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    1a. Dracula 2000 (2000)
    1b. Dracula II: Ascension (2003)
    1c. Dracula III: Legacy (2005)
    2.The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
    3. House on Haunted Hill (1959)
    4a. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
    4b. Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
    5a. Isle of the Dead (1945)
    5b. The Night Flier (1997)
    6a. Happy Death Day (2017)
    6b. Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
    7. The Old Dark House (1932)
    8. El Conde (2023)
    9. Silver Bullet (1985)
    10a. Totally Killer (2023)
    10b. Dracula (1931)
    11. Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
    12. Young Frankenstein (1974)
    13a. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
    13b. Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
    13c. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
    14. Halloween (1978)
    15a. Nightbeast (1982)
    15b. Dracula's Daughter (1936)
    16a. Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
    16b. Halloween II (1981)
    17. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
    18. Christine (1983)
    19. -
    20. -
    21. Frankenstein (1931)
    22. -
    23. -
    24. Demons 2 (1986)

    25. All Hallows' Eve (2013) - Shudder

    Art the Clown's feature film debut. Still curious exactly what the appeal is there.

    This movie is made up of two pre-existing short films featuring Art, plus the addition of a third segment that has nothing to do with him and a wraparound story. I'm afraid nothing here was my cup of tea.

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    88. Pumpkinhead (1988) A classical morality tale wrapped up as a supernatural horror/creature feature mashup, at least that's how I've long viewed it. The directorial debut of Stan Winston, known for his creature design and SFX work, which is evident it the movie, and starring Lance Henriksen in a somewhat atypical role, at least different from the usually calm, cool and collected characters he's more known for playing.

    89. 30 Days of Night (2007) - A group of vampires descend upon Barrow, Alaska (now Utqiaġvik) as the town begins its yearly month of total darkness when the winter sun disappears below the horizon. As the slaughter unfolds, a small band of townspeople struggle to survive until the next sunrise.

    90. Let The Right One In (2008) A Swedish vampire romance story based on the novel by the same title, rather slow paced, austere and melancholic, it leaves a number of things from the book less defined and open for interpretation, and, imo, is all the better for doing so. Not much in the way of actual scares, but there is a good amount of blood on screen, and seeing an immortal 12 year old vampire with it smeared around their mouth is just a tad unnerving.

    91. Night Of The Living Dead (1968) - The George Romero classic that defined the modern zombie movie. A small group of people barricade themselves inside an isolated farmhouse as it is surrounded by a growing number of the recently resurrected dead with a craving for the flesh of the living. Will they manage to make it through the night and survive the onslaught, or will tensions within their ranks tear them apart before the undead? Because of an oversight by the distributor, copyright notices were not included on the prints, essentially placing the film in the public domain from the beginning. It almost seems like a running gag at this point that if there's a TV on in any horror movie there's a good chance it will be playing Night Of The Living Dead.

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    October 1st. 1- The Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (2023)
    October 2nd. 2- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
    October 3rd. 3- Warlock (1989). 4- Warlock: The Armageddon (1993). 5- Warlock: The End of Innocence (1999)
    October 4th. 6- Isle of the Dead (1945)
    October 5th. 7- Doppelganger (1993)
    October 6th. 8- Dracula in Instanbul (1953)
    October 7th. 9- Children of the Night (2023)
    October 8th. 10- We Are the Night (2010)
    October 9th. 11- Justice League Dark (2017). 12- Constantine: City of Demons (2018). 13a- Constantine: House of Mystery (2022). 13b- The Spectre (2010)
    October 10th. 14- The Devil Rides Out (1968)
    October 11th. 15- The Video Dead (1987)
    October 12th. 16- Hell Target (1987). 17- Sorority Babes in the Slime-Bowl-O-Rama (1988)
    October 13th. 18- Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
    October 14th. 19- Vampire in Venice (1988)
    October 15th. 20- Twins of Evil (1971)
    October 16th. 21- Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010). 22- Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023)
    October 17th. 23- Maniac Cop (1988). 24- Maniac Cop 2 (1990). 25- Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1993)
    October 18th. 26- The Invisible Man (1933)
    October 19th. 27- The Invisible Man (2020)
    October 20th. 28- Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest (2008)
    October 21st. 29- Bats (1999). 30- Count Dracula (1970)
    October 22nd. 31- Ghostbusters (1984)
    October 23rd. 32- Frankenweenie (2012). 33a- Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985). 33b- Frankenweenie (1984)
    October 24th. 34- Cthulhu Mansion (1990). 35- Underwater (2020)

