House of the Long Shadows (1983)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #45 🔥 40th Anniversary

Very Scooby-Doo 😆 but can't really go wrong with that cast of legends.

Watched on Tubi 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Borgman (2013)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #44 🔥 10th Anniversary

This movie is bizarre and frustratingly ambiguous, but I couldn't stop watching.

The story progression is similar to a fairy tale, and many elements seem to be right on the periphery of folklore: Borgman perching on Marina while she's sleeping, giving her nightmares; the implication of men shapeshifting into dogs; children being lured and assimilated.

By the end of the film, there are no definitive answers, and surprisingly that didn't bother me. The ghoulish undertakings of this seemingly-supernatural group of transients were but a means-to-an-end, and they accomplished their goal and move on.

The conclusion is surreally matter-of-fact and satisfying -- there's no "why" offered because there doesn't need to be.

Watched on Kanopy 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

The Conspiracy (2013)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #42 🔥 10th Anniversary

Watched on Tubi 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

The Deadly Spawn (1983)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #41 🔥 40th Anniversary

Watched on Shudder 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Season of the Witch (1973)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #40 🔥 50th Anniversary

Watched on Shudder 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

High Tension (2003)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #37 🔥 20th Anniversary

Watched on Amazon Prime 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #33 🔥 35th Anniversary

It was a bold move to use 2 of the main actors from the original as different characters in this sequel, but it worked out -- they are fantastic at freaking out, and not gonna lie, I love watching a masterful horror freakout.😂 On the whole, this was nowhere near as good as the first Return of the Living Dead, but it was a sequel worth watching.

Watched on Tubi 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Wrong Turn (2003)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #31 🔥 20th Anniversary

  About how I remember it from 20 years ago: Nothing special but not terrible.

Watched on MPEG 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Black Sabbath (1963)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #30 🔥 60th Anniversary

I had to go thru multiple sources to find a streaming English language version of this -- the first two I tried had Boris Karloff overdubbed in Italian, and I'm not gonna sit thru that.😆 But then it turned out to just be another mediocre anthology.🙄
[disappointed trombone sound]

Watched on YouTube Free 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

The Wicker Man (1973)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #25 🔥 50th Anniversary

There were so many awful musical numbers in the first 25 minutes of this, I almost ragequit. But I'm glad I stuck with it, because it shaped-up to be bizarre and off-putting in that intriguing folk-occult way, and Christopher Lee is awesome.

Watched on DVD (library) 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Warning Shadows (1923)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #22 🔥 100th Anniversary

This 100-year-old horror movie was... slow... and tame, to say the least, lol.
It's a silent film and there are NO title cards (on purpose), so there was a lot of clumsy inferring, and definitely some confusion about the nature of relationships within the story.
However, still at least somewhat interesting as a piece of history: with the German expressionism and all the shadows; the "magician"(witch?) and the madness and the murder, then the big reveal which was actually pretty cool.

👁️ Watched FREE on YouTube  

Body Bags (1993)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #17 🔥 30th Anniversary

Nothing to write home about.
It was mildly entertaining recognizing the not-traditionally-actors members of the cast throughout (there are FIVE major horror directors playing bit-parts in this movie) and so many notable actors! and it was fun watching John Carpenter in his cryptkeeper-style mortuary assistant narrator role, as cheesy as his performance was, lol.

Just... the stories are weird and kinda bland, and too slow-paced. The horror is mostly body-horror which I'm not big into. I have yet to find an anthology that's anything but mediocre.

I can now cross it off my Carpenter to-watch list, but probably will never return to it.
Sorry, John, they can't all be gold.😆

Watched on Youtube 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #15 & #16 🔥 35th Anniversary

Tonight's pizza movie night double-feature is brought to me by Friday the 13th, with recommendations from my Facebook horror group.💀

While researching, I realized for the first time that *8* Friday the 13th films were released 1980-1989, that's almost 1 per year! Seems like that alone would make Jason the king of 80's slashers. 👑

Watched on Max 👁️ Trailer on YouTube VI & VII  

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #13.33 🔥 40th Anniversary

  Ugh, this was lame, so I gave up. Glad I didn't pay to rent it.

Watched on Tubi 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #9 🔥 20th Anniversary

  20th anniversary showing in theater!
  Just as much of a wild & crazy ride as I remember, lol.

There was an introduction by Rob Zombie, in which he says the house they used was the same one from The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, so I'm gonna have to check that out.

Watched in Theater 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

House of Wax (1953)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #8 🔥 70th Anniversary

This was one of the first films released in COLOR 3D, and boy did they market it that way 😂 I couldn't even find a trailer that actually previewed the movie, just ones with SHOUTING about the 3D!

There was definitely the hokey "this movie's in 3D" camera shots that stick out like a sore thumb and make you roll your eyes when you're watching it "flat" 70 years later, but otherwise this was a good Vincent Price murder-mystery horror, with a creepy setting and some pretty damn impressive wax figures throughout.

I would have sworn I watched this before, but none of it seemed familiar. I think I was misrememebering it as some anthology that was set in a house of wax from the 60's or 70's.

Watched on YouTube Free 👁️ Trailer? on YouTube  

The Invisible Man (1933)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #4 🔥 90th Anniversary

This was alright for being 90 years old! Actually pretty cool to see all the invisible-movement effects they were able to pull off back then.

Watched on DVD (owned) 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Leprechaun (1993)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #3 🔥 30th Anniversary

SO DUMB 😂 but srsly, how did Warwick Davis go from Willow to THIS?! He was a creepy-AF leprechaun, gotta at least give him that much.

Watched on Hulu 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Christine (1983)

🔥 40th Anniversary

I broke my "no horror September" rule, because they were playing Christine in theaters for the 40th Anniversary, and my parents had never seen it so I had to take them!! We had a great time and they really enjoyed it! I knew they would 😉

My mom thought it was SO COOL when Christine was on fire driving around; the practical effects with the car(s) are incredibly impressive in this film.

Watched in Theater 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Maniac Cop (1988)

🔥 35th Anniversary

More mystery, thriller, and even drama components than I expected -- actually gave the movie some good depth.

Watched on Tubi 👁️ Trailer on YouTube