October Horror Movie Marathon

[MuckyFunster]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

You never seen The Man with the Golden Gun?

Oh aye, I’ve seen that as well! Still, nothing compares to the wicker man. Nothings stuck in my head as much as that.


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[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Justin101

It's Friday the 13th so which Jason film are you watching tonight? Last time it was F13 during the October horror marathon was 2015, I watched the first film back then. Tonight i'm going with F13 3D although I might regret it

*IF* I had access to a television and my DVD collection, my choice for tonight would be 'Freddie Vs. Jason'... but *IF* I had access to a television and my DVD collection, Chloe would probably spend the evening watching 'Police - Stop - Action'

As it is, I do *NOT* have access to a television and my DVD collection, so we will probably spend the evening talking and looking out of the window!

[Mojo]

SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN. ( 1970 )
An athlete wakes up in hospital to see that his limbs are being removed; a fascist like organisation peopled by superhumans seem to be targeting young people for some sort of experiments; and a kind of vampire killer stalks the countryside.
Meanwhile, Peter Cushing appears for a couple of minutes before being killed off and Christopher Lee seems to be in a different film altogether. Vincent Price has the most screen time of the big names here, but even he doesn’t seem to know what’s going on. Does anybody?
It still somehow manages to be an entertaining mishmash and the Radiance release looks excellent.

NIGHT OF THE HUNTED ( 1980 )
A man encounters a young woman ( Brigitte Lahaie ) who has no recollection of her past. It all revolves around an anonymous looking tower block, which houses similar people with amnesia and mental disorder problems, who stagger around said building seemingly not knowing who they are or why they are there.
Jean Rollin strays from his favoured vampire theme in a surreal type of movie that is one of my favourites of his.
Indicator’s 4k edition looks stunning - as does Ms Lahaie, to be fair!

[MrBarlow]

Final Destination 2. 2003.

Set one year after flight 180 crashed, a young girl has a premonition of a pile up on a freeway, as it happens death comes back to claim the people.

Ali Larter returns as the sole survivor who is coerce into helping A.J. Cook on how to survive and cheat death a second time round. The film basically just dives into it, seeing the characters, then the premonition is over and then all of a sudden it all happens. The deaths in this one is a bit gorier than the previous film so nothing is held back. One or two funny comments, intended victim passing his keys over to someone and asking them to clear out his pariphinalia and porn so his mother isnt upset about that. The film does add a twist to this one that everyone who survived has a somewhat connection to the victims in the previous film which is written decently.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Castle of the Living Dead (1964)

When a travelling troupe of performers accept a commission from the mysterious Count Drago (Christopher Lee), and fail to heed the warnings of a local witch (Donald Sutherland), they find themselves trapped in the Castle of the Living Dead. Terror ensues as they are picked off one by one as the Count enacts a diabolical scheme: the perversion of science to achieve immortality.

Castle of the Living Dead will never go down as one of the great films of the classic Gothic era, far from it to be honest. It does however have a lot to commend it. The castle itself is decorated so as not to be your typical run of the mill Gothic mansion. It houses the Counts unique collection of stuffed animals which exudes a different type of atmosphere, even bleaker than usual. and there are always eyes watching you. The stark black and white photography add to this, throwing long shadows over the rooms taxidermy furnishings.

The film boasts many firsts including the screen debut of Donald Sutherland, albeit as a jobbing actor. Here he plays two roles that of a soldier and more prominently as the witch. He even has a conversation with himself at one point. The film was also the first professional film credit for Michael Reeves as assistant director who would go on to make the classic Witchfinder General, and Christopher Lee's first European role as the villainous Count. A role not too dissimilar to his Count Dracula gig with Hammer.

Made in 1964 this looks dated being in black and white in comparison to the lush colours which paint the screen from Hammer and Amicus but as far as todays cult audiences go, how could a film with dwarves, hangings, scythe wielding madmen, odd witches that look like Donald Sutherland and the mighty Christopher Lee himself not be entertaining?

