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Post by forca85 on Nov 5, 2023 17:52:22 GMT
Suspiria(2018) Was worried I would be disappointed by this, as I am many times with remakes, although the director called this not a remake but a homage. In any event I was not disappointed. I always felt I pretty much understood what was going on, although towards the end it got pretty chaotic. It held my interest throughout the 2 and a half hr length. Very good performances by Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton. 7/10. It's a long one. But it was different enough and interesting. I'd be interested in them completing the 3 Mother's trilogy.
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Post by gspdude on Nov 6, 2023 14:17:38 GMT
The Moth Diaries(2011) A new girl arrives at a girls boarding school. Our protagonist, Rebecca, suspects she may be a vampire after her room mate becomes obsessed with her. Are her suspicions out of concern or jealousy? A little teenage soap opera mixed in with a little horror. There are some kills, but we don't get to see them. 5/10.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Nov 6, 2023 21:48:08 GMT
"Cat People" 1942
"The Night Strangler" 1973
"Black Sabbath" 1963
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Post by ntatler76 on Nov 8, 2023 14:23:40 GMT
Saw X
Not sure making Jigsaw sympathetic rings true (although you do sympathise with his predicament).
As this film fits into the timeline between I & II, why would he be so appalled at a young boy being forced into the game but then do the same thing himself to Matthews' son afterwards (Saw II)? Matthews' kid was innocent but he was placed into a situation that could have had him killed- it just seemed at odds with what occured in X. Maybe his tumour was making him more unstable?
Still, all this aside, it was a decent enough entry, and the first two kills (saw through leg and brain op) were highlights. You still know what you're getting in a Saw film but it was a big improvement on Spiral and it's made me want to binge I - VII again
6/10
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Post by gspdude on Nov 12, 2023 0:40:38 GMT
Il Demonio(1963) aka The Demon. A number of years ago this was my favorite FTV in an October Challenge, I cane across it tonight on Tubi. A deranged young woman in a poor Italian village is believed by the superstitious villagers to be possessed by a demon, and she believes it also. Well directed and filmed in B&W with one of the best performances I've seen in a horror movie by Daliah Lavi. In Italian with English subs. 9/10.
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Post by forca85 on Nov 12, 2023 19:17:03 GMT
I've been binging True Crime movies as I usually do this time of year.
Believe me:The Abduction of Lisa McVey Karla The Iceman Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas Confessions of a Serial Killer See no evil: The Moors Murders The Dating Game killer Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story Quiz (2016)-The Australian "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" Scandal
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 12, 2023 22:42:51 GMT
Il Demonio(1963) aka The Demon. A number of years ago this was my favorite FTV in an October Challenge, I cane across it tonight on Tubi. A deranged young woman in a poor Italian village is believed by the superstitious villagers to be possessed by a demon, and she believes it also. Well directed and filmed in B&W with one of the best performances I've seen in a horror movie by Daliah Lavi. In Italian with English subs. 9/10. Creepy film and you can see she does a version of the spiderwalk. Definitely an inspiration for the Exorcist.
