yeah it really creeped me out.

Is Dead End just a parody of the horror genre? I watched 30 minutes of it last night and gave up as some of the acting was too over-exaggerated and laughable at times.

Yeah, it all works and comes together. The music at certain points adds to the entire creepiness of the story.

Nothing new to add as it's well known but Psycho never gets old to me. Holds up so well.

The original nightmare on elm street is so solid. Part two isn't as strong but maintains the darkness from the original and is a solid sequel IMO. By part four they were basically terrible comedies. Shameful.

Night of the Comet

Prob top 5 fav movies off all time

1) Hottest chick ever to live the Last Starfighter girl Mary catherine stewart.....
Robert Beltran, Geoffrey Lewis...


2) Zombies

3) you have the MAC-10 which was a submachine gun that was practically designed for housewives.

4) Dream in a Dream sequence which was not super overused at the time.


Some people see it as sci-fi but you have End of the World Apocalypse and some zombies...... and of course mary catherine stewart.....

GOAT.

If your looking for Cheese....and biker chicks

Chopper chicks from Zombietown

at least twice a year on my trek to the Indian Welles Brewery I stop in the ghost town that this film was made in...the bar is famous for well that movie...

Cheesy but fun

Epic Horror from my Gilbert Godfried and Rhonda Shear

1) Highway to hell...good fun horror with some epic cameos chad lowe and a bad ass oldtimers car with nitrous

my favorite of the USA up all nights (besides girlfriend from hell)

Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama

1) Brinke Stevens and George "buck" flower (the bum from back to the future or the traitor from They Live)

2) A magical genie IMP who's wishes all turn bad and kill people..... look this was 1988 A LOT OF MOVIES FROM THEN ON STOLE THIS CONCEPT......(wishmaster....)

god I miss USA up all night

Good movie - although I would classify it more as a suspense/mystery than horror. The lead is the same as the lead from The Orphanage, another really good Spanish horror click. Worth watching for sure. I liked this more than "The Host", which was another movie on that list I hadn't seen.

Just watched The Loved Ones, an Australian horror flick..suspenseful, gory, well acted..kind of falls into the torture genre which I'm not a big fan of but definitely worth a watch

Who Can Kill a Child? aka Death is Child's Play aka Island of the Damned 82/100



I threw this on, expecting a straightforward exploitation movie, and got a BIG surprise. Firstly, it starts off with a prologue explaining, as a documentary, the atrocities and hardships that have affected children, starting with the holocaust (with footage), and leading to Vietnam war footage, and starving children in Africa. It's was a shock and quite upsetting, mostly because I just wasn't prepared for that.

Then we launch into the movie, which is partly in Spanish, but mostly in English, involving a married Egnlish couple (wife pregnant, and they have two other children back in England) holidaying in Spain, and the man telling his wife of a lovely quiet little island with a village he stayed at as a child.

There's a festival on at the town they are in, and the noise makes them decide to go stay on the island. But when they get there, it seems deserted, except for playing children.

This is a creepy, but very engaging thriller/horror movie. Children can be utterly creepy in the right context, and this movie uses this to the full. The acting of the two leads is a little off - you can tell they're good actors, but they seem to be overprojecting a little, almost like it's a stage play. I think it may be something to do with being directed by a Spanish director maybe, and a different sensibility? Not sure, and I got used to it just fine, as the rest of the movie worked so damn well. The slow build, the quickly escalating (and profoundly shocking) violence, the music, the scene-setting, and the resolution, all worked excellently.

If I had to give a high-concept pitch: Imagine The Children of the Corn made with the same quality and sensibility as the original Wicker Man


thoroughly recommended.

Black Christmas (1974) 74/100 dark, creepy horror that owes much to the 'killer is ringing from inside your house' urban legend. The bizarre phone calls, the creeping camerawork, and the weird tension all make this a pretty solid Christmas horror.

Made by the same guy who made 'A Christmas Story'.

