TVG Presents: All Things Horror.

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Watched The Omen, which is still creaky and boring, and A Bucket of Blood, which is still one of my fav Corman movies with a great comedic performance by Dick Miller
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man, i miss Dick Miller. He used to appear in all kind of different movies and was always great
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watched In My Mother's Skin

"stranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl's duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a beguiling, flesh-eating fairy" (Diwata in Filipino folklore)

it was great and on my year favourites list
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Fear Street: 1994. Pretty good. Will watch the next part.
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Hoping Usher steps it up in the last two episodes because this has been a bit basic.
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Possession was incredible. What a movie. I thought I knew what to expect based on clips I'd seen, but holy shit!
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Farmer John wrote:Possession was incredible. What a movie. I thought I knew what to expect based on clips I'd seen, but holy shit!
I love Possession so much
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decided I'd fuck around and watch the original Exorcist again didn't I; this was my second time, the first was in college

it's still the scariest horror movie of my life I think, even with the campy excess and the green blood; the extreme stuff wouldn't work, it would be simply hilarious shlock, if all the subtleties weren't there to ratchet up the tension -- sound design, mood setting, characterisation, the juxtaposition of medical, spiritual / demonic and religious harassment and infiltration of the body, ideas I'm all about; it starts exploring all these early and never lets up, until all of that stuff gets manifested in the demon (which, as in all horror doing its job, becomes a metaphor)

the movie's only fatal flaw, like Hellraiser and others, is that it suffers from that old racist trope, "the demon (or box, or relic) came from a Muslim excavation site"; that's hard to shake off, being the start of the movie, and the story didn't even need it
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Could you recommend me a good horror miniseries? It doesn't matter if it's new or old. Thank you.
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Hypnosomnia wrote:Could you recommend me a good horror miniseries? It doesn't matter if it's new or old. Thank you.
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Hypnosomnia wrote:Could you recommend me a good horror miniseries? It doesn't matter if it's new or old. Thank you.
I really enjoyed The Haunting of Hill House
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yeah those two are great....what about Salems Lot?
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I really dont like Mike Flanagan style, but Midnight Mass was great. Salems Lot from the 70? Already seen it. Another Tobe Hooper disasterpiece.
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I really liked The Outsider. It's a 10 episode series that probably should have been about 8, but still very good.
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I'm definitely more into horror movies than horror TV, Mike Flanagan is my exception, I like his series more than his movies
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Farmer John wrote:I really liked The Outsider. It's a 10 episode series that probably should have been about 8, but still very good.

Yeah, this was great.
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Ms Harmless wrote:I'm definitely more into horror movies than horror TV
Yeah, me too, but Im in the mood for a good horror series.
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Farmer John wrote:I really liked The Outsider. It's a 10 episode series that probably should have been about 8, but still very good.
Definitely will check this out, Im not crazy about Stephen King, but love Ben Mendelsohn.
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Bi_3 wrote:Hoping Usher steps it up in the last two episodes because this has been a bit basic.


Well, shit. The last two episodes are the best by far but they suffer from the same overly long moralizing 'right think' lectures that grind the story to a halt and doomed Midnight Club. The reason this series ranks in bottom half for me is just wasn't scary. There were a couple jump scares, but it wasnt anything that will stay with me unlike Hill House, Bly Manor, and the superior Midnight Mass. Well, there was one sequence that was glorious:
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When Roderick returns to his office one last time and the "rain" starts.
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Farmer John wrote:I really liked The Outsider. It's a 10 episode series that probably should have been about 8, but still very good.
i read the book and meh, and forgot about the series. Maybe ill watch it someday.
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