MenacingMonk
Tranquilo
Finished up Bates Motel and put on the OG Psycho. Gonna check out the sequels some time during the month. Not the remake, tho. Saw it again some years ago and don’t plan on watching it anytime soon.
Essential The Official Coli Horror Film Thread: Discussion, Recommendations And Murder.
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Duke Dixon
Superstar
I think Psycho II is legitimately good, maybe minus the last 5 minutes.
Psycho III is a run of the mill 80s style slasher.
Psycho IV is interesting but its a made for tv movie and it shows.
IMO the Brian De Palma movie Dressed to Kill is a reimagining of Psycho like Disturbia and Rear Window.
MenacingMonk
Tranquilo
I remember I thought 4 was decent. I liked how he called the radio station and told his story. Did you ever watch that Bates Motel movie that dropped in the late 80s or early 90s?
Was reading some of Perkins’ info and crazy how his widow died in the 9/11 attacks.
storyteller
Superstar
Horror thread's 31 days of Halloween List - Day 8 - Cure
So, I discovered Cure on a few lists of "what to watch if you liked Long Legs." Those lists had a bunch of movies I loved (like Seven and Silence of the Lambs) for example, and Cure was the only movie I'd never seen. It immediately became one of my favorite J-Horror movies of all time, and I've been saving it to rewatch for my October run.
Cure captures the vibes of my favorite J-horror era, the period for movies like Audition, Ju-On, and Suicide Club....but it predates them all by a few years at minimum. It has a supernatural vibe, but its violence is all grounded and Earthly. That helps it capture a "this could happen to you" feeling in its creepy story. What helps Cure stand out from the others is how it toys with the hypnosis and its mesmerizing motifs. There are a lot of repeating sounds and lights (traffic lights, train sounds, the laundry machine); and they feel like an attempt to mesmerize the audience.
The twists, performances, violence...it all works incredibly well for a film that looks like a mystery on the surface but feels more like horror by the time we reach its culmination.
I really love this film.
1. Triangle (Prime)
2. The Loved Ones (Paramount+)
3. Salem's Lot 2024 (Max)
4. Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (Tubi)
5. VHS Beyond (Shudder)
6. *Choose your own* - Haunt (2019)
7. Don't Go in the House (Tubi, Youtube)
8. Cure (Internet Archive)
9. Masque of the Red Death(Pluto/Apple TV+)
10. The Eyes of My Mother (Max)
11. Henry Portait of a Serial Killer (Peacock)
12. Curse of Chucky (Netflix)
13. *Choose your own*
14. Junk (2000) (Youtube)
15. Detention (2011) (Tubi)
16. Sleepaway Camp (Peacock)
17. The Skeleton Key(Peacock/Apple TV+)
18. The Witch (Max)
19. Brain Damage 1988 (Tubi)
20. *Choose your own*
21. Audition (Tubi)
22. J. D.'s Revenge(Tubi/Brown Sugar/Prime)
23. Dead Silence (Tubi)
24. Sinister (Max)
25. World War Z (Paramount Plus)
26. The Burbs (Youtube)
27. *Choose your own*
28. 28 Days Later
29. Black Christmas (Tubi)
30. The Shining(MAX/Apple TV+)
31. John Carpenter's Halloween
2. The Loved Ones (Paramount+)
3. Salem's Lot 2024 (Max)
4. Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (Tubi)
5. VHS Beyond (Shudder)
6. *Choose your own* - Haunt (2019)
7. Don't Go in the House (Tubi, Youtube)
8. Cure (Internet Archive)
9. Masque of the Red Death(Pluto/Apple TV+)
10. The Eyes of My Mother (Max)
11. Henry Portait of a Serial Killer (Peacock)
12. Curse of Chucky (Netflix)
13. *Choose your own*
14. Junk (2000) (Youtube)
15. Detention (2011) (Tubi)
16. Sleepaway Camp (Peacock)
17. The Skeleton Key(Peacock/Apple TV+)
18. The Witch (Max)
19. Brain Damage 1988 (Tubi)
20. *Choose your own*
21. Audition (Tubi)
22. J. D.'s Revenge(Tubi/Brown Sugar/Prime)
23. Dead Silence (Tubi)
24. Sinister (Max)
25. World War Z (Paramount Plus)
26. The Burbs (Youtube)
27. *Choose your own*
28. 28 Days Later
29. Black Christmas (Tubi)
30. The Shining(MAX/Apple TV+)
31. John Carpenter's Halloween
So, I discovered Cure on a few lists of "what to watch if you liked Long Legs." Those lists had a bunch of movies I loved (like Seven and Silence of the Lambs) for example, and Cure was the only movie I'd never seen. It immediately became one of my favorite J-Horror movies of all time, and I've been saving it to rewatch for my October run.
