What movies are you watching?

[Jorge]

He's happier now

He has to be

[wease]

I miss him.

[LoathedVermin72]

The Spooky Season festivities have begun:

Spoiler: show

-The Deadly Spawn: Disappointing. The special effects are very impressive but they are all this movie has going for it. It has the worst symptom of incompetent amateur filmmaking: being drastically under-edited and dragging on interminably. This thing is sooooo sloooow.

-Forbidden World (rewatch): This movie absolutely fuckin’ rips and I can’t believe it doesn’t have a huge cult following. Definitely the best Alien knockoff ever. Gnarly gore effects. So entertaining from beginning to end.

-Nightmares in a Damaged Brain: Good lord, this movie is DEPRAVED. And viciously violent. Reminds me of Maniac and Angst in its downbeat, unsettling, uncompromising portrayal of a serial killer. Good stuff right here.

-Dark Places (1973): Enjoyable, lowkey Brit horror elevated by a great cast (Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom, Jane Birkin, etc.).

-Night of the Demon (1980): Has its moments (mostly the inserted death scenes), but when it comes to wacko no-budget Bigfoot horror, I’ll take Shriek of the Mutilated all day every day.

Continuing:

-The Blair Witch Project (rewatch): I've always been kinda lukewarm on this one but it finally clicked this time. Totally effective, thanks largely to the deeply convincing performances by the three leads (the immersive, experimental way they filmed this has a lot to do with that, I imagine). The new-ish restoration by Second Sight is terrific.

-Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror (rewatch): Absolute classic. One of the most batshit wacko of all the '80s Italian horror movies, and that's saying something.

-The Ice House: Total dud. Such an annoying script and directed just as annoyingly, with every line of bafflingly obtuse dialogue delivered with an aggressively sly tone as if each word is loaded with some kind of sinister double meaning. Exhausting, obnoxious, silly, and dull. I love a lot of the old BBC Christmas Ghost Stories but this is probably the worst of the lot.

-Dawn of the Dead (1978) (rewatch): Really nothing left to be said about this. An immortal classic. A movie I watched so much in high school that I kinda feel like it doesn't have many surprises left to offer me anymore, but that's okay.

-Horror Hospital: Never quite finds the right tone. It seems like it was going for comedy, but it only rarely establishes that vibe. Fun and ridiculous Michael Gough performance and one delightfully out-of-left-field scene, but I wish this were better.

-Night of the Living Dead (1990) (rewatch): Didn't like this when I first saw it, but I was ready to embrace it this time. Nope. Still kinda sucks, unfortunately. Too straightforward of a remake but drained of all the original's surreal, nightmarish magic. With Savini at the helm, you'd think there'd at least be a hefty dose of gore to bring something new this time, but you don't even get that. Just a shrug of a movie.

-Return of the Evil Dead (rewatch): A few nice gore moments, one wonderfully shocking sequence, and a lot of boring filler shots. I want to like these Blind Dead movies more than I do.

-The Ghost Galleon: Good fucking lord what a snoozefest. ONE kill scene?! In this whole slog?!

-The Dunwich Horror (rewatch): Another one I was hoping would improve this time. It did not. Fun to see Talia Shire pop up.

-The Dead Next Door (rewatch): Some nice splatter FX here and there, but kind of cloying overall. Worse than I remembered it being.

-The Cell (rewatch): Yet another dud that was even worse than I remembered. The mind-fantasy stuff is nothing but empty visuals with no punch, and the real-world scenes are utterly inert. No juice here at all. Tarsem Singh sucks.

-I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) (rewatch): Finally, something that hits! Absolutely loved this this time around (and Sony's 4K disc is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen). Great cast (Jennifer Love Hewitt and Anne Heche are particularly good), great vibes, with excellent direction and editing - this thing hums along so smoothly.

[E.H. Ruddock]

The Spooky Season festivities have begun:

Spoiler: show

-The Deadly Spawn: Disappointing. The special effects are very impressive but they are all this movie has going for it. It has the worst symptom of incompetent amateur filmmaking: being drastically under-edited and dragging on interminably. This thing is sooooo sloooow.

-Forbidden World (rewatch): This movie absolutely fuckin’ rips and I can’t believe it doesn’t have a huge cult following. Definitely the best Alien knockoff ever. Gnarly gore effects. So entertaining from beginning to end.

-Nightmares in a Damaged Brain: Good lord, this movie is DEPRAVED. And viciously violent. Reminds me of Maniac and Angst in its downbeat, unsettling, uncompromising portrayal of a serial killer. Good stuff right here.

