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We get to see more home movies, text messages between Shanann and Chris, Shanann and her friends. We get to see more of her Vlog entries.
I think it shows more of what was going on than anything else I've seen.
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Innocent Blood
Filmed in Pittsburgh, not necessarily set in Pittsburgh:
Creepshow
The Silence of the Lambs
The Dark Half
Let Us Prey
From The Dark
The Cured
A couple of good horror/comedy
Grabbers
Extra Ordinary
1. Nightmare on Elm Street
2. Halloween
This thing from 1980 was terrifying because it was filmed in the 1980s.
Boy loves Santa. Boy eager to catch Santa coming down the chimney. Boy catches more than that. Boy sees Santa getting his freak on with his slutty mother by the Christmas tree, fireplace and plate of cookies. Boy is immediately traumatized and f'd up -- for the rest of his life. Boy grows up to be weirdo.
Awful. Not one redeeming thing I can say about it. But, when I commit, I commit. There were a lot of very familiar character actor faces in this, so in a way, that was kind of fun trying to wrack my brain to figure out what else I'd seen them in. So, to stay positive, maybe there was one redeeming thing in the movie afterall and that was remembering other movies.
Avoid this like....well, the covid.
1. Ghost Stories*
2. American Murder*
3. Christmas Evil*
1. Viy (1967)
Wayward Cossack seminary student must pray alone for three nights over the corpse of the woman he murdered--and who just might be a witch.
Considered to be the first Soviet horror film, Viy plays like a Russian folk tale, and was in fact based on a story written by Russian literary giant Nikolai Gogol. It's as if the Russians wanted to make a Hammer horror film mixed with a dark fairy tale, and perhaps saw a bit into the future and borrowed from The Exorcist even though it hadn't been made yet.
The Russian countryside is spooky and full of supernatural mystery, and the Russian monks are more like sorcerers in training than holy men. The film has an endearingly creepy handmade feel to it, and if several of the special effects verge on cheesy, it only lends to the eerily off-kilter atmosphere. Aside from a gutsy early scene involving the flight of a witch, the film can be a bit of a slow burn, but the second half is pure delirious horror steeped in Russian religious imagery, climaxing in an amazing array of monsters and beasties who literally come out of the woodwork.
4 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2020 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. Viy (1967) 4/5 (FTV)
2. Night Visitor
A teenager spying on his sexy next-door neighbor stumbles upon a Satanic ritual murder cult and must convince skeptical authorities before it's too late.
Released in 1989 and featuring Elliot Gould, Richard Roundtree, and Gene Simmons' wife Shannon Tweed, I had somehow never heard of Night Visitor, but was intrigued when Glenn Erickson (aka media reviewer DVD Savant, and also editor of this film) wrote an affectionate review announcing this film's recent Blu-Ray release. Night Visitor, while not quite the classic that Fright Night is, explores similar territory and is genuinely entertaining, if not particularly scary. One gets the feeling that the story could have been expanded a little more beyond the first major twist (I won't spoil it here), and while the body count isn't very high, fans of suburban Eighties "Satanic panic" will enjoy.
Keep an eye out for character actor mainstay Michael J. Pollard, and a pre-adult film career Teri Weigel. Fun fact, the original title of this film was supposed to be "Never Cry Devil", but was changed to the more generic (and perhaps less controversial) title it has today.
3 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2020 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. Viy (1967) 4/5 (FTV)
2. Night Visitor 3/5
Ahhhh, it's so nice to come back to one of my favorites for the season.
Five men enter a lift in an office building and are taken to the subbasement where they all remember a dream. I just love this thing.
1. Ghost Stories*
2. American Murder*
3. Christmas Evil*
4. Vault of Horror
An asteroid is headed for Earth and must be destroyed before it hits. Call in the Astronauts to plant bombs on the surface of the asteroid. The mission appears to be successful until one of the astronauts brings back some oozy green slime with him into the space craft.
The slime mutates and we get a bunch of creatures from H.R. Pufnstuf running around the ship. When the crew try to zap the creatures with lasers, they discover that the energy the lasers produce feeds them to produce more creatures from their wounds.
They are just taking over the spacecraft and while this is all happening, we have a love triangle going. Talk about priorities!
Fun in a campy way, but terrible. And some famous faces. Made in Japan with Japanese film crew and all caucasian actors. I bet it was huge in Japan. The coolest thing about it is that it has a totally groovy theme song.
1. Ghost Stories*
2. American Murder*
3. Christmas Evil*
4. Vault of Horror
5. The Green Slime*
01. Dracula's Daughter
02. Son Of Dracula
03. House Of Frankenstein
2. Halloween
3.Amityville Horror
4. Halloween Resurrection
2. Tigers Are Not Afraid
A Mexican girl seeks revenge on the drug lord who abducted her mother, assisted by a rag-tag group of street urchins, three wishes, and ghosts.
Tigers Are Not Afraid explores potentially bleak subject matter (kids orphaned by drug crime) but it with a certain amount of so-called magical realism, but avoids becoming maudlin. Indeed, the fantastical elements go hand in hand with the harsh realism, to put us into the mind of a child and make experiencing the horrors of the real world even more intense. Think Beasts of the Southern Wild but with talking dead people and dark fairies. Many have made comparisons between this film and the early works of Guillermo del Toro (especially The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth), and they're not wrong, but I also noticed favorable similarities with the non-supernatural Brazilian street crime film City of God, with the depictions of youth street life that feel authentic and human.
You'll want to see this one if you get a chance; this is one of those movies that elevates not just the horror genre, but also shows us how good cinema can be.
5 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2020 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. Viy (1967) 4/5 (FTV)
2. Night Visitor 3/5
3. Tigers Are Not Afraid 5/5
(Not to be confused with Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo ).
Now this is a new one for me not only as a film but as an Egyptian horror movie. It's a possession story, with a twist who's doing the possessing.
It was odd and bizarre. But a very rich visual film. I wouldn't watch it again, but it was unique and I like that I tried something new.
1. Ghost Stories*
2. American Murder*
3. Christmas Evil*
4. Vault of Horror
5. The Green Slime*
6. The Blue Elephant 2