31 Days (and nights) of Halloween, 2019!

[Sean Whitmore]

1. Evil Dead 2 (1987)
2. Prom Night (1980)
3. Dracula (1979)
4. In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
5. Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)

6. Beyond Re-Animator (2003)




I wasn't expecting very much from a movie that needed the Sci-Fi Channel to get distributed, but this was actually not bad. It wasn't especially good, certainly nowhere near as good as the first two movies in the series, but it wasn't a slog to get through. I'd say it was comparable to one of the mid-tier Hammer Frankensteins, carried mostly by the strength of the main character/actor. Jeffrey Combs is great as always, even without having all that much to work with script-wise. Worth a look, but probably only if you're a big fan of the first two.

[Yun Lao]

10/01: Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil
10/02: Southbound
10/03: Murder Party
10/04: Candyman
10/05: C.H.U.D.
10/06: The Lair of the White Worm

Synopsis: "When an archeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further unexplainable occurrences." (IMDb Entry)
Review: Based on a Bram Stoker story of the same name, this story begins with a Scottish archeology unearthing a bizarre skull in the foreign land that is... England. Poking at the IMDb entry synopsis aside, this skull and its connection to a Roman-era pagan cult spirals down into a race to save a girl from being offered a virginal sacrifice to an ancient snake god. Fighting snake vampires with swords, explosions, bagpipes, and a mongoose, this movie is definitely on the quirkier side of a horror-comedy, but that, I would argue, is its charm.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Day 6: Dan Curtis' Dracula (1974)

[comicscollector]

1-The Conjuring.(2013)
2-Killer Klowns from Outer Space.(1988)
3-Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid.(2004)

4-Dementia 13 (1963)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_13

[Moon Ronin]

1. 31
2. House of 1000 Corpses
3. The Devil's Rejects
4. The Lords of Salem
5. Halloween (Rob Zombie)
6. Halloween II (again Rob Zombie)
7. Candyman
8. Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
9. Candyman: Day of the Dead
10. 3 From Hell
11. Hellraiser
12. Hellbound: Hellraiser II
13. Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
14. Hellraiser: Bloodline
15. Hellraiser: Inferno

[Vegan Daddy]

1. Mad Love (1935)
2. Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
3. Kuroneko (1968)
4. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
5. The Demon (1963)
6. Hour of the Wolf (1968)
7. The Addams Family (1964)
8. The Gruesome Twosome (1967)

A demented, elderly woman has her mentally retarded son kill and scalp various young women to use their hair for her wig shop.

[Sean Whitmore]

[QUOTE=Sean Whitmore;4613082]1. Evil Dead 2 (1987)
2. Prom Night (1980)
3. Dracula (1979)
4. In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
5. Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
6. Beyond Re-Animator (2003)

7. Count Dracula (1970)



I've been wanting to see this one for a few years now, ever since hearing that Christopher Lee did a non-Hammer Dracula adaptation that was supposedly super faithful to the novel. And, man, I'm glad I didn't rush, because this was boring as hell. Even Lee was boring; that takes real dedication to being stale and stodgy. Though even boring Lee was more interesting than everyone else in the cast.

As for being especially faithful to the book...well, it was in comparison to the Universal and Hammer versions, in that it didn't take any wild plot deviations. It was the first one to show the brides eating a baby, and Dracula getting younger as he drinks blood, which I guess are noteworthy. I'd maybe put this under the Jack Palance version, probably over the Louis Jourdan version, but they're all still in the bottom 3 for me.

That leaves me with only 2 left to see of what Cinemassacre dubbed the "Dracula Dozen": the Turkish version, and the 2006 BBC version. I'm in no rush.

[Jared]

October 1st. 1 - The Old Dark House (1932)
October 2nd. 2 - The Redeemer: Son of Satan (1976)
October 3rd. 3 - Prison (1987)
October 4th. 4 - Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990). 5. Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
October 5th. 6 - Mothra vs Godzilla (1964). 7 - The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). 8. The Horror of Dracula (1958)
October 6th. 9 - Tremors (1990). 10 - Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996)
October 7th. 11 - The Haunted Palace (1963)


I'll let Mr. Price introduce this one.


I read The Case of Charles Dexter Ward some time ago, but I don't recall it enough to really say how faithful an adaptation this is. But my impression is of a fairly straight adaptation.
Poe's name and some some passages are thrown into the story probably just for recognition.

It's rather interesting and unexpected to see the Necronomicon and Old Ones explicitly referenced in a movie from the 60s. I would have liked to know why the villagers didn't burn the palace a long time ago. I liked this a lot.

https://i0.wp.com/moviesandmania.com...gt10.jpg?ssl=1

He looks like Colin Farrel!

[Sean Whitmore]

Ooh, I wanna see Haunted Palace. I think TCM is airing it on Halloween.

[Jared]

I've been wanting to see this one for a few years now, ever since hearing that Christopher Lee did a non-Hammer Dracula adaptation that was supposedly super faithful to the novel. And, man, I'm glad I didn't rush, because this was boring as hell. Even Lee was boring; that takes real dedication to being stale and stodgy. Though even boring Lee was more interesting than everyone else in the cast.

I thought the first act was pretty faithful to the book, but once it gets to the asylum it's as different as Hammer's or Universal's.

That leaves me with only 2 left to see of what Cinemassacre dubbed the "Dracula Dozen": the Turkish version, and the 2006 BBC version. I'm in no rush.

I haven't seen the Turkish or Louis Jordan versions yet. The Jordan is said by Cinemassacre and elsewhere to be the closest adaptation of the novel.

[Yun Lao]

10/01: Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil
10/02: Southbound
10/03: Murder Party
10/04: Candyman
10/05: C.H.U.D.
10/06: The Lair of the White Worm
10/07: Frankenstein's Army

Synopsis:"Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein." (IMDb Entry)
Review: I really liked the concept of mixing the classic horror of Frankenstein with the gritty horrors of war that is WWII and I enjoyed seeing the different variations of the "zombots", much in the way I enjoyed seeing what twisted cenobites show up in each Hellraiser movie. I suppose the only drawback I might have of the movie is that it is another found-footage film, which while it didn't completely bother me, I could see it detracting from the enjoyment of others.

[Astral Disaster]

12 - Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)

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[Jared]

October 1st. 1 - The Old Dark House (1932)
October 2nd. 2 - The Redeemer: Son of Satan (1976)
October 3rd. 3 - Prison (1987)
October 4th. 4 - Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990). 5. Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
October 5th. 6 - Mothra vs Godzilla (1964). 7 - The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). 8. The Horror of Dracula (1958)
October 6th. 9 - Tremors (1990). 10 - Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996)
October 7th. 11 - The Haunted Palace (1963)
October 8th. 12 - Dracula (1931)



You know the drill with this one. Come for Lugosi, stay for Lugosi. The version I watched this time was a fan edit, it shortened some things and added some ambient sounds and music and an effect or two.


Later today I should be seeing Joker. I barely remember Taxi Driver and I've never seen King of Comedy, though neither is very Halloweenish so far as I know, I may try to squeeze them in if I have time.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Day 7: Dracula Untold (2014)

[caj]

10/1 - It Follows (2014) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Follows
10/2 - A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street
10/3 - Wrong Turn (2003) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrong_Turn
10/4 - Aliens (1986) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_(film)
10/5 - The Omen (1976 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omen
10/6 - The Blair Witch Project (1999) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blair_Witch_Project
10/7 - Identity (2003) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_(film)