I'm scouring the web for the scene in The Shining where Danny is having a seizure or something and is kind of spitting and tweaking out. This is in the movie, right—I haven't just imagined it? He's just stationary and like subtly frothing at the mouth while undergoing some vision or some bull****, iirc.

Yeah there is a scene like that.

FYI "You're Next" is available on demand. You guys should check it out. It's a home invasion horror flick with added comedy and some badass kills. One of the best horror films of the year but it got lost in the mix.

yes it's right at the beginning of the scene where Scatman Crothers is having the vision of Jack & young/old woman in the bathroom (presumably Danny is seeing the same thing).

re: YOU"RE NEXT

someone else has seen it, yay! here was my post from another thread about it a while back:
Most on IMDB trashed it a while back so we may be the only 2 who liked it.

I was lucky enough to chat with AJ Bowen (the wimpy guy who dated Sharni Vinson's character) about You're Next. I told him I saw it in a nearly sold out screening in Victoria and he replied, "So you were the guys that saw the film!" You're Next deserved better. It sat on the shelves for a couple of years. I think it premiered at SXSW back in 2011. A bull**** film like The Purge hit the jackpot with something like $65m but I think You're Next "only" cleared like $18m? This is a success for a small film like this but it's so much better than The Purge.

I really liked You're Next. It got a good reception in the cinema I was in.

You're Next is a solid scary/thriller movie, it should get more love.

Best horror movie of 2013?

I thought The Conjuring had some solid scares, and a few in places that were totally unexpected which is great for the whole shock effect. Overall, it felt like it was trying to do a little too much though and came off like a watered down combination of Amityville and The Exorcist.

The Evil Dead remake was pretty decent in that it kept some of the original flavor but did it's own thing as well. They departed from some of the cheesball, over-the-top stuff that the original was known for, which I was glad for. My vote is probably for this one, but am interested in hearing other thoughts.

I've heard some good things about V/H/S 2 but didn't see it so can't say.

Saw the original 1931 version of Dracula the other day, good watch if you like old-timey movies. Great visuals and backdrops that hold up well, you get the sense that the director well understood what he could do with the technology he had. Dracula is a movie that's been imitated and parodied so many times that I had to force myself to step back see it in its own context. Bela is just effortlessly creepy as the Count.

The first act of Dracula is superb. The rest is quite, quite poor, except when Renfield is on screen.

The Wicker Man (1973)

Such an electrifying movie in the last act, made so by the baffling, unsettling buildup throughout the film.

This staunch, upright policeman represents us, the viewer, as he first strides, then falters, through this strange island culture where everything seems sexualised and wanton and weird. He is as confused as us, the viewers. The villagers veer between odd and friendly, and almost everything said and done seems distinctly off-kilter.

We see this staunch Christian feel himself diminished and isolated as he realises he is in an environment like he's never encountered, where the friendly words, and seemingly joyful music has an underpinning of debauchery, cruelty and barbarity he finds hard to cope with - from the beetle deliberately tied to the pin to go round and round until it's tied up, to the little girl made to put a frog in her mouth to get rid of a sore throat, to the odd tricks the children play on the policeman.

The film itself is indeed a horror movie, but defies genre. It's a dark, dark comedy of sorts - reminiscent of the old TV series The Prisoner in its disconcerting changing of familiar buildings and clothes into something alien - a musical (the music infuses the film almost wholly, with the only odd music being an out-of-place funky electric guitar score very near the end when Woodward is trying to escape pursuit), and a detective story.

The vacant smiles and constant digressions the villagers and Lord make when talking to the policeman just keep building and building the tension, until the nature of the old religion makes itself clear.

Finally, you feel that both Christian and heathen are equally wrong and equally impotent as the villagers sing and dance on the windy grassland. This sacrifice feels both dreadful (Woodward is amazing in the last act) and pointless, as the villagers cavort in the windy sunset, you feel the gesture they are making to nature is pointless, and nature will do what it will do, and the actions of men won't change a thing.

