2017 SKMB October Horror Movie Marathon!

[Kurben]

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5. Submerged -- New

"A limousine joyride goes berserk in this breathless, pulse-pounding thriller. An ex-soldier turned bodyguard is hired to protect a young woman. But while cruising with a group of friends one night, their stretch limo is run off the road and underwater by a gang of ruthless kidnappers - who then dive in to finish the job. Suddenly it's sink or swim, as the bodyguard must fight to keep the vehicle from becoming a watery grave."

This one was forgettable other than that whole submerged-under-water-and-still-alive stuff. That alone is very scary to me.

Labeled more a thriller, I found the premise sufficient to call it horror. The thought of being buried under anything and still being alive is terrifying.

I love Tim Daly and I am so bummed he was in this. B flicky goodness that it is, I want Tim doing things like my cherished Storm of the Century, not teen schlock. Is this a remake? It might be. But I'm not that interested in looking for that answer. It can stay....wait for it.....


submerged........

Dana Jean's 2017 Halloween Movie Marathon Movies
*indicates a movie I have never seen before

1. Gerald's Game -- *
2. The Hallow -- *
3. The Tortured
4. Destiny*
5. Submerged*

You are gonna outdo us all by 20 movies or so, Deej! But thanks for the tips!

 

[Zone D Dad]

Wow - I'm way behind already. But I kicked off with:

1) John Carpenter's The Thing...

Was going to start with Gerald's Game, but while glancing at the DVR, saw that I had recorded this classic. My appreciation for this film grows with each viewing. Now I'll have to figure out what to watch tonight.

 

[Dana Jean]

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You are gonna outdo us all by 20 movies or so, Deej! But thanks for the tips!

I won't be here for a good chunk of this, so trying to get in as many as I can now.

 

[fljoe0]

6. The Good Neighbor -- New

"A pair of mischievous high school kids create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor. While keeping his every reaction under surveillance, they see much more than they bargained for."


This is on my list because of the horrors of technology. The loss of privacy. The total moral breakdown of children today. All of this is beyond scary.

James Caan is his usual curmudgeonly self in this entry, but there is much more to him. Tragic, sad and again, scary what technology and the people using it justify.

Dana Jean's 2017 Halloween Movie Marathon Movies
*indicates a movie I have never seen before

1. Gerald's Game -- *
2. The Hallow -- *
3. The Tortured
4. Destiny--*
5. Submerged--*
6. The Good Neighbor--*

I saw this a while back and liked it. One of the young guys is Keir Gilchrist who is in the Netflix show Atypical. He was also in It Follows and Dark Summer and I've seen him in a couple other good movies. He was so good in Atypical, that I had to look him up and I realized he had been in all these other movies I've seen. He's a good young actor.

 

[ghost19]

3. The Tortured

An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.

I thought this was a new view to me, but once I got going, I realized I had seen this in the past. It is horribly troubling for many reasons and makes you question, If I were in this same circumstance, what do I wish I could do? if given the chance would I do it?

Erika Christensen is the mother in this, you might remember her from Riding the Bullet.

Good acting and has a nice little twist at the end. Anyone who has children sees this as the ultimate horror movie. Tough one. It peels away that mask of civility, reaches deep into the baser instincts lurking and waiting.

Dana Jean's 2017 Halloween Movie Marathon Movies
*indicates a movie I have never seen before

1. Gerald's Game -- *
2. The Hallow -- *
3. The Tortured

I wanted to like this one DJ, but I called the twist halfway thru the movie and was disappointed that I was correct. Good job by the actors though.

 

[Kurben]

KURBENS LIST

1. The Blob (the 1988 version).
2. Splinter (2008).
3. The Triangle (2009).
4. Lights Out (2016). Effective horror, i think a little jap inspired, and well done and not overlong. Thanks for the tip, Skimom! Best so far this year. Something or someone only seen when the lights go out so whatever you do dont turn off the nightlamp! 4/5

 

[Dana Jean]

7. Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

"Aboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers."

Ahhhh, my British anthologies. These are my favorite go-to watches for the season. Some are better than others, but all of them are fun.

Dana Jean's 2017 Halloween Movie Marathon Movies
*indicates a movie I have never seen before

1. Gerald's Game -- *
2. The Hallow -- *
3. The Tortured
4. Destiny--*
5. Submerged--*
6. The Good Neighbor--*
7. Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

 

[fushingfeef]

got it.

Much thanks!

 

[fushingfeef]

2. Dead & Breakfast (FTV)
Six friends lost on their way to a wedding overnight at a B&B and wake up in a bloody zombie nightmare. How could I have missed seeing this movie over the past dozen years? D&B is a real hoot, with just the right balance of laughs, gore and rockabilly music. Yes, there are musical interludes, with a country rock ensemble acting as sort of Greek chorus narrators. Loads of laugh-out-loud moments and song lyrics, and a strong and funny cast, with David Carradine, Jeremy Sisto and even Portia DeRossi in a brief cameo as the bride from hell. And the gore is top-notch, buckets of blood, beheadings and chainsaw dismemberment, all for laughs. And a zombie line dance! If you liked the backwoods "hold my beer" humor of "Tucker & Dale vs Evil", combined with the over-the-top gore of "Dead Alive", then Dead & Breakfast is totally for you.


