Halloween Horror Month 2021

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by Peachfuzz

Managed this last night...


Love watching Savalas chewing the set.

It's no accident that blacklisted writer Bernard Gordon, who led the protests against Elia Kazan's honorary Oscar, named his character Captain Kazan.

[Guy87]

Originally Posted by Peachfuzz

Managed this last night...


Love watching Savalas chewing the set.

I felt the opposite on first watch.

Savalas introduction so late in the game almost stopped the film dead in it's tracks (lol) for me.

Seemed a bit smoother on my second go round though (great film either way).

[zallzed]

#22 - Death Line AKA Raw Meat
#23 -Terror Train

TV
Wolf Creek Season 1



Progress

[Show spoiler] 31 Days of Hallloween

1 Dracula Prince of Darkness 1/2
2 Resident Evil
3 The Wolfman 1/2
4 Resident Evil Apocalypse 1/2
5 Wishmaster
6 Resident Evil extinction 1/2
7 Resident Evil Afterlife 1/2
8 The Cave
9 Quatermass and the Pit
10 Bats 1/2
11 To the Devil a Daughter
12 Dawn of the Dead (2004) 1/2
13 Scars of Dracula 1/2
14 VVitch
15 Sator 1/2
16 Evil Dead (2013) 1/2
17 Creep
18 The Changling 1/2
19 A Quite Place
20 Lifeforce 1/2
21 Blood on Satan’s Claw
22 Death Line
23 Terror Train

[Decky]

Originally Posted by Decky

4th - Freddy Vs Jason
5th - Rod Zombie's Halloween 2
6th - House Of Frankenstein
7th - Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
8th - Psycho Goreman
9th - John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars
10th - John Carpenter's Village Of The Damned
11th - The Guest

12th - N/A
13th - The Dark Eyes Of London and The Black Room from Karloff At Columbia
14th - John Carpenters Vampires

[Gerby]

I really liked the 1st reboot, this one not so much. Not bad but not great either.



It's been a long time since i'd seen this & i'd forgotten just how batsh*t crazy it is!
Tremendous trash.

[zallzed]

#28 - Witchboard
#29 - The Thing

TV - True Blood Season 1



Progress so far

[Show spoiler] 31 Days of Hallloween

1/10 - Dracula Prince of Darkness 1/2
2/10 - Resident Evil
2/10 - The Wolfman 1/2
3/10 - Resident Evil Apocalypse 1/2
4/10 - Wishmaster
4/10 -Resident Evil extinction 1/2
5/10 - Resident Evil Afterlife 1/2
5/10 - The Cave
6/10 - Quatermass and the Pit
6/10 - Bats 1/2
7/10 - To the Devil a Daughter
7/10 - Dawn of the Dead (2004) 1/2
8/10 -Scars of Dracula 1/2
8/10 - VVitch
9/10 - Sator 1/2
9/10 - Evil Dead (2013) 1/2
9/10 - Creep
10/10 - The Changling 1/2
10/10 - A Quite Place
11/10 - Lifeforce 1/2
11/10 - Blood on Satan’s Claw
12/10 - Death Line
12/10 - Terror Train 1/2
13/10 - VHS 1/2
13/10 - VHS 94 -
14/10 - Resident Evil retribution
14/10 - Resident Evil The Final Chapter /2

[Decky]

Originally Posted by Decky

12th - N/A
13th - The Dark Eyes Of London and The Black Room from Karloff At Columbia
14th - John Carpenters Vampires

15th - Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Children Of The Corn
16th - Halloween Kills
17th - Werewolf Of London and Ready Or Not

[Decky]

Originally Posted by Decky

15th - Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Children Of The Corn
16th - Halloween Kills
17th - Werewolf Of London and Ready Or Not

18th - Green Room
19th - The Forever Purge
20th - N/A
21st - Poltergeist
22nd - Halloween 3 / Halloween 4
23rd - She Wolf Of London / The Hills Have Eyes 2006
24th - Critters / The Toxic Avenger / Texas Chainsaw 3D
25th - House Of Dracula

[Arrowheadrevisited]

Day 4: Hell Night



Progress:

[Show spoiler]

1. Late Phases
2. The Mummy (1959)
3. The Gate
4. Hatchet
5. The Cat O' Nine Tails
6. The Curse Of Frankenstein
7. Blood Diner
8. Santa Sangre
9. Hell Night

[CelestialAgent]

Catching up with some German imports



The Italian dub on Hatchet apparently isn’t contemporary, and can feel more like a radio drama than film dubbing. Curious how the English dub sounds.

Monster on the Campus isn’t great (a college couple scared by a monster is a lousy fake out joke, but at least Arnold admits as much in the interview on the disc, that he did the film as a favour and would have revised the screenplay had he more than two weeks.

I also watched Al tropico del cancro as Letterboxd categorises it as horror, but besides a couple of grisly murders I wouldn’t say that’s accurate.



