FFA Official Horror Movie Thread Catching up on Shudder and Various Streaming Platforms (4 Viewers)

[foxco]

Somehow the dude who is filming gets possessed by a Nazi ghost, is forced to pour his own urine down the pipe to feed whatever is down there, has sex with the pipe, and it has a scene involving the guy putting one of those wires with a camera on the end down the pipe to see what's down there and it suddenly comes out the end of his penis. This is all shown on camera.

I'm thinking to get the sour taste out of your mouth you should probably watch a tried and true classic that's universally celebrated in the horror world. Personally I'd try The Human Centipede, and it's better if you go in not knowing anything.

 

[Keith R]

Tubi recommended to me a 2013 movie called Under the Skin. Stars Scarlett Johansson and was directed by the guy who directed Sexy Beast. Looks like artsy sci fi but interested in the opinions of any who have actually seen it.

Some people think it’s brilliant and love it. I couldn’t stand it and found nothing interesting about it. Not much in the way of Halloween horror vibes imo.

I liked it, though it wasn't really scary.

 

[Ilov80s]

Tubi recommended to me a 2013 movie called Under the Skin. Stars Scarlett Johansson and was directed by the guy who directed Sexy Beast. Looks like artsy sci fi but interested in the opinions of any who have actually seen it.

Some people think it’s brilliant and love it. I couldn’t stand it and found nothing interesting about it. Not much in the way of Halloween horror vibes imo.

I liked it, though it wasn't really scary.

Exactly what I meant. You just have to watch it for yourself because it’s pretty polarizing and who knows if you will be on the love or hate side.

 

[foxco]

Tubi recommended to me a 2013 movie called Under the Skin. Stars Scarlett Johansson and was directed by the guy who directed Sexy Beast. Looks like artsy sci fi but interested in the opinions of any who have actually seen it.

Some people think it’s brilliant and love it. I couldn’t stand it and found nothing interesting about it. Not much in the way of Halloween horror vibes imo.

I liked it, though it wasn't really scary.

Exactly what I meant. You just have to watch it for yourself because it’s pretty polarizing and who knows if you will be on the love or hate side.

Toddler on the beach scene messed me up. I think it's a terrific movie to watch once as it's fairly unique.

 

[dickey moe]

28 Years Later - Rewatched this already because I just love it so much. Return to form for the series. A little bit of a slower burn than the previous two, but I love the worldbuilding of post infection Great Britain, and how the zombies have "evolved" after 28 years. Grade A.

Watched this last week. A solid B with an F- dog#### ending.

 

[dickey moe]

The Man from Planet X directed by one of the best poverty row directors, Edward G Ulmer, is a pretty serviceable 50s sci-fi film. Nothing too unique, the usual an alien ship lands on Earth and the scientists try to figure out whether it's friend or foe. If you dig movies like the old War of the Worlds, It Came from Outer Space or The Thing from Another World than this is worth adding to your list. It has a great sense of mood being set in the Scottish moors. But it's still a low budget B movie very much of it's time.

One of my dad's favorites. I laugh every time that alien appears for the first time in the window.

 

[foxco]

Going hard with Humanoids from the Deep, one of the best/worst no-budget Alien ripoffs from the early '80s. 10 year old me loved this movie. Middle-age me is not as captivated.

 

[Scoresman]

28 Years Later - Rewatched this already because I just love it so much. Return to form for the series. A little bit of a slower burn than the previous two, but I love the worldbuilding of post infection Great Britain, and how the zombies have "evolved" after 28 years. Grade A.

Watched this last week. A solid B with an F- dog#### ending.

What was it about the ending you didn't like? You do realize that there is a part two coming out early next year right?

And the Power Ranger fighting moves at the end seems incredibly weird at first until you realize it makes perfect sense based on the movie's opening scene.

 

[Osaurus]

So there’s another Hell House LLC installment debuting soon?

