The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

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Maniac Cop (1988)

🔥 35th Anniversary

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

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Sleepaway Camp (1983)

🔥 40th Anniversary

I know this movie is a "cult classic" or whatever, but it is hot garbage.😂
I'm glad I didn't bother saving it for my Halloween Horrorthon.

The composition of most of the scenes sucks; the character interactions and dialogue are so forced and unnatural; the acting is terrible, and half of the actors that are supposed to be "kids" are probably old enough to drink... it's just painful to watch.

Then my husband's like, "well we have to watch the 2nd one now", and I couldn't even make it 10 minutes into it. 😂 I didn't want to waste any more of my life.

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Leviathan (1989)

  The Abyss meets Alien, vs. Peter Weller and Ernie Hudson.

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Strait-Jacket (1964)

  Wow, Joan Crawford is something else!
  This was a really enjoyable watch, much suspense.

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The Funhouse (1981)

Tobe Hooper repeats Texas Chainsaw Massacre, just in a carnival setting this time 🤷 i.e. mentally twisted family, deformed adult son who has been abused and is now physically strong and dangerous, group of teenaged interlopers, you get the idea.

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There's Nothing Out There (1991)

This movie is the epitome of "dumb but fun". 😂

There are actually some impressive-for-low-budget practical effects deaths, but the monster is definitely hokey in a hilarious way. The fifth-wheel friend's meta exasperation at their all being trapped in a horror film was enjoyable.

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The Frighteners (1996)

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The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

Since it's been hot as hell this week, I figured it was a perfect time to watch the original Hills Have Eyes for the first time. Wes Craven just KNOWS how to make things disturbing.

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Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

🔥 35th Anniversary

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Do Horror Movies Have to "Scare" You to be Good?

"Some of the best and most effective horror movies are ones that didn't jump out and scare you, but rather left you disturbed and thinking about it long after you'd watched it. The types of movies that you were still thinking about that night, while you were struggling to fall asleep in the dark, suddenly noticing every tiny sound coming from the creaks of the house and the wooshes of water running through pipes."

👁️ read the full article @ halloween-year-round.com  

Little Bone Lodge (2023)

🔥 Release Year

  The twist in this one is MESSED👏 UP!👏
  You think you know what it is... but then it's WORSE.

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Scream VI (2023)

🔥 Release Year

  This was definitely another Scream movie.

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Renfield (2023)

🔥 Release Year

This was fun! Fantastic cast, great fight scenes, and amusing modern-day twists on the Dracula vampire/servant lore.

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Dollman (1991)Demonic Toys (1992)Dollman vs Demonic Toys (1993)

🔥 30th Anniversary

  Friday night.
          This week is fkn OVER,
                  and it's PIZZA🍕MOVIE👏NIGHT👏
                          I dug so deep
                                  to round up copies
                                          of this early-90's
                                                  direct-to-video
                                                          Triple Feature
                                                                  ✨️extravaganza✨️

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Dollman, Demonic Toys, Dollman vs Demonic Toys  

ATM (2012)

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Torture Garden (1967)

  This was a decent Anthology, but nothing exceptional.

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Night Creatures (1962)

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Deep Rising (1998)

🔥 20th Anniversary

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Mister Creep (2022)

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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.

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The Visit (2015)

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One Missed Call (2003)

🔥 20th Anniversary

The Ring meets Final Destination. Some good ghost spooks once it gets going, but the ending is WTF.

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Kill List (2011)

This was just slow, hard to follow, incongruous, with many discrepancies that are never addressed. Not sure why it has such good ratings on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, it's not scary and kinda boring.

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M3GAN (2022)

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The House of the Devil (2009)

SO MUCH about this film feels Stephen-King-adaptation-esque (and the brief appearance of Dee Wallace in the beginning makes it even moreso), then suddenly you're slammed into modern horror, then slide back into nostalgia, round-and-round again. Really enjoyable to watch, great style, great horror vibes.

