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Post by someoldguy on Nov 15, 2019 18:15:34 GMT -5
Watching Dark Was the Night right now. For me, this is an underrated low budget gem. Kevin Durand goes against type and turns in solid, nuanced performance. His best to date IMHO. Nick Damici and Lukas Haas are also great in supporting roles. My only issue, the ending. Good one. Thanks for the tip. Free on tubi tubitv.com/movies/478806/dark_was_the_nightAs you said, the acting was quite good. I also agree about the ending.  The human issues - husband/wife/kid - get resolved and then they all die anyway? After the Sheriff kills the monster with a knife! Sounds like another lazy "we don't know how to end this" cop out. |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Nov 16, 2019 0:09:40 GMT -5
Watching Dark Was the Night right now. For me, this is an underrated low budget gem. Kevin Durand goes against type and turns in solid, nuanced performance. His best to date IMHO. Nick Damici and Lukas Haas are also great in supporting roles. My only issue, the ending. Good one. Thanks for the tip. Free on tubi tubitv.com/movies/478806/dark_was_the_nightAs you said, the acting was quite good. I also agree about the ending. The human issues - husband/wife/kid - get resolved and then they all die anyway? After the Sheriff kills the monster with a knife! Sounds like another lazy "we don't know how to end this" cop out. The film got me to care about the characters, then tossed out that trash ending. |
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Post by someoldguy on Nov 16, 2019 10:27:33 GMT -5
Good one. Thanks for the tip. Free on tubi tubitv.com/movies/478806/dark_was_the_nightAs you said, the acting was quite good. I also agree about the ending. The human issues - husband/wife/kid - get resolved and then they all die anyway? After the Sheriff kills the monster with a knife! Sounds like another lazy "we don't know how to end this" cop out. The film got me to care about the characters, then tossed out that trash ending. It ain't over and/or the bad guys win is the all too common ending these days. A much more satisfying one would have been for there to have been only one monster in the church and wrap up with something like "bad things happen when you screw with Mother Nature" maybe with a daytime shot of vague figures in the deep woods. |
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Post by someoldguy on Nov 16, 2019 18:57:01 GMT -5
Tried Slumber Party Massacre II
Valerie is in a mental institution. Little sister Courtney is turning 18, is part of an all-girl rock band, and having weird dreams and hallucinations about the killer from the first movie come back dressed all in leather with the drill built into an electric guitar.
Weird and not in a good way, rather dumb and definitely not in a good way, unscary and with a total cop out 'surprise' ending. None of the style and impact of the original. I recommend not wasting your time.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 1, 2020 21:10:48 GMT -5
Ah yes, it's that time Again!
The Void (2016)
One of my favorite genre films of the 2010's.
Nice Canadian Supernatural/Body Horror films, mostly old school practical efx.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 1, 2020 23:43:35 GMT -5
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 2, 2020 15:24:44 GMT -5
Atterados (2017) Aka Terrified Español, English subtitles From Argentina Lots of scary spooky stuff, nicely done all around, soundtrack used effectively to build tension and induce scares. Nasty murders, dead boy won’t stay in his grave, stuff like that. And what's under your bed? What’s it all about? They are from another dimension and like blood. Beyond that you are not going to find out much. At one point someone says “Is there an explanation?” “No” The scares and spookiness were enough for me. |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 2, 2020 17:40:48 GMT -5
The Fog (1980)
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
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Post by ArcLight on Oct 2, 2020 18:32:13 GMT -5
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
I knew I hadn't seen the sixth and last of these yet but only when looking it up did I realize I had also missed this fifth one in the series.
Not exactly horror, they take the slow, survival-horror aspect of the games and throw it out the window to focus on hyper action sequences and endless gun battles. Still, there's monsters, zombies, and blood so I figured it could belong here. Maybe the rumored reboot movie will be closer in spirit to the games.
In the meantime, while I can't say I'm exactly a fan of the movies I am a fan of watching Milla Jovovich, particularly when she's in butt-kicking mode. I even sat thru Ultraviolet.
