4/5 (FTV)
5. The Blob (1988) 4/5 (FTV)
6. The New York Ripper 3/5 (FTV)
7. The Day of the Beast 3/5 (FTV)
8. Bad Ronald 3/5 (FTV)
9. A Quiet Place Part II 2/5 (FTV)
10. Popcorn 3/5
11. The Vigil (2019) 4/5 (FTV)
12. Beyond the Door (aka The Devil Within Her) 2/5 (FTV)
13. The Mortuary Collection 3/5 (FTV)
14. The Borrower 2/5 (FTV)
15. Cemetery of Terror 4/5 (FTV)
16. Trick ‘r Treat 4/5
17. 976-EVIL 3/5 (FTV)
18. Halloween Kills 4/5 (FTV)
19. Dr. Cyclops 2/5 (FTV)
20. The Night House 5/5 (FTV)
21. Old 3/5 (FTV)
22. Critters 2: The Main Course 4/5 (FTV)
23. The Brotherhood of Satan 3/5 (FTV)
24. The Funhouse 4/5
25. Snatchers 4/5 (FTV)
26. John Carpenter’s Vampires 4/5 (FTV)
27. The Ghastly Ones (aka Blood Rites) 2/5 (FTV)
28. Night of the Wolf 4/5 (FTV)
29. Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (1973) 3/5 (FTV)
30. The Witch (aka The VVitch: A New England Folktale 5/5
Taylor-Joy is turning out to be a fine young actress.
(also loved Carpenter's 'Vampires' you mentioned before,
another favorite. Loved seeing Henry Kingi in that one.)
I agree with all you say here about 'The VVitch',
a very understated but affecting film. I think.
Extremely well done and creepy as hell.
Yesterday, I got to see
Vincent Price's 1973 "Theatre Of Blood"
with Diana Rigg and Milo O'Shea.
Loved this as a kid, and still do.
Later got to see 1976's "The Tenant".
Great Polanski film and Polanski performance,
with Melvyn Douglas, Shelley Winters and Isabelle Adjani
hmmm...tonight I think I would like to try and see Guillermo del Torro's
"The Shape Of Water" yet AGAIN.
Cannot praise this film enough.
I love all of this vastly talented man's work.
Would also like to see "The 9th Gate" again too.
Another FAVORITE.
wireman ?
I saw "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" is on Hulu.
Definitely gotta try to squeeze that in somewhere too.
Sigh...so many cool flicks!...only so many hours in the day and night. |
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Post by spideyman on Oct 31, 2021 0:22:15 GMT
30--Them--While investigating a series of mysterious deaths, Sergeant Ben Peterson (James Whitmore) finds a young girl (Sandy Descher) who is unable to speak. As Peterson joins forces with FBI agent Robert Graham (James Arness) and scientist Dr. Harold Medford (Edmund Gwenn), he discovers that all the incidents are due to giant ants that have been mutated by atomic radiation. Peterson and Graham, with the aid of the military, attempt to find the queen ants and destroy the nests before the danger spreads.
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Post by wolf on Oct 31, 2021 0:25:54 GMT
30--Them--While investigating a series of mysterious deaths, Sergeant Ben Peterson (James Whitmore) finds a young girl (Sandy Descher) who is unable to speak. As Peterson joins forces with FBI agent Robert Graham (James Arness) and scientist Dr. Harold Medford (Edmund Gwenn), he discovers that all the incidents are due to giant ants that have been mutated by atomic radiation. Peterson and Graham, with the aid of the military, attempt to find the queen ants and destroy the nests before the danger spreads. WUITIIQGUyMrvFxIgkNw |
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Post by spideyman on Oct 31, 2021 14:26:52 GMT
31--It Chapter Two--Defeated by members of the Losers' Club, the evil clown Pennywise returns 27 years later to terrorize the town of Derry, Maine, once again. Now adults, the childhood friends have long since gone their separate ways. But when people start disappearing, Mike Hanlon calls the others home for one final stand. Damaged by scars from the past, the united Losers must conquer their deepest fears to destroy the shape-shifting Pennywise -- now more powerful than ever.
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Post by edwardjohn on Oct 31, 2021 15:50:30 GMT
Army of Thieves (2021)
Not sure if this counts as a horror movie, but it is a prequel to a horror movie (Army of the Dead) and has several zombie scenes, so I'm going to count it. This movie focuses on Deiter, the safecracker from Army of the Dead and basically tells his origin and what led him to the States. I really liked this; its a different kind of Snyder movie (Snyder didn't direct it, but he did write/produce - weirdly, it was Deiter himself, Matthias Schweighöfer, that directed the movie); its essentially a heist movie, but it does do some things differently that separates it from other heist movies. For example, the protagonist (Deiter) is not your usual hero in this sort of story; unlike most heist movie protagonists, he's a lot easier to root for. Plus, I really liked Matthias as Deiter. Overall, would definitely recommend if you're after a good heist move (with horror elements).
