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And I suppose I shouldn't let the "message" take away from that. I didn't even realize the story being told was being told until I read it afterwards. It went right over my head. I just resent being put into someone else's preconceived mold. I respect the idea but reject it, at least in relation to how I try to live my life. If that makes any sense.
1. Fear Streat part 1 1994 (2021)
2. Fear Street part 2 1978 (2021)
3. Escape Room (2019)
4. Fear Street part 3 1666 (2021)
5. Vampires (1998)
6. The Blob (1988)
Remake of the 50,ties cult classic. I watched this on Bobs recommendation. He was right. It is actually quite good. A good update. 4/5. I liked the creature.
We will interpret something based on our knowledge, educational level, experiences, opinions -- and while I may not buy into someone else's vision, I love to hear what their vision is. How they think. What they saw. How it made them feel. It's all valid. It's for the individual to decide how valid someone else's ideas are to them.
2. Fear Street part 2 1978 (2021)
3. Escape Room (2019)
4. Fear Street part 3 1666 (2021)
5. Vampires (1998)
6. The Blob (1988)
7. The Turning (2020)
Based of The Turn Of the Screw by James. It carefully a bit vague. What she sees are they ghosts or something she just sees? Can be interoreted both way. Had creeoy moments but not anyreal scare-hop-out-of-my-pants moments. But anyone taking on the cjassics are worth a pat on the back. 3/5
"In hopes of solving her son's mysterious murder, grief-stricken Hanna visits the place of his death and explores a community full of sinister secrets."
This is an Australian film, it was more sad than scary but had it moments. If anything it was a little slow moving.
Flakes 2021 BVMB Horror Movie Thing:
* = first time viewing
1) Greta* (2018)
2) No One Gets Out Alive* (2021)
3) The Night Flier* (1997)
4) In the Tall Grass* (2019)
5) Sweet River* (2020)
....especially as a toddler when my parents dressed me as a Russian peasant woman ready for a big day of digging potatoes.....wish to hell I could find that picture....
In Spanish with subtitles. This black comedy horror features a priest who has decoded the Bible trying to summon the Devil so he can stop the birth of the Antichrist in 1990’s Madrid, with the assistance of a death metal record store clerk and a talk-show psychic/exorcist.
If the premise sounds bonkers but compelling, that’s because it is. “Bonkers but compelling” pretty much describes the whole movie. The fun starts when the priest believes he can gain the trust of Satan by sinning at every opportunity he gets, so it’s shockingly funny to see the priest running amok for the first half of the movie, like when he steals the wallet of a car accident victim and leans in and whispers “May your soul rot in hell.” The special effects are pretty good when they are up close and bloody, but some of the wider shots on top of buildings are pretty bad blue screen—seems like a weird place to skimp on the budget.
The movie has some questionable logic, even within its own crazy confines, so I wasn’t always sure the motivations and subsequent actions made any sense. It does rely on a fair number of convenient coincidences to move the plot along, but at least it was entertaining. This one has “cult film” written all over it, it’s easy to see why Guillermo del Toro said he was a big fan.
3 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2020 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It 3/5 (FTV)
2. Possession (1981) 4/5 (FTV)
3. The Endless 4/5 (FTV)
4. Dead & Buried 4/5 (FTV)
5. The Blob (1988) 4/5 (FTV)
6. The New York Ripper 3/5 (FTV)
7. The Day of the Beast 3/5 (FTV)
i’ve seen some movies i think might be worth a view but with so many formats, it would make it easier to know if it is available to me if you would say where you saw it. Thanks!
