31 Days of Halloween Movies (2018) - Horror Fans Unite!!!!!!

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

I watched Salem’s Lot last night for the first time.

I thought it was...okay.

Ray..... I'm disappointed in you.....

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by AKORIS

Ray..... I'm disappointed in you.....

Bro...the vampire was barely in it.

And when it was, it didn’t talk.

I did not like that.

[Show spoiler]

[AKORIS]

#5

1/2

Another 70's horror anthology--- not among the best, nor the worst.
The cast elevates the proceedings immediately--- Peter Cushing, Charlotte Rampling, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Britt Ekland, Barbara Parkins, Robert Powell, Barry Morse, and more!

[oilers73]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

Bro...the vampire was barely in it.

And when it was, it didn’t talk.

I did not like that.

[Show spoiler]

TNT did a much better Salem's Lot mini-series in 2004. It has Rob Lowe, Andre Braugher, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, Samantha Mathis, and James Cromwell. I recommend it.

[Sector Drone]

It's October! Time to start the 31 days of Halloween. No 61 days for me.


#1 Anthropophagous - Bad acting, horrible English dub and awful dialogue. The last 15 minutes are good and there's two memorable kill scenes. I had high hopes for this one.

2


#2 The House That Dripped Blood - A rather classy horror anthology. Like all anthologies, some segments are better than others. I found Peter Cushing's wax museum story to be the worst of the bunch. The fourth story about the vampires was rather silly, but fun. The first two being the strongest of the bunch.

3

[chad_1138]

(*denotes first time viewing)

09/01 - *Demon House
09/02 - *The Babysitter
09/03 - *The Ritual
09/04 - *Death Note
09/05 - *American Fable
09/07 - *The Nun
09/07 - *The Bye Bye Man
09/08 - *Before I Wake
09/10 - *Mercy
09/11 - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
09/12 - Predator (4K)
09/13 - *Ghost Stories
09/15 - Predator 2 (4K)
09/16 - Predators (4K)
09/17 - Zombieland
09/18 - Lake Placid
09/19 - Boo 2!
09/20 - Toy Story of Terror
09/20 - Tucker and Dale vs Evil
09/22 - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (4K)
09/23 - Dreamworks Spooky Stories
09/23 - Young Frankenstein
09/24 - *Flight 7500
09/25 - Mr. Boogedy
09/25 - Body Bags
09/26 - House on Haunted Hill (99) -
09/27 - [REC]
09/29 - Nightmare Before Christmas
09/29 - [REC] 2
09/30 - [REC] 3

[Kaiju]

I'm watching House on Willow Street on Netflix right now. Anyone ever seen this? It's a terrible piece of shit. Littered with awful dialogue, cliche/predictable jump scares and some unintentionally hilarious performances. Watch it if you want to brush up on how not to make a horror movie.

And I thought Terrifier was bad.

[u2popmofo]

9/30

The Strangers - First time seeing it. It was alright, not nearly as good as I was expecting considering how many people seem to love it.

Green Room - Fantastic. Great cinematography, great characters, great cast, unique setting, unique plot. Patrick Stewart and Anton Yelchin were great. This movie's been on my radar since it came out, really glad I finally saw it

[kingdoxie]

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[assydingo]

The Road So Far

9/5 The Church (1989)
9/6 The Nun (2018)
9/7 The Initiation (1984)
9/11 Solstice (2008)
9/11 Anna (2013)
9/13 The Watcher In The Woods (1980)
9/14 The Watcher In The Woods (2017)
9/17 Blood Beat (1983)
9/17 The Predator (2018)
9/19 Fear Clinic (2014)
9/20 Assassination Nation (2018)
9/23 From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
9/23 From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)
9/24 From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000)
9/25 The House With A Clock In It's Walls
9/26 The Originals Season 5
9/27 Hell Fest (2018)
9/29 Doppelganger (1993)
9/30 Killer Workout (1987)

[DanTheMan]

Suspiria (1977)

[blaken123]

Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1968)
I've seen this one before, but not in a while and not in hi-def. The WB BD is gorgeous! This has some great moments, many of which involve the priest and/or the monsignor. I wish that they were in the movie more and that there was less of the young couple (man that kid looks like Roger Daltry!). And this film gets my usual complaint when it comes to Dracula movies: not enough vampire spawn! Everything looks great though, with good acting and nice-looking sets. This is almost top-tier Hammer.

Scars of Dracula (1970)
I watched this within a day or two of Has Risen. As with that film, I'd seen this one before but not in HD. The Studio Canal BD looks even better, with finer detail, but the whole production looks a little cheaper. I like the mean-spirited nature of this one, and I also like the young protagonists a little more than Has Risen (but the priest isn't quite as interesting here). Needs more vampire spawn! Really entertaining. Not as beautiful as Has Risen but faster-paced.