A great film, horror or not.

Masque of the Red Death

4.5/5



I saw this before as a teenager, and thought it was deliberately overwrought and contrived just to fill the running time, and I had that general opinion of Corman's Poe cycle.

However, I watched The Haunted Palace for the first time not too long ago, and thought it was wonderful, and thought maybe it was time to give the whole Corman/Price cycle another chance.

Watching it again, I realised I was totally wrong. It is weird, vivid, a mashup of pulp and existential horror that's works superbly, and apart from Witchfinder General, I think this might be Price's best performance as the black-hearted Prospero.

I loved the garish colours and the very fine set design and rather good costuming, and I particularly liked the Red Death and his brethren.

A fine film, and a classic of horror.

I really liked dead end but its very weird. Sort of comedy sort of horror, definitely worth watching though

Freaks



Freaks, made over 80 years ago, is still a mind blowing movie. Large sections of it have not aged well, it has to be said, with large sections of dated and not-very-funny comedy, melodrama, and very stilted acting from almost everyone in it except for one or two actors.

On the plus side, i like the fact that much of the writing treats the 'freaks' with decency and humanity, and we see a lot of the normal circus folk being kind to the mentally-disadvantaged freaks, and treated the physically-different freaks with respect, and as equals. Add to this, when it hits the mark, it becomes a titan of horror movies. The scene of the wedding feast (“one of us, one of us!”) is remarkable and still retains the power to make us understand Cleopatra's horror, while hating her for her indecent and hurtful shouting and disgustingly crass behaviour towards her new husband, but even more shocking is the attack of the freaks in the pouring rain. This really goes against type as has been presented to us so far, but this is righteous justice, and it's easy to overlook this inconsistency because of this.

A brilliant, powerful movie, despite its significant flaws.


5/5

Alien

A superbly crafted movie, with superb attention to details and possible the first wholly convincing monster. The only really beautiful monster costume I can remember before this is The Creature from The Black Lagoon.

Scott builds the tension nice and slow, but in a way that doesn't bore. I'm always shocked when I check how much time has passed, and it's always much more time than I think, so enthralled by the movie am I.

The level of detail in the movie is just amazing, the sets look like a real working space ship/freighter, and the beautiful work by Scott and H R Giger present a great backdrop to a solid, fast script, which is acted by a very solid cast. John Hurt and Sigourney Weaver are standouts, but only just, backed up by Ian Holm and the rest.

Love this movie, such a great, scary, immersive movie.

5/5

I recently re-watched a couple of horror movies I hadn't seen in ages:

DUEL (1971) - This was Steven Spielberg's first full length feature film. It is about a mild mannered salesman (Dennis Weaver) driving through the California desert who is targeted to be run off of the road by a psycho driving a fuel tanker trunk. The chase action starts just a few minutes in to the movie and never lets up. Even the few scenes not involving car chases are suspenseful. The car chase scenes are well done and I really never got bored at point. 8.5/10

SUSPIRIA (1977) - From Italian director Dario Argento, this is a movie about an American (Jessica Harper) who goes to Germany to attend a famed ballet dance academy. Sounds like a great deal for her except for the fact that the people who run the academy are involved in the dark arts. The standout features of the movie are the way it looks and sounds. Everything is quite fancy and opulent with lots of soft blue and red lights contrasted w/ the dark and very white lights as well as a pounding soundtrack by Goblin that pops up when something is about to go down. The bad stuff is that the gore and other special effects really look dated and there are a some stretches of boring conversation stuff. 6.5/10

I found a couple of pieces of fan art online involving horror movies and damsels in distress that I thought were neat. Can you guys guess which movies these are from? Both were released in theaters but were not mainstream-type of movies like THE EXORCIST, FRIDAY THE 13TH, etc.

1. 2009 American horror movie:


2. 1972 Portuguese/Spanish horror movie: