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[TheRash]

10/14

Jason X

The Terminator and Aliens had drunken, angry, rough sex one night in a sleazy motel. Jason X is their bastard child.

This is the last Friday the 13th movie in the OG timeline, and the last to star Kane Hodder as Jason. It's also the first and only F13 movie to be rated as PG-13 in the UK.

After trying and failing to execute Jason multiple times, the US Government decides to put him into cryogenic suspension. Then the US Army turn up and try to take Jason away so they can figure out how his Healing Factor works. That goes about as well as you'd expect, and the Final Girl manages to trick Jason into a cryo-chamber and freeze him. But not before he stabs her and damages the controls, so she's frozen as well.

She wakes up 455 years later. Earth has been rendered lifeless and humanity has colonised other planets. A research team find her and Jason, bring them back onboard their ship and thaw them out.

I'm sure you can figure out what happens next.

No one involved in this movie takes it seriously, and it's all the better for it. The Holodeck simulation of Camp Crystal Lake had me laughing out loud,

"We love pre-marital sex!"

It's the classic F13

8/10.

10/14

Jason X

The Terminator and Aliens had drunken, angry, rough sex one night in a sleazy motel. Jason X is their bastard child.

This is the last Friday the 13th movie in the OG timeline, and the last to star Kane Hodder as Jason. It's also the first and only F13 movie to be rated as PG-13 in the UK.

After trying and failing to execute Jason multiple times, the US Government decides to put him into cryogenic suspension. Then the US Army turn up and try to take Jason away so they can figure out how his Healing Factor works. That goes about as well as you'd expect, and the Final Girl manages to trick Jason into a cryo-chamber and freeze him. But not before he stabs her and damages the controls, so she's frozen as well.

She wakes up 455 years later. Earth has been rendered lifeless and humanity has colonised other planets. A research team find her and Jason, bring them back onboard their ship and thaw them out.

I'm sure you can figure out what happens next.

No one involved in this movie takes it seriously, and it's all the better for it. The Holodeck simulation of Camp Crystal Lake had me laughing out loud,

"We love pre-marital sex!"

It's the classic F13

8/10.

I remember watching this in the theater in high school. It was a magical time when stupid movies had advertising all over the local mall where the the theater was attached.

I fell for the advertising, and enjoyed every minute of this goofy movie at 17 years old.

The good old days.

25 years later, it’s amazing to me that a movie this bad was even granted theatrical release, and not straight to DVD.

 

[Long Dark Blues]

10/1 - Phantasm
10/2 - The VVitch + 28 Years Later
10/3 - I, Madman
10/4 - The Incubus + World Word Z
10/5 - Bring Her Back
10/6 - Train to Busan + Color Out of Space
10/7 - 976-EVIL + Pumpkinhead
10/8 - The Brood
10/9 - Vamp + Gothic + Silver Bullet + The Lost Boys
10/10 - The Thing (2011) + John Carpenter's The Thing
10/11 - The Night Eats the World
10/12 - IT (2017) + Gremlins
10/13 - Halloween III: Season of the Witch + Friday the 13th Part III
10/14 - The Substance
10/15 - Talk to Me

Talk to Me is from the same guys that did Bring Her Back and is a similar possession/soul transference type horror flick, albeit very different modes. Talk to Me came out first, and was a really fun movie. I enjoyed it a lot.

Some of the characters were annoying, but the story was good and there was a subtle twist with the mom that I liked and hadn't noticed until the very end.

Definitely recommend it if you are looking for a new horror. Also recommend Bring Her Back, both great flicks.

 

[ufcfan4]

Movie 11- Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

I found this one to be a mixed bag. It had been so many years since I'd seen it, that it felt as though I was watching it for the first time. I think one of the greater compliments one can give to this film and to Halloween 2 is that, in their best moments, they have the feel of the Carpenter classic. Unfortunately, their sillier and lesser moments are far worse than the Carpenter film. Halloween 2 is about as close as I think any other film in the franchise has gotten to evoking that quality for a prolonged period of time.

Halloween 4 definitely has good aspects, though. Danielle Harris is terrific. That is one of the best child actor performances I've seen in the genre. She is very expressive and thoroughly convincing, conveying the sadness and trauma of her character. I am a big fan of Pleasance in general and he does a very good job as Loomis, as always. I really enjoyed the scene in which he is speaking with the other doctor after the ambulance "accident," and mentioned that he was going to "Haddonfield. It's a four-hour drive. If you don't find him within four hours. I'm sure I will..." Ellie Cornell is quite good as Harris' adoptive sister. The scenes with just the two of them trying to flee from Myers are among the best in the film. Namely, the roof sequence is very tense and effective. Prior to that, the scene where Myers is ascending the staircase and Cornell's boyfriend has to try to stop him definitely harks back to the energy of the original Halloween.

