Oh, The Horror!

[ElectricBlue]

It Follows

Puts its hooks in early, and keeps the unease flowing

 

[Anomic]

It Follows

Puts its hooks in early, and keeps the unease flowing

I quite liked this film, but had a few issues with it. I did think it was sort of interesting how it was more or less The Ring with a different delivery mechanism. I'm curious so see what the film makers make for their next one.

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

Has anyone been keeping up with the TV series Salem?
I've stayed away from the show expecting it to be absolute nonsense; I know the actual history of the trials very well, have visited Salem a dozen times, and expect the show to just insight rage more than anything else if I allow myself to think too hard while watching the show.

I've had people recommend the show to me regardless: "Just pretend it's not Salem, Salem," they tell me.
And now there's this:

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/05/salem-marilyn-manson-season-3-trailer

^Manson...playing Satan's bitch.

I'm almost tempted to catch up on the first two seasons to watch this one. Anyone wanna weigh in on whether or not it would be worth it?

 

[lovecraft68]

Has anyone been keeping up with the TV series Salem?
I've stayed away from the show expecting it to be absolute nonsense; I know the actual history of the trials very well, have visited Salem a dozen times, and expect the show to just insight rage more than anything else if I allow myself to think too hard while watching the show.

I've had people recommend the show to me regardless: "Just pretend it's not Salem, Salem," they tell me.
And now there's this:

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/05/salem-marilyn-manson-season-3-trailer

^Manson...playing Satan's bitch.

I'm almost tempted to catch up on the first two seasons to watch this one. Anyone wanna weigh in on whether or not it would be worth it?

My only response about Salem and the Witch trials is I agree about the rage aspect and will spare the board the most hate filled anti religious fuck the Puritans and I hope I meet Cotton Mather in hell rant you can imagine.

Those women were tortured raped and killed in the name of "God" burned at the stake while the 'loving Christians' cheered and let their kids watch.

I heard the show is a payback type thing where the witches are 'winning' but still it just calls up crap and reminds me of why I let my dog out to chase any religious asshole knocking on my door out of the yard.

"Oops, he got out."

The world would be a much more peaceful place without the 'holy' followers of Jesus and Mohammed.

Okay, rant slipped, return to regularly scheduled programming.

 

[lovecraft68]

They're redoing Blair Witch....why? The first one had that POV gimmick going and did a decent job on the Myth, but nothing and I mean nothing happened.

Then there was this sequel "Book Of Shadows" that was a more traditional-as in T&A and more blood-movie that was terrible.

Now in this one its the brother of one of the women in the original going to look for her.

Plot synopsis.

Oh, look scary stick things that look like they were made by first graders! Oh, no a house. Oh, no hand prints on the wall. Oh! Now I'm standing in the corner for no reason!

The End.

Who needs rotten tomatoes when you have rotten me?

 

[lovecraft68]

On the note of remakes, here's a couple that I thought were well done.

Carpenter's The Thing (From the 50's Thing from another world and based on a Richard Matheson story)

Thirteen Ghosts had some originality to it and was pretty good.

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

My only response about Salem and the Witch trials is I agree about the rage aspect and will spare the board the most hate filled anti religious fuck the Puritans and I hope I meet Cotton Mather in hell rant you can imagine.
*snip=rant*

Dude, I know it's Sunday and all, but you can skip the preachin'. A simple 'that show is crap' would have sufficed.

 

[lovecraft68]

Dude, I know it's Sunday and all, but you can skip the preachin'. A simple 'that show is crap' would have sufficed.

Never saw it and the rant explains why I won't bother. And...Sunday's just another day to me. Except I don't have to work.

My wife however will go to church because she's a spiritual(she stresses spiritual not religious) person. A more opposite couple you'd be hard pressed to find.

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

Never saw it and the rant explains why I won't bother. And...Sunday's just another day to me. Except I don't have to work.

My wife however will go to church because she's a spiritual(she stresses spiritual not religious) person. A more opposite couple you'd be hard pressed to find.

Well see, you got sidetracked by your own rant that you never clarified whether or not you had actually seen the show.

...and you're talkin' to an agnostic who's married to a devout Lutheran. 'Opposites attract' is a common expression for a reason.

 

[lovecraft68]

Well see, you got sidetracked by your own rant that you never clarified whether or not you had actually seen the show.

...and you're talkin' to an agnostic who's married to a devout Lutheran. 'Opposites attract' is a common expression for a reason.

She writes spiritual poetry and self help books and is a motivational speaker. I write...well we know what I write.

We did a radio interview together "The Author's hour" and she talked about her book "Your Journey to Happiness" and I did "Abigail"

I've dubbed us the saints and sinners tour.

