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Post by Captain Spencer on Jan 30, 2024 2:41:45 GMT
Don't Hang Up (2016)Teens who play extremely cruel pranks and then post them online get a taste of their own medicine for a prank that went way too far. An intriguing premise that made me watch it immediately. Perhaps it could have been better, yet it still works. It borrows some ideas from Saw, and you could even say it's a flat out rip-off. Yet it comes up with some good ideas on its own and builds up some adequate suspense. It's obvious from the get-go who the antagonist is, but there are still a couple of good surprises in store for the finale. Similar to Unfriended, this demonstrates how twisted the cyberspace world is with the enjoyment of bullying and cruelty that leads to public humiliation. And the terrible price paid because of it. 6.5/10
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 31, 2024 6:24:11 GMT
X-The Man With X-Ray Eyes 1963 -- "The city... as if it were unborn. Rising into the sky with fingers of metal, limbs without flesh, girders without stone. Signs hanging without support. Wires dipping and swaying without poles. A city unborn. Flesh dissolved in an acid of light. A city of the dead."
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 1, 2024 6:45:10 GMT
Pit and the Pendulum 1961--Watched it with the weird tv prologue shot in 1967 where Catherine Medina wakes up in an asylum and wanders around seeing some weird people before the movie plays.
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Post by gspdude on Feb 3, 2024 14:06:31 GMT
Guru, the Mad Monk (1970) Someone posted this poster on twitter and I thought "Hey, that looks good!", Well it does have a Mad Priest running a prison church, and his Hunchback assistant, and there's a vampire about, but pretty much every technical aspect aspect of the movie is bad. Bad acting, directing, script, sets, you name it. At least it's mercifully short(62m). 2/10.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 4, 2024 8:54:31 GMT
HOUSE OF MORTAL SIN - 1976 - Girl goes to make confession by mistake and encounters a loony priest who begins stalking her--and her family doesn't believe it. Obvious effort to emulate a Hammer film, but making the monster a sex-starved priest instead of a blood-starved vampire. The music is effective at giving it a Hammer feeling yet I didn't find it coherent enough to work in the end.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Feb 5, 2024 22:12:12 GMT
"Tales from the Crypt" 1972
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 6, 2024 6:22:55 GMT
HOUSE OF WAX 1953 - How many times I watched this and thought "that assistant who looks like a young Charles Bronson." I never assumed it was him because he was using Buchinsky in the credits and he didn't speak and he is made up to look so gaunt. I notice he was in the scenes with ping pong guy. "There's someone with a bag of popcorn! Close your mouth, it's the bag I'm aiming at, not your tonsils! Here she comes! Well, look at that-it's in the bag!"
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Post by gspdude on Feb 6, 2024 12:55:35 GMT
Asylum (1972) Better than average anthology about a new doctor at an Insane Asylum hearing the stories of 4 "incurable" inmates. Good cast. 7/10.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Feb 7, 2024 15:02:55 GMT
10/10I always loved this film but its one of those films that gets even better with multiple watches. It ties Return of the Living Dead as my favorite zombie movies.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Feb 7, 2024 15:06:20 GMT
2/10Pillow Party Massacre really tries to be a fun throwback to the slasher films of yesteryear but it really fails. It has no likable characters and its just very generic. I really felt practically nothing for this film. A few decent kills are the only redeeming factors.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Feb 7, 2024 15:09:36 GMT
1/10Now this one was one big ass struggle to get through. The Secret Village has to be one of the most boring horror films I have ever seen. Its about a researcher looking into a village that many have died in. There is a cult trying to protect the village. Thats about it.
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Post by gspdude on Feb 10, 2024 13:40:30 GMT
Wildling(2018) A teenage girl raised in isolation by Brad Dourif is found and placed in the home of Sheriff Liv Tyler and her younger brother until her proper family can be found. I don't want to give much away, but it's interesting and worth a watch. 7/10.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Feb 10, 2024 14:10:19 GMT
Inferno (1980)In Dario Argento's semi-sequel to Suspiria, an American studying music in Rome returns to New York to investigate the disappearance of his sister who has been living in an old building inhabited by the witch Mater Tenebrarum. One of my least favorite Argento movies. I thought I'd watch it again to see if I might like it better, but sadly I didn't. Inspite of the great camera work, striking imagery, amazing set pieces and impressive set designs, I can't get over the fact that there's actually very little story here. It just rambles on and on, and turned out to be a big build-up to nothing. Cool music score by Keith Emerson that sometimes tries to be like Jerry Goldsmith's Omen score. 4.5/10
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 10, 2024 18:59:49 GMT
Asylum (1972) Better than average anthology about a new doctor at an Insane Asylum hearing the stories of 4 "incurable" inmates. Good cast. 7/10. "Better keep the door closed and keep out the drafts as Dr. Starr used to say."