-Dark Places (1973): Enjoyable, lowkey Brit horror elevated by a great cast (Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom, Jane Birkin, etc.).

-Night of the Demon (1980): Has its moments (mostly the inserted death scenes), but when it comes to wacko no-budget Bigfoot horror, I’ll take Shriek of the Mutilated all day every day.

Continuing:

-The Blair Witch Project (rewatch): I've always been kinda lukewarm on this one but it finally clicked this time. Totally effective, thanks largely to the deeply convincing performances by the three leads (the immersive, experimental way they filmed this has a lot to do with that, I imagine). The new-ish restoration by Second Sight is terrific.

-Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror (rewatch): Absolute classic. One of the most batshit wacko of all the '80s Italian horror movies, and that's saying something.

-The Ice House: Total dud. Such an annoying script and directed just as annoyingly, with every line of bafflingly obtuse dialogue delivered with an aggressively sly tone as if each word is loaded with some kind of sinister double meaning. Exhausting, obnoxious, silly, and dull. I love a lot of the old BBC Christmas Ghost Stories but this is probably the worst of the lot.

-Dawn of the Dead (1978) (rewatch): Really nothing left to be said about this. An immortal classic. A movie I watched so much in high school that I kinda feel like it doesn't have many surprises left to offer me anymore, but that's okay.

-Horror Hospital: Never quite finds the right tone. It seems like it was going for comedy, but it only rarely establishes that vibe. Fun and ridiculous Michael Gough performance and one delightfuly, out-of-left-field scene, but I wish this were better.

-Night of the Living Dead (1990) (rewatch): Didn't like this when I first saw it, but I was ready to embrace it this time. Nope. Still kinda sucks, unfortunately. Too straightforward of a remake but drained of all the original's surreal, nightmarish magic. With Savini at the helm, you'd think there'd at least be a hefty dose of gore to bring something new this time, but you don't even get that. Just a shrug of a movie.

-Return of the Evil Dead (rewatch): A few nice gore moments, one wonderfully shocking sequence, and a lot of boring filler shots. I want to like these Blind Dead movies more than I do.

-The Ghost Galleon: Good fucking lord what a snoozefest. ONE kill scene?! In this whole slog?!

-The Dunwich Horror (rewatch): Another one I was hoping would improve this time. It did not. Fun to see Talia Shire pop up.

-The Dead Next Door (rewatch): Some nice splatter FX here and there, but kind of cloying overall. Worse than I remembered it being.

-The Cell (rewatch): Yet another dud that was even worse than I remembered. The mind-fantasy stuff is nothing but empty visuals with no punch, and the real-world scenes are utterly inert. No juice here at all. Tarsem Singh sucks.

-I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) (rewatch): Finally, something that hits! Absolutely loved this this time around (and Sony's 4K disc is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen). Great cast (Jennifer Love Hewitt and Anne Heche are particularly good), great vibes, with excellent direction and editing - this thing hums along so smoothly.

Great list. I need to rewatch some of these. I remember being really excited for the concept of The Cell, but then disappointed after seeing the execution of it.

[Ms Harmless]

The Spooky Season festivities have begun:

Spoiler: show

-The Deadly Spawn: Disappointing. The special effects are very impressive but they are all this movie has going for it. It has the worst symptom of incompetent amateur filmmaking: being drastically under-edited and dragging on interminably. This thing is sooooo sloooow.

-Forbidden World (rewatch): This movie absolutely fuckin’ rips and I can’t believe it doesn’t have a huge cult following. Definitely the best Alien knockoff ever. Gnarly gore effects. So entertaining from beginning to end.

-Nightmares in a Damaged Brain: Good lord, this movie is DEPRAVED. And viciously violent. Reminds me of Maniac and Angst in its downbeat, unsettling, uncompromising portrayal of a serial killer. Good stuff right here.

-Dark Places (1973): Enjoyable, lowkey Brit horror elevated by a great cast (Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom, Jane Birkin, etc.).

-Night of the Demon (1980): Has its moments (mostly the inserted death scenes), but when it comes to wacko no-budget Bigfoot horror, I’ll take Shriek of the Mutilated all day every day.

Continuing:

-The Blair Witch Project (rewatch): I've always been kinda lukewarm on this one but it finally clicked this time. Totally effective, thanks largely to the deeply convincing performances by the three leads (the immersive, experimental way they filmed this has a lot to do with that, I imagine). The new-ish restoration by Second Sight is terrific.

very glad to see this, it's my very favourite horror movie of all time, BAR NONE, and Heather Donahue is my favourite woman in horror; you'd be hard pressed to find better naturalistic acting imo

[E.H. Ruddock]

Anyone going to see Anenome this weekend?