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

They're redoing Blair Witch....why? The first one had that POV gimmick going and did a decent job on the Myth, but nothing and I mean nothing happened.

I'm not a fan of movies using the camera as a first person POV prop; all of the shaking and lack of focus just messes with my eyes and gives me a headache. So I'll be skipping this movie.

The way that Cloverfield was filmed was my biggest grievance about that movie for the same reason.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm not a fan of movies using the camera as a first person POV prop; all of the shaking and lack of focus just messes with my eyes and gives me a headache. So I'll be skipping this movie.

The way that Cloverfield was filmed was my biggest grievance about that movie for the same reason.

Saw Cloverfield, but skipped the sequel, felt I wouldn't miss anything.

The Taking of Deborah Logan was filmed that way. For some reason I thought it worked in that movie, not sure why.

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

Saw Cloverfield, but skipped the sequel, felt I wouldn't miss anything.

The Taking of Deborah Logan was filmed that way. For some reason I thought it worked in that movie, not sure why.

Becausssseee you were too wrapped up in your fetish for old ladies to notice?

 

[lovecraft68]

Becausssseee you were too wrapped up in your fetish for old ladies to notice?

Well there's always that....but it started as a documentary like Blair witch, but just didn't seem so manic.

 

[TitfuckerMike]

On the note of remakes, here's a couple that I thought were well done.

Carpenter's The Thing (From the 50's Thing from another world and based on a Richard Matheson story)

Thirteen Ghosts had some originality to it and was pretty good.

The Thing wasn't Matheson. John W Campbell's "Who Goes There" was the source material.

But yeah, for me the remake surpassed the original. Brilliant paranoid horror.

 

[lovecraft68]

The Thing wasn't Matheson. John W Campbell's "Who Goes There" was the source material.

But yeah, for me the remake surpassed the original. Brilliant paranoid horror.

You're right and that's not the first time I've mixed that up

Matheson did give us several stories that went into movie form, some good some bad

The Legend of Hellhouse is one of my favorite books, movie was awful, but it was early 70's.

I am Legend totally pissed me off in book form. The ending in the Will Smith movie was far more tolerable.

Stir of Echoes was very good-course I'm a sucker for what turned out to be a female revenge story of sorts

What Dreams may come was one of those movies that was such a downer it wasn't entertaining.

One of his most famous and often quoted because of William Shatner's role in the Twilight Zone version was Nightmare at 20,000 feet.

"There's something on the wing! Some-thing!"

 

[TitfuckerMike]

I am Legend totally pissed me off in book form. The ending in the Will Smith movie was far more tolerable.

Really? That's a surprise, usually it's the other way around. The title of the novel IS the ending itself, the irony of one legend fading away and Neville becoming the feared creature of legend. The Smith movie had some good moments, but for me totally fucked the book. Of course they started out on the wrong foot when Warners decreed there would be no vampires in the film.

The book has never gotten a good treatment onscreen. The Vincent Price version is awful, although some like the atmosphere. The Omega Man is a guilty pleasure of mine, but they also just screw the novel over.

What's odd though, if you read Matheson's screenplay for an abandoned version, he also totally changes the ending.

For me, the book could not have ended any other way.

At least it wasn't the version being prepped for Schwarzenegger, which is awful, just truly bad. You can probably still find the screenplay by Mark Protosevich online. If you dare.

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

bumping because Halloween is around the corner...

...because Dahmer was just mentioned in another thread...
http://www.darkvomit.com/images/uploads/dahmerderf1.jpg

They were handing out free copies of the uncorrected proofs at the NYC comic con in 2011, so you bet I grabbed one.

...and because they are making a movie of this...and have casted some Disney Highschool musical wannabe as Jeffery Dahmer. I'm almost interested in seeing it, not in theaters, but maybe when it hits Netflix or something.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2291540/

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Every time I think of Barker I think of my personal favorite of his in movie form, Nightbreed.

It always pisses me off that we get sequel after sequel of movies that never needed one and that movie was wide open for one and it was never done. David Cronnenberg was a serious sick bastard in that movie.

Just now finding this thread and OMG I LOVE horror! I'm more into tv shows and movies, not really comics or even books, but me and my kids, well most of them, love horror movies!
My youngest son grew up watching all things scary with me. He loved the Creepshow movie when he was little, he called it Bones Reads A Book, LOL!When he was around 4 he watched it every day, a few times a day, and another movie we had called Slash, I think. Ok it was Slash, but not the new Slash that came out, this is from 2002.

