What did You Watch Last Week (26/10 - 01/11) CLOSED

MINE

Death Ship (1980 Alvin Rakoff) - 5/10

Absurd (1981 Joe D'Amato) - 4/10

Silent Rage (1982 Michael Miller) - 3.5/10

The Deadly Spawn (1983 Douglas McKeown) - 6.5/10

The Initiation (1984 Larry Stewart) - 5.5/10 

Slaughter High (1985 George Dugdale, Mark Ezra & Peter Mackenzie Litten) - 5/10

Slumber Party Massacre II (1987 Deborah Brock) - 4/10

Phantasm II (1988 Don Coscarelli) - 5/10

Santa Sangre (1989 Alejandro Jodorowsky) - 6.5/10

A Tale of Two Sisters (2003 Jee-woon Kim) - 7/10

The Living Skeleton (1968 Hiroki Matsuno) - 6/10

Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968 Hajime Satô) - 5.5/10

The Visitor (1979 Giulio Paradisi) - 3.5/10

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974 Brian Clemens) - 7/10


Re-watches

An American Werewolf in London (1981 John Landis) - 8/10

Fright Night (1985 Tom Holland) - 6.5/10

Body Parts (1991 Eric Red) - 6.5/10

House (1985 Steve Miner) - 7/10

Silent Hill (2006 Christophe Gans) - 4.5/10

Psycho (1960 Alfred Hitchcock) - 9/10

Sleepy Hollow (1999 Tim Burton) - 6.5/10












Film Awards

BEST PICTURE - Psycho
BEST ACTOR - Anthony Perkins (Psycho)
BEST ACTRESS - Soo-jung Lim (A Tale of Two Sisters)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - Roddy McDowall (Fright Night)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - Janet Leigh (Psycho)
BEST DIRECTOR - Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - Santa Sangre
BEST SCORE - Psycho

The Trial of the Chicago 7 - 7.5/10

Clueless - 7/10

Halloween 4 - 7/10

A Bug's Life - A childhood favorite of mine. 8/10

Halloween 5 - Wasted opportunity, but I don't hate it. 5/10

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers - I do this hate this one. 3/10

Halloween (2018) - 5.5/10


First Time Viewings:

Bad Taste (1987, Peter Jackson)
This one is stupid, but intentionally so. Unfortunately, I also found it very boring and didn't like it right from the start.
4.5/10

Meet the Feebles (1989, Peter Jackson)
A mixed bag, but it has some pretty good moments and certainly isn't boring.
6/10

The Frighteners (1996, Peter Jackson)
Pretty good one with a nice mix of comedy and horror. The cast is good, especially Jeffrey Combs, and it's a fun movie overall.
7/10

A Field in England (2013, Ben Wheatley)
Beautifully shot in black and white, but the characters weren't interesting enough to fully pull me into the story.
6/10

Fido (2006, Andrew Currie)
Entertaining zombie comedy with a fun story and a solid cast.
7/10

Blood and Black Lace (1964, Mario Bava)
Pretty good Italian horror. It's well shot and the story kept me engaged.
7/10

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931, Rouben Mamoulian)
Pretty good telling of the story with a very good performance from Frederic March.
7/10

Tales from the Hood (1995, Rusty Cundieff)
A horror anthology in the same vein as Tales from the Crypt. I found it pretty enjoyable.
7/10

Once Bitten (1985, Howard Storm)
This one isn't very well liked, but I actually found it pretty fun. It stars a young Jim Carrey.
7/10

The Night Listener (2006, Patrick Stettner)
The story is interesting, but the execution wasn't great. Robin Williams and Toni Collette are both quite good though.
6/10

The Devil Rides Out (1968, Terence Fisher)
Pretty good one with Christopher Lee. 
7/10

The Company of Wolves (1984, Neil Jordan)
Early film from Neil Jordan. It has great production design, a good score, and is well shot. The story held my interest too.
7/10

The Uninvited (1944, Lewis Allen)
Pretty good haunted house movie with good performances.
7/10

Saturn 3 (1980, Stanley Donen)
This one has great sets, but the story could have been better executed. Also having someone else dub Harvey Keitel was distracting.
6/10

Alone in the Dark (1982, Jack Sholder)
Another one that had potential, but the execution wasn't up to par.
5.5/10