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 14, 2023 6:59:57 GMT
DR. BLOOD'S COFFIN - 1961 - Seen it before. Someone is kidnapping men in an English village just as the son of the local doctor returns home. Has a Hammerish feel especially in the music although the plot isn't quite as holistic as one of theirs (the leading man is the mad scientist--which isn't a secret after the first half hour and he helps to betray it by telling co-star Hazel Court that he has a rare exotic poison as a souvenir.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Nov 14, 2023 7:33:58 GMT
Ginger Snaps - 6/10
Surprised I never seen these films before. I have heard of them many times. I liked Ginger Snaps but did not love it. I did love the two leads played by Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle. They gave great performances and had a great chemistry. I really believed them as sisters. The film overall is decent but I think it went on a tad too long. Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed - 5/10
I liked part two a little less than the first but its watchable. Perhaps thats because Katharine Isabelle is not in it much. Emily Perkins however is great in the film like she was in the first. Its basically a alright sequel but I thought the ending was pretty lame. Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning - 3/10
The prequel I did not care for. The first two films are at least entertaining. This one is pretty boring. I would hope to see a follow up to part 2 but we got a prequel set in the 1800s instead. Still Katharine Isabelle and Emily Perkins are very good in it. Points to them.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Nov 14, 2023 7:49:32 GMT
The Boogeyman - 3/10
These 3 films films I have seen before but I gave them another go because I did not remember them that much. The first is actually the worst of the three in my opinion. Its about a young man who returns home after his mother dies and he confronts the terror that horrified him as a child and killed his dad. Its just a mess of weird ideas and pretty lame CGI. Nothing really clicks together. Plus its just kinda dull. I must say there is one kinda eerie scene when one character gets plastic wrapped around him. But thats really the only scary part. The critics quote on the DVD called it the scariest movie ever. I highly disagree. The Boogeyman 2 - 4/10
Nothing great here but its the best of the three films. Perhaps that Tobin Bell is in this has something to do with it. This one is about a woman who checks herself into a clinic to battle her Boogeyman phobia but something is killing off the patients one by one. Its not that good but like I said, its watchable. The Boogeyman 3 - 4/10
Part 3 is about a collage student who witnesses her friends "suicide". However its the Boogeyman and as his legend grows around the collage campus, students begin to die off. Like part 2 its watchable but not too good.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Nov 14, 2023 8:45:05 GMT
1/10A nameless escaped mental patient takes control of a mountain motel and invites women up there under false pretenses. He terrorizes and plans to murder them. Much of this film is the crazy guy just being nutty. Sniffing shoes, terrorizing girls with a ax and stands around naked. One woman paints blacks marks on her face for some reason and she has that paint on heer face for the rest of the film. Not sure what that had to do with anything. Michael Madsen is the mental guys psychiatrist. Hurts to see him in this. Hes great in Reservoir Dogs and The Hateful Eight and now hes in this film. Thats a bummer. Also Eric Roberts shows up about a hour in. Hes trying but also its sad to see him in this. I really, really hated this awful film. I mean wow. This is impressively awful. Its a new edition to my worst 100. Barely anything happens. Just a nutty guy guy and some tied up women. Its absolute junk.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Nov 14, 2023 8:56:07 GMT
Halloween - 8/10
Classic horror film. Very scary and holds up well. Halloween II - 6/10
Pretty good continuation of the first film. Has freaky moments but its just not as scary or entertaining as the first film. Still good though. Halloween III Season of the Witch - 8/10
I may be alone on this but I think this is actually the scariest of the series. Halloween 3 is pretty underrated although it seems to have a cult audience. Tom Atkins and Dan O'Herlihy give great performances. I first saw this in 1998 when I was 9. I was freaked out and actually depressed by it. Good times.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Nov 14, 2023 15:57:04 GMT
Halloween - 8/10
Classic horror film. Very scary and holds up well. Halloween II - 6/10
Pretty good continuation of the first film. Has freaky moments but its just not as scary or entertaining as the first film. Still good though. Halloween III Season of the Witch - 8/10
I may be alone on this but I think this is actually the scariest of the series. Halloween 3 is pretty underrated although it seems to have a cult audience. Tom Atkins and Dan O'Herlihy give great performances. I first saw this in 1998 when I was 9. I was freaked out and actually depressed by it. Good times. You're not alone on Halloween III Season of the Witch. Although I didn't like it as much as you did, I still thought it was fairly good. Some moments of inspired horror. 6/10
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Nov 14, 2023 16:34:03 GMT
Cat People - 1942
White Zombie - 1932
The Disembodied - 1957
Totally Killer - 2023
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Post by Captain Spencer on Nov 16, 2023 3:43:02 GMT
The Chosen (1978)Also known as Holocaust 2000. A president of a nuclear power corporation (Kirk Douglas) learns his 30-something son is the antichrist who is bent on world destruction. Not quite as bad as I remember this. Although a blatant rip-off of The Omen (it even has a creative decapitation as well), it does come up with some interesting ideas of its own and manages to have social commentary on ecological concerns. But the main problem is it's mostly dull. The direction is flat and soarly lacking in the horror department. Plus the ending was a bit too rushed. 5/10 This is Leonard Maltin's humorous BOMB-rating review from his movie guide book: "Nuclear power exec slowly realizes that his son is the Antichrist who plans to use nuclear power to bring on world destruction. There! We just saved you 105 minutes."