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Post by gspdude on Feb 11, 2024 15:04:36 GMT
The Monster That Challenged the World (1957) For 50s giant monster movie(even the not so good ones) lovers, like me. 5/10.
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Post by gspdude on Feb 14, 2024 14:59:23 GMT
There's Nothing Out There (1991) Horror-Comedy. 7 friends spending spring break in an isolated house in the woods are stalked by a monster. Some humor, some mayhem, some nudity, and more horror movie cliche references than Scream. 5½/10.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 14, 2024 23:30:27 GMT
THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE - 1962 I had seen the first Mabuse film. The new Mabuse lacks the thousand yard stare of the original but it is a very good thriller with some horror elements thanks to the mental powers of the criminal mastermind. How he, as an inmate of an institution is able to carry out a murder spree comes as a surprise--especially to his psychiatrist! Gert Frobe makes a formidable adversary with some comedic touches which aren't as goofy as in an Edgar Wallace krimi. When the criminal gang robs an armored car by dropping it into a pit--before they leave they give the guards bus fare.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Feb 15, 2024 3:24:23 GMT
The Brood (1979)A mentally ill woman undergoing an unconventional therapy technique known as psychoplasmics breeds deformed children that will kill at her beckon call. After the low-budget schlockiness of Shivers and Rabid, David Cronenberg blossomed into a more mature and serious filmmaker to be reckoned with. Using his own personal, ugly divorce as the basis for the story, Cronenberg turned out one of his most dark, graphic, bleak and disturbing movies. Intelligently written and imaginatively conceived with some very gruesome and nasty scenes, so definitely not for the squeamish. At times has a post-modern feel to it. The very definition of body horror. 7.5/10
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 15, 2024 6:23:35 GMT
I think the Brood is Canada's best fantasy horror film (though I am more fond of Rituals 1977 but since the director is not Canadian I have to give the Cronenberg credit for being a competent imaginative horror film.
Speaking of Canada...
MY BLOODY VALENTINE 1981 - Not being a fan of the slasher film I never sought to appraise which ones were the best rip-offs of Halloween. And I had seen this a few times and was never impressed. However, after viewing it again, I will say, of the slasher films I have seen, and in particular, of the ones that involve a seasonal holiday and feature a masked killer--this probably has the most merit. The cinematography and the score are better than average for these films I think, and considering it is a Canadian film--most slasher films were made in Canada, this one feels the most Canadian due to the cast being actual Canadians! It certainly seemed that way from the accents I detected and the obscurity of the players. The basic plot is alright and unlike most of these films, it does not do the standard "last girl as survivor" shtick. I deem some of the directing choices are bland and two members of the cast (the police chief and Axel) could have been improved with more sympathetic actors.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Feb 15, 2024 17:27:07 GMT
I think the Brood is Canada's best fantasy horror film (though I am more fond of Rituals 1977 but since the director is not Canadian I have to give the Cronenberg credit for being a competent imaginative horror film. Speaking of Canada... MY BLOODY VALENTINE 1981 - Not being a fan of the slasher film I never sought to appraise which ones were the best rip-offs of Halloween. And I had seen this a few times and was never impressed. However, after viewing it again, I will say, of the slasher films I have seen, and in particular, of the ones that involve a seasonal holiday and feature a masked killer--this probably has the most merit. The cinematography and the score are better than average for these films I think, and considering it is a Canadian film--most slasher films were made in Canada, this one feels the most Canadian due to the cast being actual Canadians! It certainly seemed that way from the accents I detected and the obscurity of the players. The basic plot is alright and unlike most of these films, it does not do the standard "last girl as survivor" shtick. I deem some of the directing choices are bland and two members of the cast (the police chief and Axel) could have been improved with more sympathetic actors. My Bloody Valentine would certainly be in my Top 5 favorite slashers.
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