[Buby]

The Cell is ok.

[Ms Harmless]

See Anemone... Sea Anemone... hehe

[oasisfan35]

The Spooky Season festivities have begun:

Spoiler: show

-The Deadly Spawn: Disappointing. The special effects are very impressive but they are all this movie has going for it. It has the worst symptom of incompetent amateur filmmaking: being drastically under-edited and dragging on interminably. This thing is sooooo sloooow.

-Forbidden World (rewatch): This movie absolutely fuckin’ rips and I can’t believe it doesn’t have a huge cult following. Definitely the best Alien knockoff ever. Gnarly gore effects. So entertaining from beginning to end.

-Nightmares in a Damaged Brain: Good lord, this movie is DEPRAVED. And viciously violent. Reminds me of Maniac and Angst in its downbeat, unsettling, uncompromising portrayal of a serial killer. Good stuff right here.

-Dark Places (1973): Enjoyable, lowkey Brit horror elevated by a great cast (Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom, Jane Birkin, etc.).

-Night of the Demon (1980): Has its moments (mostly the inserted death scenes), but when it comes to wacko no-budget Bigfoot horror, I’ll take Shriek of the Mutilated all day every day.

Continuing:

-The Blair Witch Project (rewatch): I've always been kinda lukewarm on this one but it finally clicked this time. Totally effective, thanks largely to the deeply convincing performances by the three leads (the immersive, experimental way they filmed this has a lot to do with that, I imagine). The new-ish restoration by Second Sight is terrific.

very glad to see this, it's my very favourite horror movie of all time, BAR NONE, and Heather Donahue is my favourite woman in horror; you'd be hard pressed to find better naturalistic acting imo

[LoathedVermin72]

The Spooky Season festivities have begun:

Spoiler: show

-The Deadly Spawn: Disappointing. The special effects are very impressive but they are all this movie has going for it. It has the worst symptom of incompetent amateur filmmaking: being drastically under-edited and dragging on interminably. This thing is sooooo sloooow.

-Forbidden World (rewatch): This movie absolutely fuckin’ rips and I can’t believe it doesn’t have a huge cult following. Definitely the best Alien knockoff ever. Gnarly gore effects. So entertaining from beginning to end.

-Nightmares in a Damaged Brain: Good lord, this movie is DEPRAVED. And viciously violent. Reminds me of Maniac and Angst in its downbeat, unsettling, uncompromising portrayal of a serial killer. Good stuff right here.

-Dark Places (1973): Enjoyable, lowkey Brit horror elevated by a great cast (Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom, Jane Birkin, etc.).

-Night of the Demon (1980): Has its moments (mostly the inserted death scenes), but when it comes to wacko no-budget Bigfoot horror, I’ll take Shriek of the Mutilated all day every day.

Continuing:

-The Blair Witch Project (rewatch): I've always been kinda lukewarm on this one but it finally clicked this time. Totally effective, thanks largely to the deeply convincing performances by the three leads (the immersive, experimental way they filmed this has a lot to do with that, I imagine). The new-ish restoration by Second Sight is terrific.

very glad to see this, it's my very favourite horror movie of all time, BAR NONE, and Heather Donahue is my favourite woman in horror; you'd be hard pressed to find better naturalistic acting imo

Wow! What makes you love it that much?

[Ms Harmless]

The Spooky Season festivities have begun:

Spoiler: show

-The Deadly Spawn: Disappointing. The special effects are very impressive but they are all this movie has going for it. It has the worst symptom of incompetent amateur filmmaking: being drastically under-edited and dragging on interminably. This thing is sooooo sloooow.

-Forbidden World (rewatch): This movie absolutely fuckin’ rips and I can’t believe it doesn’t have a huge cult following. Definitely the best Alien knockoff ever. Gnarly gore effects. So entertaining from beginning to end.

-Nightmares in a Damaged Brain: Good lord, this movie is DEPRAVED. And viciously violent. Reminds me of Maniac and Angst in its downbeat, unsettling, uncompromising portrayal of a serial killer. Good stuff right here.

-Dark Places (1973): Enjoyable, lowkey Brit horror elevated by a great cast (Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom, Jane Birkin, etc.).

-Night of the Demon (1980): Has its moments (mostly the inserted death scenes), but when it comes to wacko no-budget Bigfoot horror, I’ll take Shriek of the Mutilated all day every day.

