Rip Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 Just watched The Medium. Hooooly shit. That was nuts. iwokeinrelief 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 And oh damn happy 100th page guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwokeinrelief Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 7 hours ago, Rip said: Just watched The Medium. Hooooly shit. That was nuts. It is! I love how it goes from a very measured pace to just hard AF for that last hour. Some of the shots of Mink burned themselves into my brain and hung around for a while once it was done. Rip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 6 hours ago, iwokeinrelief said: It is! I love how it goes from a very measured pace to just hard AF for that last hour. Some of the shots of Mink burned themselves into my brain and hung around for a while once it was done. Oh yeah for sure. I’m still thinking about some of the shit she was doing 😂 iwokeinrelief 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Would Squid Game fall into the horror category?...Cuz, damn...that shit was crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwokeinrelief Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 1 hour ago, jhulud said: Would Squid Game fall into the horror category?...Cuz, damn...that shit was crazy. Probably not; it's more in the dystopia/thriller space. I almost said sci-fi but there really isn't anything futuristic about, it's pretty grounded in modern capitalistic-hellscape 😬 BUT, it *was* a blast, my wife and I loved it. Between that and Midnight Mass it was a solid few weeks for Netflix limited series! jhulud 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwokeinrelief Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 Any of y'all watch that Folklore series on HBO? Curious if any in particular are stand outs / or if any are missable. We watched the first one last night (A Mother's Love) and really enjoyed it, but we watched it specifically because Joko Anwar (Satan's Slaves, Impetigore, Queen of Black Magic) directed it; I'm not immediately familiar with the other directors though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwokeinrelief Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 I had not realized Nick Antosca was one of the writers on Antlers. Was already going to check it out, but I might need to get out to the theater to see it next weekend now. Rip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Posted October 29, 2021 Author Share Posted October 29, 2021 2 hours ago, iwokeinrelief said: Any of y'all watch that Folklore series on HBO? Curious if any in particular are stand outs / or if any are missable. We watched the first one last night (A Mother's Love) and really enjoyed it, but we watched it specifically because Joko Anwar (Satan's Slaves, Impetigore, Queen of Black Magic) directed it; I'm not immediately familiar with the other directors though. Been wanting to check that out but I keep forgetting about it. iwokeinrelief 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwokeinrelief Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Probably hit at least one more this month, but here’s my opening 31 for the month (I watched 2+ hours of Midnight Mass in October so it counts dammit). Butterfly Kisses Sleepaway Camp Midnight Mass The Wolf House Woe Here Comes Hell V/H/S/94 Hell Fest Under the Shadow The Night Haze The Night House We Are Still Here Willy’s Wonderland Girl on the Third Floor The Block Island Sound The Ruins Pieces The Medium Mass Hysteria Possession Titane The McPherson Tape Halloween Exorcist III Halloween II Halloween III Veronica Deadhouse Dark Halloween 4 The Witch in the Window Rip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiatorhums Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 On 10/29/2021 at 8:41 PM, iwokeinrelief said: Halloween III Silver Shamrock! I love Season of the Witch so much! I really dug the small nod to it in David Gordon Green's Halloweens. Such a weird swing and miss trying to make Halloween an anthology franchise. Rip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwokeinrelief Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 6 hours ago, radiatorhums said: Silver Shamrock! I love Season of the Witch so much! I really dug the small nod to it in David Gordon Green's Halloweens. Such a weird swing and miss trying to make Halloween an anthology franchise. It's such a great movie! I love the attempt to move away from Michael Meyers - the first two films taken together are a perfect beginning to end experience, I can absolutely see why they'd think to just move on and make it more anthological - but of course I also love more Michael Meyers. radiatorhums and Rip 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwokeinrelief Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 We watched Tumbbad last night; I see it get categorized as horror - and it has those elements - but it's got more in common with folklore / fantasy / mythology than horror really. That said, we really enjoyed it - location-work is great and much of it is visually striking; really appreciated a non-western (non-japanese/korean) storytelling approach that felt both authentic and new-to-me. It made me want to visit India again; which (like my response to The Ritual) is just another example of my taking the completely incorrect thing away from a movie 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiatorhums Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Managed to make it a little past 31 this month. Didn't get to everything I'd hoped, which seems to happen every year. 1. Final Destination 2. Audition 3. Suspiria 4. Skinned Deep 5. Bubba Ho-Tep 6. The Night House 7. V/H/S 94 8. The Addams Family 9. Final Destination 2 10. The Funhouse 11. Little Shop of Horrors - Director's Cut (1986) 12. Mother of Tears 13. Cujo 14. The Dead Zone 15. Wrong Turn 2 16. Final Destination 3 17. Halloween Kills 18. House 19. Critters 3 20. Titane 21. House of Wax 22. Maniac 23. The Final Destination 24. Scream 25. Evil Dead Trap 26. An American Werewolf in London 27. Final Destination 5 28. The Return of the Living Dead 29. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation - Director's Cut 30. Friday the 13th : Part VII The New Blood 31. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 : The Dream Master 32. Slumber Party Massacre (2021) 33. Hellraiser Rip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwokeinrelief Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 3 hours ago, radiatorhums said: 11. Little Shop of Horrors - Director's Cut (1986) lol, saw this live through a local theater like two weeks ago. Should have included it on my list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiatorhums Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 9 minutes ago, iwokeinrelief said: lol, saw this live through a local theater like two weeks ago. Should have included it on my list! Same here! I live ~8 blocks from a small one screen theater that only shows cult favorites and I've been there a ton since they re-opened. The director's cut ending is insane, I loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwokeinrelief Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 42 minutes ago, radiatorhums said: Same here! I live ~8 blocks from a small one screen theater that only shows cult favorites and I've been there a ton since they re-opened. The director's cut ending is insane, I loved it. Oh, I mean I actually saw actors perform the musical live. radiatorhums 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdomestic Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 (edited) I want to get in on some page 100 action too Unfortunately my October viewing wasn't quite what I would ideally hope for. Lately I watched the first three Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Really liked them all, actually. Not a huge fan of some of the sillier stuff (hello budgie attack in Part 2) but the I love the surreal dream/nightmare horror aspects. Otherwise I've just had AMC FearFest on in the background during my workday and caught the standard staples like Halloween (1978), The Omen (1976 and 2006) and bits and pieces of some of the Final Destination movies. I also watched Cujo and most of Christine this morning. I also realized this is the first year in a while that I didn't watch Trick'r Treat. I will have to get on that Edited November 1, 2021 by Subdomestic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Han Solo Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Happy hundred pages !! I only got twenty seven movies done for the month of October, but I also went to Emo Nite and a few concerts and stuff so this was the best I could do ! 1) The Mist 2) Scream 3) Seance 4) The Green Inferno 5) Martyrs 6) Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum 7) Thirteen Ghosts 8 ) Orphan 9) The Thing 10) Rosemary's Baby 11) Haunt 12) Children of the Corn 13) Prom Night 14)The Exorcist (Saw this in theatres it was tight) 15) Session 9 16) The Shining 17) Ginger Snaps 18) Friday the 13th 19) Suspiria 20) Jennifer's Body 21) The Craft 22) The Poughkeepsie Tapes 23) Misery 24) The Medium 25) It 26) My Bloody Valentine 27) Halloween Kills Rip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Posted November 7, 2021 Author Share Posted November 7, 2021 (edited) Watched Titane and V/H/S ‘94 last night. Titane… holy shit. I really needed that. Been a long time since I’ve been surprised by something and that did it. Like a combination of Cronenberg’s Crash and Videodrome. Loved everything about it and I look forward to watching it again cause there’s so much to take in. V/H/S ‘94 on the other hand was the disappointment of the year for me. I actually think the previous one was better than this one. Such a shame cause the trailer made it look amazing. The second segment (the funeral/wake one) was actually really good. Like, I loved that one. First segment (ratman) had its moments, but it reeeeally lost me during the third segment. It went on for way too long and I had to force myself to stay awake. Sucks cause I was really looking forward to this movie for a while Edited November 7, 2021 by Rip iwokeinrelief 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwokeinrelief Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 Had a fairly ho-hum spate of viewing here recently. Watched that Korean flick The Clsoet that recently popped up on Shudder - it's a pretty average k-horror movie. Not bad but not really recommended either. Watched a few Koji Shiraishi movies due to how amazing Noroi is, but found them all underwhelming - A Slit-Mouthed Woman and Shirome are both pretty skippable, and Occult is fine but falls apart in the final third. Also watched a tawdry/trashy late-80's Giallo called Too Beautiful to Die which was basically as good as expected (not very, but it was entertaining enough). Rip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwokeinrelief Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 I’ve been sitting on the sofa all day with “day after Covid-vaccine” malaise. Watched: Lamb - solid as hell. Firmly weird fiction as opposed to horror though. Really enjoyed it. Haunted Mansion - the 2015 Filipino horror flick, not the Disney one. it was not good! [REC]2 - never saw this even though I loved the first one back when it came out on DVD. This was pretty decent; I really like horror sequels that pick up immediately after the original (especially because *so damn many* horror movies, even good ones, end with some stupid jump scare / haha this isn’t over) and this did that well. Rip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Posted November 12, 2021 Author Share Posted November 12, 2021 3 hours ago, iwokeinrelief said: I’ve been sitting on the sofa all day with “day after Covid-vaccine” malaise. Watched: Lamb - solid as hell. Firmly weird fiction as opposed to horror though. Really enjoyed it. Haunted Mansion - the 2015 Filipino horror flick, not the Disney one. it was not good! [REC]2 - never saw this even though I loved the first one back when it came out on DVD. This was pretty decent; I really like horror sequels that pick up immediately after the original (especially because *so damn many* horror movies, even good ones, end with some stupid jump scare / haha this isn’t over) and this did that well. [REC] straight into [REC]2 are a couple of my favorites from that “genre.” It’s too bad the 2 after fell pretty short in comparison iwokeinrelief 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwokeinrelief Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Rip said: [REC] straight into [REC]2 are a couple of my favorites from that “genre.” It’s too bad the 2 after fell pretty short in comparison Yeah, I’ve heard nothing at this point that makes me want to check out the others, but I’d seen positive feedback around the second one — glad I checked it out! I loved the first one so much like 15 years ago. It occurred to me while I was watching 2 that I really need to revisit it. Edited November 12, 2021 by iwokeinrelief Rip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwokeinrelief Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 14 hours ago, iwokeinrelief said: Yeah, I’ve heard nothing at this point that makes me want to check out the others, but I’d seen positive feedback around the second one — glad I checked it out! I loved the first one so much like 15 years ago. It occurred to me while I was watching 2 that I really need to revisit it. Went ahead and hit that re/visit this morning. The original remains one of the best of all the found footage genre. Rip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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