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Rewatched, The Ripper. Jack the ripper stalks the streets of Whitechapel, Inspector Jim Hansen believes that a member of the royal family may be the killer but will he be thwarted from bringing him to justice. It is better than it looks mainly thanks to Samuel West's performance as Prince Albert, he plays the villan extremely well. Filmed in Australia so needless to say the accents are all over the place, still I've got a soft spot for it. (DVD viewing)
01. Halloween 2
02. The Final Girls
03. The Haunting
04. I, Desire
05. The Hole In The Ground
06. Kolchak :The Night Stalker
07. The Ripper
2. Fear Street part 2 1978 (2021)
3. Escape Room (2019)
4. Fear Street part 3 1666 (2021)
5. Vampires (1998)
6. The Blob (1988)
7. The Turning (2020)
8. The Final Girls (2015)
This is what i guess is called Horrorcomedy. I rarely like those because they are either so much horror that the comedy feels really misplaced or the opposite. But this one i think manages the balancing act well. 5 youths from today escape a burning movie theatre by stepping through the screen and into the movie. Only problem is that its a cult slasher movie and how not to be yet another victim? The leads are played by Taissa Farmiga and Malin Åkerman (swedish) and they do what they can with rather limited roles. Entertaining as long as you accept the premise. A lot of slasher cliches in the supporting leads which is only to be expected since they are there to be msde fun of. Not a cineastic masterpiece but funny and scary. 4/5
2. Fear Street part 2 1978 (2021)
3. Escape Room (2019)
4. Fear Street part 3 1666 (2021)
5. Vampires (1998)
6. The Blob (1988)
7. The Turning (2020)
8. The Final Girls (2015)
9. Boar (2017)
This is an Australian creature feature with a gigantic boar (about the size of a really big rhino) in the lead. It eats everything, starts with the sheep in the australian bush and graduates to campers and farmers. While pretty formulaic, it follows a well established pattern of these kind of movies, it is not bad even if far from really good. I've never heard so many characters say fuck in every sentence as here. Is it supposed to be an australian thing or satire or just plain bad dialogue? No idea. The characters are just there and no development of them take place. But on a basic horror level it works well enough. 2,5/5
It's a Hammer film. I love Hammer films. Nothing else needs be said.
Dana's 2021 Movie Marathon list
* indicates first time viewing
1. Malignant*
2. Two Evil Eyes*
3. Midnight Mass*
4. You Can't Kill Stephen King*
5. Eraserhead*
6. Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper*
7. The Chestnut Man*
8. The Gorgon
"Thulin and her reluctant new partner, Hess, investigate a gruesome murder. Politician Rosa Hartung returns to work after her daughter's disappearance."
I really enjoyed this series, although I solved it before it was completely through, I was still guessing who that might actually be, right up until just before the reveal.
The Hole in the Ground* (2019 Netflix)
"After moving to a new town, a single mother becomes convinced that her son has been replaced by something from beneath the sinkhole behind their house."
An Irish movie, great cast... very creepy, didn't relax until after the credits finished rolling.
Flakes 2021 BVMB Horror Movie Thing:
* = first time viewing
1) Greta* (2018 Netflix)
2) No One Gets Out Alive* (2021 Netflix)
3) The Night Flier* (1997 YouTube)
4) In the Tall Grass* (2019 Netflix)
5) Sweet River* (2020 Netflix)
6) The Chestnut Man* (2021 Netflix)
7) The Hole in the Ground * (2019 Netflix)
Great anthology movie from Amicus studios. Five men on a train are joined by an elderly man who purports to be able to tell the future for each man using his deck of tarot cards. Great movie, great cast, only one weak story in the bunch, the voodoo tale isn't very satisfying but that aside this is a hugely enjoyable movie. (DVD viewing)
Full movie.
Rewatched, Kolchak: The Night Strangler.
Kolchak is once again on the case as a spate of killings of exotic dancers occur in Washington, Carl discovers that similar Murders have occurred every 20 years since the late 1800s, surely the same individual cannot be responsible... can he? (YouTube viewing)
Full movie.
2021 Movie Marathon List
01. Halloween 2
02. The Final Girls
03. The Haunting
04. I, Desire
05. The Hole In The Ground
06. Kolchak :The Night Stalker
07. The Ripper
08. Dr. Terror's House Of Horrors
09. Kolchak: The Night Strangler
The ghost of a witch takes bloody revenge on anyone who comes within her grasp. Run of the mill horror, stereotypical characters, still reasonably enjoyable. (DVD viewing)
Rewatched, Halloween 3: Season Of The Witch
A Doctor investigates after a brutal murder in his hospital, the trail leads to a small town and a factory manufacturing novelty masks which is preparing for the upcoming Halloween holiday.
