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FFA Official Horror Movie Thread Catching up on Shudder and Various Streaming Platforms (5 Viewers)

Keith R said:
2nd - Weapons (theater) Fortunately this is still showing in theaters. I went into this pretty blind, only knowing that it was pretty well-received, and after the fact I was glad I did. In that vein, I won't provide spoilers. The setup is that several school children go missing on the same night and it turns out they all were students in the same classroom. It takes awhile to set up, which I didn't mind, and then it gets pretty crazy. Extremely unique story with a lot of visuals you won't forget. More than worthy of the theatrical experience. Grade A-
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I loved it andw went back for a 2nd time in the theater. I was lucky enough both times to see it in a packed house that was totally in for the ride with all the screams and laughs. I liked just as much the 2nd viewing when you know where it's going. That has to be one of the best movie endings I've seen in a long time. What a sequence.
 
KP has got me ready to jump in for this month. Only 1 so far

House of Usher (60) directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price. This was a big beautiful technicolor release for Corman. It's beautifully gothic, great production design. No way you will be scared at all but it captures the Poe story well and has immaculate spooky season vibes.
 
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Trying to set pace for Keith and the rest - I am at 15 now. The last handful I watched:

The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020) - I had fun with it, but didn't love the main actor/character. 6/10
Hagazussa (2017) - oh man, this was a bleak one. A German film, and I joked with @Ilov80s - this is for those who thought The VVitch was too cheery and fast paced. No idea how to rate that one. Very well done, but one that I would have trouble recommending or gathering will to watch again
[rec] (2007) - this was my first rewatch, and is a favorite still. I could see how the shaky cam could get to people, but I still think this as good as you can get with found footage. 9/10
Psycho Beach Party (2000)- never heard of this one, but it had Lauren Ambrose, Amy Adams, Zander from Buffy, and Claire from 90210 - so I gave it a shot. It was pretty funny, but I also have little experience with the movies it was spoofing. 5/10
Blood Quantum (2019) - So far my favorite watch of the week, and a very worthy entry for the zombie genre I am hit or miss with. 7/10
[rec] 2 (2009)- A worthy sequel, but didn't have quite the punch or surprises of the original. Because this series showed up on AMC+, I pivoted from the VHS movies to these 4 for my series for the season. Much shorter movies and fewer of them to watch. 6.5/10

Not sure if I will get to one tonight - it will probably depend on my mood after the Mariners game. :lol:

I am trying to hit all the decades as well, but I am struggling with ideas for the 90s so far. What a trash decade for horror.
 
Here are a few upcoming ideas I have in my queue:

70s: And Soon the Darkness, Bay of Blood
80s: Pumpkinhead, Edge of Sanity, Stage Fright, Cellar Dweller
90s: seriously, all I have is Campfire Tales.
Japan: Ringu, The Mimic, Cure, Pulse, Noroi: The Curse, and probably 7 options from the 60s

ETA: Nevermind, Ringu and Cure are both 90s so I will use those for the decade so I don't watch Bride of Chucky or something.
 
KarmaPolice said:
Trying to set pace for Keith and the rest - I am at 15 now. The last handful I watched:

The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020) - I had fun with it, but didn't love the main actor/character. 6/10
Hagazussa (2017) - oh man, this was a bleak one. A German film, and I joked with @Ilov80s - this is for those who thought The VVitch was too cheery and fast paced. No idea how to rate that one. Very well done, but one that I would have trouble recommending or gathering will to watch again
[rec] (2007) - this was my first rewatch, and is a favorite still. I could see how the shaky cam could get to people, but I still think this as good as you can get with found footage. 9/10
Psycho Beach Party (2000)- never heard of this one, but it had Lauren Ambrose, Amy Adams, Zander from Buffy, and Claire from 90210 - so I gave it a shot. It was pretty funny, but I also have little experience with the movies it was spoofing. 5/10
Blood Quantum (2019) - So far my favorite watch of the week, and a very worthy entry for the zombie genre I am hit or miss with. 7/10
[rec] 2 (2009)- A worthy sequel, but didn't have quite the punch or surprises of the original. Because this series showed up on AMC+, I pivoted from the VHS movies to these 4 for my series for the season. Much shorter movies and fewer of them to watch. 6.5/10

Not sure if I will get to one tonight - it will probably depend on my mood after the Mariners game. :lol:

I am trying to hit all the decades as well, but I am struggling with ideas for the 90s so far. What a trash decade for horror.
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Stop before [rec]3

Blood Quantum... I don't think I've ever looked it up - were the animated sequences due to Covid problems or budget problems or something, or were they intentionally in there to be weird?
 
Him - Very strange one here. On the plus side, Marlon Wayans is great in his role. I feel like this movie doesn't know what it wants to be. It's like it knows it's silly but fails to balance this with how serious it is at times. Pretty cool, over the top final act though. I do not regret watching this but it could have been so much better. Grade C+
 
Shuttle - 5 people take a horrific airport shuttle ride after a late night flight.

