'Dracula' (1931) Then, 'The Lost Boys' (1987) tonight.
I have not been keeping a count. Sorry, fushingfeef
I have not been keeping a count. Sorry, fushingfeef
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1) The Wicker Man (1973)
2) 30 Days of Night
3) Pandemic
4) Exists
5) Misery
6) The Bay
7) 28 Days Later
8) Daybreakers
9) 28 Weeks Later
10) Extinction
11) Infini
12) The Rendlesham UFO Incident (aka Hangar 10)
13) Pet Sematary
14) The Silence of the Lambs
15) Lake Placid
16) House at the End of the Street
17) Unfriended
18) Don't Blink
19) Trollhunter
20) Extraterrestrial
21) Jeepers Creepers
22) Let Us Prey
23) The Traveler (2010)
24) Resident Evil
25) Resident Evil: Apocalypse
26) The Exorcism of Emily Rose
27) Last Shift - nothing particularly new or special, but not God-awful either. 2.7/5
28) The Watcher in the Woods (1981) - I'd heard about this one but had never seen it before. Not sure what I was expecting, but that ending wasn't it. Still OK, though, all things considered. 2.5/5
29) Pod - interesting premise and a couple of OK-good performances. Overall it's too slow, though, and the female lead can't voice act to save her life - when she whispers, she really whispers, then when she screams and yells it all becomes incoherent due to the volume, etc, because she is actually screaming rather than acting. There's nothing terribly new about the (thin!) plot, either. Basically, not quite 90 minutes felt closer to two and a bit hours. 1.7/5
30) The Thing (1982) - a sorbet of sorts. After Pod it was like drinking a fine wine after tasting something closer to paint stripper. I know this movie inside out and backwards, or it feels like I should having seen it so many times. A classic.
31) Quatermass and the Pit
32) They Live - you could argue it's more SF than horror, but those aliens are a bit scary-looking and hey, we live in that world now (minus the aliens, afaik), no disguise or sunglasses necessary. That's the really scary part.
33) The Fog (1980) - ditto
34) The Frankenstein Theory - so what if the Frankenstein story was a fictionalised account of the truth? That's the basic premise. And if you know the creature from the book, you'll see the ending of this film pretty much in its beginning. And it was done found-footage style. 2.2/5
Still to watch before I'm done for this year:
Tonight: Maggie - Arnie in a film about a guy looking after his daughter as she becomes a zombie. Sounds like it might be interesting. Probably won't be. That'll be followed by one of my favourite films ever: Alien
Tomorrow: Friday the 13th (1980); The Visit
Sunday: the 49ers game. No, I'm kidding. It'll be a Day of the Triffids BBC-TV series marathon followed by Psycho (1960)
Monday: The Birds, Creepshow, Halloween (1978)
I'm glad you liked Maggie--I did, too. It wasn't what I expected.Right. Well, Maggie turned out to be surprisingly good. Or at least better than I expected. It's not your standard 'zombie' fare, that's for sure, and if it's action you're after you won't find much here. It still held my attention well enough, though, and I'll give it 3.5/5.
Oh, and a note on the 'ditto' after The Fog. As it stands it makes it look like I think it could be called SF more than horror, and nope, that is absolutely not the case. What happened was, I'd put The Fog after The Thing, so 'ditto' referred to the last comment re: The Thing (so saying that The Fog was a classic). I then remembered that I'd left a couple of things out of the proper sequence, so went back to pop them in and simply forgot to remove the 'ditto'. Which, given what I do (though certainly not for what you'd properly call 'a living'; it's dropped far below that level, at least in financial terms), probably means I should go and perform seppuku or something to restore my lost honour.
Saw this one too! FTV 4/5 - slow starting at first and the accents were a bit difficult but I27. The Babadook (2014)
Good creepy haunted house flick that is more than just a haunted house flick. 8/10
This one was my favourite of the three I watched
39. The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy -- Oh man. This has been the only time in my life I wished I smoked pot. Get stoned and watch this and I'm sure you will laugh your azz off. Bad acting, bad props, bad monsters, bad everything. I could grab a handful of you reading this and we could have made a better movie.
