Things I have watched/plan to watch on Shudder, some of them familiar favorites: Bava and Argento, check; Carpenter's Halloween and The Fog; Ghostwatch; Re-Animator; Short Night of Glass Dolls; the Fulci movies BradNelson mentions; The Old Dark House; Daughters of Darkness; Lords of Salem
Shudder just added some King-related titles and I have watched/will watch Silver Bullet, Creepshow, and Salem's Lot
obv most of these are pre- rather than post-2005
― Brad C., Sunday, 2 December 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
Does shudder as subcomponent of Amazon Prime have all the same selections as shudder standalone?
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 2 December 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
Is that the original Old Dark House? I've probably seen 75% of the horror movies released in the '30s and that's probably top five from that decade imo.
Starry Eyes def recommended, but iirc it's more unnerving than like gory or whatever. If you can stomach Mandy, you can probably stomach that one.
― all lite up and very romatic (Old Lunch), Sunday, 2 December 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
yes, Shudder has the 1932 Old Dark House with Karloff ... I agree it's one of the best 1930s horror movies
recently I read the novel it's based on, J.B. Priestley's Benighted, and was surprised to discover that the movie is a faithful adaptation
― Brad C., Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link
Does the novel shed any light on the casting choice Whale made for the father?
― all lite up and very romatic (Old Lunch), Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
no, I think that was all Whale
― Brad C., Sunday, 2 December 2018 23:25 (five years ago) link
I didn’t think much of the Strangers sequel, unfortunately. Hendricks was wasted and it had very little of the first one’s menace and tension.
Let The Corpses Tan is on Amazon Prime Video, in the U.K. at least.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 16 December 2018 00:03 (five years ago) link
i suffered through Corpses. fun style, for a few minutes
― Nhex, Sunday, 16 December 2018 07:26 (five years ago) link
Switched that off after twenty mins, despite liking Amer and SCOYBT
― or something, Sunday, 16 December 2018 08:04 (five years ago) link
I think they’re onto an interesting thing but they’re never really pulling it off.
― circa1916, Sunday, 16 December 2018 08:13 (five years ago) link
That’s a shame, I’ll give it a go.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 16 December 2018 08:25 (five years ago) link
Rewatching The House of the Devil (2009), looking v crisp in BluRay, and I'm loving the early Cronenberg aesthetic (def. seeing why multipele reviews mention The Brood). Good, unsettling stuff.
Also, Greta Gerwig!
And this tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHYIGy1dyd8
― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
The creature and the performances in Mara aren't enough to outweigh its already-seen mixture of The Grudge / Ring / The Boogeyman / etc.
Unfriended Dark Web has a decent idea and cool resolution, but the visuals (pop-up windows for actors & info with small text) quickly lost my interest. The first one - supernatural plot - I thought was decent enough to keep me engaged.
Both library borrows, so less a dissatisfied feeling, more checkboxing the genre. Besides Mandy sticking with me, the last five minutes of Kin (sci-fi, not horror) is the best thing I've seen lately.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
"Revenge" is super lurid, trashy, ridiculous, OTT stylized, and OK, not really horror or even remotely suspenseful but it is pretty gory and in the end probably perfect midnight movie fare.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 January 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link
watching Endless and Annihilation back to back highlighted all the things the former does right and the latter does poorly.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 24 January 2019 04:28 (five years ago) link
that's rough, but i get it
― Nhex, Thursday, 24 January 2019 05:14 (five years ago) link
rough in the sense that it's hard on Annihilation or that I'm not making my point clear?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 24 January 2019 05:33 (five years ago) link
the first. though i also think that Endless is slept on (and like Annihilation, it being a messy, imperfect but ultimately cool mystery)
― Nhex, Thursday, 24 January 2019 06:49 (five years ago) link
I noticed there's a remake of blairw proj. Wtf. Is it as crap as I think it is?I'm reading the Devil's Advocates series. So awesome.
