2016! SKMB October Horror Movie Marathon 2016!

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The final movie I viewed last night....

33. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (FTV)
The title says it all. The classic story of troubled relationships between the uppermost classes of 19th century England is retold with a zombie apocalypse as the backdrop. This actually isn't as contrived as it seems, as there are fitting parallels in the attitudes towards the zombies and the lower class peasantry--those unpleasant ones who were to be fenced out with moats and walls, and forgotten about until they rise and revolt and need to be dealt with using force. Still, the most involving aspects of this movie aren't necessarily in the zombies, but in the machinations of courtship between the feisty Elizabeth Bennet and the proud and prejudiced Mr. Darcy. I particularly enjoyed their hand-to-hand combat scene. Things get a little more scattershot as the plot picks up speed towards the end, but overall this is fine entertainment with a good bit of fun.

3.5 out of 5 stars.

Bob's October 2016 Horror Movie List
FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Boy (FTV) 3.5/5
2. Baskin (FTV) 4/5
3. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (FTV) 3.5/5
4. 10 Cloverfield Lane (FTV) 4/5
5. The Watcher in the Woods (FTV) 3/5
6. Slugs (FTV) 3.5/5
7. Clown (FTV) 4/5
8. The Visit (FTV) 2/5
9. Cell (FTV) 3/5
10. American Mary (FTV) 3.5/5
11. Terror Train 3/5
12. The Thing 5/5
13. Livide (FTV) 4/5
14. Grabbers (FTV) 3.5/5
15. What We Do in the Shadows (FTV) 4/5
16. Shin Godzilla (aka Godzilla Resurgence) 3.5/5
17. The Wailing (FTV) 4/5
18. A Christmas Horror Story (FTV) 3/5
19. It Came From Outer Space (FTV) 3/5
20. Microwave Massacre (FTV) 2.5/5
21. Rob Zombie's 31 (FTV) 3.5/5
22. The Entity (FTV) 4/5
23. The Neon Demon (FTV) 3.5/5
24. Fender Bender (FTV) 2/5
25. The Conjuring 2 (FTV) 4/5
26. The Forest (FTV) 3.5/5
27. End of the Line (FTV) 3/5
28. The Hallow (FTV) 2/5
29. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (FTV) 4/5
30. The Shallows (FTV) 3/5
31. Something Wicked This Way Comes 3.5/5
32. Trouble Every Day (FTV) 3/5
33. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (FTV) 3.5/5


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Doggone, forgot to tally-up my list of movies. Too lazy to go back and see what all I watched. Guess I can list my top five:

5. The Universal Frankenstein 'trilogy' (1931, '35, '39). Sure, they made several more, but the first three are all superb horror flicks, and they're the only ones featuring Karloff as the monster. My fave of the three? That's a toughie. The original and Bride are terrific, thanks to the masterful direction of James Whale, but I've always like Son a lot. You've got Bela Lugosi giving perhaps the best performance of his career as broken-necked Ygor, you've got the sensational Basil Rathbone just killing it as the 'son' in question, and you've got Boris Karloff in that wild fur vest--which gives the monster an added degree of savagery, IMO. Ah heck, all three are just dynamite.

4. Haxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages (1922). Some of the creepiest imagery I've ever seen in a silent film. The fx and production design were way ahead of their time. Turn the sound down and watch this with some Black Sabbath blasting from the stereo.

3. The Body Snatcher (1945). Karloff and Lugosi again. It's Boris who shines in this adaption/elongation of the Robert Louis Stevenson tale.

2. The Vampire Lovers (1970). My all-time favorite Hammer vampire flick. A relatively faithful, if slightly saucier, adaption of Sheridan le Fanu's Carmilla. Ingrid Pitt as Carmilla/Marcilla, feasting on the blood of young virgins, until vampire-killer extraordinaire Peter Cushing cuts her down to size.

1. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). The granddaddy of gory Hammer horror, with Cushing doing his first of many performances as the sinister Victor Frankenstein, and Christopher Lee as what I consider the most hideous version of the monster ever put on film. Man, this one must've scared the hell out of em back in '57.

There you have it, kiddies. Heh heh heh.
 

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Here are my final overall movie assessments:

Most welcome return: Shin Godzilla (aka Godzilla Resurgence)
Best foreign film: The Wailing
Funniest: What We Do in the Shadows
Most fun: Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Scariest: Baskin
Best discovery of an old film: The Entity
Best bad film: Microwave Massacre
Ones to avoid: Fender Bender; The Hallow (tied)
Best new movie: The Conjuring 2
Honorable Mentions: 10 Cloverfield Lane, Livide, Clown

All in all a great month, I'm amazed there are still many horror gems to be uncovered every year! And I always enjoy reading your reviews and get some great new recommendations!
 

