Month of Horror 8: The Hellworld Gospel Resurrection Legacy

[prfsnl_gmr]

Oculus was very cool. (y'all know that's Nebula in that movie, right???)

Silent House is fresh in my mind as another movie that's far more interesting than you'd expect.

You mean Amy from Doctor Who, right?

I also liked Silent House, up until the incredibly dumb ending. It is one of the few movies to receive a solid "F" Cinemascore rating, however, which while not a knock against its quality, necessarily, makes me think twice before recommending it.

My wife and I are taking the night off, but we have watched a few more:

Dark Places (1973) - This is a public domain, British horror film about a man who inherits an estate from a madman thought, but never proved, to have killed his family. There is allegedly a fortune hidden in its walls, and everyone wants it! It has a superb cast - Christopher Lee! Joan Collins! Herbert Lom! Robert Hardy! Jane Birkin! Jean Marsh! - but their powers combined aren't enough to elevate what amounts to a little more than a low-budget, especially long, and especially macabre Scooby Doo episode.

1408 (2007) - This is an adaptation of a Stephen King short story about a cursed hotel room. John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson are in it. My wife says that the story is pretty good. The movie, however, is garbage, and you should avoid it. (The part where John Cusack fights a mini fridge is unintentionally hilarious, and Samuel L. Jackson swirling a crystal snifter is gif-worthy. Otherwise, however, everything about the movie is bad.).

[Nemoide]

So tonight I watched Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) in 35mm.
Man, this movie is pretty forgettable. Not the worst vampire movie I've seen. Not the worst Wes Craven movie I've seen. Not the worst Eddie Murphy movie I've seen. But this really isn't saying too much.
I found myself amused in a couple parts. I thought the "full" vampire design at the end of the movie was pretty cool. But really, this movie just doesn't feel special in any way. The jokes fall flat more often than not and the horror isn't that horrific. **shrug**

But hey, it was 35mm and the ticket was free, and I get to add another notch on my spooky movie belt. That's enough for me!

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Silent House falls apart at the end, but it was certainly an interesting excercise. I also love Elizabeth Olsen so there's that.

I don't watch Doctor Who... Sorry.

[marurun]

Nebula is so much better as Amy Pond

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Spooky Tuesday, Week 1:

Alright so my wife and I played Limbo last night. I had played it myself years ago. I guess whenever it was that it first came out on 360. She had never played it. We just sort of of casually passed the controller back and forth between different sections, or if one of us got frustrated at a certain part. I'm not sure how close we got to the end of the game, but it was probably further than I got on my own back in the day since to be honest, Limbo never really held my attention longer than say 30 mins or so. Personally I think that the art and atmosphere are great, but these kind of tricky trial-and-error platformers aren't really my favorite genre.

That said, we had a lot of fun. We played for about two hours and it helped having two people to try to figure out certain little puzzles or whatever. It was also funny because my wife always talks about how games aren't scary - she laughs at me when I jump from something like Alien: Isolation or whatever - but the spider section of Limbo really creeped her out and she screamed a couple of times during more startling deaths.

I don't know if we'll stick with this one to finish it next week before moving on to something else or not. We'll see.

[Jagosaurus]

@Xeo, I watched The Town that Dredded Sundown remake last year. Not the best, but the sidewalk scene with the automatic lights turning on and off was pretty cool. Also, IIRC the reboot took place in the same town and acted like the original film was based on a true story about this town? Kind of similar to Stab in Scream... but using movie it was rebooting. Correct? Interesting take on that.

@Exh, Candyman terrified me as a kid. Watched it later and it was ok.

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@Xeo, I watched The Town that Dredded Sundown remake last year. Not the best, but the sidewalk scene with the automatic lights turning on and off was pretty cool. Also, IIRC the reboot took place in the same town and acted like the original film was based on a true story about this town? Kind of similar to Stab in Scream... but using movie it was rebooting. Correct? Interesting take on that.

@Exh, Candyman terrified me as a kid. Watched it later and it was ok.

Yup, even though I skipped over the first before watching the remake (I usually don't do that, but this doesn't seem like a huge deep series or anything), they reference the original a lot. There was a drive in movie playing the original movie too in one scene, where he stabs someone with an umbrella or something. Even some kills had some "flashback" montages to the original kills I'm guessing. I could tell it was probably a faithful and good remake. The concept and general story itself was just kind of subpar.

Nastiest scene was the girl jumping out of a second story hotel and breaking her leg, see the bone go through the skin haha. I'm getting pretty immune to most movie violence though and that scene was just like "oh cool, wonder how they did that?" lol.

[Nemoide]

Tonight's spooky movie: The House of the Devil (2009)

This movie's been on my radar since it first came out and got all kinds of buzz for being SUPER 1980s-STYLE. And it is! The movie really commits to the aesthetic of older horror movies. At least until the final sequence when more modern techniques seem to be employed.
That said... I'm not wild about this movie. It felt like it was too much buildup for not enough payoff.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Tonight, my wife and I watched The Thing (2011). I am a tremendous fan of John Carpenter's 1982 version, but based on its reviews, I did not go into the 2011 version with high hopes. Thankfully, however, the film ended up being much better than I anticipated, and I ended up enjoying it quite a bit. Certainly, it isn't as good as the 1982 version, which it apes in many respects, but the movie was genuinely well-made; the creature effects were solid; it raised some good questions about The Thing's nature; and it was a lot of fun. Better, the film is more of a prequel than a remake, and I think it serves as a good complement to John Catpenter's classic film. If, like me, you don't go into it with unrealistic expectations, then I think you will enjoy it.

[Jagosaurus]

@Xeo, That's right! The drive in scene playing the original. Somehow I don't recall the leg scene. I do remember some intense blood in one brutal kill.

@ Nemoid, I was actually about to order The House of the Devil. Worth watching at least?
You're right. It was hyped quite a bit. I loved how it got an official VHS release to complete the 80s horror theme
https://gorgon-video.com/products/house ... -devil-vhs