noiseredux Presents THE MONTH OF HORROR (2015) (remake)

[noiseredux]

Oh hell yea me too, although take a pause for Thanksgiving Cuz I love turkey comas and New Years cuz I love blitzed stupors. All other holidays are retail cash ins.

What's the game, Obscure idk?

Life Is Strange. Started playing last night.

[Stark]

Oh hell yea me too, although take a pause for Thanksgiving Cuz I love turkey comas and New Years cuz I love blitzed stupors. All other holidays are retail cash ins.

What's the game, Obscure idk?

Life Is Strange. Started playing last night.

Hell yeah brah.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Last night,my wife and I began our horror movie marathon with:



Stephen King's Children of the Corn (1984). It started a series, and it was made during the same period that saw the creation of a lot of classic horror films. Children of the Corn is not a classic horror film, however. First, it is not the least bit scary. Second, the protagonist is a skinny, puffy-haired, jeans-with-white-sneakers=wearing douchebag with an enlarged Adam's apple. (My wife observed that this was a pretty common character-type in 1980s films. I agreed, and we were both happy it doesn't show up much any more.) The ending is incredibly stupid. Worse, the film deviates in all the wrong ways from its source material, and it has one of those 1980s religious-horror movie soundtracks (Apparently, the director thought he could make certain scenes suspenseful simply by playing vaguely ominous, vaguely Latin-sounding vocals. He did not succeed.) The movie does have a young Linda Hamilton in it, but her incredibly frumpy outfit greatly diminishes her contributions to the film. It is also consistently entertaining, and it has several funny, MST3K-quality continuity errors. Despite these qualities, however, and despite the fact that it is currently streaming on Netflix, I cannot recommend it.

prfsnl_gmr's LIST OF TERROR!

1. Stephen King's Children of the Corn (1984) -

[Ack]

Stephen King's Children of the Corn (1984).

Children of the Corn is mixed for me. The gore fans will be disappointed, as nearly all of the killings take place off screen. The special effects are hokey, the acting from the child actors has a wide range between good and terrible, and the most disturbing scene in the film occurs within the first five minutes of the film(it involves a hand, a meat slicer, and a blood splatter). There is one good car hit, but beyond that, the film relies mainly on its disquieting premise and its lifeless landscape.

Yeah, sounds about right.

[prfsnl_gmr]

lifeless landscape

Here's the thing...I grew up in Kansas, and by western Kansas/Nebraska standards, the city where the film takes place is practically a metropolis. There is no way a town of that size wouldn't be marked on a map, and if everyone there disappeared, it would get noticed by state authorities pretty quickly.

[Luke]

Last night,my wife and I began our horror movie marathon with:

The night before we moved from Chicago to Columbus my family watched Children of the Corn and made popcorn, as my parents are dorks. The movie didn't scare me at first, but spending hours in a Ford Aerostar driving through Indiana and my sister chanting "shoppy whop, ah ha!" made me fear corn fields.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Village of the Damned (1960) is up next for me, and I was thinking of a doing a "creepy kids" marathon. I have seen most of the good "creepy kid" movies, however, and I don't think I have enough to last me more than a few nights...

[mjmjr25]

I have to watch it again - been 20 years at least and I remember being very creeped out.

[prfsnl_gmr]

I have to watch it again - been 20 years at least and I remember being very creeped out.

Skip it and cling to your memories.

I hadn't seen the movie in nearly 20 years either, and I was convinced it was at least good. Now, as an adult, I am confident that it is bad.

[mjmjr25]

It has the red-head with big teeth and open mouth, right? I love that guy - especially as a white gangster in colors.