61 Nights of Halloween (2025 Edition)

[DarthSkywalker]

Night 48

123. My Best Friend's Exorcism (2022) dir. Damon Thomas

Bite-Sized Review: This film is just my vibe and I love it dearly.

***1/2

124. The Guest (2014) dir. Adam Wingard

Bite-Sized Review: This is the Adam Wingard I choose to remember.

****1/2

125. Ghostwatch (1992) dir. Lesley Manning

Bite-Sized Review: Few films hold their tension and scare factor on rewatch the way this one does.

*****

126. Deadstream (2022) dir. Vanessa Winter & Joseph Winter

Bite-Sized Review: The one true heir to Dead by Dawn.

*****

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Grooving tonight:

 

[CaptainWagner]

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)
10. Ready or Not (2019)
11. Night of the Reaper (2025)
12. Get Away (2024)
13. Hell House LLC (2015)
14. Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel (2018)
15. Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire (2019)

16. The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)

Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga really gave everything to this franchise and it's a crying shame Blumhouse couldn't deliver better material for the last two installments. This is certainly better than 3, but the stuff that works is just rehashing what worked in the first two movies. It really shouldn't be this hard to cook up compelling haunting stories...

17. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

Still holds up as such a good R-Rated Scooby-Doo pitch that they recycled half the cast for the actual Scooby-Doo movie Scream will always be my fave of the Williamson slasher franchises, but this does its own thing, and does it very well, excluding a few dumb scenes (the car-ramming chase is ROUGH). With the remake, it may finally be time to break out my Fisherman costume...

18. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

Replacing the members of the cast we lost in movie one was a major task, but Brandy and Mekhi Pfifer absolutely pull it off. The cast is great, the tropical setting rocks, but dropping the whodunnit element of the original really hurts. It becomes less a question of Who but Why, and it never really answers that. And somewhat immaterial, but the decision to revamp JLH's style along the lines of SLG in the first movie (big franchise for Acronym Women) is insane but also just really, REALLY works.

19. I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

This franchise is really on an all-timer streak of assembling the hottest casts in horror. There's a lot that does not work at all here - the set-up is preposterous (such an innocuous accident make it impossible to take the gravity they lend it seriously) and the final act takes some ludicrous turns that are really out of lane for this franchise. That said, I'm absolutely seated for whatever they do next - hopefully with more JLH next time.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Tonight...

A real nightmare.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

 

[KaijuDude1992]

Another fairly boring and bland flick which is a shame because it actually has a good cast and the premise is interesting. It's basically a haunting movie but instead of a ghost or a demon it's an alien stalking Kate Mara's character which is a cool idea to me on paper but man is it executed in the most generic fashion. Also, it got pretty ridiculous towards the end once the twist was revealed and that lowered my overall score even more.

4/10


(The Ghost Game)

South Korean horror has been kind of hit and miss for me lately but I liked this one. It's no Gonjiam which is still one of the best Korean horror flicks I've seen in a while but the premise is fun and has some interesting twists and turns along the way.

6/10

 

[DarthSkywalker]

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Another fairly boring and bland flick which is a shame because it actually has a good cast and the premise is interesting. It's basically a haunting movie but instead of a ghost or a demon it's an alien stalking Kate Mara's character which is a cool idea to me on paper but man is it executed in the most generic fashion. Also, it got pretty ridiculous towards the end once the twist was revealed and that lowered my overall score even more.

4/10

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(The Ghost Game)

South Korean horror has been kind of hit and miss for me lately but I liked this one. It's no Gonjiam which is still one of the best Korean horror flicks I've seen in a while but the premise is fun and has some interesting twists and turns along the way.

6/10

I dig that poster for The Ghost Game. It intrigues me.

 

[Snow Queen]

Most evil character every Halloween.

 

[Lily Adler]

Didn't know Fatal Frame got a movie... I'm scared it's terrible.

 

[Sithborg]

25. Pacific Rim (2013)

Thanks Darth for inspiring me revisit a modern kaiju classic. Hard not to love it. Hunnam does the job as well as required, but the rest of the cast are great for the genre. I will say, the Oceangate incident sort of has me sideyeing the finale, but Hong Kong is still amazing.

26. Pacific Rim Uprising (2018)

Yeah, a lot of solid, valid reasons to dislike this movie. But, I like Godzilla 98, so I am not a hard critic to please. The action is solid enough for me, and Boyega>>>>>>Hunnam. Plus, this movie lets me get Apex in the anime. And its fun cast to recognize. Cailee Spaeny, Adria Arjona, Ivanna Sakhno, even a young Mackenyu.

27. They Cloned Tyrone (2023)

Boyega inspired me to go to another of his movies. A very fun time. Boyega, Paris, and Foxx are an iconic trio.

28. Sinners (2025)

Well, one movie with the actor appearing twice on the screen demanded that I visit another movie that did it. Not much else to say about one of the best movies of the year.

 

[Link]

I dig that poster for The Ghost Game. It intrigues me.

Is it all the hot people, Darth?

 

[Babillygunn]

117. Love and Monsters (2020) dir. Michael Matthews

Bite-Sized Review: Such a genuinely sweet and at times melancholic, film. We need more Henwick in the world!

