The last horror, thriller or suspense film you watched
Oct 10, 2020 15:03:02 GMT
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Oct 10, 2020 15:03:02 GMT
October Horror Challenge - 2020 - Day 09:
21. Night Life aka Grave Misdemeanors (1989) by David Acomba
Well, I was kind of hoping it might turn out to be a pleasant surprise, having browsed around on Youtube for a few hours (or more) this week, but there is just too many films, and I do not have time nor the interest in trying to watch as many unseen films, as I have sadly too often ended up with rather poor or bad impulse choices.
So this time around, I tried to use the help of some rather interesting movie articles, which highlights underrated, forgotten or just not very popular horror releases of the 80s.
Of course, a lot of these articles tend to focus on films that often are anything but "underrated", in fact I have several times seen horror classics like Scream, Poltergeist, The Evil Dead, Videodrome and even The Exorcist lying around, and if those are considered to be forgotten or underrated, then I wonder how much input or time the writer of the article have really put down.
Luckily there are far better and more interesting recommendations around the net, and suddenly I ended up with a promising title of Night Life aka Grave Misdemeanors, which sadly was anything but a gem in my eyes. As it opens up as kind of typical teen-sex comedy, where the sport jocks makes fun of the outsider/horny geek (Scott Grimes), who works at the local funeral home.
Sadly, even in death, his bullies will not leave him be, as they return after a horrible accident, only to continue on terrifying and trying to kill their "beloved" victim.
The 30-40 first minutes, is not very impressive, too much slapstick and unfunny comedy, but it was nice to see John Astin in a not so very pleasant part.
Thankfully, the movie kind of begin to take off after 45-50 minutes, but still the first opening let it down too much, and it ended up as an uneven film, not boring, but a long way from being any near good.
5/10
22. The Funhouse (1981) by Tobe Hooper
A small group of party going teenagers, have decided to visit the local carnival which have arrived town. As a meaning of having some extra bit of fun, the gang ends up spending the night over at the funhouse. But sadly for the new guests, they end up with a whole lot more than they ever bargained for, when a murder takes place, and all of a sudden the fun time ends, and a desperate nightmare begins, as they must now fight for their lives to get out of there alive, which is easier said than done.
Have seen it once, but that was back in 2013-14, and somehow I had almost forgotten about it, and realized that I only gave it a 5/10. Not sure why, but maybe I was not in the right mood, as last night, this little slasher gem surely lit up the dark and was a very enjoyable and nice surprise and felt it deserved a much better rating, and ended up with a more rightfully:
7/10
October Horror Challenge - 2020 - Day 10:
23. The Creeping Terror (1964) by Vic Savage
I had all these "great" plans, for at least seeing 1-2 more horror movies, but this absolute pile of waste that was The Creeping Terror (I wrote a bit about it the progression thread earlier) pretty much killed off any of those plans, as my taste for more horror had been put to sleep.
Surely one of the worst monster-movies ever made, so bad, that it actually makes a whole lot of far more famous "worst movie" contenders look like cinematic masterpieces, which is quite something.
Still, the carpet-monster and some rather hilarious cheesy and silly stuff that takes place, kind of saves it from ending up as yet another Sweathouse (2009) nightmare, for me that is.
2/10
21. Night Life aka Grave Misdemeanors (1989) by David Acomba
Well, I was kind of hoping it might turn out to be a pleasant surprise, having browsed around on Youtube for a few hours (or more) this week, but there is just too many films, and I do not have time nor the interest in trying to watch as many unseen films, as I have sadly too often ended up with rather poor or bad impulse choices.
So this time around, I tried to use the help of some rather interesting movie articles, which highlights underrated, forgotten or just not very popular horror releases of the 80s.
Of course, a lot of these articles tend to focus on films that often are anything but "underrated", in fact I have several times seen horror classics like Scream, Poltergeist, The Evil Dead, Videodrome and even The Exorcist lying around, and if those are considered to be forgotten or underrated, then I wonder how much input or time the writer of the article have really put down.
Luckily there are far better and more interesting recommendations around the net, and suddenly I ended up with a promising title of Night Life aka Grave Misdemeanors, which sadly was anything but a gem in my eyes. As it opens up as kind of typical teen-sex comedy, where the sport jocks makes fun of the outsider/horny geek (Scott Grimes), who works at the local funeral home.
Sadly, even in death, his bullies will not leave him be, as they return after a horrible accident, only to continue on terrifying and trying to kill their "beloved" victim.
The 30-40 first minutes, is not very impressive, too much slapstick and unfunny comedy, but it was nice to see John Astin in a not so very pleasant part.
Thankfully, the movie kind of begin to take off after 45-50 minutes, but still the first opening let it down too much, and it ended up as an uneven film, not boring, but a long way from being any near good.
5/10
22. The Funhouse (1981) by Tobe Hooper
A small group of party going teenagers, have decided to visit the local carnival which have arrived town. As a meaning of having some extra bit of fun, the gang ends up spending the night over at the funhouse. But sadly for the new guests, they end up with a whole lot more than they ever bargained for, when a murder takes place, and all of a sudden the fun time ends, and a desperate nightmare begins, as they must now fight for their lives to get out of there alive, which is easier said than done.
Have seen it once, but that was back in 2013-14, and somehow I had almost forgotten about it, and realized that I only gave it a 5/10. Not sure why, but maybe I was not in the right mood, as last night, this little slasher gem surely lit up the dark and was a very enjoyable and nice surprise and felt it deserved a much better rating, and ended up with a more rightfully:
7/10
October Horror Challenge - 2020 - Day 10:
23. The Creeping Terror (1964) by Vic Savage
I had all these "great" plans, for at least seeing 1-2 more horror movies, but this absolute pile of waste that was The Creeping Terror (I wrote a bit about it the progression thread earlier) pretty much killed off any of those plans, as my taste for more horror had been put to sleep.
Surely one of the worst monster-movies ever made, so bad, that it actually makes a whole lot of far more famous "worst movie" contenders look like cinematic masterpieces, which is quite something.
Still, the carpet-monster and some rather hilarious cheesy and silly stuff that takes place, kind of saves it from ending up as yet another Sweathouse (2009) nightmare, for me that is.
2/10