Hey it's halloween, everybody should shit their pants - ilx horror crew top tens.

Apparently I only saw three horror movies on instant so far this year that were worth giving three stars to this year:Deathdream, Cabin Fever 2, Frozen. I really need to watch more so i'm glad for this thread.

hey viceroy, sorry to report that Cropsey is boring and terrible imo

^^^ yeah I was so disappointed to hear that when u posted before.

Tell me about Black Snow cuz idk it looked like it wld be terrible?

I don't watch a lot of horror but The Innkeepers is awesome.

I think I mentioned it in the other thread, but watching Ti West movies, I keep sort of waiting for him to "happen." One of these days, I expect him to blow me away, but as of yet?

someday he'll team up with someone who knows how to make something actually scary at the end of the hallway

or he'll learn how to keep the suspense ambiguous throughout

The Poughkeepsie Tapes

how is this? and how is it see-able?

xxxp Damn, the premise seemed so rad. I hate it when people take good ideas and butcher the execution of them.

xp -- Re: The Poughkeepsie Tapes... If you can handle, I dunno, "moderate scenes of torture" its a really good mix of law/police procedural and "inside the mind of the serial killer" type movie. Its very shocking in spots but completely engrossing and well made. It's not as graphic as some of the french new wave horror but it's not exactly light on the torture either. Fortunately, you're not supposed to revel in it and it doesn't really keep the camera on extremely terrible things.

I'm pretty squeamish about abuse-of-females in my horror movies and I could get through it. But, YMMV...

hasnt it never got distribution or w/e? did you torrent, etc it?

It was on Netflix awhile back -- I believe it did get some distribution but it wasn't a major release anywhere. Probably played a week at art house cinemas.

cropsey is shitty

xp huh are u in usa? been in my 'saved' 4eva
im just naturally curious when things are hard 2 see tbh

this cropsey news is a bummer

Sound of My Voice

I assumed this was terrible because it shares personnel w/ Another Earth. Anyone else wanna vouch for it?

i looked up cropsey and it seems to be well rated on imdb, so all i am saying is that i hated it

yeah i have the same experience w/the poughkeepsie tapes i think, its been on my shortlist of stuff i want to see but cant get a hold of, along with Noroi/the Curse and (shudder) A Serbian Film

like seriously netflix, you cant even get discs of a serbian film, but human centipede 2 is on streaming wtf

fyi, as a dude who really liked human centipede, human centipede 2 is pretty terrible

also i think mum and dad is now streaming, if you want to ruin your night and feel bad about the world

Yeah, I stopped watching HC2 after awhile. Just no fun anymore.

Anyone who's looking to watch A Serbian Film should consider also getting Tears for Sale (with which it shares a writer and themes, but is a sort of quasi-historical adventure movie/fairy tale) as a chaser/palate cleanser.

haha Thnig, if you got death bed from netflix this month, it probably had most recently been in my house, because given how long it sat in the very long wait section before i got it they only have one copy of it.

haha! that movie was so weird and i rather liked it. the disc did smell funny though, he's right.

Cabin in the Woods
The Innkeepers
The Signal
Absentia
Daughters of Darkness
Rare Exports
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
Pontypool
Dream Home
Kill, Baby... Kill!

One thing I learned today from my WI account activity: I tried to watch Melancholia on six different occasions and still didn't finish it!

It doesn't get any better.

I tried watching Melancholia a few times but fell asleep each time, so I deleted it. Does the world end?

*spoilers*

yes

*end spoilers*

like seriously netflix, you cant even get discs of a serbian film, but human centipede 2 is on streaming wtf

― I'M THE ONLY ON (jjjusten), Thursday, October 25, 2012 4:01 PM (2 hours ago)

to be fair you can buy the human centipede off an endcap at target, for deep genre atrocity it's inexplicably mainstream

yeah true

been curious about Death Bed for awhile but never picked it up

will definitely investigate Martha Marcy May Marlene

Uncle Sam is not a good movie but there are parts of it that are fantastic

Just watched The Tall Man. FUCK yeah. Recommended without hesitation. And not really possible to discuss without ruining.

Really dig how Tucker & Dale and Martha et al kinda traipse around the idea of being horror movies without quite fully committing. Cabin In The Woods does the same thing except then it just commits to being a completely different kind of horror movie. At any rate, I welcome anything that shakes off stale genre conventions while still being interesting and/or fun.

xposting, but Rare Exports is great.

