2017 SKMB October Horror Movie Marathon!

[Mr Nobody]

1) Gerald's Game
2) Dead Rising: Watchtower
3) The Thing (1982)
4) Area 51
5) Piranha (1978)
6) Quarantine
7) Lights Out
8) Viral
9) Black Lake
10) Cat's Eye
11) Plan Z
12) Alien: Covenant
13) Pandorum
14) Blair Witch
15) The Black Room (2017)
16) Dog Soldiers
17) Friday the 13th (2009)
18) Maximum Overdrive
19) Navy SEALS: The Battle for New Orleans (aka Navy SEALS vs Zombies)
20) It Follows
21) Alien
22) I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House
23) Silent Hill
24) What We Become
25) 1922
26) Psycho (1960)
27) Stranger Things/ST2 - OK, technically not a movie. The first season was a re-watch as my gf hadn't seen it. Still good, but not quite as awesome as I thought the first time round. ST2, similar. Very good, and the attention to period detail was on-point again (from what I remember), but obviously the novelty of the concept/awesome nostalgia-bomb effect had worn off. Still a solid 4/5 all the same.
28) Children of the Corn - the remake. Not as good as the original, IMO, if not quite as...er, corny...either. Original's worth maybe 2.5/5, so I'll give this one 2/5.
29) Outpost - A group of assorted mercenaries escort a boffin to a secret bunker, which it turns out was used for experiments to produce invincible soldiers. It's OK, patchy in places and not everything quite makes narrative sense, but there you go. Another 2.5/5 job for me.

I'm out tonight, so no movies for me. I plan on watching a few tomorrow, though, particularly Insidious and, of course, Halloween.

 

[Spideyman]

31. Charlie Brown's Great Pumpkin--(tradition to watch)
32.Poltergiest 2

 

[cat in a bag]

25. Hotel Transylvania (2012) I adore this kids movie. Watched it with the littles. I have seen it many times, like you do with littles around, and have not gotten bored with it yet.

26. The Pact (2012) Disturbing visions and her sister's disappearance lead a woman to call a psychic and a cop to her childhood home.
This one was pretty good. More a murder mystery with a sprinkling of paranormal stuff, it held my interest and was quite suspenseful at times.

27. Carnival of Souls (1962) After taking a job as a church organist, the sole survivor of a fatal car crash encounters mysterious phantoms which lure her to a deserted carnival outside of town.
Another one I thought I had watched before, but must have never gotten around to. Pretty good little movie.

28. The Watcher in the Woods (2017) Think it was skimom2 who watched the original and mentioned this remake. I did not like it much, I thought it was boring. My 11 year old daughter loved it though!

29. Life (2017) Terror strikes when astronauts aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form from mars that threatens earth. Ryan Reynolds Jake Gyllenhaal
This one started out more sci-fi but quickly turned scary. Alien was clearly an influence on this movie, but it was really good, I enjoyed it very much.

30. Split. (2016) A psychotic man who has 23 personalitied holds three teenage girls captive in an underground cell. James McAvoy
I usually always enjoy M. Night Shyamalan's (Shamalamadingdong as skimom2 calls him ) movies. I liked this one right up til The Beast came to the "light", it lost me some there. And the twist was a little lost on me.

Spoiler

I recognized Bruce Willis from the Unbreakable movie but do not remember much of that movie. So the "reveal" was pretty blah for me. Third movie is apparently filming now, to tie Unbreakable and Split together.

 

[do1you9love?]

24) The Innocents (1961) FTV - A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted. I came into this one completely fresh, as I had not read/seen Turn of the Screw. It was beautifully filmed and I can see why it made several lists. 4/5

25) From Beyond the Grave (1974) FTV – Another I had seen on several lists. I enjoyed this anthology, however, Peter Cushing is Grand Moff Tarkin to my family, so every time a new person came into the store, I imagined them saying, “I recognized your foul stench!” 4/5