Still, there are also drawbacks. Similar to Halloween 2, some of the hokier death scenes come across as though it was the intent of the filmmakers to up the ante with explosions and electricity and what have you. It feels unnecessary to me. Additionally, for such a short film, I had the sense that this one dragged a bit. In my view, that is evidence of the diminishing returns of the formula. Halloween, Halloween 2, and Halloween 4 do not exactly deviate much from one another in narrative and atmosphere. What is utterly effective the first time you see it, tends to lose something when you see it again and again.

Still, I walked away from this one with the distinct sense that it is one of the better films of the franchise. Actually, I think that if I were to rank the movies, my top four would actually go consecutively.

Halloween
Halloween 2
Season of the Witch
Halloween 4

Seems about right, though I do also enjoy H20. I'd have to rewatch the Zombie films to see where they factor in.

Halloween 4 was a solid enough watch but it definitely felt like it was a lesser sequel to Halloween 2 which was in itself a lesser sequel to Halloween.

6.2/10

 

[Plissken]

13th- Friday the 13th part V and Incubus (60's film in Esperanto with Bill Shatner, one of my favorites) on UHD, also Claymation Comedy of Horrors.
14th- Night of the Living Dead (the original) on UHD, Cementerio del Terror (awesome Texican Halloween film, pure 80's so a bit campy and fun; has a haunted house, a Satanic slasher villain, and zombies).
15th- Return of the Living Dead on UHD (just got it from Arrow), and Halloween 2 on UHD (NSM records release, looks better than the Scream Factory one).

 

[KnightTemplar]

I remember watching this in the theater in high school. It was a magical time when stupid movies had advertising all over the local mall where the the theater was attached.

I fell for the advertising, and enjoyed every minute of this goofy movie at 17 years old.

The good old days.

25 years later, it’s amazing to me that a movie this bad was even granted theatrical release, and not straight to DVD.

It definitely one of those, so-bad-it's-good movies.

 

[PRIDEWASBETTER]

Supernatural

S2/E5: Simon Says

Sam and Dean investigate another of the, "Psychic Kids" the Demon has plans for. In this case, it's Andy, a young man who can make someone do anything he wants, just by telling them to do it. When Sam has visions of people committing murder and suicide, he suspects Andy is responsible. But is he?

One of the better episodes, with an interesting Big Bad that ties into the overarching plot of the series.

8.5/10.

I'm just posting this because you're watching SPN and OG Death is the GOAT.

 

[KnightTemplar]

I'm just posting this because you're watching SPN and OG Death is the GOAT.

That gave me goosebumps. The music was perfect as well.

 

[Brother Numsi]

Planned on watching Trick R Treat Halloween Night like I usually do but I’ll be at my nephew’s Senior Football game

I need to watch The Conjuring which is probably my favorite horror film of the last 20 years. One particular scene scared my black arse and I don’t easily scare with horror movies

 

[GoodBadHBK]

Planned on watching Trick R Treat Halloween Night like I usually do but I’ll be at my nephew’s Senior Football game

I need to watch The Conjuring which is probably my favorite horror film of the last 20 years. One particular scene scared my black arse and I don’t easily scare with horror movies

Is it the scene where shes playing the hand clap game and goes into the basement?

 

[Prex32]

Watched Sleepy Hollow (1999) last night. I don't know if its underrated but it hardly gets mentioned when talking about Tim Burton films. Its among my favorites of his. Great atmosphere. The overall look is like a love letter to the old Hammer House movies of the 60's and 70's.

Spoiler

What a run Tim Burton had:

1985: Pee Wee's Big Adventure
1988: Beetlejuice
1989: Batman
1990: Edward Scissorhands
1992: Batman Returns
1993: A Nightmare Before Christmas
1994: Ed Wood
1996: Mars Attacks
1999: Sleepy Hollow

From Hell is another good movie with Depp

 

[Streeter]

The one wirh Marcy Darcy when she was cute. I liked that one

 

[KnightTemplar]

10/16 Movie:

My Bloody Valentine

A miner who murdered five of his colleagues with a pickaxe - they were trapped underground and he killed them to prolong his air supply - awakens from his coma one year later, on Valentine's Day. He slaughters 22 people, cutting out some of his victim's hearts and putting them in Valentine's candy boxes. He's eventually tracked down and killed, and buried in an unmarked grave.

Ten years later, the murders begin again, and the survivors of the first massacre have to try and stay alive long enough to figure out how The Miner has come back from the dead...