    October 25th. 36- The Evil Dead (1981). 37- Ready or Not (2019)



    I watched this with a buddy who had never seen it before and knew nothing about the series, which was fun. Still an incredible accomplishment for young Sami Rami and co. In today's dollars, the budget would be...maybe one million, max? I just thinking that this is a rare franchise to have five films and a TV serie and none of them should be considered an embarrassing entry.





    Horror-comedy, kind of similar in tone to an Evil Dead II. Samara "not Margot Robbie" Weaving finds herself being hunted by her fiance's rich family for a crazy ritual. It's well done, I laughed many times at stuff going on with the family, who aren't exactly pros at what they're doing. I was a little surprised/disappointed that Samara doesn't do as much stuff as I would have expected from the promotion. I can't even remember her character's name. She's not bad by any means, the the script doesn't really give her anything to make her an epic horror heroine.
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    1a. Dracula 2000 (2000)
    1b. Dracula II: Ascension (2003)
    1c. Dracula III: Legacy (2005)
    2.The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
    3. House on Haunted Hill (1959)
    4a. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
    4b. Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
    5a. Isle of the Dead (1945)
    5b. The Night Flier (1997)
    6a. Happy Death Day (2017)
    6b. Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
    7. The Old Dark House (1932)
    8. El Conde (2023)
    9. Silver Bullet (1985)
    10a. Totally Killer (2023)
    10b. Dracula (1931)
    11. Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
    12. Young Frankenstein (1974)
    13a. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
    13b. Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
    13c. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
    14. Halloween (1978)
    15a. Nightbeast (1982)
    15b. Dracula's Daughter (1936)
    16a. Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
    16b. Halloween II (1981)
    17. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
    18. Christine (1983)
    19. -
    20. -
    21. Frankenstein (1931)
    22. -
    23. -
    24. Demons 2 (1986)
    25. All Hallows' Eve (2013)

    26a. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) - TCM
    26b. Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) - TCM



    Second time watching the first movie, first time watching the second. I like these, but I don't love them, and I really wish I did. It's Vincent Price as a masked super villain, complete with elaborate death traps and multiple spooky headquarters. Between murders, he goofs around with his henchwoman and plays conductor to an animatronic orchestra. But as a result of the character's backstory, Phibes' face is expressionless throughout, and his voice is a stilted electronic voiceover. I think this really prevents Price's evil charm from shining through.

    In addition to that, his victims and pursuers aren't especially memorable either. Peter Jeffrey appears as Inspecter Trout in both films, and he does a serviceable job, but no more than that. There's sort of a recurring theme of everyone treating him like a working-class slob, which could have set up a great Columbo-like reversal when he finally outwits Phibes...except nothing like that ever happens. The first movie in particular ends when Phibes tells his final victim (and thus the police) where he is, puts him in a trap, and then leaves before seeing what comes of it. In the sequel, Trout is demoted to full-on comic relief.

    They're both still well worth watching, but on my personal Price list they rank well under Corman's Poe cycle, House of Wax, and Last Man on Earth.
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    92. Zombieland (2009) - Considered to be the US response to Shaun Of The Dead, and in typical American fashion it features WAY more guns. It's not nearly as sharp, witty or funny as SotD, but it has its moments, and it's definitely a fun and entertaining ride.

