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beloved freak

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Oct 27, 2017
231
Ah, my favorite time of the year! All first time watches, double features every friday.

1. Host
2. Spring // Color Out of Space
3. It Comes At Night
4. Trollhunter
5. Dog Soldiers
6. Basket Case
7. Splinter
8. Alice Sweet Alice
9. The Babysitter: Killer Queen // Happy Death Day 2U
10. Dead Alive
11. House of Wax
12. The Faculty
13. Lifeforce
14. eXistenZ
15. Coherence
16. The World of Kanako // Cure
17. Audition
18. The Lighthouse
19. Black Mountain Side
20. The Stepford Wives
21. American Mary
22. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
23. Carnival of Souls // House on Haunted Hill
24. The Room
25. Kwaidan
26. Phantasm
27. Annabelle Comes Home
28. Don't Look Now
29. Doctor Sleep
30. The Nightmare Before Christmas // Coraline
31. The Invisible Man (2020)
 

Z-Beat

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
31,898
Brightburn
Scream 4
The Girl with All the Gifts
The Platform
Host
The Babysitter
The Babysitter: Killer Queen
Terrifier 2 (if it's out)
A Color out of Space
The Rental
The Grudge 2
Event Horizon
Dawn of the Dead (original)
Friday the 13th Part 6
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Gremlins 2
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
The Ring (2003)
The Others
The People Under the Stairs
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Hocus Pocus
Don't Look Under the Bed
Saw 2
Cloverfield
The Mist
Terrifier 1
28 Weeks Later
Aliens
AVP
Ghost Ship
 

BloodRayne

Member
Jul 3, 2020
5,469
This sounds nice! Very interesting lists. I might as well try to watch at least 31 movies next month.

For some reason I wanted to watch horror movies featuring the mafia or gangsters, and I'm having bad luck. I expected zombie mobsters and things like that to exist! So far I found a movie from 1940 called "Black Friday" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032258/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2) where a scientist puts a gangster's brain into another person and things go into "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" territory.
 
Oct 27, 2017
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Enjoyed my time taking part in this and reading about everyones experiences last year. We´ll see if life agrees, and I have time to do the full 31.

Preliminary plan (all first time watches):
  • Underwater 2020
  • The Wind 2018
  • Crawl 2019
  • Halloween III: Season of the Witch 1982
  • Friday the 13th Part 2 1981
  • Koko-di Koko-da 2019
  • Oculus 2013
  • Cube 1997
  • Color Out of Space 2019
  • The Blackcoat's Daughter 2015
  • Lake Mungo 2008
  • May 2002
  • Revenge 2017
  • The Exorcist III 1990
  • Under the Shadow 2016
  • Candyman 1992
  • Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986
  • Poltergeist 1982
  • Opera 1987
  • Timecrimes 2007
  • Bone Tomahawk 2015
  • A Tale of Two Sisters 2003
  • Gremlins 1984
  • Martyrs 2008
  • Tigers Are Not Afraid 2017
  • A Quiet Place 2018
  • Green Room 2015
  • Train to Busan 2016
  • The Wailing 2016
  • The Fly 1986
  • I Saw the Devil 2010
 

More_Badass

Member
Oct 25, 2017
23,635
Enjoyed my time taking part in this and reading about everyones experiences last year. We´ll see if life agrees, and I have time to do the full 31.

Preliminary plan (all first time watches):
  • Underwater 2020
  • The Wind 2018
  • Crawl 2019
  • Halloween III: Season of the Witch 1982
  • Friday the 13th Part 2 1981
  • Koko-di Koko-da 2019
  • Oculus 2013
  • Cube 1997
  • Color Out of Space 2019
  • The Blackcoat's Daughter 2015
  • Lake Mungo 2008
  • May 2002
  • Revenge 2017
  • The Exorcist III 1990
  • Under the Shadow 2016
  • Candyman 1992
  • Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986
  • Poltergeist 1982
  • Opera 1987
  • Timecrimes 2007
  • Bone Tomahawk 2015
  • A Tale of Two Sisters 2003
  • Gremlins 1984
  • Martyrs 2008
  • Tigers Are Not Afraid 2017
  • A Quiet Place 2018
  • Green Room 2015
  • Train to Busan 2016
  • The Wailing 2016
  • The Fly 1986
  • I Saw the Devil 2010
Now that's a hell of a line-up. You got some incredible first-time watches coming up
 
Oct 27, 2017
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Now that's a hell of a line-up. You got some incredible first-time watches coming up
Yea, I have been editing the list based on a huge watchlist to optimize it a few times now. Focused on definitive classics that I have yet to have seen and movies that just seem so my cup of tea I don´t see how I could not really like them (like koko-di koko-da and tigers are not afraid). Have also been saving some of my watches in anticipation of October. Very excited to get started!