Repeat Viewings:

The Cabin in the Woods (2011, Drew Goddard)
Very entertaining movie. Always a fun watch.
8/10

Halloween (1978, John Carpenter)
A horror classic.
8/10


Movie Awards:

BEST FILM: Halloween
BEST ACTOR: Frederic March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
BEST ACTRESS: Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Donald Pleasence (Halloween)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Toni Collette (The Night Listener)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Dean Cundey (Halloween)
BEST SCORE: John Carpenter (Halloween)
BEST SCRIPT: Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods)
BEST DIRECTOR: John Carpenter (Halloween)

Clueless - 5/10
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers - 7/10
A Bug's Life - 7/10
Halloween 5 - 5/10
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers - 3/10
Halloween '18 - 6/10

Mine: All Horror this Week. And I watched a lot.

The Houses October Built  (2014) - 6/10
Good creepy flick for Halloween.

The Houses October Built 2 (2017) - 6/10
Pretty good follow up.

House with 100 Eyes (2013) - 6/10
Solid disturbing horror film.

Cellar Dweller (1988) - 3/10
Pretty lame monster flick.

The Blair Witch Project (1999) - 10/10
A favorite of mine.

Halloween 3 Season of the Witch (1982) - 7/10
Flawed but creepy film. I enjoy it.

C.H.U.D. II Bud the C.H.U.D. (1989) - 7/10
A childhood favorite and its still enjoyable.

He's Out There (2018) - 5/10
OK stalker/slasher flim.

The Rake (2018) - 2/10
Lame.

Scare Package (2019) - 2/10
Bizzare and all over the place.

ClownTown (2016) - 3/10
Crazy clowns in a town. Not too good.

Tales from the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television (2004) - 6/10
Decent documentary.

The Furies (2019) - 5/10
OK slasher flick.

Slash Dance (1989) - 2/10
Really bad comedy slasher.

Night Shift (2018) - 3/10
Confusing film starts out good but goes downhill big time.

The Halloween That Almost Wasn't (1979)  - 5/10
Watchable Halloween special made for TV.

After Party Massacre (2011) - 3/10
Heavy metal and murder. Thats about it.

Night of the Demons (2009) - 5/10
OK remake.

Island of Death (1976) - 2/10
Super dumb but disturbing film.

City of Dead Men (2014) - 3/10
Forgettable gang horror.

The Cat Creature (1973) - 3/10
Dull made for TV film.

Insane  (2016) - 2/10 
Boring.

Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) - 6/10
Not a big fan of the series but this one ones pretty good.

The Attic (2017) - 3/10
Nothing special.

Cheerleader Massacre (2003) - 4/10 
Watchable slasher film.

Willow Creek (2013) - 5/10
OK bigfoot horror.

Best Film this Week:


Worst Film this Week:

I agree with all of your wins except supporting actress, which I would give to Carrie-Anne Moss for Fido.

A Tale of Two Sisters (2003 Jee-woon Kim) - 6/10

An American Werewolf in London (1981 John Landis) – 6.5/10

Fright Night (1985 Tom Holland) - 5/10

Silent Hill (2006 Christophe Gans) - 6/10

Psycho (1960 Alfred Hitchcock) – 8.5/10

Sleepy Hollow (1999 Tim Burton) - 7/10

First Time Viewing:

The Darkness (2016; Greg McLean) – I didn’t even realize at first, that this was directed by Greg McLean. I loved Wolf Creek and Rogue, but this is by far his weakest work yet. Technically everything about it is solid, but it’s incredibly boring. The youngest child of a family gets possessed by Native American spirits while they’re holidaying at the Grand Canyon. When they return home, the kid starts acting weirdly and creepy things start happening around the house. This is the rare horror movie where no-one dies, and there is very little sense of danger.
2/10

Demonic (2015; Will Canon) – I’m not even sure I understood what was going on here. It starts out with some cop (Frank Grillo) called to a house full of dead bodies, then we switch to a group of young people who seem to be paranormal investigators looking into what happened at the house years later. It’s rather dull and the jumping back and forth between the two timelines didn’t really help either.
2/10

Halloween (1978; John Carpenter) – The classic slasher movie. Tame by today’s standards but still a classy, atmospheric piece of work.
7.5/10

