Watched on Amazon Prime 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Friday, March 31, 2023
Friday, March 24, 2023
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.
Watched on YouTube 👁️ Trailer on Vimeo
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
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.
Watched on DVD (library) 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Sunday, March 19, 2023
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.
Watched on DVD (library) 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Sunday, March 12, 2023
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.
Watched on MPEG 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
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Sunday, March 5, 2023
Saturday, March 4, 2023
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.
Watched on MPEG 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Friday, March 3, 2023
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
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One of those rare instances where the prequel was better than the original.
Watched on Netflix 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Ouija (2014)
Never understood why this movie gets such a bad rap. Sure, it's nothing groundbreaking in the Teen Scream arena, but it at least deserves to be higher up in the barrel. It's got spooky atmosphere, jump scares, a mystery to unravel, and even Lin Shaye! Come on! Overall it's an enjoyable, popcorn, watch-with-friends-in-a-dark-room kinda horror flick.
Watched on Netflix 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Monday, February 27, 2023
VFW (2019)
If you're looking for a splatter fest that's light on plot and heavy on gratuitous violence, this movie might be for you.
Watched on DVD (library) 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Dead Birds (2005)
This could have been much better if they didn't put in so much of the generic "demon face" CGI that was all-the-rage in the early 2000's horror industry. You know the face: razor-sharp teeth, black-hole eyes, streaky pallid skin, growling hiss (see photo). There's an excessive amount of that in this movie. Really detracted from an otherwise creepy haunting premise.
Watched on Amazon Prime 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Monday, February 20, 2023
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Rogue (2007)
Excellent creature-feature on a lazy Sunday afternoon! I wish Sheriff Longmire would've lasted longer, though.
Watched on Amazon Prime 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Sunday, February 12, 2023
Lady in White (1988)
I never watched this as a kid, so I don't have any nostalgic connection to it at all. That being said: it was hard to sit through the incredibly cheesy Hallmark-channel-level 80's heartfelt treacle that comprised a good 50% of the movie. Almost made me quit a couple times. But then there are some genuinely frightening scenes, like a little girl getting strangled to death by an invisible assailant. There was also a surprising amount of heavy content relating to race relations (was this a "kid's" movie?!). In the end, I made it through the whole thing, the guy I figured was the killer from the beginning turned out to be the killer, and I'll probably never watch this again.
Watched on Tubi 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Friday, February 10, 2023
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Sunday, February 5, 2023
The Last Winter (2006)
Too heavy-handed and slow, just not quite interesting. Wendigo "ghosts" didn't make sense within their own mythos, and the attempted Resident Evil-style ending flopped.
Watched on Amazon (rented) 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Cape Fear (1991)
Hadn't seen this movie in a loooooooooong time, like 20 years -- WOW, is this hard to watch! Straight-up gut-churning psychotic behavior, and nerve-wracking impotence of recourse. Such powerful performances all around. Now I need to dig up a copy of the original to watch.
Watched on DVD (library) 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Saturday, January 28, 2023
Monday, January 2, 2023
Jennifer's Body (2009)
This surprised me, I was expecting total junk. I've avoided it for years because I thought it was just another in the long line of teen vampire flicks; turns out it's something different...
Watched on HBO Max 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Stage Fright (1987)
Expected a train wreck going into it, but this wasn't half bad as far as Italian slashers go. Never would have suspected.
Watched on Tubi 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Sunday, December 18, 2022
Friday, December 16, 2022
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
I read "The Final Girl Support Group" earlier this year, and this was the only slasher film/series referenced in the book that I had never seen, so I figured I'd give it a watch this holiday season. It was very dumb.😆
Watched on Amazon Prime 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Monday, October 31, 2022
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Sunday, October 30, 2022
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #37.5
This was slow and boring, bizarre characters, low production quality. I couldn't finish it, only made it about 1/3 through. I'm staunchly on Team Exorcist: The Beginning in the great prequel debate.
Watched on Kanopy 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Hagazussa (2017)
🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #37
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There is a sparse amount of actual dialogue in this film -- it's mostly comprised of stunning imagery and shocking tragedy and suffocating dread.
Watched on Kanopy 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Bloody Hell (2021)
🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #36
HA! This one was fun. Very cool modern-day twisted fairy tale. Don't think I've ever wanted so badly for someone to FINALLY CUT THRU THAT DAMN ROPE!!
Watched on Shudder 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Friday, October 28, 2022
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #34
Woooooow interpersonal relationships are complicated for young people nowadays.😬
This was better than I had anticipated, tho! One of those Rube Goldberg horror movies, in a very maze-like mansion with the power out, so you're never quite sure where anyBODY's at...😆
Watched on DVD (library) 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Burnt Offerings (1976)
🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #33
The psychosis creeps-in real slow in this one, but some powerhouse performances from Karen Black, Oliver Reed, and Bette Davis.
