Horror Movies

[Nightwish84]

What Ti West has done with his personal Mia Goth triple feature project has been pretty impressive. X is essentially a grimy 70s grindhouse feature, Pearl is a fantastic character study of a trapped and broken young woman, and Maxxxine is a grungy 80s exploitation film reminiscent of Vice Squad and Angel. I'm hoping A24 puts out a 4K boxset of the trilogy soon.

On Longlegs, at some point in the last few years, Nic Cage became somewhat must-see again. Maika Monroe has been impressive since It Follows and Cage is like a creepier version of Tiny Tim here. The more I think about the film, the more I like it.

 

[WonderBraa]

Anybody got a review for longlegs?

 

[christophero]

My coworker liked it. I watched Crawl and loved it. Father and daughter battle gators during a Florida hurricane. Very tense. From 2019.

 

[BC_Wader]

As far as I'm concerened, nothing beats Alien and The Thing in the horror genre. I probably said that earlier in this thread. Nothing tops those two films for me. Every other movie is fighting for 3rd place.

 

[christophero]

Jaws as well.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

I still feel like The Thing is largely overlooked by not only film fans, but even a lot of casual horror fans.

I also find Carpenters other two entries in his Apocalypse Trilogy to be very underrated.. Prince of Darkness and In The The Mouth Of Madness.. they both play very well with the themes of The Thing. Body, mind, and Spirit.

 

[BC_Wader]

I still feel like The Thing is largely overlooked by not only film fans, but even a lot of casual horror fans.

I also find Carpenters other two entries in his Apocalypse Trilogy to be very underrated.. Prince of Darkness and In The The Mouth Of Madness.. they both play very well with the themes of The Thing. Body, mind, and Spirit.

It's a very smart horror movie. I saw this when it first came out on cable not long after it's theater run. Movies came out early on cable back then. My ten year old self knew I was watching something great and it quickly became one of my favorite movies. It's still that way for me. It's the perfect mix of mystery and dread. The fact that to this day people are still arguing if Childs or Macready was the thing at the end speaks to it's legacy.
It was Childs, btw.

 

[catsfanbgky]

I checked out the trailer for "Strangers Chapter 1" last night. It is supposed to be the prequel to "Strangers". Strangers was a very good movie, I can only hope this one is just as good. The trailer gave me hope. If anyone has watched it, simply post "like" or "disliked", no spoilers. Going to try and watch it over the weekend, I will give my review after doing so.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

It's a very smart horror movie. I saw this when it first came out on cable not long after it's theater run. Movies came out early on cable back then. My ten year old self knew I was watching something great and it quickly became one of my favorite movies. It's still that way for me. It's the perfect mix of mystery and dread. The fact that to this day people are still arguing if Childs or Macready was the thing at the end speaks to it's legacy.
It was Childs, btw.

Upon a ton of inspection and reading on it, the only strong feeling I have towards the Childs/McReady debate, is that the whole "Look at their breath in the cold" thing. Child's breath isn't visible in the cold because of the light angle, but as I recall if you look closely, you can see it. Where as McReady's based on the angle of the lighting, is as visible as day. That's the only thing I feel like ISN'T true.. every other angle I've read I think "Yeah I can see that".

 

[BC_Wader]

Upon a ton of inspection and reading on it, the only strong feeling I have towards the Childs/McReady debate, is that the whole "Look at their breath in the cold" thing. Child's breath isn't visible in the cold because of the light angle, but as I recall if you look closely, you can see it. Where as McReady's based on the angle of the lighting, is as visible as day. That's the only thing I feel like ISN'T true.. every other angle I've read I think "Yeah I can see that".

You sound like a man that has already pre-ordered The Thing Expanded. I'm thinking about it heavily.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

You sound like a man that has already pre-ordered The Thing Expanded. I'm thinking about it heavily.

Ha, RJ MacReady is my Slack Profile picture for work, and I was RJ for Halloween once hahaha. I love all the various one-sheets for it, and can't wait for the remaster of the PS2 game.

