Horror Movies watched this month

johnnydoom · 2022-10-12T15:44:07+00:00

I enjoy the volume of horror movies that television makes available every October these days. So far I've watched Jeepers Creepers for the first time, and T...

johnnydoom

garyt1957 I didn't like The Relic much at all and probably won't remember it for any positive things. Both movies had cover-ups with the one in C.H.U.D. the more sinister, several unlikeable characters to get killed, and likable characters to root for just like many other horror movies. C.H.U.D. was just a better production in my opinion. The monsters, and their origin were kind of 50's sci-fi cheesy, but it worked. Whereas it looked like much expense and attention was given to the creature in The Relic, I felt that everything being dark that there was no visible interaction with the terror the characters were supposed to be facing. C.H.U.D., even though a lot of it was underground or after dark, allowed you to see the actor's facial expressions and get the visual sense of the terror. Both movies are quite noticeably grounded in the time period that they were produced. You could almost say that one was perhaps more realistic with regard to lighting, but forgot that people are supposed to be able to watch it.

rsvman2

Rickochet I saw Poltergeist when it came out, and I saw Wait Until Dark years before that. That is the sum total of the horror movies I have seen.

johnnydoom

rsvman2 I thought Poltergeist was good when I saw it in the theater. Watched it last month on TCM and wasn't that moved by it. Just me getting old I guess. I've never seen Wait Until Dark so that might be worth me looking into.

garyt1957

johnnydoom I thought Poltergeist was good when I saw it in the theater. Watched it last month on TCM and wasn't that moved by it. Just me getting old I guess. I've never seen Wait Until Dark so that might be worth me looking into.

Wait Until Dark isn't a horror movie, imo. It is a great thriller. Haven't seen it in many many years but it was really good at the time. I looked it up, can't believe it was 1967:
Wait Until Dark is a 1967 American psychological thriller film directed by Terence Young and produced by Mel Ferrer,[3] from a screenplay by Robert Carrington and Jane-Howard Carrington, based on the 1966 play of the same name by Frederick Knott.[4] The film stars Audrey Hepburn as a blind woman, Alan Arkin as a violent criminal searching for drugs, and Richard Crenna as another criminal, supported by Jack Weston, Julie Herrod, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.[5]

Audrey Hepburn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1967, and Zimbalist was nominated for a Golden Globe in the supporting category. The film is ranked #55 on AFI's 2001 100 Years...100 Thrills list, and its climax is ranked tenth on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.[6]

johnnydoom

Spuzz watching Back to School (Rodney Dangerfield)

Saddened to see that Burt Young (Lou) just passed away.

Spuzz

johnnydoom Saddened to see that Burt Young (Lou) just passed away.

Same here.
He showed up in many kinds of movies that were unexpected, including that one.
He was at his best grumpy self in the Rocky movies, imo.

garyt1957

Watched three of the Mummy movies. Curse, Tomb and Hand. Made in 1942-44-46. When you watch them back to back like that you realize how derivative they are. Basically the same movie made 3 times.
And hilarious how the Mummy would leave his lair and walk into town dragging that one bad leg behind him. It would take him all night to get anywhere.

garyt1957

Evil of Frankenstein Hammer films Never liked Hammer horror movies as a kid, not sure why . This one had plenty of monster time to keep a kid amused. Pretty good for the time.

johnnydoom

Mark of the Vampire (1935)

An interesting film I had not seen. Recorded from a TCM showing. This one was made by MGM and, unlike the Universal movies with their abrupt endings, this one had an abrupt beginning to give a feeling as if any setup was edited out. A clever ending that was probably unique for the time. Bela Lugosi plays a vampire that is like Universal’s Dracula except that name and appearance were slightly altered.

garyt1957

johnnydoom I just read about this one recently. Evidently Universal screwed Bela over and wouldn't let him play Dracula anymore so this movie was basically Bela at another studio playing Dracula without calling him Dracula. That's a lot of Draculas in one sentence, lol. It's on my list.

Sneakylong

Haven’t seen it in awhile, but Night of the Living Dead from 1968 was pretty scary at that time. A bunch of us kids saw it in the theater when it came out.

“Directed by George Romero who is often described as an influential pioneer of the horror film genre and has been called the "Father of the Zombie Film" and an "icon".”

Probably my two favorite horror movies of all time are The Exorcist and Halloween. Saw both in the theater when they came out in 1973 and 1978. Both were very scary first time seeing them.

johnnydoom

Sneakylong It is a great movie, and the only zombie movie I’ve ever liked. The ending was very different - which was good for this movie, but not for most that tried the same thereafter.

garyt1957

Sneakylong Loved Night of the Living Dead, still good today. Hallaween also is a classic. Those two movies spawned 100's of movies.

johnnydoom

Spuzz Nightmare on Elm Street.
Special effects still hold up, imo.

Watching right now on AMC. One of my favorite movies in any genre.

Spuzz

johnnydoom Watching right now on AMC

That channel (up here) cuts out all the good bits.
The telephone scene near the end still makes me laugh.
😉

johnnydoom

Spuzz Definitely edited, but still quite good even so. I have the full version on DVD, but I’m actually using the commercial breaks to keep up with other stuff.

johnnydoom

Hilarious. A couple of days ago I watched The Relic with Audra Lindley playing the stereotype horror movie jaded coroner that’s seen everything. Today, I notice (for the first time after many watches) in A Nightmare on Elm Street that you don’t see the coroner since “he’s been in the John puking since he saw it”. 😁

johnnydoom

The Devil Doll (1936)

Another old Tod Browning directed movie recorded off TCM. A preposterous device woven into a great revenge story. Wonderful cinematographic imaging used to make a movie that can still fascinate. When I saw that Maureen O’Sullivan was in this I had to give it a watch. I’ve been madly in love with her since first seeing Tarzan the Ape Man as a young boy.

Sneakylong

Watching Halloween 2 right now and John Carpenter pays homage to George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. In one of the opening scenes there’s an elderly couple and the man is watching Night of the Living Dead on TV while his wife is making sandwiches. Michael Myers comes in and steals the sandwich knife.

garyt1957

Sneakylong Halloween 1 and 2 were the only ones that were really good.

johnnydoom

garyt1957 Even though it is a part of the franchise in name only, I actually thought Halloween III was good. For me, the first is great, the third is good, and I don't remember anything about the rest except that Laurie Strode made her own house a trap in one of them. I do remember some of the character development(?) given to Michael in Rob Zombie's version and the creative use of hospital equipment in 2, but would have been fine if I'd never seen those or any of the others.

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