Saturday, October 31, 2020
John Carpenter's "Halloween" (1978)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #40
My own personal Halloween night tradition.
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Häxan (1922)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #38
Original 1922 silent film, restored.
This was really interesting, and horrifying in its own unique way. A bizarre mix of historical instruction and dramatic presentation... but why devils always churning butter?! Churning butter all the time!
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Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1968)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #39
Aging beatniks interpret the original.
WOW this is pretty awesome. You have to have watched the original to appreciate what they've done with it. They sped up the footage a little bit, making it even more surreal. William S. Burroughs' narrations and the translations of the dialogue cards are modernized quite nicely. But by far the BEST aspect is the Jazz score replacing the original score, which really orchestrates the action on the screen in a much more appealing way.
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Friday, October 30, 2020
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #37
One of the better remakes to come out of the early 2000's.
R. Lee Ermey = terrifying.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020
April Fool's Day (1986)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #36
Almost forgot to post this one from yesterday, because it is utterly forgettable. #yesregrets
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Cooties (2014)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #35
This must have been fun for all those kids playing the zombies! Great cast, overall.
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Sunday, October 25, 2020
Tragedy Girls (2017)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #34
Pretty fkd up. Teen psychopaths feeding off each other, with an unhealthy dose of social media presence.
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Saturday, October 24, 2020
The Hunt (2020)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #33 🔥 Release Year
⚠️Trigger warning for... everyone.⚠️
Wow, I can absolutely see why there was controversy about releasing this film in the current political climate. It contains over-the-top stereotyping of BOTH extremes of our two-party system, and a ridiculous fictional conspiracy scenario run AMOK. Betty Gilpin is A👏MA👏ZING👏, the dark humor is first-rate, and there's a good twist at the end.
P.S. You can find reviews posted by people from both political parties saying this movie is revenge porn for the other side 😂 Now that's some good satire! #offendeveryone
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Open Grave (2013)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #32
This was good. Not exactly what I expected.
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Scary Movie V (2013)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #31
This came up in my Netflix surfing, so I figured what-the-hell 🤷 I've only ever seen up thru #4. It was just ok -- a few good laughs, but otherwise unremarkable.
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Friday, October 23, 2020
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #30
This was petty good, and not too long (1h 25m) -- Would recommend.
Good night for it, too: all stormy outside to match the stormy in the movie.
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Thursday, October 22, 2020
The Stuff (1985)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #29
The Blob meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but without making any sense. 😂 and with the DOOOOOFiest Southern militia to ever grace the silver screen, led by a racist, "Commie"-obsessed caricature played by ¿Paul Sorvino? for some reason?!? 🤣
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The Lords of Salem (2012)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #28
I want to say this move is underrated, but I can't.
Visually it's fantastic, it really is, and the cast is great (Meg Foster, wow!)... but something falls flat along the way... something's wrong, I can't quite put my finger on it... maybe it's trying too hard? taking itself too seriously? too much visual, not enough story? Seems like I should like it more than I do, but I just don't. 🤷
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
When a Stranger Calls (1978)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #27
I had my doubts throughout the first half of this, but it turned out to be worth it.
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Monday, October 19, 2020
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #26
Fkn love Elvira 🖤
The sneers, the wisecracks, the provocative-clothing-doesn't-mean-you-get-to-cop-a-feel🗡️attitude, AND THAT CAR! 🖤 This movie is pure cheese-fest 💯 and it's amazing.
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Train to Busan (2016)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #25
Still one of the best zombie movies ever, in case you didn't know that yet. Glad I finally bought the DVD, as the streaming options I could find do not offer the English overdub.
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Sunday, October 18, 2020
The Final Girls (2015)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #24
Interesting premise, MEH execution.
WAY too much emotional touchy-feely stuff. Adderall striptease sequence was funny, and slow-motion slasher on fire jumping out of 2nd-story window was cool. Could have been better, just fell a bit flat. 🤷
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Friday, October 16, 2020
Ghost Stories (2017)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #22
So glad I decided to watch this one tonight -- it was really good! Much suspense. Very creeps. Great twist(s) that might even give you an unexpected surprise. 😱
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The Exorcist III (1990)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #20 🔥 30th Anniversary
One of my all-time FAVORITES!
The absolute pinnacle of The Exorcist series, and an underappreciated gem of the horror genre. Directed by William Peter Blatty himself (original author of "The Exorcist"), and featuring powerhouse George C. Scott and (again) the inimitable Brad Dourif. There is a lot of dialogue (and monologue by the Gemini Killer), but the film style is evocative and atmospheric, enjoyable to watch, with an interesting twist on the classic horror premise of killer-returned-from-the-dead.