 

[KarmaPolice]

One thing that really stood out from Saw X (despite it being too damn long) - American horror seems to like to make the killers sympathetic or at least try to put in a backstory to find reasons for their actions.

I don't think that foreign horror movies do this quite as much, but I will have to think about it more and would like to read thoughts from the crew here.

 

[dickey moe]

28 Years Later - Rewatched this already because I just love it so much. Return to form for the series. A little bit of a slower burn than the previous two, but I love the worldbuilding of post infection Great Britain, and how the zombies have "evolved" after 28 years. Grade A.

Watched this last week. A solid B with an F- dog#### ending.

What was it about the ending you didn't like? You do realize that there is a part two coming out early next year right?

And the Power Ranger fighting moves at the end seems incredibly weird at first until you realize it makes perfect sense based on the movie's opening scene.

It didn't work for me with the emotional build-up during the final 1/3 of the movie. I found it absolutely ridiculous.

 

[kcahnabru]

No One Will Save You - As mentioned with Signs, I am a sucker for alien invasion movies. This one has quite a few unique aspects to it as well as a story that goes beyond the invasion aspect along with an interesting ending which I very much enjoyed.

This one tonight, unique movie

 

[Osaurus]

No One Will Save You - As mentioned with Signs, I am a sucker for alien invasion movies. This one has quite a few unique aspects to it as well as a story that goes beyond the invasion aspect along with an interesting ending which I very much enjoyed.

This one tonight, unique movie

I like this one. It’s different in a good way

 

[Scoresman]

Malibu Horror Story - Very predictable, and trope driven story about high school kids who go missing in the hills above Malibu. This one had some hype because it was one of those movies that was released years ago but never got a wide release or streaming release until now. They should've kept it in the vault. It's bad. But at least this didnt have traumatizing penis visuals. My therapist would call this progress. Grade: D

 

[Riffraff]

Not a movie, but the series 'Guts and Glory' is pretty terrible. It's basically Scare Tactics with a group that's supposedly in a reality competition.
Trrrrble acting. Wouldn't surprise me if it ended up being 1 contestant is real and the rest are Truman Show'ing them.

 

[Tick]

I liked 28 Years Later, with an asterisk.

I thought it was really visually attractive. I don't really notice sound design often, but it stuck out as a strength as well. From 28 days, that thrumming driving beat was used effectively again. and that Kipling poem chant was so effective (interesting story I read is that the chant wasn't originally in the movie, but it was put in the trailer by Sony and Boyle/Garland heard and loved how it fit, so added it into the movie).

I thought the acting was good. Using a child actor as the main is tricky, but this worked well. The cast is very good - it's hard to look away from Ralph Fiennes in any movie.

I liked the concept of using that real island with a causeway as something that could hold out, plus the society that developed and what they kept or lost from pre-outbreak.

The ragers were done well, I thought. It's not clear to me how they survived 28 years when most were dying off at the end of 28 days, but I guess there weren't a ton of them, so maybe they found an equilibrium of how many the island can support with native food sources. I didn't love one scene where a lot of blood on someone didn't infect them, though. I didn't think it held with the canon, but given the lineage of the person, maybe it's a unique case - I could see that being important by the end of this trilogy and making sense when we look back at this movie.

The story with the mom was done beautifully - I really liked how that part of the movie was resolved.

The ending... I'm American, so it doesn't land with me the way it does for Brits, but man I hated it. Not for who was being emulated from a society stuck in 2002, but for the action sequence and tone of those characters. I assume they'll be one of the focuses of the second movie. As someone who never liked things like Power Rangers, they're really annoying and impractical in that setting - seems like they'd last a week tops given the infection mechanics from 28 days. No chance they last 28 years.

So, I liked this movie a lot but am not looking forward to the next one.

I agree completely - hated that ending.

 

[Keith R]

Going hard with Humanoids from the Deep, one of the best/worst no-budget Alien ripoffs from the early '80s. 10 year old me loved this movie. Middle-age me is not as captivated.

