Palmer 7/10

Ratcatcher, 1999. 7,5/10


Director: Lynne Ramsay






The Swerve, 2019. 7/10


Director: Dean Kapsalis


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Freaky

Hush (2016)

No Reasons, 2021. 8/10

Director: Spencer Hawken

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Not much gore and no nudity but what a sick and vile film.

Delivered the depravity.

Antichrist (2009)

The Kid Detective 8/10

Oh man, what a gem.

The humor was right up my alley and the lead actor was perfect.

The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

THE IN-BETWEEN HOUSE 2020

Doncumentary on a real haunted house by Steve Gonsalves of Ghost Nation.

Dark Whispers: vol 1 2-3/10

Can’t say that I’m impressed, Cheebs. Can’t say that I’m impressed at all. Bow your head in shame.

Dark Whispers is a horror anthology consisting of 10 short stories all made by female directors, which leaves the question, are women incapable of making good horror movies?

Willy's Wonderland, 2021. 7/10

Director: Kevin Lewis


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This was okay, nothing special.

The animatronics were a bit creepy.

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pet sematary(1989) is directed by mary lambert a great horror movie,

i really like the babadook by jennifer kent,

near dark, american psycho,

Ravenous, Antonia Bird {RIP}

Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis

RAW, Julia Ducournau

THE DESCENT PART 2 2009

So claustrophobic in parts that I almost had to stop watching. ::EEK!:: Pretty good though I already knew what to expect.

I think I saw the first one...?
Like the chicks in the underwater cave? Some kinda bat type things?

Seen "The Ruins"?

True History of the Kelly Gang 4/10

Another bad one, Cheebs.

::sad::

I thought that was a pointless sequel. The first movie is great. They chickened out on the ending in America. The UK version has the true ending.



The Rental -

The Rental is on demand so I checked it out.

I have mixed feelings about The Rental. On one hand, it does have a good title as the movie is worth a rental. I wouldn't own it. But at times the movie is pretty good. It's better than the Friday the 13th remake. And at parts I thought it was going to be better than the original Friday the 13th. Although I'm not the biggest fan of the original Friday the 13th, I like Part 2 far more. Besides Part 2 has basically the best parts of Friday the 13th at the beginning.

Why I mention Friday the 13th is because it starts off like a horror movie with the people going to a remote location. Instead of a wooded camp with teenagers we have a luxury house on a cliff with adults. But more Friday the 13th elements are there like drug use, breaking rules, late night party, shower scene (without nudity), creepy guy, etc. The movie even has a twist. However to get to the rest of the review I need to spoil the movie.









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Ok. When the movie starts, they show a man and a woman looking at the luxury house. I thought they were married or a couple but they are business partners. It's one of those odd things in that some people say they don't understand relationships. But to me, only the wrong people get in relationships with people just for physical appearance. You have to have something in common. So after that first scene, the woman's boyfriend walks in and it's the other guy's brother. You can easily see where this is going. Anyway these three characters along with the first guy's wife decide to have a couples vacation at this luxury house.

The movie is basically a horror movie style relationship drama. The obvious happens. The wife goes to sleep early. The first guy's brother passes out. Late night drug use and a hot tub scene with the business partners who I thought were a couple at the beginning leads to a shower meet up. I guess some people like this sort of dramatic stuff and it's ok in the movie because it leads to something else. The house has hidden cameras! It's the part where I stopped watching the trailer.

The business partners are afraid that the video will be on the Internet I guess. So not only do they have to keep a secret but they want to get the video from the creepy rental guy. I'm not going to spoil that much more but things spiral out of control due to the brother and his tendencies as he just got out of jail for a college fight. Then that twist happens which made me think of Friday the 13th even more.

I was very interested in the movie. Could this be a modern Friday the 13th? The killer is acting like a modern Jason. But then it does something so many modern horror movies do. It turns the killer into the hero at the end. Now I get that the couples aren't the best people. The wife who brings the drugs. The ex-con brother. The two cheating business partners. The guy of which doesn't care about starting new relationships while being in a relationship. But still I was hoping for a final girl type setup or something new and different. There are some great funny and scary scenes late in the movie. But in the end, I was like ok. A sequel might work and make this a good double feature but the killer would easily get caught.

Still it's worth a rental or checking out on demand. It's a short movie. Also, the wife character was in Scream 4. She's pretty good in The Rental. I think she's kind of popular but I've only seen her in these two movies.

The sequel would have made sense if the asian chick actually survived. She was my hero.