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 2, 2020 19:50:25 GMT -5
The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) Usually called House of User but the long name is on the title card. Somebody decided Roger Corman might do something interesting if he only had a budget. The result was the first of Corman's Poe series, usually starring Vincent Price to boot. Rich color enhances neat period piece sets. And that dream sequence!  All this in 2.35 CinemaScope! Price acts up a storm in his patented style, squeezing all he can out of the fine Richard Matheson screenplay. Mark Damon tries hard as the unwelcome visitor but he is overshadowed by Price. At least Corman picked someone with a respectable acting resume if not headliner category. Myrna Fahey (who?) does pretty good but mostly what she has to do is be mad and scary. (No, not mad and hairy. And much prettier than Hagrid.) Harry Elerbe (who?) also does OK but has not that much screen time. All in all, a good creepy movie, nicely manifesting the mood of Poe's original spooky story, Oh yes, direction is good too.  I saw this in the movies back in 1960. Sometime before Halloween as I recall. Later, on TV with commercials (Boo hiss, spoils the mood.) I saw that Shudder was showing it and had to see it again uninterrupted. |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 2, 2020 21:05:45 GMT -5
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) I knew I hadn't seen the sixth and last of these yet but only when looking it up did I realize I had also missed this fifth one in the series. Not exactly horror, they take the slow, survival-horror aspect of the games and throw it out the window to focus on hyper action sequences and endless gun battles. Still, there's monsters, zombies, and blood so I figured it could belong here. Maybe the rumored reboot movie will be closer in spirit to the games. In the meantime, while I can't say I'm exactly a fan of the movies I am a fan of watching Milla Jovovich, particularly when she's in butt-kicking mode. I even sat thru Ultraviolet. I call this franchise Resident Action. The Final Chapter is hands down the worst of the series. For me, it went full action after RE: Apocalypse. The first two are the only ones with any resemblance of the VG series. |
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 2, 2020 21:54:50 GMT -5
CarousHell (2016)
Carousel unicorn gets tired of abuse and lack of respect from kids, comes to life and starts killing people. Stupid and ludicrous, which is exactly its charm. The movie knows how dumb the idea is and proceeds to charge ahead with it. Hilarious dialog and circumstances, LOTS of messy gore as Duke the vengeful unicorn does his thing. Other than the blood and guts, there is no real FX. Duke retains his carousel ride appearance throughout. Acting and dialog are intentionally off the wall and skewer all sorts of things, like the smartphone addicted generation, macho guys who secretly watch kid's unicorn cartoon shows, even a nice switcheroo on axe murderer movies.
Do not even try to take this movie seriously.
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 2, 2020 22:19:58 GMT -5
Recently I had re-watched NCIS Seasons 1 and 2 plus Season 3 episodes 1 and 2. These are the 'Kate' (Sasha Alexander) episodes, which I like best of all and had not seen in years and years. Although I knew it was coming the last two episodes of Season 2 are about foreshadowing Kate's death and her actually getting killed at the very end of the last episode. Then the first two episodes of Season 3 are about 'ghost Kate' which are actually rather spooky, pun intended. Works as an October thing for me. The reason they killed off Kate was that Alexander had it up to her eyebrows with Donald Bellisario. They would be close to wrapping an episode when he would come in with changes for the current scene that turned out to have implications for the previous six scenes which all had to be redone. Then when they got near the end of it all he would come in again... Sasha quit and as a side effect, the powers that be decided that although his name would continue to be in the credits, Bellisario was banned from having anything to do with the scripts. |
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 2, 2020 23:40:43 GMT -5
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
TCM had it on. William Castle's campy masterpiece. I saw this one in the movies as well, very close to where the Emergo skeleton came out over the audience. Great fun!
The Haunting (1963) is coming on now, based on Shirley Jackson's terrific novel. Saw this one in the movies too with a girl who appreciated this kind of thing. We were both 16 at the time BTW. Great fun!
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 3, 2020 1:23:25 GMT -5
Recently I had re-watched NCIS Seasons 1 and 2 plus Season 3 episodes 1 and 2. These are the 'Kate' (Sasha Alexander) episodes, which I like best of all and had not seen in years and years. Although I knew it was coming the last two episodes of Season 2 are about foreshadowing Kate's death and her actually getting killed at the very end of the last episode. Then the first two episodes of Season 3 are about 'ghost Kate' which are actually rather spooky, pun intended. Works as an October thing for me. The reason they killed off Kate was that Alexander had it up to her eyebrows with Donald Bellisario. They would be close to wrapping an episode when he would come in with changes for the current scene that turned out to have implications for the previous six scenes which all had to be redone. Then when they got near the end of it all he would come in again... Sasha quit and as a side effect, the powers that be decided that although his name would continue to be in the credits, Bellisario was banned from having anything to do with the scripts. Occasionally watched NCIS, I remember when Sasha left the show. Why did Cote, Pauley and Lauren Holly leave the show? |
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Le Loup-Garou Qui Rit
All this in 2.35 CinemaScope! Price acts up a storm in his patented style, squeezing all he can out of the fine Richard Matheson screenplay. Mark Damon tries hard as the unwelcome visitor but he is overshadowed by Price. At least Corman picked someone with a respectable acting resume if not headliner category. Myrna Fahey (who?) does pretty good but mostly what she has to do is be mad and scary. (No, not mad and hairy. And much prettier than Hagrid.) Harry Elerbe (who?) also does OK but has not that much screen time. All in all, a good creepy movie, nicely manifesting the mood of Poe's original spooky story, Oh yes, direction is good too. 