    93. Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) - Sequel to the original 2009 Zombieland, reuniting the main cast from the first film. I recall hearing more than a few negative reviews/comments about the movie when it was released, which is why it took three years for me to finally get around to watching it, but I thought it was a decent follow-up. It really didn't break any new ground, and recycled ideas from the first movie, but that's not unique to Zombieland DT, still entertaining and enjoyable, and worth at least one viewing if you've seen the first.

    94. The Crazies (2010) - The rural farming community of Ogden Marsh, Iowa is exposed to an engineered bioweapon after a US transport aircraft crashes nearby, prompting a military quarantine of the town which quickly spirals out of control when the pathogen proves too difficult to contain. Remake of the 1973 film by George Romero, and sure to give your anti-government, conspiracy-obssessed family members you never talk to nightmares for weeks.

    95. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - A family of murderous cannibal rednecks terrorize a group of young adults on a road trip through Texas. Really nothing more I can add which hasn't already been said repeatedly about this horror classic.
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    25. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942). Holmes and Moriarty match wits over a scientist and his new technology that could turn the tide of the war. A spy thriller more than a detective movie, with plenty of disguises, cloak and dagger, code-breaking and twists. A very enjoyable entry into the Rathbone/Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films.

    26. The Invisible Man (1933). A man invents invisibility but is chagrined to find out he can't change back. A true classic of the Universal horror franchises, one that is exceeded only by the Frankenstein series in my opinion. This first installment is from the pre-code era when a film could be told as desired by the creative team without additional oversight. There is nothing remarkably controversial here, though, other than some graphic murder for the time. The effects were pretty painstaking, I understand, but very effective. Claude Rains as the main character has a maniacal laugh worthy of the Joker.
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    October 1st. 1- The Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (2023)
    October 2nd. 2- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
    October 3rd. 3- Warlock (1989). 4- Warlock: The Armageddon (1993). 5- Warlock: The End of Innocence (1999)
    October 4th. 6- Isle of the Dead (1945)
    October 5th. 7- Doppelganger (1993)
    October 6th. 8- Dracula in Instanbul (1953)
    October 7th. 9- Children of the Night (2023)
    October 8th. 10- We Are the Night (2010)
    October 9th. 11- Justice League Dark (2017). 12- Constantine: City of Demons (2018). 13a- Constantine: House of Mystery (2022). 13b- The Spectre (2010)
    October 10th. 14- The Devil Rides Out (1968)
    October 11th. 15- The Video Dead (1987)
    October 12th. 16- Hell Target (1987). 17- Sorority Babes in the Slime-Bowl-O-Rama (1988)
    October 13th. 18- Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
    October 14th. 19- Vampire in Venice (1988)
    October 15th. 20- Twins of Evil (1971)
    October 16th. 21- Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010). 22- Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023)
    October 17th. 23- Maniac Cop (1988). 24- Maniac Cop 2 (1990). 25- Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1993)
    October 18th. 26- The Invisible Man (1933)
    October 19th. 27- The Invisible Man (2020)
    October 20th. 28- Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest (2008)
    October 21st. 29- Bats (1999). 30- Count Dracula (1970)
    October 22nd. 31- Ghostbusters (1984)
    October 23rd. 32- Frankenweenie (2012). 33a- Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985). 33b- Frankenweenie (1984)
    October 24th. 34- Cthulhu Mansion (1990). 35- Underwater (2020)
    October 25th. 36- The Evil Dead (1981). 37- Ready or Not (2019)

    October 26th. 38- Evil Dead II (1987). 39- Hell Night (1981)



    Of the original trilogy, this is the one I've seen the least amount of times. That's through no fault of its own, I just owned it last. I first had the first one on VHS! If you skip the first few minutes to where the evil force is rushing toward Ash, then the movie picks up right where the first one left off. Due to rights issues, they couldn't use footage from the first, so instead of flashbacks they just filmed a super-abridged recap of the first.