I think some of the most wild debates I have seen are about how intelligent "The Thing" is (or isn't) when it's assimilating and has assimilated. The actions that some of the characters take when they may or may not be infected, and if they are doing things as a scared human, a human protecting humanity, or The thing protecting it self. You can really go down a rabbit hole.

Some of my fav posters:

 

[UK82]

I've watched 5 of these.

https://collider.com/horror-movies-banned-around-the-world/

 

[LineSkiCat14]

I've watched 5 of these.

https://collider.com/horror-movies-banned-around-the-world/

9.

I haven't heard of that Devil movie.

Surprised that Exorcist didn't make that list, because I thought that was one of the most banned. Along with Hostel.

The House That Jack Built would be on here, but it's too new.

 

[BC_Wader]

I've seen Faces of Death. All of them. Also have seen I Spit on Your Grave and obviously Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

I Spit On Your Grave was brutal, man. The bathtub scene? I'm suddenly burning down there.

My buddies and I would rent horror movies back when I was a kid and stay up all night watching them. Some of those that seem to get no love:
Re-Animator
House
Fright Night
The Howling
The Blob
Return of the Living Dead
From Beyond
Lifeforce
Pumpkinhead

 

[UK82]

9.

I haven't heard of that Devil movie.

Surprised that Exorcist didn't make that list, because I thought that was one of the most banned. Along with Hostel.

The House That Jack Built would be on here, but it's too new.

Not sure if Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is considered a horror film but it was also banned in several countries.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Not sure if Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is considered a horror film but it was also banned in several countries.

That was a tough watch. So damn grimy. It was basically just like, here's this awful human being killing people. Nothing good comes from it. It's one of those films that I describe as "evil just exists and there's no need for an explanation". The Dark And The Wicked was like this. Dreadful.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Longlegs just came out on Amazon, if you want to pay like $25. Or you there are torrents of it online. Going to try and get to it tonight, but it's almost 10pm here and the little one will be up at 6am sharp, so might not get to it.

Forget if I talked about this, but Speak No Evil remake is about to come out with James McAvoy. I strongly urge everyone to watch the original, it will stick with you for sure. The US version looks like it will be the exact same movie, but I'll watch it at some point to compare.

 

[christophero]

Speak No Evil is a good one.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Liked Longlegs a lot. I don't think it's quite as good as people were making it out to be.. but a solid 7, maybe an 8/10.

The problem was that the first 3rd was amazing and then the back half got a little convoluted. But then in the last 5 minutes, I think they stick the landing very well of what's happening.

I think the biggest problem for me is that I just can't take Nic Cage seriously as a bad guy like this. What works so well for other bad guys like Ted Levine and Spacey, is that at the time of their movies, you didn't already see them in a million things. They were unknown and horrifying. And both still played almost entirely serious roles. So it was hard to see Nic Cage singing in his car as Longles, and find it terrifying, when all I can picture is him in Face/Off or The Rock doing the same thing.

 

[WonderBraa]

Liked Longlegs a lot. I don't think it's quite as good as people were making it out to be.. but a solid 7, maybe an 8/10.

The problem was that the first 3rd was amazing and then the back half got a little convoluted. But then in the last 5 minutes, I think they stick the landing very well of what's happening.

I think the biggest problem for me is that I just can't take Nic Cage seriously as a bad guy like this. What works so well for other bad guys like Ted Levine and Spacey, is that at the time of their movies, you didn't already see them in a million things. They were unknown and horrifying. And both still played almost entirely serious roles. So it was hard to see Nic Cage singing in his car as Longles, and find it terrifying, when all I can picture is him in Face/Off or The Rock doing the same thing.

Excited to see it. Waiting for it to reach streaming. It got some major publicity, which isn’t always a good thing. Sets expectations too high. But horror can be decent and still be worth the watch. Great thing about the genre.