ok lets all shit our pants to something old: pre-2006 horror film thread

4 is a little obviously made during a writer's strike but i do love it

I feel like we've trod this ground a dozen times by now, but New Nightmare is truly bad. All concept, no execution.

New Nightmare is good iirc

i know we have discussed this before but i can't tell you how vigorously i disagree still. as a meta horror film i think it's even better than scream and heather lagenkamp's performance is the best of the series

New Nightmare is great if you enjoy watching someone chase behind a little kid for 45 minutes trying to keep him from accidentally killing himself.

... i feel like you need to rewatch it

I have! Within the last couple years! It was bad then and it's bad now.

It's just bad, folks.

Okay, if 'bad' feels like a step too far how about just 'boring'.

i guess i understand being bored by it?

Here is the sum total of what you need from the 'big 3' slasher franchises:

NoES 1-4
Halloween 3 and the scene from 2 when Lance Guest accidentally kills himself by slipping in blood
Jason Goes to Hell and the scene from Friday 4 where Crispin Glover dances and maybe the scene in Manhattan where Jason punches that guy's head off

The rest can go straight in the terlet (unless you're drinking with friends in which case they make for fun background noise)

I do have some fondness for Jason vs. Carrie (is that the 7th?)

yes, it's my favorite friday the 13th movie

i'm assuming old lunch meant jason lives instead of jason goes to hell aka eat your and everyone else's heart out jason

No way, man, Jason Goes to Hell is completely batshit + great.

Full disclosure: still have not seen most of the Friday sequels after 4 because goddamn are those movies a slog.

i mean i also love jason goes to hell, i've just never had anyone agree with me about it (except you, probably a year ago in the friday the 13th thread)

Ha, yes, I engage in this playful argument way too often and stump for that steaming POS every time.

Jason Goes to Hell is the only one I saw in the theaters, and iirc it suuuuuuuuucked. Great cold open, though.

Red Letter Media has a good appreciation of Exorcist III it just posted.

exorcist iii is one of the best movies ever made, between it and the ninth configuration i think william peter blatty had a really individual and beautiful voice as a director, i wish he had made more films

The RLM review taught me that the film contains blink and you miss them cameos from Patrick Ewing, Samuel L. Jackson, Larry King and ... Fabio.

yes!!!!

plus the greatest brad dourif performance

New nightmare is so boring and po-faced and dumb guy’s idea of “intelligent horror” to me, I’ve tried but I really can’t groove to its unscary half-baked ambition. Langenkamp(sp?) is really good tho, and the bit where she suddenly has the Nancy white streak is done so subtly, it belongs in a better film

I pretty much like all the other nightmares, even the dogshit one with Roseanne in it. I also like Jason goes to hell but my opinion is fairly worthless as I only recently watched most of the big masked killer franchise movies and don’t really care about any of them

I've mostly avoided them but there's a few I might watch. There's maybe only 10 horror films left that I'm still really eager to see, the 70s version of Demon Pond at the top of the list. I'm hugely pleased to see there is a bootleg version of Kumashiro's Hell/Jigoku available now.

has anybody seen this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Night,_Deadly_Night_3:_Better_Watch_Out!

I mean... Monte Hellman! Two Twin Peaks castmembers! uh... Robert Culp!

otoh the first film is truly atrocious and this was straight-to-video, how good can it be...

It has its fans but I’ve never pulled the trigger myself

Can't be bothered to sift through thread, but watched Chopping Mall last week and am totally flummoxed that this film hasn't been remade in a dead mall/robot cop scenario for the 21st century.

Silent Night Deadly Night? I'm happy with the all time great clips on youtube (garbage day! and old man talking about santa), probably wont ever watch the actual films.

the first one is really pretty shitty and ugly.

I'm happy with the all time great clips on youtube (garbage day!

garbage day is silent night deadly night 2

oh which you probably knew lol

Yeah, I heard it played on a bad movie night and there is a compilation of that actor moving his eyebrows about.

There's a lot more going on in "Digital Love" than the George Duke sample. There's not a ton going on in "Harder" that doesn't come from Birdsong.

Oops, wrong thread

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Been watching Schlocktober videos, wish he did more of that instead of the big current films. Recent one has brief clip of unauthorized Mortal Kombat film.

Akira Kurosawa script
https://thebedlamfiles.com/fiction/the-mask-of-the-black-death/

Saw the Wicker Man on the big screen at the weekend and it was such a bad print, a very obvious jump cut during Willow's Song and the scene with Willow washing the table outside of the pub was nigh unwatchable. I watched the same cut a couple of months ago on bluray and it was fine, so I don't know why this one was so bad.

it's part of the fun of seeing film projections - you don't know if it'll be complete, or it'll be washed out pink, or a foreign print. i've learned to "enjoy" the gamble

i am watching new nightmare right now and YOU'RE ALL WRONG IT'S GREAT

I have this thing where I like to leave 'treats' for myself, films I figure I'm likely to enjoy but hold off on seeing so that I always have classics I can visit for the first time. So last night, I finally took on The Howling! And it was pretty much everything I could have possibly wanted from a werewolf movie directed by Joe Dante. It's rare that a movie so perfectly meets my expectations and still manages to surprise me. Did Dante and Landis consult with one another while making their respective were-films? It's weird that two such innovative films of the genre were released pretty much in parallel.

And what was up with werewolves in 1981, anyway? No fewer than five lycanthrocentric films were released that year (Howling, American Werewolf, Wolfen, and Full Moon High, as well as Naschy's Night of the Werewolf original release in Spain).

it is odd that we go through cycles of key horror things. Vampires, werewolves, zombies... i guess at the moment the key creepy in the theaters is, um, society?

they're all different ways of talking about the same horror -- US!!!

On the same site as that Kurosawa screenplay review is new reviews of similar dream project screenplays by Shane Carruth and Coppola.

Attack Of The Super Monsters looks hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md2_zNrN8NE

Ah ffs, I just reviewed 11 80s and one 90s horror films for yis and somehow the post got lost. I ain't typing it all again but btw they were all GREAT.

Except Chopping Mall. Chopping Mall was just fine.

CAT'S EYE
WOLFEN
SOLE SURVIVOR
OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN
HABIT
FADE TO BLACK
NIGHT OF THE CREEPS
THE NEW KIDS (not horror I know, this was addressed in original post, it involves a multitude of text and Tom Atkins)
BAD CHANNELS
TWO EVIL EYES
THE HOWLING

ALL GREAT (I addressed my issues with THE HOWLING at length in OG post basically ffs no one gave me a trigger warning for parts of it, but HEY DICK MILLER, I guess it's GREAT)

Sorry, should be 10-2 80s-90s not 11-1, I forgot Bad Channels is 90s cos it's so quintessentially 80s

oh yeah, I forgot my main point:

And what was up with werewolves in 1981, anyway? No fewer than five lycanthrocentric films were released that year (Howling, American Werewolf, Wolfen, and Full Moon High, as well as Naschy's Night of the Werewolf original release in Spain)

WOLFEN IS NOT A WEREWOLF FILM!

Actually you said "lycanthrocentric"... hmmm... NO, STILL NOT ACCEPTING THIS

Been wondering whether to take a chance on some things I've always passed up because the trailers weren't interesting enough. Like The Beast Within, Boogeyman and Madhouse (the version with the dog). Or a lot of other things that Arrow released that might only be as good as The Slayer (not that great).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEMfH7c8XSs

Monsters look cool but I'm not sure Orochi: Eight Headed Dragon will be worth tracking down. Anyone here seen it?