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Every year I do a horror movie challenge in which I watch a horror movie a day, then reserve the last week for watching my favorites. Last year I tasked myself with watching horror movies I have never seen before -- which was a challenge in itself.

This year I am not holding myself to any particular rule, but will once again I will try to watch horror I may have missed over the years, starting tonight. In about one hour I will be watching some cheeseball sci-fi horror from 1981 called Inseminoid -- an obvious Alien ripoff. I think I have seen it, but I'll be damned if I remember any of it.



Anyway, feel free to take part if you want, and post what you are planning on watching or watched.
 
Leviathon is the best of the Alien rip offs.

I watched The Wailing last night. South korean movie, weird as shit, and quite good. The plot has a few nonsensical things about it, gets to be pretty contrived, however it still worked for me big time, very intense and original. It's super long, although paced well so that doesn't detract.

Gonna watch Conjuring 2 soon. Loved the first and this one surprisingly got decent reviews/word of mouth from what i remember.
 
Conjuring 2

It wasn't too bad. The "based on true events" should be taken with a grain of salt, of course. The real case was much, much more boring. I really wish they would have just made a series of movies using a fictional couple. I mean, aside from the Amityville house (which they had very little dealings with), most people don't remember the cases they are basing the movies on anyway.
 
Yeah i don't put any stock whatsoever in the real life stuff, and was actually a bit turned off initially to sit through the amityville connection, fucking yawn. I don't care if the folks the characters are based on originally delt with that nonsense, it's still prob the most played out and dull of any haunting crap in the genre. Playing up the "true events" stuff is detrimental for me as it makes it harder for me to buy into the movie. I know this shit isn't real, it's all fantasy, so when you're throwing real life con jobs like amityville into the movie and connecting it with this other shit, it just takes me out of the whole thing. Axe the laughable "hey viewer this shit is REAL!" and just let me turn my brain off and have some fun. I don't watch ghost stories/demon/possession/supernatural horror fare to satisfy any real life fears.

I really enjoyed the movie though. Not nearly as good as the first, and doesn't hold a candle to a lot of other greats the genre has to offer including recent gems like Babadook, but it still was a lot of fun and effectively creepy. I found the plot to be quite original as well...


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having a demon possess a ghost and use it to haunt a family was quite creative. I really dug that.




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it was especailly pleasing considering this was a sequel. So rare for a sequel, especially a horror sequel, to deliver to any degree on whtat the iniital established. I'm having a hard time actually evne thinkin up another horror series that did as good a job as conjuring has with its followup. Even classics of the genre like Alien and Evil Dead had followups that while amazing, also ended up heavily mixing genres to the point where neither were straight horror. Aliens is as much an action flick and Evil Dead 2 is a goofball comedy/horror. I don't say that to take anything away from those sequels, as they're two of my favs all time, but it still shows how difficult it is to do a followup. the filmmakers behind those didn't even attempt to full on straight follow their predecessors, instead opting to go in a very different direction right off the bat. It's hard to do otherwise and still deliver something creative and worthwhile, yet Conjuring 2 succeeded at just that. Prob the best thing i can say for it.


Hellraiser 2, just came to me. That's a tremendous followup that also stays right in line with its forerunner. really doubt any others will pop into my head though.

Anyways, i don't know if you have a list of movies already you intend to watch or if you're open to suggestions, but The Witch was one of the best i've ever seen, incredibly intense and effective. If you haven't seen that yet, def give it a go. Some of the best performances i've ever seen in a horror movie as well, incredible stuff.
 

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The Exorcist

I ran across a copy of the Exorcist in a used book store and once I started the read I couldn't put it down and was up all night until I finished it.

I spent a few more disquieting and restless nights where sleep evaded me after watching the movie.

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When you see your child doing an upside down crab walk as they scurry down the stairs ..... you know your in trouble.
 
Anyways, i don't know if you have a list of movies already you intend to watch or if you're open to suggestions, but The Witch was one of the best i've ever seen, incredibly intense and effective.

No list this year, just picking stuff at random. Saw The Witch in the theaters but need to watch it again. I let the hype for it get to me. I had very, very high expectations but felt a little underwhelmed after it was over. I will probably throw it in this month's rotation.
 