Definitely one of the stronger movies I've watched so far. A good cast - Jensen Ackles, Kevin Tighe(from the OG Roadhouse)and the great Tom Aitkins himself. The film was shot in 3D, which means you get a lot of scenes with weapons, body parts etc flying at the screen. And I do mean a lot: this film has a high body count, and some very gruesome kills. Strong performances throughout, and the film leaves it up to the viewer to decide if the killings are the work of a psychopath or something even darker...

9/10

 

[Highway99]

10/16: Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)

"Two tabloid reporters are sent to Transylvania to find the Frankenstein monster - or get fired. They are laughed at there, but something suspicious is going on."

Transylvania 6-5000 - IMDB

Another silly comedy. My biggest takeaway from this movie is that Geena Davis makes a hot ass vampire. Otherwise it was alright.

5.5/10

 

[Krimzon]

watched Dexter S1 E1-E6

i remember this show being fairly popular back in the day. I also remember trying to watch it and quitting twice after the first or second episode. I'm still not blown away the third time, but i'll keep with it, especially since i heard they brought it back for extra series(?).

The inner monologues remind of max payne which is nice.

1. jacobs ladder
2. dexter s1 e1-6
3. xfiles s1e1

 

[Long Dark Blues]

10/1 - Phantasm
10/2 - The VVitch + 28 Years Later
10/3 - I, Madman
10/4 - The Incubus + World Word Z
10/5 - Bring Her Back
10/6 - Train to Busan + Color Out of Space
10/7 - 976-EVIL + Pumpkinhead
10/8 - The Brood
10/9 - Vamp + Gothic + Silver Bullet + The Lost Boys
10/10 - The Thing (2011) + John Carpenter's The Thing
10/11 - The Night Eats the World
10/12 - IT (2017) + Gremlins
10/13 - Halloween III: Season of the Witch + Friday the 13th Part III
10/14 - The Substance
10/15 - Talk to Me
10/16 - The Dead Don't Die

I really wanted to like this movie a lot more than I actually did, its got an ensemble cast including Bill Ghostbustin'-ass Murray, Chloe Sevigny, Danny Glover, Steve Buscemi and a ton more yet still...

And all-in-all it was a fun zombie flick with a few quirks I enjoyed, but man, it just felt so slow at times and a lot of the humor was the dryest of dry wit.

Enjoyable but not as funny as I thought it'd be, and pretty slow.

 

[ufcfan4]

Movie 12: The Ring (2002)

Dreary mystery/horror film that takes a long time to get where it’s going and then ultimately doesn’t really amount to much. There are plenty of films that do a good job of making characters doing research compelling on film. Fincher has a couple of them- Zodiac and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. But this movie felt pretty slow and plodding in the scenes where Watts and her ex were combing through files and books. The mystery elements were enough to keep me interested but I didn’t think anything really paid off that well.

For me, it felt like a long crawl to the famous climb out of the well and out of the TV scene, something that is so ingrained in popular culture at this point that I’m sure it did not have any near of the impact for me that it did for an audience member twenty three years ago.

Naomi Watts did a strong job. She’s a great actress but I didn’t think the script gave her that much to work with. The little boy with an otherworldly connection trope has been done so much that I found it a bit redundant of The Sixth Sense and Stir of Echoes, a film that I just recently rewatched that I found to be significantly better.

The premise is like a solid Twilight Zone plot. I could picture after that opening scene with Tamblyn, the camera cutting to Rod Serling’s narration to set up the rest of the episode. But the interesting set up didn’t make for a riveting two-hour film.

Verbinski and his crew deliver strong production values and aesthetics but this didn’t resonate with me.

6.3/10

 

[GoodBadHBK]

Movie 12: The Ring (2002)

Dreary mystery/horror film that takes a long time to get where it’s going and then ultimately doesn’t really amount to much. There are plenty of films that do a good job of making characters doing research compelling on film. Fincher has a couple of them- Zodiac and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. But this movie felt pretty slow and plodding in the scenes where Watts and her ex were combing through files and books. The mystery elements were enough to keep me interested but I didn’t think anything really paid off that well.

For me, it felt like a long crawl to the famous climb out of the well and out of the TV scene, something that is so ingrained in popular culture at this point that I’m sure it did not have any near of the impact for me that it did for an audience member twenty three years ago.

Naomi Watts did a strong job. She’s a great actress but I didn’t think the script gave her that much to work with. The little boy with an otherworldly connection trope has been done so much that I found it a bit redundant of The Sixth Sense and Stir of Echoes, a film that I just recently rewatched that I found to be significantly better.

The premise is like a solid Twilight Zone plot. I could picture after that opening scene with Tamblyn, the camera cutting to Rod Serling’s narration to set up the rest of the episode. But the interesting set up didn’t make for a riveting two-hour film.

