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Not much to add to what has been said already. Never know what goes on behind closed doors, I guess. I cannot fathom any of it. I cannot imagine being his father and hearing him confess the way he did. My gosh. Just so many layers of disgust. I hope the faces of his little girls haunt him every single moment he has left in his life, waking and asleep. His wife, too. They obviously had marital issues...but no matter what, she did not deserve that either, or their unborn child.
2. The Birds
Repeat viewing for me, but I admit I did not remember much, other than the birds. We just read the short story over at the Playground, and wanted to watch again. The movie bears little resemblance to the story, surprise! The story is better. I really don't care for this movie much, (maybe why I didn't remember much) it is a very slow burn and all the good stuff is in the last 30 minutes or so.
It mixes a serial killer flick with Halloween legend. It didn't get great reviews, but I liked it. I'll give it 4 stars.
Another spin on an exorcism flick. While nothing will ever beat The Exorcist, I still enjoyed the film. It could have used more scare factor. 3 stars.
To be honest, I watched this one because it had Kevin Bacon. While the pretense of the story was intriguing, I found that it moved kind of slow for my liking, and I fell asleep.
I'm still giving it 3 stars because the story was good, and Kevin Bacon!
Three teenagers ignore warnings, and enter a caved rumored to grant wishes. They bring home a demon.
I had really high hopes for this one, but the story wasn't cohesive enough for me. It could have been so much better. 2 stars.
This one might have been okay, I'll have to watch it again to make sure I didn't miss something. I can't even add a synopsis because I don't know what it was about.
One star.
Crawl has a father and daughter trapped in their house during a hurricane and rising floodwater brings crocs aplenty crawling... Another fun flick, some good jump scares.
So far,
01. Dracula's Daughter
02. Son Of Dracula
03. House Of Frankenstein
04. Rogue
05. Crawl
The Conjuring
The Evil Dead 2
Cabin Fever
Hannibal
Silver Bullet
April Fool's Day
Cat's Eye
Cape Fear was actually set in NC and filmed here
4. I Trapped the Devil (FTV)
Picture this: you and your wife decide to pay your brother a surprise visit around Christmas time, but he's acting weird (well, weirder than usual) and tense. Eventually you find out why: he has a man held captive in his basement behind a locked door--a man he insists is the Devil himself, and should never be let out.
If you've ever seen the old Twilight Zone episode "The Howling Man" (based on the story by Charles Beaumont), you're familiar with this setup, but it's a good one. The movie works best when posing the moral quandry that arises when a loved one commits a crime: do you become complicit, or turn them in and see them sent to jail? On top of this, what if it turns out that you're wrong, and you've just released the Devil to the world?
Great performances from a small cast in tight quarters (the entirety of the film is shot on one property, mostly indoors), and good at keeping the tensions up, even if the story is a little thin and the characters might sometimes behave illogically, I Trapped the Devil kept me watching right up to the final frame.
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 3/5 (FTV)
3. Tigers Are Not Afraid 5/5 (FTV)
4. I Trapped the Devil 4/5 (FTV)
An escape room story, held in an abandoned mental hospital. The info says it was a Belgian release, the actors all had heavy accents and it was hard to understand them sometimes. Could have been cool but I had the twist figured out pretty quick. The escapes were less of a riddle kind, more of a Saw kind, only not nearly as clever.
Another one of my favorites starring Vincent Price and Diana Rigg and plenty of other British staples, it very much reminds me of the Dr. Phibes movies.
Criterion Collection just added some Horror movies for the season and this was one.
1. Ghost Stories*
2. American Murder*
3. Christmas Evil*
4. Vault of Horror
5. The Green Slime*
6. The Blue Elephant 2*
7. Theatre of Blood
This is the only scary movie that still scares me. I don't know what it is about this one because I've watched plenty of movies using the same plot, but this one scares me.
Maybe it has something to do with f'in around with my beloved Christmas. Couldn't the guy have gotten all kill-y on Arbor Day?
Apparently there is a re-make that I would watch, but don't have high hopes for. Film makers today in the Horror genre don't seem to trust their audience to have any brains.
1. Ghost Stories*
2. American Murder*
3. Christmas Evil*
4. Vault of Horror
5. The Green Slime*
6. The Blue Elephant 2*
7. Theatre of Blood
8. Black Christmas 1974
5. Vivarium (FTV)
A couple looking for their dream home become trapped in a surreal suburban hellscape from which there is no apparent escape.
