61 Nights of Halloween (2024 Edition)

[Snow Queen]

 

[DarthSkywalker]

 

[Lily Adler]

Patrick is too talented to just do horror films.

 

[Pittman4Two]

Patrick is too talented to just do horror films.

His whole family is very talented. His dad is/was a legendary news broadcaster here locally in Tampa. His brothers (and sometimes Patrick himself) have a family band.

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[Drizzle]

When I still have stuff I didn't get around to watching before Halloween like It Follows and I Saw the TV Glow staring me in the face, yeah...

 

[Spider-Fan83]

Happy Halloween y'all...

 

[Broseph44]

Happy belated everyone wasn’t around yesterday was too busy. We ordered ourselves some pizza and enjoyed some drinks Threw on some episodes of Goosebumps. Broke out a horror trivia card game. Indulged in some candy And had ourselves a classic Halloween double feature

Trick ‘r Treat (2007)

Halloween (1978)

 

[Lily Adler]

Happy belated everyone wasn’t around yesterday was too busy. We ordered ourselves some pizza and enjoyed some drinks Threw on some episodes of Goosebumps. Broke out a horror trivia card game. Indulged in some candy And had ourselves a classic Halloween double feature

Trick ‘r Treat (2007)

Halloween (1978)

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Oooo he got the king size candy bars.

 

[Luigi]

 

[Sithborg]

Forgot to post my Halloween marathon.

43. Halloween (1978)

The classic. Got to start at the beginning.

44. Halloween (2018)

A new classic. Truly, tossing out the sister stuff has only been good for the franchise. Though, I finally noticed what Karen was wearing. Wearing a christmas sweater on Halloween, she was the true villain of the series all along.

45. Halloween Kills (2021)

Flawed film, yes. But it truly delivers on the title of kills. Plus its a fun chant.

46. Halloween Ends (2022)

Yeah, I get why people don't like it. But, I fell in love with the first kill. And I want a Corey sequel.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Night 61

194. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) dir. Bill Melendez

Bite-Sized Review: We've all been there.

*****

195. Arsenic & Old Lace (1944) dir. Frank Capra

Bite-Sized Review: Grant gets everything out of the fantastic script.

*****

196. Halloween (2007) dir. Rob Zombie

Bite-Sized Review: Strangely the retread is the part worth watching.

**1/2

197. Fear Street Part Three: 1666 (2021) dir. Leigh Janiak

Bite-Sized Review: The structure of this film shouldn't work as well as it does.

****

198. Totally Killer (2023) dir. Nahnatchka Khan

Bite-Sized Review: Shipka, as usual, is perfection.

****1/4

199. The Conjuring 2 (2016) dir. James Wan

Bite-Sized Review: Grift on dreamy grifters. Grift on.

*****

200. Annabelle Comes Home (2019) dir. Gary Dauberman

Bite-Sized Review: Eight year old Darth's perfect movie.

****1/4

 

[Broseph44]

Forgot to post my Halloween marathon.

43. Halloween (1978)

The classic. Got to start at the beginning.

44. Halloween (2018)

A new classic. Truly, tossing out the sister stuff has only been good for the franchise. Though, I finally noticed what Karen was wearing. Wearing a christmas sweater on Halloween, she was the true villain of the series all along.

45. Halloween Kills (2021)

Flawed film, yes. But it truly delivers on the title of kills. Plus its a fun chant.

46. Halloween Ends (2022)

Yeah, I get why people don't like it. But, I fell in love with the first kill. And I want a Corey sequel.

Love all 4 and I still actually wanna do a marathon of them back to back to back to back. Sounds like a good Halloween night to me, I hope you had fun

 

[Snow Queen]

And one last week.

Spoiler

The Addams Family (1991) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

Addams Family Values (1993) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

Annabelle Comes Home (2019) dir. Gary Dauberman

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) dir. Frank Capra

The Conjuring 2 (2016) dir. James Wan

Doctor Sleep (2019) dir. Mike Flanagan

Fear Street 1994 (2021) dir. Leigh Janiak

Fear Street 1666 (2021) dir. Leigh Janiak

The Guest (2014) dir. Adam Wingard

Prey (2022) dir. Dan Trachtenberg

The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick

Toy Story of Terror (2013) dir. Angus MacLane

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Times running low on the Day of the Dead. Finished Coco and my first Christmas movie of the year. Until next time...

 

[Broseph44]

Times running low on the Day of the Dead. Finished Coco and my first Christmas movie of the year. Until next time...

Darth you should make a Holiday horror thread, just a suggestion. A good amount now with Thanksgiving coming up, Christmas, New Years, Valentines and St. Patrick’s.

 

[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)
30. Midnight Mass (New)

Midnight Mass

The hype, the praise...it's true, all of it.

Been sprinkling this one throughout the month and what a journey it's been. Hamish Linklater, man, what a performance. My hats off to you guys who can rewatch this, I don't think I'll be able to watch this again due to a certain character.

And that's a wrap on this year, folks!

 

[Luigi]

Oh dear. I very much disliked the first two, but as a completionist and as someone who's willing to change their mind, I went in with an open mind. It was a particularly fruitful opportunity for Terrifier 3, as this was my first Terrifier film in a theater, at the largest Dolby screen available here, on Halloween night. Even moreso, I was doing a double feature, and I had just watched the atrocious Venom: The Last Dance. I was ready for anything but that. And I didn't eat beforehand, I'm not an imbecile! No snacks, only plain water. I was prepared.