****

Great bite-size review. Great film. Great actress. (O’Brien is awesome in this as well)

 

[Drizzle]

Last night I watched A Different Man, which truthfully isn't really horror. It's more of a psychological dark comedy but it does have a few elements of body horror in it. It's up for debate but it's still very good. It might even retroactively crack my 2024 top ten. Sebastian Stan is brilliant in it, and he's proven that he should be getting all the roles that they're still inexplicably giving to Jared Leto. Adam Pearson was also fantastic in it. But this was my introduction to Renate Reinsve and as soon as she appeared onscreen I turned into Lego Bruce Wayne.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

 

[Kane52630]

PADDINGTON, TELL SLOWIK TO MAKE YOU A CHEESEBURGER

 

[Lily Adler]

PADDINGTON, TELL SLOWIK TO MAKE YOU A CHEESEBURGER

Unless it's smothered by marmalade, I don't have high hopes.

 

[Drizzle]

I watched the 2010 A Nightmare on Elm Street remake today for the first time since it was in theaters 15 years ago. While it's not quite as bad as I remember it, it's still boring. I'll at least give it credit for two creative ideas: The first is when Freddy kills the dude in the jail cell and we go back into his world after the kill when he explains that the brain still goes on for 7 minutes after the heart stops and continues to torture him. I forgot that entirely and it's pretty sinister. The other is the final jumpscare kill when he gets Nancy's mom, which of course is derivative from the original but changed up enough to feel fresh. Other than that it's a lazy by-the-numbers remake that copies too much from the original. Jackie Earle Haley isn't bad in this and tries his best to make Freddy his own but it's impossible to follow Englund. At least Rooney Mara went on to bigger and better things, as did Kyle Gallner when it comes to horror movies.

 

[Luigi]

Reddit has exposed me to the Donut Daddy and if you want to keep your love for pastries, do not look him up.

Yeah, I've seen him violate several pastries. Surprised there isn't an Onlyfans yet.

 

[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
20. Scary Movie 5 (New)
21. Little Monsters (New)
22. Prey

 Prey

About as good as a course correction that this series could ask for after 2018's The Predator. Sarii is a good girl and deserves all the treats.

 

[Link]

October 14th:
A Deadly Adoption (2015)

A Deadly Adoption is a satirical take on a Lifetime movie, with a very simple twist: formulaic script, glossy production values, a cast of hot unknowns — except this time, Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig star as the leads.

What makes it fun is that they play it completely straight, turning the film into a curio that feels lifted out of the multiverse — a world much like ours, except Ferrell and Wiig are Lifetime regulars, not beloved comedians. The story is appropriately ludicrous (the title explains it all, as any good Lifetime movie does), but it's no Stalked by My Doctor.

Good for Ferrell and Wiig, though. I love artists who aren't afraid to do something just for the hell of it.

October 15th:
Hatching (2022)

Modern Finnish horror done right. Hatching can feel a bit nostalgic and clichéd when it attempts scares and suspense, but it's elevated by really cool practical effects, surprisingly strong visual effects, and one of the best puppet characters I've seen in many, many years.

The acting can be hit or miss, but Siiri Solalinna is fantastic as the lead — easily the best child performance I’ve ever seen in a Finnish film. Her character, Tinja, is a gymnast with a demanding vlogger mother and a well-meaning, perpetually spineless father. After her mother kills a bird that flies into their home, Tinja adopts the bird’s unhatched egg. Something comes out.

Hatching is a creature feature laced with psychological and body horror, even if its themes of motherhood, morality, and growing up occasionally get lost in the sauce.

A pleasant surprise, nonetheless.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

100% @Shinobi Shaw :

 

[DarthSkywalker]

 

[Drizzle]

I got the Nightmare on Elm Street remake out of the way first because I had to end the day with Friday the 13th (2009). This one isn't all that good but I'd actually consider it to be one of the better slasher remakes, if only because it does its own thing and doesn't try to go beat for beat copying any particular storyline. It's kind of a mashup of the early films in the series with an oversexed Michael Bay coat of paint. I especially liked that Jason had the burlap sack on his head for a bit before donning the iconic hockey mask.

Now I can really say I'm done with the Jason and Freddy movies, but I'm still curious to check out the comprehensive documentaries on both series.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I got the Nightmare on Elm Street remake out of the way first because I had to end the day with Friday the 13th (2009). This one isn't all that good but I'd actually consider it to be one of the better slasher remakes, if only because it does its own thing and doesn't try to go beat for beat copying any particular storyline. It's kind of a mashup of the early films in the series with an oversexed Michael Bay coat of paint. I especially liked that Jason had the burlap sack on his head for a bit before donning the iconic hockey mask.

Now I can really say I'm done with the Jason and Freddy movies, but I'm still curious to check out the comprehensive documentaries on both series.

Plus Panakbaker!

 

[Drizzle]

Plus Panakbaker!

Her, Padalecki, the friend from Disturbia, the dude from Party Down, the jock a-hole from Transformers...this might be the best cast of any of the F13 movies. Not that the bar is all that high. It's basically this or Part 4 and that's only because Corey Feldman and Crispin Glover are in it.