I was reading an article about Edgar Wright and Return of the Living Dead that made me think of this discussion. When creating Shaun of the Dead, Wright and Simon looked at the template of An American Werewolf in London and decided that, like in John Landis's film, "The threat is real. But we happen to be following two characters who are funny.”.

The whole piece is worth a read.
https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/41...e-living-dead/

I’ve made a preliminary pile of things, I’ll be streaming on Shudder as well!

The Lost Boys will be the 4k but it’s not arrived yet, I’ll also be watching Poltergeist and Scream 2 in 4k from my digital library.

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Not long to go now!!

I have my 30 unseen list done and may I say the vast majority look quite questionable :lol:

Good looking list there Justin. I need to try and figure out what I be watching this year.

Excellent pile of films there, Justin. Are they all new to you Blu's or have you watched some of them before?

Around half of them will be first time watches for me. No doubt I’ll be adding some more if there are some Halloween sales coming up :)

I've had the 'new to me' Blu-rays and dvd's in a pile a while so i'm not tempted to watch one. So here they are.

The only films i've actually never seen before are The Werewolf, Frankenstein the True Story and Blood Bath so i might have a browse early next month to see if there's anything else.

I'll also be watching the usual Halloween related movies that i tend to go through such as House of 1000 Corpses, Trick r' Treat etc and of course the actual Halloween films themselves. No doubt some classic Hammer as well.

I should add that Frankenstein the True Story was also in last years to watch Halloween pile. :o

That’s an excellent set of films to pick from! We’re all going to be having a whale of time while Nordy is watching the dregs of the internet and thinking about his life choices lol.

Forgot about Trick r Treat, that’s one of my more recent traditions as it took me a few viewings to love it but now it’s a firm favourite. That’ll be Halloween night with H4.

Which if i do i'd probably end up putting them in my Decemberdike drawer instead seeing as they are all 'new to me' films.

October and Halloween is more comfort viewing than discovering new stuff for me.

Edit - I'd forgotten i'd got that Arrow Gothic horror box set preordered. Some of those i've never seen before. Nice!

Thank you.

I might try and get Quatermass and the Pit watched at the end of September and pretend it's sci-fi not horror...which it probably is actually.

Haha! Poor Nordy. :whip:

Where on earth did you get that Halloween 4 from. That's long deleted.

I've had it for 10 years! Bought it the day it came out with H5 in HMV probably 5 for £30, you remember, the good old days :lol:

Is that The Werewolf from the Sam Katzman set Dem? I really enjoyed that one if so, my favourite of the set by some way.

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It is yes. I've seen all the others and enjoyed them. Particularly The Giant Claw. I adored that.

Great movies out there guys!

Looking forward for all the comments :rockon:

Due to unforseen circumstances that are out of my control this list may change but so far I have put down

Friday the 13th films
Halloween films
28 Days Later/28 Weeks Later
Ogre
Dog Soldiers
Castle Freak
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre films
Macabre
Cannibal Apocalypse
The Mummy (not sure which version yet)
Daughter Of Darkness
Graveyard Shift

Is this the one with John Schneider?

Don't expect much. It's shite.

Seen it a couple of times. :o :lol:

Yeah it is and have seen it before on Horror Channel, I know it's not great but not terrible either.

You saying it's shite yet you have watched it a couple of times...admit it Dem, it's a guilty pleasure for you :lol: :behindsofa:

I imported it on dvd from the States back in the day. :lol:

Brilliant film. Really shouldn't work but it was a blast.

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At the moment these but could change

Hammer Frankenstein films
Hammer Dracula Films
Interview with a vampire
The mist
The fog
The thing
Prince of darkness
Halloween 3-5
Last night in Soho
Mad God
The frighteners
Howling
Quiet place 1&2
Lost boys
No body sleeps tonight
Shining
Doctor sleep
Pet cemetery
Along with ghosts
Child's play
Demon's
Let me in
Sleepy hollow
Spooky warfare
100 monsters
Storm of the century
The evil
Night stalker/strangler
New hellraiser

Considering Halloween is a Monday the list will shorter this year of favourites with working all day I don't have much time to play around with hopefully I'll get underway around 6 until 1am it's not a lot of time for a marathon stupid non weekend Halloween and stupid work :lol:.

Do what I do Nordi, book a week off for Halloween if you can

Sadly can't book holidays that late in the year :lol:

Aww that's a bit shite, let me be your union representative :lol: technically as a film buff that we all are October is a sacred holiday for us and should be allowed to have a at least few days off to celebrate it, I can always say your a Wiccan and certain days need to be off to honor it :lol:

This is probably a mistake and I’m clearly a masochist but I’m adding this ‘gem’ to my pile.

