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Post by zircona1 on Oct 4, 2019 15:08:38 GMT -6
The '88 remake of The Blob is badass, FWIW. But I know going out is a hassle sometimes, so I can understand if you want to stay home. I've never seen Pulse.
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Post by andrewvb on Oct 4, 2019 16:04:30 GMT -6
![]()  3. The Innkeepers This was ok? I had high hopes because House of the Devil is one of my favorite recentish horror movies. This kind of was all over the place and the slow burn never really paid off. i really liked the innkeepers, but yeah it's not as good as house of the devil. |
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Post by Timbo on Oct 4, 2019 16:14:30 GMT -6
Torn on what to watch tonight - I could stay in and watch Pulse (I'm out of beer), or go to a local screening of the '88 remake of The Blob (there will be beer). Thoughts? Totally excellent beer I might add. Screenlands collab Shocktober, by Crane. Its fantastic. I'd go for that alone, but the movies great too |
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Post by sthubbins on Oct 4, 2019 16:58:24 GMT -6
Just picked up House of 1,000 Corpses and Jennifer's Body from the library
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Post by rango420 on Oct 4, 2019 18:51:15 GMT -6
What is the anticipated frequency of Castle Freaks per movie? having seen neither, i defer to rango420 The blob remake is definitely sicker than Pulse but involves no castles and not enough freaks. |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Oct 4, 2019 19:44:06 GMT -6
Since you were all dying to find out
I did neither and stayed home and ate leftover Chinese food with Megan and told her she could pick tonight’s movie, and she picked PSYCHO [Feat. Ty Dolla $ign] and we’re in the middle of that now. Her commentary is priceless and frankly worth hearing.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Oct 4, 2019 19:45:02 GMT -6
oh and we picked up some beer
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Oct 4, 2019 20:41:12 GMT -6
08. Psycho (1960; Alfred Hitchcock)
"The scariest part of this movie was how bad Marion's windshield wipers were." -meg 
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Post by munkivelli on Oct 4, 2019 22:11:49 GMT -6
Not doing Horror Club, but came to say that I finally am watching Castle Freak, and wow.
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Post by munkivelli on Oct 4, 2019 22:54:45 GMT -6
I guess a Castle Freak remake is in the works...
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Post by sthubbins on Oct 5, 2019 0:24:58 GMT -6
5. Kuroneko  This is as eerie and uncanny as everyone says but I also think the story has more depth than it seems to get credit for. That lighting though! 6. House of 1000 Corpses I basically dissociated by the time the one girl is running through the catacombs. Just such sensory overload and nonstop brutality that I lost any investment in what was going on. Very inventive stuff though! Love to see a family that encourages and supports each other's hobbies 7. Jennifer's Body This movie is funny! Seems worthy of the resurgence/critical rethinking/cult following/whatever it's gotten lately.
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Post by rango420 on Oct 5, 2019 0:33:31 GMT -6
8. Slumber Party Massacre Another first watch. Really fun and self aware without being too self aware. Could probably use 25% more tension but thats obviously a theme in the Corman low budget 80s slasher world. WIll probably complete the series by the end of hte month.
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Post by rango420 on Oct 5, 2019 0:34:58 GMT -6
Not doing Horror Club, but came to say that I finally am watching Castle Freak, and wow. Im doing alot more low budget 70s/80s/90s this go around and I think what makes Castle Freak so special is that there is a big castle and theres a danged castle freak in there |
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Post by sthubbins on Oct 5, 2019 2:21:52 GMT -6
8. Q: The Winged Serpent The winged serpent is pretty cool but this movie is really about Michael Moriarty getting dropped in from, like, Midnight Cowboy and never letting the monster distract him from committing 100% to being a lowlife trying to pull off a scam David Carradine's also good in it and draws a little doodle of the monster on a napkin
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2019 10:16:41 GMT -6
god Larry Cohen films are....a thing.