Who Can Kill A Child? (1976)
This is a cool-looking, well-made film, but I was bored. Maybe the problem is that I've seen too many movies that are similar to this one (but that were made in its wake) like Children of the Corn, but that usually doesn't stop me from enjoying older horror films. I'm not sure why, but this one isn't very suspenseful and the kids aren't scary. The first act--where they investigate the seemingly abandoned village--should be my kind of thing. I really like the equivalent sequence in Antropophagus, for instance. But it's not suspenseful here and I'm not sure why. Even that old Star Trek episode with Michael J. Pollard is scarier. The House that Screamed, from the same director, is much better (not to mention totally different!). Speaking of Antropophagus, Who Can Kill a Child? seems like a mash-up between that one, Children of The Corn, and Don't Look Now (the lead actor here even looks a lot like Donald Sutherland).

[Bruisermoore]

This are the 31 films I plan on watching this month -

Halloween
The Exorcist
A Nightmare of Elm Street
Hereditary
The Thing
The Silence of the Lambs
The Shining
Poltergeist
Repulsion
Friday the 13th
Psycho
A Nightmare on Elm Street part 3
Alien
Fright Night (1985)
House (1986)
An American Werewolf in London
Misery
Ringu
The Conjuring
It (2017)
The Night of the Hunter
The Witch
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1956)
Let the Right One In
It Follows
Rosemary’s Baby
Ju On
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
A Quiet Place
Night of the Living Dead

[XanderAE]

My watch list of 27 movies for October (no Tuesdays allowed, thanks to the Great British Bake-Off):

Alien
Van Helsing
28 Days Later
Ghostbusters
A Quiet Place
Seven
Insidious
The Woman In Black
Red Dragon
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Psycho
He Knows You're Alone
Insidious 2
Rosemary's Baby
Scream
The Amityville Horror (1979)
Shaun of the Dead
The Shining
The Thing
30 Days of Night
The Witch
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Exorcist
The Conjuring 2
Tales of Halloween
Trick 'R Treat
John Carpenter's Halloween

[Undeadcow]

Ghostbusters (1984, 105 minutes) ½✰ Creative mix of comedy and supernatural. The UHD video quality made some smaller details I hadn't noticed before pop and it was refreshing to revisit. Format: Digital [UHD, FandangoNow].

Dressed to Kill [Unrated Cut] (1980, 105 minutes) ½✰✰✰ Stylish that flirts with daring adult themes and has moments of brilliance but falters with a (perhaps intentionally) predictable ending leaning into some dated stigma tropes that blunt an otherwise well directed thriller. Format: Digital [HD, Vudu].

Suspiria (1977, 92 minutes) ✰✰ Glorious restoration makes the avant garde elements pop and the leering ethereal camera more impactful with a style over substance verbal exposition heavy plot. The score remains one of the most memorable.Format: Blu-ray [Synapse Films Restoration].

Lifeforce ['Director's Cut'] (1985, 116 minutes) ½✰✰ Lifeforce smartly updates the Dracula mythos while keeping many of the core elements, dipping into scifi but with flying blood phantoms and zombie slaves. Some lurid trappings played so serious it's gratuitous without feeling sleazy and carries a gravitas. Gnarly vampire corpse effects. Some elements feel cliche. Format: Blu-ray.

The Devil and Father Amorth (2017, 68 minutes) ✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ 'Documentary' about an actual exorcism starting with the oddity of the creative team behind 1973's The Exorcist hyping their classic, while apparently real it has some of the worse aspects of found footage with tilted camera work and talking heads without any real depth. The 'centerpiece' of a 'real' exorcism isn't as compelling as it's fictional counterpart often is. Some of the effects, like the voice, seem manufactured and the priest calmly repeatedly asking the spirit to leave or 'authorities' opinion on possession is ultimately too uninteresting and surface level - it makes me grateful for the talents of actual actors. This contradicts what I've always heard about the Catholic Church not commonly performing exorcisms so makes me wish for a more comprehensive documentary on the subject that doesn't hinge on horror film writer pontificating on the nature of evil. "Do you believe there is inherent evil in all of us?"Format: Streaming [Netflix].

[Undeadcow]

Originally Posted by Kaiju

I'm watching House on Willow Street on Netflix right now. Anyone ever seen this? It's a terrible piece of shit. Littered with awful dialogue, cliche/predictable jump scares and some unintentionally hilarious performances. Watch it if you want to brush up on how not to make a horror movie.

Maybe I'm just a glutton for horror movies but I enjoyed House on Willow Street. My thoughts were that is was a smart possession movie with an interesting backstory and a demon that has more depth than just frights and balances parody (flashbacks to priests that seem semi-serious or overly theatrical) well with tension. Some of the design is rough (most backgrounds are nondescript) and a twist is too convenient but I had fun.

