61 Nights of Halloween (2025 Edition)

[DarthSkywalker]

Tonight...

We cancel the apocalypse!

 

[CaptainWagner]

lotta catching up to do:

1. Clue (1985)
2. Y2K (2024)
3. Heart Eyes (2025)
4. Time Cut (2024)
5. Shutter Island (2010)
6. The Orphanage (2007)
7. Haunt (2019)
8. Good Boy (2025)

9. Night of the Living Dead (1968)

First time seeing a timeless classic at an outdoor Fall screening, can't really beat that. Sure, some things didn't age well and certain performances are... not great, but it's easy to see how it defined the zombie genre for so long. And just deeply funny to see the losers who now complain that modern zombie stories always make humanity "the real monsters" when this is how Romero was rolling 50+ years ago.

10. Ready or Not (2019)

Followed up a classic classic with a modern classic - Samara Weaving is perfect in this, and really the whole cast is a delight. An absolute blast. I have no idea how they're going to make the sequel work, but I'll be there.

11. Night of the Reaper (2025)

Some entertaining stuff here, but nothing original - another nostalgia-baiting movie that doesn't resemble the actual 80's classics beyond needle drops and costumes. There are several twists, which is where it kind of falls apart - they're either predictable - like the camera guy actually being in on it - pointless - the needless disguising of Deena's personal connection to the case - or nonsensical - the reveal of the main killer. Overall, fine for marathon churn, but nothing I'll be coming back to.

12. Get Away (2024)

The best I can say is, thanks to him taking the JK Rowling paycheck, this isn't the most Nick Frost has disappointed me this year. I'll give him props for thinking up a great premise to spoof the Wicker Man/Midsummar cult horror sub-genre. It's easy to see where this could be a great movie in the hands of someone like Edgar Wright. But as-is, it feels like Frost wrote 5 jokes and they just awkwardly improv-d the rest.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

 

[Snow Queen]

Time for another Flanagan show.

 

[Sithborg]

Radio Silence night.

22.Ready or Not

Absolutely a new classic. The cast is ****ing great, especially the more minor characters. Samara Weaving achieves some fantastically unique screams in this. As a board game fan, I get too much pleasure out of the opening with the displays of Dumas games.

23. Abigail

Radio Silence returns to their first love: exploding gallons of fake blood and gore onto their actors. Prime example of Barrera needing someone to play off of, and Dan Stevens sure turns in a scene chewing performance. Just a great cast in general.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

 

[Link]

This kind of turned into a rant, but when the spirit hits...

11th of October:
Get Out (2017)

Get Out is a staggeringly strong debut — and Jordan Peele's best screenplay by far — but as a genre filmmaker, he's grown immensely since. It's probably my least favorite Peele, which isn't saying much since every one of them is excellent, but its witty social commentary hasn't aged a day.

Speaking of the passage of time, the film was released in 2017, but it feels like a lifetime ago. Pre-Covid; pre-BLM; pre-Russia's invasion of Ukraine; and pre-MeToo by a hair — it came from a world that now feels almost innocent. I can't help but wonder how Get Out would be received if it was released right now, when something as innocuous as a black or a female lead in a film can be treated as a political statement.

Get Out was never really a commentary on racial violence or systemic racism on a political scale. Rather, it's a heightened critique of casual, liberal-coded prejudice that cloaks itself in good intentions — a mixture of apathetic cruelty and fetishization. The world has changed, but it's undeniable that Get Out is still relevant and even more incendiary in today's fractured, endlessly combative reality.

 

[Drizzle]

Paddington's got nards!

 

[Lily Adler]

Wes Craven vs John Carpenter.

 

[Luigi]

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Wes Craven vs John Carpenter.

Johnny C. Easy money.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Luigi]

1. Together (New)
2. Fear Street: Prom Queen (New)
3. Scary Movie
4. I Know What You Did Last Summer
5. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
6. Him (New)
7. I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (New)
8. The Strangers: Chapter 2 (New)
9. The Long Walk (New)
10. I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) (New)
11. Wolf Man (New)
12. Good Boy (New)
13. V/H/S/Halloween (New)
14. Bone Lake (New)
15. Werewolves (New)
16. Best Wishes to All (New)
17. Red Rooms (New)
18. Battle Royale
19. Cure

Battle Royale

"Do you know what they call the Hunger Games in France?"

"Battle Royale with cheese."

Everyone needs a loyal friend like Kawada.

 Cure

Mamiya is the greatest rage-baiter to ever grace the silver screen.

 

[Link]

Wes Craven vs John Carpenter.

That's kind of a tough one, but it's Johnny C for me.

 

[Lily Adler]

Johnny C. Easy money.

The Fog exists, though... But so does Cursed.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Two more anniversaries. 10 and 5 years respectively:

 

[Lily Adler]

Did Elle Fanning kill Dakota?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Night 45

112. Guillermo del Toro' Pinocchio (2022) dir. Guillermo del Toro & Mark Gustafson

Bite-Sized Review: Ever think Pearlman wonders how GDT sees him.

*****

113. Pacific Rim (2013) dir. Guillermo del Toro

Bite-Sized Review:

*****

114. Nightmare Alley (2021) dir. Guillermo del Toro

Bite-Sized Review: Should only be seen in black and white.

****1/4

 

[Babillygunn]

The Fog exists, though... But so does Cursed.

I like the Fog.

 

[Drizzle]

Wes Craven vs John Carpenter.

Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Hills Have Eyes are great but The Thing and Halloween are better IMO, so I'll go with Carpenter on this one.

 

[Babillygunn]

Carpenter and it ain’t close.

When Halloween is maybe your 3rd best film, that’s saying something. My second favorite film of his, Assault on Precinct 13, isn’t even a horror film. But it does have maybe one of the most disturbing scenes in mainstream film.

Iykyk


And as to the knocks against The Fog, it had some brutal scenes of its own.

 

[Lily Adler]

Carpenter and it ain’t close.

When Halloween is maybe your 3rd best film, that’s saying something. My second favorite film of his, Assault on Precinct 13, isn’t even a horror film. But it does have maybe one of the most disturbing scenes in mainstream film.
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And as to the knocks against The Fog, it had some brutal scenes of its own.
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Could be worse. Could be the remake with Tom Welling.

 

[Lily Adler]

Speaking of remakes, which version of The Blob did you see first?

 

[Babillygunn]

Could be worse. Could be the remake with Tom Welling.

Tom Welling at least wasn’t engaged in casual DUI like Tom Atkins in the original.

 

[Babillygunn]

Speaking of remakes, which version of The Blob did you see first?

Steve McQueen.