2019 SKMB October Horror Movie Marathon!

[fushingfeef]

2. I'll Take Your Dead (FTV)

When you're paid by criminals to dispose of bodies, what do you do when one of the bodies isn't quite dead yet? Great title, and an intriguing premise, made more intriguing by the fact that it's a family business for a widowed father and his tween daughter, but alas, all of this potential is botched in the execution, no pun intended. A completely tacked on supernatural element where the daughter sees dead people (yes, she literally says that line) never seems to fit, as if some producer said, "Hey, I know you're almost done shooting, but can we make your little crime thriller a horror movie instead?"

We're never given a reason to care about the daughter, it's just expected because ya know, she's young and helpless, but the actress seems like she'd be more at home on the set of a Disney channel sitcom. During a climactic scene that was supposed to be heart-wrenching, I felt about the same level of emotion I have when eating a bowl of dry cereal at 3:00 A.M. And don't get me started on the bad decision-making by the characters--I'm still a bit hoarse from yelling at the screen.

This is yet another movie in this trend I'm increasingly seeing: supposed "horror" movies made by people who obviously have never seen a horror movie before and were just looking for a way to get their indie film greenlit and marketed. A swing, and a miss.

2 out of 5 stars.

Bob's October 2019 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. Next of Kin (1982) 4/5 (FTV)
2. I'll Take Your Dead 2/5 (FTV)

 

[morgan]

This wasn't publisized at the time this first came out, but this is the first of a trilogy. It goes with Split and Mr. Glass if you are interested. Split is most definitely disturbing!

I did watch Split several years ago and it was very good! Wish it was still streaming somewhere. Would love to watch it again. Haven't seen Mr. Glass. Thanks so much for the info!

 

[morgan]

You give the best reviews fushingfeef !! So detailed and professional.

 

[recitador]

3. Horns, although this movie is honestly more weird than horror tbh. who am i to argue with the classification system though? enjoyed the book and it seemed like they stayed pretty faithful overall.

1. Tucker and Dale vs Evil
2. The Babysitter
3. Horns

 

[Spideyman]

2019 Halloween Movie Marathon list:

1. The Nightmare Before Christmas ( could not resists- thought of DJ and Mr. Tree)
2. The Last Witch Hunter
3. The Addams Family
4. The House of Dracula- 1958
5. Curse of Frankenstein -1957
6. Dracula Has Risen From The Grave -1968
7. Monster Inc.

 

[Neesy]

Don't sweat the details Tery! Whatever you're comfortable with. This isn't so much a competition as a club of like-minded horror enthusiasts!

Watched The Dead Zone on the weekend.

Also posted over at The Weekend Playground that I saw:

Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy

Dracula (with Frank Langella from 1979)

 

[Dana Jean]

6. Dracula 1931 -- Old school.






7. Hide* -- social commentary at its scariest






2019 Halloween Movie Marathon list. *Indicates new for me.

1. The Disappointments Room*
2. Gentleman - Two Sentence Horror Stories*
3. Squirm - Two Sentence Horror Stories*
4. Legacy - Two Sentence Horror Stories*
5. The Autopsy of Jane Doe *
6. Dracula
7. Hide -- Two Sentence Horror Stories*

 

[fljoe0]

1. Head Count (2018)

This is a pretty good story but the movie suffers from a plodding pace. 6/10

2. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)

A classic. It’s impressive that this movie is scary it is without any scary characters. 10/10

3. Cat People (1942)

(IMDB description) - An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together. An engrossing psychological horror story with some 1942 sexual tension. 9/10

4. The Mist (2007) (and I read the novella - join us for a discussion Wed at 8)

A magnificent adaptation of our favorite author’s novella. 10/10

5. Disturbing Behavior (1998)

Steve has moved to a new town and is going to a new high school and has noticed a group of kids are behaving strangely. 6/10

 

[do1you9love?]

