Summer Camp (2015)

Bat shit crazy Spanish horror that's a cross between Friday the 13th (New councilors arrive at rural summer camp to prep it for when the kids arrive) and Eli Roth's Cabin Fever (Said councilors end up infected and try to ferociously kill one another)

Although it takes a while to get going, once it does the carnage is brutal and fun, but there's a cruel twist midway through that really plays against the conventions of this type of movie and makes this an altogether more memorable proposition.

Recommended.

Contracts (2019, Alex Chung)

Punch, kick, stab, sideswipe, break limb, mutter, stab, stab, mumble, intrigue, chase, kick, stab, shoot. End. 75 min.
Quite enjoyed it really if I'm honest :pound:

Mindkiller (1987, Michael Kreuger)

A nebbish tries to find love. Maybe if he didn't resemble a young Fuad Ramses ... he'd have more luck :nod::lol:
When a foxy lady becomes a new work colleague, his chat up lines leave ... something to be desired. His solution to his woes is indeed woeful ahem.
Moral being .... never hide the real you ... and then some.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbKpXL-E8mg

Two friends ( Warren Oats and Peter Fonda) set out on a holiday in their new RV with their wives ( Lara Parker, Loretta Swit) , one night the two men discover what they think is a orgy , but it's is in fact a group of Satanist who sacrifice a young woman. They are discovered peeping and the group enter a cat and mouse game with the Satanists , paranoia runs deep as everyone they meet could be one of the Satanists. Remember this terrifying me as a child but now it's not the least bit scary , but it is very tense and the ending dosent have the same effect as it did all those years ago. 7/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8Ciz1G_Zm0

The Amityville Horror. 1979.

A year after a family is killed in their home, George and Kathy Lutz move in with their 3 children and only stay 28 days due to being tormented by evil spirits.

I used to believe in this story but now i am skeptical about the facts over the years, if you forget about the back story this is still quite enjoyable. James Brolin's portrayal is scary as the film goes on as it's George that seemed to have more effect of the house and spirits and never want to argue with a man that's good with a axe. Margot kidder fresh from playing Lois lane stars as Kathy who thinks something is wrong with the house and her family. There isn't any suspenseful moments or scenes that make you jump but does have the general haunted house and tense scenes built up by the actors. Jay Anson's book is based on more fiction than fact and still enjoyable to read on dark stormy nights.

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Amityville II: The Possession. 1982.

A family move in to a new house which turns out to be haunted and something evil possesses the oldest son Sonny.

I'm still not quite sure if this is a sequel or prequel, The Montelli's move in which is quite close to The Defeo family and the killings seem to be similar yet there are some flaws in it that make it seem it was late 70s. Burt Young and Rutanya Alda play the parents who's live seem dysfunctional yet controlled by the father and step foot in the house and it's mayhem. The first half of the film is set up decently at a good pace but seemed a bit messed up with the end but still enjoyable to watch, even James Olson makes a decent priest and tries to convince those around him something is wrong with the house.

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Amityville 3: The Demon. 1983.

Journalist John Baxter believes the rumours of the house are false, he decides to buy the house on 112 Ocean Avenue and hopes to debunk the history and prove that it was all a hoax. When incidents happen John is still skeptical until something happens to his daughter, with a friend John decides something has to be done.

As with the early 80s film and part 3's 3D was the way to move forward but this really didn't help the movie at all, there was great cinematography but when the camera stays on a object too long the visual effects don't really help as they seem to adjust and loose the appearance of 3D.

This third installment is based on a work of fiction and parts of John Baxter was based on Stephen Kaplan who investigated the house and was a skeptic, Tony Roberts plays the lead and seems to adjust to the role with a serious tone who doesn't believe in ghosts or the paranormal. it does have some good effects and at times can have chilling moments with the background score.

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Easily my favourite. :nod:

Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes. 1989.

A Group of priests enter the Long Island house on 112 Ocean Avenue to exorcise it, a young priest sees a lamp that harbours a demonic entity. The lamp is later sold at a yard sale bound for California where a woman and her children go to live. Soon after arriving the demon manifests itself as the deceased woman's husband, the young priest travels to California to put a stop to the evil.