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The Crazies (1973)

🔥 50th Anniversary

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Dark Skies (2013)

🔥 10th Anniversary

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House (1977)

  WTF KIND OF WILLY WONKA PORNO PSYCHOSIS IS THIS MOVIE?!

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Eyes Without a Face (1959)

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The 100 Greatest Overlooked Horror Movies

"There's hundreds of thousands of [horror] movies and if you don't know where to look, you're bound to miss some good ones. Because of the numerous subgenres within subgenres, the VHS boom of the 80's and the constant stream of new shit being released on a weekly basis, combing through the entire history of horror is a daunting task. This list was made to shine a light on a select few you might not have seen that [Screenage Wasteland contributing author Sailor Monsoon thinks] are worth your time."

Apparently not all the links to the pages within this article are working correctly, so I have provided direct links to each page in descending order:

👁️  100-91  90-81  80-71  70-61  60-51  50-41  40-31  30-21  20-11  10-1  👁️

The Canal (2014)

CREEP👏TASTIC👏 and more brutal than expected. A refreshing indie descent into madness, especially after watching Coherence which was boring.

Side note: love the low-key 70's Italian horror vibe of this promo art.

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Becky (2020)

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Creepshow 2 (1987)

  Wow this was awful 😂

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Critters (1986)

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The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

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Jack Goes Home (2016)

HOOOOO BOY, this was way more art-house than I was expecting. For about the first 50 minutes, it was all drama drama drama, and I'm wondering how is this a horror movie? Then he finally goes into the attic and finds The Box, and everything just goes berserk from there.

⚠️ Definite trigger warnings for survivors of sexual assault and abuse.

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Night of the Creeps (1986)

Loooong day. So tonight I just wanted to watch something stupid👏 and fun👏 and 80's👏 -- Night of the Creeps scratched that itch 💯😆💀

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Crawl (2019)

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Christine (1983)

🔥 40th Anniversary

Can't believe I waited so long to watch this! I kept forgetting it was a John Carpenter movie and passing on it. Who knew a car could be so sinister.

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The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)

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There Are Monsters (2013)

🔥 10th Anniversary

I was super-skeptical at the beginning of this movie -- it's very obviously low-budget, and I'm not big on the found-footage subgenre generally. Turned out to be totally worth watching. The filmmaker(s) understood horror and it showed.

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Post Mortem (2020)

This movie has probably the most mixed reviews ever, but I really enjoyed it. The English overdub on the DVD was awful so I turned it off in lieu of subtitles and I'm glad I did, much better.

There are creepy corpses doing very undead things, and people being snatched into the air and tossed about like ragdolls. Maybe the acting isn't great, but I can deal with that just fine for some good haunts.

One definitely noticeable issue, tho, is the "questionable intentions" of the man with this 10yo girl who ends up being his sidekick -- it's low-key cringey FOR SURE, but doesn't seem malicious. They're connected by death and resurrection, and end up being a paranormal team.

I think maybe a lot of people who don't get what's overall happening in this film just have never heard of a psychopomp. That would explain a lot of confusion/complaints I've seen like "this-and-that is ridiculous and doesn't make any sense at all", well it does make sense if you know about psychopomps.

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Happy Death Day 2U (2019)

Rewatched Happy Death Day this weekend, so figured what-the-hell, might as well check out the sequel. Lots of exposition about why the loop(s) happen/ed. These movies are just barely in the horror category, but this 2nd one even moreso removed, with all the sci-fi going on.

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Dead Alive (1992) aka Braindead

Last time I watched this was probably over a decade ago. Remains one of the absolute grossest movies I've ever seen.

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The Legend of Hell House (1973)

🔥 50th Anniversary

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Dark was the Night (2015)

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The Hidden (1987)

Quite the wild ride of a sci-fi thriller! Kyle MacLachlan killin'👏 the role, as usual, and a few more familiar faces popping up throughout are always fun to spot. Weirdly good indie 80's soundtrack, too, check it out.

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Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)

  One of those rare instances where the prequel was better than the original.

Watched on Netflix 👁️ Trailer on YouTube