3) Two Sentence Horror Stories – Ep 1: Gentleman; Ep 2: Squirm – rec from Dana Jean. Well done. More on the psychological side versus ghosties. – 4/5

4)Truth or Dare (2017) FTV – This was a made for TV SyFy original, so considering that, it was actually not too bad. Group of friends gets tricked into playing Truth or Dare with a supernatural twist. Do the dare or die! - 3/5

5) Hocus Pocus (1993) – Freeform is playing this movie 30 times in the month of October. Amuck, amuck, amuck! – 4/5

6) Supernatural – Season 8: Ep 22 and 23 (2013) FTV - Daughter and I have become hooked on this series. Sam and Dean are in a constant battle with creatures, ghosts, demons and even angels to just try to keep the world going another day. – 4.5/5

7) House on Haunted Hill (1959) FTV – A millionaire (the inimitable Vincent Price) offers $10,000 to five people to spend the night locked in a murder mansion with him and his wife. Is there a murderer locked in, too? – 4.5/5

 

[fljoe0]

FYI - In The Tall Grass has shown up on netflix. I haven't seen it yet but it's on my radar.

 

[Dana Jean]

FYI - In The Tall Grass has shown up on netflix. I haven't seen it yet but it's on my radar.

I'm watching it now. It's really good. And has this limerick in it from the book:

There once was a man named McSweeney
Who spilled some Gin on his weenie
Just to be couth, he added vermouth
and slipped his girl a martini.


That is seriously clever and made me laugh! That is all Joe. I know it is.

 

[Kurben]

Not so very impressing but so far my list is like this.

1. The Nun - Takes place in romania in a nunnery where evil is on the lose.. Not bad at all
2. Jigsaw - A sequel to the Saw-movies. But more like the actually good first movie than the gore followups.
3. 2012 - A disaster flick but i'm counting it. After all, the End of the World is a horrifying concept.
4. In The Tall Grass - Liked it! I must here with shame admit that i havent read the book. I liked the limericks!!

 

[Wayoftheredpanda]

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988): The title says it all, I quite enjoyed this one. Purposely campy horror comedy with alien clowns, fun kills, and great effects.
7/10
Would I recommend it?: Yes

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984): Kinda dissapointed in this one, this movie was really boring whenever Freddy wasn’t on screen, all he actors besides Robert Englund were so mediocre. The kills, dream sequences, and Freddy scenes were cool, but it suffered from not having anything in between that.
5/10
Would I recommend it?: Maybe

My list so far (*=new to me):
Killer Klowns from Outer Space* 7/10
A Nightmare on Elm Street* 5/10

 

[Dana Jean]

8. In The Tall Grass*

I have not read the story so don't know how well this movie chalks up to the source material, but I will say, I thought it was very well done given that the majority of the time, the scenery is grass, mud, dirt, water. All of those things are characters unto themselves and makes a striking visual. You would think not, but whomever did the creative choices on the look of this, whether that's the director or cinematographer or whomever, they made all those elements Art.
It has an amazing look.

I topped corn for a summer. Rows upon rows closing in on you. Wet and sticky and hot. The choices made with the field were made by somebody who's topped corn.




2019 Halloween Movie Marathon list. *Indicates new for me.

1. The Disappointments Room*
2. Gentleman - Two Sentence Horror Stories*
3. Squirm - Two Sentence Horror Stories*
4. Legacy - Two Sentence Horror Stories*
5. The Autopsy of Jane Doe *
6. Dracula
7. Hide -- Two Sentence Horror Stories*
8. In The Tall Grass*

 

[king family fan]

1. The Shining-Stephen King
2. The Shining Stanley Kubrick
3. Misery
4. Thinner
5. Christine
6. It Original
7. It 2017
Mine will all be King related films this year. The son is really getting in to this.I have seen them all before but first time with him.

 

[Wayoftheredpanda]

8. In The Tall Grass*

I have not read the story so don't know how well this movie chalks up to the source material, but I will say, I thought it was very well done given that the majority of the time, the scenery is grass, mud, dirt, water. All of those things are characters unto themselves and makes a striking visual. You would think not, but whomever did the creative choices on the look of this, whether that's the director or cinematographer or whomever, they made all those elements art.
It was an amazing look.

I topped corn for a summer. Rows upon rows closing in on you. Wet and sticky and hot. The choices made with the field were made by somebody who's topped corn.




2019 Halloween Movie Marathon list. *Indicates new for me.

1. The Disappointments Room*
2. Gentleman - Two Sentence Horror Stories*
3. Squirm - Two Sentence Horror Stories*
4. Legacy - Two Sentence Horror Stories*
5. The Autopsy of Jane Doe *
6. Dracula
7. Hide -- Two Sentence Horror Stories*
8. In The Tall Grass*

I watched the first episode of the two sentence horror story and it was so underwhelming. The cinematography was good, but the acting, writing, and twist barely made any sense. Plus that it didn’t make too much sense with the original story.

