Film What was the last movie you watched? Part 2

[Sculder]

Mary (2019)
The Rental (2020)
The Barn (2016)
The Barn Part II (2022)
Silent Night, Zombie Night (2009)
The Exorcism (2024)
Sator (2019)

 

[MilkmanDan]

Rebel Ridge

 

[Morg]

Silver Bullet

 

[ObiWanCon]

Bone Tomahawk (2015)

 

[KaijuDude1992]

 

[Ash J. Williams]

 

[psylockolussus]

Exhuma

 

[ObiWanCon]

The Fog (1980)

 

[Frodo]

TERRIFIER ( 2016)


So, I decided to check this out after all the buzz and box office of part 3.

I gotta say, I pretty much watched the film on fast forward since , I tend to skip alot of the bloody and gory scenes in Horror films anyway , even though I love horror. .

You tell the film must have been made for like 100 bucks , so I can see how they could turn an easy profit from it.

The acting actually was pretty good for such a low budget horror film , and while I've never seen any of the cast before, they all did good jobs imo.

 

[Luigi]

Azrael

7/10

Hellboy: The Crooked Man

7/10

Your Monster

8/10

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

The Psychic (AKA Seven Notes in Black, AKA Murder to the Tune of the Seven Black Notes, AKA Death Tolls Seven Times ~ 1977)

Giallo directed by Lucio Fulci before he went full Gore-Meister. Jennifer O'Neill plays Virginia, a woman who has had psychic visions ever since as a child she 'saw' her mother's suicide. Now happily married to a successful businessman, she's living a relaxed, carefree life. However, soon after he leaves for a business trip she begins to have visions of strange disjointed images of people and places, culminating in a woman being bricked-up alive in the wall of an unknown building. She's so convinced the images are real that she consults a former boyfriend - Luca, a parapsychologist. As they locate the building, and then discover a woman's body that has indeed been walled-up, they realise that what Virginia 'saw' wasn't quite what she thought it was; it was actually something far worse.

Fulci is very much in 'Hitchcock mode' here, with plenty of twists, turns, and red herrings (he also co-wrote the screenplay). He gets good performances from the actors (especially O'Neill, Marc Porel as Luca, and Gabriele Ferzetti as Emilio - a shady art gallery owner), whilst the cinematography by his long-time collaborator Sergio Salvati (they worked together 11 times) is excellent. There's also a great score by Franco Bixio, Fabio Frizzi, and Vince Tempera. However, the film suffers in that when the truth behind Virginia's visions is revealed, along with a true timeline of events, it's pretty damn confusing; the gist is pretty-much clear, but the specifics aren't at all. As a result the climax is a little underwhelming. I may feel differently after rewatches, but for now 6/10

 

[Kane52630]

Halloween III: Season of the Witch

Conal Cochran would fix this economy. #SupportLocalBusinesses
5/5

31 Days of Horror Marathon
Day 1: Oddity (4/5)
Day 2: Handling the Undead (3.5/5)
Day 3: 'Salem's Lot (2024) (2.5/5)
Day 4: V/H/S/Beyond (3.5/5)
Day 5: Hold Your Breath (2.5/5)
Day 6: Creature from the Black Lagoon (3.5/5)
Day 7: Revenge of the Creature (3.5/5)
Day 8: The Creature Walks Among Us (3/5)
Day 9: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (4/5)
Day 10: House of Frankenstein (3.5/5)
Day 11: House of Dracula (3/5)
Day 12: Azrael (3.5/5)
Day 13: Terrifier 3 (4/5)
Day 14: It's What's Inside (4.5/5)
Day 15: Ed Wood (4.5/5)
Day 16: Frankenhooker (4/5)
Day 17: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 (4/5)
Day 18: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (4/5)
Day 19: Smile 2 (4.5/5)
Day 20: The Beyond (4/5)
Day 21: Pieces (3/5)
Day 22: High Tension (4/5)
Day 23: Wrong Turn (2.5/5)
Day 24: Triangle (4/5)
Day 25: The Craft (3.5/5)
Day 26: Beyond The Black Rainbow (4/5)
Day 27: Noroi: The Curse (3.5/5)
Day 28: The Thing (5/5) [REWATCH]
Day 29: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (5/5) [REWATCH]
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[Milk Tray Guy]

Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)

Directed by Lucio Fulci, this infamous giallo stars Florinda Bolkan, Tomas Milian, Marc Porel, and Barbara Bouchet. Unusually, the victims here aren't adult women, but children - very young boys. The killings take place in an isolated Italian village where 'outsiders' are a rarity, and when they do turn up they're viewed with suspicion. A series of child murders of course attracts the national press, and with an embarrassingly inept local police force floundering it falls on visiting reporter Andrea (Milian) and former Milan society girl/recovering drug addict Patrizia (Bouchet) to solve the case.

The film was banned in a lot of countries - some for many years. The murders of children (shown pretty graphically) were obviously a large part of that. The fact that Bouchet's 'party girl' likes to sit around completely naked and come-on to young boys probably got a few people hot under the collar too. That's a shame, because it's pretty good. The make-up and effects are convincing. And it's well-acted by the featured cast (top honours go to Bolkan, who is absolutely terrific as a local outcast/gypsy/witch). There's one killing (of an adult) at around the half-way point, which after more than 50 years is still one of the most hard-hitting, prolonged, gut-wrenching deaths I've seen onscreen.