I agree with 2025 you

 

[Keith R]

28 Years Later - Rewatched this already because I just love it so much. Return to form for the series. A little bit of a slower burn than the previous two, but I love the worldbuilding of post infection Great Britain, and how the zombies have "evolved" after 28 years. Grade A.

Watched this last week. A solid B with an F- dog#### ending.

Some decent ideas and I liked the island setting, but it dragged and got sentimental. Only I watched it in the theater did I learn that there are two more coming out, which struck me as a cash grab - I suspect they took a good movie and stretched it out into a trilogy.

 

[Godsbrother]

Recently watched Breathing In on Prime. It is set in South Africa in 1901 at the end of the Anglo-Boer war. A young soldier takes refuge in a shack with an old woman and her young daughter. It is a slow burn but I thought it was pretty well done. It is a dark and creepy supernatural film but not very scary. Somewhat predictable ending.

I would rate it 3/5

 

[Scoresman]

28 Years Later - Rewatched this already because I just love it so much. Return to form for the series. A little bit of a slower burn than the previous two, but I love the worldbuilding of post infection Great Britain, and how the zombies have "evolved" after 28 years. Grade A.

Watched this last week. A solid B with an F- dog#### ending.

Some decent ideas and I liked the island setting, but it dragged and got sentimental. Only I watched it in the theater did I learn that there are two more coming out, which struck me as a cash grab - I suspect they took a good movie and stretched it out into a trilogy.

I would normally agree about dragging it out to three movies, but I'm giving them a pass since Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are back at the helm and 28 Years Later, to me, was a return to form for the series. The second movie was a "Hollywood-ized" cash grab for sure and it suffered as a result, but Years had the same feel as the original and I love that about it.

 

[Keith R]

1st - Night of the Reaper (AMC+) Grade B-
2nd - Weapons (theater) Grade A-
3rd -The Devil's Candy (AMC+) Grade B-
4th -The Sacrament (AMC+) Grade B
5th -Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1941) (HBO Max) Grade B+
6th - House of Darkness (Hulu) Grade D
7th -Tales from the Darkside - The Movie (BBC America) Grade B
8th -Forgive Us All (Prime) Grade C
9th -Good Boy (theater) Grade B
10th -Hereditary (HBO Max) Grade A+
11th - The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) (Prime) Grade B
12th - Beneath (2007) (Paramount +) Grade C-
13th - House on Haunted Hill (1959) (TCM) Grade A-
14th - Deep Red (Pluto) Grade C+.
15th - Bring Her Back (HBO Max) - Grade A+.

16th - Henry; Portrait of a Serial Killer (Prime) - I'm definitely late to the party on this mid-1980's feature, as I have seen it recommended here for a long time. Michael Rooker plays Henry and someone I thought was Sig Haig is his roommate. It's pretty straightforward - the aftermath of Henry's crimes are shown, and then we get to see him as a person. Some reasons for his behavior are exposed as are some of his methodologies. I appreciated how the story evolved and I bit on a red herring. Somewhat of a horror but more of a tragedy; either way, a solid watch. Grade B.

17th - M3GAN 2.0 (Peacock) - We've seen the first and the wife wanted to see this one. While nowhere near this level in quality or subject matter, the M3GAN movies are similar to the first two Alien movies; the first is horror, the second is really sci-fi action with a considerable amount of gore. This one dives deep into AI technology and AOSs, though the aunt and niece are still the core human characters. I do appreciate that the sequel wasn't just a retread of the original. Not especially deep and not scary, but there is some cheesy fun to be had if you're into that. Grade C+.

 

[Keith R]

28 Years Later - Rewatched this already because I just love it so much. Return to form for the series. A little bit of a slower burn than the previous two, but I love the worldbuilding of post infection Great Britain, and how the zombies have "evolved" after 28 years. Grade A.

