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

Blob remake is quite good value and recommended. I'll second all of the stock Cohen recommendations and offer up the dark horse pick of It's Alive 3: Island of the Alive, which is cheesy and terrible and delightful and amazing.

Basically, anything Cohen or Henenlotter makes for excellent drunk viewing.

I haven't seen it since 1990 or so, but I remember really digging the 80s Blob as a kid during its initial cable run.

Saw a screening last year, definitely holds up - my first time seeing it too. Fun all around, great ending set-up.

I had a huge crush on Kevin Dillon bcz of the Blob

The Blob it is. Especially since this lets me use an awesome/terrible idea I've had kicking around for the while and serve strawberry jello shots with boozy whipped cream on top.

Just watched Evil Dead for the first time ever. I was prepared for something like Dead Alive (maybe the second one is more along those lines?) but the effects and makeup and sound design were horrifying and super over the top (they really made the most of their $250 or whatever the movie cost to make!). Surprised the hell out of me. It was great, of course. I'm sure this isn't news to 95% of horror fans. I'm probably going to watch Evil Dead 2 for the first time ever tomorrow (jealous?).

omg 2 is the best, you can't handle how great it is first time around imo

super jelly!!! round it off with Army of Darkness!

just watched Hellraiser for the first time, love those creature effects... and the lustful housewife. plan to go through more of them as they all seem to be on Netflix right now

AoD is oooooook but not a patch on the first two imo

Evil dead and hellraiser are both the rare examples where #2 is the best, but for decidedly different reasons

ED2 for me is what a Looney Tunes horror movie would look like & it's the reason I will love Sam Raimi forever

Nhex, do yourself a favor and don't go too far with the Hellraisers. I managed to make it as far as the fourth one based on my love of the first two, but they get dire very quickly. I thought the third was stupid as shit when I was in high school and barely had the critical faculties to discern whether a movie might be awful. If anything, I'd recommend checking out some of the comics (which maintained the vibe and had some decent creators, and which had a recent revival actually written by Barker) after watching the second one.

The third is fascinatingly dated. Some 90s films look like they're from a different planet. It's similar to the cheesy 90s Image comics that were supposed to be ultra modern and super cool.

Just watched the first two hellraisers last week. Loved the first one, thought the second one was good in places but kind of sucked. Not planning to continue.

The third features a DJ cenobite that shoots deadly CDs out of its mouth. That's pretty much all you need to know.

Oh man, yeah. The third is rrreally fuckin' dumb. There's also a cenobite with a video camera stuck in his head where the best they could come up with is "he...I guess he leans in real close to people? and the lens through his eye telescopes out and stabs them in the face?"

I'm kind of regretting not setting aside some money for Arrow's recent, now sold-out rerelease of the films. It included #3, which is a bit of a downgrade, but Arrow do amazing extras, and even managed to dig up the borderline mythical "surgeon scene" from a VHS workprint:

https://drinksandwings.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/hellraiser-ii.jpg

Really, the Hellraiser 3 cenobites are indistinguishable from PLEASURE TOAST. Take an underpaid character actor, jam a household electrical appliance through their face, bam, done.

good lord that sounds dire. ok, i may take this advice, depending on how much my brother wants to torture me

Hellraiser III is ludicrously on the nose and lol '90s ...

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OMG @ EVIL DEAD 2. Don't I feel like a stupid idiot for never watching it before now. Like a goddamn roller coaster, that thing. Raimi and Campbell bring it 150%. It's kind of impossible to believe that this was made by the same guy responsible for Spider-Man 3 and Oz The Great and Powerful.

I'm way more excited about Drag Me To Hell now so I might fit that in sometime this weekend.

Drag me to Hell bears zero resemblance to ED2

That's a bit extreme - it has some of the same kinetic energy. (Personally I love it but it might be the most divisive horror movie of the aughts.)

It also has a lot of errant fluid in unwilling mouth gags.

It's plenty like Evil Dead, the possessions, demons, splatstick and regular assaults are there and she even says "I'm gonna get some! Yeah!" in a very Ash manner. But most of the visual style is completely different.
I'd recommend Within The Woods too (a short before Evil Dead that follows roughly the same template).

I've never seen his Crimewave but I've heard it has a very similar style. The trailers certainly support that.

Dare I once again mention how much I LOVED the evil dead remake from last (this?) year?

I think most people liked it better than they expected. I thought the outdoor scenes looked beautiful, nice and wet.

omg that Pleasure Toast thing had me rolling, thank you TT

Drag Me To Hell is great, very much in the style of the older Raimi

Drag Me To Hell was indeed great! All the talk about multiple instances of nasty shit going into people's mouths made me a bit wary but the OTT audacity of it was cracking me up. I wish it had happened more, if anything. My only quibble was the obvious transparency of the envelope mix-up (even if said transparency was clearly intentional on Raimi's part) but the bluntness of the ending definitely made up for it.

Truly the best horror movie finale since I don't even know when.

haha yes. great use of main title and the front and finish, too!

http://www.avclub.com/article/25-best-horror-movies-2000-227068

got all the way to 25 before i realized this list was total garbage prepared by sacs of trash

There were some good ones in there, but the order was all kinds of f'd up.

Drag Me to Hell (which I still love) is basically Night/Curse of the Demon, right down to the train station finale.

I believe both Drag Me To Hell and Night/Curse of the Demon (which is still in my Halloween queue for this year) are based on M.R. James's 'Casting The Runes' (which I recently read and which, to be honest, bears only a superficial resemblance to Drag Me To Hell).

After I first saw it I was amazed there was not so much as a "adapted from" or "inspired by" credit.

Some strong scary movie contenders I thought of have been Grave Encounters and the first two Rec films. Oculus has also stuck with me. And has anyone (or I?) mentioned "S&Man?"

Ohhhh yeah S&Man! Jesus. That thing creeped the SHIT out of me.

Fans of S&Man, see Megan Is Missing, which seems like it ought to be illegal to watch.

Didn't someone describe that in one of the other horror threads as Deathdr0ne: The Movie? I am as likely to watch that as I am A Serbian Movie. Which is to say: no.

"A Serbian Film" was kind of surreal in its ridiculous horrificness, and while I've since read a couple of things about the civil war there to make me reconsider many of the objections I've had, the movie still works better in a vacuum than in practice. But S&Man was clever and sort of incisive (or at least provocative) about why we watch horror films.

I was lumping Megan Is Missing in with A Serbian Film, if that was unclear.

Read the synopsis of MiM, ugh. At least ASF was claiming to be making a point, however facile one thinks it.

Hate torture stuff, but I still think this is the one I want to see the least:
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Wow, that's big, sorry.

when did that come out?

cuz it looks like a cheap ripoff of a Grant Morrison Batman villain

Dunno. A decade ago?

Also, there was Grotesque (2009, Japan), the first film to be outright banned in UK for a long time. Director also did Noroi, which I didn't care for much but lots of people seem to love it.

Don't have the interest or patience for endurance test torture films anymore. Not my preferred cup of harrowing.

It's not even just the torture, it's the entire direction I'm not interested in.