#701

It’s a proper “what the hell?!” just happened moment isn’t it? @Petagno certainly summarised it better than I did. Certainly a bit daft in places and it really reminded me of Wet Hot American Summer.

Definitely going to check out Prom Night and The Mutilator too (cheers @guntrip!)

Edit: this was meant as a reply to @Caedus - doh!

#702

i even enjoyed the 2000s remake quite a lot too, though it’s obviously less “good” than the original

EDIT: Though in the interest of transparency …

The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 7% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 67 reviews. The critical consensus states: “A dim and predictable remake of an already dull slasher film, this Prom Night fails to be memorable.”[7] On Metacritic, the film has an average score of 17 out of 100 based on 12 reviews, meaning “overwhelming dislike”.[8]

Ouch! :sweat_smile:

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#703

Woah that’s one hell of a low rating! Though sometimes that intrigues me all the more…

Mentioned upthread that I recently watched the Child’s Play reboot which I thought was really decent so sometimes remakes / reboots aren’t always that bad. Plus sometimes I do just want a dumb and predictable horror to stick on some Friday nights, just as fun popcorn fodder…

#704

yeah horrors are the one genre that are totally review-proof for me. Plenty of action and comedy films with bad ratings are still perfectly decent, but I will usually stay away from ones that get totally savaged. With horrors, really doesn’t matter - you have a set-up or time period I like? Don’t care if reviewers say you are an affront to the very art of cinema and make them want to claw their own eyes out, I’m still interested

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#705

I liked the remake of Cabin Fever and thats got 0%

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#706

Another double bill tonight…

Trick R Treat - my second favourite horror anthology, a perfect Halloween mood setter. Four intersecting stories set on Halloween night, shades of Creepshow. Lots of fun.

Silver Bullet - based on a Stephen King story, felt like it would have been a good episode of something but too much padding to be enjoyable (did we need so much Corey Haim wheelchair racing?). A suitably odd Gary Busey performance but not much else I enjoyed about it. Not shlockey or gory or over the top enough to match the best of that time. 4/10 tops.

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#707

Watched CHOPPING MALL

Expected to love it but it gets a bit samey unfortunately. Still, only 75 minutes long and it has some gruesome deaths which are well done. Reckon others may get a lot more out of it than me

The directors had quite a career

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#708

I enjoyed Hell House LLC on prime, not sure it needed the additional documentary stuff but it was still pretty good. I didn’t get what the big off camera secret was for them staying was though.

#709

Didnt the main guy get them.enormously in debt so he had to stay to recoup the money?

#710

Yeah that makes sense, must have just missed it.

#711

Watched Salem’s Lot tonight instead of another double bill. Not an amazing choice - probably would have enjoyed it more if I hadn’t read the book in the last month. Thought the small town paranoia of the first hour and a half was much more effective than fairly ramshackle vampire horror of the subsequent seventeen hours.

Not fucking around tomorrow and am going to watch The Thing and Prince Of Darkness or Carrie.

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#712

I’ve seen Carrie more times than I care to remember and I know it’s kind of hokey in places but every time I watch it, it really freaks me out. I think it’s mostly down to Piper Laurie. Brrr. :frowning:

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#713

Trick R Treat is great.

Have you seen Southbound?

#714

Oh wow, Society just absolutely blew me away! Obeyed the perfect rule of leaving the absolute madness to the very end! Loved all it’s goofiness, and the soundtrack too. Prosthetics were fantastic. Now onto The Bird With the Crystal Plumage…

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#715

Anyone seen any of the Blumhouse films on Amazon?

I’ve seen The Lie. Started promising and tailed off towards the end. 5/10.

Also saw Nocturne. A psychological horror set in a music school. Enjoyed that one a lot. 8/10.

#716

That was a pretty wild ride too! Incredibly stylish, amazingly surreal at times, then hilariously wrapped up in under a minute because he knows it doesn’t really matter, does it?! Enjoyed the very affable protagonist too. It shames me to say that I haven’t seen any other Argento films, apart from a bit of Supiria on late at night when I was a kid, so think I might have to delve in a little more.

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#717

So last night we watched The Babysitter and tonight we watched The Babysitter: Killer Queen on Netflix. Reckon I’d have loved them when I was a teenager. Super dumb although some oddly jarring directorial choices made in the second one.

#718

Definitely give Suspiria a try. The Luca Guadagnino version is well worth your time as well. :slight_smile:

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#719

I’ve just watched Black Box. Slow start,but warmed up into a reasonably interesting concept. Not really a horror I would say apart from a few scenes and I actually found it moving in parts, that might just be my nightshift brain. Maybe 7/10

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#720

Is Nocturne the one with the Gazelle Twin soundtrack?