"The evil Dr. Krupp (Luis Aceves Castañeda), also known as "The Bat", plots to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from the tomb of a centuries-old living mummy, Popoca (Angel di Stefani). Krupp builds a robot to defeat the mummy, which has so far thwarted his efforts. Krupp's former colleague Dr. Eduardo Almada (Ramón Gay) and associates work to stop the mad scientist from completing his plans, successfully destroying the robot as Popoca returns to the shadows of the night."
Dana Jean's Halloween 2016 Movies
1. Sacrifice--New
2. Stitches--New
3. Bleed--New
4. Burnt Offerings -- old standby
5. Mercy
6. Come Back to Me --New
7. Horror Express
8. Bloody April Fools -- New
9. Babadook--New
10. ABC's of Death -- 2 -- New
11. The Legend of Hell House -- old standby
12. Housebound -- New
13. Creepshow-- old standby
14. Scream and Scream Again
15. Livide -- New
16. Secret Window -- old standby
17. Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages -- New
18. Little Shop of Horrors -- 1960 -- New
19. Midnight Meat Train -- New
20. The Gorgon
21. Count Dracula 1970
22. The Innocents -- good old standby
23. Most Likely to Die -- New
24. The Fearless Vampire Killers -- New
25. The Creeping Flesh
26. The Oblong Box -- New
27. Vault of Horror 1973 -- good old standby.
28. Theatre of Blood -- good old standby
29. Carrie -- 2002 Version -- New
30. Dracula's Daughter -- New
31. Last Shift -- New
32. The Girl in the Photographs -- New
33. Horror of Dracula -- New
34. Dracula: Prince of Darkness
35. Dracula Has Risen From the Grave -- New
36. Taste the Blood of Dracula -- New
37. Scars of Dracula -- New
38. I Am The Pretty Thing that Lives in the House -- New
39. The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy -- New
I am thinking that maybe they did it.That one looks like a good candidate for a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode..lol
39. The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy -- Oh man. This has been the only time in my life I wished I smoked pot. Get stoned and watch this and I'm sure you will laugh your azz off. Bad acting, bad props, bad monsters, bad everything. I could grab a handful of you reading this and we could have made a better movie.
"The evil Dr. Krupp (Luis Aceves Castañeda), also known as "The Bat", plots to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from the tomb of a centuries-old living mummy, Popoca (Angel di Stefani). Krupp builds a robot to defeat the mummy, which has so far thwarted his efforts. Krupp's former colleague Dr. Eduardo Almada (Ramón Gay) and associates work to stop the mad scientist from completing his plans, successfully destroying the robot as Popoca returns to the shadows of the night."
Dana Jean's Halloween 2016 Movies
1. Sacrifice--New
2. Stitches--New
3. Bleed--New
4. Burnt Offerings -- old standby
5. Mercy
6. Come Back to Me --New
7. Horror Express
8. Bloody April Fools -- New
9. Babadook--New
10. ABC's of Death -- 2 -- New
11. The Legend of Hell House -- old standby
12. Housebound -- New
13. Creepshow-- old standby
14. Scream and Scream Again
15. Livide -- New
16. Secret Window -- old standby
17. Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages -- New
18. Little Shop of Horrors -- 1960 -- New
19. Midnight Meat Train -- New
20. The Gorgon
21. Count Dracula 1970
22. The Innocents -- good old standby
23. Most Likely to Die -- New
24. The Fearless Vampire Killers -- New
25. The Creeping Flesh
26. The Oblong Box -- New
27. Vault of Horror 1973 -- good old standby.
28. Theatre of Blood -- good old standby
29. Carrie -- 2002 Version -- New
30. Dracula's Daughter -- New
31. Last Shift -- New
32. The Girl in the Photographs -- New
33. Horror of Dracula -- New
34. Dracula: Prince of Darkness
35. Dracula Has Risen From the Grave -- New
36. Taste the Blood of Dracula -- New
37. Scars of Dracula -- New
38. I Am The Pretty Thing that Lives in the House -- New
39. The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy -- New
The Blob.
I used to watch this stoned all the time. With the MST bots. Had about all the old MST3ks on VHS back in the 90s. Smoked alotta weed, too. They made a good combination. Toss in some cheese doodles and yer set.