I was waiting on Matheny to reclaim her place as host, but doesn't look like that's going to happen. So, here goes...

Welcome to the 2017 October Challenge. And for many of us, this is the first one away from the IMDb Horror board, which means it's no longer required to save your progress. So, fuck that no life having little cocksucker that used to make it necessary to delete the OP. Seriously. Kill yo... Continue »

OK, here's a hypothetical situation for you. Let's say someone is being tortured, and they are about to ask you to intercede on their behalf. Is it better to say no A.)while eating a shrimp cocktail, or B.)while not eating a shrimp cocktail? In this scene, Ming the Merciless makes a case for option A:

Anyone else binge it already? If so, what did you think?

I thought it was a very worthy follow up to the first season and even better in certain respects. They did a great job of further developing the characters from the first season (El especially) as well as introducing some memorable new characters. Paul Reiser and Sean Astin were perfect in their roles as Dr. Owens and Bob respectively. Also, it was super depressing that Bob died such a gruesome death as well considering his ch... Continue »

The movie isn't terrible, but it's definitely not perfect. My main issues are the same ones I had with my first viewing of it.

The intro scene is entirely unnecessary. I wish more horror movies wouldn't jump at the chance of showing you right away that they're a horror movie by starting off with a bang. The original didn't do that, but this one shows you right away that there are blood-thirsty demons possessing people, burning away in obvious CGI.

And then... of course... the movie... Continue »

That's the trending news for Marky Mark. He hopes God will forgive him for his best movie? What the fuck is wrong with Hollywood these days?

This topic is probably a little premature with like a week and a half to go, or so, but what the hell. I will probably go with just some re-watches for the day, having seen all FTV's that appeal to me so far. I will probably do a all day Halloween marathon. Provisionally I will probably go with these:

Sole Survivor (1983)
They Have Changed Their Face (1971)
Don't Go to Sleep (1982 TV Movie)
I Zombie: The Chronicles of Pain (1998)
The Demon Murder Case (1983 TV Movie)
The Addi... Continue »

Just finished my October Challenge with my final FTV, Offspring (2009).

Holy hell, is this guy a twisted writer. So far, I've seen The Girl Next Door, which was a totally depressing misogynistic tale of a 1950s family with a dark secret, and the guilt of never speaking out about it. I also watched The Woman, which was about another twisted family that keeps a savage girl they find in the woods. In Offspring, there's more savages, but these ones are violent instigat... Continue »

For those of you that enjoyed Creep (2014).





To be released on 24th of October (VoD).

I'm half-watching Child's Play on AMC. Chris Sarandon always seemed like an odd choice to cast as the cop (detective) in that movie. He does a good job, I'm not saying he fails in the role. But, it just seems strange to me, to hear him talk like a cop, and have cop mannerisms, etc. I guess he made too much of an impression on me in Fright Night, and in The Sentinel.

Does anyone come to mind for anyone here, as someone who played a cop but just didn't seem like one, for whatever reason?

Imagine googling something, in hopes of getting an explanation. Do you prefer a video response, or a textual response? Is society so against reading that they'd rather watch someone explain something, regardless of how graceful said person is? Or does society prefer cultured, well worded thoughts on the matter? Continue »

Sorry, this is completely OT, but it's just interesting. This guy is from my hometown in Massachusetts. He has been working as an actor for many years, and has just started going to college, near Los Angeles, in his late 40's. He's playing college football! 47 is not just his jersey number, it's also his age. He turns 48 in a couple weeks. Isn't that amazing? He's not even a particularly huge guy, he just stayed in shape, over the years. I am not supporting the fact that he has decided t... Continue »

Anyone seen this 80's slasher parody yet? It's dumb as hell and everyone involved certainly knows it, which makes it all the more better! Watched it as part of the October Horror Challenge this year and I'm already tempted to watch it yet again.

Besides the long-awaited blu-ray of Kill Baby Kill I picked up Poughkeepsie Tapes, Inconceivable and Devil's Mile. I don't know anything about the last two.