Continuing:

-The Blair Witch Project (rewatch): I've always been kinda lukewarm on this one but it finally clicked this time. Totally effective, thanks largely to the deeply convincing performances by the three leads (the immersive, experimental way they filmed this has a lot to do with that, I imagine). The new-ish restoration by Second Sight is terrific.

very glad to see this, it's my very favourite horror movie of all time, BAR NONE, and Heather Donahue is my favourite woman in horror; you'd be hard pressed to find better naturalistic acting imo

Wow! What makes you love it that much?

something inexplicable yet blissful in the depths of my heart

[bart]

For whatever reason the algorithm is obsessed with convincing me that The Cell isn’t a pice of shit, which it obviously is

[Buby]

Guess it depends on expectations and standards, but I totally dig it.

Spoiler: show

[BurtReynolds]

I should rewatch that.

[Farmer John]

The only thing I really remember about it is Jennifer Lopez smoking a big doob in her underwear.

[LoathedVermin72]

It's so bad. All the characters are complete idiots and the entire premise winds up being pointless since they just solve the case with traditional detective work like they very obviously should have been doing all along. I like Vince Vaughn but he gives one of the least convincing performances I've ever seen (I blame Tarsem). You might like it if you're really into perfume commercials, I guess.

[VinylGuy]

The Spooky Season festivities have begun:

Spoiler: show

-The Deadly Spawn: Disappointing. The special effects are very impressive but they are all this movie has going for it. It has the worst symptom of incompetent amateur filmmaking: being drastically under-edited and dragging on interminably. This thing is sooooo sloooow.

-Forbidden World (rewatch): This movie absolutely fuckin’ rips and I can’t believe it doesn’t have a huge cult following. Definitely the best Alien knockoff ever. Gnarly gore effects. So entertaining from beginning to end.

-Nightmares in a Damaged Brain: Good lord, this movie is DEPRAVED. And viciously violent. Reminds me of Maniac and Angst in its downbeat, unsettling, uncompromising portrayal of a serial killer. Good stuff right here.

-Dark Places (1973): Enjoyable, lowkey Brit horror elevated by a great cast (Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom, Jane Birkin, etc.).

-Night of the Demon (1980): Has its moments (mostly the inserted death scenes), but when it comes to wacko no-budget Bigfoot horror, I’ll take Shriek of the Mutilated all day every day.

Continuing:

-The Blair Witch Project (rewatch): I've always been kinda lukewarm on this one but it finally clicked this time. Totally effective, thanks largely to the deeply convincing performances by the three leads (the immersive, experimental way they filmed this has a lot to do with that, I imagine). The new-ish restoration by Second Sight is terrific.

very glad to see this, it's my very favourite horror movie of all time, BAR NONE, and Heather Donahue is my favourite woman in horror; you'd be hard pressed to find better naturalistic acting imo

Wow! What makes you love it that much?

something inexplicable yet blissful in the depths of my heart

BWP was quite an event when it came out. The comunal exprience of watching it with a theatre full of people sure added an element i felt it was lost when it came out in vhs.

[LoathedVermin72]

The Spooky Season festivities have begun:

Spoiler: show

-The Deadly Spawn: Disappointing. The special effects are very impressive but they are all this movie has going for it. It has the worst symptom of incompetent amateur filmmaking: being drastically under-edited and dragging on interminably. This thing is sooooo sloooow.

-Forbidden World (rewatch): This movie absolutely fuckin’ rips and I can’t believe it doesn’t have a huge cult following. Definitely the best Alien knockoff ever. Gnarly gore effects. So entertaining from beginning to end.

-Nightmares in a Damaged Brain: Good lord, this movie is DEPRAVED. And viciously violent. Reminds me of Maniac and Angst in its downbeat, unsettling, uncompromising portrayal of a serial killer. Good stuff right here.

-Dark Places (1973): Enjoyable, lowkey Brit horror elevated by a great cast (Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom, Jane Birkin, etc.).

-Night of the Demon (1980): Has its moments (mostly the inserted death scenes), but when it comes to wacko no-budget Bigfoot horror, I’ll take Shriek of the Mutilated all day every day.

Continuing:

Spoiler: show

-The Blair Witch Project (rewatch): I've always been kinda lukewarm on this one but it finally clicked this time. Totally effective, thanks largely to the deeply convincing performances by the three leads (the immersive, experimental way they filmed this has a lot to do with that, I imagine). The new-ish restoration by Second Sight is terrific.

-Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror (rewatch): Absolute classic. One of the most batshit wacko of all the '80s Italian horror movies, and that's saying something.

-The Ice House: Total dud. Such an annoying script and directed just as annoyingly, with every line of bafflingly obtuse dialogue delivered with an aggressively sly tone as if each word is loaded with some kind of sinister double meaning. Exhausting, obnoxious, silly, and dull. I love a lot of the old BBC Christmas Ghost Stories but this is probably the worst of the lot.

-Dawn of the Dead (1978) (rewatch): Really nothing left to be said about this. An immortal classic. A movie I watched so much in high school that I kinda feel like it doesn't have many surprises left to offer me anymore, but that's okay.

-Horror Hospital: Never quite finds the right tone. It seems like it was going for comedy, but it only rarely establishes that vibe. Fun and ridiculous Michael Gough performance and one delightfully out-of-left-field scene, but I wish this were better.

-Night of the Living Dead (1990) (rewatch): Didn't like this when I first saw it, but I was ready to embrace it this time. Nope. Still kinda sucks, unfortunately. Too straightforward of a remake but drained of all the original's surreal, nightmarish magic. With Savini at the helm, you'd think there'd at least be a hefty dose of gore to bring something new this time, but you don't even get that. Just a shrug of a movie.

-Return of the Evil Dead (rewatch): A few nice gore moments, one wonderfully shocking sequence, and a lot of boring filler shots. I want to like these Blind Dead movies more than I do.

-The Ghost Galleon: Good fucking lord what a snoozefest. ONE kill scene?! In this whole slog?!

-The Dunwich Horror (rewatch): Another one I was hoping would improve this time. It did not. Fun to see Talia Shire pop up.

-The Dead Next Door (rewatch): Some nice splatter FX here and there, but kind of cloying overall. Worse than I remembered it being.

-The Cell (rewatch): Yet another dud that was even worse than I remembered. The mind-fantasy stuff is nothing but empty visuals with no punch, and the real-world scenes are utterly inert. No juice here at all. Tarsem Singh sucks.

-I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) (rewatch): Finally, something that hits! Absolutely loved this this time around (and Sony's 4K disc is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen). Great cast (Jennifer Love Hewitt and Anne Heche are particularly good), great vibes, with excellent direction and editing - this thing hums along so smoothly.

Continuing:

-I Still Know What Did Last Summer: Well, this has precisely zero of the qualities that made the original good. Plainly a rushed cash grab that turns FPJ's character into an asshole for some reason and does nothing well. I swear they "discover" the same four corpses like three times. That's all you got?

-The Conjuring (rewatch): Still very effective (this and Insidious are two of the few horror movies that actually scare me). Well-directed and well-cast - Wilson, Farmiga, Taylor, and Livingston are all inspired choices. Unfortunately, all the Warren hagiography and weird Christian propaganda still keep me from fully embracing it, but a very strong horror movie regardless. Easy to see why this spawned so many sequels and spinoffs.

-Event Horizon (rewatch): Love this movie forever. Still rips. Though I will say it kinda loses steam in the last 15 minutes. Ultimately a minor complaint considering how much ass this movie kicks overall.

-Demons 2 (rewatch): The first half hour of this is amazing. Gorgeous production design and cinematography assist some of the most fascinating use of dream logic in all of Italian horror as the film's narrative progresses because characters are, essentially, watching their own film on TV. The movie bleeds into itself in a surreal, brain-twisting ouroboros. But, sadly, once the demons arrive and start wreaking havoc, everything becomes routine and the pace slows to a crawl. Too bad. That first 30 is probably better than the first Demons (which is a classic), but the last hour is much worse.

[Ms Harmless]

I'm not generally a fan of "space horror" but I like Event Horizon, I might rewatch it myself!

last night I started on a "31 Found Footage horror movies for 31 days in October" challenge; the prompt was "camping", so obviously I chose The Blair Witch Project, 13/10

tonight's prompt is "tapes", so I looked through at what I can get for free (money's gonna be tight till next week when I can maybe rent something); it's going to be a rewatch of "The Poughkeepsie Tapes", another good one

[E.H. Ruddock]

-Event Horizon (rewatch): Love this movie forever. Still rips. Though I will say it kinda loses steam in the last 15 minutes. Ultimately a minor complaint considering how much ass this movie kicks overall.

One of the best! Still one of my all time favorite times seeing a movie in the theater. I don't think a lot of the audience was prepared for what the movie was, myself included. So good.