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by **klen7** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 2:00 pm

So far this weekend i have watched two "horror" movies both of which i went into under the wrong impression... the first up was a George Romero film from his famous series... Return of the Living Dead... only this wasn't from the series and it wasn't a Romero film... not sure why i didn't know any of this going into it.. but it was a fun zombie flick none-the-less. Next up a watched a Korean werewolf movie called Howling.. only there wasn't a werewolf.. it wasn't really even a wolf, but a wolf dog hybrid.. and it wasn't a horror film but a police procedural...

by **MekaGojira3k** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 3:16 pm

Watched the first one yesterday, watching this and probably army of darkness next.

by **Dr Kain** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:06 am

by **jellydonut25** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:02 am

by **jellydonut25** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:12 am

Re-Animator - Love it. And how could you not?
Trick 'r Treat - Also love it. One of my favorites for this time of year.

SuperCutz: 100 Best Kills* (*May Contain more than 100 Kills) - SO much fun...

First, that was the actual title, with the *may contain part being a subtitle in small print at the bottom...
Started with Stairway to Heaven playing over some movie, I forget which one...and then SMACK! Machete to the forehead and from then on in, it was amazing. Kill after kill, with no context, just the hilarity of some of the most absurd death sequences I'd ever seen, including:
A homeless man melting in the movie Street Trash
A man getting a soup ladle shoved up his butt, but not killing him, so a lamp is used to electrocute the ladle and kill him from the movie Gozu (I think...I'm trying to remember these movies off-hand)
A couple of animal kills from a movie that I think was called The Beyond (dog rips woman to shreds, then spiders eat a man's face)
A really weird one from a movie I cannot at all remember where I guy slits a girls throat, then irons her face off, then chops off her nipples, which for some reason causes milk to shoot out, which he then puts into a pair of champagne glasses and toasts himself.
The infamous Ultraman Ace face-rip.
A slaughtering of a bunch of kids at a summer camp from the movie Beware! Children at Play.
A man killing a pregnant woman, then cutting out the unborn fetus and for no apparent reason, screaming at it and chucking it at the wall form the movie Las Vegas Bloodbath.
and many, many more including some more "popular" films (or at least ones I've heard of): Deadly Spawn, Bad Taste, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Groundhog Day (yep), Meet Joe Black (yeah), Jason X, The Brood, Rabid, and of course, Scanners.

All topped off with the kill counter, previously set at the bottom right of the screen and ticking off one for each death, going up into the millions at the end of Dr. Strangelove.

by **MekaGojira3k** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:54 am

by **lhb412** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 4:44 pm

The Mummy (1959)

This is probably my favorite mummy-centered film (mind you, I haven't watched the Karloff version since I was 13). I really dig Cushing's character in this one, who's a notch lower in badassery compared to Van Helsing but still acts capably in a monster-type situation.

Not too spectacular, but very comfortably Halloween-y viewing. Love the main musical theme, too.

by **MekaGojira3k** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 5:19 pm

by **XvGojira** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 5:20 pm

Just got out of Paranormal Activity 4. I thought each one got better ultimately making 3 a fairly decent and spooky film. I hoped the trend would've continued and make 4 great, but nope. It has a few spooky things, but too many jump cut scares. Not just the camera turns, a loud noise is heard and sudden person in less than a second. But at one point the girl comes home from school goes to her room and then suddenly it cuts to her landing on her bed with a loud thud. Beyond cheap. There's a few things they set up but either do nothing or not enough with them.

EDIT: The trailer to was scarier than PA4

by **Dr Kain** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:52 pm

by **MouthForWar** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:19 pm

First off, this candle is awesome.

Secondly, remember when horror movies always had accompanying rap songs? I MISS THOSE DAYS... for some reason.

http://couchcutter.com/the-lost-art-of- ... ovie-raps/

by **MekaGojira3k** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:30 pm

Just watched this:

I can't decide whether I like this or Frankenstein Created Woman more.

by **lhb412** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:37 am

Dracula (1931)

You know, it's become common to accept that, while Lugosi's performance is great, that Dracula is a pretty rough-around-the-edges early sound picture and blah blah blah it's stagey and whatnot.

I disagree... I mean, it is a stagey early sound picture, but it's a great stagey early sound picture! It's beautiful to look at and the simple, stripped down version the story just works. People these days are also on about how quaint this film is and 'oh, can you believe the simple folk back then were scared by this?' - I'm sorry, but Dracula has far more actual creepiness than your modern day jump-scare-fest.

by **MouthForWar** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 2:27 am

by **jellydonut25** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:42 am

by **jellydonut25** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:52 am

by **eabaker** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 4:15 pm

by **jellydonut25** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 4:46 pm

^The Mummy was my least-favorite of the films I listed :lol:

by **eabaker** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 4:55 pm

by **MekaGojira3k** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 7:46 pm

Taking a break from Hammer horror, now I'm checking this out for the first time:

by **XvGojira** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:09 pm

by **lhb412** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:15 pm

Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein

A&C are great comedians, but often they were ill served by their films. This happened to a lot of the best comedians back then, who were often sandwiched into what seemed to be a mediocre melodrama of a film punctuated by a sadly scant amount of the comedians' comic skits, many of which didn't have much to do with the (usually lame) plot at hand. Laurel and Hardy had to put up with this after leaving their original studio in the '30s, for example.

This film doesn't have any of those problems. Abbot and Costello have a lot of comic business to do, it's all tied into the plot itself, and the plot itself isn't some lame romance: it's monsters! The monsters! The monsters all come off well, too. Junior himself (i.e. the Frankenstein Monster) is marginalized in the same way he was in all the '40s film, but I think he gets a few more good licks in than he did in the 'House of-" flicks. The standout for me is Bela as Dracula. Seeing Dracula having fun being Dracula and who operates in mad science/criminality... well, it's so fun it makes you really wish Bela had a bigger career than he did.

by **MekaGojira3k** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:26 pm

I really dug In The Mouth of Madness. I'll need to pick it up on dvd someday.

by **MouthForWar** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:04 pm

by **XvGojira** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 12:57 am

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