This is an interesting one. I watched this years ago and I consider it an underrated gem. Rewatched it tonight and it hits the same. This movie starts as you would expect, but it ends up in a very different place by the end. It left me pretty disturbed. Not because of gore or torture but because of the subject matter and how this sort of thing happens everyday, albeit maybe not in such dramatic fashion.

The movie is not without faults. It does have the common horror movie problem of having moments where characters make questionable decisions, and it could probably have been edited down 15 minutes or so. But the acting is good. I haven't wanted to see bad things happen to the villain like this in a long time.

This movie is unsettling. Sometimes I wonder why I even like a movie like this, but then I realize it's pretty rare for a movie or genre to give you strong feelings like this, good or bad, in the first place. And that's something.

I recommend it and you will either hate me for recommending it or love me for it.

Grade B+
 
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) - I was feeling something classic that I hadn't seen and I remembered @Ilove80s recommending this upthread. Technicolor vibes illuminate this dark tale featuring prime Vincent Price as a morally ambiguous older brother of a supposedly cursed family. The setting is limited to the literal House of Usher and the cast consists of all of four people, but those limitations don't negatively affect story being told. Creepy, though not overtly scary, the story takes enough turns to remain compelling throughout. Grade B

12th - Beneath (2007) (Paramount +) - The wife selected this one to complete a double feature. A woman who has premonitions returns to her hometown six years after her sister perished in a car crash. Oddly, it turned out to have a lot of similarities to Usher, which I won't elaborate on. There are some movies where an average movie is elevated by acting and presentation, but I would say the opposite is true here. There's a decent story here but the acting is wooden and the direction is paint by numbers. The ending sequence elevates this somewhat but not enough. Grade C-
 
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) - Woke up early this Sunday morning and stumbled upon this. I had always avoided it as I hated the mind-numbing 1999 remake, but decided to give it a try, with nothing lost if it put me back to sleep. Instead, I found this to be extremely gripping. The premise is seemingly simple; a millionaire and his wife offer five strangers $10,000 each to spend the night in a haunted mansion. Surprisingly (at least to me), an intricate and suspenseful story unfolds. Maybe the remake set a low bar, but I was amazed by how good this was. Grade A-
 
I ripped off 5 yesterday to get to 21 on the month. :bag: Yesterday was:

Weapons (2025)
Noroi: The Curse (2005)
Awake (2007)
I, Madman (1989)
Hell Night (1981)

My wife liked Weapons (although she did comment on the runtime) and Awake. I didn't love Awake too much. The 80s movies are a trip, but most I watch I think would be better with a group, and this pair was no exception. I am pretty sure I heard about I, Madman from one of the Pure Cinema Podcast's horror episodes where they plan out a movie marathon and it definitely had a cheesy vibe to it that would play well in a group. Hell Night would make a decent double feature with something like House on Sorority Row or something similar from the early 80s. Noroi was my favorite new watch of the 5, probably followed by the 80s movies. I would watch either of those again before Awake - though it wasn't terrible, it just got a little silly.

My wife was talking about a couple 70s movies that she remembers seeing as a kid and was describing scenes to me. I haven't seen either, so we bumped The Town that Dreaded Sundown and When A Stranger Calls up toward the top of the queue.
 
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.
 
Keith R said:
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) - Woke up early this Sunday morning and stumbled upon this. I had always avoided it as I hated the mind-numbing 1999 remake, but decided to give it a try, with nothing lost if it put me back to sleep. Instead, I found this to be extremely gripping. The premise is seemingly simple; a millionaire and his wife offer five strangers $10,000 each to spend the night in a haunted mansion. Surprisingly (at least to me), an intricate and suspenseful story unfolds. Maybe the remake set a low bar, but I was amazed by how good this was. Grade A-
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Yeah that's an actually good movie. William Castle really had a knack for a certain kind of horror in the 50s and 60s.


Also, just for clarity, the Usher movie is just called House of Usher.
 
Ilov80s said:
Keith R said:
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) - Woke up early this Sunday morning and stumbled upon this. I had always avoided it as I hated the mind-numbing 1999 remake, but decided to give it a try, with nothing lost if it put me back to sleep. Instead, I found this to be extremely gripping. The premise is seemingly simple; a millionaire and his wife offer five strangers $10,000 each to spend the night in a haunted mansion. Surprisingly (at least to me), an intricate and suspenseful story unfolds. Maybe the remake set a low bar, but I was amazed by how good this was. Grade A-
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Yeah that's an actually good movie. William Castle really had a knack for a certain kind of horror in the 50s and 60s.


Also, just for clarity, the Usher movie is just called House of Usher.
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Weird, it came up as The Fall of the House of Usher on Prime. I didn't even pay attention to the credits
 
A couple more low budget horrors today:

The Black Sleep a 1956 horror all star B picture featuring aging actors like Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Tor Johnson and the sene stealer here, Basil Rathbone. He is a fiendish villain but most of the rest of the big cast is wasted. Nobody will mistake this for anything but a low budget 50's B film but it is interesting seeing the cast. The premise is it's one of those mad scientist plots where he's messing with people's brains in an attempt to study them and of course bad things happen from there.