My 2017 list:
1) Stir of Echoes (1999) - 3.5/5
2) Lights Out (2016)FTV - 3/5
3) Nosferatu (1922)FTV – 4/5
4) The Darkness (2016) FTV – 1.5/5\
5) Stir of Echoes 2: The Homecoming (2007) FTV – 1.5/5
6) Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985) – 3/5
7) Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) – 3.5/5
8) Ten:Murder Island (2017) FTV – 1/5
9) Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) – 2/5
10) AHS: Cult Ep 5 & 6 (2017) FTV – 5/5
11) House of the Witch (2017) FT – 3/5
12) The Sixth Sense (1999) – 4.5/5
13) John Carpenter’s Vampires (1998) FTV – 2/5
14) The Conjuring (2013) FTV – 4/5
15) Jennifer’s Body (2009) – 3/5
16) Maggie (2015) FTV – 5/5
17) The Hollow (2015) FTV – 1/5
18) Child’s Play (1988) – 4/5
19) The Sandman (2017 – FTV – 2.5/5
20) Emelie (2015) FTV – 3.5/5
21) Trick ‘R Treat (2007) FTV – 4.5/5
22) AHS:Cult – Ep 7 & 8 (2017) – 4.5/5
23) The Addam’s Family (1991) – 4.5/5
24) The Innocents (1961) FTV – 4/5
25) From Beyond the Grave (1974) FTV – 4/5

 

[Neesy]

24) The Innocents (1961) FTV - A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted. I came into this one completely fresh, as I had not read/seen Turn of the Screw. It was beautifully filmed and I can see why it made several lists. 4/5

25) From Beyond the Grave (1974) FTV – Another I had seen on several lists. I enjoyed this anthology, however, Peter Cushing is Grand Moff Tarkin to my family, so every time a new person came into the store, I imagined them saying, “I recognized your foul stench!” 4/5

My 2017 list:
1) Stir of Echoes (1999) - 3.5/5
2) Lights Out (2016)FTV - 3/5
3) Nosferatu (1922)FTV – 4/5
4) The Darkness (2016) FTV – 1.5/5\
5) Stir of Echoes 2: The Homecoming (2007) FTV – 1.5/5
6) Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985) – 3/5
7) Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) – 3.5/5
8) Ten:Murder Island (2017) FTV – 1/5
9) Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) – 2/5
10) AHS: Cult Ep 5 & 6 (2017) FTV – 5/5
11) House of the Witch (2017) FT – 3/5
12) The Sixth Sense (1999) – 4.5/5
13) John Carpenter’s Vampires (1998) FTV – 2/5
14) The Conjuring (2013) FTV – 4/5
15) Jennifer’s Body (2009) – 3/5
16) Maggie (2015) FTV – 5/5
17) The Hollow (2015) FTV – 1/5
18) Child’s Play (1988) – 4/5
19) The Sandman (2017 – FTV – 2.5/5
20) Emelie (2015) FTV – 3.5/5
21) Trick ‘R Treat (2007) FTV – 4.5/5
22) AHS:Cult – Ep 7 & 8 (2017) – 4.5/5
23) The Addam’s Family (1991) – 4.5/5
24) The Innocents (1961) FTV – 4/5
25) From Beyond the Grave (1974) FTV – 4/5

That part about "I recognize your foul stench"
I don't suppose using that at work would go over very well, eh?

 

[do1you9love?]

That part about "I recognize your foul stench"
I don't suppose using that at work would go over very well, eh?

Probably not, unless you are speaking to a fellow Star Wars fan! Even then, probably not!

 

[Neesy]

Probably not, unless you are speaking to a fellow Star Wars fan! Even then, probably not!

Oh okay then, I'll bite my tongue

 

[grin willard]

1.) House (1985)

2.) Let's Scare Jessica To Death (1971)

3.) From Beyond the Grave (1973)

4.) The Pack (1977)

They're not pets anymore.


Before there was Cujo, there was The Pack. As still happens across the country, moneyed tourists summer someplace, get a dog for the kid to play with and to keep the kid out of their hair, and then when the summer ends they go back to Kenne-friggin'-bunkport or wherever, and the dog is left to be taken in by local shelters or to fend for itself. This 'man versus nature' flick in the vein of The Birds or Jaws, starred Joe Don Baker, the John Gielgud of 1970's southern exploitation film. Here he's a marine biologist in a remote vacation spot off the upper Eastern coast. There's a bad storm, they lose power, and The Pack decides people taste like Alpo.

The dog attacks are wonderful! A Cujo moment comes (see many films in the 70's Uncle Steve?) when the big scarred alpha male (how do they put fake scars on dogs?!) sets the pack on Joe Don's very fetching gf (well played by Hope Alexander-Willis) who's in a cloth topped Karmann Ghia!

Exclusive Interview: Hope Alexander-Willis Remembers 1977's Killer Dog Classic THE PACK - ComingSoon.net

Anyway, this isn't The Birds, but I like it! A multi-rewatch for me. I give it a 7 out of 10.

