October Horror Movie Marathon

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nordicdusk

I cant wait to get to fat pinhead

Just wait until you get to the Stygian Inquisition in Hellraiser: Judgment. They were terrific. The Inquisition's auditor is a fantastic creation.

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

But you said above they were all shit.

It only gets worse from here on in Nordy, much worse

They ARE all worse than Bloodline, but I still enjoyed all of them, just setting the expectations haha most of them are barely a Hellraiser film, rather a cheaply bought script with a Cenobite or two thrown in for good measure.

[MrBarlow]

The Gorgon. 1964.

Another pairing of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee playing opposite doctors but share very little screen time unfortunately but Terrence Fisher does a great job with the eerie Gothic atmosphere. Barbara Shelley plays the simple assistant to Cushing's character and hides the secret from some but i'm sure we all know how it pans out.

The background score provided by James Bernard is quite haunting right from the start and blends in well with the suspenseful moments in and around the castle. Everyone does a great job with the acting, no one over shadows anyone even Patrick Troughton playing the local policeman does a great job when he appears on screen. A very underrated Hammer Horror feature.

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Up next The Mummy 1932 version.

[Demoncrat]

Alapaap (1984, Tata Esteban)

An aspiring writer takes an unusual path toward achieving his goal. Because of the horribly dark print (are they attracted to me? Or worse, do I secretly crave them and emit some pherenome? I digress.), it was sort of hard to tell half the time what was happening tbh. I got the gist that it was unpleasant in part
His bird appears to be working against him and even his doggy has taken the huff. What transpires, blood? Eventually became a hoot, and quite a grotty one at that. One to revisit, if only for scientific reasons.

[MrBarlow]

The Mummy. 1932.

From one Universal monster to another, Boris Karloff knew how to scare people and impress us with his acting and threatening persona of horror character. Make-up artist Jack Pierce done a great job on this and you can tell when it was Karloff or the wooden prop they used for the close ups. Filmed in black and white this gives the movie the atmosphere and suspense it needs with great direction and cinematography.

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Up next The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

[MrBarlow]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2. 1986.

A radio host becomes a victim to the cannibalistic family while a former Texas Ranger hunts them down.

Tobe Hooper brings us a sequel from his original film and this is one that's definitely not to be taken seriously with some of the black comedy from Bill Moseley's Chop Chop Character, Jim Siedow returns as the head of the family and now in the BBQ Chill business you can guess what meat he uses. Bill Johnson plays Leatherface in this and shows a lighter side to the character very much differently from the original. Caroline Williams plays the radio host who is used as a pawn by Dennis Hopper who is out for revenge.

Tom Savini provides the make up for the film and does a decent job with Lou Perryman and his demise to the family, even though this was released by Cannon this is still entertaining and a decent sequel.

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Up next Sleepaway Camp

[MacBlayne]

CHILD'S PLAY 3

“Don’t f*ck with the Chuck!”

Child’s Play 3 was released a mere nine months after Child’s Play 2. Sadly, it shows.

The film plods along at a snail’s pace. The military school setting had the potential for creative set-pieces, but it is squandered. You could have switched it to a regular high school, or a summer camp, and it wouldn’t have made any difference. It climaxes in a generic carnival anyways (that takes place in the middle of a FOREST!). The acting is pretty mediocre, with only Andrew Robinson delighting in his role as a demented military barber. Why he wasn’t cast as the uptight colonel that tries to run a tight ship while Chucky causes chaos is something known only to the director and the casting agent. Imagine: We could have had Chucky meets Police Academy.

This is the dog of the series, but it’s not the shitshow I remember it being. Brad Dourif’s Chucky is still a hilarious delight. The special effects are still impressive. Chucky surprising the colonel was funny twist. The opening sequence with Peter Haskell as the dick-headed boss is superb, and has some very cynical opinions about commercialisation (almost if Don Mancini is critiquing his own film). And although I did dismiss the carnival setting, Chucky chasing his targets with a gun was great fun.

There’s very little to say about Child’s Play 3. It never reaches the creative heights of its predecessors or follow-ups, but it’s never so bad that you can point at something and say that’s why it fails. It’s a limp, mediocre effort that shows that its team needed a lot more time than nine months.

[MrBarlow]

Sleepaway Camp. 1983.

After Friday The 13th other film producers definitely jumped on the band wagon for summer camp massacre movies and tried to up the wager on different killings and shocking endings, but this one probably shocked a few people when it was released.