Halloween II (1981; Rick Rosenthal) – A rather average slasher movie. A higher budget, more blood, but it leaves less of an impact. Have never bothered to watch any of the further sequels.
6/10

The Hole In The Ground (2019; Lee Cronin) – Irish movie about a single mother who moves to the remote countryside with her small son. There is a giant sinkhole in the forest next to the house, and when the boy disappears one night, the mother starts suspecting that he has somehow fallen into the hole, and has been replaced by an evil doppelganger. This starts out with a beautifully atmospheric sequence which has a nod to The Shining, but fails to sustain the tension. It is a very slow and uneventful film. It has been compared to The Babadook, because it raises the question whether the mother could be having mental health issues only imagining everything.
3/10

I Had A Bloody Good Time At House Harker (2016; Clayton Cogswell) – This is a bit like the horror version of Galaxy Quest. Two inane brothers, the youngest offspring of the legendary vampire-hunting Harker family, are the joke of town as amateur horror-filmmakers, but when a real vampire turns up they get the opportunity to honour the legacy of their ancestors. I really wanted to like this. It was made on a shoe-string budget from crowd-funding, but the low-brow humour didn’t really connect with me.
3/10

Prey (1977; Norman J. Warren) – Cheap British indie horror about a Lesbian couple who take in a shape shifting alien who has come to earth looking for a new food source. The gals believe he is just mentally challenged and take pity on him. There is only one disturbing scene towards the end when the Alien shows his true colours. The majority of it plays out like a relationship drama with the more dominant lesbian terrorising her younger more innocent partner. This was shot in only 10 days at Shepperton studios and has some real nice cinematography and solid acting. It is considered to be a cult classic. It’s definitely too bizarre to have any mass appeal.
6.5/10

Repeat Viewing:

Amsterdamned (1988; Dick Maas) – One of the most successful Dutch movies ever made. A deranged killer in diving gear uses the Amsterdam canals to approach his victims. Despite being billed as a slasher this is just a fun and exciting popcorn movie. The mutilations like severed heads are more comical than scary, and its deadpan sense of humour adds to the effect of light entertainment.
7.5/10

The Changeling (1980; Peter Medak) – My favourite haunted house movie. Acting, cinematography, sound, music - this is the rare film where everything seems to fit. I wish there would be more horror movies like this.
9/10

Hellboy (2004; Guillermo Del Toro) – Some very creative set- and creature-design even though the plot drags in places. Perlman is an inspired choice for the titular (anti-)hero and it is a thoroughly charming movie, you could tell it was a labour of love for Del Toro.
7/10

Lake Placid (1999; Steve Miner) – The perfect B-movie: Great, witty dialogue: “Crocodiles were more worshipped during history than Jesus.” - Fun characters (Oliver Platt’s croc expert would’ve deserved his own spin-off), and the animatronic crocodile designed by Stan Winston is a beauty too.
7/10

Scream 3 (2000; Wes Craven) – Almost put me to sleep this time. It comes over as mere fan-service. Campbell is pretty committed, and it’s always nice to see Dewey, but most of the tension and creativity of the first two films is gone. It’s a sanitized and dull slasher. Even Lance Henriksen seems bored. Weirdly I had forgotten who the killer was, but then the character is indeed utterly forgettable.
5/10

Sleepy Hollow (1999; Tim Burton) – This used to be a Halloween favourite. I didn’t enjoy it as much this time. Great atmosphere and excellent set-design, but the convoluted plot distracts from what could’ve been a great gothic-horror whodunit. Also Depp is fairly annoying, he plays Ichabod Crane as if he was doing a practise run for Jack Sparrow. The character is far too bumbling and silly and started grating on my nerves. Are we really supposed to believe that a person who deals with mutilated corpses each day would be this scared of some supernatural ghoul?
7/10

Trick’r Treat (2007; Michael Dougherty) – This seems to have become a bit of a cult classic in recent years. One of the best Halloween themed horror movies. More playful and sweet than really frightening, but just so inspired and fun, that it's difficult to dislike. Now, if only they would bring on the planned sequel.
7.5/10

Halloween - 10/10
Halloween II - 7.5/10
Hellboy - 8/10
Scream 3 - 6/10
Lake Placid - 6.5/10
Trick ‘r Treat - 8/10