 

[grin willard]

1.) House (1985)

2.) Let's Scare Jessica To Death (1971)

3.) From Beyond the Grave (1973)

4.) The Pack (1977)

5.) Scooby Doo Meets Batman (1972)

I watched this hoping millionaire Bruce Wayne & his youthful ward Dick Grayson would have to explain why they were hanging out in abandoned film studios or middle-America ghost towns, but Batman did not shuck his cowl even once. But he did remove his pants a few times.


Batman was voiced by Olan Soule. Batman: TAS fans are still angry they didn't get 1972 preschool Kevin Conroy to do it. I'm angry Olan Soule didn't find 1972 Kevin Conroy & strangle him. This "We've Come A Long Way Baby!" era animated film had a liberated small 80 yr old woman wearing a mask & somersaulting all over the place! Until they get her mask off & she becomes an old lady again. What a strange series. This was actually two episodes released on DVD as a movie. That same year there was an episode with Jerry Reed. Did kids like Jerry Reed? I like how the villains were respectful to the guest star. "And I would have gotten away with it too! If it hadn't been for you kids! And Mr. Reed." When they should have said, " And I would have gotten away with it too! If it hadn't been for you kids! And that no talent fur coat wearing, Amos Moses singing piece of crap Jerry Reed!"

 

[fushingfeef]

30. Gurotesuku (Grotesque) (2009) (FTV)
In Japanese with subtitles. A pair of co-workers on their first innocent lunch date get abducted and tortured physically, psychologically, and sexually. Let's get this out of the way: this is a sick, sick film. Nearly every scene in this film involves two people being brutally tortured. If that sounds great to you, then you'll love this film. Nothing so gimmicky as The Human Centipede, but just mean, mean stuff that's painful to watch, you'll squirm in your seat the whole time. But beyond the brutal face of this film, this is also a study of hope, loyalty, and even love. The antagonist is fascinated that these two young people who just began dating still retain some hope in the face of overwhelmingly bleak odds. Did I "enjoy" this film? Not at all. Will I be watching it again? No. However, it's not entirely beyond redemption, there's something being communicated here on some level. I'm just not sure this was the best way to do it.

2 out of 5 stars.

Bob's October 2017 Horror Movie List
FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Addams Family 3.5/5
2. Dead & Breakfast 4/5 (FTV)
3. It Comes at Night 2.5/5 (FTV)
4. I Didn't Come Here To Die 3.5/5 (FTV)
5. Train to Busan 4/5 (FTV)
6. Wendigo 3/5 (FTV)
7. Goodnight Mommy 4/5 (FTV)
8. Little Evil 3/5 (FTV)
9. The Stuff 3/5 (FTV)
10. The Atoning 2.5/5 (FTV)
11. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 3/5 (FTV)
12. The Driller Killer 3/5 (FTV)
13. Child's Play 4/5
14. The Babysitter 3.5/5 (FTV)
15. The Others 4.5/5
16. The Girl With All The Gifts 4/5 (FTV)
17. Halloween III: Season of the Witch 3.5/5
18. Raw 4/5 (FTV)
19. It's Alive 3.5/5 (FTV)
20. Inbred (2011) 3.5/5 (FTV)
21. Tales of Halloween 4/5 (FTV)
22. Beyond the Gates 2.5/5 (FTV)
23. Beetlejuice 4/5
24. Rings 1.5/5 (FTV)
25. Plague Town 3.5/5 (FTV)
26. Sleepy Hollow 4/5
27. Kiss of the Tarantula 3/5 (FTV)
28. Annabelle: Creation 3.5/5 (FTV)
29. The Apparition 3/5 (FTV)
30. Gurotesuku (Grotesque) (2009)

 

[Baby Blue]

#28 - Suburbicon - Now, this isn't REALLY a horror movie (they call it a comedy) but it is about all of humanity's worst traits so I'm counting it anyway. It had great subject matter (transposing issues of racism against the horrors that go on behind closed doors in white suburbia) and some great performances but just didn't really deliver the punch it was going for.

#29 - Poltergeist (2015) - I decided it was finally time to give this remake a watch. It is not NEARLY as scary as the original. Or scary at all, for that matter. They made some "updates" to move the timeline into present day and most of those worked well enough but didn't add anything to the story and actually stripped a lot of the fear that came from the technology in the original. There were some major plot holes, as well (how was a family with two unemployed heads of household getting this mortgage anyway?). The biggest takeaway though is that Jared Harris is no Zelda Rubinstein.

