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

[Ack]

Idle Hands?

Sounds like it. The only other severed hand movies I can think of with anything like that are The Beast with Five Fingers, Evil Dead 2, and The Addams Family films.

[noiseredux]

Idle Hands has the kid from Slackers in it and maybe Seth Green?

[Luke]

Idle Hands has the kid from Slackers in it and maybe Seth Green?

Nailed it. Seth Green should be required by contract to always wear silly googles and empty backpacks.

Somehow I can't finish a current gen game within a month, but I can read Stoker's Dracula over a few days before going to sleep and while...bathroom stuff.

Not sure if my imagination is nuts, but this novel still gives me chills at times. Reading the diaries, the way each event flows into another, and the characters make it a page turner.
And when Dracula scales his own castle...makes my spine cold.

MORE HORROR!!!

Do you guys and gals also have a plethora of costumed sign twirlers in your area? I do, and apparently their boss's think it is a good idea to knock on car windows even if they are not parked.

[Ack]

Prom Night III: The Last Kiss

Oh, oh my. Well, this went in a completely different direction than I expected. Prom Night III is effectively a remake of Prom Night II, only now as a horror comedy and starring a bunch of Canadians. Mary Lou Malone still died on her prom night in 1957, but she manages to escape Hell and return to Earth in the year 1990, where she possesses an average slacker named Alexander Grey. Alex has been having a bit of an identity crisis, juggling his rocky relationship with his girlfriend Sarah, his friendship with Shane, his academics, and his attempts to prove himself on the gridiron. Mary Lou helps by forcing herself into things, but the results usually lead to Alex disposing of the corpses and dealing with her possessive nature. Ultimately Mary Lou just wants Alex all to herself, to be her prom king in Hell.

This movie is odd. It's gory at times, sexy at others, and even turns briefly into a zombie flick near the end. But it never really hits the right notes for the comedy and feels like it tries too hard for much of its jokes, some of which are just flat out bizarre. There is at least one moment of Sarah quipping, "I don't get mad, I bake" while armed with a flamethrower as the finale in a running motif about her cooking skills, as well as several jokes about women being demons, but that's really it for the high points. At the same time, I don't dislike the film; there is still a certain amount of plucky charm to it, a weirdness that makes you keep watching as well as a lead hero who is at times really dumb and unlikable and yet still someone you find yourself rooting for in the end. Also, it has a surprisingly dark ending. Like, really dark. Oh, and Maestro Fresh-Wes did part of the soundtrack.

I think I like Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II the most overall of the series so far. I'm not sure I'll be able to track down Prom Night IV though, so I can't say for sure which one I think is best.

My progress so far:

18/31

Zombi 3
Halloween II
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Jason X
Amityville 3-D
Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes
House 4
Prom Night
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
Prom Night III: The Last Kiss

[noiseredux]

Prom Night III is my favorite in the series. How did you watch it? The version on the Prom Night II & III DVD comp is actually edited. That's why I kept the original VHS all these years.

[Ack]

Prom Night III is my favorite in the series. How did you watch it? The version on the Prom Night II & III DVD comp is actually edited. That's why I kept the original VHS all these years.

I saw the uncut VHS version, so the nudity, the gore, and the swearing were all left in. I really don't see why the TV edit ended up getting a home release. I guess someone lost the master or something.

[noiseredux]

Prom Night III is my favorite in the series. How did you watch it? The version on the Prom Night II & III DVD comp is actually edited. That's why I kept the original VHS all these years.

I saw the uncut VHS version, so the nudity, the gore, and the swearing were all left in. I really don't see why the TV edit ended up getting a home release. I guess someone lost the master or something.

that's my guess. The uncut version is sooooo much better.

[Forlorn Drifter]

The new Town That Dreaded Sundown is good stuff, I liked it.

I'll have to start watching some stuff, I'm behind this December. I'll have to see what Netflix has, I'm dying for something I haven't seen before that doesn't suck. Getting real tired of getting dragged to all these bump-in-the-night ghost/demon movies with found footage. I'm getting to where I hate found footage movies.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Apparently, Berberian Sound Studio is one of the best horror films of the 21st century. It is also currently streaming on Netflix (as is my personal favorite, The House of the Devil).

[Ack]

I'm getting to where I hate found footage movies.

You're not the only one. At this point I groan out loud when I hear a movie is found footage.