movies

[eumaas]

The Ring didn’t do much for me. My personal favorite Japanese horror films are Cure and Pulse, both by Kiyoshi Kurasawa.

[tepista]

The Ring didn’t do much for me. My personal favorite Japanese horror films are Cure and Pulse, both by Kiyoshi Kurasawa.

i was watching the SHUDDER countdown and they're a few I hadn't seen, Pulse was one of them. I put it on my short list, will check soon

[revbob]

Should I watch X first, is it necessary or will Pearl standalone and not confuse me?

Nah, since it's a prequel, there' shouldn't be any confusing bits. I'd watch them both cuz they're great. Mia Goth is a star.

Either particularly un-gory? Trying to see what the wife might enjoy. She is going out of town for a few days, so I was planning on watching both of these. I'm trying to force "It Follows" on her as I really want to re-watch and don't remember it being particularly violent.

I saw The Ring the other night and it's not gory. Still holds up decently, might be a good pick.

That movie fucked me up for weeks. I couldn't shower in the dark as I usually do.

I enjoyed the Ring when I saw it and I swear our fucking phone started ringing as soon as the movie was over. I want to say the premise of It Follows is very similar right? Some impending doom that you can only avoid by passing it to someone else. Do I remember that right?

[Kory]

Nah, since it's a prequel, there' shouldn't be any confusing bits. I'd watch them both cuz they're great. Mia Goth is a star.

Either particularly un-gory? Trying to see what the wife might enjoy. She is going out of town for a few days, so I was planning on watching both of these. I'm trying to force "It Follows" on her as I really want to re-watch and don't remember it being particularly violent.

I saw The Ring the other night and it's not gory. Still holds up decently, might be a good pick.

That movie fucked me up for weeks. I couldn't shower in the dark as I usually do.

I enjoyed the Ring when I saw it and I swear our fucking phone started ringing as soon as the movie was over. I want to say the premise of It Follows is very similar right? Some impending doom that you can only avoid by passing it to someone else. Do I remember that right?

That's what I recall of it too, but it's been a while. Didn't it have some sort of STI metaphor?

[revbob]

Either particularly un-gory? Trying to see what the wife might enjoy. She is going out of town for a few days, so I was planning on watching both of these. I'm trying to force "It Follows" on her as I really want to re-watch and don't remember it being particularly violent.

I saw The Ring the other night and it's not gory. Still holds up decently, might be a good pick.

That movie fucked me up for weeks. I couldn't shower in the dark as I usually do.

I enjoyed the Ring when I saw it and I swear our fucking phone started ringing as soon as the movie was over. I want to say the premise of It Follows is very similar right? Some impending doom that you can only avoid by passing it to someone else. Do I remember that right?

That's what I recall of it too, but it's been a while. Didn't it have some sort of STI metaphor?

That was my takeaway but yeah its been a long time since I saw either.

Side note I started watching Hobo with Shotgun yesterday my wife was out but she came back and she wasn't having it so. I gotta wait to finish it.

[tepista]

Mark of the Devil (1970) West German exploitation cashing in the success of Witchfinder General, this movie was famously marketed in the U.S. with a “barf bag” given to all theater patrons. Well, it’s not going to make you barf, but there’s a nice tongue-ripping scene that’s close to H.G. Lewis style, and multiple depictions of torture. Udo Keir plays a spokesman from the church who comes to check on a small town where he finds the witchfinder in charge (Reggie Nalder) is abusing his power and using accusations as cover for rape. When he calls his own boss in (Herbert Lom) to oversee the transition of power, he finds that his morals aren’t much better. One particular scene I enjoy is the establishment accusing a husband and wife of witchcraft because they don’t understand how marionettes work. Allegory still relevant today. Banned in many countries, and a section 3 Video Nasty, this one has always been a favorite of mine. Also with a great score. (VHS)

Mark of the Devil: Part II (1973) A Count and his family are riding by in a carriage when they find the local witch hunters brutally torturing a woman. He, and one of the men are killed in the following skirmish, and when the widow (Erica Blanc) files a complaint, she and her young children are accused of heresy and are imprisoned and tortured. Reggie Nalder returns as a similar character from the first film, though the two are only related in title and theme. Not quite as good as the first. (VHS)