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Thursday, October 15, 2020
Scary Movie (2000)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #18 🔥 20th Anniversary
Exactly as gross and stupid and late-90's as you remember. 🤣
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Mayhem (2017)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #17
Crazy! Tho not really what I would consider a horror film -- it was probably just too violent to leave in the "Action" category only, so they tacked "Horror" on there. Still glad I watched it. I guess the soulless-corporate-bullshit part was petty horrifying. 🤔
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Child's Play (2019)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #16
Better than I expected 🤔
They really did a good job in this remake updating the concept of "Chuckie" for our current technological times. Plus: Mark Hamill as the voice of the new Chucky -- excellent casting!
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Child's Play (1988)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #15
Bribed my children with ice cream to watch this with me, and it worked!
We talked about how I was about the same age as the kid in the movie when it was released in 1988, and pretty sure I had an almost identical snowsuit.
Side note: Brad Dourif is a national treasure.
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Monday, October 12, 2020
Spider Baby (1967)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #14
Another favorite vintage cult horror flick!
A unique gem amongst the cranked-out B-movie horror schlock of the 60's -- highly recommended to anyone looking for that sort of thing, who has not yet seen this film. The actresses playing the "Mary girls" are fantastic, and it features Lon Chaney Jr. and a young Sid Haig.
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Sunday, October 11, 2020
You Might Be the Killer (2018)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #13
This was pretty entertaining. Glad I watched it, but probably won't be watching it again. Think I liked the end credits song more than the actual movie 😅
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Friday, October 9, 2020
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #11
Not the best Mel Brooks movie, by any stretch, but it definitely has its moments (and the greatest Renfield of all time 😂).
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Thursday, October 8, 2020
Strangeland (1998)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #10
Peak👏90's👏 right here. Lots of body-horror, and Dee Snider's over-the-top sadistic soliloquies (more obnoxious than I remember)... oh and some of the very first internet chat rooms, complete with very real stranger-danger.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2020
The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #9
Great big MEH for this one.
The first three stories seemed to be fixated on the inevitable betrayal of love.🙄
The last story was just OK, with the cheesy acting and cheesier vampire effects.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2020
The Crazies (2010)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #8 🔥10th Anniversary
Very well done, and always fun to watch this horror movie set in rural Iowa, where if they could only get to Cedar Rapids they'll be saved.😂
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Monday, October 5, 2020
Dracula (1931)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #7
"Dracula is in the house!"
What really is there to say? Classic Universal Monsters: Bela Lugosi as the BEST iteration of Dracula -- beautiful sets and so very stylistically gothic. 🦇💀🖤
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Saturday, October 3, 2020
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #6
Overall, I liked it. Really great interpretations of the monsters from my beloved childhood Scary Stories! 💖 Guillermo del Toro hit it out of the park on that front. The plot delivery device of the "witch" writing stories in the book, and the background story of all that was also interesting.
Did NOT like the lead actress, or her acting -- that kinda pooped it up for me. Also not a fan of the underlying thread of the Nixon election and Vietnam war 🙄 that was a bit ham-fisted. Yeah, sure, the movie was set in 1968, WHATEVER.
The story could have functioned 100% without the interjection of trite political history. It Reality'd up the Horror in an irritating way, disrupting an otherwise enjoyable movie.
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The Devil Rides Out (1968)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #5
One of my favorite vintage horror flicks!
Full of campy goodness: the cultists! the punching! the religious symbolism all mixed together with mythology and astrology into a nonsensical soup...
Hammer Films, Christopher Lee ❤, and I just happened to catch in the opening credits on this viewing that it was written by Richard Matheson, and I thought, "...wait, THE Richard Matheson??", so I looked it up and by-golly it IS, indeed, the sci-fi author of "I Am Legend" fame! So I fangirled about that for a few minutes.
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Friday, October 2, 2020
Ready or Not (2019)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #4
Really liked this one. Think: Get Out meets Tucker & Dale vs Evil.
Samara Weaving always fun!
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Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #3
SO MUCH WTF happening right from the beginning 😂 from the town "simple" man, to the wholly unlikable good-ole-boys who have raging hard-ons for any excuse to straight-up murder this guy, to the detestable sociopath mailman (who's always in uniform, and maybe a closet pedophile?). Trope-a-palooza.
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Thursday, October 1, 2020
The Grudge (2020)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #2 🔥 Release Year
Even more atmospheric and story-driven than the 2004 version, same amount of jump-scares. But their use of the "spectres" was not as effective as the original -- too...overt. Not quite subtle enough to be the same level of creepy.
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The Grudge (2004)
🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #1
Forgot that this was produced by Sam Raimi, and that Laura Palmer's mom is in it. Still creeps me out to the max.
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