October Horror Movie Marathon

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bleakshaun

Its a terrible film​ that's so good, kinda like the room, look up the trailer

That could be the most hilariously awful film ever made.

[bleakshaun]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

That could be the most hilariously awful film ever made.

Or at least right up there

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[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

That could be the most hilariously awful film ever made.

It looks so bad it good way I want to see it now!!

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

October 7th

Count Dracula (1977)

This BBC adaptation is the perfect remedy to yesterday's tepid Dan Curtis production.

The casting is uniformly excellent. Frank Finlay is perhaps the definitive Van Helsing and Louis Jourdan perhaps surprisingly has just the right amounts of menace and dark sensuality to portray the Count and most interestingly, he feels right in the role without even the slightest bit of camp in his performance. One defining moment is his seduction of Lucy. As he's biting her and she's clearly in orgasm, you can see the blood mixed with spittle on his mouth and her neck and it all looks a little bit too realistic. The other stand out is Jack Shepard as Renfield who peels back the histrionics and portrays the character with sympathy as a tortured soul in some cracking scenes with Seward. Judy Bowker as Mina, and Susan Penhaligan as Lucy are also delightfully played.

Part filmed at Whitby, this tv version is beautifully atmospheric and features some genuinely chilling sequences - Van Helsing fighting off the vampire brides whilst trying to protect Mina, borders on the terrifying and there are several other unsettling scenes throughout which i won't spoil for anyone wishing to give this a go. The sets and settings feel just right too, from the creepiness of Castle Dracula to the windswept graveyards of Whitby.

As far as the story goes this is i feel the most faithful to Bram Stoker's novel and all the better for it. At two and a half hours it's long, but i thought it flew by - the opening hour felt like 20 minutes - and the more i think back about the production the more i feel just like with the tv version of Frankenstein (2004) - starring Luke Goss - that this may be the best Dracula to date.

Sold as feck. I also have the Luke Goss starring Frankenstein that I've had on the to watch pile for ages. If this twat of a month allows we'll see.

[Rik]

Following my earlier post about watching it when I was 12, I checked when they last showed it on the BBC and it was April 1993 (in two parts over 2 nights), which would’ve meant I was 13, but strangely the BBC website says they didn’t show it in Yorkshire, despite me still having a VHS with it taped on


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[Nordicdusk]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

Hasn't someone labelled this and few other recent films as post horror?

Thats a new one for me.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Rik

Following my earlier post about watching it when I was 12, I checked when they last showed it on the BBC and it was April 1993 (in two parts over 2 nights), which would’ve meant I was 13, but strangely the BBC website says they didn’t show it in Yorkshire, despite me still having a VHS with it taped on


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You're travelling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind....

[Nordicdusk]

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I have no idea what the point of this film is how does it fit in with the Texas Chainsaw lore. The first scene it a normal enough looking birthday party of a normal looking kid then we realise his family is a little crazy and they have a hostage. Then the kid is given a chainsaw for his birthday SAAAAAAAAY WHAT. The kid is taken and sent to a mental institute after his brothers kill the sheriff's daughter we then skip ten years later and see him as an adult and his escape with a few other patients and a nurse as hostage on a journey to find all their real families. If this was a film all of its own not connected to Texas Chainsaw then it would of been more enjoyable but its hard to disassociate it from the franchise which is only going to harm the film because there is no tie in what so ever.

Decent film but should've been called three nutters go mad in Dorset or something else .

With the title Leatherface
3/10

As a standalone film

6/10

I hope you understand how i scored this and why. Its hard to recommend it unless you can forget whats its supposed to be an origins story of which i found impossible to do.

[Rik]

I watched it the other day and couldn’t decide if I liked it or not, but after reading your review it makes sense now, as a TCM film no, as a stand-alone film yes

It’s definitely better than the shower of shite TCM: The Next Generation, which I’ve watched way too many times than it deserves


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[trebor8273]

Taking place 8 years after the first, Mike is released from a mental hospital where he has spent those 8 years, it's not long until him and Reggie(who's entire film are killed by the tall man) are on the hunt for him, for me probably the lesser film of the series as it's very straight forward and logical unlike the others , the actor playing Micheal is pretty poor but luckily Micheal Baldwin was back for the others and they didn't replace Reggie Bannister or Angus. We have a very nice kill of the tall man . 7/10

Now watching dellamorte dellamore