    On Halloween Night, pledges have to spend a night in a spooky abandoned mansion while the frat tries to scare them. Unfortunately, there's some truth to the blood stories about the place. Linda Blair stars with nobody else I recognized. The movie looks good, there's nothing groundbreaking about it. There's no explanation as to why bad things are happening only now when the frat has been doing their Hell Night stuff here for years already.
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    October 1st. 1- The Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (2023)
    October 2nd. 2- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
    October 3rd. 3- Warlock (1989). 4- Warlock: The Armageddon (1993). 5- Warlock: The End of Innocence (1999)
    October 4th. 6- Isle of the Dead (1945)
    October 5th. 7- Doppelganger (1993)
    October 6th. 8- Dracula in Instanbul (1953)
    October 7th. 9- Children of the Night (2023)
    October 8th. 10- We Are the Night (2010)
    October 9th. 11- Justice League Dark (2017). 12- Constantine: City of Demons (2018). 13a- Constantine: House of Mystery (2022). 13b- The Spectre (2010)
    October 10th. 14- The Devil Rides Out (1968)
    October 11th. 15- The Video Dead (1987)
    October 12th. 16- Hell Target (1987). 17- Sorority Babes in the Slime-Bowl-O-Rama (1988)
    October 13th. 18- Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
    October 14th. 19- Vampire in Venice (1988)
    October 15th. 20- Twins of Evil (1971)
    October 16th. 21- Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010). 22- Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023)
    October 17th. 23- Maniac Cop (1988). 24- Maniac Cop 2 (1990). 25- Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1993)
    October 18th. 26- The Invisible Man (1933)
    October 19th. 27- The Invisible Man (2020)
    October 20th. 28- Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest (2008)
    October 21st. 29- Bats (1999). 30- Count Dracula (1970)
    October 22nd. 31- Ghostbusters (1984)
    October 23rd. 32- Frankenweenie (2012). 33a- Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985). 33b- Frankenweenie (1984)
    October 24th. 34- Cthulhu Mansion (1990). 35- Underwater (2020)
    October 25th. 36- The Evil Dead (1981). 37- Ready or Not (2019)
    October 26th. 38- Evil Dead II (1987). 39- Hell Night (1981)

    October 27th. 40- Army of Darkness (1992) 41- Moon of the Wolf (1972)




    This one goes full bore comedy. I first saw it on TV in the mid 90s and didn't even know it was a sequel to something. Each entry in Raimi's trilogy is a classic of its genre.

    I wish they had gotten to subtitle it, "The Medieval Dead"




    A Louisiana sheriff investigates thr murder of a young woman found torn apart, as if by wild dogs. You get one guess as to thre eal culprit. Pretty standard fare. I think all all thr actors are TV vetw so nobody is bad. But there's not much that stands out. I think the werewolf episode of Kolchack was better.


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    All Hallows' Eve (2013)[- Shudder

    Art the Clown's feature film debut. Still curious exactly what the appeal is there.

    This movie is made up of two pre-existing short films featuring Art, plus the addition of a third segment that has nothing to do with him and a wraparound story. I'm afraid nothing here was my cup of tea.
    I could have sworn that the clown factors into in every segment, though only indirectly in one of them.
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    96. Event Horizon (1997) - A rescue vessel is sent to investigate the reappearance of the Event Horizon, in orbit around Neptune, seven years after the ship was lost. Constructed to test an experimental gravity drive for interstellar travel, the Event Horizon journeyed beyond our universe and returned possessed by a malevolent entity from another dimension. Despite its flaws, this is another long time favorite, creepiest engine room in all sci-fi.

    97. Pandorum (2009) - Two crewmembers aboard a decaying interstellar colonist transport awaken after a prolonged hypersleep, one struggles to survive ferocious humanoid cannibal mutants while on a mission to reset the ship's failing power core, the other battles his own internal pychosis. Decent enough sci-fi horror which borrows elements from across the spectrum, makes me think of a mash-up of Alien/Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome/28 Days Later.