Watching from a modern-day perspective a first-time watcher now might well guess the killer, but I can't fault the film for that. It is let-down a little by some of the supporting cast (especially the police) bordering on parody, and the actual motive of the killer is pretty ridiculous (although I'd never say it hasn't happened in real life). There are a few other things (I'm sure a big city crime reporter would know not to touch/contaminate crime scenes), but this is definitely a worthwhile watch. 7/10

 

[KaijuDude1992]

 

[Frodo]

TERRIFIER II ( 2022)

 

[zeptron]

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The Wild Robot
All the Halloween movies(including Halloween 3)

 

[Sculder]

El páramo / The Wasteland (2021)
Demonic (2021)
Pumpkins (2018)
Temurun (2024)
The Boy (2016)
Follow Me (2020)
Halloween II (2009)
V/H/S/94 (2021)
Bruiser (2000)
Host (2020)
The Quiet Ones (2014)
Suitable Flesh (2023)
Crackcoon (2024)

 

[squeekness]

Scream (1996)

 

[Luigi]

 Sting

5/10

Infested

7/10

 

[Ash J. Williams]

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

The Torture Chamber of Dr Sadism (AKA The Blood Demon, AKA The Snake Pit and the Pendulum, AKA Blood of the Virgins, AKA Castle of the Walking Dead ~ 1967)

Christopher Lee, Lex Barker, and Karin Dor star in a West German gothic horror that plays out like a cross between Dracula: Prince of Darkness and The Pit and the Pendulum. In early 18th century Germany the evil Count Regula (Lee, of course) is drawn and quartered for murdering 12 young women, all virgins, who he killed in an attempt to gain immortality. Before he died Regula swore revenge on two people responsible for his death. Thirty-five years later the unknowing descendants of those two people (Barker and Dor) receive mysterious invitations to Regula's castle, although neither of them know who he is. Also along are Dor's maid, and a priest who was simply catching a lift to somewhere nearby. The local villagers claim not to know of the castle, and when the travellers arrive they discover their 'host' has been dead for years. However, Regula's faithful manservant nevertheless keeps the castle running, with the intention of using the 'guests' to revive the dead count. This he succeeds in doing, but only short-term. Turns out Regula needed the blood of 13 virgins to achieve full immortality; he still has the blood of the original 12 but needs one more - Dor - to achieve his goal. Cue a battle for survival and an attempt to stop Regula's diabolical plan...

The cinematography looks like Mario Bava on his best day, and the gothic castle sets are fantastic. An eerie sequence where the travellers' coach is driven through a dark forest with corpses and body-parts hanging from every tree is the stuff of nightmares. It's a shame the pacing feels uneven at times, and the film slumps a bit during the 45 minutes or so that Lee is missing (it runs an hour and a half, with Lee present for around half of that - 10 minutes at the beginning, and the last 25 minutes or so). Still, Barker makes a credible and likeable hero, Dor is stunningly beautiful (she looks like a cross between Claudia Cardinale and Edwige Fenech), and when Lee does finally reappear it's a lot of crazy fun. 7/10

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Batgirl0202]

Happy Halloween, everyone!

7/10

 

[emielaen]

Seven Weeks (2014)

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

City of the Living Dead (AKA The Gates of Hell ~ 1980)

Directed by Lucio Fulci, starring Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo de Mejo, and Janet Agren. During a seance in New York, a medium (MacColl) has a vision of a priest hanging himself in a village churchyard, followed by other 'glimpses' which convince her the dead are about to rise and take over the world. The intensity of her vision causes her to go into convulsions and she collapses. She's pronounced dead, and the police are called in. A reporter (George) hears of the case, and in the absence of any bigger stories decides to dig deeper. Some days later he attends the cemetery where the medium has been buried and hears the sound of a woman screaming. Eventually realising that it's coming from her grave he digs her up and saves her. She persuades him to help her search for the village where the priest hanged himself, a place she knows from her vision is called Dunwich. Eventually they find it and discover the dead are indeed rising and killing the villagers - causing some of them in turn to join the ranks of the undead.

Filmed mostly in the US (with the remainder shot in Rome) this has a fantastically eerie atmosphere (parts of it remind me of Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot, and John Carpenter's The Fog). The cast are excellent, as is the prog score by Fabio Frizzi. The practical gore effects look great - although the makeup effects are a mixed bag (some underwhelming, some very, very good). Fulci's direction has never been better; the scene where Christopher George rescues Catriona MacColl from being buried alive is one of the best sequences I've seen in any horror film, going as it does from her initial waking-up underground, to the dawning horror of what's happened, then her absolute panic as she screams and tries to claw her way out of the coffin, and finally George's pick-axe crashing through the lid inches from her face.

The very final scene of the film is a notorious, mystifying letdown (coming straight after a terrific sequence with our heroes surrounded by zombies in an underground crypt) but overall it's a great ride. 7.5/10