About a year after creeping me right the fuck out with Hereditary, Ari Aster went in another similar direction with this bizarre trip to a Swedish cult festival in "Midsommar". The artistic direction is pretty wonderful, much in the same vein as the last movie, and the weirdness is way up there. Both movies share a lot of similar themes, and it only gets more obvious toward the end of the movie.

The movie is quite long at almost 2.5 hours, but throughout the film, you'll get a few shocking mo... Continue »

I just went on another splurge and brought in a big haul. I need to stop as I am running out of room!

How did I do?..

One Missed Call 2003
Gia 1998
Hair Extensions 2007
Perfect Sense 2011
Slaughterhouse-Five 1972
Snowtown 2011
The Zero Theorem 2013
Mandy 2018
Adaptation. 2002
Lucy 2014
Powder 1995
Premonition 2004
I Am Legend 2007
He Was a Quiet Man 2007
Maléfique 2002
Tattoo 2002
The Ninth Configuration 1980
Project X 2012
247°F 2011
Tony 2009
All Good Thing... Continue »

David said that there are days when not a single post is posted.
That won't be a problem for me, especially since I have 2 year's worth of catching up to do.

It's not just that.
When IMDb shut down 2 years ago, we all had a high-level of expectation, as far as activity goes.
But by now, that expectation has severely diminished.

Kudos to David for having a bug-free site (or seemingly).
So many sites are down from time to time, due to bugs.
Also, in the words of the late-great Ray Bradb... Continue »

Had to share. For those of us from outside the US, this is a character from a cartoon called King of the Hill.
https://twitter.com/1AshleyLaurence/status/1146417879643901954

We used to have some more regular contributers here who posted some good shit, then vanished off the face of the earth. People like BarkingBaphomet, Shadow-345, iceflamez, Atomichotwings, klownz, RedHawk10, sethyeah, slasherfan85, AlcoholicNinja, Moffat, and all those others who rarely/never posted, but at least lurked. Anybody know what hole they all crawled into?

I'd think that some of the political talk scared 'em off, but even after the government calmed down and there was no talk of this... Continue »

Prepare for another long-winded rant here... because FaceBook has driven me to the brink of my sanity!

Ever since the most unfortunate departure of our proiminent users, I've been racking my brain trying to come up with ways to make this place more appealing to potential new users.

I'm not going to lie to you. I've been in a bad place for the past few months. People I'm friends with tend to hate the living shit out of each other, and it's caused a major divide in my life, as well as this s... Continue »

In the mood for some learning? Then you should make your SPOT below for this challenge.

1 point for any documentary.

2 points for a documentary about dark subject matter.

3 points for a documentary about the horror genre.

1 bonus point for an FTV.

DVD and Blu-ray commentaries are allowed and fall under the same rules, but no FTV point.... Continue »

Kind of a weird topic, I know. But what do you make of this "phenomenon?" What do you do about it? I mean, you know you've seen the movie, but remember very little or maybe even nothing at all about it. Do you ever have the urge to revisit it? Should we even be bothering in the first place, since there's an infinite supply of movies to see? (as I type this, 15 new movies just came out.)

For me, the majority of my rabid movie watching was in the '90s up until about 2004 or 2005, and then I kin... Continue »

It's only a half hour long and there's some gnarly gore in it. That's all ya need to know.

Last month's Stephen King Challenge put me in the mood to read some Stephen King. Because I don't always enjoy his novels, I decided to go with one of his short story collections, his first of several released over the last forty-one years, "Night Shift".

The book kicks off with "Jerusalem's Lot", a prequel to "'Salem's Lot". It's told through letters and journal entries from 1850, a time when (Jeru)sal... Continue »

This aired on TCM Underground last night. Unlike most of what they run on there, I hadn't heard of it before.

It starts with a couple leaving their young son, Billy, with his Aunt Cheryl before they take a road trip. This is the last they see of each other because his parents soon die in a freak accident.

Fourteen years later, Billy's a high school senior with a girlfriend and he's a great basketball player with a chance to earn an athletic scholarship. He's also still living with Aunt Che... Continue »

Just finished watching this movie for the billionth time and wow! This is my favorite Rob Zombie movie ever! Watching this makes me super excited for “3 from hell”. My boyfriend and I were discussing how it would’ve made sense for them to make another movie, but after rewatching it I can see how they pulled it off.. plus I just saw the teaser for the new movie & it makes sense!

To me there’s never a dull or boring moment.. The brother gives me Charles Manson vibes! I wonder if they d... Continue »

Most of you are probably aware of the drama going on between the original Child's Play series versus the remake, which was made without the consent or blessing of the original team. Don Mancini wrote every damn one of those movies, and even directed the latest installments.

Chucky is his baby, and it means a lot of him, and Brad Dourif, and everyone else who's been a part of it, because like 'em or not, they were all probably very fun movies to make, and it's become it's own mythology. Chucky... Continue »

Is anyone here knowledgeable about horror fonts? I have been looking for one that I saw somewhere once, and can't remember exactly where. It might have been in a horror short film on Youtube, possible a Fewdio... but, I have been looking through the Fewdios, and haven't seen it.