Some tough cuts to make though. Slumber party massacre will have to wait for another time :D

The "Exorcist III is the best Exorcist" club might get a few recruits this year
That could be quite possible, as I probably like the Exorcist less than a lot of people.
 

Valkyr

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Oct 26, 2017
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Is Exorcist 2 worth watching? I've seen the original and always heard 3 is great. Do I need to see 2 or should I just skip it?
 

Fancy Clown

Member
Oct 25, 2017
5,412
Doing an Exorcist (rewatch)-Exorcist III double feature when I watch it next month, should be interesting

Is there a recommended version to watch, think I read there are multiple cuts

The theatrical I think is ultimately both the better version and the better to watch first. The Legion cut is fascinating, and actually makes a bit more sense, but the juxtaposition between high-def and VHS footage would make for a jarring first viewing, and I think ultimately the changes the producers requested made for a slightly better film even if it's still a different kind of unsatisfying third act. That being said, warts and all, I prefer it to the first movie due to both Blatty's super idiosyncratic writing/directing style, and I find it flat out scarier in both individual scares and overall atmosphere of dread.

Is Exorcist 2 worth watching? I've seen the original and always heard 3 is great. Do I need to see 2 or should I just skip it?

You don't need to see it to watch 3, which is more of a follow up to the first. I haven't seen 2 myself, but I've seen clips of it. General consensus is that it's quite bad but is a deeply bonkers film, so might be worth watching for wtf value even if it's no good.
 
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ThirstyFly

ThirstyFly

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Oct 28, 2017
721
I'm not even joking about this: they straight up recreate the finale of the first film with Father Merrin's sacrifice and it looks like a dramatic reenactment from a show on TruTV.

Oh no, don't do this to me. Urge to watch rising.

I'd have to rewatch the original first though, it's been a long time since I've seen it.
 

More_Badass

Member
Oct 25, 2017
23,635
Some lesser-know discoveries/favorites since last October that I'd recommend:

A Record of Sweet Murder (2014)
From the director of Noroi, a one-room one-take found-footage film wildly escalates in real time by degrees of "no idea WTF's happening next"

The Divine Fury (2019)
South Korean action-horror that can be summed up as Constantine + The Wailing + stigmatic MMA fighter

Dial Code Santa Claus (1989)
The whimsy of every kid's action hero fantasies invaded by the sinister brutality of a slasher nightmare, as little-boy Rambo fights the killer psycho Santa that invades his Bava-decorated mansion

Pursuit of a Killer (1985)
Late-era Shaw Brothers film that starts as Police Story-style crime action and becomes a martial arts slasher/giallo-lite complete with black-gloved razor-blade kills

Baby Blood (1990)
French-Extremity-Lovecraftian-vampire darkly-comic splatter-sleaze maternal horror, and it's as fun, blood-drenched, and crazy as that sounds. Fun fact: Gary Oldman voice-acts the creature in the English dub if you can find

The Hallow (2015)
Dark fantasy horror-thriller inspired by Irish folktale, siege thrills by way fungal-infested bio-folk-horror

The Cat (1992)
Just the right amount of flesh-melting horror, explosive mayhem, and inane sci-fi insanity where a cat suplexing a dog in slow-mo makes """sense"""

Leif Jonker's Darkness (1993)
No-budget, super-8, synth-&-heavy-metal Night of the Vampire Undead where most of most of its $5,000 production was spent on fake plasma. Drenching blood, torn throats, melting flesh, and exploding heads galore

The Vampire Doll + Lake of Dracula + Evil of Dracula (1970,1971,1974)
A wonderfully atmospheric trilogy that marries Hammer-style Gothic horror and Japanese occult. "Doll" is Old Dark House as very J Horror and weird, "Evil" is the most Lee-inspired bloody
 
Oh no, don't do this to me. Urge to watch rising.

