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Well, it is Halloween month and all. Anyone seen any good ones lately?

Captain Kronos is a good one. Hammerfilms put all their shit up on youtube, actually, but Captain Kronos would have to be my favorite.

It's not very horrific, but goddamn is it awesome.

I always get around to watching House of 1000 corpses each Halloween.

Always preferred The Devil's Rejects over House, but that one was cool too.

I need to go watch The Grudge again :P (It's not good, but it's my Halloween tradition)

Green Room.

"We are the Ain't Rights... or the Aren't Rights..."

It Follows

The Wailing is awesome. Korean weirdness at its best. 

I heard Korean weirdness.

Now I have to check this out.

You called?

Hostel & Hostel Part II

Really? Didn't think you were into the Hostel movies.

I liked the second one a lot more than the first one. There was more focus on the whole murder playground for rich people aspect and was more like what I thought the first one was going to be.

The first one came off like a cheap softcore porn movie for the first half, and I was disappointed since I didn't come to watch all that, I was expecting to see a slaughterhouse of horrors, which didn't show up until near the end and by that time I was bored and I didn't like the protagonist anyway and was hoping to see him get killed rather than escape. (Thankfully they killed him in the beginning of the second movie)

Yeah, the second one was better, but I liked both of them. If they made a third, I'd watch it.

EDIT: Oh, apparently there is a third. Gonna have to watch that.

EDIT II: Oh, it looks like Eli Roth wasn't involved, and it wasn't released theatrically. So it's probably shit.

Gonna rewatch the Evil Dead trilogy. Then maybe get around to watching Ash Vs Evil Dead. Maybe.

Salò

Ah yes, the 70s version of "A Serbian Film"

That entire movie was ridiculous and cringe-worthy.

Doesn't it have, like, three coprophilia scenes or something? I got to watch that shit sometime. 

Yeah there's something about the kids being chained up and forced to eat shit from a dog bowl on the ground

Really there was too much shit eating and not enough old fashioned torture.

The reason why I called it the 70s A Serbian Film is mainly due to it having the same attempt at throwing a shitload of taboo ideas and general human horror at a screen and trying to call it art.

No really, the movie is shot well enough that it isn’t really trying to come off as your run of the mill shock value grind house flick that was just trying to make the audience vomit in terror. (That was more of a side benefit)

There’s sort of an ongoing theme in the movie of how fascism/absolute power just ultimately degenerates you into being so fucking bored that you can’t climax unless you’re raping a midget clown as a retarded amputee gives you a rimjob while watching a toothless 400 pound whore blow a donkey, just before you hack them all up with a rusty chainsaw because plain ol' doggystyle with a regular blonde with big tits and a heart shaped ass just doesn’t work for you anymore. And you ultimately become so detached from humanity that you quite literally become a monster with no redeeming qualities. (It happens)

The problem is, all that philosophical shit sort of gets lost in the shuffle with this movie (and similar ones), because what’s the real reason you’re watching it? You’re watching it because you probably heard how horrific it is and want to see for yourself out of morbid curiosity, not for any artsy fartsy reasons.

After which point you’re either going to:

A: Think that was the most fucked up thing you ever saw and scrub your brain with bleach

OR

B: Be severely disappointed, because you yourself are a twisted little pup that had a much more horrible scenario already going on in your head that no movie could ever do justice.

The movie is actually already based on Marquis De Sade’s book (Which is FAR more graphic than any movie) and honestly he wasn’t writing that one to make any meaningful political or ideological point. He just wanted to write as much fucked up shit as he could cram into his book because it amused him to do so and he was probably laughing and jerking off the whole time he was writing it. (Don’t get me wrong, that was his right as an author after all)

Really the only message he was trying to push was “Hey does anyone like torture porn? If so you’ll love this book, because there’s like torture porn going on in every other paragraph! LOL!”

You should still probably watch the movie some time anyway since it isn’t bad for one viewing, also just so you can say you saw it and build up your “Hardcorez Moviez” rep.

It was the 70s. This was an age before movie nerds took to sculpting latex bits and sinewy Halloween makeup as a hobby, when, if you wanted gore, you got a paintbrush, some clay, and a spray-bottle of corn syrup, if you were lucky! Shit-eating was one of the only things they really could portray accurately without contacting the local butcher.

I was reading reviews earlier and lots of people seem to be really divided on whether its a masterpiece or a fucked-up mess. I thought it was interesting at least, although I didn't really see the 'artsy' side until I read other people's interpretations of it. Definitely worth a watch though.

I recently watched the horror flick 'Lights Out', which was pretty good at jumpscares, and was overall creepy, but the plot fell short of making much sense near the end.

There's two that pop in the head real fast for me...there was Don't Breathe earlier this year, which wasn't that bad, nor that good, plus it had a lovable twist out of nowhere. Then there's Repo; A Genetic Opera, for those that enjoy their black comedy with a side of glorious metal music.