What makes two sentence horror so effective is the simplicity, you can’t turn something like “The last man on earth heard a knock at the door” without ruining the point

 

[recitador]

Scream 1-4. it's silly at times but it's overall a fun and solid franchise.

1. Tucker and Dale vs Evil
2. The Babysitter
3. Horns
4. Scream
5. Scream 2
6. Scream 3
7. Scream 4

 

[fushingfeef]

3. Nightmare Cinema (FTV)



Horror anthology featuring top horror directors that actually works very well. What a treat! The directors of "Gremlins", "30 Days of Night", "The Stand", "Midnight Meat Train" and "Juan of the Dead" each turn in strong work that covers a wide range of horror. There's a slasher in the woods send-up with a twist, satanic religious horror, a Twilight-Zone-ish nightmare, a damaged kid with supernatural abilities, and a satirical take on the plastic surgery industry. There's also a wraparound story featuring Mickey Rourke as the projectionist for the titular cinema. There's something for everyone here; heck, I liked 'em all. A fun mix!



4 out of 5 stars.



Bob's October 2019 Horror Movie List

*FTV denotes first-time viewings

1. Next of Kin (1982) 4/5 (FTV)

2. I'll Take Your Dead 2/5 (FTV)

3. Nightmare Cinema 4/5 (FTV)

 

[fushingfeef]

4. Murders in the Zoo (FTV)



An insanely jealous husband/zoologist uses captive animals to dispose of his adulteress wife's suitors. Released in 1933, this Universal Studios movie predates the Hayes Code, so there are several scenes that are more potent than usual Hollywood fare. For starters, it opens with a man having his mouth brutally sewn shut for daring to try to kiss another man's wife, and is left behind to be consumed by lions. There are many scenes involving actual animals in old-time zoo restraints, so if you're sensitive about animal treatment, you might want to look the other way. There's a particularly brutal fight scene between a group of lions and cheetahs that couldn't have been faked.



However, the most cringe-worthy scenes involve a hapless semi-reformed drunk who talks his way into being the zoo's publicity agent. Never has comic relief been so unfunny, so painful to watch. But it's an already short film so I guess they had to put in some filler material. Anyway, at least it delivers on the title's promise: there are lots of murders using zoo animals as the weapon. Particularly impressive was the scene where a cheating woman is tossed casually into an alligator pit with real alligators waiting. Spoiler alert, it doesn't end well for her! And look for a young Randolph Scott as a scientist, more than a decade before he became known for his many cowboy/western roles.



3 out of 5 stars.



Bob's October 2019 Horror Movie List

*FTV denotes first-time viewings

1. Next of Kin (1982) 4/5 (FTV)

2. I'll Take Your Dead 2/5 (FTV)

3. Nightmare Cinema 4/5 (FTV)

4. Murders in the Zoo 3/5 (FTV)

 

[fushingfeef]

5. Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (FTV)



Once again the creations of R.L. Stine leap off the page of the popular Goosebumps books to wreak havoc in a small town, and it's up to three plucky minors to fix it. If you liked the first Goosebumps, you'll probably enjoy this, although it's a bit looser and faster, less reverent, and more funny than scary. Produced by Sony Animation Studios, this is a live action film with a glut of CGI effects that range from childish to seamlessly impressive.



Still, there's a lot going for this movie: the technology of Nikola Tesla is a major plot point, the quirky neighbor's (the always funny Ken Jeong) over-the-top Halloween yard display, Slappy the evil ventriloquist dummy, bullies getting their due, talking pumpkins and some nightmarish green-faced witches. The stakes are never particularly high (after all this is a rated PG film starring children) but you'll find yourself in a great Halloween mood. My daughters loved it!



3 out of 5 stars.



Bob's October 2019 Horror Movie List

*FTV denotes first-time viewings

1. Next of Kin (1982) 4/5 (FTV)

2. I'll Take Your Dead 2/5 (FTV)

3. Nightmare Cinema 4/5 (FTV)

4. Murders in the Zoo 3/5 (FTV)

5. Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween 3/5 (FTV)