The last horror, thriller or suspense film you watched

April Fool's Day (1986) - 4/10

It's a misconception that this is a slasher movie. There is very little gore or blood and it's not scary at all. But it's not an Agatha Christie style whodunit either. It's more a silly comedy, but the humor hasn't aged well. The characters are pretty annoying, the acting is atrocious. The first 30 Minutes are pure torure, it does improve a bit afterwards, but never really works as a suspense film. Without the surprise ending it would be just plain bad. I have to say though that the final 5-10 minutes are actually pretty creepy, this is how the whole movie should have been.

Play Misty For Me (1971). Seen it several times before but it happened to be on TV tonight, so I caught it.

The closest thing to a horror movie Clint Eastwood ever did, but it is classified as a thriller. Clint made his directorial debut with this, and did a fine job. And Jessica Walter is very effective as the woman who becomes completely unhinged.

Similar plotline to Fatal Attraction, yet made 16 years earlier.

John Carpenter’s first studio film - Someone’s Watching Me! (which was originally titled “High Rise”) was a made-for-TV feature for Warner Brothers. Quite a solid suspense thriller with a perfectly grounded lead performance by Lauren Hutton, who holds it all together. And decent minor support by Carpenter regulars Adrienne Barbeau and Charles Cyphers. Despite the limitations due to the medium, it was stylistically taut and economical in the form of a bread and butter story, which came out of real life of a woman being emotionally tormented by a obsessive peeping tom. The way it was shot, framing to camera movement had Hitchcock influences here and there, but it was the flow and scope showing the visionary of what was to come.

After this was completed a few weeks later Carpenter would go back to his independent roots to start making Halloween.

I know, how good was it. Colour me impressed.

Yep, it’s from “Inferno”. Big fan of it!

It’s the scene of the hands grabbing the head that leads up to the throat impalement.

Hereditary. Slow burn, but really spooky, with some great performances, real twists, and a hell of a payoff. The last third of the movie in particular is SO good. Watch it at home with the lights off and let the creepiness wash over you!

What did you think of it?

I remember liking the performances well enough, but wasn’t all that taken by the narrative, and where it went. No real punch. I think I remember it being more mean-spirited than suspenseful?

Finallygot a chance to watch Hereditary. Enjoyed it very much but Toni Collette makes the movie superb.

I wish I had seen it earlier as it has been out so long and I read so many things about it that I wish I didn't know ahead of time. Still I very much enjoyed it.

Not much of a New Year’s horror film, outside of some end of the year decorations & a party in the opening sequence. British film-maker Norman J. Warren (Inseminoid, Prey, Terror) delivers quite a weird, and ludicrous low-budget horror hybrid that starts of like a cheerful slasher before turning into a supernatural hodgepodge of random surreal ideas, and tacky SFX. Think of Humongous, Evil Dead & The Shinning patched together, but way more amateurish. It’s messy, and kind feels like something the Italians would churn out. Silly and confusing stuff, but there are some well crafted FX murders.