we binged most of his stuff a few months ago and then watched a documentary on his style. wild times
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Post by sthubbins on Oct 5, 2019 11:56:10 GMT -6
This was the first of his I'd seen! Definitely intrigued
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Post by Timbo on Oct 5, 2019 12:33:03 GMT -6
4. Child's Play (2019)
I'll give it props for originality but overall it was pretty dumb. Some funny parts. Thought for sure the basement guy was gonna use Chucky as a sex toy.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2019 13:11:12 GMT -6
This was the first of his I'd seen! Definitely intrigued God Told Me To is legit great a lot of his other work is in the same vein of kinda-shlock kinda-self-aware kinda-clever. The Stuff is absolutely hilarious and probably too on the nose for nowadays but for the 80s it's pretty brilliant. It's Alive is a quality low budget horror but umm the sequels...yikes. i mean the third one is literally called It's Alive: Island of the Alive lol (those are his horror movies I'd recommend) |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2019 14:34:09 GMT -6
 Welp, that certainly was something. |
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Post by sthubbins on Oct 5, 2019 21:11:24 GMT -6
9. Martin Big letdown. When I first read about this movie's premise and pedigree, I was surprised that it didn't seem to be distributed anywhere these days, but I get it now. It goes the classic route of banking easy sympathy by making the protagonist an idiot manchild, which is annoying even in movies where the character isn't a bloodsucking rapist. When it embraces being a horror movie it's expectedly good, but otherwise by turns drab and irritating.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Oct 5, 2019 22:25:17 GMT -6
09. Evil Dead II (1987; Sam Raimi)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2019 23:52:01 GMT -6
 This was terrific. I'd basically echo all of rango's praise.. Also, Claude the cat is the real killer. Fuck cats. |
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Post by sthubbins on Oct 6, 2019 0:25:07 GMT -6
10. Dead of Night (the 1974 one, also called Deathdream)
 This was great. Brutal without feeling gratuitous or cheap. And the sound design takes things to another level. Between this and People Under the Stairs, I'm seeing some onscreen power-couples in new contexts -- this one has John Marley and Lynn Carlin from Faces. Also both Dead of Night and Deathdream are strange names for this movie. Same director as Black Christmas for fans of that one (and I just learned he also did A Christmas Story, Porky's and Baby Geniuses??).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2019 1:34:47 GMT -6
black christmas is low key the best slasher flick ever and I'm tickled people are into it
also don't see the remake
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Post by rango420 on Oct 6, 2019 9:42:05 GMT -6
9. Body Bags I thought this was great and was surprised to see kind of medium reviews? So many great cameos, the first story is legit scary and the second story is legit funny and the third disturbing. Theres so few good horror anthologies and this feels like one.
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Post by sthubbins on Oct 6, 2019 10:12:25 GMT -6
black christmas is low key the best slasher flick ever and I'm tickled people are into it also don't see the remake It was one of my 31 last year -- really enjoyed it, especially Kidder's performance, but I remember thinking that spending so much time gesturing to Peter as the killer while still not making it explicit left the reveal obvious -- and so much of the tension leading up to that counts on the mistaken assumption that it's him. |
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Post by rango420 on Oct 6, 2019 10:17:22 GMT -6
black christmas is low key the best slasher flick ever and I'm tickled people are into it also don't see the remake It was one of my 31 last year -- really enjoyed it, especially Kidder's performance, but I remember thinking that spending so much time gesturing to Peter as the killer while still not making it explicit left the reveal obvious -- and so much of the tension leading up to that counts on the mistaken assumption that it's him. We watch a lot of horror movies tho. The gf thought it was him until the end. I do also like that they explicitly say it isn’t him when he’s at the apt the first time and than again while talking with the cop. Gives it a much more grim ending I think |
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Post by rango420 on Oct 6, 2019 10:18:25 GMT -6
It was one of my 31 last year -- really enjoyed it, especially Kidder's performance, but I remember thinking that spending so much time gesturing to Peter as the killer while still not making it explicit left the reveal obvious -- and so much of the tension leading up to that counts on the mistaken assumption that it's him. Spoilers I’m on mobile We watch a lot of horror movies tho. The gf thought it was him until the end. I do also like that they explicitly say it isn’t him when he’s at the apt the first time and than again while talking with the cop. Gives it a much more grim ending I think |
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Post by rango420 on Oct 6, 2019 10:19:24 GMT -6
Welp, that certainly was something. This is one of my favorites |
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Post by sthubbins on Oct 6, 2019 10:24:22 GMT -6
Spoilers I’m on mobile We watch a lot of horror movies tho. The gf thought it was him until the end. I do also like that they explicitly say it isn’t him when he’s at the apt the first time and than again while talking with the cop. Gives it a much more grim ending I think Yeah, it's still real good and I don't think it's a fatal flaw, more responding to the GOAT slasher assertion |
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