Purple
(She/Her)
I mean, really there's just the one. It's just that that one is "the movie Once Bitten in its entirety."
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Help me choose a spoopy movie a day for October
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Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
Man, I vividly remember the video box art for I Was a Teenage Zombie...
But I wasn't prepared for what it was. Basically, it's an exceedingly cheap and extremely independent comedy (?) about teens who end up getting into a fight with their dealer over some shitty weed. During a fight, he accidentally dies and the teens decide to throw him into the water, the same day it is polluted with radioactive waste. The dealer is turned into a murderous zombie and kills one of the teens. His friends decide to use the water to bring him back, which he has mixed feelings about. The movie is... not very good. I was wondering why this was on Criterion beyond the fact its a bit of an oddity and clearly the hard work of someone with very little money to make a movie with and this film doesn't have much but it managed to scrounge up the cash (and maybe favours) for a very stacked soundtrack with Los Lobos, the Waitresses, the Fleshtones and the Violent Femmes. It's an odd little movie and it's stilted and awkward but beyond the soundtrack I do have some nice things to say; just existing is a triumph, clearly someone's labour of love, who isn't very skilled but really wanted to make something. And the guy playing the evil dealer zombie is bringing all the right energy to the role. He feels like he could have been a character in a Dolemite movie.
As for tomorrow...
Things Seen & Heard - No clue. It might not even be a horror movie but something more akin to a Lifetime thriller based on the description of moving to a new house and terrible secret but Netflix put it in a section called This Place is Evil.
Coherence - I don't know what it's about but I've heard people say it's a truly original sci-fi thriller.
The Happening - The plants and the wind have teamed up to destroy the human race!
Kuroneko - A classic Japanese horror flick.
Vivarium - Jason Eisenberg and Imogen Poots are in an Outer Limits or Twilight Zone episode where they are stuck in an abandon maze made of suburbia.
But I wasn't prepared for what it was. Basically, it's an exceedingly cheap and extremely independent comedy (?) about teens who end up getting into a fight with their dealer over some shitty weed. During a fight, he accidentally dies and the teens decide to throw him into the water, the same day it is polluted with radioactive waste. The dealer is turned into a murderous zombie and kills one of the teens. His friends decide to use the water to bring him back, which he has mixed feelings about. The movie is... not very good. I was wondering why this was on Criterion beyond the fact its a bit of an oddity and clearly the hard work of someone with very little money to make a movie with and this film doesn't have much but it managed to scrounge up the cash (and maybe favours) for a very stacked soundtrack with Los Lobos, the Waitresses, the Fleshtones and the Violent Femmes. It's an odd little movie and it's stilted and awkward but beyond the soundtrack I do have some nice things to say; just existing is a triumph, clearly someone's labour of love, who isn't very skilled but really wanted to make something. And the guy playing the evil dealer zombie is bringing all the right energy to the role. He feels like he could have been a character in a Dolemite movie.
As for tomorrow...
Things Seen & Heard - No clue. It might not even be a horror movie but something more akin to a Lifetime thriller based on the description of moving to a new house and terrible secret but Netflix put it in a section called This Place is Evil.
Coherence - I don't know what it's about but I've heard people say it's a truly original sci-fi thriller.
The Happening - The plants and the wind have teamed up to destroy the human race!
Kuroneko - A classic Japanese horror flick.
Vivarium - Jason Eisenberg and Imogen Poots are in an Outer Limits or Twilight Zone episode where they are stuck in an abandon maze made of suburbia.
Coherence is a good no-budget movie.
jpfriction
(He, Him)
The Happening may have the dumbest plot ever but that trailer sure used to freak me out. Dude commits suicide by lawnmower.
I found Vivarium really powerful, but for the record it’s a claustrophobic, oppressive kind of horror. For anyone who’s interested but doesn’t feel like watching the movie, Bogleech has a long post that thoroughly describes and discusses it here. Be aware that the post goes through the movie scene by scene—nothing is left unspoiled.
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Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
The Happening is a movie where Johnny Legs should have been the star but was not. I'm not a big Leguizamo fan but he is clearly REALLY GOOD at acting and is much better being a caring father character than a comic relief character. Instead, we have two stupefying performances from Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel. I love the film sets Wahlberg up as a passionate science teacher but it really feels more like, to frame this in The Good Place terms, he thinks he's playing Chidi but he's just Jason. It is a bad movie but the best bad in this is weirdly watchable. That said, the weirdness in the film helps but it also feels a bit lethargic for large seconds and really just peters out.
Tomorrow:
Brightburn - The idea of "what if Superman but scary" is not bad except it's under the subgenre umbrella of "Superman but evil" which is the most boring superhero subgenre.
Carrie - Don't get too excited, this is "well, we got to do more stuff with Chloe Grace Moretz before she grows up." remake
The Hills Have Eyes (the remake) - Speaking of, this came out in the worst decade for horror remakes but I learned I like Alexandre Aja from Piranha 3D and Crawl (and I even like some of his produced movies. People seem to hate P2 but I love that one.)
