31 Nights (& Days) of Halloween: 2020!

[Sean Whitmore]

1. Body Bags (1993)
2. The Hitcher (1986)
3a. Child's Play (2019)
3b. The Haunted Palace (1963)
4a. Cult of Chucky (2017)
4b. Night of the Demons (1988)
4c. The Gate II (1990)
5. Vampires vs The Bronx (2020)
6a. Ghost Ship (2002)
6b. The Guest (2014)
7. The Fly (1958)
8. Village of the Damned (1960)
9a. Children of the Damned (1964)
9b. Hand of Death (1962)
9c. Friday the 13th (1980)
10. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
11a. Ice Cream Man (1995)
11b. Child's Play (1988)
12a. Child's Play 2 (1990)
12b. Child's Play 3 (1991)

13. Peeping Tom (1960)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeping_Tom_(1960_film)

This was really interesting. Coming out the same year as Hitchcock's Psycho, this movie has a lot of similarities, and not just cosmetic ones. Parental issues wrapped up with sexual hangups, a sort-of reluctant killer, subject matter that was shocking for the time (Psycho got tut-tutted for having a couple share the same bed; Peeping Tom has prostitution, nudity and the shooting of soft-core porn as a plot element)...they even both have a scene where a psychologist shows up to explain what's going on. Peeping Tom actually handles all of these things better than Psycho.

That said, I still enjoy Psycho more, for the story and the characters. The actors in this aren't bad or anything, but bless their hearts, they're no Anthony Perkins or Janet Leigh.

[Moon Ronin]

1. The Curse of Buckout Road (2017) on Tubi
2. Winchester (2018) on Netflix
3. The Curse of La Lorena (2019) on HBO MAX
4. Doctor Sleep (2019) on HBO Max
5. The Frighteners (1996) on HBO MAX
6. You're Next (2013) on Peacock
7. I Spit On Your Grave (2010) on Amazon Prime
8. Halloween (1978) on AMC
9. Halloween II (1981) on Vudu
10. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) on AMC
11. Fright Night (1985) on Amazon Prime
12. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1995) on AMC
13. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) on AMC

Quote: Tommy Doyle: [seeing a gun] Doctor Loomis, you know that can't stop Michael.

[Joker]

1. Pet Sematary (2019)
2. IT Part 1 (2017)
3. IT Part 2 (2019)
4. Gerald's Game (2017)
5. As Above, So Below (some year...)
6. Monsters 2010
7. The Ritual 2017
8.Friday the 13th Part II
9.Day of the Dead

Finished up Day of the Dead. It's fine. Never was my favorite of the original 3 Romero films. That'd be Dawn.

10. The House of the Devil (2010)

This is a great, quiet little throwback horror movie. I love it for it's perfect '80s style. I love that it doesn't try to do too much. It does just enough.

[Angilasman]

Fright Night is classic '80s studio horror fun, what with the humor and showcase for effects that was in vogue at the time. Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster is a delightful oddity do perfect for MST3K it's a shame they never did it.

Watched the two Japanese direct sequels to Ring.Rasen was released at the same time as Ring and is based on the second book in the series. The idea was that since the books were already popular you'd have an immediate film series. Problem is, Rasen isn't very good and it feels more like a sequel to a movie based on the original book, while the first movie went in its own direction so Rasen is a sequel to a movie that doesn't exist. Anyway, Rasen flopped and Ring was a phenomenon so they did a do-over a year later with Ring's director and writer (and more original cast members) as the new Ring 2. It's fun, better than Rasen, but it has that sequelitus feel of them just trying to do Ring again but bigger and not as well-balanced.

[Scott Taylor]

This movie, lol. Bela Lugosi really did the best he could being an ape man but this movie must have had a budget only slightly higher than it would take to buy a ham sandwich. However I really loved the 1940s atmosphere and all the art deco in the sets, it was amazing. And there is this fourth-wall breaking stuff that is kind of clever. Not a classic, but worth a watch coming in at only an hour in length.

