October Horror Movie Marathon

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Justin101

How about this one

Hey Mikey! Happy F***in' Halloween!

More Busta after he's electrocuted 'Mikey' via electrodes on his balls

"Looking a little crispy over there, Mikey. Like some chicken-fried mother****er."

It's all pretty embarrassing isn't it!

[Justin101]

I didn't hate it though, that's the weird thing, it was crappy but I still watched it all Some good bits hidden within the rubbish. I enjoyed the head-crushing, Michael's been watching Jason in his weird basement bedroom

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

However there is this one in the pre-credits sequence as Myers holding a bloody knife approaches an asylum inmate dressed as Gacy (the inmate, not Myers) and the serial killer obsessed loon says in awe

"Michael Myers. Born October 19th, 1957. Killed his older sister, October 31st, 1963. Killed three high school students, October 31st, 1978. Also killed three nurses and a paramedic, same night....Was believed to be dead, then killed four students, Hillcrest Academy, 1998. Has been missing, unheard of, last three years. Now he's back."

Film goes into title sequence mode with classic Carpenter theme.

It does go downhill from here onwards i admit.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Well, I watched a "horror" themed episode of Runaround on YT. Hawtrey pops up as "Dracula". A programme of its time hahaha.

I mentioned this a few months ago elsewhere on the forum!

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

A rather inebriated Charles Hawtrey as a special guest on the 1976 Halloween edition of the children's quiz / game show 'Runaround'?

[Inspector Abberline]

Oktoberfest........

The Thing with Two Heads (1972)
Its quite amazing,it does not matter how ludicrous or preposterous a story might be,and let's be honest it does not get more ridiculous than a bigoted scientist who has a terminal illness,having a head transplant with a colored chap off of death row...And yet Ray Milland never phones in a performance, it does not matter if he is fighting frogs or looking through peoples clothes or feeding a two headed gorilla banana's... The Thing With Two Heads,is just a fun and bonkers flick,with I have to say has some great effects, I almost believed they severed Ray Millands head.....

Psycho.(1998)
I was amazed that someone had the audacity to remake Alfred Hitchcock's classic film, (although it isn't much of a surprise since its been ripped off and cloned ever since it was first released) even if they we're being as faithful and meticulous as possible, (although there is an argument,that what's the point of remaking something exactly when you could watch the original). Any way a lot of time has passed since my initial viewing of the Psycho remake,and while it cannot hold a candle to the original, it does how ever have a lot going for it,and that has something to do with the casting of Vince Vaughan as Norman Bates,which was one of the more controversial things people criticize the film for initially...

Dracula 2000 (2000)
Oh dear I should of listened to my instincts and stayed well clear of this piece of celluloid nonsense,of another retelling of the vampire legend...Gerard Butler is extremely miscast in the role of Dracula,although this was done well before he became a 2nd tier action hero,his gurning features and wooden acting was enough to want to drive a stake through my own heart...

The Mangler. (1995)
Well the lunacy continues with Tone Hooper's industrial killer folding bed sheet machine,there cannot be many horror movies set in a massive laundry...Robert England is the owner of an industril commercial laundry operation, for some reason he's in really heavy old age make-up and spouting an accent that is even more bizarre than the plot of this movie...Yet I always find something to like about Tobe Hoopers post TCM movies, I mean wants not to like a bout an old lady chewing machine,and a killer fridge..Although Health and Safety would have a field day,no Hi viz jackets to be seen,not even an eye drop station or first aid box any where, truly criminal...

The Cars That Ate Paris..(1974)
Peter Weir's car obsessed Australia is no where near as fun a place as say Mad Max 2 adventure land...Here we have a country going through a depression, with high unemployment and poverty spreading through the rural community...(now why does that sound familiar)..Two brothers are driving through the countryside looking for work,until there ran of the road by what looks like another cars headlights...The townsfolk who at first seem extremely helpful to the surviving brother have some rather extreme ulterior motives for keeping him in there midst...Cars That Ate Paris is classic piece of 1970s Aussie cinema,its a bleak and quite depressing at times look at what people will do when there backs against the wall...It shares the same sort of feel of Dead and Buried,with its rural community with it's shared secret...Its has a very oppressive atmosphere and just this weird off kilter feel....also who does'nt like cars covered in spikes...

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Hellions (2015)

A young woman sits at home on Halloween night when trick or treaters knock at the door...

