2017 SKMB October Horror Movie Marathon!

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CoriSCapnSkip

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In honor of my having just seen The Innocents again, here are my fond recollections.

The Turn of the Screw was a childhood terror long before I read the book as an adult. I had never heard of the story until the daytime TV soap opera Dark Shadows used it as a storyline for several of their characters and Mom called them out on it. (Granted, this was December 1968 so I would have only recently turned 7.) Mom had the following amusing stories:

While living in the Philadelphia area in the 1940s, Mom saw a stage play of The Turn of the Screw, excellently acted. The scene which made the biggest impression on her was when Peter Quint was in a french door or large window behind Miles, whipping a riding crop, and Miles was in front of him, also holding a riding crop, and though with his back to Quint, slashing perfectly in time with his motions--to show Quint's total control over Miles. Mom felt kind of possessed herself, because when the performance was over and she was outside, it was as if two little characters said to each other, "Shall we tell her now?" "Yeah, now is good." It turned out she had agreed to babysit that evening and hadn't remembered till that moment! Luckily it all worked out fine.

In the 1950s in the Chicago area, Mom and her roommates had a Halloween party and when there wasn't time to completely pack away the decorations, they stashed a skeleton in the closet, which when the landlady discovered it evoked from her piercing and most horrid screams. Shortly afterwards, they were cooking something, causing the windows to steam up. The landlady peeked in a steamed-up window, and Mom, seeing a ghostly outline, pointed and shrieked, "It's Peter Quint!" sending her roommates into hysterics. The landlady came in laughing, "I scairt the wadden out of you girls. Serves you right after scaring the wadden out of me." Mom had to explain that "wadden" was stuffing such as from a teddy bear.

My own amusing anecdote occurred several years following the 1968 introduction to the story, when my sisters and I watched with Mom The Innocents from 1961, probably the best movie adaptation of The Turn of the Screw. That night I and both my sisters were crammed into bed all trying at once to plaster ourselves next to Mom when the closet door slowly creaked open. No one moved, or scarcely breathed. Mom asked, "Why doesn't someone get up and close that door?" I said, "Miss Jessel's in there," and my sisters screamed hysterically while Mom said, "Thanks a lot."

So for many years I've had warm memories of the story, but have been a little sad ever since learning Ray Bradbury insisted on having Jack Clayton, the director, for Something Wicked This Way Comes, thinking it would be wonderful like The Innocents, or true to the book like The Great Gatsby. Sadly, the result was uneven, while parts were great, the overall film was just so-so. Every time I see The Innocents I wish Something Wicked could have been that good!
 

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I watched Hocus Pocus from 1993 last night as I had never seen it. Yes, I know, not really horror but it is Halloween themed. It starts out fun but then just kind of loses its way. The imagery of the three witches is the best thing about it; especially when they do their synchronized walking. Each one of the actresses is fun to watch in her own way with Better Midler stealing the show even though Kathy Najimy manages to hold her own. Even Sara Jessica Parker (who I really do not like) is good in the role of the sexy, ditzy witch/sister.
 

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19) The Sandman (2017) – FTV – This was another made for TV movie, but quite a bit better than some of them. A little girl with formidable powers imagines into existence the Sandman, a terrible monster from her nightmares that brings harm to anyone who wants to hurt her. 2.5/5

20) Emelie (2015) – FTV - A couple's replacement babysitter turns out to be more than they bargained for when she subjects their kids to a series of twisted activities. It’s always scarier when the monsters are real. This starts off with a teen girl walking home on her phone to her friend Maggie, who is asking her to sub a babysitting job. After she hangs up, a car stops to ask for directions, and she is abducted. However, the father of the kids still goes to someone’s house and picks up who he thinks is Anna. This was released in 2015 but I was distracted by the technology – flip phones and VCRs. I’m thinking it was made a good while before it was released, so I’m off to research why. Not a typical “horror”, but definitely a psychological thriller and every parent’s nightmare. 3.5/5

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
 

Baby Blue

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#26 - Nightmare Emporium - A short film anthology created by Seattle filmmakers presented at a local theater. I'm pretty sure the setup was inspired by Friday the 13th: The Series (which I adore) in that it is based in an antique shop but also by Creepshow and others of that ilk in that there is a host (ala Cryptkeeper) introducing the films by association with an object in the shop. It was really cute and there were some fun films though none were particularly scary. I love that I live in a town where things like this happen.
 

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25. Plague Town (FTV)
Clueless American family of tourists in Ireland stumble across a remote village where inbred/mutant children menace them. Not a bad little low-budget creepy film, in the spirit of "Them/Ils" with rogue adolescents providing the chills, and sort of an Irish "The Hills Have Eyes" thrown into the mix. Yes, it's not very original and the makeup is pretty bad (looks like the mutants have mashed potatoes on their faces), but the atmosphere of late-night rural Ireland with its mist and battered cottages is pretty hard to beat. We see the familiar tensions of city/rural being covered, and there's also the horror staple of the "awkward dinner" scene that's part Texas Chainsaw Massacre, part Pan's Labyrinth. One of the young female characters seems designed purely to annoy so we can root for her demise, which seems to be pretty common in a horror film these days, but despite having seen much of this before, I found this to be a pretty effective little horror film.

3.5 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)


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Neesy

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Neesy's List

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) :confusion:
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 ) :icon_eek: 2007 Black Comedy/Horror movie.
25. Wait Till Helen Comes:

When a reconstructed family moves to a converted church in the country, 14-year-old Molly soon realizes that she has a gift and must use it; she has to face her deepest fears, and save her troubled step-sister from a dangerous relationship with the ghost of a lonely little girl.

According to IMDB this was filmed in Winnipeg but I did not recognize anything familiar.
2 1/2 stars;
Mario Bello was in this which is the main reason I watched it.

The Big Picture: It turns out Winnipeg in the fall is an ideal location for a scary movie, according to the film's two executive producers, Valérie d'Auteuil and André Rouleau, who are especially enamoured with locations such as the Cornish Library. "In this season, with the leaves falling, it looks just creepy enough for a ghost story," says d'Auteuil. "We found everything we were looking for and more. For this kind of project, it's been fantastic."
:adoration:
 
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Neesy

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25. Plague Town (FTV)
Clueless American family of tourists in Ireland stumble across a remote village where inbred/mutant children menace them. Not a bad little low-budget creepy film, in the spirit of "Them/Ils" with rogue adolescents providing the chills, and sort of an Irish "The Hills Have Eyes" thrown into the mix. Yes, it's not very original and the makeup is pretty bad (looks like the mutants have mashed potatoes on their faces), but the atmosphere of late-night rural Ireland with its mist and battered cottages is pretty hard to beat. We see the familiar tensions of city/rural being covered, and there's also the horror staple of the "awkward dinner" scene that's part Texas Chainsaw Massacre, part Pan's Labyrinth. One of the young female characters seems designed purely to annoy so we can root for her demise, which seems to be pretty common in a horror film these days, but despite having seen much of this before, I found this to be a pretty effective little horror film.

3.5 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)


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Ew - look! That looks like homemade marshmallows on the table in the last picture :emmersed:
 

Kurben

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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. Carpenters classic is a classic that is one of the best horrors i've seen. Best slashermovie ever. I try to see it every year around this time. Seems fitting somehow. 5/5
 
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