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Post by osnafrank on Oct 31, 2021 20:19:32 GMT
21 Poltergeist (4/5)
A dream home becomes the house from hell
as evil spirits rise up to possess the soul of an innocent child.
A true classic.
One of the first scary movies i ever saw.
This is one of the best ghost horror movies.
Poltergeist won’t make you jump or anything,
but it’s still pretty scary and could give you nightmares.
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Post by fushingfeef on Oct 31, 2021 21:11:04 GMT
31. Bloody Birthday (FTV)
Three sociopathic children born during a total eclipse commit murders and mayhem on their shared tenth birthday.
We’ve seen “evil child” movies before, with “The Bad Seed”, “Village of the Damned” and “Children of the Corn” being perhaps the best of the lot, but I would like to submit the mostly forgotten Bloody Birthday (1981) for your consideration. Often superficially lumped in as yet another early 80’s slasher, Bloody Birthday is unique for not featuring yet another lone masked killer, and it dares us to take it seriously. The film has a very high kill count, although it’s not as bloody as the title promises, the kids dispatch their enemies with an almost clinical (and at times gleeful) efficiency. They will straight up shoot you if they don’t like you, and scheme to make you look like the crazy one for accusing them of ill intent.
The film goes a bit over the top during the sequence when the kids drive a car through a junkyard in an attempt to run someone down, but it was still an effective sequence. The whole scene where they trick a boy playing hide-and-seek to go into an old refrigerator was pretty gut-wrenching as well. At times it feels like a TV movie in the way that it is shot and framed, but this makes the violence (and occasional adult nudity) more jarring when it happens. All in all this was pretty entertaining stuff that exceeded expectations—the film was probably smarter and better than it needed to be, but I'm grateful for it.
Look for a youngish Julie Brown in various states of undress, Jose Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac) slumming it in a disposable old man role, and a middle-aged Susan Strasberg (Diary of Anne Frank) as a mean teacher.
4 out of 5 stars.Bob's October 2021 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It 3/5 (FTV)
2. Possession (1981) 4/5 (FTV)
3. The Endless 4/5 (FTV)
4. Dead & Buried 4/5 (FTV)
5. The Blob (1988) 4/5 (FTV)
6. The New York Ripper 3/5 (FTV)
7. The Day of the Beast 3/5 (FTV)
8. Bad Ronald 3/5 (FTV)
9. A Quiet Place Part II 2/5 (FTV)
10. Popcorn 3/5
11. The Vigil (2019) 4/5 (FTV)
12. Beyond the Door (aka The Devil Within Her) 2/5 (FTV)
13. The Mortuary Collection 3/5 (FTV)
14. The Borrower 2/5 (FTV)
15. Cemetery of Terror 4/5 (FTV)
16. Trick ‘r Treat 4/5
17. 976-EVIL 3/5 (FTV)
18. Halloween Kills 4/5 (FTV)
19. Dr. Cyclops 2/5 (FTV)
20. The Night House 5/5 (FTV)
21. Old 3/5 (FTV)
22. Critters 2: The Main Course 4/5 (FTV)
23. The Brotherhood of Satan 3/5 (FTV)
24. The Funhouse 4/5
25. Snatchers 4/5 (FTV)
26. John Carpenter’s Vampires 4/5 (FTV)
27. The Ghastly Ones (aka Blood Rites) 2/5 (FTV)
28. Night of the Wolf 4/5 (FTV)
29. Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (1973) 3/5 (FTV)
30. The Witch (aka The VVitch: A New England Folktale 5/5
31. Bloody Birthday 4/5 (FTV)     
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Post by wolf on Oct 31, 2021 23:23:54 GMT
Managed to watch "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" last night! 😄
Still got to get to the other 2 flicks though. 😊
Love your list fushingfeef ,
and I AM going to be going back and looking at it,
and trying to find these films to watch when I can.
Thank you again for doing this AGAIN this year!
You're great, man. Thoroughly enjoyed it all! 😊 WUITIIQGUyMrvFxIgkNw  halloween-smiley26 hgmsy59 
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Post by fushingfeef on Nov 1, 2021 18:20:52 GMT
32. Scare Me (FTV)
Two horror authors, one successfully published and the other an aspiring wannabe, isolated in a cabin in the woods during a power outage, try to out-scare each other with horror tales made up on the fly.
