I can't believe that someone wrote it, someone else greenlighted it and paid for it. Man, I better get some crap screenplays written because, apparently, someone is producing them.
2017 SKMB October Horror Movie Marathon!
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I can't believe that someone wrote it, someone else greenlighted it and paid for it. Man, I better get some crap screenplays written because, apparently, someone is producing them.
12) Nosferatu (1979)--I tried this one in English (IMDb says Herzog filmed the movie both in English and German), but found the performances wooden, so I watched it again in German with subtitles. It was a great improvement! Whoever subbed the copy I watched didn't do a great job (I can understand enough German that I picked up quite a few places where the subbing didn't match what was said at all--lots of paraphrasing that missed some nice phrasing), but the acting was much better. The producers of the new IT clearly drew quite a bit of Pennywise's look from this film, and I'd be willing to bet that Skaarsgard also studied Kinski's work in this film. A bit slow in parts, but interesting. Very creepy!
10. Maggie (2015) ftv
After his daughter is infected with a virus that will turn her into a zombie, a small town farmer will stop at nothing to save her. This one surprised me. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Abigail Breslin. Not scary and not fast paced, more of a moody movie. The virus takes weeks to turn a person, and they are allowed to stay with family until they reach a certain point in the transformation. The pace of the movie matches the slow transformation but it works. I thought it was pretty good, definitely better than my choices the last few days!
After his daughter is infected with a virus that will turn her into a zombie, a small town farmer will stop at nothing to save her. This one surprised me. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Abigail Breslin. Not scary and not fast paced, more of a moody movie. The virus takes weeks to turn a person, and they are allowed to stay with family until they reach a certain point in the transformation. The pace of the movie matches the slow transformation but it works. I thought it was pretty good, definitely better than my choices the last few days!
I was pleasantly surprised by Maggie. An original take on the zombie film, and an unexpectedly good performance from Arnold.
Ahh, so it was. I must've thought otherwise because it seemed like it was always on ABC when I was a kid.
And Gargoyles - was that the one with the girl that was on the show Soap way back when? When I was a kid, our local ABC channel used to show The 3:30 movie every day before the evening news. Gargoyles used to be a staple feature, along with Willard and all of the Planet of the Apes movies.
Some of the other ones that always popped up were Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and of course Trilogy of Terror. That one is now on Amazon Prime to stream, so I'm putting that on my list for this weekend.
I can't believe that someone wrote it, someone else greenlighted it and paid for it. Man, I better get some crap screenplays written because, apparently, someone is producing them.
I saw it as part of last year's movie marathon. I didn't think it was exactly awful, if memory serves, but...yeah, it did give me thoughts of Well, if I couldn't do better than that...
I just got the box set and am probably rewatching all of these this weekend.
Last night, I finally got around to watching film #10 (only 21 more to go!). I watched Cube on Netflix. It wasn't great (Netflix has a serious lack of good horror). People are stuck in a cube full of other moving cubes. There are traps. People die. There's no real suspense or character development so I wasn't bothered in the least when someone died other than a little squick factor from the gorier deaths.
Tonight, we work on projects and hopefully catch a couple better movies.
Tonight, we work on projects and hopefully catch a couple better movies.
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 Zach Snyders remake of Romeros masterpiece. Its actually good. And these zombies can really run!! No shuffling around here, they run like it was an olympic contest all of them. 4/5
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 Zach Snyders remake of Romeros masterpiece. Its actually good. And these zombies can really run!! No shuffling around here, they run like it was an olympic contest all of them. 4/5
25.) Vampire Academy (2014)
I'm sure there are people who enjoyed this movie, but it wasn't my cup o' tea. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood for a teenage vampire flick.
I'm sure there are people who enjoyed this movie, but it wasn't my cup o' tea. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood for a teenage vampire flick.
I gave up on the Rom Comedy's after Titanic...
Have been watching Tin Star and House of Cards each night instead. Both brilliant and I hate the lead characters equally. (grudging respect for at least one of them though)
Have been watching Tin Star and House of Cards each night instead. Both brilliant and I hate the lead characters equally. (grudging respect for at least one of them though)
9. Poltergeist-(1982) A family's home is haunted by a host of ghosts.
10. Mimic 2 - sequel to the 1997 horror film about mutated bugs that kill. This time out, a series of hideous killings plagues New York City, and each of the victims can be traced to an entomologist.
