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Technically, I’ve “seen” this. People always talk so fondly about it. I wasn’t impressed, but couldn’t tell you why, I really don’t remember a whole lot.
2025 list
1. The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon*— Bev’s Board
2. The Hand — Tubi
5. Peeping Tom* — Tubi
6. Dr. Jekyll, Sister Hyde — Tubi
7. Cobweb* — Netflix
8. Phantasm — Peacock
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002) 2,5/5
3. The Long Walk (2025) 4,5/5
4. Priest (2011) 2/5
5. Alien Earth Season 1, episode 1&2.
6. The Wicker Man (1973) 4,5/5
7. The Invisible Man (2020) 3,5/5
8. The Watchers (2024) 3/5
9. Saw (2004) 3/5 this is the original lowbudget movie that started the too many sequels. Not as gory and bloody (though there is blood) as it would become. This as a horror thriller is ok. Danny Glover, Gary Elwes and Monica Potter in the leads. Jigsaw the serialkiller that uses machines and forces you to make choices of different kinds starts here. This movie is more creepy than Gory so to speak. Tobin Bell as Jigsaw has a very minor role. Leigh Whannell who got his start here would go to Insidious, The Invisible Man and The Wolfman. James Wan directed Whannells script.
Teenage genius builds a robot friend and puts his brains to use when things go bad for the girl next door.
Ugh, what a mess. The film starts as something like E.T. meets Short Circuit, a smart kid with an annoying chattering robot best friend who has a dark streak when it comes to protecting the kid. So far, so corny, but the film takes a very dark turn when it’s made obvious the girl next door is being routinely abused by her father, and now the film decides it’s going to be something of a Frankenstein revenge story. The shift from relatively wholesome gee-whiz PG territory to domestic abuse is jarring, but before we can get used to this new direction, the film seems to suddenly decide it’s about campy amounts of violence and gore. Like I said, it’s a mess, not the least of which a tonal mess.
I understand there are a vocal group of horror fans who want you to think this is a hidden gem that needs reassessment or a camp “so bad it’s good” classic, but really this is just a fail on all fronts. Wes Craven himself disowned it due to the heavy amount of studio interference, it’s not the film he wanted to make and according to the studio his original cut wasn’t the film his fans wanted to see. Honestly it’s films like this that make you wonder who is really behind the wheel calling the shots. Didn’t anyone see how un-scary Kristy Swanson looked wearing raccoon mascara and pretending to be a killer robot? Yet the film is presenting this as something filled with horrific pathos. It was horrific all right, horrifically bad.
Watch the basketball head explosion scene on YouTube and save yourself 90 minutes.
1.5 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2025 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Woman in the Yard 2/5 (FTV)
2. The Addiction 3/5 (FTV)
3. Blood Tea and Red String 4/5 (FTV)
4. Litan 3.5/5 (FTV)
5. Flesh for Frankenstein 3.5/5 (FTV)
6. Presence 2/5 (FTV)
7. To Fire You Come At Last 3.5 (FTV)
8. Clown in a Cornfield 3/5 (FTV)
9. Deadly Friend 1.5/5 (FTV)
1. Nosferatu (2024) 4/5
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002) 2,5/5
3. The Long Walk (2025) 4,5/5
4. Priest (2011) 2/5
5. Alien Earth Season 1, episode 1&2.
6. The Wicker Man (1973) 4,5/5
7. The Invisible Man (2020) 3,5/5
8. The Watchers (2024) 3/5
9. Saw (2004) #/5
10. Saw II (2005) 2/5 Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Donnie Wahlberg. I wanted to watch a sequel to see where the downwards trend starts. Its Here. The Creepy feeling is gone and instead much more gore and blood. Basically the same story but lesser acting from the leads. Wahlberg is not good while Smith is ok. Bell has a lot of quasi-philosophical lines of why hes playing his game. Not his fault that all that talk amount to nothing. It is often a mistake to explain too much if you want to make it scary. Much of the franchise is on Netflix i saw (He-he) . There are 10 of them!!!