2021 Movie Marathon List
01. Halloween 2
02. The Final Girls
03. The Haunting
04. I, Desire
05. The Hole In The Ground
06. Kolchak :The Night Stalker
07. The Ripper
08. Dr. Terror's House Of Horrors
09. Kolchak: The Night Strangler
10. Superstition
11. Halloween 3:Season Of The Witch
When an oddball teenager accidentally kills one of his tormentors, his mother hides him between the walls of the house until things blow over. But when mom dies during routine surgery, Ronald is left to fend for himself, even when a new family with teen daughters moves into the house, unaware of his creepy presence.
This movie was actually an ABC made for television film broadcast a week before Halloween in 1974, so if you lived through the 70’s you’ll either welcome this kind of film with nostalgia or a knowing eye-roll. I’m a bit of a sucker for the subgenre of horror that involves people living undetected between the walls of a house (there are many fine and not-so-fine examples), so I rather enjoyed this movie, although at times the pacing felt pretty slow for a movie that comes in at only 74 minutes. Considering the context that this was actually broadcast into America’s homes, the occasionally twisted moments and unhinged third act are worth the wait. This movie probably scared the crap out of a lot of 70’s kids who grew up to be horror fans.
Scott Jacoby (The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane) does a fine job here playing the titular role, as does his overprotective mother Kim Hunter. We also get familiar character actors John Larch (Amityville Horror, Dirty Harry) and Dabney Coleman, although the real find for me was Ted Eccles, who later played one of the teenagers in Krofft Supershow’s “Dr. Shrinker”!
3 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2020 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It 3/5 (FTV)
2. Possession (1981) 4/5 (FTV)
3. The Endless 4/5 (FTV)
4. Dead & Buried 4/5 (FTV)
5. The Blob (1988) 4/5 (FTV)
6. The New York Ripper 3/5 (FTV)
7. The Day of the Beast 3/5 (FTV)
8. Bad Ronald 3/5 (FTV)
1. Fear Streat part 1 1994 (2021)
2. Fear Street part 2 1978 (2021)
3. Escape Room (2019)
4. Fear Street part 3 1666 (2021)
5. Vampires (1998)
6. The Blob (1988)
7. The Turning (2020)
8. The Final Girls (2015)
9. Boar (2017)
10. The Dead Don't Die (2019)
This is a Zombie movie but a rather weird/strange one. I'm still very unsure of what the ending meant if anything. It is directed by Jim Jarmusch (he usually means something with his movies) and full of good actors. Tilda Swinton is great as a female undertaker that has samurai skills. Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Chloe Sevigny are the cops. Also in important roles are Tom Waits, Danny Glover, Selena Gomez and Steve Buscemi. And Iggy Pop is a zombie and looks like he has not have so much fun in years as when hes munching on some guts. It has its injokes and even in its weirdness it mainly sticks to the zombie rulebook. Some things not commonly seen is that zombies sticks to the things they valued in life mostly. There a crazy scene where a group zombies stand outside the pharmacy saying Oxy, Ambien and uppers. 4/5
"Four friends with a long standing--but strained--connection take a hiking trip into the Swedish wilderness, from which they may never return."
Okay, this one gave me plenty of scares, a few nervous laughs and basically I was glad when it was over. 😄
Flakes 2021 BVMB Horror Movie Thing:
* = first time viewing
1) Greta* (2018 Netflix)
2) No One Gets Out Alive* (2021 Netflix)
3) The Night Flier* (1997 YouTube)
4) In the Tall Grass* (2019 Netflix)
5) Sweet River* (2020 Netflix)
6) The Chestnut Man* (2021 Netflix)
7) The Hole in the Ground * (2019 Netflix)
8) The Ritual* (2018 Netflix)