Watched this last week. A solid B with an F- dog#### ending.

Some decent ideas and I liked the island setting, but it dragged and got sentimental. Only I watched it in the theater did I learn that there are two more coming out, which struck me as a cash grab - I suspect they took a good movie and stretched it out into a trilogy.

I would normally agree about dragging it out to three movies, but I'm giving them a pass since Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are back at the helm and 28 Years Later, to me, was a return to form for the series. The second movie was a "Hollywood-ized" cash grab for sure and it suffered as a result, but Years had the same feel as the original and I love that about it.

I actually liked Weeks more than Years, despite Boyle's lack of involvement in it. It's more superficial, I'll give you that, but Weeks has perhaps my favorite opening scene in a zombie movie of all time

 

[Scoresman]

28 Years Later - Rewatched this already because I just love it so much. Return to form for the series. A little bit of a slower burn than the previous two, but I love the worldbuilding of post infection Great Britain, and how the zombies have "evolved" after 28 years. Grade A.

Watched this last week. A solid B with an F- dog#### ending.

Some decent ideas and I liked the island setting, but it dragged and got sentimental. Only I watched it in the theater did I learn that there are two more coming out, which struck me as a cash grab - I suspect they took a good movie and stretched it out into a trilogy.

I would normally agree about dragging it out to three movies, but I'm giving them a pass since Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are back at the helm and 28 Years Later, to me, was a return to form for the series. The second movie was a "Hollywood-ized" cash grab for sure and it suffered as a result, but Years had the same feel as the original and I love that about it.

I actually liked Weeks more than Years, despite Boyle's lack of involvement in it. It's more superficial, I'll give you that, but Weeks has perhaps my favorite opening scene in a zombie movie of all time

Yeah that opening scene is tops. But the rest of the movie just falls apart IMO and feels like Hollywood dreck. When big budget Hollywood gets its hands on good, creative indie horror ideas, it rarely goes well.

I think the reason I like Years so much is the worldbuilding. As a pure zombie movie, it's just alright, more of a slow burn. But this post-apocalyptic England they've build is pretty amazing. We've got zombies with some sort of hierarchical social structure, and we're seeing the effects of things like kids growing up without adults in a traumatic, survival-based environment (power ranger gang).

 

[KarmaPolice]

Somehow the dude who is filming gets possessed by a Nazi ghost, is forced to pour his own urine down the pipe to feed whatever is down there, has sex with the pipe, and it has a scene involving the guy putting one of those wires with a camera on the end down the pipe to see what's down there and it suddenly comes out the end of his penis. This is all shown on camera.

I'm thinking to get the sour taste out of your mouth you should probably watch a tried and true classic that's universally celebrated in the horror world. Personally I'd try The Human Centipede, and it's better if you go in not knowing anything.

I see what you did there....

I think you are joking here, but I thought it was much better than I was expecting (at least the first one). IMO it's like Saw or TCM in that it has reputation for being horribly gory, but it's really not that bad. Now part 2 is another story. Either way it's probably still better than the crap @Scoresman has been trying this month!

 

[Ilov80s]

I, Madman from 1989 is an absolute banger of a cult classic. Part slasher, part noir thriller. A woman reading a strange horror book finds the killer from it has escaped into the real world and the events of the book are happening in her life. I loved this and will definitely revisit it at some point. It's silly and has fun but it's definitely no comedy. This is s dark violent high concept movie. The balancing of the tones is excellent, it's well filmed and has some surpisingly good stop animation. Check it out on Prime.

Trailer, this is a real beauty and tells you everything you need to know

 

[KarmaPolice]

The wife didn't love the B&W flick, so last night I tried Saint Maud. It was my turn to dislike the movie, and I really struggled getting through this one. I'd rather watch Nightmare 2 again, at least that made me laugh.

