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  

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  

Torture Garden (1967)

  This was a decent Anthology, but nothing exceptional.

Watched on MPEG 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Nightmare Cinema (2018)

Ranging from stupid to ridiculous to lame, get ready for bad stunt doubles and all-around absurdity. The only story even remotely worth watching was the 4th one about the mother.

Watched on Tubi 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Creepshow 2 (1987)

  Wow this was awful 😂

Watched on Amazon Prime 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Two Evil Eyes (1990)

🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #24

Watched on Tubi 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Creepshow (1982)

🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #3 🔥 40th Anniversary

Watched on DVD (owned) 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Kwaidan (1965)

Stories of ghosts and demons; visually stunning -- as restored 1960's Japanese folk films are wont to be -- but nooooot very horrifying, by modern standards.

Watched on HBO Max 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Trick 'r Treat (2007)

🎃 Horrorthon 2020 #23

Watched on Amazon (rented) 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

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. 😱

Watched on Hulu 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

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.

Watched on Amazon Prime 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

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.

Watched on DVD (library) 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)

🎃 Horrorthon 2019 #18

Watched on Amazon Prime 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Tales from the Crypt (1972)

🎃 Horrorthon 2018 #27

The version I watched on Amazon must be recently restored (says released 2018), looks great. (can't speak for the free YouTube version, tho)

Watched on Amazon Prime 👁️ Watch FREE on YouTube