This installment was made for television and was decent, it may not be a haunted house film but more haunted household appliance haunting. Writer of the original film Sandor Stern returns as writer and director and was able to pull out a few good moments at the start with a collection of priests ready to do battle. The acting is good even from Patty Duke as the grandma that believes the children are up to no good, it does have some tense moments but nothing that would make you jump out of your skin, worth a watch.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8Ciz1G_Zm0

Professor Abronsius arrives at a small village with his horny and dim witted assistant Alfred (Roman Polanski) to look into the legend of vampires , when the inn keepers beautiful daughter ( Sharon Tate) is kidnapped by the local Lord who just happens to be a vampire , the two set out too rescue her and free the region from this great evil, as well as trying to keep alive , Alfred has to contended with the sexual advances of the counts son who is also a vampire . Has a very hammer feel too it all , the dance is a iconic scene. 9/10

Next up a double bill of naughty doggies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhpKVsIOlUk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x8ao63ulfQ

Are you going to watch all 23 of them ?? ;)

What what ! For a moment there I thought you was joking due to amount there is, well you’re not far wrong, here a complete list of them even tho some aren’t really sequels etc and just amityville by name or cashing in.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work...ville_haunting

The Amityville Horror July 27, 1979
Amityville II: The Possession
Amityville 3-D November 18, 1983
Amityville III: The Demon,
Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes May 12, 1989 TV film aka Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes or Amityville: The Evil Escapes
The Amityville Curse May 7, 1990 Direct-to-video
Amityville: It's About Time July 16, 1992 aka Amityville 1992: It's About Time
Amityville: A New Generation September 29, 1993
Amityville Dollhouse October 2, 1996
The Amityville Horror April 14, 2005 Theatrical
The Amityville Haunting December 13, 2011 Direct-to-video
The Amityville Asylum June 3, 2013
The Conjuring July 19, 2013 Theatrical James Wan Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes Part of The Conjuring Universe, only mentioned before the film's ending.
Amityville Death House February 24, 2015 Direct-to-video
The Amityville Playhouse April 13, 2015 Limited theatrical release aka The Amityville Theater
Amityville: Vanishing Point April 1, 2016 Direct-to-video
The Conjuring 2 June 7, 2016 Theatrical Part of The Conjuring Universe. The Amityville haunting is depicted in the prologue, while the rest of the film deals with the Enfield case.
The Amityville Legacy June 7, 2016 Direct-to-video Re-released as Amityville Toybox in 2020.
The Amityville Terror August 2, 2016
Amityville: No Escape August 5, 2016
Amityville: Evil Never Dies June 2017 Sequel to The Amityville Legacy, re-released as Amityville Clownhouse in 2020.
Amityville Exorcism January 3, 2017
Against the Night September 15, 2017 Limited theatrical release aka Amityville Prison
Amityville: The Awakening October 28, 2017 Theatrical
Amityville: Mt. Misery Road May 31, 2018 Limited theatrical release
The Amityville Murders October 9, 2018
Amityville Island March 17, 2020 Direct-to-video
Amityville Vibrator June 6th, 2020
Witches of Amityville Academy October 2, 2020 Limited theatrical release aka Amityville Witches
The Amityville Harvest October 8, 2020

Think maybe watch upto Dollhouse but Awakening does seem interesting if it's on prime, The remake and the others spin off titles think i will give them a miss unless I get told they are brilliant...except Haunting that was crap :lol:

If I’m not sure about anything I IMDb see ratings then read a few reviews then decide for yourself if the reviews have swung in you’re favour to watch .

This is gonna make me out to be a perv but this one might be interesting for a laugh, just look at the tag line.

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I stopped going by IMDB ratings, prefer people's opinion on here, more trustworthy :nod:

Fcuk IMDB btw :nod:

The Amityville Curse. 1990.

Marvin and his wife Debbie decide to buy a house in Amityville unaware of it's past, with their friends Abigail, Frank and Bill they try to renovate it, from the start unexplained things start to happen and is the house connected to a priest who was killed years earlier?

This has very little do do with the Original house or story, it's a new colonial mansion in the middle of the town Amityville that seems to have a few houses and a pub, so drive through it blink and miss it. It does have a refrence to the first and second film, someone hearing voices and being possessed and go on a killing spree. The acting is really not the best even though there are a few good names in this, there is very little jump scares or even tense moments in this, not the best installments to the franchise even though it is based on a book by Hans Holzer.

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Amityville: It's About Time. 1992.

Jacob returns from New York with a mysterious clock, unaware where it has came from, soon after things in his household start to happen. Rusty believes it has something to do with the clock but nobody believes him except his neighbour.

