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

[Bullitt]

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[Monterey Jack]

First-time viewings marked with an *

[Show spoiler]9/06/18: The Little Stranger * (2018):
9/07/18: The Nun * (2018):
9/10/18: Predator (1987):
9/11/18: Predator 2 (1990):
9/12/18: Predators (2010):
9/14/18:The Predator * (2018):
9/21/18: Fade To Black * (1980):
9/23/18: The Hidden (1987):
9/24/18: Season Of The Witch * (1972):
9/25/18: Assassination Nation * (2018):
9/27/18: Thriller (1983): The House With A Clock In Its Walls * (2018):
10/01/18: Night School * (1981): Body Bags * (1993): Pumpkinhead * (1988):
10/02/18: Raising Cain (1992): Split (2017):
10/03/18: Eyes Of A Stranger * (1981): Hell Fest * (2018): Someone's Watching Me! (1978):
10/04/18: Misery (1990):

10/05/18:

-X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes * (1963):



A doctor (Ray Milland) uses himself as a Guinea Pig in an experiment utilizing special eye drops that will allow him to see beyond the approximately 10% of the limits of human perception...only to find that what he glimpses out there, shimmering through a kaleidoscopic miasma of light, is more terrifying than can be tolerated by the human psyche. Nifty little exercise in the Mad Scientist genre (produced and directed by Roger Corman) boasts neat "Spectarama" visual effects when the camera takes Milland's viewpoint and a memorably shocking final image. Definitely one of Corman's better features.

-Body Parts * (1991):



Grisly thriller about a police psychologist (Jeff Fahey) who loses his arm in a terrible roadside accident and has a donor limb grafted onto his shoulder...and who is soon tormented by frightening visions of murder. Investigating, he soon learns his new appendage belonged to a deceased death row inmate, and that two other men who have received transplants from what was left over are suffering similar side effects. We've seen the "transplanted body part possesses its new host" schtick before (hell, I saw it earlier this month in the Body Bags segment "Eye"), and it's given plodding treatment here by co-screenwriter and director Eric Red (who wrote 80's genre favorites like The Hitcher and Near Dark), who never gets a proper handle on the material, playing it too straight to be campy and too silly to be authentically gripping. Only a brief car chase -- with Fahey, in the passenger seat of a police cruiser, handcuffed to someone in the driver's seat of a car in the other lane -- offers any real innovation, and Loek Dikker's lush score (replete with what sounds like a keening Theremin) works hard to make it all feel more impactful than it is, but overall it's a bloody mess.

[oilers73]

Shaun of the Dead When Erin met Simon. I've had a schoolgirl crush ever since. Fantastic rom-zom-com.

[Al_The_Strange]

Deep Rising





Body Count: 7 Films

[Show spoiler]
09/03: Village of the Damned (1960)
09/03: Frankenstein (1931)
09/03: Son of Frankenstein
09/22: The Wolf Man (1941)
09/22: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
09/22: House of Frankenstein
09/22: House of Dracula
09/26: Happy Death Day
09/27: Slaughter High
09/30: Hotel Transylvania 3
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10/01: House on Haunted Hill (1999)
10/01: Flatliners (2017)
10/02: Beyond Re-Animator
10/02 - 10/03: Devilman OVA
10/03: Incarnate
10/04: Van Helsing
10/05: Deep Rising

2016 Body Count | 2015 Body Count | 2014 Body Count
2013 Body Count | 2012 Body Count | 2011 Body Count
2010 Body Count

[zeze]

7. The Lodgers -

I'm usually a fan of gothic horror but this one was very mediocre.

[Show spoiler] 6. Hallows' Eve -

Bad acting, an awful script, and unoriginal kills. Also I know they are on a limited budget but it is very unrealistic that at all the attractions except for one there is nobody else at them except for the main characters.

5. Hereditary -

The first hour was excellent but I hated the direction they went for the rest of the movie.

4. Unsane -

First half of the movie showed a lot of promise but then I felt it started to lose its suspense and my interest as well. It's a shame as well as I was really looking forward to watching this movie after seeing the trailer a few months ago.