Today I tried Kill List. Same director as @Keith R 's Meg 2 watch, surprisingly although I would bet a lot of money this one is a lot more bleak and messed up. I kept seeing it on lists of best horror movies and most messed up movies. It has some cool ideas, but it didn't fully land for me, and I wouldn't recommend the watch to anyone but a few horror fans that could handle the gore and themes.

I started a little early, but so far I have knocked out:

Nightmare 2
Texas Chainsaw 2
Child's Play remake
Werewolves Within
Gonjiam
Deadstream
Dr Jekyll Mr. Hyde
Host
Kill List
Saint Maud
about 25mins of American Werewolf in Paris.

Sadly, not a lot there I'd recommend or liked a lot, and a few downright bad.

And this is why I REALLY need to keep up with my letterboxd! Last night I started on my extra credit and clicked the shortest one in the queue, and of course that was Saint Maud.
Nope, I didn't like it any better and obviously didn't remember watching it the first time. I would say I maybe appreciated it more, but it is a bleak rough watch. The vo also drove me crazy. It's one of the higher rated horror movie I seem to come across, so evidently I am in the minority on this one. 4/10

On the plus side, my choices in movies overall were better than 2023.

 

[Ilov80s]

Twins of Evil is a 1971 Hammer movie about Peter Cushing as a little too eager witch hunter and two beautiful twins who may or may not be witches. This is really good Hammer IMO. Great spooky imagery, plenty of sexiness, a beheading. It's on Prime.

Trailer

 

[Ilov80s]

The Substance really surprised me. I don’t tend to care for body horror. Cronenberg is a director I struggle with. So I assumed this would be disappointing but I enjoyed it. The beginning was kind of funny, Dennis Quaid’s character was killing me. Moore and Qualley are both stunning. The makeup work and transformations are wild too. I don’t like that part quite as much as the initial set up but was still impressive. Overall this was a good movie. It clearly has a message about age and women’s value in society and the extremes people go through to appear young but it doesn’t ever let that get in the way of it being entertaining. The editing also stood out, felt very Requiem for a Dream in parts.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I, Madman from 1989 is an absolute banger of a cult classic. Part slasher, part noir thriller. A woman reading a strange horror book finds the killer from it has escaped into the real world and the events of the book are happening in her life. I loved this and will definitely revisit it at some point. It's silly and has fun but it's definitely no comedy. This is s dark violent high concept movie. The balancing of the tones is excellent, it's well filmed and has some surpisingly good stop animation. Check it out on Prime.

Trailer, this is a real beauty and tells you everything you need to know

I like to think all women in the 80s were sitting around in their underwear with wide open windows. Perfect start to the movie.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Twins of Evil is a 1971 Hammer movie about Peter Cushing as a little too eager witch hunter and two beautiful twins who may or may not be witches. This is really good Hammer IMO. Great spooky imagery, plenty of sexiness, a beheading. It's on Prime.

Trailer

I don't think I've seen any of the Hammer movies. Might need to look into and change that.

 

[Osaurus]

Twins of Evil is a 1971 Hammer movie about Peter Cushing as a little too eager witch hunter and two beautiful twins who may or may not be witches. This is really good Hammer IMO. Great spooky imagery, plenty of sexiness, a beheading. It's on Prime.

Trailer

I don't think I've seen any of the Hammer movies. Might need to look into and change that.

If you’ve seen one….

 

[KarmaPolice]

I've recommended the Horror episodes of The Pure Cinema Podcast for some deep cut ideas. They filter their ideas through a movie marathon idea, since it's a podcast for the New Beverly theater, and they have events like that at the theater. Usually it's more wide open, but this year they had categories. I was thinking of my own ideas that I think would be fun for an event like that or a marathon at home, and was wondering what others here would come up with (if this interests you). These episodes have been the reason why I've tried flicks like I Madman, Hell Night, Messiah of Evil, and others. They tend to go with deep cuts that I can't even find on disc, so that is frustrating. I was trying to come up with stuff that I at least saw streaming somewhere.