This is the second time I have watched this and it's far better than the previous film, based on the short story that featured Amityville 4, cursed objects seem to appear from the Long Island house. This does have a small nod to mentioning the house that was demolished at the end of the third film. This one does have a lot more suspense built up and executed a good deal, the acting is better from everyone and decently performed visual effects for a 90s film.

Onto the next installment now.

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Yes know what you mean but might come across a film you’ve never heard of and not seen any reviews on here, or go on letterbox and see people reviews on there.

Well they do say more or less every film has a porn parody wether it’s genuine porn or not.

Cheerleader Massacre (2003)

I was wondering exactly why i still owned this Roger Corman produced, Jim Wynorski directed sequel to The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) in which Brinke Stevens reprises her role as Linda, including a flashback sequence.

And then on 55 minutes it became clear. The film features the most ridiculous, utterly gratuitous hot tub scene with three girls and chocolate sauce followed by Tamie Sheffield who spends the rest of the movie soaping herself up in the shower.

Oh, and there's a bit of gore too.

By the end i'd decided the only reason i still owned Cheerleader Massacre was because no other f*cker in their right mind would want it.

Killer Mermaids. A decent Horror Channel offering. Some nice looking crumpet.

Plus the great Franco Nero!

Amityville: A New Generation. 1993.

A photographer is given a mirror from a homeless person, soon after it begins to effect him and his friends, soon he realises he has a connection to the mirror and the homeless man, with the help of a detective.

A different take on the film, It has the same premise of the 4th and previous film a haunted or cursed object from the house in Long Island finds it's way to someone and all hell breaks loose, but it shows part of a family living in the house before The Defeo's move in so gives a small feeling that something was wrong with the land. No one would win a academy award, not even David Naughton or Terry O'Quinn, there is some good visual effects done that the director went back to old school film effects, respect to him for that, Enjoyable.

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The Thing. I finally watched a film in 2021! :rockon::lol: The crew of an Antarctic base come under assault from a shapeshifting extraterrestrial entity in this early 80s John Carpenter chiller that has stood the test of time very well. Kurt Russell is suitably badass as the no-nonsense loner who takes no crap from anyone, including alien nasties. :nod:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x8ao63ulfQ

A group of soldiers in Romania unearth a tomb that contains members of the Dracula family , one of the soldiers stupidly removes a stake from Drac's prize pooch Zoltan whom kills said idiot and frees Draculas servant /ghoul . The two make their way to America to find the last descendant of the Dracula line and make him a vampire , a inspector ( José Ferrer) sets out too stop them.

It might sound silly but it's tense affair and pretty enjoyable. 7/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhpKVsIOlUk

A group of Satanists buy a dog and perform a ritual which possesses the animal with a demon, the dog has a group of puppies . One family receives one of these puppies , soon strange things start to happen their maid is mysteriously killed as is a neighbour and his dog, the farther(Richard Crenna) soon notices strange behaviour from his family , his children start to lie and cheat and perfrom unnatural rituals in the middle of the night, his wife turns into a gaint whore, while the dog can control people and appears indestructible, just how will be save his family from this very naughty doggie!

The two children might look familiar as they are the same two from the first two witch mountain movies. Ken Kercheval ( Cliff Barnes from Dallas) has a small role as one of the victims.

For a tv movie I found this quite tense and eeire, the devil form of the dog is laughable but it's still highly enjoayble. Crenna doesn't have much luck with pets or house's. 7.5/10

Now watching


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50NZq9DNVa0

History Of The World Part One (1981, Mel Brooks)

It's been a while. Must say tis rather racier than I remembered cough. The usual taboos are shredded oy vey already :lol:
Gregory Hines fits right into the cast, yes he does some dancing ...whadda ya gonna do? ;)
The jokes are more integral this time, whereas with HA I felt he was trying to actually make a Hitchcock flick with schtick cough.
Enough already!

Amityville: Dollhouse.

A couple and their children move into a newly built house and discover a dollhouse that's a replicant of the house on Ocean Avenue. Soon after things begin to happen that can't be explained.

This is a bit of a messed up plot hole film, The new house looks near the same as the one from Amityville: It's about time film and looks cardboard at the end. The acting is not that great but laughable at some points that you basically want everyone to hurry up and die or just shut it completely. What has me questioning the film is the Dollhouse...who built it, why was it there, and why is there no mentioning of the name Amityville? Previous films mention the house or the town this one seems to by pass all that altogether.

