61 Nights of Halloween (2024 Edition)

[Lily Adler]

By the order of Crown Media and Hallmark, I'm going to have to shut this thread down at midnight.

 

[Kane52630]

By the order of Crown Media and Hallmark, I'm going to have to shut this thread down at midnight.

 

[Lily Adler]

Why yes Christmas movies begin November 1st.

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[Kane52630]

I had a mindblowingly terrible time with Terrifier 3 a couple of hours ago, and here's that clown again!! I need to put some cartoons on to bleach my brain.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

 

[DarthSkywalker]

 

[DarthSkywalker]

 

[Drizzle]

Normally on Halloween night I'll make an attempt to watch Michael Myers's first big night out but this year I'm doing something a little different and watching the OG horror movie...

 

[Kane52630]

Posting these again for posterity.

 

[Kane52630]

Also shout out to Jóhann Jóhannsson, RIP.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Night 60

189. The Final Girls (2015) dir. Todd Strauss-Schulson

Bite-Sized Review: Nine years on, Taissa continues to be the virgin fighting monsters.

****1/4

190. Fear Street Part Two: 1978 (2021) dir. Leigh Janiak

Bite-Sized Review: The least of the trilogy. Still good, but my attachment to the series are the characters in 1994.

***3/4

191. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) dir. Gil Kenan

Bite-Sized Review: An entire season of material stuffed into a sub two hour flick. So it's definitely a mess. But Phoebe continues to be a favorite and it's gay. So yeah, I dig it.

***1/2

192. Addams Family Values (1993) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

Bite-Sized Review: Ever wonder why people threaten Fester with a gun, when he survives everything including explosions?

****

193. The Crow (1994) dir. Alex Proyas

Bite-Sized Review: It can't rain all the time.

*****

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[Drizzle]

Definitely made the right choice with Nosferatu tonight. Over a century old and it still slaps. In a film full of unsettling imagery, somehow the text "The death ship had a new captain" disturbed me the most. I hope Eggers incorporated that into his version somehow.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Definitely made the right choice with Nosferatu tonight. Over a century old and it still slaps. In a film full of unsettling imagery, somehow the text "The death ship had a new captain" disturbed me the most. I hope Eggers incorporated that into his version somehow.

Crazy we might end up with three all time classics from the movie that wasn't allowed to be Dracula.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

I thought this was actually okay for the most part, but it didn't really work for me as a slasher film. I have no idea how heavily involved Christopher Landon was on this but his Happy Death Day films and Freaky are far superior to this and honestly, I think it would have been better without the horror elements.

I really like the family/sister's bonding stuff in this.

5.5/10

 

[DarthSkywalker]

This is talk of Time Cut remember me of this tweet I saw earlier:

 

[Luigi]

I had a mindblowingly terrible time with Terrifier 3 a couple of hours ago, and here's that clown again!! I need to put some cartoons on to bleach my brain.

Oh, this is going to be a fun review.

 

[Snow Queen]

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Time for a new favorite...

 

[C. Lee]

Watched this Halloween night -



PANDORUM (2009) starring Ben Foster, Dennis Quaid, Antje Traue, Cam Gigandet, Cung Le, Norman Reedus. Hundreds of years in the future the Earth is dying. A colony ship carrying several thousand people in cryo sleep are sent to an Earth like planet light years away. Crew members rotate in and out of stasis on 2 year rotations. A crew member (Foster) comes out of cryo sleep, with none of the crew that is supposed to be working there to help, and the ship is not acting right. When someone comes out of cryo they are disorientation and for a time have memory loss. This is why other crew members are supposed to be present when someone wakes. Soon another wakes up (Quaid) and is as messed up as Foster. They are trapped in the room they woke up in so Foster goes climbing through air ducts to get to another part of the ship. When he makes it to another section he is attacked by a wild woman (Traue) who is not as bad as some truly savage humanoids that make her flee in terror. I won't spoil anything, but the rest of the movie is a savage fight to stay alive and repair the ship.

