31 Days of Horror

[jellydonut25]

1.) Possession
2.) Evil Dead (2013)
3.) Return of the Living Dead 2
4.) Return of the Living Dead 3
5.) Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
6.) Return of the Living Dead 4
7.) Monster Brawl
8.) The Faculty
9.) Return of the Living Dead 5
10.) The Howling 2
11.) The Howling 3
12.) The Howling 4
13.) Severance
14.) Bride of Re-Animator
15.) Halloween H20
16.) Howling 5
17.) Howling 6
18.) Beyond Re-Animator
19.) Howling 7
20.) Howling Reborn
21.) Curse of Chucky
and 11 Treehouse of Horror episodes

I've given reviews on all of the (awful) Howling Sequels, but for the couple movies on my list I haven't talked about:
Beyond Re-Animator was good. What a great trilogy, honestly. Each film builds on the one before and advances things to the next logical step. One little touch that's REALLY cool is that West comes closer and closer to solving his problems, so we never really question WHY he's continuing his research, because each movie takes a step in the next direction...what we question is his methods for getting his stuff done. I like this trilogy a lot. Hopefully we can get good Blu-ray releases of Bride and Beyond one day.

Curse of Chucky - Surprisingly good. A return to the horror roots while not entirely ignoring the previous films. It works more often than not and fits in well with the Child's Play series. I loved the ending too.

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

Watched The Human Centipede last night like you said Jelly it's not that bad. Tonight I watched the sequel which was a lot more disturbing wow that was messed up.

[MekaGojira3k]

[jellydonut25]

Add Killer Klowns from Outer Space to my list. I love that movie and it was perfect to put on while I was putting together my Halloween party invitations since I've seen it before so it didn't need my FULL attention

[Hybrid Gojira]

[Silver Kamen]

[jellydonut25]

Simpsons Treehouse of Horror

12
Hex and the City - well, it's got its moments. i like how lenny and carl and moe are included in an organic way. any time the segment feels like an episode of the show proper where just something whacky happens, it works for me.
House of Whacks - okay, i find it funny. lots of great moments, and the 2001 thing works for me.
Whiz Kids - I hate it. The premise-heavy segments are typically some of the worst, especially when they make no effort to incorporate the premise into a "regular day" for the simpsons. there's one decent part, with the vomit-spewing frogmanmonster, but ugh.
^Overall a pretty bad Treehouse of Horror. House of Whacks is solid, but the other two leave a LOT to be desired, and Whiz Kids is probably my least favorite segment of the first 12 Treehouses.

13
Send in the Clones - it's funny. i love when there are all the homers and some are old-school drawn, there's the uber obese one, the Peter Griffin. Funny stuff.
The Fright to Creep and Scare Harms - it's...okay...i mean, there are a couple of decent moments at the beginning and the end, but the premise itself is the real problem here. at least it doesn't solely rely on its premise, with a lot of the best jokes being about time travel despite that not being the point of the segment.
The Island of Dr. Hibbert - another solid segment.
^This one felt like (at the time) that it was a bit of a return to form. That after a mediocre 13th season, and some decline in quality during seasons 10,11 and 12 (though I still like them) that season 14 would be a return to The Simpsons being good on a weekly basis. I don't remember much about the rest of season 14, but that probably goes to show how incorrect that assessment was and if we look on to the next treehouse...

14
Reaper Madness - not a bad way to start out an episode, but its best moments are when there is no more death, and that is too short-lived.
Frinkenstein - ugh, i HATE this segment. i can remember being excited about it, when i first heard about it. Frink was becoming a hilarious character on the show over the seasons, and a Frink-centrix episode seemed like it'd be great. This episode's plot makes no sense and its jokes suck.
Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off - another blegh segment. it has a couple of decent moments here and there, but lacks overall.
^Talk about a nose-dive and the relative end of the Treehouse series. I'm sure there are other good segments and maybe even episodes over the next 10 remaining, but this was the point at which not even the Treehouse of Horror could be relied upon anymore. I can pinpoint the moment I stopped being a SUPER FAN of the Simpsons, and this was it. it's passable, and i remember a year where Fran Drescher guest-starred in a Jewish Golem segment and there was also a terrible War of the Worlds segment that was WAY worse and one of the flat-out worst episodes of The Simpsons period, but this is still not a good episode of the series overall.