Not only is Martha, etc. not anything special, I dunno what it's doing in this thread.

true. my memory of it is already fading and i was neither high nor drunk while i watched it.

the snowtown murders, otoh, ruined my saturday night... made the world seem like a sad and dirty place. *shudder*

Poughkeepsie Tapes is on YouTube, I think.

sounds like I should watch the snowtown murders huh

I found Snowtown pretty ignorable. Also, not a horror movie per se, just to be clear.

I'm not sure I'm allowed to talk about this bc I didn't see it on Netflix but can we talk about XTRO? It was like Phase IV-level weird and I thought the effects were great! Kinda Cronenbergy, what with the woman giving birth to a full grown man and all.

There's a great click somewhere on http://siskelandebert.org/ of Gene and Rog flipping out over how awful and gross Xtro is. Always kinda made me wanna see it.

It's gross but not awful! I loved it.

I think I just generally love the Cronenberg/DePalma 80s batshit gross out style. This came with a bonus array of accents, face-sucking turkey legs, and pulsating alien eggs incubating in a pool of what appeared to be avocado mush in an overturned refrigerator. I won't go into the kid's magical dream sequences. The music was good too.

The Tall Man was def the year's biggest letdown for me, horror-wise. So much so that it's caused me to rethink a lot of the stuff I *like* about Martyrs.

xtro's pretty entertaining in a berserk b-movie way, there's something discomforting about its emotionless disregard of the basic requirements for cinematic engagement, it's like a movie made by cyborgs who have never seen a movie before but they did read a book on how to make a movie once

I bet "Deadgirl" could have been good given a better director and writer. There's a lot of thematic/metaphoric potential, sort of wasted.

Also, this would have been really powerful/iconic if it was made and released during the Vietnam era with the likes of "Last House," etc. But now? Just a grisly indie misfire.

fighting words

snowtown murders is a horror movie the same way henry:portrait of a serial killer is, but in some ways more bracing and effective. its a cold sad film.

Somebody should write a history of sharp teeth on film actors. So many years of vampire teeth looking a bit silly and concept artists cant really go crazy with the teeth because it probably wont work.

i looked up the wikipedia & jfc @ this:

The most excruciating part of the makeup process for the cast were the contact lenses. In those days the lenses were hard plastic, which Steve Johnson hand-painted (throwing some glitter into the mix), lacquered and sanded.[22] The cast could only wear them for a maximum of 20 minutes because they were virtually blind in them, and they were thick, painful and dried out their eyes. A set was made for Stark to wear when he's in his final pursuit of Peter and Charley, but he kept tripping on the stairs. Holland told him to take one out, and he was then able to perform the scene.[9][22] Three sets were made for Amanda Bearse, but one of them caused her agonizing pain which she initially tried to endure. When it finally became too much to bear, she took the contacts out and the crew realized they'd forgotten to buff them.[22] For the scene in Mrs. Brewster's bedroom, Geoffreys kept his contacts in for nearly 40 minutes, resulting in scratches on his eyeballs for months afterward.[22]

and this is nightmare fuel O_o

The makeup for Evil Ed's wolf transformation took 18 hours.[22] While he had the wolf head on, the crew began pouring what they thought was Methylcellulose into his mouth to create the illusion of saliva, but when Geoffreys began to complain about the taste, Mark Bryan Wilson realized they'd been using prosthetic adhesive, which was gluing his mouth shut.[22]

there are awful stories from back in the day too...the shit that karloff went through for the Mummy, Frankenstein etc sounds godawful (and painful)

I first heard about those lenses on the commentary to Evil Dead, but I don't recall there being any mishaps like those examples above.

I recently acquired a trove of unseen (by me) classics. But which do I watch on this All Hallows' Eve?! Which!?!?

Dead of Night
Trilogy of Terror
The Night Stalker
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931)

considering when it was released, Dead of Night is damned scary

I haven't seen Trilogy of Terror since it came out but Karen Black vs. devil doll is classic

I saw The Night Stalker again recently; the comic elements haven't aged well, but Barry Atwater as the non-speaking vampire is better than 98% of all other vampires

The Girl Who Knew Too Much aka The Evil Eye is an entertaining proto-giallo, if you can get past the silliness of the protagonist; extra points for John Saxon as her romantic interest

The 1931 Jekyll & Hyde is the best J&H if you like the property, but none of the film versions do much for me

so I'd recommend watching them all in the order listed

is dead of night aka deathdream? watch that immediately

No, it's the '40s Dead of Night. Too damn many Dead of Nights out there.

Deathdream by any title is creepy as hell, even though it looks like they spent about $500 making it

Bob Clark's career was weird as hell.