[CellarDweller]

01. Friday the 13th (1980)
02. Friday the 13th Part II
03. Friday the 13th Part III
04. Friday the 13th Part IV (The Final Chapter)
05. Friday the 13th Part V (A New Begining)
06. Friday the 13th Part VI (Jason Lives)
07. Amityville Horror (1979)
08. The Conjuring
09. Insidious
10. The Exorcist
11. The Shining
12. The Crazies (2010)
13. Trick R Treat
14. Ghost Ship
15. 13 Ghosts
16. House on Haunted Hill


17. The Changeling (1980) John Russell, a composer from New York City, moves to Seattle, Washington, following the deaths of his wife and daughter in a traffic accident while on a winter vacation upstate. He rents a large and eerie Victorian mansion from an agent of the local historic society, Claire Norman, who tells him that the property has been vacant for 12 years.

Not long after moving in, John begins to experience unexplained phenomena, starting with a loud banging every morning. One night, he discovers all of the water taps turned on and sees the apparition of a drowned boy in a bathtub. Soon after a red stained glass window pane shatters as he is outside and, upon investigation, he finds a locked, boarded up door in a closet leading to a hidden attic bedroom. He takes a music box from the mantle and discovers it plays the exact piano tune he has just recorded downstairs. Claire and John investigate the history of the house, believing that the ghost is that of a young girl killed outside the house in a traffic accident in 1909. John holds a seance and overhears the voice of the spirit on audio equipment, calling himself Joseph Carmichael.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changeling_(film)



18. Pumpkinhead (1988) In 1957, Tom Harley waits inside his farm cabin with his wife and young son, Ed. A doomed man seeks sanctuary at Tom's cabin, but Tom refuses and threatens to shoot him if he does not leave. Watching through a window, Ed witnesses the man caught and killed by a monster.

In the present, Ed Harley is a widowed father and owns a small store in the country. He leaves his young son Billy alone while he runs an errand. A group of teenage campers stop by Harley's, and, while riding their dirt bikes, they mortally injure Billy. One teen, Steve, stays with the boy until his father's return; the rest flee the scene. At their cabin, the campers fight about whether or not to call the police. Joel, who is personally responsible for the boy's injury and is on probation for a similar incident, rips out the phone cord, knocks one of his friends unconscious and locks him and a girl in the closet to stop them from contacting the authorities.

Ed goes to see a witch and offers her gold, but she says resurrecting the dead is not within her power. Instead, Ed says that he wants revenge; the witch agrees to help, but warns him that vengeance comes with a terrible price. On her orders, Ed goes to an old graveyard in the mountains, digs up a corpse, and brings it back to the witch's home. The witch uses blood from father and son to resurrect the corpse, which rises as a gigantic, spindly demonic monster named Pumpkinhead.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkinhead_(film)

[Joker]

1. Pet Sematary (2019)
2. IT Part 1 (2017)
3. IT Part 2 (2019)
4. Gerald's Game (2017)
5. As Above, So Below (some year...)
6. Monsters 2010
7. The Ritual 2017
8.Friday the 13th Part II
9.Day of the Dead
10. The House of the Devil (2010)

11. Dodgers vs Braves Game 3.

A absolute massacre . There was blood everywhere!

[Alan2099]

A woman inherits a hotel and begins to renovate it only to find that it's built over one of the seven gates of hell.

I'm not a big Fulci fan and this isn't a movie that's going to make me one, but it was worth watching. The characters are vague to the point of almost not having any personality at all and the plot barley existed, explaining almost nothing, but there was some great gore here along with a wonderful sense of atmosphere and an extremely chilling and bleak ending.

