4th Annual N&G 31 Days* of Halloween (2022)

3. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Rating: 💀💀💀 1/2
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Decided to watch a classic. I've actually never seen this before but I can see why people like it. Its so gritty/dirty - you can't help but feel grossed out a bit. And the characters in here are just so sadistic. Sally's a badass! She has lung for days - not sure how she kept her voice through the whole thing. Also, she not only only jumped out of a window, but she jumped out of 2 windows - one from the second floor and still manage to limp away. She's a survivor for sure, and a good example of how your survive a horror movie.
 
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Spooky watch #7 was Dr. Jekyll vs. The Werewolf, a cheesy little Paul Naschy-starring Hammer-lite number from Spain.

The more Naschy movies I see, the more I'm convinced they epitomize the simple horror pleasures. These are comfort foods for b-movie fans. Hokey horror premises, silly acting, familiar character tropes. (He even often plays multiple roles at once.)

I just learned that there are 12+ movies featuring Naschy's wolfman (Waldemar), though they're mostly standalones. So far I've seen four of the Waldemar films. This one's extra silly because it starts in Transylvania and moves to swinging 60s London half way through where Waldemar seeks the treatment of Dr. Jekyll (whose team has more than a cure on their mind). In a ridiculous twist on the classic inner demon narrative,
Jekyll is not the one who turns into Hyde
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My favorite Naschy offering so far is actually one of his satanist movies, Horror from the Tomb (on Tubi).

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The Scary of Sixty-First (2021)

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I forgot to write about this a couple nights ago when I seen it.. Sooooooooo I hit random on my movie server and this one came on. Random is a great word to start off as this is a very strange one to say the least and while i'm all for the odd, strange, batshit crazy side of movies they usually are wildly varying from person to person and this one was a hard nope for me but I can also see this being somewhat of a cult hit. It feels like that perfect movie when you're in HS or College and you want to show off how weird and messed up a movie is more then how good it was.

It starts off with two girls renting a place in Manhattan and while it seems mostly perfect they find it odd that the second room can only be accessed by going through the first room first and has a lock on the door. What's the most logical reason for this??? It was supposedly owned by the one and only Jeffrey Epstein of all things 😬 👀. It spirals into fucking extreme weirdness and much of the time honestly just felt kind of forced like they wanted to be edgy. The acting was mostly at least decent and it was actually shot pretty well with a creepy well done overall vibe that kept me watching along with a really good score. No chance i'd ever watch this again and maybe others will like it more then me but it just never really hit right for me at all. I see a lot of scores for it are either super high or super low which makes sense.

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The Innkeepers (2011)


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This isn't my first rodeo with The Innkeepers but it had been a couple years since I watched it and in anticipation with probably the release i'm most excited about in the next month which is Pearl (Prequel to X which I absolutely loved!) I decided to revisit this one. Ti West has become easily one of my favorite current Horror directors and this movie is what introduced me to him. I love how the two leads in this feel so authentic and genuine almost like you're just hanging out with a couple friends while watching it. Then it has this spooky vibe that is a slow burn until it suddenly just slaps you in the face during the second half with some genuine creepy asf moments which are pretty rare for me these days. The only negative thing i'll really say is the ending feels a bit rushed and abrupt. Still not bad at all but I think it could have been done a bit better.



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Just a fun, extremely solid movie.​
 
#2.

28 Days Later (2002) 💀 💀 💀 💀

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When I don't really know what I want to watch I just start at the beginning of my collection.

Probably the best "fast zombie" movie, although some others have grown on me.

(yeah...I know they aren't "zombies")
 
2.