Verbinski and his crew deliver strong production values and aesthetics but this didn’t resonate with me.

6.3/10

I feel like Naomi would have died irl when she fell in the well. That looks like a 50 ft drop and the water was waist level deep. I dont even recall how she got out. Movie bored me.

 

[ufcfan4]

I feel like Naomi would have died irl when she fell in the well. That looks like a 50 ft drop and the water was waist level deep. I dont even recall how she got out. Movie bored me.

Oh absolutely. But that suspension of disbelief wasn’t too bad for me. Just was kind of an odd movie. I mean, it’s obviously horror but there were long stretches of the movie that played more like an investigative journalism/procedural film. That’s fine if those sequences are dynamic and engaging but I think they only intermittently attained that.

Yeah. It was pretty dull. Morbid payoff reminded me of It Follows. Someone else’s loss is your gain.

I guess one of the thing that most sticks out to me is that I thought because this film was so popular and had achieved something of an iconic status that it was a horror film all-timer. Now reading up on the reception, it was pretty mixed critically and cinema score was apparently a B- which is pretty mediocre.

Certainly not a bad film, in my view, but not particularly memorable.

 

[Kardashians]

Movie 11- Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

I found this one to be a mixed bag. It had been so many years since I'd seen it, that it felt as though I was watching it for the first time. I think one of the greater compliments one can give to this film and to Halloween 2 is that, in their best moments, they have the feel of the Carpenter classic. Unfortunately, their sillier and lesser moments are far worse than the Carpenter film. Halloween 2 is about as close as I think any other film in the franchise has gotten to evoking that quality for a prolonged period of time.

Halloween 4 definitely has good aspects, though. Danielle Harris is terrific. That is one of the best child actor performances I've seen in the genre. She is very expressive and thoroughly convincing, conveying the sadness and trauma of her character. I am a big fan of Pleasance in general and he does a very good job as Loomis, as always. I really enjoyed the scene in which he is speaking with the other doctor after the ambulance "accident," and mentioned that he was going to "Haddonfield. It's a four-hour drive. If you don't find him within four hours. I'm sure I will..." Ellie Cornell is quite good as Harris' adoptive sister. The scenes with just the two of them trying to flee from Myers are among the best in the film. Namely, the roof sequence is very tense and effective. Prior to that, the scene where Myers is ascending the staircase and Cornell's boyfriend has to try to stop him definitely harks back to the energy of the original Halloween.

Still, there are also drawbacks. Similar to Halloween 2, some of the hokier death scenes come across as though it was the intent of the filmmakers to up the ante with explosions and electricity and what have you. It feels unnecessary to me. Additionally, for such a short film, I had the sense that this one dragged a bit. In my view, that is evidence of the diminishing returns of the formula. Halloween, Halloween 2, and Halloween 4 do not exactly deviate much from one another in narrative and atmosphere. What is utterly effective the first time you see it, tends to lose something when you see it again and again.

Still, I walked away from this one with the distinct sense that it is one of the better films of the franchise. Actually, I think that if I were to rank the movies, my top four would actually go consecutively.

Halloween
Halloween 2
Season of the Witch
Halloween 4

Seems about right, though I do also enjoy H20. I'd have to rewatch the Zombie films to see where they factor in.

Halloween 4 was a solid enough watch but it definitely felt like it was a lesser sequel to Halloween 2 which was in itself a lesser sequel to Halloween.

6.2/10

I watched this tonight. Like you it had been so many years since I seen it it was like watching it for the first time.

I laughed at the gas station blow up, just unnecessary and so silly. They really wanted to have an explosion. The idiot bar guys shooting down an innocent man was also a silly seen. You just sit there watching them for way too long shoot at a gazebo lol.

But as you said the roof top scene is tense and Harris is fantastic in her role. I loved the ending too. Now I look forward to watching 5 tomorrow, though I’m sure I’ll be disappointed.

Also, the opening shots of this film are so good, and really give that vintage Halloween feeling. And I liked seeing all the masks and costumes from 88. Harris’ clown costume was cute too.

This is the only Halloween I don’t have on VHS and I need to rectify that. Solid entry imo.

 

[Kardashians]

Planned on watching Trick R Treat Halloween Night like I usually do but I’ll be at my nephew’s Senior Football game

I need to watch The Conjuring which is probably my favorite horror film of the last 20 years. One particular scene scared my black arse and I don’t easily scare with horror movies

Last year I made the mistake of starting October with Trick r Treat. It was a mistake because it gives such a good Halloween feeling that it felt wasted, like it deserved the day of.

I work this Halloween and the day after, so I’m not sure what I’m gonna do. And my work has banned Halloween bc it spreads evil so I can’t even dress up