― nathom, Thursday, 24 January 2019 10:12 (five years ago) link
xp, yeah I get it. Annihilation's gender flip of the standard "four guys confront the horror" trope seemed the only interesting twist for me. Endless is definitely messy and features an unnecessary and poorly structured first fifteen minutes or so (also, due respect, but Justin Benson shouldn't be starring in his movies)... but it is far more evocative with far less in the same general field. TBH, the Resolution callback had me bouncing off the couch so my enthusiasm is at least partially due to the stylistic approach being more wry and self-aware but hooooo boy could Annihilation have used a dose of self-awareness. Made Interstellar look carefree.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 24 January 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
The Blair Witch remake, which I haven't seen, was directed by Adam Wingard. People were psyched about a followup to You're Next and The Guest, and it was originally called The Woods. But then it was revealed to be a secret Blair Witch reboot, and it's supposed to be terrible, so terrible that even Wingard has seemed sort of apologetic about it and almost acts like he was blackmailed into doing it. I think he did a movie after that that no one saw/liked, but then they dumped a bunch of money at his house to do Godzilla vs. King Kong, so who the fuck knows what kind of favor he did or was owed.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 January 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
it's not a remake. It's a direct sequel to the first move
but it is crap, yeah
― Number None, Thursday, 24 January 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
Or is it a ... soft reboot?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 January 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
it's a sequel. it's not "good" but i enjoyed it in the theater regardless
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 January 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
not entirely sure why you keep talking about things you haven't seen as if you've seen them
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 January 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
Blair Witch '16 was definitely a disappointment compared to Wingard's other films. It was... OK. I suppose if you were an fan of the original you'd be even more disappointed; he had one or two interesting ideas, the rest was pretty mediocre. I still haven't seen his Death Note movie for Netflix which is also supposed to be bad, but I'll watch it someday. Surprised he got the Kong gig afterwards, but he's definitely a capable director - I still love the hell out of The Guest, and You're Next was really fun.
― Nhex, Thursday, 24 January 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
xpost Because it's not rocket science? Because when it came out and I saw some really negative reviews I read about the movie I was never going to see and learned why people didn't like it? I did see Blair Witch 2, that movie absolutely sucked and I have no idea why that guy made it.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 January 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
Also, the story of The Blair Witch reboot remake sequel whatever *is* the story, the movie itself came and went without a trace. It was pretty anti-climactic. But who made it and how it was made in secret is what people remember.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 January 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
they put out the first trailer as "The Woods" and gave up the beans a few months later
― Nhex, Thursday, 24 January 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link
btw - re: Endless - i was so into that, I went back to watch Resolution and was sorely disappointed; they waited WAY too long to get to the good stuff. Endless is a rare example of something retconning the ending of the original movie and making it way better
― Nhex, Thursday, 24 January 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
Wingard got tabbed for G vs KK on the strength of The Guest, I think. The responsibility for helping turn Dan Stevens into a legit Hollywood contender didn't go unnoticed. And Maika Monroe, on a lesser scale.
― omar little, Thursday, 24 January 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
― Nhex, Thursday, January 24, 2019 9:58 AM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
still really wish i could see the woods instead
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 January 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
Death Note on Netflix is vomit inducing. Very very bad.
― nathom, Thursday, 24 January 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
Godzilla (as we all remember like it was yesterday) came out in 2014, like The Guest. So you think (xpost) maybe Wingard got picked for Godzilla back then? Hmm. (Googles some more) OK, looks like the G v KK movie got announced in 2015, even before the release of KK and (clearly) the upcoming King of the Monsters, but Wingard didn't get named until 2017. My guess is like Marvel and Star Wars and Jurassic Park they were looking for any semi-competent and cheap genre director, but I think it's still weird, given his track record, that Wingard should even be in the mix. Maybe it'll be his comeback?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 January 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link
I think AW's track record is that of someone who has a distinct enough visual style who works well with a cast and he's shown he can do a lot with a relatively low budget, i mean The Guest wasn't El Mariachi but it was a mere $5 million, and people really love it. Not to mention You're Next was just shy of a million (it did flop, somewhat surprisingly...)
the Blair Witch reboot was decent enough but I think got a harsher rap than it deserved due to the fact that no one ever wanted to see a BWP film ever again.