 

[fljoe0]

#28 - Suburbicon - Now, this isn't REALLY a horror movie (they call it a comedy) but it is about all of humanity's worst traits so I'm counting it anyway. It had great subject matter (transposing issues of racism against the horrors that go on behind closed doors in white suburbia) and some great performances but just didn't really deliver the punch it was going for.

I think the Cohen brothers wrote it but didn't direct it so maybe that's why it seemed like it could have been better.

 

[Baby Blue]

I think the Cohen Brothers wrote it but didn't direct it so maybe that's why it seemed like it could have been better.

That would DEFINITELY explain it. Now I want to see it done justice!

 

[Kurben]

KURBENS LIST

1. The Blob (the 1988 version). FTV
2. Splinter (2008). FTV
3. The Triangle (2009). FTV
4. Lights Out (2016). FTV
5. Wer (2013) FTV
6. The Skin I Live In (2011) FTV
7. The Innocents (1961) FTV
8. The Lords of Salem (2012) FTV
9. Ginger Snaps (2002) FTV
10. Ginger Snaps 2 (2004) FTV
11. Battle Royale (2000) FTV
12. Final Destination (2008) FTV
13. Battle Royale 2 (2002) FTV
14. Creepshow (1982) rewatch
15. Nosferatu - The Vampire (1979) rewatch
16. Thinner (1996) FTV
17. The Dark Half (1993) FTV
18. Carriers (2009) FTV
19. Dawn of the Dead (2004) FTV
20. Ginger Snaps Back (2005) FTV
21. The Mummy (1999) FTV
22. Pulse (2007) FTV
23. The Girl With All The Gifts (2016) FTV
24. World War Z (2013) FTV
25. The Final Girl (2015) FTV
26. The Void (2016) FTV
27. Don't Breathe (2016) FTV
28. The Dark Tower (2017) FTV
29. The Hallow (2015?) FTV
30. Geralds Game (2017) FTV
31. Halloween (1978) rewatch.
32. The Witch (2015) FTV
33. The Purge (2012?) rewatch
34. The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
35. The Purge: Election day (2016) FTV
36. IT (2017) FTV
37. Raw (2016) FTV French-Belgian I'm not quite sure what to make of it. Its about two sisters at the veterinary university. They are vegetarians and suddenly start to feel this need for meat, raw meat. Interesting and wellacted. This could have been an ordinary spin on the werewolf theme but the director takes it in another direction. Have some weakspots but over all i'm positive and glad i saw it. 3,5/5

 

[Neesy]

List of My Scary/Horror Movies

1. Son of Dracula
2. Alias Grace (well, what happened to her was horrible)
3. Arachnophobia
4. House of the Witch - teenagers trapped in abandoned house on Hallowe'en are terrorized by a witch
5. Carrie (at the motel last night) - the one from a couple of years ago
6. My Soul to Take (on SyFy right now).
7. It (second viewing at the theatre tonight).
8. Nightmare on Elm Street 3 at the hotel in Deer River MN.
9. Messages Deleted (2010) was on TV today - more of a mystery than a horror but there were some gory parts.
10. Pay the Ghost (2015) with Nicolas Cage - a professor frantically searches for his son who was abducted during a Hallowe'en parade.
11. Child's Play - sort of watched it but mainly it was on because son and GF were watching it - seemed kind of silly to me.
12. Silver Bullet - on AMC
13. Christine (yup - that one with the classic car)
14. Thinner (Die well, white man from town).
15. Blood Honey - Tortured by the memory of a childhood trauma, a woman returns after a decade to her family's fly-in hunting lodge to assist her siblings with their dying father, only to find herself stuck in a life threatening nightmare.
16. Firestarter - on AMC with George G. Scott, Martin Sheen, Art Carney & Louise Fletcher etc. - forgot how many well known actors were in this one.
17. I watched an episode of Hoarders on TV - this lady had 50 cats!(some were dead and stored in her freezer)
18. The Curse of Frankenstein - from 1957 with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
19. Texas Chainsaw Massacre - was on TV today - the one from 1974 which I originally saw at the drive in (probably around 1980) - it was a double feature with the original Carrie movie.
20. AMC is still showing Fearfest so today I watched Christine - John Carpenter director, great music and of course the car.
21. The Green Mile - re-recording it, as the last time I had it in the DVR was 11/25/16 - it's on right now on Movie Channel.
22. The original Halloween directed by John Carpenter, from 1978, with Jamie Lee Curtis.
23. An American Werewolf in London (1981).
24. Teeth (as recommended by Baby Blue ) 2007 Black Comedy/Horror movie.
25. Wait Till Helen Comes
26. Eight Legged Freaks.
27. Frankenstein 2015
28. Hocus Pocus
29. Thinner
30. Just Buried (Oliver inherits a funeral home and discovers that his beautiful mortician (Rose Byrne) creates most of his business. 2007
31. Dark Shadows 2012 - Turned into a vampire by a vengeful witch, Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) escapes from his tomb after 200 years and finds 1972 Collinsport, Maine, a very different place. with Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter.