    98. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - Sci-fi/horror remake of a 1950s original which has long been recognized as a classic in its own right, with many considering it the superior, definitive version. From imdb: "When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time."

    99. An American Werewolf In London (1981) - This one is a kind of mixed bag for me, good story elements and the bits of comic relief are subtle and well done, but the ending feels kind of rushed, and also borrows heavily from a variety of classic monster movies, especially from the 50s.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jared View Post
    I could have sworn that the clown factors into in every segment, though only indirectly in one of them.
    He technically does, but in a really tacked-on way. spoilers:
    In the segment with the alien, the woman's husband was a painter, and the last shot reveals he'd been working on a portrait of Art.
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    1a. Dracula 2000 (2000)
    1b. Dracula II: Ascension (2003)
    1c. Dracula III: Legacy (2005)
    2.The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
    3. House on Haunted Hill (1959)
    4a. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
    4b. Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
    5a. Isle of the Dead (1945)
    5b. The Night Flier (1997)
    6a. Happy Death Day (2017)
    6b. Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
    7. The Old Dark House (1932)
    8. El Conde (2023)
    9. Silver Bullet (1985)
    10a. Totally Killer (2023)
    10b. Dracula (1931)
    11. Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
    12. Young Frankenstein (1974)
    13a. Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
    13b. Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
    13c. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
    14. Halloween (1978)
    15a. Nightbeast (1982)
    15b. Dracula's Daughter (1936)
    16a. Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
    16b. Halloween II (1981)
    17. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
    18. Christine (1983)
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    20. -
    21. Frankenstein (1931)
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    24. Demons 2 (1986)
    25. All Hallows' Eve (2013)
    26a. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
    26b. Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)

    27. The Final Girls (2015) - Youtube

    Rounding out this year's trifecta of "with a slasher" genre mashups, this one is "Purple Rose of Cairo with a slasher". Or maybe more like "Pleasantville with a slasher"? Anyway, a group of 2010s teens get sucked into an 80s horror movie and have to play out the plot to escape.

    It was cute, but I don't think this movie plays with its concept as well as Happy Death Day or Totally Killer. I wish it had focused more on the in-the-movie jokes (like being able to perceive flashbacks and slow motion) and a little less on the tired observations about 80s slasher cliches.

    Also, it's weird to me how all of these mashups are about a teen girl trying to bring their dead mother back to life. Twice is coincidence, three times is TV Tropes territory.

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    27. Cry of the Banshee (1970). A cruel magistrate and his family of overly sexed boys has a vendetta against all the witches in his village, and the leader witch sends a banshee after the magistrate and his family. I was kind of hoping they were going to lean into Celtic mythology but instead they avoid it entirely and go with witches. This mess of a movie had so much nudity, it puts Hammer movies to shame. Literally every pretty girl who appears in a scene gets her shirt ripped off almost immediately. Doesn't matter where she is or what she is doing, someone points out the pretty girl, runs over and calls her a witch, rips her shirt off and usually proceeds to beat her, whip her, etc. Its complete sadism. But I digress. For all that titillation the movie is a big bore because everyone is such putsy, awful, non-heroic people that its impossible to care about anything. If there is anything close to a hero, its the banshee, but he's really boring too. Seriously this movie makes Lust for a Vampire look like Ben Hur. The director is the same guy who did Scream and Scream Again, which I liked and was not a bore but had the same sort of slipshod and confusing film direction.