I was kind of enjoying the first fifteen minutes; the much improved production values were very welcome, and the soundtrack was nice. Maybe I could've lived with a 90-minute version of this, but for some ungodly, illconceived reason, these Terrifier sequels have to run for over two hours. It's madness, there's no material here beyond the kills, and there's too many of those at an uncouth level of brutalization to really leave any other feeling but desensitization. It gets dull so quickly, there's no stakes to any of it. Any attempts at lore or plot are a terrible waste of time, and thinking about it in hindsight, maybe the first Terrifier was the best one after all. At least it knew what it was and it was a perfectly fine, merciful 85 minutes. Sure, it was incompetently made and looked the worst, but as said, it's short. Maybe I like short. God knows I don't like this.

I do respect what a huge success these films have been for their modest budgets and origins, it's a story of perseverance against an industry that was very unwelcoming to these sloppy, blood-stained globs of clown manure. But there's an audience. My audience was laughing through the whole thing like they were at a comedy club. That was the weirdest aspect to me and my friend. SURE, some of the kills can be funny with how over the top the violence is, but this audience reaction kind of brought the questioning Karen out of me. For example, the laughing started at the very first moment of violence: the sound of Art hacking a child into pieces with an axe off-screen. The idea of that was enough to make a proper portion of the audience laugh. I don't know about that, girlfriend. This isn't my scene.

Undoubtedly I'll be complaining about Terrifier 4 in 12 months, or whenever it hits streaming. I'm not going back to a theater for another one of these ever again, but as said, I'm a completionist and I make all sorts of bad decisions every year. We'll see.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Lily Adler]

I assume you're baked like 90% of the time.

 

[Kane52630]

I assume you're baked like 90% of the time.

 

[Kane52630]

You think I was done because it's December? YOU THOUGHT!

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

This is one that I've seen scenes from the 3rd act on tv but never got around to watching the whole thing. For a movie that was only brought back to cash in on the supernatural slasher craze like Freddy and was originally meant to be the first Freddy vs Jason movie, I thought it was decent enough. Instead of it being Freddy vs Jason, this is pretty much Carrie vs Jason and Lar Park Lincoln as Tina does a pretty good job as the final girl. The movie almost resets itself after Jason Lives where you have teens showing up again at the lake and even the tone is more earnest than comical. The whole Tina subplot of her trying to fix her childhood trauma and going back to Crystal Lake to heal was not bad and Terry Kiser's character was interesting enough. While it brought back the nudity, it still toned down the gore for the most part because of the MPAA, and knowing there's a better cut of the movie out there, I'm sure the gore was done better than what's in the theatrical cut. Still, the movie gave us the famous sleeping bag death and my favorite door axe/tv toss death. While I enjoyed the 3rd act, I also wish they gave us more telekinetic battles between Tina and Jason. Overall, I technically see this as the start of the next trilogy and I thought this was pretty good all things considered. It's still a step down from Jason Lives but it's still better than New Beginning.
3.5/5

 

[Kane52630]

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

Shout out to Julius Gaw, the only man who ever fought and boxed Jason fair and square.

Maybe the one Friday the 13th movie I've seen the most times (mainly just the last 30 minutes). While yes, it takes forever for Jason to show up in Manhattan after being stuck on a boat for the majority of the movie, however watching it again once more, I actually ended up really enjoying the boat portion of the movie this time. I thought this one really leans into the Giallo style for that section of the movie from the color palette, the tropey characters, the low-waisted shots, the vague supernatural vibe, and how the kills are constructed on the boat. They even made Jason's mask purposely a little bit yellow if that tells you anything. I also loved the music in this and the soundtrack really rips. This also marks the end of the 80s for this series and I thought they did a good job with it between the fashion, music, and culture before they transitioned into the 90s. The final girl in this was also pretty good and this cast feels more like what you'd see in a Giallo movie in the 80s. Overall, had a lot of fun with it and I enjoyed the boat section even more this time.
4/5

 

[Kane52630]

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

If there's any justice in the world, Creighton Duke would be a character that shows up in every horror slasher franchise like the modern day Van Helsing.

What a bizarre cuckoo bananas movie that barely resembles a Friday the 13th movie and he never actually goes to hell until the very last scene and even that's questionable. I've only seen the opening multiple times but never got around to watching the whole thing. And man what a vastly different movie this becomes after that opening act which acts pretty traditional right down to the music that ends in a shocking meta way. Sean Cunningham returns as a producer and you can tell he wanted this movie to be his version of New Nightmare or H20 (both of which came later) in those first 30 minutes where it is self-referential and meta but nothing really stuck storywise because it totally shifts into something else. What that something else is... this is pretty much an Evil Dead movie that just happens to be with Jason Voorhees even to the point of them putting a Necronomicon easter egg in the movie. In a way it explains he's pretty much a deadite who has supernatural abilities and can possess others through a demonic worm, but really this movie just wanted to be an Evil Dead movie. I watched the unrated cut and I thought if anything else, the practical effects and gore were really good that's in the style of Sam Raimi. The characters and the overall story of the movie are all over the place and while I can see why people despise this movie, this kept me on my toes because it's so wild in how many tones this movie shifts within minutes between comedy and horror. At the end of the day, there are some hilarious moments in this that kept me going. Overall, ngl I had a good time. Is it good? not really. It's a Friday the 13th that goes into so bad/it's actually pretty fun territory for me so I can't say I hated watching this even as a fan of Jason who's bearly in this physically.
3/5