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Post by forca85 on Nov 17, 2023 0:45:23 GMT
Into Thin Air (1985). Based on the disappearence of 19 year old Eric Wilson in 1979. He vanished on his way to Summer Courses in Colorado. Ellen Burstyn plays his mother, who won't rest until he's found. Finding mostly shut doors in her face. What a ride...
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 17, 2023 6:42:15 GMT
MORGIANA 1972 - After all the buzz about this Czech film as a quasi-Gothic horror I had to check it out and it was certainly memorable. Right from the opening, the visuals are so well presented--and the score is also really good. It goes from organ music to symphonic and at times it sounds Hammer-like. It is about a rejected sister who seeks to kill her more popular and pretty sibling and she poisons her slowly and all sorts of weird visions happen as a result of her act. Is it guilt? Is it madness?
I caught on to the motif about hair in the story--I noticed all the women either had hats or really fancy hair, or if servants they had thick healthy hair--which comes into play at the end when someone reveals their true "roots." It had Poe qualities as well. In fact, as I watched, I was thinking how good a Dracula movie would be if it copied the visual style of this film. And there is a nun who looks so creepy--she would be a perfect vampire for it. I wonder if Iron Curtain censorship rules contributed to how the story is resolved because other than a self-induced act (to put it vaguely), it seems like nothing really changes--unless it was all a dream?
If they were restricted by rules--it is still rather impressive that it comes together in a compelling way. There's some irony in the ending as well.
It has such a masterful use of visuals and sound. I don't think I have ever seen a Czech film before--I was expecting something on the cheap compared to what it turned out to be.
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Post by gspdude on Nov 17, 2023 15:37:29 GMT
Sacrifice(2016) Radha Mitchell is an American doctor working at a hospital on a Scottish isle when, while burying a horse(apparently how doctors spend their spare time in Scotland), she finds a woman's body with it's heart ripped out and strange runes engraved in it. When the police dismiss it as ancient history, she goes all Nancy Drew on it, meeting almost universal resistance from the locals, fanning her growing suspicions of a conspiracy. OK, but nothing special. kind of like a TV show fleshed out to 90 minutes. 4/10.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Nov 18, 2023 3:16:55 GMT
Grizzly II: Revenge (2020)After her cub is shot by a hunter, a large mama grizzly goes on a killing spree. This means bad news for an audience attending an outdoor rock concert. This is it, the long lost in-name only sequel to the 1976 sleeper. Filmed in 1983 (in Hungary off all places!), but all the post-production work wasn't completed until 2020 due to non-stop production problems. Believe me, the wait was not worth it. Dreadful and dreadfully boring. The bear is phoney-looking and when it's not shown in point-of-view camera shots it comes across as a heavy-breathing psycho. Pretty much all of the attack sequences are not shown. Too much concert footage of terrible music. And finally there's the rushed, anticlimatic ending. It even resorted to using brief stock footage from Jaws 2; further proof that the funds were very limited for the production. You wouldn't believe some of the cast members who signed up for this. There's Deborah Raffin, Charles Cyphers, and, fresh off of Raider Of The Ark, John Rhys-Davies! But worst of all is seeing Louise Fletcher in this; how can such a respectable actress who won an Oscar for Best Actress be seen in drek like this? She should have fired her agent. We also have Charlie Sheen, Laura Dern and George Clooney, but at least they have the excuse of being young actors who were just starting their careers (remember, this is 1983). Those are the bear facts and this is an unbearable movie to watch. 2/10
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Post by gspdude on Nov 18, 2023 13:08:00 GMT
Visitors (2003) Been on a bit of a Radha Mitchell kick lately, too bad all her movies can't be Silent Hill or Pitch Black. But then I haven't come across any bombs either. In this one she is on a solo sail around the world and begins to be visited by ghosts, or perhaps she's losing her mind, or maybe a little of both. Not terribly exciting or scary, but it did hold my interest. 5/10.
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