I started watching Bübchen, but it turns out despite the subtitle of Der Kleine Vampir, it isn’t necessarily considered horror. Ferpect Crime looks a little grisly but is it considered horror?

[zallzed]

#5 Resident Evil Extinction
#6 Wishmaster



Extinction best one of the first three.
Wishmaster is a first time viewing how have I missed this all these years, loved it

[duggie walker]

5. THE INVISIBLE MAN - Original Claude Rains version. I'd never seen this in its entirety before but it's a great little movie, possibly my favourite of the famous Universal horror movies. With a runtime of only 70 mins or so, it's a bit basic in its plot but good fun nonetheless and very atmospheric (perfect Winter film!). What's really remarkable though is just how well the FX stand up even today: It really must have been jaw-dropping for audiences in its time.

6. FEAR IN THE NIGHT - Occasionally creepy, somewhat predictable psycho-thriller from Hammer. Were it not for Peter Cushing's presence, it would feel more like one of Hammer's televisual outings than a theatrical movie: It's no visual feast, with flat lighting and dull compositions. Can't really recommend it, except to Hammer completists, but it's by no means bad and held my attention throughout.

[Guy87]

Halloween Horror #4 was 1963 Hammer movie "Maniac".

Bit of a let down this one; here we were expecting a movie titled "Maniac" to be about a "Maniac", and instead it's basically a romantic drama about an American man who has to choose a relationship between a Mother or her Daughter. Yes the family have a husband/father who is currently in prison after his daughter was sexually assaulted four years prior and the father went insane and killed the attacker in his shed with a blowtorch...but honestly the threat of the titular "Maniac" breaking out and attacking the lead character is little to none throughout the running time.

Not really one to put us in the Halloween mood, but ah well, you win some, you lose some.

[oddbox83]

3, 4 & 5:

Dracula (English version)
Frankenstein
The Wolf Man

[saltysam]

Day 5:
An American Werewolf In London

[Dickieduvet]

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Double bill tonight to make up for yesterday

[OceanBlue]

Started watching last night, the short-lived horror anthology series Chillers (aka Mistress of Suspense), beginning with the episode "The Cat Brought It In". The cast included Edward Fox, Michael Hordern and Bill Nighy.

Were both the main body of each episode and Anthony Perkins' framing sequences shot in France?

Once I got used to the pace of the opening episode, I enjoyed it. It reminded me of Tales of the Unexpected with the tone. Did I feel it was overlong (the runtime was towards fifty-two minutes)? No I didn't. It gave the story room to breathe.

This is from Mill Creek's DVD re-release of the series.

[zallzed]

#7 Resident Evil Afterlife
#8 The Cave
TV: Masters of Cinema - Jennifer



Afterlife as good as extinction
Is the cave a rip off of The Descent not really, is it as good, nope not really

Progress so far

[Show spoiler] Halloween progress 2021

1. Dracula Prince of Darkness 1/2
2. Resident Evil
3. The Wolfman 1/2
4. Resident Evil Apocalypse 1/2
5. Wishmaster
6. Resident Evil extinction 1/2
7. Resident Evil Afterlife 1/2
8. The Cave

[Arrowheadrevisited]

Day 5

Meat Grinder

[Show spoiler]

Remembered nothing about this film, having watched it on VCD 10 years ago.

The bloodiest of the season... so far!

[Show spoiler]

31 Days of Halloween 2021

1. Late Phases
2. The Mummy (1959)
3. The Gate
4. Hatchet
5. The Cat O' Nine Tails
6. The Curse Of Frankenstein
7. Blood Diner
8. Santa Sangre
9.Hell Night
10. Meat Grinder

[ravenus]

It may be something of a cheat, but last night I watched Walt Disney's adaptation of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, included in a combo with Fun and Fancy-Free. The Mr. Toad segment, based on a part of Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows, is a light-hearted comic adventure (although with it's casual use of guns and knives is probably a little more violent than Disney's later animated ventures). The real gem here is Ichabod, Disney's take on Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The title character is a spindly village schoolmaster that with his relative sophistication aims to win the heart (and inheritance) of the wealthy beauty Katrina Von Tassel. The legend deals with how this suave but superstitious gent encounters the local boogey of the Headless Horseman. Disney's episode is rather faithful to the spirit of Irving's story, and even though it is primarily for kids, does not skimp on the eerie atmosphere. In fact, when I first saw it as a kid, on a VHS compilation called Scary Tales, it creeped me out good (Oh, I would pay a ransom for a blu-ray replication of that compilation).

I like this one more than Tim Burton's movie, just saying.

The blu-ray features a strong transfer that doesn't try to scrub away the vintage film source. While the audio is ostensibly 5.1, it doesn't go overboard in re-routing sound cues to the rears or in bolstering the bass. Unfortunately there are no extras that bring context to this lovely 2-parter.