Another rule to add to the Horror Scenario Survival Guide: Screw👏being👏polite👏to👏the👏haunted👏house👏 Just GTFO.
Watched on Amazon Prime 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Forbidden World (1982)
🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #32 🔥 40th Anniversary
This was WILD!! Absolutely GRUESOME.
Watched FREE on Youtube 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
The Accursed (2021)
🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #31
I accidentally watched the "wrong" Accursed, but it worked out fine. This one is kinda complicated and slow, but very old-world magicky which was at least interesting, and some mystery in there. Very tragic ending.
Watched on Hulu 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Nosferatu (1922)
🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #30 🔥 100th Anniversary
Wanted to watch this 100-year-old film for the anniversary this year, but I had to be very careful... because every other time I've tried to watch it... I'vefallenasleep.😅 Almost happened again this time, but I ultimately made it through!
The restoration version I watched was very well done. Here's all the info about the restoration process posted at the beginning of the film:
NOSFERATU was restored by Luciano Berriatúa on behalf of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Weisbaden in 2005/06. A tinted nitrate print with French intertitles from 1922 from the Cinémathèque Française, Paris, was used as a basis for the restoration.
Missing shots were completed by a safety print from 1939 from Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin/Koblenz, drawn from a Czech export print from the 1920s. Other shots were taken from a nitrate print of the 1930 version, distributed under the title DIE ZWÖLFTE STUNDE [THE TWELFTH HOUR], preserved at the Cinémathèque Française, Paris.
Most of the original intertitles and inserts are preserved in a safety print from 1962 from Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin/Koblenz, originating from a print from 1922.
Missing intertitles and inserts were redesigned on the basis of the original typography by trickWilk, Berlin. They are marked with F.W.M.S.
Watched on Kanopy 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Sunday, October 23, 2022
Candyman (2021)
🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #27
Wanted to rewatch the original before I took a crack at this new one.
Great homage to/continuation of the original. Amazing cast, excellent storytelling, very heavy material.
Watched on Amazon Prime 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Candyman (1992)
🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #26 🔥 30th Anniversary
Got to watch this outside with our projector! It was an unseasonably warm autumn evening, we had a group of friends get together, and it was a lot of fun! Still one of my all-time favorite horror flicks, but my son was unimpressed.😆
Watched on DVD (owned) 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Overlord (2018)
🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #25
How could I resist a movie with an AC/DC song in the trailer?!
OMG this was crazy as BAAAAALLLLLSSSS! I loved it! Always great to see Wyatt Russell in anything (oh and hey there's Joseph Quinn, too).
Combines the general horrors of war with the specific horrors of reanimated super-soldiers in an underground experimental laboratory. Some sketchy CGI in a couple parts, but doesn't detract from otherwise solid digital and practical effects on-point throughout.
Watched on Bluray (library) 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Friday, October 21, 2022
Thursday, October 20, 2022
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Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Nightbeast (1982)
🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #22 🔥 40th Anniversary
I knew the instant I saw "A Troma Team Release" pop up on the screen that this was going to be a trashterpiece, and it did not disappoint -- from the sheriff's salt-n-pepper perm, to the infomercial-grade acting, to the Nightbeast's snaggletoothed, sometimes-a-puppet face... and something like 3 minutes of softcore porn happens at one point?🤷️
Prepare yourself for the best of the worst!
Fight scenes! Shootouts! Gratuitous nudity! Exclamations!
You'll laugh/cackle! You'll eyeroll! You'll shout profanities at the screen!
Watched on Tubi 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
The Wailing (2016)
🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #21
This one is a significant time and attention investment, at 2-1/2 hours of reading subtitles, but absolutely worth it. Lived up to the hype in a massive way, and the ending was like KAPOW!
Watched on Kanopy & Shudder 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Monday, October 17, 2022
Beyond the Gates (2016)
🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #20
I had high hopes for this one, but it was pretty tedious [insert Whammy sound].
A couple gruesome death scenes, otherwise nothing extraordinary.
Watched on Amazon rental 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Sunday, October 16, 2022
Alone in the Dark (1982)
🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #19 🔥 40th Anniversary
One of the better horror flicks to come out of 1982, with immensely creepy performances from Jack Palance and Martin Landau.
Watched FREE on YouTube 👁️ Trailer on YouTube
Friday, October 14, 2022
Lake of the Dead (1958)
🎃 Horrorthon 2022 #18
De Dødes Tjern -- Quite lovely. A spooky, monochrome glimpse into 1950's Norwegian woodland, complete with sod-roof cabin.
Watched on Shudder 👁️ (no trailer available)
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