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I'm going to watch The Man Who Laughs soon I think

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* Death Metal Zombies: Enjoyably stupid SOV film from the 90s SOV wave. This one actually kind of works as a legitimate horror movie, has a good death metal soundtrack, and is very, very endearing.

* Torture Dungeon: My first real foray into the twisted world of Andy Milligan. A lot of fun and the heroine is hot and can't keep her clothes on.

* All About Evil: Weirdo queer/camp horror movie with Natasha Lyonne that's an homage to the low budget gore comedies of 1960s and 1970s of HG Lewis, Andy Milligan, and John Waters.

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it kinda feels like a slasher movie 'funny games' except less rigorous, and funny games was always already intellectually bankrupt (if u actually think screen violence is bad the only way to win is not to play)

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if funny games was simply a cruel provocation meant to be a nihilistic prank on an audience, i'd appreciate and in fact applaud it, but the fact that haneke apparently *believes* the message of his movie makes me violently hostile. No shit, people enjoy fake stylized violence and would find actual hyper-realistic violent scenarios in real life to be upsetting and unpleasaurable. Wow, guess you've cracked the code on fiction, Mikey! Now go make another unwatchable piece of shit like The White Ribbon!

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Exceptionally weird vampire (sorta) movie that's part of the 1970s/early 80s American regional independent horror boom. Part Night of the Hunter, part Suspiria. Weird story about an innocent, beautiful young girl who is a devout Christian who gets summoned to a strange town to see her fugitive mobster father, and gets involved with werewolves (who act more like zombies) and vampires.

This is a weird one, folks, and not one I can wholly recommend--it's much too accomplished and effective to be relegated to MST3K style trash, but it manages to be ponderous and confusing despite a quick run time, so I can't really recommend it to anyone looking for a pleasant genre experience, even an offbeat one. That said, I'm glad I watched it, and I'll watch it again, I'm sure, but...it's strange. And God bless it.

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This isn't quite as good as that, but it's still extremely good and creepy, if a little bit slow at first. It plays out like an X-Files mytharc episode, with a tireless truthseeker running up against a malevolent extraterrestrial conspiracy that seems to have the support of the government.

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not a huge fan of the story.

thought the Minnie and Roman imitations were fantastic... except the behavior of Minnie was slightly off, and not in a good way.

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i'm sure it's a well executed pastiche

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Also, if you've ever wished they made a movie out of Resident Evil 4, this is basically that, but with fishmen instead of zombies.

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She was wearing stockings, and when I realized that she was, I didn't look at her. At all. My daughter saw that I was uncomfortable but quickly figured out why. She then did everything in her power to make me more uncomfortable. Truly rotten of her.

When I gave her a silent message/communicating that I hated her and I knew what she was doing... blah, blah, blah. At the end, when she hugged me, she whispered in my ear that she was getting even for some of the rotten things I did to embarrass her when she discovered boys.

That genuinely made me a proud dad that she was that evil. She is a rotten kid, and I love her for it.

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Ezra Cobb, the Ed Gein stand-in, is played by cult actor Roberts Blossom--probably best known to us as the old man in Home Alone(!).

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Not a waste of time, but nothing here that Bava didn't do better either in the realm of the Gothic (Black Sunday) or the giallo (Bay of Blood).

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this is much more straightforward, almost campy Gothic shenanigans--very few surprises. But Elke Sommer is beautiful and Joseph Cotten is fun and the hypercolored blood flows freely

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Absolutely skippable/inessential but well-executed and proves that just because something is a 'turn off your brain and eat popcorn' movie doesn't mean it has to be stupid or shoddy.

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*SPOILERS*

I wasn't expecting them to lean into the supernatural quite as explicitly as they did in the way that they did--which is interesting.

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i enjoyed watching it, though, and I've enjoyed thinking about it

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The first third is pretty appealing as a low key high school slice of life/incipient romance, and once the UFO stuff kicks in, it's very well edited. The ending, though, falls a little bit flat.

Certainly quite watchable, though.

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As it turns out, what Takashi Miike hears when you tell him "do whatever you want" is not the same as what you or I, or even splat-happy filmmakers like Clive Barker or Stuart Gordon, hear when you tell them that. Showtime's censors thought the episode was way too strong even for premium cable. As a horror fan, you spend a lot of time bitching about the censors, but I gotta side with them here.

Not that I didn't enjoy "Imprint." It's good, very well made (except for the acting--if you've ever wanted to see Billy Drago channel 2024 Joe Biden, this is your chance), and the first time in a while that I've encountered hardcore horror content that made me wince and squirm. It also has a folklorish feel to it that somewhat justifies the whole thing's existence--you can easily slot this into a tradition of Japanese supernatural fiction and storytelling. In that sense, it's not very far off from an updated version of something like Jigoku.

It is all a bit much, though, and Miike's maximalist approach means that you see way more than necessary to get the point. It's hard for me to get worked up about any of this--as they say, "It's only a movie, only a movie, only a movie--" but I wouldn't fault anyone for deciding this isn't how they want to spend an hour of their life.

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But, the second this turns into a Halloween movie, it falls flat. It reminds me of the time I bought a big bottle of St. Bernardus ale and discovered it was flat. There's still the tantalizing taste, and there's still the ABV, so it's not a total loss, but it's so frustratingly unsatisfying.

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Incredible final shot, though.

