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Halloween Horror Movies!
« on: October 10, 2015, 12:19:23 AM »
I'm going to try a game. We mention a scary movie and then if you've seen it or if you can go watch it, tell the above poster what you thought (without huge spoilers)
Then recommend your own!

I'll start:

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

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Re: Halloween Horror Movies!
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2017, 11:04:34 PM »
We can probably just skip the game and go straight into movie recommendations.

Spider Baby, or the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)

Lon Chaney Jr plays Bruno, the devoted caretaker of a dangerously inbred family. They're doing reasonably well, living away from everyone else. Until a letter arrives, informing them that a distant cousin is coming to take possession of the estate....and presumably deal with the wackos.

It's one of Cheney's better performances, even for one so late in his career. He loved the script so much he swore to director Jack Hill that he'd stay stone cold sober during the shooting, and he kept his word.
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Re: Halloween Horror Movies!
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2018, 06:53:20 PM »
HÄXAN (1922)

A weird movie - in the sense that it's not structured in the way we would consider a movie to be. It's a rather freeform discourse on the history of witchcraft and the persecutions in the late Medieval / Renaissance eras. But it has amazing makeup and effects work, which still hold up.

Häxan flows along like a waking dream. Alternating between hallucinatory nightmare, black humor, and straight faced documentation, the film is never less than visually stunning and contains more imaginative visuals than any ten Hollywood blockbusters combined.”–Mondo Digital (DVD)

http://366weirdmovies.com/68-haxan-haxan-witchcraft-through-the-ages-1922/


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-  Donald Culross Peattie

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Re: Halloween Horror Movies!
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2018, 07:18:15 AM »
Trick'r'Treat

Filmed in 2007 and intended originally as a theatrical release, possibly the most Hallowe'en themed movie of all-time was eventually released straight to DVD in 2009. Starring Brian Cox, Dylan Baker and Anna Paquin, among others, this spooky (and at times) tongue-in-cheek anthology movie harnesses the spirit of Creepshow and Tales From the Crypt, but takes it to a whole other level. Featuring a narrative which features the creepy ch1ld/monster, Sam, in each segment, the stories are blended together ingeniously to effect a satisfying hallowe'en romp which can be enjoyed on hallowe'en night year upon year.

Seriously, if you have never seen this movie, give it a go. Rumours are that a second one is in the works.


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Re: Halloween Horror Movies!
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2018, 10:30:05 PM »
VIY (Soviet Union, 1967)

Khoma is a slacker student at a seminary. While on break, he has an encounter with a witch, that doesn't end well for her: he beats her to within an inch of her life. After returning to classes, he's summoned to travel to the estate of a powerful nobleman. His ailing daughter has specifically requested that he come and tend to her. But Khoma is too late; the young woman dies of her mysteriously-acquired injuries.

Khoma is then told that he will keep vigil over her body in the spooky old chapel for the three nights before her burial.

Need we mention that the recently departed is the very same witch that he beat up? And that apparently no one in the village knows she was a witch? And that her powers didn't all die with her?

Adapted from a story by Nikolai Gogol, it's a very well made look at a different cultural tradition of horror.


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Re: Halloween Horror Movies!
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2018, 08:14:15 PM »
Just posting this because I LOVE the snark:

‘Suspiria’: Guadagnino’s horror remake is 152 minutes of torture — for audiences
Mick LaSalle, SF Chronicle, 10-29-18

If life were infinite and leisure eternal and if the only challenge were how to fill the endless hours with something, anything, that might divert us even slightly, “Suspiria” would still be something to miss. Centuries and even millennia might go by, and it would still make sense to say no to this movie, because there’s just never a good time to see anything this worthless.

“Suspiria” consists of long stretches of dull, interrupted by pockets of pointlessness and megadoses of disgusting.

...we get a movie that combines the body terror, gynophobia, repulsiveness and vulgarity of Argento’s work with the loosely structured, long-winded self-seriousness of Guadagnino’s. We get a 152-minute remake of a 92-minute movie that amounts to little but mental torture — with an extra hour of mental torture thrown in for fun.

https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/suspiria-guadagninos-horror-remake-is-152-minutes-of-torture-for-audiences
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The last fling of winter is over ...  The earth, the soil itself, has a dreaming quality about it.  It is warm now to the touch; it has come alive; it hides secrets that in a moment, in a little while, it will tell.
-  Donald Culross Peattie

Re: Halloween Horror Movies!
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2018, 04:56:58 AM »
I don't have a specific movie ...
Just a link to public domain movies out there:

https://archive.org/details/SciFi_Horror

They are really free to download, because of several reasons ...
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Re: Halloween Horror Movies!
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2020, 03:58:42 PM »
With Hallowe'en just over I would suggest a nightmarish double bill of The Omen (1976) and The Omen (2006)

The original beats the arse out of the remake in every way; casting, location filming (they used real London locations as well as Italy and Israel in the original, the sequel was filmed in eastern Europe to save money), musical score and direction.

In fact watching the remake cast attempt to out-do the original cast is laughable, the only ones who come close are Pete Postlethwaite as the priest (originally played by Patrick Troughton) and Buggenhagen played by Michael Gambon in the remake and Leo McKern in the original. I still think the original cast is better than their counterparts in every role however.

Donner's direction is superb and makes the remake director look like an amateur.