Okay tell me if you've seen this one before. For twenty minutes i certainly had. Creepy kid trick or treaters stood silently on the doorstep, looking uncannily like Sam from Trick 'r Treat (2007), then a few minutes later 'Sam' knocks again this time with a couple of 'friends' one of them clutching a bag of sweets and the severed head of the girls boyfriend.

Then the shit really hits the fan as the film veered into territory i'd never imagined. Directed by Bruce McDonald who made the inventive Pontypool (2008), Hellions degenerates into some sort of hellish fever dream. The colour scheme becomes an abstract landscape of pink veering off into purples and off kilter yellows. The plot which to begin with was simplicity in itself becomes some sort of deranged surreal mindf*ck. I would say Lynchian but even he doesn't go this far into metaphysical weirdness.

The imagery on show is startling, from fields of burning pumpkins bathed in a pink hue to unborn Lovecratian infants being sliced out of stomachs, anyone expecting some sort of Halloween comfort zone won't find it here and it's driven along by a pulsing soundtrack that would have Reznor scratching his head, and it all works wonderfully.

Hellions is a film so far out of the ordinary it has to be seen, it's an imaginative, psychedelic and unsettling experience the likes of which i was not expecting.

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

For a fun, gimmick movie House on Haunted Hill certainly has plenty of chills and a great ghostly atmosphere with Vincent Price and Carol Ohmart on top form.

William Castle's best film boasting one of the great movie posters to promote it.

[Justin101]

The Changeling (1980)



The first legitimately scary film of the season so far. George C Scott on his top form as usual, although a little more subdued (at least until the end) than usual.

There is a seance scene in this film that really creeped me out, it was really well done, it even managed to get in a jump scare that I could tell was coming but I still jumped a little.

There were a few beats that are very well known if you're a film fan that I wish I could have erased from my knowledge before watching the film, such as the ball bouncing down the stairs for the second time, and the child's wheelchair but they still really effective.

I've had this bluray in my collection for over 2 years unwatched so I'm really glad that my theme for Halloween this year is catching up on my watch list, it's been really fun so far!

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Nordicdusk

I have never seen this but Christ Alive it sound horrendous that Busta Rhymes quote fooooooook me.

The comm is a prime case of director-with-his-heid-up-his-own-arse-ness btw

[Frankie Teardrop]

PLEDGE NIGHT – I don’t know why, but I really liked ‘Pledge Night’. It has that ‘not quite a film’ quality about it. I guess it comes down to watching celluloid roll by and thinking, even if there’s a modicum of technical competence up there on the screen, that there’s just SOMETHING amiss. It’s hard to say what. This is the kind of thing that drove Philip K Dick mad; I think he might have enjoyed ‘Pledge Night’. You can tell it was by people who sort of knew how to make a ‘legit’ film, or thought they did. As a result, it has that stilted air of unreality that you get with some ‘bad’ flicks. It’s a late slasher about a frat house hazing back in the sixties that went wrong and bequeathed the world of horror an additional acid-burned Freddie-esque serial killer. You wouldn’t necessarily guess that till halfway through, cos up to that point it’s mostly just about awful college boys humiliating other awful college boys. When the kills start, it all hitches up a gear, but not all that much. It could’ve all been a bit boring, but for me it was a strangely alluring piece of plastic macabre. There are all sorts of weird incongruities, like the killer starting out as a hysteric with an annoying laugh before undergoing a stomach-busting rebirth. There’s also a room that’s so atmospherically lit that it looks like it was nicked from an MTV soft metal video by moonlight, only it seems utterly out of place with the film’s ‘style’. I have no idea why things like that appeal to me, but they do. Oh yeah, Joey Belladonna is in there for a little bit.

[Nordicdusk]

Originally Posted by Justin101

The Changeling (1980)



The first legitimately scary film of the season so far. George C Scott on his top form as usual, although a little more subdued (at least until the end) than usual.

There is a seance scene in this film that really creeped me out, it was really well done, it even managed to get in a jump scare that I could tell was coming but I still jumped a little.

There were a few beats that are very well known if you're a film fan that I wish I could have erased from my knowledge before watching the film, such as the ball bouncing down the stairs for the second time, and the child's wheelchair but they still really effective.

I've had this bluray in my collection for over 2 years unwatched so I'm really glad that my theme for Halloween this year is catching up on my watch list, it's been really fun so far!

Absolutely love this film.