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

[morelikeasong]

Day 12: A movie with a vampire

I guess I’ll go in a completely different direction.

The Little Vampire

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 12: A movie with a vampire
Vampires and a killer sax solo? What's not to love?

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Tim Capello for the win. Also, a damn good cover of "I Still Believe." Great soundtrack.

 

[curious_slut]

Favorite scene because Michael Sheen:

Michael Sheen is always a good reason

 

[PearlyDewdrops]

Day 12 A vampire movie

I think I've seen too many vampire movies. I just watched the latest version of Salem's Lot but that didn't disturb me as much as:

Vampire Circus.

Violence, vengeance, sex, sadism and the circus. Probably the last great Hammer Horror vampire movie.

Full version here:

Thanks for this series. It was fun to read.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 12 A vampire movie

I think I've seen too many vampire movies. I just watched the latest version of Salem's Lot but that didn't disturb me as much as:

Have you watched the full length made-for-TV movie version from 1979? Toby Hooper (of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and (part of, at least) Poltergeist fame) directed, and does a lot within the constraints of TV. He made some incredibly creepy shots that still hold up today. And he makes an improvement on the source material -- making Barlow monstrous and giving all his dialog to James Mason's Straker. And at three hours, Hooper has enough time to develop the story correctly.

I haven't seen the remake, nor Return to 'Salem's Lot, and I don't think I am missing much.

 

[akaSol]

Day 9: A scary movie with an alien in it.
Invasion of the Body Snatches 1978 link
What a cast: Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nemoy, Jeff Goldblum, Brook Adams, Veronica Cartwright, Kevin McCarthy (Who also stared in the original '56 version)

Day 10: A scary movie with a masked character.
Mask of the Red Death link Vincent Price at his peak. This was the 2nd last Corman, Price was in.

Day 11: A scary movie based on a true crime.
Wolf Creek link Loosly based on a the death of a couple of tourists early 2000 in Austria.

Day 12: A movie with a vampire
I would have chosen Nosferatu or the original Blade Abrihram Lincoln Vampire hunter link - while not a Horror, it was a surprising watch.

Day 13: The last scary movie you saw.
The Substance link The most wtf is going on... Wait she hatched! Without seeing the movie you won't get it. The amazing Dennis Quade and the welcome return of Demie Moore. If you haven't seen it yet, please do

 

[Kitty_so_frisky]

Have you watched the full length made-for-TV movie version from 1979? Toby Hooper (of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and (part of, at least) Poltergeist fame) directed, and does a lot within the constraints of TV. He made some incredibly creepy shots that still hold up today. And he makes an improvement on the source material -- making Barlow monstrous and giving all his dialog to James Mason's Straker. And at three hours, Hooper has enough time to develop the story correctly.

I haven't seen the remake, nor Return to 'Salem's Lot, and I don't think I am missing much.

I have never come across the original Salem’s Lot on any streaming services I have access to, but I did love both seasons of Castle Rock, which are a mashup of many different Stephen King stories all set in one universe/timeline and happening all at once. The second season was heavy on Misery and Salem’s Lot. Castle Rock is to Stephen King stories what Once Upon a Time is to Disney fairytale-based movies, and I loved it!

 

[DannieB]

Day 12: A movie with a vampire

30 Days of Night
Vampires in Alaska and Josh Hartnett!!

 

[ImpishSeraph]

Day 11: A scary movie based on a true crime
Dead Calm (my old twin)

Day 12: A movie with a vampire
Priest I enjoyed this movie

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 12: A movie with a vampire

I love vampire stories. I always have. I find the various facets of the lore, and of the metaphors, fascinating. They can be so flexible, being villains or heroes, monsters or everything that makes us human. They stand for discovering sexuality, or rape, or power dynamics, or addiction, or bad relationships, or power fantasies, or... you get the picture. And they have rules. Wooden stake through the heart. Drink blood. Freaky powers. Can't be seen in mirrors. Silver is a weakness (this should be in all of them, but thanks to The Wolf Man, that gets lent to werewolves. Werewolves didn't care about silver until 1941). Rules.

Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter both loves the genre, and says "fuck off, rules," at the same time. The last of the original run of fantastic horror films out of Hammer Productions, it is not quite a send-up, not quite a horror film, and not quite a swashbuckler, but can be all of these. In fact, it was so hard to market, it sat on the shelf for two years before being released.

It is the story of the eponymous vampire hunter, along with his merry men (a hunchback (of course) and a vampire expert, along with Carla (Caroline Munro), a local who was punished for dancing on the Sabbath and becomes the love interest), who all are trying to save a town from a vampire that doesn't drink blood but instead drinks youth from young women it attacks. It turns out that there are many types of vampires, and they all have different things they feed on, and different weaknesses. (A darkly funny scene is where they are trying to find out what will kill the type they are hunting though trial and error on a bound vampire. Fire? Nope. Wooden stake? Nope, keep trying...) Can our sword welding vampire hunter save the town? Who is the vampire master? And, most important, does Caroline Munro get naked? (Sort of. Damn shadows!) It is a wild, fun, and sardonic ride, and unlike any vampire movie before or since. It was supposed to start a series, with a lot of different vampires getting their swashes buckled by our hero. Unfortunately, Hammer films was staked through the heart, ending a wonderful run of odd, very British horror movies.

