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View Poll Results: Who is your favorite Horror director from this top 10 list by Ranker.com? | |||
Carpenter |
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42 | 61.76% |
Craven |
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3 | 4.41% |
Hitchcock |
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8 | 11.76% |
Romero |
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3 | 4.41% |
Raimi |
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3 | 4.41% |
Hooper |
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1 | 1.47% |
Del Toro |
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1 | 1.47% |
Wan |
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2 | 2.94% |
Argento |
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0 | 0% |
Cronenberg |
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5 | 7.35% |
Voters: 68. You may not vote on this poll |
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Thanks given by: | Cruel Angel (09-04-2025), hagios (09-04-2025), Jajuka89 (09-05-2025), Jay H. (09-04-2025), Lord-Oakbeard (09-05-2025), Mystic (09-05-2025), Tuc0 (09-04-2025) |
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(3) “Ice” (1993)
The X Files. Season 1: episode 8. ![]() From this boxset I watched our intrepid FBI agents Mulder and Scully iced in and isolated freezing their files off at a research centre in Alaska investigating a crater, murder, extraterrestrial organisms, dodgy scientists and a mad dog. Lots of anger and paranoia in this excellent episode. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hmmm. Sounds familiar? … (4) The Thing (1982) ![]() Just had to pop this absolute classic in the player after watching “Ice”. My favourite John Carpenter film. ‘Nuff said really. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Thanks given by: | Al_The_Strange (09-05-2025), chad_1138 (09-04-2025), hagios (09-04-2025), Jajuka89 (09-04-2025), JDub1 (09-04-2025), jeddy3 (09-04-2025), NI-Gunner (09-04-2025), OceanBlue (09-18-2025), october27 (09-04-2025), Röckzilla (09-05-2025), sandman slim (09-04-2025), SoulTaker3000 (09-04-2025), Tuc0 (09-04-2025), u2popmofo (09-04-2025) |
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#7 |
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Thanks given by: | Al_The_Strange (09-05-2025), Jajuka89 (09-03-2025), JDub1 (09-03-2025), jeddy3 (09-03-2025), kingdoxie (09-03-2025), LarryT (09-03-2025), Lord-Oakbeard (09-03-2025), sandman slim (09-03-2025), SoulTaker3000 (09-03-2025), u2popmofo (09-03-2025), Warwick (09-03-2025) |
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My Severin sale order finally arrived today. I felt like jumping straight in with one of the new releases; the new 4K upgrade of the Amicus horror anthology, Asylum.
![]() I actually feel like the boost in PQ quality from the new 4K release increased my appreciation and enjoyment of Asylum. Some very nice usage of Dolby Vision / HDR in the new scan, particularly with lighting. Fun watch. Last edited by u2popmofo; 09-03-2025 at 03:26 AM. |
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Thanks given by: | Al_The_Strange (09-05-2025), chad_1138 (09-03-2025), Cruel Angel (09-03-2025), hagios (09-03-2025), Jajuka89 (09-03-2025), kingdoxie (09-03-2025), Lord-Oakbeard (09-03-2025), NI-Gunner (09-03-2025), october27 (09-03-2025), sandman slim (09-03-2025), SoulTaker3000 (09-03-2025), u2popmofo (09-03-2025), Warwick (09-03-2025) |
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Blu-ray Knight
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![]() ![]() Alright, alright, alright, it is that time when “In the dead of night, when the moon is high, and yes ill winds blow, and the banshees cry, and the moonlight casts an earthly glow… arise my love, with tales of woe!” ![]() * 1st time watch BD streaming/DVR 4K DVD hagios’s cup of tea theatre Running Tab ![]() ![]() *1st time viewing *Spoiler Alert* 09/03 - *The Ape (1940) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Monogram strikes again with this engaging thriller that features horror's undisputed King, Boris Karloff. In THE APE (1940) viewers are treated to the wacky story of kindly old, Dr. Adrian, a scientist who wants nothing more than cure wheelchair-bound beauty (Maris Wrixon) and make her walk again. Trouble is, as usual, human spinal fluid is needed to affect such a cure and you can only get it from... humans. Enter a savage escaped circus Gorilla and you have all the makings of one of Monogram's top-level programmers. Boris Karloff as a mad doctor and an ape… nuff said for me! |
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Thanks given by: | Cruel Angel (09-03-2025), jeddy3 (09-04-2025), kingdoxie (09-04-2025), Lord-Oakbeard (09-04-2025), SoulTaker3000 (09-04-2025), u2popmofo (09-04-2025) |
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Yea i didn’t catch last night’s episode yet. I mean I’ve enjoyed it but they seem to really milk and stretch the episodes to fill the time and not in a good slow burn type of way. It’s not something I’d go raving about to anyone but then again this is coming from the guy that didn’t enjoy Romulus the first time in the theater but has since really grown on me. What about yourself?
