I haven't seen superstition in a while ....what a wacky scary movie. The score was pretty good too!

ALLIGATOR 1980


A mutant alligator is running wild through the sewers and when body parts start turning up at the water filtration plant...its huntin' season.

Actually fine 80's fare.

DREAM DEMON 1988

I'd be hard-pressed to explain the convoluted story but that still didn't stop me from enjoying this "little engine that could".

A young woman, on the verge of marrying the man of everyone's dream, starts slipping in and out of a nightmare world in the new home she will soon be sharing with her husband. Add a young woman turning up from America who believes she was raised in said house but has little if any memories of the place at all.

NIGHT OF THE DEVILS 1972


A man happens across a family of peasants deep within the forest and has to spend the night with them. They live in terror and are afraid of being attacked and becoming "wardulaks" a vampirish zombie. It is a curse their family has fallen prey to.

What happens that night is revealed in flashbacks that same man has as he was found wandering with amnesia and is now in a mental hospital.

It was great.

LEMORA A CHILD'S TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL 1973


An angelic young girl is lured to her estranged father's deathbed by an ancient female vampire.

Beautiful to watch.

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Rating: 3/10

This is a generally well received film, both at the time, and in perpetuity. I am most decidedly on the other side of the fence on this one. I thought it was slow, absurd and mostly devoid of humor, suspense, scariness, intrigue, depth of plot and character.

I don't think the film properly established an empathetic emotional connection with Dr. Phibes' pain or character. He'd speak with stoic poetry at the picture of his wife, but I didn't find it convincing or emotionally evocative. The only other characters to grasp at were the detectives; but I found them equally stoic and shallow, and a bit less than mildly amusing. In the last quarter of the film, the father, of the captured son, added a degree of human connection and emotion, but hardly a cap full.

The kills, as it were, were inventive, but carried out as a matter of fact, without much suspense, rage or victim orientaded empathy (with a few slight exceptions). The sets were nice though.

Alien

Needed a refresher of this for the tournament topic, I've seen it maybe once a long time ago so it was pretty much a first viewing for me. Didn't love it but didn't hate it.

THE LOST BOYS (1987). Didn't think much of this back when and find it even less so now, continuously checking the playing on the DVD player, never a good sign. A good cast and remember the outrage when FANGORIA magazine>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SPOILER>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>showed a photo of the vampiric Edward Herrmann which pretty much revealed the ending. One reader mentioned how goofy BH looked (comparing him to Pee wee Herman), but the wife and I thought he looked rather Jack Nicholson-ish!
Know it has its fans and all for the good, but find this seriously style over substance and if I have a Teens/Vampires jones, will pop in the wonderful FRIGHT NIGHT (1985) any time. *1/2

Ditto. Didn't think much of it when it came out, nor 20 yrs latter. It was mildly entertaining, and MTV style over substance -- I never got the hype.

Oddly, or not so oddly, it's a bit like Rebel Without a Cause.

Zombi 2 (1979)
5/10


First of all, is the background supposed to be visually warping -- as if someone filmed a copy off a screen that was twisting in the wind a bit on the sides -- or did I see a warped version? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8mpY4tN8_Q) If it's like that intentionally, I wonder why I couldn't find any written mention of it?

Anyway, Zombi 2 is surreal... any appreciation of the film, beyond the gorehounds, is the arthouse approach. There's a ton of unrealistic scenes, jumpy and jump-cut editing, and mix of good and amatuer acting. There's a few creative cinema scenes and shots. If that's what you like, or you like to make fun of a film with your buddies, ala MST3K, then you might enjoy it.

I really like the immersement -- sound FX, music, visual FX, the realistic acting (naturalistic or improvised performances), the pacing (that some would feel is slow).

A theatre setting, or quiet isolated setting, really enhances the experience. If one has things they need to get to, or interruptions, or one's sensitized to an MTV fast pace, it can be difficult to sync with. And I mean that in general, not that those pertain to you.

I'm remembering a pretty decent soundtrack on this, too

Sometimes was good. Other times they're playing this upbeat electronica that didn't fit the scene IMO.

Silent Night, Bloody Night

Tarantula: The Deadly Cargo

Blood Rage(1987) - 7.5/10

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I was searching the house for my paints to finish a last minute gift for my mother, and I accidentally find 2 of my 3 50 movie collections... One of them had 'Silent Night, Bloody Night' on it and I watched it on YouTube! >8U

love that movie.