The Munsters (2022) Since this was universally panned at its conception, I wanted to give it a fair and open-minded chance, but man, it just wasn’t funny. Is it for children? What children are going to get Sonny Bono and Maurice Chevalier references? Is it for nostalgia-seeking adults? I don’t know. Why is Rob Zombie obsessed with back-stories? Well, it wasn’t so bad that I was offended by it, and I didn’t consider turning it off. Seemed like they left it open-ended for a sequel or series, but I can’t imagine that would happen. I read another review that said it looked like a porn parody without the sex, pretty spot on. (NETFLIX)

Hands of Steel (1986) Giallo master Sergio Martino tries his hand at the Cyborg genre, which was big at the time. A cyborg gets memory-recall and botches a political assassination, and goes on the lamb, ending up in an Arizona motel and pub run where he saves the pretty and single proprietor from her customers, who are professional arm-wrestling brutes. That is until the government assassins catch up to him. With John Saxon, George Eastman and Janet Agren. Sadly, genre veteran Claudio Cassinelli was killed on set , along with a pilot, in a helicopter crash. (DVD)

Violent Milan aka Bloody Payroll (1976) When a payroll heist goes south, two of the crooks escape with the money, leaving the other two with hostages and surrounded by cops. One of them (Claudio Cassinelli) makes it out and goes on a bloody hunt for his share of the loot! As the title suggests, very violent. (DVD)

[Olaf]

Mark of the Devil (1970) West German exploitation cashing in the success of Witchfinder General, this movie was famously marketed in the U.S. with a “barf bag” given to all theater patrons. Well, it’s not going to make you barf, but there’s a nice tongue-ripping scene that’s close to H.G. Lewis style, and multiple depictions of torture. Udo Keir plays a spokesman from the church who comes to check on a small town where he finds the witchfinder in charge (Reggie Nalder) is abusing his power and using accusations as cover for rape. When he calls his own boss in (Herbert Lom) to oversee the transition of power, he finds that his morals aren’t much better. One particular scene I enjoy is the establishment accusing a husband and wife of witchcraft because they don’t understand how marionettes work. Allegory still relevant today. Banned in many countries, and a section 3 Video Nasty, this one has always been a favorite of mine. Also with a great score.

By Michael "Tränen lügen nicht" Holm. That's odd.

[tepista]

Mark of the Devil (1970) West German exploitation cashing in the success of Witchfinder General, this movie was famously marketed in the U.S. with a “barf bag” given to all theater patrons. Well, it’s not going to make you barf, but there’s a nice tongue-ripping scene that’s close to H.G. Lewis style, and multiple depictions of torture. Udo Keir plays a spokesman from the church who comes to check on a small town where he finds the witchfinder in charge (Reggie Nalder) is abusing his power and using accusations as cover for rape. When he calls his own boss in (Herbert Lom) to oversee the transition of power, he finds that his morals aren’t much better. One particular scene I enjoy is the establishment accusing a husband and wife of witchcraft because they don’t understand how marionettes work. Allegory still relevant today. Banned in many countries, and a section 3 Video Nasty, this one has always been a favorite of mine. Also with a great score.

By Michael "Tränen lügen nicht" Holm. That's odd.

I looked at his discography and was gonna make a Popeye joke, but the real thing is better than anything I've got up my sleeve.

[Olaf]

Mark of the Devil (1970) West German exploitation cashing in the success of Witchfinder General, this movie was famously marketed in the U.S. with a “barf bag” given to all theater patrons. Well, it’s not going to make you barf, but there’s a nice tongue-ripping scene that’s close to H.G. Lewis style, and multiple depictions of torture. Udo Keir plays a spokesman from the church who comes to check on a small town where he finds the witchfinder in charge (Reggie Nalder) is abusing his power and using accusations as cover for rape. When he calls his own boss in (Herbert Lom) to oversee the transition of power, he finds that his morals aren’t much better. One particular scene I enjoy is the establishment accusing a husband and wife of witchcraft because they don’t understand how marionettes work. Allegory still relevant today. Banned in many countries, and a section 3 Video Nasty, this one has always been a favorite of mine. Also with a great score.

