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[Jello Biafra]

25 Days of Christmas Horror
Day Seventeen: Dead End

The thing that sticks out to me the most about Dead End is how the characters behave. Now horror movie characters tend to be on the dumb side and make decisions that get audiences yelling at the screen over but in Dead End these people did stuff that was astoundingly weird.
While lost on a seemingly abandoned road this family of four (plus the daughter's boyfriend) pick up a bizarre woman in white and her eerily quiet baby who they find on the side of the road and the daughter gives up her spot in the car because she wants to walk and be alone...at night...on a dark empty stretch of road.
The boyfriend just lets his lady love wander along the dark road while he stays in the car to chat with the creepy Lady in White and hold her dead baby.
The son runs off into the woods to masturbate by the light of a lighter to a picture of a naked lady he carries in his back pocket.
None of that is normal even in a horror movie.
As for the movie as a whole, Dead End is worth a watch mostly because of the gusto that veteran actors Ray Wise and Lin Shaye put into their performances as the parents of this crew of doomed nitwits.



I give 'Dead End' 2.5 out of 4 Gun Totin' Santa Loomis'

 

[Jello Biafra]

Shudder put out their Top 5 Most Watched New Movies list for 2021:

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

25 Days of Christmas Horror
Day Seventeen: Dead End

The thing that sticks out to me the most about Dead End is how the characters behave. Now horror movie characters tend to be on the dumb side and make decisions that get audiences yelling at the screen over but in Dead End these people did stuff that was astoundingly weird.
While lost on a seemingly abandoned road this family of four (plus the daughter's boyfriend) pick up a bizarre woman in white and her eerily quiet baby who they find on the side of the road and the daughter gives up her spot in the car because she wants to walk and be alone...at night...on a dark empty stretch of road.
The boyfriend just lets his lady love wander along the dark road while he stays in the car to chat with the creepy Lady in White and hold her dead baby.
The son runs off into the woods to masturbate by the light of a lighter to a picture of a naked lady he carries in his back pocket.
None of that is normal even in a horror movie.
As for the movie as a whole, Dead End is worth a watch mostly because of the gusto that veteran actors Ray Wise and Lin Shaye put into their performances as the parents of this crew of doomed nitwits.



I give 'Dead End' 2.5 out of 4 Gun Totin' Santa Loomis'

Your ratings are getting too low. This at least should be 3.5 Gun toting dr. Loomis, Jell

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Shudder put out their Top 5 Most Watched New Movies list for 2021:

Those were all surprisingly good. I agree with it. Stay out of the attack should be 5 though- the ending was lacking.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

I’m watching this series on Netflix - entertained so far “BARBARIANS”

Three people's fates are interwoven in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 A.D., during which Germanic warriors halt the spread of the Roman Empire.
No. of seasons: 1
No. of episodes: 6
Starring: Laurence Rupp; Jeanne Goursaud; David Schütter
Language: German

Gory graphic and satisfying my need for violence, gore and my personal favorite - blood lust satisfaction. there is literally blood in every scene

 

[Jello Biafra]

Your ratings are getting too low. This at least should be 3.5 Gun toting dr. Loomis, Jell

It made no sense. If Ray Wise and Lin Shaye weren't in it I'd have given it a lower score.

 

[Jello Biafra]

Those were all surprisingly good. I agree with it. Stay out of the attack should be 5 though- the ending was lacking.

I honestly don't remember if I even watched Stay Out of The Attic.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

I honestly don't remember if I even watched Stay Out of The Attic.

It was good for a low budget type fare, 3 friends help a man movie out of his house- but that house is possessed due to the fact that Germans were conducting experiments using that house as a hospital and lab . Fukkery begings.. lol. I give it a 3/4 Dr. Loomis the gun totes

 

[storyteller]

25 Days of Christmas Horror
Day Seventeen: Dead End

The thing that sticks out to me the most about Dead End is how the characters behave. Now horror movie characters tend to be on the dumb side and make decisions that get audiences yelling at the screen over but in Dead End these people did stuff that was astoundingly weird.
While lost on a seemingly abandoned road this family of four (plus the daughter's boyfriend) pick up a bizarre woman in white and her eerily quiet baby who they find on the side of the road and the daughter gives up her spot in the car because she wants to walk and be alone...at night...on a dark empty stretch of road.
The boyfriend just lets his lady love wander along the dark road while he stays in the car to chat with the creepy Lady in White and hold her dead baby.
The son runs off into the woods to masturbate by the light of a lighter to a picture of a naked lady he carries in his back pocket.
None of that is normal even in a horror movie.
As for the movie as a whole, Dead End is worth a watch mostly because of the gusto that veteran actors Ray Wise and Lin Shaye put into their performances as the parents of this crew of doomed nitwits.