Watched The Wailing tonight. I liked it, but had to go read some Korean message boards to make sense of some of it and confirm some suspicions. I love foreign films, but sometime my ignorance of certain cultural stuff can make things a tad confusing.
 
Watched The Wailing tonight. I liked it, but had to go read some Korean message boards to make sense of some of it and confirm some suspicions. I love foreign films, but sometime my ignorance of certain cultural stuff can make things a tad confusing.

Korean films often have an odd feel to em. A LOT of em have this bizarre mix of goofy humor with the serious, dramatic/horror elements. You get that here in the first quarter/half. You get a lot of that in another great horror flick from there, The Host. They frequently just can't seem to resist mixing genres, and it isn't done the way western filmmakers will do black/dark comedy/horror ala American Werewolf in London, it instead just feels like a very crude and jarring smashing of two diffeerent types of movies together.

I don't think anything cultural threw me for a loop when it comes to the plot though, the things that bothered/confused me were....






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The biggest thing i didn't get is why the japanese guy seemed to grow weak and seemingly nearly die when the shaman performed his ceremony. If they were workin together, what gives? I can't make any sense out of that whatsoever. I read one theory involving the two pictures in the japanese guys shrine, of a man and a woman, suggesting that those are relating to him and the guardian ghost. If they come as a pair, and the shamans ceremoney was meant to remove/weaken the female guardian ghost, then perhaps it would also weaken the other half..the eveil japanese guy. That's total guesswork though as nothing in the movie itself supports it in any way. That's about the only thing i've come across that seems to work at all when it comes to an explanation though, unless something went completely over my head.

I also didn't care for the japanese guys reaction to the body in the car that was zombified. It had appeared as though he were trying to prevent it from turning into a zombie, and his reaction to it seemed distressed that it had been reanimated. Both this and the above felt to me like the director was unfairly misdirecting me. Both of these sequences were the biggest reason why i was starting to believe the jap wasn't the villain, so for them to end up feeling so manipulative and forced was kinda lame.

I also didn't grasp why the female ghost(who fucking SUCKED at her job as a gaurdian, haha good lord so inept) told the protagonist that the reason this was happening is cuz he had sinned and tried to kill the japanese guy. Uh huh? The offense agiainst his family and daughter had started longggg before that.

There's some neat little subtle things littered throughout the film that are pretty cool. For example, when we first encounter the female ghost, she's repeatedly throwing rocks at the cop. I've read some folks interpret the odd behavior as a tell that this is the good character in the movie, "let thou who is without sin cast the first stone". Not sure if that was the directors intent, but it makes sense and is pretty neat i think.

That ending was fucking phenomenal though, so intense and the payoff in that cave, holy shit, unforgetable. Def one of the most effective and best endings in horror movie history i think, fucking brilliant. I can forgive some of the nonsensical aspects of the plot and even potential holes due to how that finale was executed. Was on the edge of my seat not knowing who to believe, and then on the edge of my seat hoping the dad would make the right decision. So fucking grim and nightmarish, awesome.











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It's the type of horror flick that keeps growing on me after i watched it. Something like Conjuring is fun as hell in the moment while i'm watching it, maybe for a night or two afterwards(that fucking nun in the 2nd one haha, can't help but imagine it at the end of your hallway), but its scares are superficial and i don't find myself pondering it much afterwards. Stuff like The Wailing and The Witch as well are different, i can't get those out of my head for quite some time afterwards(especially the Witch). Even when i'm not trying to think about em, i find them creeping their way back into my thoughts.
 
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Watched the cult-classic Pieces last night. It's too stupid and surreal not to love. Besides, it's full of gore, bad acting, and lots of nudity.
 
There's some neat little subtle things littered throughout the film that are pretty cool.

Someone posted an interview with the director and that's exactly what the ghost's rock throwing meant. The ghost was to represent God. The cultural aspect that I did not grasp is that in their culture, villages have "protectors" that look over the village.

I agree about the zombie and the Jap's reaction to it. It was a cheap misdirection. I also did not like the female ghost's explanation to the main character as to why the Jap had picked his daughter. Personally, I thought the director showed a lot of the main character's sins to warrant him being punished via his daughter's possession. He was lazy, inept, ate too much, etc, etc.

Also, in regards to the ritual by the Shaman, one theory was that he was trying to kill the Jap even though they worked together - something about no longer wanting to be the henchling. I dunno, though... just another one of the things that didn't quite make sense.

One interesting note that I did pick up on, was the fact that the Shaman said the Jap was just fishing. I think this was probably closest to the truth, only because the director spent some time on the girl's parents' sex scene and the daughter seeing it - even having another scene with the father talking about it with her. Also, in the girl's coloring book, there were pictures of bloody dicks and a woman with blood coming from her vagina.

This, coupled with the Jap rumored to have raped one of the women that went crazy, along with the markings on the girl being on her upper thigh, makes me think the bait the Jap used with the girl was of a sexual nature - although none of that was implicitly implied.

I think I would have enjoyed it a hell of a lot more had they left out the Jap's reaction to the zombie, the weird reason the female ghost gave for why the girl was being targeted, and the shaman ritual's weird results.

But yeah, the ending in the cave was pretty good.
 
Finally got to watch Phantasm: Ravager, the final entry in the Phantasm films... or at least, the last with the original Tall Man. It wasn't great, but considering how it was filmed and it having the entire gang together for one last go, I give 'em a pass and, ultimately, I enjoyed it.

It's not as good as the original, and not as fun as the second, but a LOT better than the other sequels.

 
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No list this year, just picking stuff at random. Saw The Witch in the theaters but need to watch it again. I let the hype for it get to me. I had very, very high expectations but felt a little underwhelmed after it was over. I will probably throw it in this month's rotation.
I thought "The Witch" was pretty good it is free on amazon prime.
 
Finally got to watch Phantasm: Ravager, the final entry in the Phantasm films

Didn't know that came out yet. Def one of the most creative and interesting, and surreal, horror movie franchises, unforunately also deeply flawed. This is the 5th one right? I saw the 3rd a long time ago and didn't go any further with it.
 
So I watched - Would you Rather (2013) the other night... Pretty simple plot, not much of a story to it, you know whats going to happen but I had to keep watching to see what there options were of things to do... Cant say I liked it... but didn't hate it... It was kind of gore porn but with not too much actual gore in it?


[doublepost=1475771958,1475771463][/doublepost]I also watched Housebound a couple weeks ago on Netflix... I liked this one... had some giggles for me, I loved the mom in it... more of a comedy/horro/thriller type movie.

 
Watched All Through the House - One of the worse Christmas horror films I have ever wasted time on... despite a couple of decent gorey deaths.
 
So I watched - Would you Rather (2013) the other night... Pretty simple plot, not much of a story to it, you know whats going to happen but I had to keep watching to see what there options were of things to do... Cant say I liked it... but didn't hate it... It was kind of gore porn but with not too much actual gore in it?

That a japanese remake? Thought i remembber some jap movie with a similar plot.

I had seen that movie around, never bothered to watch it as ai t looks like shit, but watched that trailer for the first time and holy shit, JEFFREY COMBS!!!!! I may give it a go just for him, the guy is fucking brilliant.

I loved the mom in it

That the same broad from Hunt for the Wilderpeople(tremendous hilarious movie btw, everyone should see it, think it just came to the legal streamin)? Think it is.

I was on the fence about giving the housebound movie a go, prob check that out sooon if you folks say it's quality.
 
I was on the fence about giving the housebound movie a go, prob check that out sooon if you folks say it's quality.

I think you will be surprised. Also, if you can find it, check out Grabbers... a kind of Tremors-ish comedy\horror that I found to be excellent. Oh, Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a kids movie done right. I loved it.
 