I'm thinking of a specific fancy, elegant, ornate, old-fashioned font, with lots of funky little curlicues sticking out in all directions. It was complex, but not so complex that it was irritating. I think elegant... Continue »

I didn't say that the way I mean it, I don't know how to say this right. I have U.S. Marshals on TV right now, on the AMC channel. Tommy Lee Jones's gang of deputy underlings crack me up, the way they interact with each other and with Tommy Lee. I started thinking, that was kind of a trend in the 90s and maybe the late 80s, to have a lot of banter between buddies in a group of people who somehow assist the main character. Think about it. There was U.S. Marshals, The Fugitive, Twister, Dante... Continue »

I'll try to get this posted on Sunday from now on.

I have so little time for movies anymore but I managed to revisit Baba Yaga (1973) a few nights ago. I had it on DVD but decided to replace it with the Blu-ray. It was worth it - the colors look a little richer and you can see more in the dark scenes than before. I don't remember if this movie ever got mentioned on the old board but I always liked it. It's a little different than anything else I've ever seen, possibly due to the unusual s... Continue »

WOW! So I got the chance to see Shaft this past weekend! I took my family for Father’s Day, and WOW! I loved every second of it! Samuel L Jackson is one of my favorite actors and he did not disappoint! The story line was pretty good! The set up of it was good. I didn’t think there were any slow moments! Lots of funny parts, so you’ll always be laughing throughout the movie! Regina Hall made an appearance and that girl is beyond gorgeous!!

Anyways, I think there’s gonna be another one... Continue »

When this movie first came across my radar some years ago I immediately sought it out being an obsessive fan of all things terrible, '80s, and slasher. So, this being a terrible '80s slasher it was right up my alley, but I came away disappointed. Watched it again last night, and found a new level of appreciation for it.

Every once in a while a movie will come along and make you wonder to yourself, "How in the hell did this get made?!" Ogroff, AKA Mad Mutilator, is one such film.... Continue »

I haven't had time to do this in so long that I guess we can include the last several weeks.

Offerings (Blu-ray)
Phantom Lady (Blu-ray)
The Chosen (Blu-ray)
Witchboard (Blu-ray)
Lords of Chaos (Blu-ray)
A Simple Favor (Blu-ray)
The Iguana With the Tongue of Fire (Blu-ray)
First Born
Sweet Body of Bianca
Black Candles
Death Steps in the Dark
Kalifornia

I don't even know where to start. First of all, the Beatles are by far my favorite band. I listen to their XM Radio station every day. I know all of the words to 90% of their songs, including each of their solo careers. I bought @Box and his mom, my mother-in-law, these tickets back in January. I've never looked forward to something as much in my life. When I had my heart failure issues I used to joke and say as long as I make it until June 14th. Anyway, enough preamble let's talk about the conc... Continue »

Has anyone seen this recently? It's on AMC. I just noticed a few likely references to 80s movies that I think I missed in previous viewings.

Toward the end, Nica dresses very similarly to how Chris Sarandon dressed, not in the original Child's Play, but in Fright Night (1985). She has a red scarf on, and a winter coat with a sort of collar that is not identical to, but is similar to, what Chris S wore in FN. Chris S's winter coat was darker in color, but otherwise they are kind of similar... Continue »

Easily the one of the most fun straight forward horror movies. Watch a monster kill some people for an hour and a half.

I heard that Clive Barker retroactively made Rawhead Rex an official part of the Nightbreed. But i'm not sure.

Bob Clark made an ultra-creepy Christmas classic back in 1974. It relied on mood, mystery, and dread, with the perfect amount of humor thrown into the mix. Top notch horror, and with that said... it didn't resonate to the studios for some 32 years. Then, somebody asked Santa for a new Black Christmas, and what did they get?

In 2006, some bastard finally decided to revive pop awareness of the original by directing the remake. Granted, the movie isn't half bad, with a great lighting scheme and... Continue »

It's On Demand this month. I'm basically a fan of this movie, although there are probably too many things that you're not supposed to think too hard about.

Dominic Purcell is really good in this, he has such a sense of urgency. He's always charging around with his eyes really wide open, bellowing at the top of his lungs. In this movie, he reminds me a lot of Richard E. Grant in Warlock (1989). He's supposed to be the only one who really understands how much peril everyone is in.. or leas... Continue »

After the 1981 slasher saturation, things would never be as good as that again. So in 1982, we went out with a bang, because The Slumber Party Massacre is just really fun to watch.

The backstory of our killer Russ Thorn is as generic as it gets, because we don't need a backstory for this guy. We just need a creeper to stalk and kill some gratuitous teens through various great locations.

We start off in a lovely suburb of California. A few popular slashers are set in Cali, and others filmed... Continue »