Movies Halloween Movie Thread?

Did more than a movie every day last year but I’ve got a baby now which makes it a little tougher lol.

Haven’t watched anything so far but I am planning on watching VHS Beyond tonight and The Hitcher this weekend. I just got it on a new 4K transfer so I’m stoked.
 
10/4: I Like Bats (1985)

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This is a Polish film about a vampire who incidentally looks exactly like Debbie Harry that goes to a psychiatrist because she wants to become human. The main actress was the highlight of this decent vampiric character study.

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6.3/10
 
I just watched VHS Beyond. I didn't see any of the others or know it was a series until now. It's like a Creepshow or Tales from the Crypt with short stories but all in 1st person with found film. This one has 5 plus a main story that they talk about between the others. All are sci-fi horror about aliens except for 1 that's about a crazy dog lady that is pretty funny.

I have 0 hope for any movie I watch now. I liked this one. Very surprised. Especially the plane one was excellent. I really would believe it was a found footage until the ground aliens show up. There's no big money special effects for aliens so some may make you laugh like i did, but I really like the movie for what it is. I think I have to watch some of the other ones now.

8/10
 
I just saw Halloween ends and what a weird turn of events considering this is the third part of the trilogy and all done by the same director.

After the last film where Michael Myers was at his strongest we had seen now he is super weak like a normal 60 year old and his basically a supporting character/mentor to the new main villain.

Basically the films deal with the impact Michael Myers has left in the town, the new main villain is Corey Cunningham, he accidentaly killed a kid he was baby sitting years ago and now is bullied by the town of Haddownfield, he basically starts dating Laurie's grandaughter because the Strodes are also pariahs in the town. One night he gets jumped by bullies and falls in to a sewer where he meets Michael Myers and gets possesed/wakes his inner rage. Similar to Joaquin Phoenix's Joker he seems to be the victim at first whose first two kills are accidental (the kid and a hobbo that attacks him with a knife), like Joker he also has to deal with a castrating mother. After meeting Michael he start becoming more violent, at some point Corey outwrestles Michael and takes the mask for himself going in a killing spree.

I think this would have worked better as a post Michael Myers film where he doesnt show up.
 
Another television entry for today.

10/1 - It Comes at Night
10/2 - From Season 3 Episodes 1 & 2
10/3 - Tales from the Hood
10/4 - Halloween II (2009)
10/5 - Grotesquerie Season 1 Episodes 3 & 4
 
Unpopular Opinion

Night of the Living Dead remake (1990) is better than the OG (1968)

Lead actress is better
Tony Todd (Candyman) is better
The angry husband in the basement is better
The zombies are better
The scares are better
The kills are better
Everything is better imo

Granted I saw the remake first as a kid but I watched it again last night and I just like it way more.
 
It Comes at Night appeared many times in this thread, addin it to my list
 
10/5: Nightmare City (1980)

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An Italian zombie classic that has somehow eluded me until now. While I'm not a fast zombie fan (I suppose these are infected people not zombies) this movie has just about everything I could want otherwise.

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7.7/10
 
Highway99 said:
10/5: Nightmare City (1980)

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An Italian zombie classic that has somehow eluded me until now. While I'm not a fast zombie fan (I suppose these are infected people not zombies) this movie has just about everything I could want otherwise.

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7.7/10
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That was the first zombie film I ever saw, because of the casting of Hugo Stiglitz it ended on mexican TV in the 80s.

Its one of those movies Im really fond of.
 
armbarforhire said:
That was the first zombie film I ever saw, because of the casting of Hugo Stiglitz it ended on mexican TV in the 80s.

Its one of those movies Im really fond of.
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I can see why. I don't know why I put if off for so long considering the movies popularity and my affinity for that era of Italian film.
 
Highway99 said:
I can see why. I don't know why I put if off for so long considering the movies popularity and my affinity for that era of Italian film.
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People seem to go out of their way to make fun of it. Like "oh it has running zombies and they use machine guns LMAO" , I mean they aren't really braindead and even other zombie films like the later Romero ones and ROTLD have played with Zombies using tools or running. Sure the movie has all the flaws you expect from a 80s italian zombie film but I find it really fun other than the blue balls ending.

Tarantino is a fan too.

 
Watching Carrie (2002), because it has both Angela Bettis (star of May), and Katharine Isabelle, my Canadian bae. Although I don’t have high hopes for it.
 
Yeesh, I wonder if Carrie 2002 is more book accurate than the originally film. A lot of goofy stuff happens and it seems the type of stupid shit Stephen King would write. I’m gonna have to look it up. There were meteors, Carrie blew up the whole town, Sue revived her from her bath tub death and helped Carrie skip town.
 
The Omen (1976)

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My Rating: 8/10

I saw this as a kid but haven't seen it since. Great movie. Why this is a great horror movie is because I believe in God and the devil, in the Bible so it's realistic and believable to me.

While I found the mother falling over the balcony a little silly, it was the beheading scene that I found most well done. I had to watch that scene twice. I thought the impalement scene was excellent as well.

Great leading actor, story, music, ending. One of the best horror films of the 70s. Top 10 easily.
 
Kardashians said:
Yeesh, I wonder if Carrie 2002 is more book accurate than the originally film. A lot of goofy stuff happens and it seems the type of stupid shit Stephen King would write. I’m gonna have to look it up. There were meteors, Carrie blew up the whole town, Sue revived her from her bath tub death and helped Carrie skip town.
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Nope. Carrie dies in the book. The meteors were, I think, a reference to a passage in the book where Carrie remembers her mother almost strangling her to death as a child. Carrie used her Telekinesis to lift huge stones from miles away and drop them on their house. Her mother was so terrified she stopped trying to kill Carrie.

Carrie in the book states that she never had that level of power before or since.

It's been a long time since I read the book, but I think you may be right about Carrie destroying a large part of the town, including the fire station so no one could put out the rest of the fires she started.
 
The Good The Bad The HBK said:
The Omen (1976)

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My Rating: 8/10

I saw this as a kid but haven't seen it since. Great movie. Why this is a great horror movie is because I believe in God and the devil, in the Bible so it's realistic and believable to me.

While I found the mother falling over the balcony a little silly, it was the beheading scene that I found most well done. I had to watch that scene twice. I thought the impalement scene was excellent as well.

Great leading actor, story, music, ending. One of the best horror films of the 70s. Top 10 easily.
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Agreed. It's GOAT-level. The sequel isn't bad either.
 
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