Racketboy Month of Horror 16: Weaponization

[REPO Man]

I love how the they use fog as both an aesthetic and as a practical means of hiding lower draw distances that in turn help to provide more graphical resources towards the parts that the game does draw in.

[PretentiousHipster]

Got kind of inactive here despite still seeing stuff. I was late with seeing this, but I came across a schizophrenic artist inspired by the works of Italian horror films, and Brakhage's Mothlight. The result of his zero-budget film is pretty much a cursed VHS tape you find on the street i.e. Ringu, rather than a film.

I felt inspired and wrote an essay on it: https://auteuroutlier.com/2025/11/20/th ... c-episode/

I'll link a trailer for it too, but believe me, this is just a taste. If you don't wanna read the essay, just know that this film literally made me feel feverish, and afterwards I was still shivering and needed to take a nap to process it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IktTG5BE0w

[prfsnl_gmr]

WISE FROM YO GWAVE!!!

First, stupendous review @PH. I am incredibly intrigued by that film, even if it sounds like a bad time. How did you access it?

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I watched a few more movies to wrap up October, and one more film that should have been released in October, but didn’t quite make the cut. I must record my review for posterity! Don’t worry, though, I’ll keep them to one sentence each.

Good Manners is a genre-bending werewolf motherhood movie - that IMDB classifies as a musical! - from Brazil that, despite a pretty great first half, just isn’t interesting enough to justify its 2 hour run time.

Robbert Eggers Nosferatu is full of inky blacks, great sets, silly accents, and spooky good times.

Scream is a good series reboot that doubles as a great satire of lega-sequels, and I think it’s the second best film in the series.

Guillermo Del Toro’s visually stunning Frankenstein draws elements from both the book and the Universal film, but the non-sensical plot, over-engineered costumes and sets, and the overwrought acting keep it from holding a candelabra to either of them.

PRFSNL_GMR’S SPOOKY HORROR MOVIES LIST: ORIGINS
The Beast Must Die -
The Wolf of Snow Hollow -
Wolf-Man -
In the Tall Grass -
Werewolf by Night -
Werewolf of London -
Horror in the High Desert -
The Cursed -
Presence -
The Blackening -
The Devil’s Rejects -
The Perfection -
The First Omen -
Viking Wolf -
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death -
Bloodthirsty -
In a Violent Nature -
The Lady in Black -
Identity -
Heretic -
The Damned -
Smile Before Death -
Hellraiser -
The White Reindeer -
The Black Cat -
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992) -
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (2025) -
Good Manners -
Nosferatu (2024) -
Scream (2022) -
Frankenstein (2025) -