1983's Curtains is apparently some kind of cult classic. I can see why. It's got some genuine scares and creepy imagery. There's some odd stuff in here too, the ice skating scene alone is worth your time. I'ts flawed but I did enjoy it. The set-up is a Hollywood director invites a group of actresses to his cottage for the weekend to do a big in-person audition for the starring role in his new movie but they slowly start to die one by one when a masked figure arrives.
 
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) - My first giallo entry of the season, this one from Dario Argento is pretty standard for the genre. There's a serial killer on the loose and a psychic picks up on the killer's dark thoughts. A seemingly unlikely duo forms to try to reveal the killer's identity and to prevent future deaths. There's an interesting wrinkle that reminded me of Saw, but otherwise, this is pretty standard fare for the genre, although the directing style made me think this may have been an inspiration for a young Tarantino. Ultimately neither must-see nor must miss, your level of enjoyment will come down to your feelings on giallo as a whole. Grade C+.
 
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KarmaPolice said:
Trying to set pace for Keith and the rest - I am at 15 now. The last handful I watched:

The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020) - I had fun with it, but didn't love the main actor/character. 6/10
Hagazussa (2017) - oh man, this was a bleak one. A German film, and I joked with @Ilov80s - this is for those who thought The VVitch was too cheery and fast paced. No idea how to rate that one. Very well done, but one that I would have trouble recommending or gathering will to watch again
[rec] (2007) - this was my first rewatch, and is a favorite still. I could see how the shaky cam could get to people, but I still think this as good as you can get with found footage. 9/10
Psycho Beach Party (2000)- never heard of this one, but it had Lauren Ambrose, Amy Adams, Zander from Buffy, and Claire from 90210 - so I gave it a shot. It was pretty funny, but I also have little experience with the movies it was spoofing. 5/10
Blood Quantum (2019) - So far my favorite watch of the week, and a very worthy entry for the zombie genre I am hit or miss with. 7/10
[rec] 2 (2009)- A worthy sequel, but didn't have quite the punch or surprises of the original. Because this series showed up on AMC+, I pivoted from the VHS movies to these 4 for my series for the season. Much shorter movies and fewer of them to watch. 6.5/10

Not sure if I will get to one tonight - it will probably depend on my mood after the Mariners game. :lol:

I am trying to hit all the decades as well, but I am struggling with ideas for the 90s so far. What a trash decade for horror.
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[rec]3 goes off the rails. I love the premise and enjoy the ride. I know that I am in the minority.
 
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) - Sought this out based on recommendations upthread from @kcahnabru and others and let me just say - the hype is real. From the makers of Talk to Me, one of my all-timers. The premise appears simple, with a pair of stepsiblings losing their father and getting placed with a foster mother who seems not quite right. This movie operates on many levels, all of which really work. A lot of emotions in play which adds to the horror rather than taking away from it. The fact that I'm even debating whether this is as good as Talk to Me means this is a must-watch. Grade A+.
 
I am sure there are other people around here that have watched all the Saw movies. I am struggling for words to put to the movies. Overall, I think they are pretty bad and stupid movies, but at the same time I found myself being entertained enough to keep going. What didn't hit me before is these are basically a movie version of the crappy CSI type movies, but with gore. In a way they are like the show they are spoofing in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I guess they fall into the "so bad they're good" category for me?

What I didn't realize is where they went with who deserves to be killed in these increasingly ridiculous ways. We first start with true criminals and people who interacted with Jigsaw, then by about the 7th movie people are getting ripped apart for working at an insurance company and denying claims, or I guess being racist and "intimidating people". Wtf? :lol: Between that and getting to the what - 5th disciple that we didn't know about showing up in a movie it truly gets to daytime soap opera levels. All this plus the silly "Jigsaw doesn't kill people" nonsense has made for a bizarre ride. Two more to go!!
 
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.
 
Leroy Hoard said:
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.
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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.
 
foxco said:
Leroy Hoard said:
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.
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Two words: full frontal
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Ok well when I said nothing interesting about it, I was thinking movie quality wise. But you are right there is something worth seeing.
 
Curse of the Crimson Altar/The Crimson Altar/ The Crimson Cult

Lots of names attached to this swinging 1968 London film with Christopher Lee. It’s most notable for being the last Boris Karloff movie to be released before he passed. It’s not all that good. Witches, cults and hypnotic drugs with plenty of 60s psychedelia, butts and cleavage. Karloff is always good, there is some creepy stuff happening and the girls are nice to look at but it’s very forgettable otherwise.
 
I need professional help. There are good movies out there I haven't watched. Very good ones in fact. I want to watch them. But when I sit down browsing through stuff I inevitably put on some obscure, usually terrible found footage movie that looks halfway decent.

I just watched one called Solvent. It's Austrian, I think, and has something to do with a film crew finding an old basement with a small pipe that leads further underground. 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.

Yeah, I might've just spoiled that, but now you don't have to watch, and you shouldn't. So I did you a favor. Grade D-
 
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