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Went to see The Nun 2 with my aunt last evening.  It has about the usual amount of ONLY THE CATHOLICS CAN SAVE THE UNIVERSE FROM SATAN~! stuff you'd expect from a tale set in the Conjurverse, but we can't really blame this franchise for that since it has been around since The Exorcist and earlier. 

I wish I could remember not to watch these things and donate my money to the upkeep of the Warren family estate.

The premise is a bit silly but Valak is a genuinely terrifying horror icon and that will make you forgive a lot.  There are worse horror movies that you will watch this year.  October is right around the corner.

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Goosebumps

This is a reimagining of the 95 show but it has some ties to the 2015 Jack Black version as the director of that movie (Rob Letterman) is serving as creator and EP on this series

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So October tends to be where I do most of my horror watching for the year series/movie wise. Planning to catch Evil Dead Rise and probably M3gan. Anyone have any suggestions for stuff from the past ten years or so? I use Netflix, Peacock, Paramount, Disney, Prime, & Hulu mainly. Prefer stuff that isn't super bleak.

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24 minutes ago, Eivion said:

So October tends to be where I do most of my horror watching for the year series/movie wise. Planning to catch Evil Dead Rise and probably M3gan. Anyone have any suggestions for stuff from the past ten years or so? I use Netflix, Peacock, Paramount, Disney, Prime, & Hulu mainly. Prefer stuff that isn't super bleak.

My short list for October viewing includes Cobweb, Bones and All (a perfectly fine teenage love story... with cannibalism thrown in for good measure), Incantation (currently on Netflix!), and We're All Going to the World's Fair, but definitely check out Barbarian, Hide & Seek, Talk To Me and Evil Dead Rise if you haven't already.  Those movies would be in my Top 10 list of the 2020's so far.

We're All Going to the World's Fair is kinda bleak, so you might exclude that from your list of potentials.

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One of my favorites from the last decade is Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation (2015, not the more recent movie of the same name.) It’s creepy and deals with some heavy subject matter, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it bleak. It’s on Tubi and Pluto. 

I like the new Screams quite a bit too. I’m sure they’re both on Paramount. 

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I got Evil Dead Rise, Organ Trail, In Fabric and Sound of Violence on deck. (Older ones abound) Haven't seen any of them but they're supposed to be quality far as I know. Barbarian is a good one for sure, check that out. 

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I also enjoyed Terrifier 2 but YMMV wildly on that one. Hell, I found a Facebook Memory the other day from when I saw the first one and I didn't like it! Don't think I've ever seen a sequel I liked where I didn't like the original. 

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Not a fan of Terrifier 1 & 2 because I think that the movies try too hard to push Art the Clown as a horror icon.  Lauren LaVera's final girl in Terrifier 2, Sienna Shaw, is pretty awesome though.  Art the Clown's antics in Terrifier 2 are a lot more bearable because Sienna Shaw is such a great foil for him.

The other movie in the Art the Clown universe aka the anthology, All Hallow's Eve, is pretty good.

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One of our local PBS stations (we have three that show up on Dish for some reason) has a Nightmare Theater with its own horror hosts, including a guy wearing a Dr. Wagner mask called El Sapo. I discovered this a couple weeks ago when they were supposed to be showing The Brain That Wouldn't Die but it ended up being Horror Express, which bit into my watching of All In. Anyway, they've got The Werewolf of Washington with Dean Stockwell on right now. There's a scene where a little-person mad scientist with a Frankenstein monster is in the basement of the White House; Dean as a werewolf gets down on all fours and sniffs his ass. 

It's good that a classic American tradition is continuing!

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I watched Scream 6 (2023). It felt like, the people created this film, they decided that the only people who would ever watch it were people who were deeply invested in every movie in the franchise and knew all of the Scream lore. Whereas I saw the previous, non-numbered sequeboot from 2022 less than a year ago and remembered very little of it.

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Pet Semetary:  Bloodlines

Directed by Lindsey Anderson Beer

Starring

  • Jackson White
  • Forrest Goodluck
  • Jack Mulhern
  • Henry Thomas
  • Natalie Alyn Lind
  • Isabella Star LaBlanc
  • Samantha Mathis
  • Pam Grier
  • David Duchovny

It's a prequel focusing on poor Jud Crandall's story before he gets his Achilles tendon slashed by Demon Baby Gage Creed.

Coming to Paramount+ on 23 September.

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John Carpenter's Suburban Screams

A horror anthology series coming to Peacock.

Begins on 13 October.

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AHS:  Delicate

Yes, that's Kim Kardashian with Emma Roberts.  Yes, Kim is fucking killing it.

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I put the Carpenter news in TV because it looks like a show that could go on some channel like the ID network or one of those other stations with half their broadcasting being what South Park called "murder porn". 

The Pet Sematary show isn't gonna have Mainer accents, is it? Booooooooooo

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No One Will Save You

Directed by Brian Duffield (Underwater, The Babysitter)

Starring Kaitlyn Deaver

Home Alone.... featuring the Woodcrawlers from Genesis Home Entertainment.

Coming to Hulu+ on 22 September.

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Vindicta

Directed by Sean McNamara (Soul Surfer, Spare Parts)

Starring:  Elena Kampouris, Sean Astin, Jeremy Piven.

EMT trainee vs. masked killer during her first day on the job.

Coming to theaters on 6 October.

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Started my Halloween horror watching a bit early with Evil Dead Rise on the weekend. Was always planning to check that one out with my older brother so I had the take the chance on timing whenever I could (only just got him to watch Knives Outs a couple of weeks back). Ended up digging it quite bit. Was much happier with it than I was the remake from a decade ago. Always felt that one was missing some dark humor.

Thinking I will watch Renfield and the Pope's Exorcist in the next 6 weeks or so as well. 

Also every time I see the trailer for the new season of AHS it makes me want to rewatch Scream Queens.

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Is The Pope's Exorcist anywhere near... well, anything? I have no interest in exorcist movies but Crowe is an interesting actor to slot in there and the movie for some reason was on sale at Meijer on DVD (?!) which makes me think "well it made some money at least". (Incidentally, I was looking for Prey, and no dice. It may have been sold out because there was an empty spot in the Ps. I turned around and on the opposite shelf were some SICK movie/horror action figures: Aliens, Predator 1 and 2, even Friday 7! At 35 dollars a pop though, I figured I'd leave them to the experts out there, like some of you kind folks on here.)

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Bought Psycho Girls (1986) and it has this amazing disclaimer at the beginning. Too hot for America.

It's a really fun movie, starts off as a Halloween knockoff, with a young girl killing her parents and being sent to an institution, 15 years later she escapes. From there it goes off in it's own direction, she kidnaps a bunch of people, takes them to another abandoned institution and, along with two other former inmates, starts killing them. They set up little playacting scenarios, like one guy pretending to be an old timey barber, when killing them. The whole thing is an ode to Freud, who they have an alter dedicated to and seemingly worship. It is goofy and gory, with a narrator putting on a hardboiled pulp detective voice. Fun little twist ending as well.

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J.T.

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10 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

Is The Pope's Exorcist anywhere near... well, anything?

It is not as good as it should be, but better than you think it is.

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