11. Village of the Dammed- Children threaten the existence of a little town in England due to a strange phenomenon that took place several years earlier and affected all the pregnant women in the area.
10. Mimic 2 - sequel to the 1997 horror film about mutated bugs that kill. This time out, a series of hideous killings plagues New York City, and each of the victims can be traced to an entomologist.
11. Village of the Dammed- Children threaten the existence of a little town in England due to a strange phenomenon that took place several years earlier and affected all the pregnant women in the area.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Neesy's List so far:
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.
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.
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 The last in the trilogy. The same basic story as in the first but set in 1815 and with a little native lore thrown in to the mix. The sisters are, as usual, competently played by Emily Perkins and Katherine Isabelle but the rest.... meh. The weakest of the three. But i like werewolfes... 3/5
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 The last in the trilogy. The same basic story as in the first but set in 1815 and with a little native lore thrown in to the mix. The sisters are, as usual, competently played by Emily Perkins and Katherine Isabelle but the rest.... meh. The weakest of the three. But i like werewolfes... 3/5
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
18. The Blood Lands (2014) available on netflix
A London couple buys a new house in rural Scotland and discovers they are not welcome. The characters can be mind numbingly dumb at times but the tension stays ratcheted up throughout the second half of the movie. This one has quite a few negative reviews on IMDB but I liked it and I thought the ending was clever (most of the negative reviews were because people didn’t like the ending). 7/10
A London couple buys a new house in rural Scotland and discovers they are not welcome. The characters can be mind numbingly dumb at times but the tension stays ratcheted up throughout the second half of the movie. This one has quite a few negative reviews on IMDB but I liked it and I thought the ending was clever (most of the negative reviews were because people didn’t like the ending). 7/10
13. Child's Play
A toy doll possessed by a criminal menaces a child and his mother. Made in 1988 and shown about a billion times on cable television, Child's Play doesn't get much respect, even from a lot of hardcore horror fans. You usually hear the words "cheesy" and "hokey" and sometimes "silly" when critics describe the movie. You'll seldom hear "scary", either, except from a few people who are creeped out by talking dolls. But what you'll also hear is "entertaining" and "fun" and "fast paced" and "watchable", and isn't that what matters most? Sure, it's hard to take a movie about a doll that comes to life very seriously, especially when the excellent cast is playing everything straight: never once does this movie wink at the audience or treat the story like a big joke (I can't say the same for the sequels). But in some ways, you have to respect that. Is "Child's Play" a horror classic? Probably not. Is it an entertaining and fun horror movie? Most definitely.
4 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
A toy doll possessed by a criminal menaces a child and his mother. Made in 1988 and shown about a billion times on cable television, Child's Play doesn't get much respect, even from a lot of hardcore horror fans. You usually hear the words "cheesy" and "hokey" and sometimes "silly" when critics describe the movie. You'll seldom hear "scary", either, except from a few people who are creeped out by talking dolls. But what you'll also hear is "entertaining" and "fun" and "fast paced" and "watchable", and isn't that what matters most? Sure, it's hard to take a movie about a doll that comes to life very seriously, especially when the excellent cast is playing everything straight: never once does this movie wink at the audience or treat the story like a big joke (I can't say the same for the sequels). But in some ways, you have to respect that. Is "Child's Play" a horror classic? Probably not. Is it an entertaining and fun horror movie? Most definitely.
4 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
26.) Kiss the Girls (1997)
Re-watch. More of a psychological thriller - very good IMO.
Re-watch. More of a psychological thriller - very good IMO.
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Oh my god, you guys. Happy Death Day was SO. FUN! Sure, the story had a few weak spots and it wasn't even a little scary but it was thoroughly enjoyable the whole way through, just as a Groundhog Day knockoff should be.
Oh my god, you guys. Happy Death Day was SO. FUN! Sure, the story had a few weak spots and it wasn't even a little scary but it was thoroughly enjoyable the whole way through, just as a Groundhog Day knockoff should be.
Been wondering about that one. Figured it would either be very good or suck really hard.
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