Trick or Treat (1986)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #47

Halloween night, final movie of October Horrorthon 2023!

This was better than I expected! (what I expected was an 80's trainwreck, lol)  I would actually watch this again sometime.

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Host (2020)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #46

I was skeptical, but WOW this one packs a pretty good punch once it gets going.

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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.

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Influencer (2022)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #43

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The Conspiracy (2013)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #42 🔥 10th Anniversary

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The Deadly Spawn (1983)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #41 🔥 40th Anniversary

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Season of the Witch (1973)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #40 🔥 50th Anniversary

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Triangle (2009)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #39

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Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #38 🔥 Release Year

Took my daughter and her friend to see this in-theater tonight. It was enjoyable for PG-13 horror, and it probably helped that I knew nothing going into it other than the creepy animatronic monsters names, lol -- people seem to be getting upset that they deviated from the original video game premise.🤷‍♀️

My biggest complaint was that the fkn theater didn't dim the house lights as much as they should have been/usually are. Nothing like watching a scary movie in a well-lit room.🙄

Watched in Theater 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

High Tension (2003)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #37 🔥 20th Anniversary

Watched on Amazon Prime 👁️ Trailer on YouTube  

Totally Killer (2023)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #36 🔥 Release Year

This was fun! 80's nostalgia, a mystery to solve, and carnival-style time travel. If you liked Happy Death Day, I would definitely recommend watching this (and vice-versa 😉).

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Wrong Turn (2021)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #35

So I know I said I wasn't gonna watch any more Wrong Turn franchise films, and I thought I wasn't: this one came up when I searched my library to see if they had Wrong Turn 2003 on DVD. I thought this was a new movie that just happened to also be called "Wrong Turn" (it happens), but nope, it's a remake, I knew as soon as it said "Constantin Films" in the opening credits, lol, they even wink-and-nod to the franchise towards the end.

HOW👏EV👏ER👏 -- crap franchise or not -- this turned out to be really good! They replaced the inbred hillpeople with some folk-horror cultist types, and took out most of the cannibalism (but not ALL of it). There's A LOT that happens in this movie, so much so that by the end you kinda forget how it started. It's better and more interesting than the original, by far.

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Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (1968)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #34

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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.

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Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #32

  This was just baaaaaad 😂 even with Henry Rollins in it.
  They made SIX of these movies! I'm not going any further.👎😝

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Wrong Turn (2003)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #31 🔥 20th Anniversary

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

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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  

Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)

🎃 Horrorthon 2023 #29

This is incredibly overrated and over-hyped. I expected too much and it was disappointing.

You can skip the whole first 3/4 of the movie, unless you are particularly intrigued by equipment setup, webcast intros/staging, and people running around acting freaked out with cameras on their faces. Once the scary stuff actually starts happening, there's still WAY TOO MUCH face-cam footage on the screen. There's a couple good creepy scenes, but the majority of it is basic haunted asylum tricks we've all seen before.

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