[Astral Disaster]

34. The Shining (1980) Seriously one of my favorite films, and it isn't unusual for me to watch it two or three times a year, sometimes that many from September through October. That being said, I don't consider myself one of the obsessives poring over every little detail, although since plenty of others already have, it can be fun spotting the details usually missed with a more casual viewing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)

[Sean Whitmore]

1. Body Bags (1993)
2. The Hitcher (1986)
3a. Child's Play (2019)
3b. The Haunted Palace (1963)
4a. Cult of Chucky (2017)
4b. Night of the Demons (1988)
4c. The Gate II (1990)
5. Vampires vs The Bronx (2020)
6a. Ghost Ship (2002)
6b. The Guest (2014)
7. The Fly (1958)
8. Village of the Damned (1960)
9a. Children of the Damned (1964)
9b. Hand of Death (1962)
9c. Friday the 13th (1980)
10. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
11a. Ice Cream Man (1995)
11b. Child's Play (1988)
12a. Child's Play 2 (1990)
12b. Child's Play 3 (1991)
13. Peeping Tom (1960)

14. Sleepwalkers (1992)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepwalkers_(film)

Incestuous psychic werecats feed on virgin girls by sucking out their life force. It was...fine. That this was in theaters and not one of King's TV-movie projects is shocking to me.

I watched this from an AMC recording and then I read the Wikipedia article, and either AMC chopped the hell out of this movie or it was just that forgettable. I'd believe either one.

[Moon Ronin]

1. The Curse of Buckout Road (2017) on Tubi
2. Winchester (2018) on Netflix
3. The Curse of La Lorena (2019) on HBO MAX
4. Doctor Sleep (2019) on HBO Max
5. The Frighteners (1996) on HBO MAX
6. You're Next (2013) on Peacock
7. I Spit On Your Grave (2010) on Amazon Prime
8. Halloween (1978) on AMC
9. Halloween II (1981) on Vudu
10. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) on AMC
11. Fright Night (1985) on Amazon Prime
12. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1995) on AMC
13. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) on AMC
14. Halloween H20: 20 Years later (1998) on AMC

Quote: Laurie Strode: Try to live.

[Astral Disaster]

14. Sleepwalkers (1992)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepwalkers_(film)

Incestuous psychic werecats feed on virgin girls by sucking out their life force. It was...fine. That this was in theaters and not one of King's TV-movie projects is shocking to me.

I watched this from an AMC recording and then I read the Wikipedia article, and either AMC chopped the hell out of this movie or it was just that forgettable. I'd believe either one.

This movie is awful, but there are so many hilariously bad scenes it still manages to be entertaining, the first time I saw the corn stabbing I could couldn't stop laughing.

[Jared]

11. Dodgers vs Braves Game 3.

A absolute massacre . There was blood everywhere!

Well, you're not wrong.

[Scott Taylor]

Sleepwalkers sounds like a pretty corny movie!

My two movies from last night:

Interview with a Vampire (1994) - Lots of movies rely on star power to put butts in seats, and suffer from being crappy movies. This is a decent flick based on a pretty genuinely creepy and good book. Bit of a forerunner to Twilight, though, with the various vampire "gifts" that are displayed. And its cool to see vampires struggle with immortality. I've always thought that the notion of being immortal is a bit frightening. I mean, you would outpace everything you hold dear and know, and then constantly would have to reinvent yourself to fit in.

Frankenstein (1910) - Silent film, of course, and very short. Produced by Edison. The sequence where the monster is created has some interesting "special effects" to it. And the ending was kind of meta - the monster becomes a metaphor for Frankenstein's humanity. It strays from the book by a wide margin

[Joker]

1. Pet Sematary (2019)
2. IT Part 1 (2017)
3. IT Part 2 (2019)
4. Gerald's Game (2017)
5. As Above, So Below (some year...)
6. Monsters 2010
7. The Ritual 2017
8.Friday the 13th Part II
9.Day of the Dead
10. The House of the Devil (2010)
11. Dodgers vs Braves Game 3

12. The Good Place Season 4.

I'm counting this. I know TV isn't really being counted, but I watched a whole season, they're all dead, there's demons everywhere... and I'd probably have watched at least one more movie by now if this hadn't just come out on Netflix.