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No thread yet? Slacking guys!

What’s on the agenda this year then. I don’t tend to keep up with upcoming films, quite like being surprised by whats coming but will be checking out NIght Swim this weekend hopefully. Not got high hopes and it just seems a bit like IT in a pool with a trailer that gives everything away but we’ll see.

According to my Letterboxd, the 4*+ ones I watched last year were:

Dead & Buried, The Wicker Man, A Nightmare on Elm Street 1 2 and3, Burnt Offerings, Of Unknown Origin, Spoonful of Sugar, Homebodies, Thanksgiving, Christmas Evil, It’s A Wonderful Knife, Horrors of Malformed Men, Stir of Echoes, Deadware, When Evil Lurks, Good Boy, Dark Harvest, Totally Killer, Event Horizon, The Beta Test, The Possession of Joel Delaney, Bloody Birthdy, Perpetrator, Abominable Dr Phibes, The Exorcist 1 and 3, Cobweb, Tremors, Altered States, Dementia, House of Wax Wrath of Becky, The Ruins, The Church, Razorback, The Pope’s Exorcist, Scare Campaign, Infinity Pool. Pearl, Tilbury, and MEGAN

Not a bad year

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Going to go to at least one horror fest/all nighter type thing - more if possible. @rustypiss what was the Dundee one called?

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4* or over for me was

M3GAN, Infinity Pool, Unwelcome, Stage Fright, The House of the Devil, Saint Maud, The Exorcist, Brain Damage, Hellraiser, Candyman, Dog Soldiers, Final Destination

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Dundead is the Dundee one, but the GFF micro Frightfest normally has better films; both should be announced this month

Dundead

GFF Frightfest (no 2024 page yet)

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Frightfest has always clashed with plans the few times I’ve looked before, but fingers crossed for this year

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Hey, flip you buddy!

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Wow, slim pickings for me last year on the 4* plus front

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Yeah likewise for me, only managed the once to get to the Frightfest part of GFF.

If you are considering Dundead, i’d recommend Ember bus too; it’s dirt cheap, quick, runs 24/7 and you can change you ticket up to the last second. Super handy if an impromptu Q&A suddenly happens at the end of the screening. I use it all the time for gigs/films in Edinburgh & Glasgow.

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Good knowledge! I’ll let you know if I do come up to, maybe get a drink?

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Absolutely chief, we’ll be kicking about for both anyway (normally get a 6 film pass for £40), so give us a nudge for a few scoops if you are about; the movies may not be to everyone’s taste but the Dundead cocktails always are, potent nasty things.

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what should I watch? No supernatural or possessed child please

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first couple down for the year

Black Mold - a Tubi original doesn’t exactly get something off to a promising start but this isn’t that bad. About a couple of photographers in an abandoned facility who come across a squatter and CHAOS ENSUES. it’s actually alright this. It looks great and has a lead actor who is so over the top that it actually becomes entertaining to watch. the story has a stab at something and while I’m not sure it entirely pulls what it’s going for off, it is at least trying. decent

Rituals - 70s Deliverance esque one, a bunch of doctors on a camping trip see it go terribly wrong. this is really good. builds an atmosphere of dread throughout until the ending and plays out convincingly. recommended

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might need a bit more narrowing down than that!

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something from the last couple of years that’s not in the genres I listed?

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watch X and Pearl so you can back us up against the naysayers

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Cam
Happy Death Day (if you like horror comedy)
Freaky (ditto)
Possessor
Infinity Pool
Sissy

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Things I have enjoyed since 2018 which match your criteria: Fresh, Ready or Not, Possessor, Censor, maybe Possum but could potentially be classed as supernatural

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A couple of short ones, that even if you aren’t enjoying them, they won’t waste your time (I’d skip trailers where possible too)


Coming Home in the Dark - 2021 - 1hr 33m - Hostage film that is tension filled and goes to dark places

Good Boy - 2022 - 1hr 16m - More possession than possessed and uncomfortably messed up

For the Sake of Vicious - 2020 - 1hr 20m - Home invasion film, single location well used with nice action

You’re Killing Me - 2023 - 1hr 34m - A revenge film, it gets a little OTT given its grounded beginning, but it has a good racheting up of tension that pays off by the end.

The Conference - 2023 - 1hr 40m - Silly made for TV film, starts slow but should make you laugh, has nice themes and fun kills.

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@hesastopsiiiiign & @JaguarPirate I always thought in Possessor that the kid is being possessed in the end as a means of getting rid of Riseborough without causing suspicion to the possessor operation.

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watched The People Under The Stairs last night.

thought the first 1hr 15/20 or so were brilliant. the kid actors and the Hurleys (!) were great, had just enough grostequeness/weirdness to keep you intrigued and a bit ‘urghed’ out - but then theres a bit where the kid leaves, heads back and it just lost itself a bit for me. not even sure why as its not a bad ending but it seemed a bit unsatisfactory

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Happy New Year!

2024 got off to a fizzle last night with Norman J Warren’s Inseminoid. This is the 4th of his films I’ve watched somewhat recently, after Satan’s Slave, Prey and Terror. Found a lot to enjoy in the first 2 but Terror didn’t quite do it for me. My expectations for this weren’t super high as it doesn’t seem to get a great deal of love online. But fortunately, all those Amityville movies have seriously lowered the bar in terms of what it takes to make a film work for me and I ended up enjoying this quite a lot. Plot-wise, we’re very much in Alien territory, with a group of archaeologists exploring tombs on an unnamed planet. It doesn’t take long before something wakes up and does what any self-respecting inseminoid does. Pretty much everything that’s great about this can be summed up in 2 words: Judy Geeson. Seriously, once she falls victim to the alien, she just goes for broke and brings a mania to her performance that had me genuinely entertained. Other than that, this isn’t great, but it does have Stephanie Beacham in it, so that’s nice. It would have been cool to have seen more of the aliens but what we do get is good enough. It’s kind of hard to recommend a film like this but if you’re an Alien fan, it’s probably worth a watch, just to see how filmmakers responded to Ridley Scott’s classic.

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