I'd have to rewatch the original first though, it's been a long time since I've seen it.
There's definitely an air of sadness to the film since both Richard Burton and Linda Blair were both in the midst of their respective substance abuse problems and you can tell just how out of it they are in certain scenes. Yet it's also a film that has a strangely high amount of tap dancing and James Earl Jones dressed up as a locust calmly stating that he is going to spit a leopard.
 

tellNoel

Member
Oct 26, 2017
10,257
Ive heard The Exorcist 3 is great but i always thought that was a joke or something. Maybe i'll add it to the list then
 

Fancy Clown

Member
Oct 25, 2017
5,412
The Vampire Doll + Lake of Dracula + Evil of Dracula (1970,1971,1974)
A wonderfully atmospheric trilogy that marries Hammer-style Gothic horror and Japanese occult. "Doll" is Old Dark House as very J Horror and weird, "Evil" is the most Lee-inspired bloody

I've got these on my list. Not sure I'll do all three yet, but J-horror meets Hammer is a pretty appealing combo imo.

My own pleasant surprises from last year:

Quatermass and the Pit: a surprisingly heady Lovecraftian Hammer film that selves into some *very* crazy ideas that pits science against religion in interesting ways. The film and the other works if its writer, Nigel Kneale, would inspire John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness.

The House that Screamed: A little bit a artful slasher, a little bit haunted house story, and a lot kinky sexual repression in an all girl's school. Feels like a bit like a Spanish Argento flick at times, and I found this quite brilliant, and it's got a killer freak-out ending. It's probably tough to find in good quality though, unless you can nab the scream factory bluray which is going out of print imminently.

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928): a silent horror film that really goes all in on its visuals, with stunning set design and editing that make this an incredibly haunting visual poem. Near masterpiece.

The Mummy's Hand. Sequel to the Karloff Mummy, but *this* is the movie that started all the tropes we associate with mummy movies. An actual mummy going around killing people (it looks pretty spooky too), tombs, pulp adventure heroes, etc etc.The Fraser movie essentially remade this one. It's not *great*, but it's pure pulp fun and very breezy.
 
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Ryuelli

Member
Oct 26, 2017
15,209
Would anyone like to glance over my list from the past few years and let me know if I haven't seen anything you'd recommend? I'm definitely more of a slasher/torture porn/gore/horror-comedy fan than I am stuff like Hereditary and Midsummar.

 

THEVOID

Prophet of Regret
Member
Oct 27, 2017
22,891
Ah, my favorite time of the year! All first time watches, double features every friday.

1. Host
2. Spring // Color Out of Space
3. It Comes At Night
4. Trollhunter
5. Dog Soldiers
6. Basket Case
7. Splinter
8. Alice Sweet Alice
9. The Babysitter: Killer Queen // Happy Death Day 2U
10. Dead Alive
11. House of Wax
12. The Faculty
13. Lifeforce
14. eXistenZ
15. Coherence
16. The World of Kanako // Cure
17. Audition
18. The Lighthouse
19. Black Mountain Side
20. The Stepford Wives
21. American Mary
22. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
23. Carnival of Souls // House on Haunted Hill
24. The Room
25. Kwaidan
26. Phantasm
27. Annabelle Comes Home
28. Don't Look Now
29. Doctor Sleep
30. The Nightmare Before Christmas // Coraline
31. The Invisible Man (2020)

Props on It Comes at Night. Underappreciated gem.
 
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ThirstyFly

ThirstyFly

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Oct 28, 2017
721
Would anyone like to glance over my list from the past few years and let me know if I haven't seen anything you'd recommend? I'm definitely more of a slasher/torture porn/gore/horror-comedy fan than I am stuff like Hereditary and Midsummar.


I went over your stuff and here's a quick and dirty list of movies that I think fit your criteria. I noticed you didn't have a lot of older titles listed so you've probably seen a lot of this, but just in case I listed a lot of common stuff you'd hopefully like.

Legend:
BOLD = Classic. A must watch.
* = Incredibly Cheesy Fun, or So Bad, It's Good
** = Generally not looked upon favourably, but I personally think is underrated.
[newer] = Your list seems to favour newer titles, so I've marked the more recent movies.

