13 Days of Scary Movies 2024! 🎃👻🕸🕷🔪🩸👽💀🤖⛪️🪓😱🦇

[UnquietDreams]

I think this is the worst sci-fi movie of all time. (I probably haven't seen enough sci-fi movies to substantiate that claim...) But there is a fine line between love and hate.

 

[vagrantx]

Day 9: a scary movie with an alien in it

A relief mission to a mystery. A rescue ship dispatched to investigate the surprise return of a starship with an experimental faster than light drive by jumping dimensions. And the discovery that it came back sentient and alien, and it wants to go back, but not alone.

The first cut was so violent and disturbing that test audiences left during the screening. Too much for the studio, who forced Anderson to cut it down. There are a terrible 13-second long vision that was originally longer and far worse. There was talk of a director's cut but the excised film was not stored correctly. Even with out that it is an odd, disturbing, and very scary film.


Event Horizon, (1997)

As much as I love this film, and it did cross my mind for todays prompt, I have to make an OBJECTION: There are no aliens in this film. The ship is able to travel between dimensions; it took a quick pit-stop in Hell itself, and came back... wrong. Demons, maybe, but there are no aliens

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Bad Taste - Peter Jackson 1987

Made for a pittance with practical special effects that will make you puke - lead to Lord of The Rings.

And it took 4 years to shoot! Barry had to keep that scraggly beard for 4 years to preserve continuity

 

[UnquietDreams]

Anyway... the chances of anything coming from Mar are a million to one

But still they came...

 

[Taegul]

As much as I love this film, and it did cross my mind for todays prompt, I have to make an OBJECTION:

I almost posted that movie first but withheld for the same reason lol.

 

[UnquietDreams]

As much as I love this film, and it did cross my mind for todays prompt, I have to make an OBJECTION: There are no aliens in this film. The ship is able to travel between dimensions; it took a quick pit-stop in Hell itself, and came back... wrong. Demons, maybe, but there are no aliens

The ship jumped to another dimension, came back sentient and malevolent. Seems the very definition of "alien." Nothing supernatural required.

There weren't little aliens, but it was all alien.

 

[vagrantx]

The ship jumped to another dimension, came back sentient and malevolent. Seems the very definition of "alien." Nothing supernatural required.

There weren't little aliens, but it was all alien.

mmmmmmmmmmmh.... As someone who regularly bends the rules of MLAS's song thread, I can't argue with you.

But, fuck me, do I want to

 

[UnquietDreams]

mmmmmmmmmmmh.... As someone who regularly bends the rules of MLAS's song thread, I can't argue with you.

But, fuck me, do I want to

I see it more Lovecraftian than demonic. Alien intelligences that humans cannot understand, so it drives them violently mad.

 

[lavendersilk]

The ship jumped to another dimension, came back sentient and malevolent. Seems the very definition of "alien." Nothing supernatural required.

There weren't little aliens, but it was all alien.

Are you saying space itself is a multitude of dimensions? Also, I thought they were in hell or purgatory.

 

[Grant55]

Are you saying space itself is a multitude of dimensions? Also, I thought they were in hell or purgatory.

No. That's politicians only.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Are you saying space itself is a multitude of dimensions? Also, I thought they were in hell or purgatory.

The drive creates a singularity, more or less a black hole, to tear a hole in our reality to move through another dimension which has different time/space laws in order to move instantaneously from one place to another, coming out light years away. Effectively folding space. At least that was the idea. It seems the first part worked, it was the "coming out" part where things went...weird.

 

[Wriggle]

(Bad Taste)
And it took 4 years to shoot! Barry had to keep that scraggly beard for 4 years to preserve continuity

We had it on VHS and it had a bonus making of feature after the film.
They did pin pricks in the film to make gun flare.

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 9: A scary movie with an alien in it

This movie was amazing.

District 9 (2009)

 

[DannieB]

Day 9: A scary movie with an alien in it

This movie was amazing.

District 9 (2009)

I so thought about posting this!

 

[Grant55]

Day 10: Masked Chatacter

Phantom of the opera -silent film version. Starring Lon Chaney. The man of a thousand faces.

 

[Kitty_so_frisky]

Day 10: A scary movie with a masked character.
The one, the only, the classic: Halloween!

 

[Mo_Bandy]

Day 10: A scary movie with a masked character.
The one, the only, the classic: Halloween!

Probably the only one I try to watch every year.

 

[Mr_Soup]

Day 9: A scary movie with an alien in it.

Species:

An often forgot about movie, but it’s a decent watch. There’s a number of sex scenes so if that isn’t your thing, might want to give it a pass.

 

[Mr_Soup]

Day 10: A scary movie with a masked character.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre:

As disturbing as it is influential, this movie isn’t for the faint of heart. Leatherface established himself as the OG masked slasher villain that pioneered an entire sub-genre of horror in the late 70’s to the 80’s and 90’s. The movie’s greatest feat was convincing people it was based on real events.

 

[morelikeasong]

Day 10: A scary movie with a masked character

I had to cover my eyes so much during this one. I think I’ve seen a couple of them, too.

Saw

 

[FreckledSprite]

Day 10: A scary movie with a masked character

 

[ImpishSeraph]

Day 10: Masked Character

Friday the 13th

 

[orangecurious]

Day 10: A scary movie with a masked character

Donnie Darko
It's a mad world... slightly scarier that Harvey the rabbit. A sinister bunny, but it is real?

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 10: A scary movie with a masked character

Trick 'r Treat was one of those films that was made but never released, getting held up for two years before finding life in film festivals. After that, word of mouth grew, and it took on home viewing, growing to the point that it was one of the main attractions for Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights. Not bad for a movie that was never distributed.

The film itself is an anthology that takes place on Halloween night. It is non-linear, so the characters for each story show up in others (which makes second viewing (and beyond) fun). Each takes on different aspects of Halloween, and also different age groups -- one deals with being a child, one with that middle school age when pranks are more important, one the college age where sexy costumes and hooking up are the point, one as adults, and one when you are just too old and sick of this shit. And all are tied together by Sam, a little figure in an orange footy and a burlap sack.

It has a great cast (Leslie Bibb, Dylan Baker, Rochelle Aytes, Anna Paquin, and Brian Cox being the best known), and it is clever, wicked, and funny. But at it's heart, it is a love letter to the holiday. It is a pure Halloween movie, and it understands the feel of Halloween better than almost any movie I have seen. It is a fantastic movie.

Trick 'r Treat (2007)

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 10: A scary movie with a masked character.
IDGAF

This was such a perfect ending I really resisted watching 4 for a long time.

 

[crazychemgirl]

Day 10: A scary movie with a masked character

Go fucking Jason! Friday the 13th ftw