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Clearly I waited thirty years too long to watch this because that was fucking awesome! I don't really know what I was expecting but this was quite a bit different, regardless. This felt built especially for me (current me for sure, anyway) - from the first note of Philip Glass I was 100% in, no slow burn, no build-up and no pushing through to see if it gets better. A bit more cerebral than I was expecting. And less gory. I don't consider myself a prude when it comes to gore - I don't feel compelled toward "torture porn" like the Saw franchise (and don't begrudge anybody who does) but I can appreciate many fashions of gore from tasteful to distasteful to outright over-the-top. This had what felt like a perfect amount for the story to be told. None of it gratuitous. I can see why some considered this a contemporary classic back when it came out. Two of my all-time genre faves are the original versions of The Wicker Man and Halloween; Candyman feels like it would make a great middle to a spectrum bookended by the two. I definitely see myself returning to this one, and I'm looking forward to checking out Peele's Candyman next!
 
3.

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(minus 🦴 for a character's use of Sun Ra as a pejorative)​

Between this and 2018's Halloween, I'm really loving the trend of the well done decades-later direct sequel that disavows all previous sequels. This was an exciting modern entry into the mythos that felt fresh and true to the original with a pleasant surprise or two along the way. I've yet to check out Nope but I've loved everything Peele has done in horror so far.
 
4. We're All Going To the World's Fair (2021)
Rating: 💀💀
I kind of understood what they were going for with this and at times the movie was unsettling but it was mostly boring to me. To put into perspective (and it might have been because I was watching this at like 2am and might have been out of it), the first scene where she's livecasting & staring at the computer screen for a good 10 minutes, there was a moment she glances down at her phone and I must have accidentally paused it but didn't realize for a good 5 minutes straight. I thought she was just casually browsing something on her phone for that entire time. Overall, I didn't feel the horror aspect of it and it just wasn't my type of movie in general.
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5. Saint Maud (2019)
Rating: 💀 💀 💀
I thought this one was decent. It's a slowburn type of movie where you know somethings wrong but the tension keeps building until the end. I just wish that because you spend so much time with the main character, you learn more about what lead her here by delving more into her past but probably was a creative choice to sprinkle bits and not explain at all.
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zomgbear said:
4. We're All Going To the World's Fair
Rating: 💀💀
I kind of understood what they were going for with this and at times the movie was unsettling but it was mostly boring to me. To put into perspective (and it might have been because I was watching this at like 2am and might have been out of it), the first scene where she's livecasting & staring at the computer screen for a good 10 minutes, there was a moment she glances down at her phone and I must have accidentally paused it but didn't realize for a good 5 minutes straight. I thought she was just casually browsing something on her phone for that entire time. Overall, I didn't feel the horror aspect of it and it just wasn't my type of movie in general.
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I made it about half way through but agree that it was too boring.
 
The Michael Myers Marathon™ continues...

MOVIE #6
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
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Okay, so I did not see that ending coming. That was a fun surprise!

Overall, this one was decent; pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. Michael Myers makes the jump into the late 80s in time for the tenth anniversary of his original massacre, and while I can't help but feel the law of diminishing returns are starting to set in, the formula works here.

Rating: 💀💀💀🦴

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By 1988, the slasher boom was already starting to run on fumes, as the budgets sunk lower and lower and the sequels started to be produced faster and faster. However, the market for them hadn't dwindled entirely yet, and so came Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, the first Halloween film...
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MOVIE #7
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
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I probably shouldn't have watched this so close to the fourth one, because I can already tell I'm going to get these two movies mixed up in my head. This one is wavering dangerously close to a 💀💀🦴 rating, but I think there's enough good stuff here to give it a pity 🦴. It's pretty goofy, though, and I'm dreading seeing the series devolve further from here.

Rating: 💀💀💀

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A ★★★ review of Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

Alright, so Michael Myers has been trying to kill the same little girl for two movies now, Dr. Loomis has officially lost his goddamn mind, and a guy in a trenchcoat is standing around menacingly. All very cool, but the question must be asked, is this a good movie? The answer: not really, no. I...
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So I have to ask; what's the best version to go with for The Curse of Michael Myers? Theatrical or the "Producer's Cut"?
 
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