It does suffer from Laurie being the least compelling character in the movie--everyone else is more interesting, which is partly due to Zombie's love of studding his cast with cult players (It's Bill Moseley as an asshole orderly! And Ken Foree as a trucker! Etc.).

Looking forward to RZHII tho

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This one is a sort of ultraviolent Richard III kind of riff, which benefits from having a pretty good looking girl whose top is always falling off or about to. And the main bad guy has a zero budget Vincent Price thing going on.

Not exactly recommended, but if it sounds like something you’d like, you’re probably right. If it sounds too off for you—you’re definitely right.

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The remake script leans a bit too much into girl power for my taste (I don't think anyone seriously thought that the original was sexist; certainly Barbara in the original reacts the way many men or women would by going catatonic), but there are some neat character notes. I like the fact that this movie continues to not take the easy way out of making race the reason why Ben and Harry don't like each other (while not wholly ruling it out as a reason, either), and I like the revamped Tom as a likable, dumbfuck redneck of the Jordy Verrill mode.

The movie also has much better pacing than the original--there's bits in the first third in the farmhouse with Ben and Barb that are just too slow.

Still and all it's a fine movie, and Savini directs it surprisingly well--it's just not really essential. However, if like me you've seen the original a bajillion times and want to watch it again, but different, it's a good way to do that.

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"Charlie Brown is an asshole!"

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"blind occultist solving her twin sister's murder" is an almost comically Argento-esque premise, although it seems like this is much more supernatural than giallo

i watched the trailer; it doesn't seem that scary tbh but it looks very stylish and classy

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Resolution: From the guys who did The Endless--posits narrative logic as a cosmic horror god.

Good Tidings: Uneven but nasty Santa slasher about a trio of nutcases versus a bunch of homeless people.

From A Whisper To A Scream: The undersung horror anthology of the 80s, with a great cult cast and well-written, nasty-minded stories.

The Child: Late 70s American regional horror that throws a bunch of different horror tropes at the wall and comes up with some that's entertaining both as camp and as straight up horror.

Night of Fear: Super-obscure Australian movie that was made for TV and subsequently banned for being 'too strong.' I'm not convinced it's wholly coherent or successful, but this dialogue-free stalk'n'slash effort makes something as streamlined as Texas Chain Saw Massacre look bloated.

Wacko AND Student Bodies: Early 80s slasher spoof double-feature. Student Bodies is the better movie, although Wacko has a better cast, but both are funny in the "Airplane!" school of comedy.

The Blind Dead Quadrology: Four 1970s zombie films in which blind, blood thirsty Knights Templar (and their decayed horses!) stalk various Europeans. The delirious height of 1970s Euro sleaze-horror.

The Last Horror Film: Super-gory, but sort of charming (especially the ending) meta-slasher that reunites Maniac co-stars Caroline Munro and Joe Spinell. Features one of my favorite Depeche Mode songs!

Scarecrows: Ridiculously underrated late 80s semi-slasher has a sort of proto From Dusk Till Dawn set up, as a military spec ops squad steals a bunch of money, kidnaps a pilot and his daughter, and forces them to fly them to Mexico. They don't quite get there, and end up in a bizarre purgatory full of the scariest scarecrows you've ever seen.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9619824/?ref_=ext_shr

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ive waited too long for one of these

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Sometimes I'm in the mood for the sweet, comforting embrace of SOV/DIY horror, and Sheets is/was one of the masters of that. This is a pretty polished effort, by his standards, with a bunch of horror D-list cameos and a really good Frizzi soundtrack. It doesn't take itself too seriously, but it also doesn't fall into the trap of 'HUR DUR I'M A BAD MOVIE HA HA'--like most of the best of its ilk do, it threads the needle somewhat. I can't say I recommend it, but I enjoyed it.

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This mid-80s slasher cuts out the middleman and actually has Tiny Tim, as a clown no less, in an ambiguous role. Is this off-kilter weirdo who keeps popping up and singing the guy who is responsible for slitting the throats of an increasingly high percentage of an impoverished Wisconsin town? Or is he just a kind-hearted red herring? I won't say, but this is a surprisingly competent slasher that packs in way more sleaze and T&A than you were often getting from this sort of picture by this point in the slasher cycle. Plus it has impeccable regional horror vibes.

I...actually would unironically recommend this one.

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Disconnected is a sort of slasher, sort of psychological thriller that plays out like a Talking Heads music video mixed with Maniac and The Driller Killer (the latter of these already pretty punk itself). When it's good, it's very good--the killer has a really good Norman Bates vibe, and the lead actresses are pretty hot--and the weird art school new wave thing is engaging.

Unfortunately, it goes on too long in what first seems like a daring artistic choice to omit certain parts of the traditional slasher formula and emphasize others. However, like the more recent In A Violent Nature, the choice is much more interesting conceptually than in execution.

It's kinda cool, though.

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This one is about a bunch of amateur actors, musicians and filmmakers who wind up on an island and get knocked off, Ten Little Indians style, based on the lyrics to the most unlistenably dire song you've ever heard. There's some good, weird, off-kilter comedy, and some of the murders have a respectable amount of gore to them. The first half of the movie is fun, if your expectations are calibrated right, but the second half is an incoherent series of underlit chase scenes and unclear motivation.

Good twist--it actually makes a lot of other things in the movie make sense--but it's not enough to recommend this. Mostly, watching this will remind you of other, better slasher movies, including movies you didn't realize *could* be better than something (I'm looking at you, The Dorm That Dripped Blood).

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