Just watched House of the Devil for the first time. I remember it being well received when it first came out, but never saw it for whatever reason and totally forgot about it until i encountered some folks recently talkin about it. Tremendous stuff. I think' i've had my fill of heavy 80s throwback/homage stuff for a while after Stranger Things and It Follows(another great one, in spite of is awkward structure and pisspoor pacing) and a slew of other shit that's come out in recent years that has beat this nostalgia thing into the dirt. If i had seen it when it first came out though, this aspect would have been a huge plus, as is i don't think it adds TOO much. I suppose the way they kept it so authentic with the filming style was cool, and the connection to the satanic cult obsession/paranoia back then makes it work.

Anyways, fantastic stuff. I loved it. It was slow burnin and subtle while at the same time delivering several shocking huge moments. It'd hit you with something out of fucking nowhere and then go right back to the deliberate pacing, made for a very effective horror flick. Lot of movies do a slow build and then turn a switch, and from then on you're just getting assaulted with attempts to horrify. Lot of other movies will slowly ramp up things, showing a tiny bit of weirdness here, tiny bit here, very small reveal after small reveal, like an endless display of minor building blocks till they pull the trigger finally.

This was a bit different. It has common(and well done) slow build with the babysitter checkin out the creepy house room by room, finding an odd but nonthreatening thing her or there. But it also had several HUGE moments sprinkled in there. That was unique i thought. Usually you get a load blowin horror flick or one that refuses to until it can't hold back any longer. This doesn't go either route. Here we have a slow burner that wasn't afraid to shove some shit in your face and then immediately reel everything back and return to the delightful crawl.

And then of course that final act fucking delivers big time. Awesome stuff.

And huge plus for Tom Noonan, that guy is incapable of not being creepy as shit. Even in this movie he plays such an even keeled, calm, seemingly nice guy, but even with that gentle voice the guy couldn't be more threatening. I love that actor.
 
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Watched All Through the House - One of the worse Christmas horror films I have ever wasted time on... despite a couple of decent gorey deaths.

Silent Night, Deadly night is one of my favorite movies, lol
[doublepost=1476120065,1476119677][/doublepost]Pieces - Full movie is on You Tube at the moment....

 
For reasons, I can't download movies at the moment. But if anyone has Netflix, Amazon, Comcast, etc. type suggestions that'd be kickass if you could mention how you watched it.
 
For reasons, I can't download movies at the moment. But if anyone has Netflix, Amazon, Comcast, etc. type suggestions that'd be kickass if you could mention how you watched it.

Housebound is on Netflix, Hush is on Netflix that was also pretty good. Hellraiser, Cape Fear, The babadook...
 
the Breed was solid, def something special when it was first released. Even now the premise is so delightfully bizarre and weird. Cronenberg does body horror like nobodys business, and Oliver Reed is a badass.

For reasons, I can't download movies at the moment. But if anyone has Netflix, Amazon, Comcast, etc. type suggestions that'd be kickass if you could mention how you watched it.

I stream. Putlocker, 123movies, watchmovies.to, theres a shit ton of variants. Long as you got a decent ad block/anti virus stuff haah they're a good way to go. Fucking ads.
 
Cronenberg does body horror like nobodys business, and Oliver Reed is a badass.

I saw it as a kid when it first came out, and it was my first introduction to Cronenberg and have been a fan of a majority of his movies ever since. Also, knowing he made the movie while fighting for custody of his daughter from his first wife, puts the entire film into a new perspective when watching it.
 
Watched Don't breathe. It was good, but i think i went into it expecting a bit too much. If they had 2 or even 1 more burglar on the team, it woulda made for a far better movie(more kills, more blind guy stalking victims in his home). As is, it didn't quite have the punch i expected or desired, especially given how ow well it was received.

The ending pissed me off a bit too.

Part of the problem too is that i saw Green Room months back. That movie kinda ruins the whole "people hunting other people, especially in dark dank buildings" motif for othe horror flicks. Nothing can come close(at least so far this year) to how unnerving and brutal and intense that movie is.
 
I watched The Tortured last night.... It was pretty good, good Torture scenes, not the best makeup/effect job but good enough... ok little twist near the end.... Happy perfect life married couples 5 yo son gets kidnapped, parents end up going for blood...

Its on Netflix right now...

If you go and watch the Trailer direct on Youtube DO NOT READ ANY COMMENTS...

 
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