Comedy:
Fright Night (1985)
Basket Case *
Basket Case 2 **
Basket Case 3 **
Frankenhooker *
Death Spa *
Slugs *
The Howling
House (1985)
Feast [newer]
Housebound [newer]
Ready or Not [newer]

Zombie (Comedy):
Shaun of the Dead [newer]
Re-Animator

Bride of Re-Animator
Beyond Re-Animator **
Dead Alive
The Return of the Living Dead
Cemetery Man

Dead Heat *
Dead Snow [newer]
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead [newer]
Zombeavers [newer]
Zombie for Sale [newer]
I Am a Hero [newer]
[REC] 3: Genesis [newer]

Zombie:
[REC] [newer]
Zombi 2
Zombi 3 *
City of the Living Dead
The Beyond
The House by the Cemetery
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue

Slasher:
Black Christmas (1974)
The Burning
StageFright (1987)
Maniac (1980)
Maniac (2012) [newer]
Intruder (1989)
The Collector [newer]

Slasher (Comedy):
Pieces *
Killer Workout *
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon [newer]

Slasher (Giallo):
Blood and Black Lace
Deep Red
Tenebrae
Torso

Other/Splatter/Effects Heavy/:
The Thing
Demons
Demons 2
Society
From Beyond
Dagon
Brain Damage
Hellraiser

Torture:
Audition (1999)
The Loved Ones [newer]

Other:
The Descent [newer]
Bone Tomahawk [newer]

Surely you've already seen these, but your list is missing these classics:
Evil Dead
Evil Dead II
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Some Universal Monsters? Bride of Frankenstein and The Invisible Man are a good starting point.
 

Ryuelli

Member
Oct 26, 2017
15,209
I went over your stuff and here's a quick and dirty list of movies that I think fit your criteria. I noticed you didn't have a lot of older titles listed so you've probably seen a lot of this, but just in case I listed a lot of common stuff you'd hopefully like.

Legend:
BOLD = Classic. A must watch.
* = Incredibly Cheesy Fun, or So Bad, It's Good
** = Generally not looked upon favourably, but I personally think is underrated.
[newer] = Your list seems to favour newer titles, so I've marked the more recent movies.

Comedy:
Fright Night (1985)
Basket Case *
Basket Case 2 **
Basket Case 3 **
Frankenhooker *
Death Spa *
Slugs *
The Howling
House (1985)
Feast [newer]
Housebound [newer]
Ready or Not [newer]

Zombie (Comedy):
Shaun of the Dead [newer]
Re-Animator

Bride of Re-Animator
Beyond Re-Animator **
Dead Alive
The Return of the Living Dead
Cemetery Man

Dead Heat *
Dead Snow [newer]
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead [newer]
Zombeavers [newer]
Zombie for Sale [newer]
I Am a Hero [newer]
[REC] 3: Genesis [newer]

Zombie:
[REC] [newer]
Zombi 2
Zombi 3 *
City of the Living Dead
The Beyond
The House by the Cemetery
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue

Slasher:
Black Christmas (1974)
The Burning
StageFright (1987)
Maniac (1980)
Maniac (2012) [newer]
Intruder (1989)
The Collector [newer]

Slasher (Comedy):
Pieces *
Killer Workout *
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon [newer]

Slasher (Giallo):
Blood and Black Lace
Deep Red
Tenebrae
Torso

Other/Splatter/Effects Heavy/:
The Thing
Demons
Demons 2
Society
From Beyond
Dagon
Brain Damage
Hellraiser

Torture:
Audition (1999)
The Loved Ones [newer]

Other:
The Descent [newer]
Bone Tomahawk [newer]

Surely you've already seen these, but your list is missing these classics:
Evil Dead
Evil Dead II
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Some Universal Monsters? Bride of Frankenstein and The Invisible Man are a good starting point.

Oh man, thanks! I've definitely seen a few of those (not sure why Evil Dead 1 and II aren't on my lists already, for example), but there's a bunch of titles I haven't seen or heard of. Thanks for this post. :)
 

More_Badass

Member
Oct 25, 2017
23,635
Another unexpectedly awesome gem to recommend, Children of the Corn 3: Urban Harvest

This DTV sequel outdoes its predecessors through commitment to batshit spooky fun. Rural horror comes to the Windy City, and takes root as only Screaming Mad George effects and unfettered '90s horror can.