Anyone seen this? It's supposedly a slasher film about a mentally challenged kid who gets blamed for a murder, sent to an asylum, then gets out years later and starts killing the people who framed him. It also has a female villain with a Bettie Page hairdo named, appropriately, Paige.

It sounds like it could be worth checking out so I wondered if anyone here knew about it.

I have Hannibal (the movie) playing right now... I am struck by the contrast between the beauty of many shots, especially of Florence, Italy, and the horrifying ugliness of other scenes. Florence is so beautiful... I think I actually get a (very small, but real) attack of Stendhal Syndrome, just watching Hannibal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal_syndrome

Does anyone here have any other movie that comes to mind, in terms of shifting back and forth between great beauty and great ugline... Continue »

Netflix has been on a roll with their original movies, lately. Gerald's Game, The Babysitter, and now... 1922.

It's another Stephen King story, because the dude apparently has infinite stories. Tom Jane returns for his third King collaboration (Dreamcatcher, The Mist) to play the conniving farmer, and he hits it out of the park. He's always been an under-appreciated actor, and he plays this character wonderfully. The story is alright, but you're watching this movie to watch him.... Continue »

Out of all the many Exploitation sub genres, there's one that doesn't get brought up nearly enough. Generation-X-Ploitation. Yeah. I just made that up. But go ahead and watch Gregg Araki's 1995 sex-fueled cult comedy, The Doom Generation, and tell me such a thing doesn't exist. The Doom Generation was Araki's second part in a trilogy of dark, offbeat, homo erotic comedies based in L.A. which starred James Duval. The Doom Generation being much... Continue »

As I'm watching the 7th entry in the Child's Play series, I started thinking of how horror sequels often implement mental institutions as a plot device. No, really!


- Halloween 8 (and the original film) has an asylum, '07 remake and '09 sequel have asylums
- Elm Street 3 and Freddy vs Jason have institutions
- Phantasm 2 and 5 have institutions
- Wrong Turn 4 is set at an abandoned asylum
- Friday the 13th 5 is set at a halfway house for weirdos
- Basket Case 2 is a loony bin
- Angela... Continue »

Watched Nightmares (1980) the other night. A sleazy slasher (naked death!)/acid humour combo that must be among the wildest of vintage Ozploitation. Jenny Neumann (Hell Night) plays Helen, an aspiring actress who as a young girl called cathy caused the grisly car accident death of her adulterous mother. She gets a part, a role in a local theatre production of a curious play of dubious merit, a comedy about death. Also begins a romance with a fresh faced and friendly young co-star plucked from a... Continue »

but I made a lot of money off it, so I don't care. I kept telling him "Yo, I'm not even human. I'm a goddamn weasel, made completely out of death," but he didn't care.

Now that I'm a millionaire with no integrity, I'm gonna donate all my money to the Stop Hurricane Harvey Weinstein foundation, where I can pretend I'm a victim, too!

Centered on philosophical, religious, political and spiritual themes, it tells the story of four strangers from "the quiet corners of the globe" connected by a vision they all receive of a coming evil. Their search for the truth behind the vision leads them to each other and to far larger and more disturbing truths than they could have expected.

I blind bought Broken Saints [DVD], an animated Drama|Mystery|Sci-Fi recently on Amazon and I had never so much as even heard of it be... Continue »

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Watched Jess Franco's classic A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973) a few nights back. The weird and wonderful tale of Christina, who returns home to her family at Monserrat Mansion after a long absence, to hear the reading of her father's will. Stopping at an inn on a stretch of dismal coastline (in fairness I suspect it may be nicer in season), she is mysteriously told that no one lives at Monserrat Mansion, but by the by she is summoned. A coach ride full of obscure musing brings her, and it... Continue »

Maurice celebrates the Challenge of the Apes finale. And it was good! We had a grand time monkeying around and I learned a few things - like Smerd is an even bigger Ape fan than I am. It was exciting to see so many of us immerse ourselves in the Ape universe. Here's how the final results stacked up:

beatnik (moi) - 5775 points - Makes me Caesar - Long live the King!
SethYeah - 5658 points - he... Continue »