"While pursuing an assassin, Obi Wan uncovers a sinister plot to destroy the Republic. With the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance, the Jedi must defend the galaxy against the evil Sith."
I found this one a bit boring.
8) "Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" (2005)
"Anakin joins forces with Obi-Wan and sets Palpatine free from the evil clutches of Count Dooku. However, he falls prey to Palpatine and the Jedis' mind games and gives in to temptation."
This is probably the darkest of them all. Very good movie all round.
Flakes' October (NON) Horror List:
7) "Star Wars - Episode II: Attack of the Clones" (2002)
8) "Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" (2005)
This was once again an Edgar Wright suggestion.
2025 list
1. The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon*— Bev’s Board
2. The Hand — Tubi
5. Peeping Tom* — Tubi
6. Dr. Jekyll, Sister Hyde — Tubi
7. Cobweb* — Netflix
8. Phantasm — Peacock
1. Nosferatu (2024) 4/5
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002) 2,5/5
3. The Long Walk (2025) 4,5/5
4. Priest (2011) 2/5
5. Alien Earth Season 1, episode 1&2.
6. The Wicker Man (1973) 4,5/5
7. The Invisible Man (2020) 3,5/5
8. The Watchers (2024) 3/5
9. Saw (2004) 3/5
10. Saw II (2005) 2/5
11. Låt Den Rätte Komma In (2008) 4,5/5 Swedish movie. This is called Let The Right One In when translated. Hollywood made their own version Let Me In some years later but this is supreme to that. Kåre Hedenbrant plays a 12 year old child that meets the newly moved in girl Eli (Lina Leandersson) that moved nextdoors. Shes also 12 but has been 12 for a very long time as she puts it. They become friends. Excellent spin on the vampire genre from the book of John Ajvide Lindqvist. Both child actors carry this movie on their own and are great. There is no grown up actors of real importance here but this is not YA. The atmosphere of Stockholm suburbia is also very well captured. On of the better vampire movies i've seen. Not on the level with Herzogs Nosferatu but just under. Not jump scares really and we somehow end up cheering for the vampire.
Dad gets abducted by aliens and returns three years later not quite himself.
This is one of those fun little 80’s “latex monsters and slime” sci-fi horror films that gets by more on creativity than high budget. If you like stuff like “Basket Case” you know what I’m talking about. This was actually on the list of “video nasties” and was banned in the UK for quite some time, but it’s really not nasty at all—okay, maybe that alien birth scene, but really aren’t all good alien birth scenes a little bit messy?
It’s sort of a combination of “Alien” and “The Hidden”, quite possibly even a little bit of “The Brood” thrown in for good measure. Adding to the fun are the segments that involve monsters directly from the little boy’s imagination—his toys literally come to life and wreak havoc. Look for Maryam D’Abo (pre-Bond girl phase) who seems to have been put in this film soley to increase the body count and the nudity. Xtro is no classic but it’s an enjoyable and often just plain weird watch for October.
This is why we love practical effects.
3.5 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2025 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Woman in the Yard 2/5 (FTV)