Oh dear - just noticed that I watched Thinner twice

So now it's a tossup between Killer Klowns from Outer Space or Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (I'll decide later)

 

[Baby Blue]

So now it's a tossup between Killer Klowns from Outer Space or Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (I'll decide later)

I ADORE Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. It's a childhood favorite. My vote goes to that one, for whatever that's worth.

 

[fljoe0]

Oh dear - just noticed that I watched Thinner twice

 

[muskrat]

1.) House (1985)

2.) Let's Scare Jessica To Death (1971)

3.) From Beyond the Grave (1973)

4.) The Pack (1977)

5.) Scooby Doo Meets Batman (1972)

I watched this hoping millionaire Bruce Wayne & his youthful ward Dick Grayson would have to explain why they were hanging out in abandoned film studios or middle-America ghost towns, but Batman did not shuck his cowl even once. But he did remove his pants a few times.


Batman was voiced by Olan Soule. Batman: TAS fans are still angry they didn't get 1972 preschool Kevin Conroy to do it. I'm angry Olan Soule didn't find 1972 Kevin Conroy & strangle him. This "We've Come A Long Way Baby!" era animated film had a liberated small 80 yr old woman wearing a mask & somersaulting all over the place! Until they get her mask off & she becomes an old lady again. What a strange series. This was actually two episodes released on DVD as a movie. That same year there was an episode with Jerry Reed. Did kids like Jerry Reed? I like how the villains were respectful to the guest star. "And I would have gotten away with it too! If it hadn't been for you kids! And Mr. Reed." When they should have said, " And I would have gotten away with it too! If it hadn't been for you kids! And that no talent fur coat wearing, Amos Moses singing piece of crap Jerry Reed!"

Well, when yer hot, yer hot...

 

[Kurben]

KURBENS LIST

1. The Blob (the 1988 version). FTV
2. Splinter (2008). FTV
3. The Triangle (2009). FTV
4. Lights Out (2016). FTV
5. Wer (2013) FTV
6. The Skin I Live In (2011) FTV
7. The Innocents (1961) FTV
8. The Lords of Salem (2012) FTV
9. Ginger Snaps (2002) FTV
10. Ginger Snaps 2 (2004) FTV
11. Battle Royale (2000) FTV
12. Final Destination (2008) FTV
13. Battle Royale 2 (2002) FTV
14. Creepshow (1982) rewatch
15. Nosferatu - The Vampire (1979) rewatch
16. Thinner (1996) FTV
17. The Dark Half (1993) FTV
18. Carriers (2009) FTV
19. Dawn of the Dead (2004) FTV
20. Ginger Snaps Back (2005) FTV
21. The Mummy (1999) FTV
22. Pulse (2007) FTV
23. The Girl With All The Gifts (2016) FTV
24. World War Z (2013) FTV
25. The Final Girl (2015) FTV
26. The Void (2016) FTV
27. Don't Breathe (2016) FTV
28. The Dark Tower (2017) FTV
29. The Hallow (2015?) FTV
30. Geralds Game (2017) FTV
31. Halloween (1978) rewatch.
32. The Witch (2015) FTV
33. The Purge (2012?) rewatch
34. The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
35. The Purge: Election day (2016) FTV
36. IT (2017) FTV
37. Raw (2016) FTV
38. Black Death (2000) FTV Sean Bean and Eddie Redmayne in the leads and that actress from GOT that play the priestess of the weird religion (Melisande?) shows that she is a natural for that sort of role. Set in 1348 when the Plague is upon England. A company sent by the bishop to a village that is ,rumour has it, ruled by a necromancer and not hit by the plague. Why? As guide they have the young monk novice (Bean). Historical drama-Horror. Liked it. Many dead bodies. Just the thought of half of all the people in a country dying in a year makes me shiver. I doubt we can, today, really imagine what it felt like during those days.

 

[Dana Jean]

Westworld is on the Sundance Channel right now.