3. Cellar Dweller -

Only things going for this movie is the nice monster design and the movie's short runtime.

2. Paranormal Activity -

Found it to be pretty boring at times and not scary at all but I appreciate what they did with the budget that they had.

1. Leatherface -

Not what I was expecting but still enjoyable and serves as a good prequel.

[evilive]

Originally Posted by u2popmofo

10/4

[Show spoiler]

I've had this movie on my radar for nearly 30 years, first time finally seeing it. It's a very strange and unique movie. A lot of it hasn't aged well, but just knowing how they set up the vibrating chairs in the theater and hired actors to freak out during screenings kinda makes up for it. Vincent Price is great.

I have this one scheduled for tomorrow. Been a while since I last it too.

[XanderAE]

01/10: Alien (Director’s Cut)
02/10: Friday the 13th (1980)
03/10: Van Helsing
04/10: 28 Days Later
05/10: Ghostbusters (1984)

[Pizzamorg]

05/10/2018 - Raw.

[assydingo]

10/5 Ghoulies II (1988)

Despite the commendable efforts in puppetry and effects the Ghoulies sequel fell flat for me because of the flimsy story and characters. Which isn't to say the cast doesn't try to raise the material to a higher level but it failed to click, at least for me.

[october27]

8. THE INVISIBLE MAN
It's hard to pick a favorite for the Universal monster movies but this would be a candidate for me. Director James Whale gives us the second of his three great monster movies. Claude Rains gives one of the most amazing voice only performances ever and the rest of the cast do a great job in bringing The Invisible Man to life. Pretty good special effects for the time.

[Show spoiler]
1. HALLOWEEN 3
2+3. PHANTASM 1+2
4. CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
5. HALLOWEEN
6. DRACULA 1931
7. ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN

SEPTEMBER
1. 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE
2. THE MUMMY 1959
3. SALEM'S LOT
4+5. FRIDAY THE 13TH 1+2
6. THE MUMMY 1932
7. THE THING 1982
8. SHAUN OF THE DEAD
9. FREDDY VS. JASON
10. THE PURGE
11. LAND OF THE DEAD
12. RAMPAGE
13-15. POLTERGEIST 1+2+2015
16. ALIEN VS. PREDATOR
17. THE MEG
18. DAWN OF THE DEAD 2004
19. THE PURGE ANARCHY
20+21. FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3+4
22. THE THING 2011
23. PROMETHEUS
24. THE PURGE ELECTION YEAR

[Dr. Phibes]

Previously...

[Show spoiler]10/01 - Crescendo
10/01 - Abbott & Costello Meet The Killer, Boris Karloff
10/01 - TV Episode: The Munsters Today - Vampire Pie
10/02 - TV Episode: Unhappily Ever After - I Know What You Did in the Closet
10/02 - Noroi: The Curse
10/02 - Jack Attack - Short film
10/02 - The Mummy's Tomb
10/02 - The Mummy's Ghost

10/03 - Piranha II: The Spawning
10/03 - Zombie Dead (Zonbi-Dedd0)
10/04 - TV Episode: Unhappily Ever After - Ryan, Vampire Slayer
10/04 - Satan's Slaves
10/04 - Abbott & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Piranha II - Obviously the flying piranha aspect of this movie is ridiculous, but I still think this is a pretty fun movie with some pretty gross gore.

Zombie Dead - This is a piece of shit hour-long Japanese zombie movie with two hot girls and two zombies in an abandoned hospital. There are also two dudes with trashcans on their heads. While a piece of shit, it's not as much a piece of shit as you'd expect from the cover:



It's got a bit of atmosphere in the beginning and some effectively creepy music, it's just kinda of dull and repetitive. There's one scene where a girl is tied to a chair and keeps kicking a zombie away as she tries to untie herself that lasts for almost two minutes. Cut to her kicking, then back to the zombie being kicked. Repeat. For two minutes.

Unhappily Ever After - Ryan, Vampire Slayer - Another Halloween episode, this time a cheerleader/vampire slayer (but not really) is injured and Ryan has to take over. Not much horror in one of these episodes, but there is a Yoko Ono/Priscilla Presley joke that's told literally 5 times. This scene in a graveyard has a great spooky, slightly Hammer look about it.