Cure captures the vibes of my favorite J-horror era, the period for movies like Audition, Ju-On, and Suicide Club....but it predates them all by a few years at minimum. It has a supernatural vibe, but its violence is all grounded and Earthly. That helps it capture a "this could happen to you" feeling in its creepy story. What helps Cure stand out from the others is how it toys with the hypnosis and its mesmerizing motifs. There are a lot of repeating sounds and lights (traffic lights, train sounds, the laundry machine); and they feel like an attempt to mesmerize the audience.
The twists, performances, violence...it all works incredibly well for a film that looks like a mystery on the surface but feels more like horror by the time we reach its culmination.
I really love this film.
storyteller
Superstar
That's definitely THE scene that everyone remembers from their childhoods. That ish left me sleepless for a few nights when I was young and peeped Salem's Lot.Just watched Salem’s lot 1979, it was okay,, the acting was good,,, i kinda get a kick out of 70 and early 80 movies,,
Wasnt Scary,,
the 1980s kid in me would been kinda up tight with the scene below ( maybe )
storyteller
Superstar
Damn that sounds super dope! I bought the Books of Blood volume with the Hellbound Heart story in it, and I really loved it. I may have to cop Scarlet Gospels next.Another reason why I’ve been slacking on horror movies is because I’ve been reading a lot of books— recently I finished the Scarlet Gospels. For those of you don’t know it’s the sequel to the Hellbound Heart (Hellraiser).
This book was published a few years ago so throw out the idea that it follows any of the Hellraiser you’ve watched.
BREHS… i wish Doug Bradley was young man… this book needs to be adapted so bad… this shyts on 95 percent of the stories in the Hellraiser series. This story is absolutely bananas. Crazy thing is it doesn’t involve Julia or Kristy.
Book 2 follows Harry D’Amour (Main character for horror film Lords of Illusion) and Pinhead. For the most part, everything wild happens in this story is because of Pinhead; he rebels all the other cenobites in his world killing everyone.
His motive is to find Luicifer, which he eventual does. To his surprise Luicifer killed himself because he misses being with God. Pinhead takes this time to steal all of Lucifer’s armor because it has a bunch of power. Pinhead angers all the demons from hell so it’s pinhead vs hell. And he’s kicking there ass until Lucifer resurrects.
Pinhead and luicifer go all out in a battle where pinhead believes he has the upper hand just for Luicifer to be like lol sike I’m just toying with you. Mannnn…. Pinhead went straight into bytch mode! He was begging and crying for mercy so much. I was so fukking shocked brehs.
After Lucifer wins the battle he decides to destroy that universe/hell and goes to New York lol. Pinhead wakes up and he’s the only cenobite left and out of nowhere a giant gust of nothing wipes that world away.
The book finishes with characters helping Harry move. One of the movers finds the puzzle box and sets off the puzzle for it to be solved. All the characters walk through the door to find nothing… literally nothing. No cenobites, no universe. It’s complete darkness and it’s how the story ends
Man this shyt would be so fire as a high budget horror film.
And oh yeah pinhead is just his nickname which he actually hates in the book. He goes by the Hell Priest
For a really cool Clive Barker book, I highly suggest Mr. B Gone. The book is possessed. It's narrator is the demon possessing the book, and he's telling you his story (from a first person POV) while trying to convince you to burn the book so he can be free. It's a really cool concept.
Duke Dixon
Superstar
I remember I thought 4 was decent. I liked how he called the radio station and told his story. Did you ever watch that Bates Motel movie that dropped in the late 80s or early 90s?
Was reading some of Perkins’ info and crazy how his widow died in the 9/11 attacks.
I didn't know one did
I need to watch the show too.
darealvelle
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West Coast Avenger
West Coastin & Smokin
Saw this one today.....I enjoyed it....
West Coast Avenger
West Coastin & Smokin
Checking out The Substance right now....found a very watchable High Definition Telesync.....
Has anyone seen VHS Beyond yet?
I love this vignette.speaking of boxes,,, the only box that had me in fear for life is Fluffy in creepshowlol
Is that a foreign film?
You didn't fukk with Chronicle?
West Coast Avenger
West Coastin & Smokin
Naw had to be made in the US....