Vivarium could be called a form of sci-fi horror, although the science is mysterious and more like magic, and the horror is weird and unconventional. The viewer knows there must be monsters pulling the strings, but they are for the most part unseen, giving the viewer time to imagine and theorize, and dread the worst as the characters navigate their grim situation. It's nice to see an oddball movie like this actually get made, not being based on an existing franchise or relying on marquee star power (let's face it, Jessie Eisenberg is no Tom Cruise). This movie relies on the inherent tension in the concept, and even once we think we've figured it all out, it's like watching a disaster unfold in slow motion.
What keeps Vivarium from being great is that this absolutely didn't need to be a full-length movie. Everything in this story could have easily been told in an hour-long television show (if this had been on AMC's "Creepshow", it would have been the best of a strong bunch). With an already sparse story spread thin, things tend to get a bit repetitive, and the viewer's attention span is strained more than it needs to be. Maybe that was the point, to emphasize the drudgery of conformist suburbia, but I think there simply is just not enough story here to sustain a full-length film. Still, I give them points for doing something unique and weirding me out for a little while.
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 (FTV)
3. Tigers Are Not Afraid 5/5 (FTV)
4. I Trapped the Devil 4/5 (FTV)
5. Vivarium 3/5 (FTV)
I really like this movie. It doesn't rate high with others but I thought it was stylish and interesting. I liked the characters. I liked the plot. I liked the look of it. Still worth my time to watch it now and then.
1. Ghost Stories*
2. American Murder*
3. Christmas Evil*
4. Vault of Horror
5. The Green Slime*
6. The Blue Elephant 2*
7. Theatre of Blood
8. Ghost Ship
Another Criterion Channel entry. This was a weird little thing starring John Marley who you'll know his face as the director who sleeps with the horse heads in The Godfather.
A family is told that their son has died in Vietnam, but soon, Andy comes marching home again. And he's different.
It was typical 70s stuff, but okay. I've tried to watch worse. It must have been called Dead of Night at one point because it's the right movie but with another name other than what it is labeled on Criterion.
1. Ghost Stories*
2. American Murder*
3. Christmas Evil*
4. Vault of Horror
5. The Green Slime*
6. The Blue Elephant 2*
7. Theatre of Blood
8. Ghost Ship
9. Deathdream*
I don't think I've ever watched this before. I wanted to like it but it just was not my thing.
5. Candy Corn 2019 Group of bullies are planning their annual hazing on local outcast and take it too far.
This one was kind of fun. It seemed to be an homage of sorts to the original Halloween movie. The font of the intro is the same as in Halloween, a lot of the shots were similar, the empty streets with leaves blowing, that kind of thing. The mask the killer wears, I swear was a Michael Myers mask that they tweaked a little bit...made it darker in color and a few other changes, but it still looked like Michael to me. And, PJ Soles is in it, (she is the blond friend in Halloween) she plays the police department receptionist. Tony Todd is also in it and Courtney Gaines plays the Sheriff.
It never is truly scary, like Halloween is. But it was kind of a fun watch.
6. Asylum 2008 college students learn their dorm once housed disturbed teens
Not a terrible movie. Pretty formulaic, kids go to school, find out their "new" dorm used to be an asylum, and the ghost of the dr uses each kid's deep, dark secrets against them, one by one. Again, not terribly scary but it was entertaining enough.
2. Halloween
3.Amityville Horror
4. Halloween Resurrection
5. The Shining
6. Carrie
7. Ghost Ship
8. House of Wax
Ok. This one creeped me right out. I started watching it last night, but was tired, I turned it off only about 20 min in. But, had I kept watching last night, I would have ended up turning it off anyway because it is night shift time so was here alone with the kids and it scared me watching it this morning, in the sunshine!
If anyone else has seen this, I am still not 100% sure what the heck...I read some reviews after I finished it and first of all, hardly anyone liked it. (What? I was seriously freaked out!) And two, it only made a little over $10000 at the box office. Anyway, usually, spoilers are difficult to avoid, but in this case, when I am searching for answers, there are no spoilers!
I will put my questions behind a spoilers, in case anyone else wants to catch the movie.
Who is the killer??? The guy, David who used to live there, I get that. I get he had agoraphobia. But is he a ghost or real? Some of the things that happen suggest he is a ghost. But the reviews I read seem to suggest he was real, secretly living in the walls, a la The Boy. Also one review said there was a direct lift of a scene from Silence of the Lambs. I know which scene, but even that is confusing...the way I took that was the boyfriend was the one shot, the cops and everyone assumed it was David...which sets up the ending of the movie.
Help!! 😄