    I might watch Witchfinder General next, people have compared it to this movie but are more favorable to it.
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    October 1st. 1- The Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (2023)
    October 2nd. 2- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
    October 3rd. 3- Warlock (1989). 4- Warlock: The Armageddon (1993). 5- Warlock: The End of Innocence (1999)
    October 4th. 6- Isle of the Dead (1945)
    October 5th. 7- Doppelganger (1993)
    October 6th. 8- Dracula in Instanbul (1953)
    October 7th. 9- Children of the Night (2023)
    October 8th. 10- We Are the Night (2010)
    October 9th. 11- Justice League Dark (2017). 12- Constantine: City of Demons (2018). 13a- Constantine: House of Mystery (2022). 13b- The Spectre (2010)
    October 10th. 14- The Devil Rides Out (1968)
    October 11th. 15- The Video Dead (1987)
    October 12th. 16- Hell Target (1987). 17- Sorority Babes in the Slime-Bowl-O-Rama (1988)
    October 13th. 18- Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
    October 14th. 19- Vampire in Venice (1988)
    October 15th. 20- Twins of Evil (1971)
    October 16th. 21- Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010). 22- Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023)
    October 17th. 23- Maniac Cop (1988). 24- Maniac Cop 2 (1990). 25- Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1993)
    October 18th. 26- The Invisible Man (1933)
    October 19th. 27- The Invisible Man (2020)
    October 20th. 28- Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest (2008)
    October 21st. 29- Bats (1999). 30- Count Dracula (1970)
    October 22nd. 31- Ghostbusters (1984)
    October 23rd. 32- Frankenweenie (2012). 33a- Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985). 33b- Frankenweenie (1984)
    October 24th. 34- Cthulhu Mansion (1990). 35- Underwater (2020)
    October 25th. 36- The Evil Dead (1981). 37- Ready or Not (2019)
    October 26th. 38- Evil Dead II (1987). 39- Hell Night (1981)
    October 27th. 40- Army of Darkness (1992) 41- Moon of the Wolf (1972)
    42- The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)



    If you only watch one Dracula movie released this year, you're probably better off watching Renfield

    I was excited for the premise: take the captain's log of thr doomed ship from the novel and expand on it. But thr movie doesn't really stay true to that. Elements are added that definitely would have been in the log, and thr movie doesn't follow the novel's vamp lore. The audience is shown Dracula too early, and the characters learn about him soon after. Inexplicably, he free never lreally tries thr most obvi9us course of actio jg9vej thr informatio nabaipajle to them. On the plus side, the movie looks good, and the actors are pretty strong. But it's all kinda wasted. The film isn't terrible if taken on its own terms, but it's nothing special.
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    Movie #6: Kadaicha (Blu-Ray)
    This Australian teens targeted by ghosts film is generic and weirdly shot. There's a level of amateurishness that I'm not used to. The plot and ghosts are mostly stuff we've seen before. The big difference is the aboriginal connection. The metaphor of kids trying to get their parents to admit mistakes and heal tormented spirits is rather on the nose, but is ahead of its time.
    6/10

    Movie #7: Killers of the Flower Moon (Movie Theater)
    If you think it's not horror, I'm pretty sure it would give Freddy Kruger the heebie-jeebies.
    10/10

    Movie #8: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Blu-Ray)
    It really should be called Abbott and Costello meet Dracula, given Bela Lugosi's bigger role. It's a decent comedy vehicle as two dopes intersect with Universal horror monsters, though I may miss part of their appeal.
    8/10

    Movie #9: Night of the Living Dead (Criterion Blu-Ray)
    It feels like it was made years into the genre, rather than something that created something new. It's good enough that it might never be surpassed, just because there will never be a zombie film where people aren't expected to be aware of the living dead series.
    10/10

    Movie #10: The Quatermass Xperiment (DVD)
    Competent and sometimes enjoyable, but often boring.
    6/10

    Movie #11: The Telltale Heart ()(Youtube)
    The 1957 short narrated by James Mason is astounding.
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    100. Dog Soldiers (2002) - A group of soldiers on a training mission in the Scottish highlands fight to survive attacks by a clan of lanky, seven-foot tall werewolves.

    101. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Adaptation of the novel directed by Francis Ford Coppola, which takes some liberties with the source material by tying Dracula to the historical Vlad Țepeș, and also giving him a romantic backstory, making the vampire a more sympathetic and relatable character. Gary Oldman steals the show with his portrayal of the title role.

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