Categories:

1 - Dimension Horror (the film company)
2 - Pre-70s
3 - Horror comedy
4 - Slasher/giallo
5 - DIY/Regional horror
6 - Wildcard

 

[kcahnabru]

Housebound was pretty fun in a poor man's Tucker and Dale kinda way

 

[Tick]

Bring Her Back (Max): Yeah, that's a good movie. It made me talk to the TV a few times. Pretty bleak, but it's a horror movie, whaddayagonnado?

 

[Tick]

I'm 30 minutes into The Substance (Max) and it's Skinemax so far. Neat setup and so much more nudity than I expected.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Fantasy Island - A horror movie based on the old television series. It was an interesting concept and entertaining enough but did not care for the resolution “twist” all that much.

Probably worth a watch but nothing special.

 

[Ilov80s]

OK ripped through some more Vincent Price this weekend

Madhouse turns out I had seen this one before. Didn't like it then either. I wathched it because of his similar it sounded to I, Madman and that was a pleasant surprise of a movie. The premise here is Price plays an aging horror star when all of a sudden the killer from signature series comes to life and begins killing people in real life. Cool set-up but didn't care for it.

House of the Long Shadows puts Price, Cushing and Lee together whiich was enough for me to give it a shot. What I didn't realize at first was that this a comedy thriller. Af first I just thought the plot and acting of the younger progatonist were that bad. The silliness helped it a bit and I enjoyed this one a bit. The premise alone shows you absurd the movie is, a writer stays the night at a remote Scottish major because he was bet $20,000 that he could write the next "Wuthering Heights" in 24 hours so he needs a quiet place to work. Turns out the Scottish manor isn't as quiet as he expected. So much of the movie's running gag is that he's mixed up with all this weird haunted stuff and odd house staff members but is always telling them he's has to go work because he plans on writing an all time literary classic novel overnight.

Witchfinder General/The Conquoror Worm despite the weird title, this was a very serious movie. It's very dark and unflinching, not quite what I was expecting. I was thinking it would be campy like the last 2 movies. There is nothing fun or amusing about Price's witchhunter Matthew Hopkins though. It's set during the English Civil War and follows an evil witch hunter who profits from a blend of his cruelyy and the ignorance of the peasants.

All 3 are on Prime.

 

[Keith R]

1st - Night of the Reaper (AMC+) Grade B-
2nd - Weapons (theater) Grade A-
3rd -The Devil's Candy (AMC+) Grade B-
4th -The Sacrament (AMC+) Grade B
5th -Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1941) (HBO Max) Grade B+
6th - House of Darkness (Hulu) Grade D
7th -Tales from the Darkside - The Movie (BBC America) Grade B
8th -Forgive Us All (Prime) Grade C
9th -Good Boy (theater) Grade B
10th -Hereditary (HBO Max) Grade A+
11th - The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) (Prime) Grade B
12th - Beneath (2007) (Paramount +) Grade C-
13th - House on Haunted Hill (1959) (TCM) Grade A-
14th - Deep Red (Pluto) Grade C+.
15th - Bring Her Back (HBO Max) Grade A+.
16th - Henry; Portrait of a Serial Killer (Prime) Grade B.
17th - M3GAN 2.0 (Peacock) Grade C+.

18th - Interview with the Vampire (HBO) - A rewatch of the literal horror epic that spans 200 years and stars Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and a debuting Kirsten Dunst. Scares are few in this one but the worldbuilding is extravagantly detailed, beginning in 1791 New Orleans, moving overseas and ending in 1990s San Francisco. The main pairing of fatalistic Louie being turned by the exuberant Lestat gives us the first real glimpse of a vampire origin story, something that has never been done as well since. Macabre enough to satisfy base horror fans, this provides rich characters, lush settings and a wide-sweeping story rarely seen in the genre. Grade A.