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Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter. 1974.

A former soldier and master swordsman and his hunchback assistant travel toa small town to hunt vampires.

One of the few underrated vampire films to come from Hammer, Horst Janson plays the Captain with John Cater as his assistant and Caroline Munro as their new companion who they freed from the stocks. This is a bit different from other vampire movies as nobody is bitten on the neck and turned but more drained of their youth but there is a decent sword fight in the finale and slight twist as to who the family really belong to.

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Castle Freak. 1995.

A troubled couple and their blind daughter inherit a castle in Italy unaware of the family secret that still resides within the castle.

Director Stuart Gordon returns with another Lovecraft short story The Outsider and with writer Dennis Paoli are able to make it a full length feature film that for me is very underrated.

Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton play the not so happy couple with blind daughter Jessica Dollarhide who have recently inherited a castle which was owned by the President Of Full Moon Pictures, kudos to him for allowing a film to be made there.

Gordon's direction is great and able to keep pace with the Gothic atmosphere within the castle and give us all the gore we want. Is it a trade in Italy for women to have their boobs bitten off? The bumps round the nipples is braille for suck me not bite me, unless they are into that but Raffaella Offidani didn't appreciate it. Jonathan Fuller place the unwanted house guest Giorgio and was able to pull off a creepy persona even under all the make-up he went through.

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Daughter Of Darkness. 1990.

An American girl travels to Romania to search for her father, only to get entangled with mystery and vampires.

Second Stuart Gordon movie and this was a made for TV movie with Mia Sara playing Kathy Thatcher who is searching for her father who disappeared 20 years earlier and meets Anthony Perkins who tells her that the man she is looking for is dead. Perkins plays a Romanian but surely his accent could have been done better but still has a strong on screen presence.

There is a good dark tone sinister atmosphere in this that blends in with the country, at times the acting may be a bit wooden from Robert Reynolds and Erika Bodnar, the effects for the "fangs" if you can call them that are decently done (the tongue opens up) but only seen once up close and at times seems a bit rushed but still entertaining.

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Demon Witch Child. 1975.

A young girl becomes possessed by a witch, who wants to use her body for revenge.

Thanks to Treb for helping us find another Exorcist movie rip-off, to be honest this wasn't too bad, a girl being possessed by a witch and not some demonic demon or Satan is something different, a priest being chased against his wishes and being told he is well hung was a bit of a laugh. This was done on a small budget so don't expect any great special effects but i'm pretty sure I saw about strands of string in one certain scene.

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Kicking off my countdown with a dead cert -

TERROR – It might’ve been on TV back when I was in my late teens / early twenties, and I remember thinking quite clearly “I hate this film. It’s f&cking rubbish”, then getting ever so slightly angry. Since then, either it’s grown up or I have – hate has turned to love, the best of reversals. Watching ‘Terror’ these days is like dipping into a treasure trove of minor weirdness. We’re inside a horror film, granted, but we’re also in a world of overly conspicuous Daz packets, of ‘Sham 69’ scrawled in lipstick on a mirror, of intimidating S/M strip routines, of smoke-filled pubs where everyone looks a bit like Michael Winner, of flying cars, of scenes that don’t quite mutate into ones more typical of a ‘Confessions Of…’ movie, of someone who shakes their hair like they’re trying to dry it off after they’ve been caught in a downpour only they’re in the process of being stabbed to death… this avalanche of dowdy Britishness is gilded with cribs from none other than Argento – you can see it in flashes of kindergarten lighting and in bits like the one where someone lets a load of blood rain down on them (a variation on the maggot ceiling from ‘Suspiria’). The effect is baffling. There are at least two instances of long, winding build-ups to fake scares, and it’s quite telling that these don’t irritate the way they would in a straighter film – ‘Terror’ is really 100% goofball in attitude, if not always in demeanour. There is a radical disconnect at its heart. Scenes float together and make approximate sense, but the whole thing feels derailed. Maybe the wobbly conceit about a family curse pulls it all together somehow, but there’s plenty of random senselessness leaking out at the sides. Anyway, I could go on, but much to your relief I won’t. Let me end by stating the obvious – NJW, we love you!