2. The Addiction 3/5 (FTV)
3. Blood Tea and Red String 4/5 (FTV)
4. Litan 3.5/5 (FTV)
5. Flesh for Frankenstein 3.5/5 (FTV)
6. Presence 2/5 (FTV)
7. To Fire You Come At Last 3.5 (FTV)
8. Clown in a Cornfield 3/5 (FTV)
9. Deadly Friend 1.5/5 (FTV)
10. Xtro 3.5/5
1. Nosferatu (2024) 4/5
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002) 2,5/5
3. The Long Walk (2025) 4,5/5
4. Priest (2011) 2/5
5. Alien Earth Season 1, episode 1&2.
6. The Wicker Man (1973) 4,5/5
7. The Invisible Man (2020) 3,5/5
8. The Watchers (2024) 3/5
9. Saw (2004) 3/5
10. Saw II (2005) 2/5
11. Låt Den Rätte Komma In (2008) 4,5/5
12. Saw III (2006) 1,5/5 This is pure trash level now.. The story gets thinner and thinner the longer the movie wears on. Tobin Bell and Shawnee Smith together with Angus Macfadyen have the leads but neither is very convincing. Netflix has the first 6 in the series but i dont think i can stand more of this level of trash. Reason i saw the sequels is i saw (he-he) that they disappear from netflix after october is over.
"A new order threatens to destroy the New Republic. Finn, Rey and Poe, backed by the Resistance and the Republic, must find a way to stop them and find Luke, the last surviving Jedi."
WTF?!
Assholes.
Flakes' October (NON) Horror List:
7) "Star Wars - Episode II: Attack of the Clones" (2002)
8) "Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" (2005)
9) "Star Wars - Episode VII: The Force Awakens" (2015) FTV
Psycho soldier killed by friendly fire in Kuwait returns to his nephew’s small town to cause July 4th mayhem.
This one felt like I was watching two films, and the one that started at the 42 minute mark was much better. The first half mostly follows a holier-than-thou patriotic kid mourning the death of the abusive uncle he barely remembers, and his mother and aunt who I kept getting confused. No surprise, turns out the uncle was not a patriot but a violent man who joined the army because enjoyed killing people. This part of the movie is lifeless and slow, I expected better from writer Larry Cohen (It’s Alive, The Stuff, Q the Winged Serpent). But stick with it (or hit fast-forward).
Things pick up considerably when “Uncle Sam” gets to the killing. It’s never really explained why the dead man comes back to life, this is sort of a zombie movie where there’s just one zombie. The kills are a blast and themed around patriotism and Independence day, and I loved the whole setting of the small town’s afternoon picnic, complete with a potato sack race, barbecue, and fireworks—along with incorporating these things into the kills.
Isaac Hayes gives a decent performance as a veteran amputee who tries to warn the boy on the false glories of war. Why they suddenly introduce a blind boy in a wheelchair as a major character in the last 25 minutes, I have no idea—perhaps an early scene was cut. The ending is pretty stupid, involving the improbable use of a civil war era cannon, but the results are spectacular.
Skip the first 42 minutes and you’re good to go.
3 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2025 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Woman in the Yard 2/5 (FTV)
2. The Addiction 3/5 (FTV)
3. Blood Tea and Red String 4/5 (FTV)
4. Litan 3.5/5 (FTV)
5. Flesh for Frankenstein 3.5/5 (FTV)
6. Presence 2/5 (FTV)
7. To Fire You Come At Last 3.5 (FTV)
8. Clown in a Cornfield 3/5 (FTV)
9. Deadly Friend 1.5/5 (FTV)
10. Xtro 3.5/5 (FTV)
11. Uncle Sam 3/5 (FTV)
Doing some snooping. I guess Anthony Perkins gay/bi and married.
1. Nosferatu (2024) 4/5
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002) 2,5/5
3. The Long Walk (2025) 4,5/5
4. Priest (2011) 2/5
5. Alien Earth Season 1, episode 1&2.
6. The Wicker Man (1973) 4,5/5
7. The Invisible Man (2020) 3,5/5
8. The Watchers (2024) 3/5
9. Saw (2004) 3/5
10. Saw II (2005) 2/5
11. Låt Den Rätte Komma In (2008) 4,5/5
12. Saw III (2006) 1,5/5
13. Alligator (1980) 2,5/5 Tiny alligator is flushed down the drain and grows to enormous length and strength thanks to immoral chemical spillage from a factory. One of the many giant creatures movies that followed in the wake of Jaws. Robert Forster and Robin Raker in the leads. Ok . When that alligator got going nothing was safe. High body count. I've always liked creature features so i liked this one.