I saved the worst for last, apparently (sigh). The problems with Scare Me are many, and they are profound. Despite a promising premise, the execution is doomed from the start. Let’s start with the utter and complete lack of charm of these two characters, who we know we’re going to be stuck inside a cabin with for 104 minutes. Don’t you think you’d want them to be…likeable, interesting and talented? They aren’t. My Dinner with Andre, this ain’t. It really seems these people hate themselves and humanity in general, so we can’t help but hate them back. I spent much of the film wanting to slap them in their stupid faces. Maybe not the pizza delivery guy who shows up an hour into the movie, but by then the damage has been done.
The two main characters are both self-absorbed and smug, and apparently seem to think they are very funny and great horror writers, which they aren’t. There’s absolutely nothing about them that makes me believe they have ever written a complete sentence outside of Twitter, no evidence of any deeper intellectual capabilities, just passive aggressive snark that we’re supposed to think is funny, I guess. We see no evidence of the published author’s storytelling prowess, and they are both so painfully unfunny in their acting out of the stories (which mostly consists of mugging and bad accents) it’s actually pretty embarrassing. It was like watching someone you dislike die slowly, but without the fun.
I suppose if this was a live improv show that was actually improvised, it could have worked, but this isn’t live improv, it’s a scripted movie that feels like a comedy horror experiment that just didn't work out. When the more heavy “serious horror” moments finally come at the end, it’s completely unearned and lands with a shrug and a thud. Infuriatingly and inexplicably, this film is currently sitting at 82% positive on Rotten Tomatoes, which is more of an indictment of that critic’s aggregation site than anything else. This is one of the few horror movies I've seen that I not only intensely hated, but actually makes me mourn for the genre.
Or maybe I just didn’t get it, but you couldn’t hold a gun to my head and get me to like this movie. I firmly believe that every physical copy of this movie in the world should be put in a huge pile and burned while I dance around it. (Alas, it will stream on Shudder in perpetuity.) I considered giving this 2 stars for at least trying to do something different, but then again, why should they get extra points for a decent concept completely squandered?
1 out of 5 stars.Bob's October 2021 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It 3/5 (FTV)
2. Possession (1981) 4/5 (FTV)
3. The Endless 4/5 (FTV)
4. Dead & Buried 4/5 (FTV)
5. The Blob (1988) 4/5 (FTV)
6. The New York Ripper 3/5 (FTV)
7. The Day of the Beast 3/5 (FTV)
8. Bad Ronald 3/5 (FTV)
9. A Quiet Place Part II 2/5 (FTV)
10. Popcorn 3/5
11. The Vigil (2019) 4/5 (FTV)
12. Beyond the Door (aka The Devil Within Her) 2/5 (FTV)
13. The Mortuary Collection 3/5 (FTV)
14. The Borrower 2/5 (FTV)
15. Cemetery of Terror 4/5 (FTV)
16. Trick ‘r Treat 4/5
17. 976-EVIL 3/5 (FTV)
18. Halloween Kills 4/5 (FTV)
19. Dr. Cyclops 2/5 (FTV)
20. The Night House 5/5 (FTV)
21. Old 3/5 (FTV)
22. Critters 2: The Main Course 4/5 (FTV)
23. The Brotherhood of Satan 3/5 (FTV)
24. The Funhouse 4/5
25. Snatchers 4/5 (FTV)
26. John Carpenter’s Vampires 4/5 (FTV)
27. The Ghastly Ones (aka Blood Rites) 2/5 (FTV)
28. Night of the Wolf 4/5 (FTV)
29. Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (1973) 3/5 (FTV)
30. The Witch (aka The VVitch: A New England Folktale 5/5
31. Bloody Birthday 4/5 (FTV)
32. Scare Me 1/5 (FTV)    
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Post by fushingfeef on Nov 1, 2021 18:34:06 GMT
Thank you all so much for your kind words, your excellent reviews and suggestions, and the camaraderie we share as fellow horror fans! I had a great time!
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Post by osnafrank on Nov 1, 2021 18:44:24 GMT
Thank you all so much for your kind words, your excellent reviews and suggestions, and the camaraderie we share as fellow horror fans! I had a great time!
It was a great October, the time just flew by.
Thanks fushingfeef for this wonderful event! c017 |
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Post by osnafrank on Nov 1, 2021 22:01:01 GMT
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