[Frankie Teardrop]

MOTHER, MAY I? – It’s like when someone does an impression so they can tell a gag, only they’re still in character well after the joke’s over, and it’s amusing at first, then a bit irritating, and then it just gets weird, and you walk away. In ‘Mother, May I?’, Emmett (Kyle Gallner) inherits a house from his recently deceased and somewhat acrimoniously estranged mother. He goes there with his girlfriend and starts to sort through (or avoid) his issues with the past, but because it’s all pressuring the relationship, his other half decides she wants to try out some therapy on him. For reasons that become clear later in the film, she’s a bit of an amateur psychoanalyst and believes that plying him with shrooms and deep conversations will unclog his pipes. When it doesn’t, she hits on the idea of pretending to be his dead mother – yep, if you’re thinking that’s kind of bad form, so am I. But she does this weird ‘transference’ type thing, and after a while, when she steadfastly refuses to step out of role, the whole thing gets quite murky – is something supernatural going on, perhaps a possession, or is Emmett being supremely gaslit to nefarious ends? ‘Mother, May I?’ is a classic case of ‘how best to read?’. It plays with mind-gamey thriller tropes whilst shading into spectral gloom; the aesthetics certainly belong to low-key horror of an atmospheric hue, but the thrust is more like an unhinged relationships drama. I wasn’t necessarily awed by the call of the weird, but despite the slightly alienating self-regard displayed by these preening neurotic hipsters, I genuinely wanted to know if and how they were going to figure it all out, and there was suspense in getting there. A nice slow simmer with a high creep factor and recommended if you like films about two tense weirdoes in a house.

[Demoncrat]

Island Of Terror

Scientists eh? Whilst trying to cure cancer is all very good and that, lest ye forget not to create other sorts of dangerous entities.
A motley crew band together to fight off an early kind of biodiversity ahem.
Though set off Ireland, some of it looks awfully familiar, especially to fans of The League Of Gentlemen (the film) ahem.
Lots of fun here as stalwarts fend off what could be laughable tbh, but is handled well by steady hand Terence Fisher.
Shame that sequel never happened ....

[MrBarlow]

Area 407. 2012.

A plane travelling to Los Angeles from New York crashes en route, a band of survivors are being hunted by a unknown predator.

Found footage film that has a annoying 12 year old who doesn't like to be told what to do on a plane by keeping the camera on during take off and meant to be looked after by her older sister. A angry drunk guy who needs more booze, a photo journalist with all the high tech gadgets, a guy who was seperated from his wife in the crash and a air marshall.

This is a take on Jurassic Park in Are 51, we see shadows move, people being dragged into places and sliced open. Then the big finale at the end of what was stalking them and even then its a blink and miss moment. The film is ad-libbed which shows that the actors had to really think on their feet most of the time but this did fall flat slowly.

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(aka Tape 407)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

Halloween Resurrection (2002)

Despite the obvious flaws i have so much love when it comes to these films. I must have, i watch them every single year.

From John Carpenter's iconic and often butchered theme to Michael Myers himself and that brilliant mask that's supposed to look like William Shatner. Really? In what universe does that mask look like Shatner? Patrick Stewart and Kate Mulgrew look more like Shatner than that bloody mask does.

It's all part of the mythos though which i adore. I know these two films are seen as largely crap, Resurrection especially, but i seem to find them endlessly and effortlessly watchable and each and every year as October begins to loom darkly on the horizon i can't wait to get stuck into them all over again. Weird cults and Busta Rhymes be damned! Just bring them on.

[MrBarlow]

Night Of The Eagle. 1962.

A decent well made British black amd white film based on the witchcraft genre, Peter Wyngarde plays a teacher who's wife Janet Blair has been practicing witchcraft and becomes a target for some dark forces.You never really know if what was happening to Norman and Tansy is real or just their imagination but that's exactly what made the movie work so well. It can be a bit of a haywire all over the place film but give it a second viewing and you can get imersed in it that it does make sense.

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