I give 'Dead End' 2.5 out of 4 Gun Totin' Santa Loomis'

Lin Shaye bodied this ish. I love this movie lol...everything about it is uncanny as hell.

 

[Jello Biafra]

25 Days of Christmas Horror
Day Eighteen: Sint

I love the use of actual folklore to flip the Santa Claus myth on its head and make it into a dark horror flick. The opening flashbacks scenes are really well done and could've been the entire movie which would've been fine with me. The look of Sint (aka St. Nicholas or Sinterklaas) was great too as he was in the traditional ornate bishop suit but with a disfigured face done with cool looking prosthetics. And the shots of Sint on his horse galloping on rooftops is such a cool visual.
The normal characters that Sint terrorizes were pretty blah though so there was never much rooting value and I found myself on Sint's side more than his victims.
Also this movie is pretty bloody which is always a good thing for a horror movie in my book.


I give 'Sint' 3 out of 4 Gun Totin' Santa Loomis'

 

[storyteller]

The Vigil is basically Survivor's Guilt personified through a psychological horror. It also has a lot of the "fish out of water" and identity-crisis aspects from one of my recent favorites "The Night" mixed in.

A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity, in writer-director Keith Thomas' electrifying feature debut.

It's got a healthy dose of isolation, mindgames, and just a few well-placed jump scares mixed in. The protagonist has been through some shyt that caused him to question a lot of aspects of his identity (particularly his religion). When he's drawn back for a night to sit Vigil over the body of a man who survived the Holocaust but lost his entire family, he's not just being drawn back to his old community but also reminded of his own trauma. The entity that toys with him throughout the night forces this man to confront the memories he's been running away from, but also the pain of the dead man he's sitting over.

This type of stuff is right up my alley. Self-contained, connecting us to cultures and traditions we might not know but that become familiar through empathy, and really fukking with our sense of reality. It didn't really scare me, but boy did some of these scenes give me goosebumps. I really enjoyed it. Super glad that "Best of the Year" list mentioned it because I might have overlooked this joint otherwise.

 

[Jello Biafra]

25 Days of Christmas Horror
Day Nineteen: Black Christmas (1974)

One of the most influential slasher horror films that still stands up nearly 50 years after its release, Black Christmas is essential viewing for every horror fan. One of the biggest signs of this movie's greatness is how none of the remakes have come close to matching Bob Clark's classic.
Black Christmas is a smart suspenseful ride that features two great performances (from Olivia Hussey as the film's Final Girl and Margot Kidder's acidic turn as Barb), stylish direction and a well executed twist ending.


I give 'Black Christmas (1974)' 3.5 out of 4 Gun Totin' Santa Loomis'

 

[Danie84]

25 Days of Christmas Horror
Day Sixteen: Wind Chill

There were so many ingredients in Wind Chill that could've led to a great movie but instead of those ingredients becoming a fine meal they were overcooked and under seasoned to the point that the movie just became an overly clunky chore to get through.
All of the ghostly, time loopy stuff started out cool but became tedious pretty quickly and not even an actress the caliber of Emily Blunt could save it.

I give 'Wind Chill' 2 out of 4 Gun Totin' Santa Loomis'

It was chilling when you realize who the shadow at the car was, tho

 

[storyteller]

Alright...I gave Old the look. Between Old and The Servant, I'm not as into Shyamalan's recent stuff...but he's definitely coming up with some of the craziest concepts in the game (at least for mainstream names). Old was weird. That's not a bad thing or a good thing, it's kinda both. Some moments in Old actually really made me sit back and think about what I'd do, how I'd react, and all sorts of existential ish (shout out to the edible I downed right before starting up). Other moments were so ludicrous that I laughed out loud when I'm pretty sure I was supposed to be disturbed. I'd throw it into the "mindfukk" category above all else.

I def feel what some of yall were saying. It's closer to mid for me than the polarized reactions I'd been seeing (lots of love/hate reactions). It's a trip that feels like Shyamalan came up with the concept and then just went through a brainstorm session for wild scenarios he could run through with it. I wonder what ideas wound up left on the drawing board . But yeah, it was a fun thought exercise.

I'm home today, so I'm gonna give the new Keira Knightley joint "Silent Night" a look.

 

[Jello Biafra]

25 Days of Christmas Horror
Day Twenty: Black Christmas (2006)

Black Christmas (2006) takes a more visceral and gory slasher horror approach to things than the original Black Christmas which went more for atmosphere but the remake is an enjoyable viewing experience nevertheless. This movie features a fine cast of young mid-2000s starlets and some pretty nifty kills. My biggest gripe with the film is that it could've done without that last 10 minutes just because it felt like overkill. That was probably the only slip up that writer/director Glen Morgan made with his approach to remaking a horror classic.

I give 'Black Christmas (2006)' 3 out of 4 Gun Totin' Santa Loomis'