[Punishment1o1]

(*) - Indicates First Time Viewing

10/1/18



Chernobyl Diaries: 1/2

This is another one of those that I want to like more than I do. Having a horror movie set in a town where the Chernobyl disaster too place near sounds like a perfect set-up. However, the movie just isn't that great. It just isn't that scary and moves along too fast for its own good. It never really gives itself time to set itself up or introduce the creatures that are supposed to be stalking the group.


Oh, the horror so far this year:

[Show spoiler]Drag Me to Hell*:
The Boy*: :
Last Shift*: 1/2
Little Evil*:
The Collection*: 1/2
A Quiet Place*: 1/2
As Above, So Below: 1/2
It (2017): 1/2
Thriller:
The House With a Clock in Its Walls*:
Dreamcatcher:
Hereditary*:
The Village: 1/2
Friday the 13th (1980):
Hell Fest*: 1/2

[Shogun MacArthur]

Psycho II
A great and respectful follow up to the original. It was clearly made with a lot of love and reverence towards Psycho and Hitchcock, and rather than try to one up or copy the classic they went and did their own thing to pay tribute to it. I love how vibrant and rich the color use is, and Anthony Perkins is still on his A-game playing Norman Bates. I appreciated that they didn't go full blood and guts too, and that the violence they did show was very effective. My only issue is that the story gets a bit unwieldy. Also I couldn't help but laugh when Mary casually grabbed a huge knife to cut her sandwich!

Phantasm II
I'm not quite sure why so many people prefer this over the original. Phantasm was an excellent, atmospheric movie that was both insanely creative and told an emotional story. Phantasm II lacks the charm and dread of that one. In fact, a good amount of the running time is a slog to get through. However, when it kicks into gear it kicks into gear, and that saves it, even if you can tell what horror movies they were borrowing ideas from. And, of course, The Tall Man is still awesome.

Phantasm III: 1/2
This one both drifts even further from the original and gets closer to its themes. I loved having A. Michael Baldwin and Bill Thornbury back, and the entertainment factor is much more evenly spread out than in II. At this point it seems like they just embraced the craziness and started to go all out, complete with a razor blade frisbee and martial arts. Still not sure how Reggie became an RC Cola Ashley Williams, but he's fun here, as are his interactions with Rocky. It's not to the level of the first, but it's perfect Saturday afternoon viewing.

[FilmKoala]

Zombie 3 (1988) (First-time viewing)

Man this was not a good one. It was kinda boring all around. Basically everything this movie has has been done better elsewhere so there's no reason to watch it; the gore effects are decent but not great, the makeup effects are average at best, the characters and plot are paper thin, the acting is bad. I kinda regret buying this movie on BD as I don't see myself revisiting it.

The score was pretty kickass though, I'll give it that.

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The Tenth Annual 31 Days of Terror

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* = First-time viewing

Sept. 30/Oct. 1.
1. The Strangers (2008)
2. Evil Dead II (1987)
3. Don't Breathe (2016)
4. Halloween 5: The Curse of Michael Myers (1989)
5. Zombie 3 (1988)*

[djgeneral]

Okay, we are officially in October!!! More traffic will be entering this thread so I want to remind everyone about the contest we have running.

It's here!!!! Summer is unofficially over, and the time for spooky horror is NOW! We will not be accepting any complaints about the thread starting early. "31 Days" is simply the title, not the rule. If you complain, we can send Freddy, Michael, Jason, etc. over to your house to take care of you. That choice is yours. Now that we have that out of the way, let's get spooky!!!

HALLOWEEN GIVEAWAY!

The contest official runs from September 7th until October 10th.

Winners will be notified by/on October 14th. Prizes will be mailed out by/on October 17th.

The contest will have a required cost to participate. There are a lot of available items, and the amount of people interested in participating will determine the cost. This will not be decided until later on in September. The currently goal is to have roughly around 45 interested people in participating. If we get this many people, then the cost will be roughly $5 per person. The more people beyond that we have, there will be additional prizes. Also, I am looking to be trying to donating to a charity. You are welcome to donate extra money to gain more entries, and have some of the funds be off to a charity for a good cause.

Here are the ways you will be able to get entries!

1. Donate $5.00* to be eligible. Donating $7.50 will give you 2 entries, $10 will give you 3 entries.
2. Participating in the 2018 poll at the top of the thread
3. Making a single post in the thread with at least one movie you watched
4. Answering pop-up trivia questions or polls through out the contest period. Each one is worth 1 entry, and there will be 10 total.

This means that there will be a total of 15 entries per person if they donate $10, participate in the poll, make a post of movies they are watching, and answering every pop-up question.

*=Exact cost TBD

Currently, there will be six winners. 6 out of 45 is a pretty good chance at something, plus money to charity depending on how many generous people we have!

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