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)

 

[Kurben]

KURBENS LIST

1. The Blob (the 1988 version).
2. Splinter (2008).
3. The Triangle (2009).
4. Lights Out (2016).
5. Wer (2013) A French american cooperation. A werewolf movie is a perfect way to end the day and this one is far from bad. No big stars (A. J. Cook in the lead) but a different twist. Cook is playing a defense attorney to a man accused of attacking a family. Her defense is animal attack, no man could have done that. The police have other reasons to keep the man in jail. Both gets surprised when next fullmoon comes along. Its partially done in found footage vein which really is unnessesary but apart from that fault its good. 3,5/5

 

[Sundrop]

1~ American Poltergeist (FTV)
A group of friends move into a vacation home with a sinister past in Fall River, Massachusetts. Suspicious of the home's owner, Taryn feels a strong connection to the house and finds herself at the center of one of the most deadly poltergeists in American history.

Meh, don't waste your time. The acting is really bad, and it ended up just being a twist on the Lizzie Borden story
.50/5 stars

 

[Dana Jean]

8. Mercy -- New

"Two brothers clash with their half-siblings when a visit home to see their dying mother surfaces old secrets and becomes a fight for survival."

Netflix has done some amazing work these last few years, so went into this Netflix original with high hopes. It started out with so much potential, and then it got dumb. So far, of all the movies I have watched for the marathon, this was the most lackluster.

Dana Jean's 2017 Halloween Movie Marathon Movies
*indicates a movie I have never seen before

1. Gerald's Game -- *
2. The Hallow -- *
3. The Tortured
4. Destiny--*
5. Submerged--*
6. The Good Neighbor--*
7. Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
8. Mercy -- *

 

[Neesy]

1. Son of Dracula - old black and white movie on TCM with Lon Chaney

1. Son of Dracula (see above)
2. Alias Grace - seems like a horror flick to me - the book by Margaret Atwood is very good too.

 

[FlakeNoir]

Dana Jean Last night I forgot to look for Gerald's Game on Netflix, I watched an episode of Tin Star instead... (not a horror, but horrible ) and was too tired for a Romantic Comedy, but will do some searching tonight.

 

[recitador]

i've started off slow, so far, just a revisit of A Nightmare on Elm Street, and i'm likely to be sidelined by a trip for most of the rest of the week, barring running across any on the hotel cable (the internet is not an option in this case, so i can't watch on my laptop). although i'll probably go see It again this week.

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street

 

[Scratch]

This I posted in another thread but it was a surprise to me how much I liked it. The name sounded corny but... well here is my take-

I found a gooooooooood one. The Blood on Satans Claw. It is so very Hawthorn. But Nathaniel never had leave to go as far as they did in 1971. This was the era of mixing horror and sex for that titillating R rating and with this one it works well. Perhaps they were going for a Hammer films type of boost but it just so happened to fit with the story perfectly. Wicked youth so warped by the thing upturned by a plow you know that they were ripe for it in that time of wildness just before the age of full reason and mellowing begin.

The thing I like best about it is how it leads you to temptation then horrifies you with where it led you. The main arrow in the Devils quiver is a nubile body. This one hits that target. The Angel in this one is no angel. It takes a while to get going and it seems a bit clunky and disjointed at first but that somehow adds to the strange atmosphere it generates. It works so well as a witch tale it's images linger and not all of them pleasantly. Also it is just so damned odd. Seriously you have to watch it. I'm not sure it doesn't merit a spot in my top ten. Maybe not but it's close. Top twenty at least.

 

[fljoe0]

1. Firestarter (1984)

I’ve seen it before but watching Charlie go nuclear at the end never gets old. 7/10

 

[morgan]

4.) Bug (2006)

Re-watch. This is about the fourth time I've seen this, and it freaks me out more each time. Michael Shannon has become one of my favorite actors.

 

[Dana Jean]

4.) Bug (2006)

Re-watch. This is about the fourth time I've seen this, and it freaks me out more each time. Michael Shannon has become one of my favorite actors.

He's a great character actor.

 

[Blake]

1) Sssssss- Watched half of it last night, starring Dirk Benedict. Brilliant movie about a psycho scientist into snakes( also religious and feeds his pet snake whiskey) injects Benedict with stuff as a guinea pig.
2) Peter Benchley's 'Creature' starring Kim Cattrall and Craig T Nelson, sort of a mini-series for television (249 minutes) about an American secret base somewhere in the Caribbean experimenting crossbreeding sharks and humans, cross shark-human tries to escape but African American scientist doesn't want to kill it because it has his genes in it. Shark can swim and walk on land. Nice Caribbean setting.