It's reverse folk horror: pagan faithful arrives among the unbelievers and punishes their ways through corny reprisals. And by "corny", I mean stalk-skewered heads, killer scarecrow, a spine extraction that upstages the Predator's technique, a pagan maize god reaping by sickle and bloodthirsty roots. Screaming Mad George gore every few minutes and a fun tone-blend of concrete jungle meet heartland horror

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Conditional-Pancakes

The GIFs of Us
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Jun 25, 2020
10,869
the wilderness
I posted this earlier today in the Horror Fan Era thread, but if anybody here didn't see the original 1982 Poltergeist yet, you definitely should add it to your list.

I rewatched it last night and I think it's the most perfect horror movie. It might be the greatest horror movie of all time.
 
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tellNoel

Member
Oct 26, 2017
10,257
I posted this earlier today in the Horror Fan Era thread, but if anybody here didn't see the original 1982 Poltergeist yet, you definitely should add it to your list.

I rewatched it last night and I think it's the most perfect horror movie. It might be the greatest horror movie of all time.
I rewatched it the other day. It's a good movie. I didnt realize it was written by Spielberg when i was younger but during my rewatch i couldnt believe how obvious it was. It has his style written all over it. I also got a strange Goonies vibes in some scenes
 

Ithil

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Oct 25, 2017
23,411
I rewatched it the other day. It's a good movie. I didnt realize it was written by Spielberg when i was younger but during my rewatch i couldnt believe how obvious it was. It has his style written all over it. I also got a strange Goonies vibes in some scenes
Co-directed too, and exactly how much "co" was involved depends on who you ask. Only Hooper was credited as director officially for contract reasons.
 

MikeMyers

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,132
United Kingdom
If you have access to Japanese Netflix, here are some of the Japanese horror movies currently available:
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Some of my favorites listed:
One Cut of the Dead (カメラを止めるな!)
The movie opens with a 37-minute-long continuous take (this took 6 tries!) that's really mindblowing, and the rest of the film just makes what you just saw feel really fun. It's a horror movie lover's horror movie, or maybe a movie lover's movie in general.

I Am a Hero
I've read the whole manga, and I think I prefer the film because it doesn't get to the later parts I dislike. It's just a solid zombie film that keeps the tension on.

Cure
My favorite films are often those that don't reveal everything to the viewer easily. There's a lot to explore with dissecting this film, and it's just brilliantly shot, acted, and scripted. Absolutely love this one.

There are tons of Ring movies on here, and I need to finally see Sadako vs Kayako (Ring girl vs Grudge girl). I'm sure that's dumb fun.
Yeah love Japanese horror and have Netflix Japan. I really enjoyed I Am a Hero and surprised it went unnoticed among Western horror fans, especially since Train to Busan got a lot of attention. Yeah all the Japanese Ring films are on there except for the made for TV film. Sadako Vs Kayako is watchable in a shlock way.
 

More_Badass

Member
Oct 25, 2017
23,635
Is anyone going to watch Z this year?
Saw it already earlier this year. Had a few good moments (there's a scene involving a staircase that's my favorite jump scare of the year) but overall never really surpassed the intensity and tension of that one moment

Yeah love Japanese horror and have Netflix Japan. I really enjoyed I Am a Hero and surprised it went unnoticed among Western horror fans, especially since Train to Busan got a lot of attention. Yeah all the Japanese Ring films are on there except for the made for TV film. Sadako Vs Kayako is watchable in a shlock way.
I don't think I Am A Hero ever got a proper release here. But yes, it is among the decade's best entries in the genre
 
Saw it already earlier this year. Had a few good moments (there's a scene involving a staircase that's my favorite jump scare of the year) but overall never really surpassed the intensity and tension of that one moment


I don't think I Am A Hero ever got a proper release here. But yes, it is among the decade's best entries in the genre
Funimation put out a Blu-ray of it, but to pretty much no real notice. Damn solid zombie movie all around, especially with the villain zombie being such an awesome concept.
 

nicoga3000

Member
Oct 25, 2017
8,999
I've never done this because I'm always too busy...But I may get a month of Shudder and try and make it happen this year.