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The Crazies (2010)

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The modern remake of Romero's political 70's horror about biological weapons. This new version diverts a bit from the original story, pretty much only keeping the premise of the water being being polluted by 'codename Trixie'. There are some fabulously tense set pieces including one involving an automatic car wash. A good start to the marathon, £1.50 in CEX well spent!

30 days of unseen horror

Day 1

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After his wife is murdered Adam Chaplin sells his soul to a demon to help him avenge his wifes death. He his granted superhuman strength to accomplish his goal.

This film is absolutely ridiculous everyone single person apart from Adams wife is disfigured in some horrific way. This is just a gore splatter fest really the acting means nothing the story means nothing the way it's shot means nothing you only come for the over the top gore and that's it. The whole thing is just CGI but it's still a fun watch with just how crazy it all is. The dialogue when there is any just drags on and on and I just couldn't wait for the next feast of ripped of limbs and smashed open heads :lol:

It's a fun watch but once you have seen it you have seen it no need to go back.

Good start to the month

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October 1st - The wee small hours.
 

Halloween Resurrection (2002)

Despite it's many flaws i had a really good time watching this just after midnight last night. The opening fifteen minutes don't disgrace the series whatsoever and actually provide a nice shock in dispatching Laurie Strode once and for all.

I still love the homage to Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) when Michael picks up a movie camera on a tripod and we get the same first person camera work as the 1960 classic as Michael moves in on his prey before plunging the tripod through the victim's throat. It's nicely done and quite clever as it harks back to the earliest slasher from a first person viewpoint before we head into a more modern take on the idea with online reality shows.

Maniac. 2012.

Frank who owns a mannequin store meets a young artist and helps her with her new up and coming exhibition unaware of Frank's deadly obssession.

The 80s a follow up to the slasher genre and able to get away with a bit more blood and gore on the screen till a activist stepped in. the original gave us a typical mild mannered man Joe Spinelli and Bill Lustig gave us a great serial killer.

Director Franck Khalfoun gave us a remake with Elijah Wood in the lead role, I was hesitant due to the fact that Mr Frodo was in a teen horror Sci-Fi The Faculty but can he pull off being a stalker and serial killer...Yes he bloody can do. Did Elijah and the director watch the original and think "what they did there, we can do better"? The way this is done with the cinematography is brilliant when we hear Frank talk to his victims it can be like P.O.V. then changes to a still cam. It can be uncomfortable to watch but you still can't look away. Robin Coudert (Rob) provides a brilliant score that goes well with the film's tone.

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Up Next Friday The 13th

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Hammer House of Horror: Witching Time (1980)

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My debut watch of this classic horror TV series from the early 80s on the rather great looking bluray from Network.

David, a film composer on the brink of a nervous breakdown finds a semi naked Patricia Quinn in his barn, she claims to be a witch from the 1600's called Lucinda and so begins the tormenting of poor David, only no-one believes him, at first...

Also starring a rather dashing Ian McCulloch as Charles the village doctor who just happens to be bedding David's wife Mary.

A nice blend of psychological and supernatural horror and some very unhinged acting. I enjoyed this one and intend to watch the rest of the episodes throughout October. :pop2:

The soundtrack is amazing, I have the record pressed on a very disgusting flesh and blood coloured vinyl :D

Friday The 13th. 1980.

With a re-opening of a summer camp that has bad luck in the past with a boy drowning, two counselors being killed , the new camp counselors are being targeted by a unknown killer.

The first in the franchise and i'm sure we all know the story and who the killer is if not...spoiler alert...Betsy Palmer seems like the nice old lady that lives on the street but has a nasty killer instinct. Sean S. Cunningham really knew how to make a dark atmospheric horror, the campfire story and someone jumping out may have inspired the team to do the same in The Burning which Tom Savini worked on in both films and the kills were nicely done in this.

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Up Next Halloween III.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNb-8UQpgXI


This popped up on my YouTube feed having never heard of it , thought I would give it a go, the most well know person in this is Steven Railsback here he plays a cop who takes his partner to a hospital after a shoot out which turns out not to be a great idea when a old man in comes into the hospital while being treated a large maggot comes out his throat and the man dies, things only start getting worse when people are infected and a huge mantis type creature starts infecting and biting the heads of people in the hospital , Railsback teams up with a female doctor and scientist to stop the beast before the military bomb the hospital.


While nothing brilliant it was fast paced and enjoyable with some good gore and kills, but don't know why it's called blue monkey as no monkeys , blue or other wise in the film.


Now watching Stephen King's other vampire movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eRH4obQa3A


Will probably watch the first part of storm of the century which is probably one of my favourite King mini series.