[Silver Kamen]

[MekaGojira3k]

1. Lake of Dracula (1971)
2. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
3. Dracula (1931)
4. The Shining (1980)
5. The Stone Tape (1972)
6. Dark Shadows (2012)
7. Secret Window (2003)
8. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
10. Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
11. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
12. Twilight Zone The Movie (1983)
13. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
14. Beetlejuice (1988)
15. The Devil Rides Out (1967)

And added
16. Paranorman (2012) - Such a good movie, and I'm really confused why people seemed to love Frankenweenie so much and ignored this VASTLY superior animated adventure.
17. Curse of the Werewolf (1961) - It's a generally okay film not quite great but good enough. Mostly it makes me wish Hammer had tried a few more Werewolf films.

[Silver Kamen]

1. The Shining (1980)

2. Alien (1979)

3. Shaun of the Dead (2004)

4. Psycho (1960)

5. Cloverfield (2008)

6. Zombieland (2009)

7. Saw (2004)

8.The Exorcist (1973)

9.28 Days Later... (2002)

10. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

[jellydonut25]

I liked Frankenweenie better than Paranorman, but neither felt like a masterpiece

[Silver Kamen]

[MekaGojira3k]

[Silver Kamen]

[jellydonut25]

1.) Possession
2.) Evil Dead (2013)
3.) Return of the Living Dead 2
4.) Return of the Living Dead 3
5.) Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
6.) Return of the Living Dead 4
7.) Monster Brawl
8.) The Faculty
9.) Return of the Living Dead 5
10.) The Howling 2
11.) The Howling 3
12.) The Howling 4
13.) Severance
14.) Bride of Re-Animator
15.) Halloween H20
16.) Howling 5
17.) Howling 6
18.) Beyond Re-Animator
19.) Howling 7
20.) Howling Reborn
21.) Curse of Chucky
22.) Killer Klowns from Outer Space
23.) Cube
24.) Cube 2: Hypercube
25.) Cube Zero
26.) Puppet Master 4
27.) Puppet Master 5
28.) Puppet Master 6
29.) Retro Puppet Master
30.) Puppet Master 8
and 16 Treehouse of Horror episodes

It occurs to me I'd seen Puppet Master 4 before. I liked it more in the 90s when I was a kid, but it's still a stupid fun movie.
Puppet Master 5 is a more boring rehash of 4. Like, WAY more boring.
Puppet Master 6 is a mess of a piece of crap.
Retro Puppet Master is the best of anything after the 3rd film, but it's still pretty boring, and not much good. It's got a lot of weird stylistic choices, and I just don't like the continuation of the underworld demon stuff...
Puppet Master 8 I managed to watch in about 40 minutes, if that...it's a clip-show, with like 20 minutes of new material, maybe less

Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 15
The Ned Zone - a solid segment, and reminds me of something they might have done early in the series.
Four Beheadings and a Funeral - crap.
In the Belly of the Boss - it's okay, but it kinda ends on too similar a note to Homer's Dream in Treehouse 2.
^Overall, it's an okay episode of the treehouse series, probably better than 14 because it's structured a little better in terms of which segment goes where, but this is about as good as it gets in terms of later-era Treehouse stuff.

Treehouse 16
B.I: Bartificial Intelligence - eh. Not a ton to like here. Once upon a time, this would have been the ending segment, with the reveal that Homer was dreaming, but then, that's so similar to Nightmare Cafeteria, it just misses the mark
Survival of the Fattest - This is pretty funny. Some good moments and a lot of good sight gags.
I've Grown a Costume on Your Face - eh...it's like there are no jokes, like the only joke is "hey look, everyone became their costume" and it wears a little thin, even in 7 or 8 minutes.
^Meh. Nothing bad. Nothing good though.