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Really? Do you remember the opening scene of The Descent? Even though she's pretty, she's actually the real villain of the movie.

I agree she was the villain of the first movie, up until a certain point then I thought they actually switched places. Her fate certainly didn’t fit her crime.

In the second movie though she was just a bad ass.

Yep thats the one. Haven't seen The Ruins.

Wasn't that "The Cave"?

I googled "The Cave". They do sound alike. Could be the one Cheebs means but ""The Cave" had men on the team as well.

funny you guys are all talking about the descent because i was planning on watching it soon, i havnt gotten around to watching any of the cave/underground horror movies, i know there is also the cave. I saw the descent was #9 on the horror movies with the highest heart beats per minute list...

The amityville terror

Have to disagree on that one. I felt her punishment more than fit the crime. I don't want to spoil it for TaeKwonZombie who hasn't seen it yet. We still don't have spoiler tags yet.

Yeah speed up the viewing on The Descent. It's one of the best modern horror movies. I hope you didn't read too much of our posts. Best to go in blank and be surprised at the events.

Aquaslash -

I watched this because someone posted the trailer on HorrorDVDs forum. The movie was short but it felt long because it was so bad.

The movie feels like a really bad 80s horror movie or one of those horror porn parodies that someone told me about. I searched and watched a few minutes of those back then. It's the same bad quality acting for the most part except Aquaslash has a few softcore porn scenes thrown in and not the real deal. The scenes in Aquaslash are crude and in bad taste as well. It's just garbage High School kids on drugs and graduates I guess wanting to relive their High School years acting stupid. A no point movie. Zero likeable characters. Just watch the trailer and you will see enough.

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Ok. They have nerve to want to make some kind of sequel I guess because there is a scene right before the main credits start. I didn't even get why it all happened. Two female characters looked kind of similar and had the same characteristics. Only at the end did I tell them apart.

If they made that final kill scene as the start of a real movie. It might be a good start. That final sequence is so mean spirited though. It's like the director really hated High School kids or people who enjoyed waterslides.

This movie did make me remember why I stopped going to public water areas. I got older and noticed that people weren't that clean. Some wouldn't shower before getting into the pool, would joke about using the bathroom in the pool, and I hated the strong smell of chlorine in the bigger pools. The last public pool I was in had a cockroach in it that crawled on me while I was on the edge.


Edit - I was curious about pool water, searched and read this:

"The pre-swim shower helps minimize the irritating, smelly substances formed in pool water when impurities introduced on the bodies of swimmers combine with chlorine. Many people identify that smell as the smell of chlorine. The survey found 38 percent of people believe the characteristic chemical odor of some swimming pools in an indicator of a clean pool. In fact, that stringent odor is not from chlorine, but from irritants produced when chlorine reacts with impurities. A well-managed pool has no strong chemical smell."

That really upsets me. I'm even reading articles basically calling some pools "communal bathtubs" because that's what some people use them as. And it's what happens when people don't shower before entering the water.

Anyone who knows the concept of fear can tell scary stories.

Apparently they weren't able to find such people for Dark Whispers.

Awesome! Glad its gonna be worth the watch

Chaps,

A bit of help.
I am trying to remember this movie, has to be late 90s, early 2000.

A slasher movie, the killer wears a woman's clothing and hunts a girl after previously trying to kill her when she was a kid.
The plot twist is she is actually the killer, she got his identity after killing him when she was a kid.
Also, I think the movie opens with a couple being slashed in a train cabin.

Does anything recall something similar?

No idea but I guess there is no reason to watch it now.

It is a bad one, really bad, but can't remember the name no matter what I do ::roll eyes::

First kid

Maybe so, but to then go from one thing to another is a pretty big leap.

Besides, most horrors are made by men, so that includes the crappy ones. ::wink::

had to give Night of the Living Dead (1990) directed by Tom Savini a rewatch, I really enjoy this movie, great remake!

Willy’s Wonderland 3/10

For some people it might be so bad it’s good. I’m not one of those people.

The story is unbelievably stupid and it isn’t even a comedy. Just one big missed opportunity.

THE WITCH (2015). Extremely well done film involving a banished Calvinist family trying to make a go outside their community, set in 17th century. Impressed with the costuming, sets, dialect (subtitles might help) and showing how difficult Day to Day life could be, especially with odd goings on that may be Supernatural. No real Gruesome or Jump scares, but a sense of unease that continues to build throughout. ****