The Living Skeleton - A Japanese movie from the 60s. It seems to involve a ghost of a man killed by pirates and the movie also has a mad scientist and a doppelganger.
Z - not the 1969 political thriller but a movie about a scary imaginary friend.
Tomorrow:
Brightburn - The idea of "what if Superman but scary" is not bad except it's under the subgenre umbrella of "Superman but evil" which is the most boring superhero subgenre.
Carrie - Don't get too excited, this is "well, we got to do more stuff with Chloe Grace Moretz before she grows up." remake
The Hills Have Eyes (the remake) - Speaking of, this came out in the worst decade for horror remakes but I learned I like Alexandre Aja from Piranha 3D and Crawl (and I even like some of his produced movies. People seem to hate P2 but I love that one.)
The Living Skeleton - A Japanese movie from the 60s. It seems to involve a ghost of a man killed by pirates and the movie also has a mad scientist and a doppelganger.
Z - not the 1969 political thriller but a movie about a scary imaginary friend.
Well that certainly sounds interesting to me.
Purple
(She/Her)
No contest.
I really, truly, emphatically liked Brightburn (and that it never got the sequel it was setting itself up for is a pain that never fades) but… umm…
Living Skeleton sounds… like it’s something else
Living Skeleton sounds… like it’s something else
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
The Living Skeleton is a good movie but not as badshit as promise... until the end. Actually, it's something more like a neonoir revenge movie that pretends to be supernatural... then reveals in the last act there was some supernatural stuff the whole time under the hood. Tonally, I'd compare it to the Japanese equivalent of a Val Lewton movie. Some great set pieces. Go in with tempered expectations and I think you'll enjoy it.
Tomorrow:
Hubie Halloween - The Adam Sandler movie people say is "...not completely UNwatchable. There's a couple good gags."
The Grudge - The American one.
The Haunted Mansion - Eddie Murphy... sure was on a "worst decision" streak in that era.
The Lodger - Not the Alfred Hitchcock one, this one has sound. Still looks like a classy thriller, though.
The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow - This is probably... really bad. BUT it's only an hour. And that is a Hell of a title.
Tomorrow:
Hubie Halloween - The Adam Sandler movie people say is "...not completely UNwatchable. There's a couple good gags."
The Grudge - The American one.
The Haunted Mansion - Eddie Murphy... sure was on a "worst decision" streak in that era.
The Lodger - Not the Alfred Hitchcock one, this one has sound. Still looks like a classy thriller, though.
The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow - This is probably... really bad. BUT it's only an hour. And that is a Hell of a title.
You could be the first person to watch it!
Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
Even by the shoddy metric of American International Pictures filmography, The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow is pretty lousy. Apparently it's a loose sequel to the teen melodrama Hot Rod Gang but while there's passing references to rumbles and a climactic hot rod race, which we are never actually shown, it's basically a bottom of the barrel comedy with musical guest no one has heard of and a bizarre Scooby Doo reveal that the ghost is... an American International Picture actor who plays all the monsters (the monster suit being reused from some other films), It's a film where if the punchlines aren't groanworthy they are confounding. But at least my curiosity is sated. You'd think the Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow would have some drag racing, instead it's teens who clearly wish they could drag race vaguely threaten each other. They clearly though this group of kids was going to be the Dead End Kids of AIP. This did not happen.
It's your last chance to pick my movies for tomorrow!
Baby Sitter: Killer Queen - The first one is kind of a 50/50 movie for me. Not perfect but has some stuff I like. And better than most McG movies.
The Strangers - Long meant to see this. I'm rarely scared by films but this speaks to the thing that ALWAYS gets me; you aren't alone in the house...
Haunted Mansion - The new one people also don't seem to like (shame, I remember thinking the preview looked promising and it sure has a solid cast).
The Lure - Flesh eating mermaids come on land... and start a nightclub act. I hear this is amazing.
Another Evil - Another Shudder pick; a guy hires an exorcist to rid his home of ghosts but guy and exorcist are in over their heads. Though the director is an established comedy writer, apparently it only starts comedic, then goes in a different, darker direction.
It's your last chance to pick my movies for tomorrow!
Baby Sitter: Killer Queen - The first one is kind of a 50/50 movie for me. Not perfect but has some stuff I like. And better than most McG movies.
The Strangers - Long meant to see this. I'm rarely scared by films but this speaks to the thing that ALWAYS gets me; you aren't alone in the house...
Haunted Mansion - The new one people also don't seem to like (shame, I remember thinking the preview looked promising and it sure has a solid cast).
The Lure - Flesh eating mermaids come on land... and start a nightclub act. I hear this is amazing.
Another Evil - Another Shudder pick; a guy hires an exorcist to rid his home of ghosts but guy and exorcist are in over their heads. Though the director is an established comedy writer, apparently it only starts comedic, then goes in a different, darker direction.
Purple
(She/Her)
Baby Sitter 2 is surprisingly great actually. I have to give it a big ding for how it rationalizes itself, but then it goes and brings back all the characters from the first one, and yes I mean all the cultists who very much died, and goes into stuff like flashbacks of the various other things the guy without a shirt tried doing without a shirt before joining in..