A few people can't really act in this including Desiree Gould who plays the loving Aunt but really not so loving on how she treated Angela played by Felissa Rose who plays the shy quiet traumatized lead. Did Paul DeAngelo think he was gonna be in a porn flick or something wearing tight shorts and almost pitching a tent, If i'm guessing right he is standing next to a minor in the film?

The kills are done mostly off screen but we see the after effects, a girl has a hot poker inserted into her so she definitely got something hot in her, the cook...well he truly got karma for what he tried to do. The make-up effects are done decently and look realistic especially with the scenario of the bee stings. This does look like a low budget film yet writer/director Robert Hiltzik managed to go with what he could and make it decent enough to watch.

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Will try to watch Tales From The Darkside: The Movie before my shift ends and post a comment later, have a good Friday

[Frankie Teardrop]

BALLAD IN BLOOD – A guy treads on broken glass, shoves his foot into the camera so we can see it bleed in close-up, then for no apparent reason tells a cat to f*ck off… ‘Ballad In Blood’, I’m on your side already. It’s based on the Kercher case and liberally applies poetic license, not that that dispels the bad taste. But wait, ‘bad taste’ is what ‘Ballad In Blood’ is all about – if there’s any doubt, look at the scene where someone works their way up to orgasm, then climaxes by puking full throttle over their partners tits(!) The rest of ‘Ballad In Blood’ doesn’t quite rise to that kind of glory, but its essence has been laid bare. ‘Ballad In Blood’ is a Ruggero Deodato film, and he’s winking at us all the way. I didn’t think so at first – I thought it was a full-on rush of excruciating drivel, that the deranged performances were genuine (to be fair, they might be), that the ridiculousness of sections that seemed culled from a terrible stage play full of bad comedy was sincere. But then I remembered that the director is a bit of a provocateur and likes to make a point; here he partially proves it by way of his very many sly references to other movies, including, of course, his own, as if to remind us all that if this is a ham-fistedly opportunistic plunge into true crime, you’d better believe there’s someone behind that camera, probably someone with a bit of a smirk on their face. The archness grates a little if you take this as anyone other than a cynical, filthy wallow, but I guess that’s just Ruggero having a bit of a joke with us all again. I liked it. It thinks it’s cleverer than it is, but it’s an entertainingly nasty bit of filth if you sever all connection with the recent tragic past. There’s a bit of drag after a while, but OK, comes with the territory. My favourite moment includes a bit of a SPOILER (although it’s really as inconsequential as the rest of the movie), but basically there’s a long set-up involving an hilarious New Romantic biker gang who seem at some point destined to reappear to take their revenge in the form of a dramatic denouement – when they finally arrive the action’s over, nothing’s happening and the only thing still moving is an LP of the soundtrack to ‘House On The Edge Of The Park’! I was pissing myself at that one.

[MrBarlow]

Tales From The Darkside: The Movie. 1990.

A young boy being prepared to be eaten by a witch distracts her with three stories.

Lot 249.
A bullied student at a university receives a crate with a ancient mummy who he brings to live and uses it for revenge.

Cat From Hell.
A old man believes that the stray cat his sisters cared for is responsible for their deaths and hires a hitman to kill the cat.

Lovers Vow.
Preston is a out of work artist is attacked by a winged creature and is promised to never reveal what he saw. 10 years later he is married and has children and decides to reveal to his wife what he saw with tragic consequences.

I saw this back in 1991 when it was aired on T.V. that the next day along with my dad we hunted for it and the shops in Dundee never had it in stock and for years completely forgot about it.

Deborah Harry plays the friendly lady neighbour who hides a dark secret that her demise is a bit of the same as Hansel and Gretel with Mathew Lawrence as her intended main course. Christian Slater and Julianne Moore star in the first segment along with Steve Buscemi as the young student. This is like a take on The Mummy except this one doesn't look for the sacred jars but used for tackling bullies.

William Hickey plays the rich old man who hires David Johansen to kill a ca, yeah mate cats can outsmart us, Stephen King and George A. Romero done a decent job on writing this one especially with the ending and can have it's comical moments.

James Remar and Rae Dawn Chong appear in the final segment and this was actually decently done and probably the best story in the film, the transformation part was done nicely and James Remar seems to be sweating a lot. The acting is not great but not terrible at times especially with the first segment still enjoyable.

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Up next Blood Rage