― omar little, Thursday, 24 January 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
Someone I kinda sorta trust said Hagazussa was better than The Witchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_last886efA
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 26 January 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
As someone who really enjoyed the first <i>Happy Death Day</i>... I really enjoyed the new one!Yeah, it's dumb, somewhat indefensible as a unnecessary retread, but I love time loop gimmicks and you can just see the screenwriters having fun with this damn thing. Still surprised they didn't just completely abandon the first movie, <i>Butterfly Effect</i>-style, but then I sort of admire their dedication to HOW MUCH they stuck to the characters and setting of the original. I don't feel like Jessica Roche was the main draw of the original film (enough to do a whole sequel around her - so it does kind of spread out to the other characters more) but I'll give her credit, she gives her full effort in all of the slasher/soap/farce segments. (They went even broader with the comedy, leaning way into it this time, usually it worked...)
― Nhex, Saturday, 16 February 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
you can just see the screenwriters having fun with this damn thing
is there info about ghostwriters out? based on the credited writer of the first one, I assumed all the good stuff came from Landon
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Saturday, 16 February 2019 19:30 (five years ago) link
https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/46501798_984474221756874_4122361747308806144_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_oc=AQkUpmaR0qc1-PaWg5P2C7JT0AZN6nJhX9v-AS6UT1LfwNNDLbDyY17_IcIlJakcJ7Z3V6m3TqtAzOmptGRriZ5u&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=294ae9eb6fdff95a90e4002291c77871&oe=5D261AA9
― nickn, Sunday, 24 February 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
suspiria is a mess but is also pretty amazing I thought, one of my favorite films of the year.
can see that a lot of people would really hate it though
― Dan S, Sunday, 24 February 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
I don't think low budget horror has the same presence anymore, pretty much never see or hear about the stuff unless we're talking high budget indie films. Wonder what happened?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 1 March 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
Might have already posted this, but I changed my mind about Strange Color Of Your Bodys Tears. It's just okay, but I think I wanted something like that so badly at the time that I kind of overlooked it being a bit boring. First third of Amer is still great and the short films are very good.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 1 March 2019 18:55 (five years ago) link
early 2019 list of interesting looking horror films; outside of HDD2, anyone want to steer me one way or another?
Happy Death Day 2 Level 16The Hole in the Ground Escape Room Body at Brighton RockThe Changeover Rust Creek The Wind Us Ma
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 March 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
Okay, these books are great and I was prepared to write this adaptation off, assuming they would wind up turning an OTT series of 'kids' books into a tepid film for babies, but...hey, it looks like they might actually be going for it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3J2k3Nhicw
http://cdn.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-poster-red-spot-768x1137.jpg
― WAS ACTING A FOOL AND FELL ON GRILL (Old Lunch), Friday, 29 March 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
that poster is INCREDIBLE
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 29 March 2019 23:39 (five years ago) link
i’m in
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 March 2019 05:07 (five years ago) link
I love everything about that poster except for the actual special effect
― Simon H., Saturday, 30 March 2019 05:20 (five years ago) link
This reminds I just kicked my doctor pimple popper addiction. Usually I'm not horrified by posters, this one ...urgh. 😱
― nathom, Saturday, 30 March 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
Saw The Mist again. Good gawd what an abysmal movie. Esp the ending.
― nathom, Saturday, 30 March 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link
We need to do a definitive "ending of the Mist: good/bad?" poll to settle this
― Simon H., Saturday, 30 March 2019 23:07 (five years ago) link