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The Undead (1957)

A cheapie from Roger Corman running at a mere 71 mins and filmed in a supermarket. Starring the statuesque Allison (Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman) Hayes as a medieval witch, in a film that also incorporates past life regressive experiments on a hooker and faux Shakespearean dialogue, seemingly as a prelude to Corman's Gothic run in the sixties.

Classic poster, not so classic movie, even if i really enjoy it.

Amityville Playhouse. 2015.

Fawn inherits a playhouse, along with her friends they decide to check it out, they find a girl seeking shelter. When they realise they can't get out they decide to spend the night unaware of what will happen. Fawn's teacher decides to look at the town's history and tries to help her escape a dark fate that may come on her and her friends.

:Note to self: see a house that the side looks it has a face don't buy it, nor move to the town of Amityville.

Ah the joys of cash in title movies, this did seem a bit decent story line, a guy squeezing a scab that spurts puss, very cheap make up and a ending that is messed up. The actors really didn't seem to put much effort in this, they must have realised it was a dud movie that wouldn't bring in potential for their careers.

These may be out of sync with release fates etc i'm going through prime's listings bare with me.

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You're a braver man than most for watching all of these films back to back lol, well done!

Rogue (2020)

Mercenary's on a mission and a killer animal flick, Rogue is an enjoyable exploitation fusion that has anti human trafficking and animal abuse messages at it's heart.

A thrilling opening half hour flies by at a breakneck pace as Megan Fox (Yes, really) and her team of mercs rescue three school girls from the clutches of people trafficking jihadi's somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa. Not only do they have to contend with holing up at a disused lion farm surrounded by a small army of angry insurgents but also being picked off one by one by an extremely pissed off CG lioness.

I can't imagine Megan Fox would be anyone's first choice for a movie such as this but she's more than decent and director M.J. Bassett (Wilderness, Deathwatch, Solomon Kane) is pretty adept at this sort of thing.

:lol:Thanks Justin

The Amityville Terror. 2016.

Todd and Jessica with their daughter Hailey decide to live with Todd's sister Shea in a old house on Amityville Street. Things start to take a turn for the worst and secrets of the town begin to emerge.

This wasn't the greatest film nor the worst, it does have a slow build up to tense moments, the acting is a bit better but not by much though, there is a added element of a twist involving witchcraft which was a little predictable. The visual effects looks like very badly cheaply done CGI that was poorly executed and laughable but helped to keep me entertained. Don't be fooled by the front cover, the house on the cover isn't the same as the house in the film.

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Is there any continuity between these sequels or could you just watch any of them and it doesn't really matter?

I saw the first one which is pretty good and the 2nd one which a lot of people love but I didn't and I never bothered after that. Some of these sound pretty good though, some sound rubbish!

Which ones would you recommend as worthy of 90 mins?

The Amityville Asylum. 2013.

Lisa begins a new cleaning job in the psychiatric hospital High Hopes in Amityville but the place isn't what it seems top be.

This starts off with the Defeo killings, kudos for that one, and their front garden sign High Hopes which is the name of the hospital, this I thought would have potential...I was so very wrong, not the best cinematography, the acting was very dry and wooden that i thought something was wrong as when the actors talked it was at a snail pace like trying to set up tense moments that never happened, out of most of these films were made in America/Canada this one was made in England, surely us Brits can make a decent film with the title.

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Amityville II does look at the Defeo family only names have changed, Amityville III is more proper sequel as it looks at the sceptics of the Lutz story, 4th movie along with It's about time and New Generation are from Short stories about house hold objects that are cursed, It's About Time was really good, I have never actually done all the films back to back. The first three films are worth 90 minutes, third is on youtube if you don't have it along with Amityville Curse, I had to get the rest on Amazon Prime. I was looking forward to the remake due to the cast but didn't really enjoy it. If you do watch them Justin hope you enjoy them.

Cursed and Dollhouse are the weaker installments, Amityville Haunting, Playhouse, Terror and Asylum are more cash in movies with the title

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Xtro doesn't need any introduction I'm sure - 1st time watching, and was impressed with the special effects, the story itself it's ok - and it's always nice to see Maryam d'Abo on the screen :pound:

Ach, you'll grow to love it G :nod: