October Horror Movie Marathon

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nordicdusk

Haven't had a chance to do any pumkins yet we decorated the outside of the house but we are holding off on the big stuff until Halloween day because we live on a main road and being that it's our first year I'm not sure if the stuff will get robbed or not so I didn't want to chance it while we are in work in the days.

Take pics won't you. Actually decorating the outside of the house sounds impressive.

[Nordicdusk]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Take pics won't you. Actually decorating the outside of the house sounds impressive.

Its nothing crazy might look better when we have all the big bits out or it might look like a ghetto ghost Train

[MrBarlow]

Slave Of The Cannibal God. 1978.

Sergio Martino's entry into the cannibal genre with Ursula Andres as a concerned wife who's husband disappeared in New Guinea, along with her brother Antonio Marsena and guide Stacey Keach trek the area and run into Claudio Cassinelli and venture towards the mountain of the cannibal god, but this one does have a twist to it. Plenty of great scenery shots, Andres getting her kit off a few times, kills, gore, animal slaughter and a guy humping a boar....made a great Sunday afternoon viewing questionable.

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[Demoncrat]

J.D.'s Revenge (1976, Arthur Marks)

Something a little different then ...
Glynn Turman (Gremlins) stars as a mild mannered sort who is possessed by the restless spirit of a pimp who is set on uncovering the the real reasons behind his demise.
Had fun with this one, and since it was on the list for long enough, this makes for a happy demon. Rewatch sooner rather than later methinks ...

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Ninth Gate (1999)

I love The Ninth Gate. I find it totally engrossing and for me it's director Roman Polanski's masterpiece

It's a film that is superbly paced, the viewer is drawn in and gripped from the opening seconds and Polanski never lets go throughout all 133 minutes of it's run time. The music by Wojciech Kilar is a beautiful accompaniment (although not as bombastic as his arrangements for Coppolla's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)) as is the cinematography and indeed all the technical aspects, not to mention a terrific cast in Johnny Depp who gives a subtle and refined starring performance, Frank Langella, Emmanuelle Seigner and the seductive Lena Olin.Not to forget lovely support from Barbara Jefford of The Vampire lovers and Jack Taylor who lit up many a horror film in the late sixties and seventies.

The story about a rare book dealer (Depp) who is employed for a lot of money by a billionaire collector (Frank Langella) to authenticate his copy of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, a book that was written in 1666 by the pen of Lucifer himself, and there are only three copies in existence. The quest takes Depp from New York to Portugal and on to Paris as he uncovers more disturbing secrets about the book

It might help that i love books and i also love Occult movies and The Ninth Gate uses both ideas to make a wonderful psychological horror film. In fact Polanski's use of the Devil is ingenious. The film becomes creepier and more chilling as the secrets of the book and it's connections to the Devil unfold. Polanski gets the film under your skin in a way modern horror never really comes close to.

It's a film that oozes class, an adult film with a rich air of sophistication. It feels expensive and slightly decadent and probably has the aroma of a fine single malt - Or was that just me?

The Ninth Gate probably gets classed as one of both Roman Polanski and Johnny Depp's less heralded films but to me both are at the very top of their game and The Ninth Gate is outstanding

[Frankie Teardrop]

TWISTED NIGHTMARE – Another old slasher that passed me by. I’m glad I caught it. ‘Twisted Nightmare’ contains mysterious invitations, a party in the woods, an old barn that might be haunted, lots of fog, an enigmatic caretaker, random sloooowwww motion, a burned killer, manifestations of the supernatural that seem to occur for no stated reason and don’t really go anywhere, a sea of perms countered by an angry man with a mullet and moustache, groovy kills but only in the dark ET CETERA. It boasts a near perfect combination of transcendental idiocy and hypnotic synth music. Nineteen eighty-two all the way in attitude and looks, and possibly the spiritual twin of ‘Scream’ (you know which one!)

CURSE 2: THE BITE – J Eddie Pack is a man with a snake bite problem that turns into a mutant snake arm problem after MASH guy Jamie Farr accidentally injects him with the ‘wrong’ antivenom(!) I mean, I know it’s a movie, but that kind of thing just doesn’t happen, does it? Your arm turning into a homicidal snake head just because you got the wrong injection. Come on. Anyway, ‘Curse 2: The Bite’, at heart a road trip with long suffering Jill Schoelen, is a stultifying / giddying melange of highways, bar fights, snake arm jaw ripping and a really strange, protracted ‘climax’ of utterly gross special effects. It’s my kind of thing, full of odd moments. The enticing randomness is backed by that instantly comforting late eighties / early nineties look of fake gloss and a soundtrack full of silky sax. It doesn’t surprise me at all to learn that it was directed by the bother of Franco Prosperi. I think it’s for the best that it has no real connection with either of the other ‘Curse’ movies.

PSYCHO GIRLS – I love how the excavation of ultra obscure eighties trash still hasn’t run out of juice. I like to think that there will always be an untapped seam of mindbenders like ‘Psycho Girls’ ready to surface whenever things start feeling a little ‘Scream 5’, but it’s probably just a dream. OK, ‘Psycho Girls’ isn’t very good, but it might be your thing if you like random concoctions of hardboiled narration, cooks who pose as femme fatales and relate well to rat poison, scenes of ridiculous sweat-licking sex and actual weightlifting, and midsections where weak pre-torture porn is spliced with what feels like bad performance art. ‘Psycho Girls’ is a very mixed bag, but stick your hand in anyway, there are jewels mixed in with all that gross steak tartar.

[Nordicdusk]

30 Days of Unseen Horror

Day 27

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Two brothers posing as paramedics answer 911 calls and kidnap their victims to harvest their organs for resale. Until one day they kidnap the wrong lady.

This is one of those occasions where I'm angry after watching a film. There was some really good looking make up and gore but there wasn't enough of it and the rest of the film was just terrible. The acting is rage inducing and its not even just the bad acting everyone is acting so cocky and rediculous giving the situation there are in there is no fear just cocky stupidity. The way things turn around at the end my god just painful.

[Justin101]

The almost final round-up. I'm glad there are only 2 nights left I'm dying to watch something not related to horror on Wednesday

Tues 24th Oct
Isle of the Dead (1945)

Honestly so boring, if Boris Karloff wasn't in this I doubt anyone would be talking about it any more. He was good though, charismatic as always!

Wed 25th Oct
Hellraiser (1987)

Clive Barker's S&M classic. What's to be said that hasn't already been said. Great performances all around, Clare Higgins steals the show as the vile Julia, that first swing of the hammer...

Thu 26th Oct
The Hollow (2004)

I want my 90 minutes back please. One of those early shot on digital films that makes everything look cheap, like a cable TV show This has it's fans, one of them resides in this forum... and I can see it might have some charm but I honestly hated it. Not a new Halloween staple!

Fri 27th Oct
The House by the Cemetery (1981)

Take a shot of J&B every time someone says Bob, you'll be pissed in no time.

Sat 28th Oct
Shaun of the Dead (2004)

"You've got red on you"
I love this film. It's hilarious on one hand and a brilliant homage to Dawn of the Dead on the other. The scene where Shaun goes to the corner shop for a can of coke and a cornetto without noticing the walking dead all around him cracks me up. Great use of a jukebox soundtrack as well!

Sat 28th Oct
Psycho III (1986)

I anticipated this one to be a bit crappy, but it's very entertaining indeed, "watch the guitar!". It's way more lurid and sleazy than Psycho II and has a proper mid 80's horror film vibe. I'll be watching this one again. Poor Norman.

Sun 29th Oct
Gothic (1986)

I joked and said I didn't know I had a fever until I started watching this film... It starts off relatively bonkers anyway, this is a Ken Russell film after all, but the next thing we know they're chugging down liquid opium and playing hide and seek and insanity goes through the roof. I can't help feeling that morning after must have been something else

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Justin101

Thu 26th Oct
The Hollow (2004)

I want my 90 minutes back please. One of those early shot on digital films that makes everything look cheap, like a cable TV show This has it's fans, one of them resides in this forum... and I can see it might have some charm but I honestly hated it. Not a new Halloween staple!

It was a made for cable tv movie.

I'm currently receiving strong medication after reading your thoughts on Isle of the Dead.

I guess it was something similar to me turning off The Black Pit of Dr. M. - Simply not in the mood for it.

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

It was a made for cable tv movie.

I'm currently receiving strong medication after reading your thoughts on Isle of the Dead.

I guess it was something similar to me turning off The Black Pit of Dr. M. - Simply not in the mood for it.

I think you might be right about the Karloff, you have to be in the right mood for a film like that, and I certainly wasn't last week.

As for The Hollow, just because it's a TV movie doesn't mean it has to be so bad Nick Carter as 'the jock' no thanks, so annoying All the way through I was thinking where do I know Kevin Zegers from, and it bugged me the entire time. I looked him up and he's the young security guard in Dawn of the Dead.