Satan's Slaves - Premiered on Shudder last night. This is a solid Indonesian Conjuring style movie with a lot of creepy imagery and one absolute doozy of an out-of-nowhere death scene.

Abbott & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde - This is a lot of fun when it picks up, but it takes about 20 minutes before it becomes an A&C movie. It's like they were late getting there and they started without them. This one gets pretty weird:

[oilers73]

Night of the Living Dead (1990) It isn't great, but I like this much more than the original. The makeup effects are outstanding, and there are great performances from Patricia Tallman and Tony Todd. (I watched the region-free Umbrella Entertainment Blu-ray, which does not have the annoying blue tint from the Twilight Time release.)

[FilmKoala]

The Thing (2011)


A good movie that didn't deserve all the hate it got when it came out.



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The Tenth Annual 31 Days of Terror

[Show spoiler]
* = 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)*
6. Night of the Living Dead (1990)
7. One Missed Call (2003)
8. Dark Water (2002)

Oct. 2
9. Hush (2016)*
10. The Vampire Doll (1970)*
11. The Thing (1982)

Oct. 3
12. The Boneyard (1991)
13. The Howling (1981)

Oct. 4
14. Vampire Circus (1972)*
15. The Thing (2011)

[moviebuff2]

All movies will be first time viewings!



10/5: Ghost Stories 1/2

One of the better anthology horror movies recently. Has a few truly scary moments. Almost gave it 4 skulls but the ending is just a bit off. Still worth watching.

10/4: Eden Lake
10/3: Stephanie
10/2: Bay of Blood 1/2
10/1: Summer of '84

[sandman slim]

21.

Of course,

[u2popmofo]

Originally Posted by evilive

I have this one scheduled for tomorrow. Been a while since I last it too.

Did you get the new Scream Factory Blu?

[Blu Myers]

5 Oct - Poltergeist 1/2



After revisiting Poltergeist, something just dawned on me. Most movies don't build on the family dynamic like this one did. It handles this aspect of storytelling flawlessly.

But in terms of horror, Poltergeist achieves with practical effects what most CGI fests today can't. Moreover, it is one of the few that utilizes the strong family dynamic to give the viewer a sense of relief amidst all the terror. It really touches the heart for a horror film.

Bravo Speilberg, er...I mean Hooper.

14 Sep - Summer of 84* 1/2
16 Sep - Rob Zombie's Halloween 1/2
17 Sep - Sorority Row
20 Sep - The Nun*
23 Sep - Alice Sweet Alice* 1/2
24 Sep - Mandy* 1/2
26 Sep - Drag Me To Hell
27 Sep - Hell Fest
28 Sep - Terrifier 1/2
29 Sep - Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
1 Oct - Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
2 Oct - Bay of Blood (Twitch of the Death Nerve)
3 Oct - When a Stranger Calls (2006)
4 Oct - Would You Rather
5 Oct - Poltergeist 1/2

[hagios]

10/5

Cup of tea theatre

Annabelle

[NI-Gunner]

First viewings in bold.

01/10 - Mandy (2018)
01/10 - Blood Fest (2018)
01/10 - Stay Alive (2006)
02/10 - The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
02/10 - IT (2017)
03/10 - Society (1989)
04/10 – Hellraiser (1987)
04/10 - Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
05/10 - Ghostwatch (1992)
05/10 - Night Of The Demons (1988)

06/10 - The Prowler (1981) w/Joe Bob Briggs



Not even Joe Bob's interjections could save this one for me. Usually I love a an honest to goodness, simple meat and potatoes Slasher but this one is a drag. The killer's motivations are as weak sauce as it gets, there's too many long stretches of uneventful moments and I pegged the killer 5 minutes in. Some of the kills and Tom Savini's work redeemed it somewhat though.

[jebhdb]

9/28 House with a Clock in It's Walls 1/2
9/28 Hell Fest 1/2
9/30 Terrifier
10/1 The Burning
10/3 Phantasm
10/5 Mother! 1/2