Spun a few old school Christmas horror films.


To All A Good Night

Black Christmas

Don't Open til Christmas

Christmas Evil

I watched Black Christmas on X-mas Eve.

Okay - - I watched these on Christmas Day :

-Black Christmas
-Christmas Evil
-Santa's Slay

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Watched that one earlier this evening, the HD Restoration dvd.

They really cleaned up this film, best it ever looked.

It was a'right. Can't help but I would've been better focused if maybe I had watched the cleaned up DVD version. I'll have to check mine out and see if it's any better. I think its biggest problem though was something about a Warhol cast... I am not a fan.

Its really a nice movie::big grin::::big grin::::big grin::::big grin::

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I rewatched the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I think this was the second or third time this month. ::smile::

Another movie night courtesy of Repo:

Psychomania
&
Alice, Sweet Alice

I wouldn't call either a new favorite, but they entertained. I've heard A,SA mentioned many times before I got it, I don't know if it's supposed to be popular, but I'm not really getting the hype. It's got great suspense for a ''who dun' it'', but I like a more clear answer. I'm doubt Alice is completely innocent by that ending. And I'm tempted to put this movie on my shit list because of kitten abuse.

Psychomania on the other hand was terrible but enjoyable terrible. Like I should've dug out my bottle of whine for all the cheese. Either way I enjoyed it.

It's been awhile since I've seen Alice, Sweet Alice, but I understand what you mean. I was expecting way more, & I remember feeling a tad bit disappointed.

The standout thing to me about Alice Sweet Alice is the general atmosphere. Things never seem quite right. The film always feels a little dirty, unsettling. I don't count it among my favorites but I do like it quite a bit.

Psychomania ia a HOOT! Nothing beats british biker ghosts! :)

Glad u watched em, Roi. Also glad you ( sort of) enjoyed them. Still have a few tapes you haven't watched?

Maybe it didn't have enough kills for me or something idk. It did feel exciting here and there when the sister died, and you start to think she's going to get back at everyone that pissed her off, like the perverted asshole landlord and her bitch aunt. But a kitten gets in the crossfire and she only hurts her aunt (if that was her I'm STILL lost on who killed or attacked who). The landlord gets it but it's from the older broad who kills Alice's father. 8/

As I mentioned to the reply above but maybe not in so many words, it did have great atmosphere, that I agree. Too much mystery for me though, I really would like a more clear answer on who did all the attacking... Unsettling is a very good word for it.

OMG more british biker ghosts please! ::big grin::

Oh yes I have several. There'ssss... probably 7 or so I have yet to watch. I think that's half. o-o
I've been buying some to add so I might be forgetting which exactly I bought and which exactly I got from you. I've been watching other things inbetween and I need the house to myself pretty much to watch VHS so it's taking a while, but I am savoring them. 8)
Still can't thank you enough, hun<33

I found Las Vegas Serial Killer on Youtube and was playing in the background as I did things. The movie wasn't that great.

Class of Nuke 'em High

Zombi 3 and Grave Disturbance. Zombi was as good as I remembered it. Disturbance, I just watched, for the first time tonight. Started off well but ended weakly.

Now I'm trying to find some place to watch Midnight Killer (1986) online? I've read it's pretty good but it isn't available on dvd.::mad::

Hellraiser II.. pretty average compared to the original..

Slithis. One of the shlockiest, cheesiest, crappiest and most entertaining rubber suit monster flicks of all time.

I know of exactly 2 other people who like this movie the way I do. Any of you guys fans of this poop?

I tried to watch Grave of a Vampire on Youtube, but I turned it off after about 10 minutes.

Even though it had way more gore than the first? Sounds kinda odd coming from a guy with the username 'GORgasm' to call Hellraiser II average. Just saying. ::big grin::

Nah but I feel you. The originals are rarely beat. I found II to be fantastic if not on par with the first myself, but I'm a sucker for asylums and mutilated cenobites. It was a joyride for me from beginning to end.

The Shining

...Someone please explain this movie to me. I feel like I blinked and missed half of it. Dad goes nuts, freezes to death when he fails to kill Jr, and the shot cuts to a photo from 1931 or whatever of dad somehow being IN it? And don't even get me started on the random furry giving head to a businessman.