By Michael "Tränen lügen nicht" Holm. That's odd.

I looked at his discography and was gonna make a Popeye joke, but the real thing is better than anything I've got up my sleeve.

Never seen those before. Great stuff.

[eumaas]

Midsommar was okay but not a patch on Wicker Man. Probably wouldn't watch it again.

[revbob]

Midsommar was okay but not a patch on Wicker Man. Probably wouldn't watch it again.

It was interesting enough but yeah 1 watch was sufficient.

[tepista]

My Best Friend’s Exorcism (2022) Two besties, one pretty (Gretchen), one homely (Abby), get separated in the woods, and the pretty one becomes possessed, which makes her do awful things to her circle of Catholic School chums. After alienating herself by blabbing all of Grethcen’s secrets to the entire school, Abby eventually recruits the services of weightlifting youth pastor for help. I have not read the book, I understand fans of it aren’t thrilled with the movie? I thought it was a an OK time-waster, and pretty light-hearted, nothing I’d watch twice. Remove a rape reference and a couple bad words and this slides into PG13 easily. (Amazon Prime)

Grave Robbers (1989) Teenage grave robbers stumble across the body of a Satanist, dormant for 100s of years, and accidentally resurrect him by pulling an axe from his body in this gory, supernatural slasher from the director of Don’t Panic. Spanish with subtitles. (SHUDDER)

Pet Sematary (1989) I had read the book for the first time earlier this year, so I wanted to relive this favorite of youth for the first time in a while for comparisons. No mentions of Judd’s wife in the movie, I wonder why? The previously buried were far more demonic in the book, and the long hike and the beckoning call of the burial ground were my favorite things, hard to show on film, I guess. Still, always a fave, I saw this in theater once upon a time! (cable TV)

Lady Frankenstein (1971) Sexy Rosalba Neri plays the title character, just returned from university where she became a surgeon. Her dad's creation is already rampaging the countryside in a green blouse and striped pants, so she creates another one to fight it. A sexy one, with the body of the dimwitted stable boy, and the brain of the old professor’s assistant who has a lecherous crush on her. He goes willingly! With Joseph Cotton, Mickey Hargitay, and Paul Muller. Lots of nudity, and awful monster makeup. This was so nice I've seen it thrice. (DVD)

The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998) I’m between seasons 5 and 6 on my series re-watch, and that’s where this feature film falls. The gub-ment is behind the bombing of a federal building to cover up some alien related deaths, and our two favorite FBI agents are on the case. There are some great episodes in this series, some not so great, this was like a 3-part mediocre episode. An almost-kiss to please the masses was interrupted by a bee sting! With Martin Landau, Terry O’Quinn, and Gweneth Paltrow’s mom joining the series regulars. (HBO)

[Dr. Medulla]

Pet Sematary (1989) I had read the book for the first time earlier this year, so I wanted to relive this favorite of youth for the first time in a while for comparisons. No mentions of Judd’s wife in the movie, I wonder why? The previously buried were far more demonic in the book, and the long hike and the beckoning call of the burial ground were my favorite things, hard to show on film, I guess. Still, always a fave, I saw this in theater once upon a time! (cable TV)

Now I want to play with yooooo.

[Flex]

I was HUGE into the x files when fight the future came out and I was so excited for it (I still listen to the soundtrack every Halloween!) I got out of the movie and my thought was "that's... fine." I guess I'd been expecting something a little more special but it was just like a 3 parter stitched together. Wasn't bad, but nothing that warranted the big screen treatment.

Been watching some great spookies. The Dark and the Wicked last night. That one actually spooked me a bit. Generational trauma haunted house/demonic shit. And I've watched two found footages that work in a common vein: Dashcam, which I imagine will be a love it or hate it movie depending on how amused you are by following around a singing MAGA influencer and the EXCELLENT Deadstream, about a disgraced streamer who spends a night in a haunted house. Both utilize the Livestream format, including "live" comments from viewers. Both horror-comedieals that don't skimp on the horror elements.

[Kory]

Watched The VVitch as I do every year and it continues to be in the running for top movies ever.