But we still have Captain Kronos! It is a fun, sometimes silly, sometimes horrifying romp, and worth hunting (heh heh) down.

Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974)

 

[PearlyDewdrops]

Have you watched the full length made-for-TV movie version from 1979? Toby Hooper (of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and (part of, at least) Poltergeist fame) directed, and does a lot within the constraints of TV. He made some incredibly creepy shots that still hold up today. And he makes an improvement on the source material -- making Barlow monstrous and giving all his dialog to James Mason's Straker. And at three hours, Hooper has enough time to develop the story correctly.

I haven't seen the remake, nor Return to 'Salem's Lot, and I don't think I am missing much.

I saw it. I still won't open windows at night. It was all we talked about after seeing it.

The latest Salem's Lot is set in the 1970s. It threatened to be good but ended up mediocre. The final act was disappointing.

 

[PearlyDewdrops]

Day 12: A movie with a vampire

I love vampire stories. I always have. I find the various facets of the lore, and of the metaphors, fascinating. They can be so flexible, being villains or heroes, monsters or everything that makes us human. They stand for discovering sexuality, or rape, or power dynamics, or addiction, or bad relationships, or power fantasies, or... you get the picture. And they have rules. Wooden stake through the heart. Drink blood. Freaky powers. Can't be seen in mirrors. Silver is a weakness (this should be in all of them, but thanks to The Wolf Man, that gets lent to werewolves. Werewolves didn't care about silver until 1941). Rules.

Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter both loves the genre, and says "fuck off, rules," at the same time. The last of the original run of fantastic horror films out of Hammer Productions, it is not quite a send-up, not quite a horror film, and not quite a swashbuckler, but can be all of these. In fact, it was so hard to market, it sat on the shelf for two years before being released.

It is the story of the eponymous vampire hunter, along with his merry men (a hunchback (of course) and a vampire expert, along with Carla (Caroline Munro), a local who was punished for dancing on the Sabbath and becomes the love interest), who all are trying to save a town from a vampire that doesn't drink blood but instead drinks youth from young women it attacks. It turns out that there are many types of vampires, and they all have different things they feed on, and different weaknesses. (A darkly funny scene is where they are trying to find out what will kill the type they are hunting though trial and error on a bound vampire. Fire? Nope. Wooden stake? Nope, keep trying...) Can our sword welding vampire hunter save the town? Who is the vampire master? And, most important, does Caroline Munro get naked? (Sort of. Damn shadows!) It is a wild, fun, and sardonic ride, and unlike any vampire movie before or since. It was supposed to start a series, with a lot of different vampires getting their swashes buckled by our hero. Unfortunately, Hammer films was staked through the heart, ending a wonderful run of odd, very British horror movies.

But we still have Captain Kronos! It is a fun, sometimes silly, sometimes horrifying romp, and worth hunting (heh heh) down.

Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974)

Never seen it. But I will.

 

[Wriggle]

Day 10: A scary movie with a masked character

I'm so far behind....

Stage Fright (aka Aquarius aka Deleria aka 100000 other stuff) 1987 Michele Soavi




Theatre actors are killed one by one by an owl.

Michele Soavi then sent the same cast to film the very erotic 11 days 11 nights by notorious filth director Joe D'amato

 

[ImpishSeraph]

Day 12: A movie with a vampire

Vampire D another good one

 

[Grant55]

Day 13: Last Scary Movie you saw

Ghost Breakers

I generally don't watch these kind of movies but this is the last one I saw.

I may have repeated. My apologies.

 

[PassionatePanther]

Day 13: The last scary movie you saw

Get Out (2017)

Yup, it took me this long to see it. I watched it maybe a month ago.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 13: The last scary movie you saw
We watched this the other night. It was pretty good.

 

[ImpishSeraph]

Day 13: The last scary movie you saw
The Tomorrow War (not really scary, but )

 

[Kitty_so_frisky]

Day 13: The last scary movie you saw
I watched Umma last night. Scary mothers and generational trauma…relatable AF

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 12: A movie with a vampire

Vampire D another good one

Only one movie per prompt.

 

[FreckledSprite]

Day 13: The last scary movie you saw

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 13: The last scary movie you saw

We just watched this. I love this movie.

 

[vagrantx]

Incidentally, the answer to both questions is the same, so...

Day 12: A movie with a vampire
Day 13: The last scary movie you saw.

Frostbiten!

A fantastic piece of dark comedy horror, satirical and trippy. It takes place in Norrland, north of the polar circle.
Night has fallen, the sun won't rise for 30 days, and a little village has a tiny bit of a problem... It's hilarious

 

[PearlyDewdrops]

The last scary movie I saw was...

I just watched Uzumaki. It's a series but it's film length and I would have paid to see it on the big screen.

 

[orangecurious]

Day 13: The last scary movie you saw.

The Vanishing
Note, this is the original French/Dutch film.
You may have gathered from my posts that i'm not a scary film fan. I saw this as it was meant to be good... a thriller, mystery, whatever. The stunned silence of the audience of the screening before should have given the game away.
It was/is a GREAT film. It shocked me to my core and I still shudder thinking about it.
No spoilers

Thank you for a great 13 days of film fun.