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Thanks given by: | u2popmofo (09-04-2025) |
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Thanks given by: | jeddy3 (09-04-2025) |
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#14 |
Blu-ray Prince
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#15 |
Blu-ray Grand Duke
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Muhahahahahaha.
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Thanks given by: | Al_The_Strange (09-05-2025), NI-Gunner (09-04-2025) |
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Blu-ray Grand Duke
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![]() [Show spoiler] Farewell and adieu to summer... -Jaws (1975): ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What can possibly be said about Steven Spielberg's breakout 1975 blockbuster after fifty years? It remains one of the greatest cinematic thrills rides of all time, with the then-27-year-old wunderkind firing on all creative cylinders in bringing Peter Benchley's bestseller -- about the small New England island community of Amity's key summer tourist season being brought to a screaming halt by the ravening predations of a 25-foot Great White Shark and how the town's aquaphobic police chief (Roy Scheider), a bright, eager ichthyologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a blunt, crusty sea cap'n (Robert Shaw) band together to repel the menace and put the town's businesses back on a paying basis -- to terrifying life. This is one of those miraculous films where everything clicks, from the leading troika's prickly and immediate chemistry to Spielberg's innate sense of camera placement, movement and knowing exactly when to key the shocks and laughs like a seasoned symphonic conductor to John Williams' brilliant, Oscar-winning musical score (buttressing his [in]famous thumping low-end ostinato signaling the shark's hovering presence -- one of the most ingeniously simple pieces of screw-tightening fear music ever conceived -- with ebullient sea shanteys illustrating the sheer joy of the chase), it's a movie that remains as fresh and frightening as it did unspooling in cinemas for the first time half-a-century(!) ago, and seeing it large and in charge in its current theatrical run is a treat. Worth raising a glass to ("Okay, we'll drink our legs...!") to celebrate five decades of ruining beach holidays as this summer enters its last few weeks. |
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Thanks given by: | AKORIS (09-04-2025), Al_The_Strange (09-05-2025), CelluloidPal (09-09-2025), chad_1138 (09-04-2025), Cruel Angel (09-04-2025), hagios (09-04-2025), jeddy3 (09-04-2025), Lord-Oakbeard (09-04-2025), NI-Gunner (09-04-2025), october27 (09-04-2025), Röckzilla (09-04-2025), u2popmofo (09-04-2025) |
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Blu-ray Grand Duke
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![]() [Show spoiler] 09/04/25: Jaws 2 (1978): ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, Universal sequelized Steven Spielberg's massive box office blockbuster, and if you haven't seen it in a while, you'll be surprised how well it holds up. Roy Scheider returns as police Chief Martin Brody, still left rattled by the events of the first movie and the first one to cry wolf when a series of disappearances in the waters around the island community of Amity leads him to belIeve another Great White Shark is cruising for some summer chow. The town selectmen (led by Murray Hamilton) scoff at the idea, thinking Brody's suffering from a form of PTSD, but as the body count continues to climb, Brody is forced to face his fears and tackle another fishy foe as his sons Michael and Shawn find themselves amongst a pack of imperiled teens left adrift on the wreckage of their sailboats to fend for themselves. Jaws 2 was an early example of a hotly-anticipated sequel that suffered from severe growing pains, with original director John Hancock (Let's Scare Jessica To Death) let go from the production after a few weeks' filming (little of his footage made the final cut) and Jeannot Szwarc (Somewhere In Time) brought in to mop up and steer the film away from Hancock's original, darker vision (some of which you can ascertain from Hank Searls' novelization) and capture a more spirited tone more in line with the original. The core cast of teenagers are more "types" than fleshed-out characters, but they're far more appealing and likable than the hateful ciphers that would typify the slasher cinema that would originate just a few months after this film's release date with Halloween and its many inferior, crude sequels and ripoffs (those movies would rarely feature a moment as poignant as one girl giving a heartfelt plea for deliverance as the rest of the group look on in reverent silence). And Scheider, despite only doing the movie as part of a contractual obligation with Universal and who did not want to make it, nevertheless shows a great deal of professionalism by not half-assing it, delivering a more wounded take on Brody as he begins to crack under the pressure of a threat to the populace that only he can see (there's a warm, emotional moment as Brody, after shooting his gun off at the beach a what turns out to be simply a school of bluefish, gathers the shell casings scattered across the sand in quiet humiliation, as his younger son, Shawn, silently assists him). While Szwarc shows a surprising tact with the smaller, human moments of the story, the audience clearly is craving the thrills of Spielberg's film, and he delivers on that level with terse efficiency, the shark setpieces delivering the creeping, anticipatory dread and slashing shocks with maximum expertise (the shark -- left scarred by an encounter with a exploding pleasure boat early in the film -- chowing down on a floating coast guard helicopter is a memorable setpiece). And returning composer John Williams is the true MVP here, retaining the unforgettable shark motif from the original and fashioning a more bright, youthful flair for the sailing sequences with the teen characters, with gorgeous, infectious melodies that bring the film to life. In a career full of franchise pictures, this remains one of Williams' best sequel efforts, with "End Title, End Cast" being one of the most beautiful cues in his vast repertoire. You could easily argue that this film is deeply "unnecessary", but as far as mercenary "Just for the money" sequels go, this is one the high end of such efforts, and two increasingly awful sequels that followed unfortunately sullied this movie's reputation as more of the same. Give it a shot, though, and you'll discover a superior shocker that's obviously not a patch on Spielberg's original, yet is still far better-crafted than it had to be. Last edited by Monterey Jack; 09-05-2025 at 01:56 AM. |
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Blu-ray Grand Duke
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![]() [Show spoiler] 09/05/25: The Conjuring: Last Rites * (2025): ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The latest -- and purportedly last -- film in WB's profitable "Conjuringverse" franchise finds paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) brought out of premature retirement (due in large part to Ed's worsening heart condition) circa 1986 to investigate the "Pittsburgh Poltergeist", a manifestation of concentrated evil (connected to an ornate mirror that was a key conduit in one of their earliest cases) that's been terrorizing the large Smurl family, who are at their wit's end. Ed, Lorraine, and their now grown daughter, Judy (Mia Tomlinson) have to band together to repel the violent spirit, who was present at Judy's birth (she was stillborn for approximately a minute before miraculously reviving) and is apparently looking for a little payback, desiring the spirit of Judy that was denied him 22 years earlier. The Conjuring movies (and their various spin-offs) have offered up a smorgasbord of well-worn genre cliches given a fresh polish -- at least in the first two efforts directed by series originator James Wan -- but Last Rites, reasonably well-crafted as it is, can't help but feel somewhat canned and routine. The best aspect of the film, as always, are the endearing characterizations by Wilson and Farmiga as the Warrens, the devoutly religious yet still warmly amorous couple who like the fright-flick equivalent of a pair of well-worn but comfy slippers. They ground even the hoariest scary-movie tropes with a lived-in chemistry that one can only get after living with these characters for the past dozen years(!). That said, returning director Michael Chaves (who directed the previous film in the series and two of the varied spin-offs) lacks the roving-camera finesse of Wan, the ability to time the camera movements, edits and sound design and musical strings into a pleasurable miasma of hovering dread. His direction is perfectly functional, but he cannot tune the symphony to the same fine pitch as Wan. While this is certainly not as blandly routine as something like The Nun II (which was nun II scary), it's probably best that this brings this series of films to a close (with an satisfyingly emotional wrap-up with cameos from previous players), because there's not much blood left to be squeezed from this particular stone. |
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![]() Frankenstein (1931) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the weather is cool, foggy, and misty...time for a Universal monster! |
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Blu-ray Grand Duke
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![]() [Show spoiler] 09/11/25: Evil Toons * (1992): ![]() ![]() ![]() A quartet of nubile, bubble-headed college girls (Monique Gabrielle, Madison Stone, Barbara Dale -- credited as "Stacey Nix" -- and Suzanne Ager) agree to spend the night cleaning a dusty, ramshackle old mansion (crusty -- and lusty -- Dick Miller plays the caretaker), but when they read the incantations in the obligatory Creepy Old Book (which looks like a Spirit Halloween knockoff of the Necronomicon), one of the illustrations springs forth into voraciously horny life and sexually assaults one of the girls, who becomes possessed and takes out the rest one by one with her serrated shark's teeth, while a cashing-the-check David Carradine makes occasional appearances as the man who hung himself decades earlier in an attempt to contain the book's evil spirits and who has come back to finish the job. Written and directed by schlockmeister Fred Olen Ray, Evil Toons, even by the standards of this kind of low-budget direct-to-video fare from the early 90s, is pretty feeble stuff. The acting is risible (reminding me of the line from Brian De Palma's Blow Out, "I didn't hire that girl for her scream, I hired her for her t***"), the production threadbare, and even the title is a misnomer, as there's only one Evil Toon in the whole film (a even randier updating of the wolf in the old Tex Avery cartoons), who appears for less than 90 seconds and is animated as crudely as one of those old Legend Of Zelda CDI games. There are a couple of stray chuckles here and there, and the frequently unclothed ladies will stoke one's inner-adolescent prurience efficiently enough, but otherwise quite bad. Last edited by Monterey Jack; 09-11-2025 at 02:33 PM. |
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