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Here are my final overall movie assessments:

Most welcome return: Shin Godzilla (aka Godzilla Resurgence)
Best foreign film: The Wailing
Funniest: What We Do in the Shadows
Most fun: Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Scariest: Baskin
Best discovery of an old film: The Entity
Best bad film: Microwave Massacre
Ones to avoid: Fender Bender; The Hallow (tied)
Best new movie: The Conjuring 2
Honorable Mentions: 10 Cloverfield Lane, Livide, Clown

All in all a great month, I'm amazed there are still many horror gems to be uncovered every year! And I always enjoy reading your reviews and get some great new recommendations!
I will borrow your list here and do my assessment from what I watched.

Most welcome return: All the returns of Dracula and his daughter, son, cousins, neighbors and mechanics.
Best foreign film: The Innocents
Funniest: The Fearless Vampire Killers
Most fun: All Hammer, Amicus and American International Films.
Scariest: This is hard, Last Shift?
Best discovery of an old film: Probably all those Dracula films. Hadn't seen them all, so it was fun catching all of the incarnations.
Best bad film: The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy -- and that's best of the bad because it was the worst, so it made it the best of the worst. I'm confusing myself.
Ones to avoid: Pretty much my whole list. The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy is here too. Smoke some pot and that might help it a great deal.
Best new movie: Come Back to Me was interesting and unsettling. Babadook was good in its way. But, The Pretty Thing that Lives in the House - this slow and quiet movie was just intriguing to me. And after a bunch of clunkers, was a nice palette cleanser.
Honorable Mentions: Anything by Amicus, Hammer, American International -- the trilogies, anthologies -- the old ones, are just the best, fun watching.
 
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I squeezed in two on November 1st but I guess they don't count? (I was too busy on October 31st handing out candy to trick or treaters)


Denise’s (Neesy’s) October 2016 Horror Movie List
FTV denotes first time viewing
1. Graveyard Shift (FTV) 3.5/5
2. What we Do in the Shadows (FTV) 5/5
3. Cooties (FTV) 2/5
4. Horror Express (FTV) 2.5/5
5. Jug Face(FTV) 3.5/5
6. Ginger Snaps (FTV) Canadian Horror movie about werewolves (and teenage girls)
7. Ratter (FTV) 2/5 - a young woman is stalked through her electronic devices (at first!...)
8. Silver Bullet (FTV) not too bad overall even though the effects are dated 4/5
9. Fido – seen it before but it was good – 5/5
10. Frankenstein Meets the Werewolf (FTV) 4/5
11. The Mummy (1959) with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee (FTV) 3/5
12. Dial M for Murder with Grace Kelly (FTV) 4/5
13. The House – weird Japanese movie about young girls who go to visit one of the girl’s aunt (FTV) 2/5
14. The Visit (2015) FTV 1/5
15. Haxan – Witchcraft Through the Ages (FTV) 4/5
16. The Haunting (1963) (FTV) 4/5
17. Dolan’s Cadillac (pretty good) 4/5
18. The Innocents with Debora Kerr (FTV) 4/5
19. Seance – the Summoning (FTV) – awful 1/5
20 The Cabin in the Woods (FTV) 2/5
21. Backcountry – (FTV) – very good 4/5
22. The Entity (FTV) 3.5/5
23. Re-Animator (1985) (FTV) not too bad 3.5/56
24. Rocky Horror Picture Show (the remake) (FTV) 3/5 – I preferred the original
25. Killer Shrews 4/5
26. Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin 4.5/5
27. The Body Snatcher 1945 with Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff (FTV) 5/5
28. The Badadook (Australian) 4/5 (FTV)
29. The Brain that Wouldn’t Die (B movie from the 60s) 3/5 (FTV)

30. Krampus (pretty good – 3.5/5 (FTV)

31. Zombieland (seen it before but it was still good on a rewatch) 4/5

The last two don't actually count I guess but I had some extra time on November 1st so squeezed those last two in

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This was last year's thread. Hope it helps. I think the title was 2017 SKMB Halloween Horror Movie Marathon (or something close). Feel free to delete this post so it doesn't confuse anyone. Didn't know how else to get info to you.:smile2:

Thanks! Spidey googled it and found a mention of this year's thread which I've sent on to Jordan so he should be able to find it now. Fingers crossed.
 
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Oh no...I'm not doing 2016 again. That year sucked.

Roadface: The Pavement's Revenge (2016). Waking up in a hospital having his face and tongue sewn back together, Muskrat vows never to pull any drunken motorbike stunts in the future. He now walks the earth a stitched and mangled mockery of the man he once was...

Not really. One cool scar. Chicks dig the scar.
 
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