For those who do want spoilers -

Spoiler

the ship has been away from Earth for a thousand years, a crew member went crazy and disabled the ship, the savage humanoid cannibals are mutations, the ship has reached the planet it was headed for and has crashed in an ocean, the good guys manage to kill the majority of mutants, the colonists who are still alive in cryo are ejected from the ship, there are around 1,700 colonists left in cryo, the air is breathable and land is nearby.

 

[Luigi]

1. Strange Darling (New)
2. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (New)
3. The Front Room (New)
4. The Substance (New)
5. The Thing
6. Sleep (New)
7. V/H/S/Beyond (New)
8. Exhuma (New)
9. Project Wolf Hunting (New)
10. Terrifier (New)
11. Terrifier 2 (New)
12. Terrifier 3 (New)
13. The Guest
14. Under Paris (New)
15. The Deliverance (New)
16. It's What's Inside (New)
17. The Strangers: Chapter 1 (New)
18. MadS (New)
19. Smile 2 (New)
20. Arcadian (New)
21. Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (New)
22. Humane (New)
23. Azrael (New)
24. Hellboy: The Crooked Man (New)
25. Your Monster (New)
26. Sting (New)
27. Infested (New)
28. In A Violent Nature (New)
29. Oddity (New)

In A Violent Nature

Best credits song for a horror movie since Crawl.

Twas good. People actually had the audacity to call this "the most boring slasher ever" while The Strangers: Chapter 1 was in theaters at the same time of release.

Oddity

Sometimes you just gotta love simple, effective jump scares. Keeping my eye on this director.

 

[Dr. Evil]

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I thought this was actually okay for the most part, but it didn't really work for me as a slasher film. I have no idea how heavily involved Christopher Landon was on this but his Happy Death Day films and Freaky are far superior to this and honestly, I think it would have been better without the horror elements.

I really like the family/sister's bonding stuff in this.

5.5/10

I thought it was a solid 6, although I didn't hate it and thought it was a fun little movie. The slasher/horror elements didn't bother me as much as the time travel elements did. The point of a time travel movie is to change the past that has a major affect on the future and we see what happens in the future. We did not get that in this one, at least not in the timeline in which the main protagonist ended up staying in.

One of the reasons that the Back to the Future franchise is iconic is because of the time travel elements. In the first one, we see Marty go back to 1955 to get his parents to meet and when they do, his reality of 1985 has drastically changed as we saw at the start of the movie that the McFly's were barely making ends meet and older Biff Tannen is a bully and still a menace to George. But when Marty returns to 1985 near the end of the movie, he returns to a different 1985, one where his family is well off and Biff is a bit of a weakling. We all know what happens with 2 and 3. We got nothing of that sort in Time Cut. All we got was the two sisters sitting on a row boat in their backyard (which overlooks a lake) arguing about who is older.....in 2003 and the screen fades to black as Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles" plays with no post credits to them in the modern day and to see how the events of the past changed the present.

Yes, Lucy did say that she came back in 2024 and her parents didn't know who she was, therefore altering the future in that timeline, but there was nothing with regards to the timeline she stayed in after her sister Summer says that she belongs in 2003, with no mention of "the next time you return to 2024, it will be with me in your life." They made it seem like they will be stuck in 2003 forever. Also I assumed that Summer's parents adopted Lucy as their second daughter in 2003 but there's no mention of that at all.

As a horror film, it's solid and a fun movie. For a time travel movie, it's terrible. The bonds between the two sisters is great.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Tonight...

A great pumpkin,
the son of a sea cook,
a yearly thirst watch,
conquering fear,
a time traveling witch,
two precious grifters,
and a favorite comes home.

 

[Sithborg]

This is talk of Time Cut remember me of this tweet I saw earlier:

See, I keep going back to the criticism of Turning Red, and how it did not accurately depict 9/11. Which normally, when applied to a school setting, is stupid. However, it is somewhat relevant as a nuclear research facility is involved in the plot.