Jacob's Ladder, Videodrome, and Scanners if you want something that's actually scary and/or are terrified by the decades before you were born or the thought of original ideas being in movies. I'd suggest "The Thing", since it manages to break and bend several monster rules but remain effective, but everybody's seen that. If you haven't, fuck you. That's a mandatory lifetime experience. Watch that shit. Also, try the first movie of this, which was enough to make Charlie Sheen call the cops. The first one captured the feels of a snuff film, the second one did everything wrong that the second Blair Witch did, and the third one is just funny.

I saw Don't Breathe. It was okay. Not so much a horror movie as it was a thriller. Most of the film was fairly solid, the kids that were robbing the place were actually using common sense and logic when trying to escape, so that was refreshing.

My one major complaint is that in one scene, the blind guy is looking for one of the kids that may or may not have fallen through a window and landed outside the house. So what does the blind guy do? He walks up to a window and parts the blinds so he can peek out.

...

...

He's supposed to be BLIND.

I actually thought I was supposed to root for Blind Guy in a Tyler-Durden sort of way up until they introduced the whole turkey-baster rape thing. I guess they had to find a way to make the mentally ill, disabled old man getting robbed by a gang of annoying teenagers out to be the villain beyond reasonable doubt somehow...

So about that...

I could have sworn that I saw steam coming from wherever he stores his semen. That was steam, right? Because if it was, wouldn't that kill the sperm cells, thus making everything he's doing pointless? Maybe it was just me, but that stuff looked hot. Looked like he was just going to burn her insides.

They could've meant for it to be dry-ice freezy-vapor, but didn't have any ice on hand for a more convincing look, and/or the actor didn't want to touch dry ice. Granted, directly-in-dry-ice is not a good way to store semen, even if they use that stuff in the process. It's probably the Hollywood version of semen-storage.

It was taken to Daredevil'levels of blind bullshit, but other than that it seemed like a scary movie that could actually happen. Maybe he's not BLIND-blind, just blind enough to see foamy shapes and stuff.....though the whole "NOW YOU'LL SEE WHAT I SEE" makes that a bit iffy....

If he could only see foamy shapes, then why would he peek through blinds to find someone on the ground in the dark?...

Although, he could be doing that line in order to trick the kids into thinking he coudn't see ANYTHING and thus underestimate him.

But he walked right past the kids multiple times. If he could see shapes, he would have seen them.

So he is supposed to be completely blind and not able to see fuzzy images at all?

No real spoilers below.

 

That's what I gathered from it. He lost his sight while in the field during his time in the military. The first time we see him, he is unaware of the fact that there is someone in the room until he hears one of them speak. He then asks how many there are even though one of the other kids is within arms reach. At one point, he's pointing a gun through the air (I'm guessing he hoped it would scare them enough to make a noise) and he doesn't seem to realize that he's pointed at the two remaining kids at least twice. In another scene, he's walking through a decently lit hallway and he just avoids brushing up against one of the kids who had to dodge the blind man as he rushed past.

Everything in the film hinted to him being completely blind. His acting was pretty good, save that one scene. It made absolutely no sense.

Could've been part of a war flashback.

We never actually see him lose his sight, we only know that he lost it during his service in the military. Or are you saying they should have put a flashback in?

They definitely should have. I feel like it was supposed to be psychologically/symbolically significant, given that it felt like they were trying to make a serious movie and that was such a ridiculous thing for a blind man to do. I feel like, knowing blinds/something brushable was there because of the sound of the guy, he would have remembered the old days when he brushed some foliage or door visor aside to peak out when whatever blinded him happened. People with PTSD can start re-enacting flashbacks if they're triggered, by, say, a guerilla force of attackers trying to harm him...

Neprijatelj had some scenes I enjoyed, although it was kinda slow and not particularly "horror".

Too many modern horrors are just too lacking for me. They seem to either rely on throwing as many taboos or as much slasher-horror on the screen as possible or just have constant 'build up the sudden noise with jumpy out thing on the screen every 5 minutes!'. Sure many make me jump or feel tense at times but after I'm just like 'Well that was pointless and boring'.

I often bring out the old George A. Romero box set which I guess I don't even class as horror anymore but at least they are filled with actual meaning and social commentary between the psychological and gore effects. I also find myself gravitating toward Asian horror as they seem to have more psychological trickery, plot and less easy to guess twists mixed in there. (I'm assuming the twists are less easy to guess only as they come from a very different cultural basis from me but hey, it works).

'R-point' I re-watched recently and 'Cinderella' I think I remember being good.

Korean horror movies! :D

Yup, going to re-watch some more as Halloween progresses and look up a few new ones.

If you find any really good ones, tell me? :)

I remember one that really scared me when I was younger, but I can't quite remember the name.

Will do :)

I don't have much time right now but with some night-shifts coming up I should get to watch a few

Hm...have you ever watched Voice?

If not, check it out when you have the time. c:

The Witch is by far the best horror movie this year. It's a really slow burn, though, so if you're not into that, you won't like it.

Lake Mungo and [Rec] 1 + 2 are both absolute classics.

Also VHS and the cult short film from VHS 2.

Is no one going for the traditional Halloween movies? Those were good.

As in, the Halloween Framchise, or the black and white Frankenstein/Werewolf/Dracula/Mummy/Black Lagoon movies?

Halloween franchise, with Michael Myers! =)