[Silver Kamen]

[klen7]

[MekaGojira3k]

^I just watched this on youtube, XD. I'd watch that movie.
1. Lake of Dracula (1971)
2. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
3. Dracula (1931)
4. The Shining (1980)
5. The Stone Tape (1972)
6. Dark Shadows (2012)
7. Secret Window (2003)
8. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
10. Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
11. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
12. Twilight Zone The Movie (1983)
13. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
14. Beetlejuice (1988)
15. The Devil Rides Out (1967)
16. Paranorman (2012)
17. Curse of the Werewolf (1961
18. Versus (2000)
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AND
I watched
19. Shadow of the Vampire (2000) - which I enjoyed thoroughly. It's my first time watching it, but I had a lot of fun. Definitely something I'll watch again.
20. Die Monster Die (1965) - a perpetual favorite of mine. I'm even more stoked to find out Shout Factory is putting it out on blu-ray in January. SO EXCITED

[klen7]

Anybody watching 'Blood for Dracula' this year?

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

So far I've watched

1. Project Metal Beast.
2. Hemlock Grove (spread out)
3.Piranha 3D
4. The Human Centipede
5. The Human Centipede 2
6. Goosebumps (spread out)
7. V/H/S

[jellydonut25]

1.) Possession
2.) Evil Dead (2013)
3.) Return of the Living Dead 2
4.) Return of the Living Dead 3
5.) Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
6.) Return of the Living Dead 4
7.) Monster Brawl
8.) The Faculty
9.) Return of the Living Dead 5
10.) The Howling 2
11.) The Howling 3
12.) The Howling 4
13.) Severance
14.) Bride of Re-Animator
15.) Halloween H20
16.) Howling 5
17.) Howling 6
18.) Beyond Re-Animator
19.) Howling 7
20.) Howling Reborn
21.) Curse of Chucky
22.) Killer Klowns from Outer Space
23.) Cube
24.) Cube 2: Hypercube
25.) Cube Zero
26.) Puppet Master 4
27.) Puppet Master 5
28.) Puppet Master 6
29.) Retro Puppet Master
30.) Puppet Master 8
31.) Demonic Toys
32.) Dollman
33.) Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
34.) Puppetmaster vs. Demonic Toys
35.) Puppet Master Axis of Evil
36.) Puppet Master Rise of the Axis
and 16 Treehouse of Horror episodes

All these Puppet Master sequels and Demonic Toys movies...they just get thrown in the background of decorating or when I'm working at home...
They're all pretty bad, but if you like the puppet master series, I might suggest checking out Demonic Toys and then Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys. PMvsDT features Corey Feldman, and is pretty hilarious.

Axis of Evil is such an amateurishly made film, I'd be embarrassed to have my name attached to it as an editor. There are multiple times when the scene changes, and rather than a fluid transition, we first get to see a freeze-frame of the scene to come. I don't know if it's right before the director yelled action, or just really horrible editing, but god...ridiculous.

[Hybrid Gojira]

I've just finished Jason Goes to Hell...
Man it's such an awful movie. The whole premise it terrible.

Jason X is currently on... Kudos to this movie for one of my all time favorite kills by Jason - The frozen face slam (which is awesome).

[Silver Kamen]

[jellydonut25]

I remember the HUGE hype around Jason Goes to Hell when I was a kid...it seemed like all the big slasher series were ending around that time, and even though nobody I knew IRL had seen the movie, EVERYBODY knew about the mask getting dragged down by Freddy at the end.

The things just that little bit alone built up in my mind over the years...and then I finally saw the movie and...wow. It's probably the worst film in the series. And that's saying something considering parts 5, 8 and Jason X.

[Silver Kamen]