I love Nightbreed, that movie scared the crap out of me and I was an adult when I saw it the first time! I wish there was a sequel for it.

Another movie that scared me was Trilogy Of Terror. Saw that was I was like 5, was scared to death of that little creepy doll in the last story.

Oh and Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark, the original. I was afraid to close my eyes at night, I was certain when I opened them that those demons would be lurking around my room.

Another creepy one was Let's Scare Jessica To Death. Super creepy and scared me when I was a kid.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

I've gone long enough without mentioning the greatest horror movie of all time in my humble opinion.

The Exorcist. Sure, its lost punch over the years as we see more and more gore and special effects and what not...

But in 1973 this movie caused absolute hysterics. There'd never been anything like it before and even today that scene with the cross stands up as pretty brutal.

The Exorcist was condemned as evil, people wanted it banned etc...ironically it was a story of faith which of course the book shows more.

And the book is far more powerful than the movie. I read it every October going on over thirty years now. I get something new from it every time.

here's some of the 'greatest hits'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaO_Y8DN0L4

There is only one thing scarier than this movie....all the horrifically bad sequels and prequels

But I'm excited about the Fox remake of it coming this fall in TV series form

This movie scared me so bad but I saw it at the drive in in 1973 so that would mean I was 5! I was so scared of my older sister after I saw it, certain she would get possessed like Reagan did.
And of course growing up in ST Louis where my mom told me the movie was based on a true story and it happened in ST Louis didn't really help!

I actually liked one of the sequels, #3 maybe? The one with George C Scott, had some very scary parts I thought.

 

[lovecraft68]

The Exorcist TV series is interesting. The tie to the original is pretty damn loose. Short of the duo of an older experienced priest and a young one, there's not much in common.

This series focuses on multiple demons and a possible epidemic of possession in Chicago which is coinciding with the impending visit of the Pope. In general good stuff, I'm happy so far

For a bonus last episode featured the girl about to be sexually assaulted on a subway and she ends up shredding the guys chest with her nails and breaking his jaw.

Demonic possession and a wannabe rapist getting his? Does not get any better.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Sorry to keep posting, but horror is my favorite genre of movies!
Another favorite in our family, which really is a comedy horror is Killer Klowns. My son watched it every day too. He grew up on horror movies and games.

I love the old British shows like Tales From The Crypt of Vault Of Horror.
Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, and of course my love for Boris Karloff is obvious, I named my cat after him! I love the tv show Thriller just to see my 'boyfriend'.

 

[lovecraft68]

Sorry to keep posting, but horror is my favorite genre of movies!
Another favorite in our family, which really is a comedy horror is Killer Klowns. My son watched it every day too. He grew up on horror movies and games.

I love the old British shows like Tales From The Crypt of Vault Of Horror.
Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, and of course my love for Boris Karloff is obvious, I named my cat after him! I love the tv show Thriller just to see my 'boyfriend'.

The Killer Klowns thing has a whole new meaning now.

This Clown thing is getting way past sick. A guy was arrested in RI for waving a hatchet-a real one-at a three year old. Newport is stating no one can be dressed as an on Halloween if you do you will be arrested.

My daughter says people think this started from the Purge. Who knows but several people have already started talking about forming a group to patrol the neighborhood on Halloween night.

I gladly volunteered. So far these sick pricks have targeted children and women who are alone.

As I told my wife...

I want one.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

The Exorcist TV series is interesting. The tie to the original is pretty damn loose. Short of the duo of an older experienced priest and a young one, there's not much in common.

This series focuses on multiple demons and a possible epidemic of possession in Chicago which is coinciding with the impending visit of the Pope. In general good stuff, I'm happy so far

For a bonus last episode featured the girl about to be sexually assaulted on a subway and she ends up shredding the guys chest with her nails and breaking his jaw.

Demonic possession and a wannabe rapist getting his? Does not get any better.

I'll have to see if I can find it online. I'm watching AHS because we always watch it every season, although I haven't watched the last two episodes of Hotel yet because I didn't really like it.

Want to watch Penny Dreadful but just haven't had time yet.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

The Killer Klowns thing has a whole new meaning now.

This Clown thing is getting way past sick. A guy was arrested in RI for waving a hatchet-a real one-at a three year old. Newport is stating no one can be dressed as an on Halloween if you do you will be arrested.

My daughter says people think this started from the Purge. Who knows but several people have already started talking about forming a group to patrol the neighborhood on Halloween night.

I gladly volunteered. So far these sick pricks have targeted children and women who are alone.

As I told my wife...

I want one.

And it sucks because a clown costume is so much fun! My son was a scary clown when he was little.

We've had people doing it here too and I live in a fairly small town.