61 Nights of Halloween (2024 Edition)

[Luigi]

The 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time

From "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" to "Get Out," Variety selects the 100 best horror movies of all time.

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Discuss!

Another reminder that I need to rewatch this, been a couple of years.

 

[Drizzle]

I got a hot take, as much as I enjoyed the Texas Chainsaw Massacre as a horror movie, I think most people put it so high up only because of its legacy outside of the film and not actually the film itself.

I personally wouldn't even put it in my top 30.

Yeah, there is a lot left off there. I think TCM is an important flick, but not one I've really enjoyed watching over the years.

And as with most of these list, they often ignore a lot of film from the last decade or so, while also placing the original flick in series as defacto, with very rare exceptions. Like Evil Dead 2.

The original TCM probably would have scared me a lot more had I first watched it at like age 13 but since I watched it for the first time recently in my mid-30s I can recognize how important it is to the genre but I wasn't really scared by it.

But it's all relative to the times I guess. They have Karloff's Frankenstein as # 8. Again, important and iconic but I wouldn't necessarily call that one all that scary either.

 

[Snow Queen]

The 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time

From "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" to "Get Out," Variety selects the 100 best horror movies of all time.

variety.com

Discuss!

 

[C. Lee]

Watched these last couple of days -

Phantasm (1979) Michael Baldwin
Phantasm II (1988) James Le Gros
Gargoyles (1972) Cornel Wilde

 

[Lily Adler]

The 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time

From "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" to "Get Out," Variety selects the 100 best horror movies of all time.

variety.com

Discuss!

I swear you post these lists just to start violence.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Night 38

93. Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024) dir. Brian Taylor (NEW)

Bite-Sized Review: Is it cheap? Yep? Is great? Nope. Is it Hellboy? I'd say yes. Here Big Red steps into a low budget indie horror flick and the results worked for me.

***

94. Werewolf by Night (2022) dir. Michael Giacchino

Bite-Sized Review: Marvel can we get a sequel to maybe the most creative thing you've done? Best we can do is ruin it by putting it in color.

****1/4

95. Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (2022) dir. Brad Sam Raimi

Bite-Sized Review: The movie that made me leave my boy. Worth it.

****

96. Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) dir. Todd Phillips (NEW)

Bite-Sized Review: I can see a lot of potentially fruitful ideas here. But it's all first draft. Leaving us with nothing more then a bad joke.

**

 

[Lily Adler]

Night 38

93. Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024) dir. Brian Taylor (NEW)

Bite-Sized Review: Is it cheap? Yep? Is great? Nope. Is it Hellboy? I'd say yes. Here Big Red steps into a low budget indie horror flick and the results worked for me.

***

94. Werewolf by Night (2022) dir. Michael Giacchino

Bite-Sized Review: Marvel can we get a sequel to maybe the most creative thing you've done? Best we can do is ruin it by putting it in color.

****1/4

95. Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (2022) dir. Brad Sam Raimi

Bite-Sized Review: The movie that made me leave my boy. Worth it.

****


96. Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) dir. Todd Phillips (NEW)

Bite-Sized Review: I can see a lot of potentially fruitful ideas here. But it's all first draft. Leaving us with nothing more then a bad joke.

**

James Wan's Crooked Man has the better design.

 

[Lily Adler]

It'll never stop being ****ing wild seeing Twitches, Hocus Pocus, and Halloween Town along side Infinity Pool and Titane on Disney+.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

It'll never stop being ****ing wild seeing Twitches, Hocus Pocus, and Halloween Town along side Infinity Pool and Titane on Disney+.

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[Lily Adler]

The top one is the one that shows up for me all the time.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

I'm not going to lie I wasn't really looking forward to this because I thought the trailers looked pretty awful, but I actually ended up enjoying this quite a bit for a most part. It has problems though mostly when it comes to the story, structure and just having too many characters in general. Justin Theroux, Monica Belluci and William Dafoe felt like unnecessary, wasted additions to this movie and if you take their characters out completely, I doubt it would actually impact the movie much at all especially Belluci's character.

That third act felt super rushed IMO, but aside from that I enjoyed seeing Winona Ryder and Catherine O' Hara back in this world again and Keaton seemed like he was having a blast.

I wasn't a big fan of Jenna Ortega's character in this movie either because it seemed like she was just playing yet another version of Wednesday with even less personality but maybe that's just me.

I also give Burton credit for bringing it this time as well.

7/10

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Snow Queen]

Looking forward to the day Malignant gets its due.

 

[Lily Adler]

Such an awesome creature design.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Such an awesome creature design.

How did you get this video of me?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Bit, for being such an uneven flick, sure has a rather fun soundtrack:

 

[Ninjablade]

Now watching:

Yes, I cried during the car scene. God, I wish M. Night had the capacity to direct something even a third as good as this film. Such a beautiful movie. The ending gets me every time.

 

[CaptainWagner]

Night 38


94. Werewolf by Night (2022) dir. Michael Giacchino

Bite-Sized Review: Marvel can we get a sequel to maybe the most creative thing you've done? Best we can do is ruin it by putting it in color.

****1/4

Michael Giacchino of all people directing maybe the best thing Marvel has done post-Endgame is insane. Even more insane is Marvel finding the perfect formula for Disney+ projects with this and GOTG Holiday Special and then deciding to never do that again.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Michael Giacchino of all people directing maybe the best thing Marvel has done post-Endgame is insane. Even more insane is Marvel finding the perfect formula for Disney+ projects with this and GOTG Holiday Special and then deciding to never do that again.

I assume they see it as a money sink. But having 4 yearly specials, is such an obvious good idea from a creative standpoint. Spring, summer, fall (Halloween), and winter (Christmas).

 

[Ninjablade]

The movie that made me leave my boy. Worth it.

Agreed.

 

[Snow Queen]

Agreed.

I dunno, doesn't look like it worked out for you. You look like you just listen to The Cure all day.

 

[Lily Adler]

Now watching:

Yes, I cried during the car scene. God, I wish M. Knight had the capacity to direct something even a third as good as this film. Such a beautiful movie. The ending gets me every time.

Pay It Forward?

 

[Ninjablade]

I dunno, doesn't look like it worked out for you. You look like you just listen to The Cure all day.

What's wrong with listening to The Cure all day

Disintegration is the greatest album of all time goddamnit!

 

[DarthSkywalker]

What's wrong with listening to The Cure all day

Disintegration is the greatest album of all time goddamnit!

 

[Ninjablade]

I'll find my goth wife one day, but as of now, your signature don't lie