nate Posted December 8, 2017 Share Posted December 8, 2017 I'm hoping for something Lovecraftian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 11, 2017 Author Share Posted December 11, 2017 I consider Personal Shopper to be more of a psychological thriller than a horror movie, but it is currently on rotation on Showtime Networks & available through SHO On Demand and definitely worth a watch. It will soon be released on Criterion Collection. Also The Belko Experiment is in Cinemax's rotation and available on Cinemax Go or whatever they call their On Demand service. It ain't Rembrandt, but you don't need it to be. mother! is now available in the PPV queue of your local cable provider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 That Slumber movie looks no bueno. I don't think I've ever seen a good movie that feature night terrors or sleep paralysis as the hook. They're all corny and awful. Except for that one documentary. That was fun. I watched The Green Inferno. It was not good. When did Eli Roth's movies start visually looking so cheap and bad? I'm not talking about the stuff in the jungle, but all the stuff in the first half. I don't remember Cabin Fever or Hostel looking this bad. I guess my favorite part was when the one girl had to take a massive shit and couldn't hold it and when she took a dump, this harrowing music played like she was getting sent to the gas chamber in Schindler's List. Terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 3 minutes ago, jaedmc said: night terrors Not a Freddy fan? EDIT: "Corny and awful" does describe most of them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 I am huge fan, but I don't consider that the same thing necessarily. Maybe it is or I misused night terrors. Are their other good movies about people falling asleep and being unable to move? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Not to my recollection. To note, even though I'm not a huge Nightmare fan I grew up on Freddy and consider the first, New Nightmare, and surprisingly part 5 to be quite good. The first cracked my TOP 100 HORROR FILMS OF ALL TIME LIST btw (hint, hint) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 The sequels are worthwhile just for the amazing special effects. Say what you want about the movie but when that girl gets transformed into a bug, it looks pretty incredible and holds up well today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Yeah, wasn't that Screaming Mad George who did that one? I think 4 had like three different major FX departments working on it (just like 5 had three different major Splatterpunk authors writing it). EDIT: Good lord, I went to the iMDB page for 4. This is the list of effects people Quote Teresa M. Austin ... key hair stylist (as Teresa Austin) Howard Berger ... makeup application: Freddy Krueger, Kevin Yagher Productions R. Christopher Biggs ... additional makeup effects creator / key makeup effects: R. Chris Biggs EFX Shop / special makeup effects artist John Carl Buechler ... special makeup effects artist John Criswell ... makeup effects mechanical: R. Chris Biggs EFX Shop Bill Forsche ... special makeup effects artist Screaming Mad George ... makeup artist Laura Gorman ... assistant makeup Steve Johnson ... special makeup effects Roger McCoin ... makeup effects mechanical: R. Chris Biggs EFX Shop Bart Mixon ... special makeup effects artist Suzanne Parker Sanders ... makeup department head Dawn Schrum ... makeup Julie Socash ... assistant hair stylist (as Julie Travis Socash) Alicia M. Tripi ... hair stylist Brian Wade ... special makeup effects artist Jay Wellington ... hair A.J. Workman ... makeup effects mechanical: R. Chris Biggs EFX Shop Chris Yagher ... special make-up effects Kevin Yagher ... makeup creator: Freddy Krueger / special makeup effects Vera Yurtchuk ... makeup artist That's quite the talent pool right there. The list for 5 is like ten times longer but it seems to be mostly KNB and "uncredited". And 5 was written by Craven, Skipp and Spector, and Leslie Bohem; I thought Dave Schow was in on a rewrite or two but he's unlisted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 13, 2017 Author Share Posted December 13, 2017 2 hours ago, jaedmc said: I don't think I've ever seen a good movie that feature night terrors or sleep paralysis as the hook. On the night terrors front, I can only think of the Elm Street movies and Wes Craven Presents: THEY~!. THEY~! is not entirely horrible but it ain't The Exorcist either and bad though they may be, I give most Elm Street sequels a pass for the same reason I give most F13 movies a pass aka the memorable body counts. The "Welcome To Prime Time, Bitch!" scene from Elm Street / Dream Warriors still unnerves me to this very day. As far as sleep paralysis goes, my brain only comes up with Dead Awake. Sleep paralysis is a story device in movies like The Conjuring, The Babadook, and one or two movies in the Phantasm franchise, but it's not hook of the plotline. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 1 hour ago, jaedmc said: The sequels are worthwhile just for the amazing special effects. Say what you want about the movie but when that girl gets transformed into a bug, it looks pretty incredible and holds up well today. I just watched Dream Master for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and that sequence was legitimately horrifying and wonderfully Cronenbergy. It's pretty wild that it's in the same movie as the Kung fu Freddy kill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 The Playlist's top 15 horror movies of 2017 There are a couple at the bottom of the list that I don't consider to be 2017 movies... but I've seen 11 of these 15, so that's pretty good. Gotta get around to watching Gerald's Game. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 13, 2017 Author Share Posted December 13, 2017 Sadly, I've only seen about half of those. Most of them I would consider to be psychological thrillers, but damn near everything suspenseful or frightening is classified as horror these days. Gerald's Game, It Comes At Night, and Raw are fucking awesome, BTW, and I should be getting the Criterion of The Lure as a Christmas present. Hounds of Love and The Killing of a Sacred Deer are both on my Pile of Shame to be watched within the next few days. Get Out! is an instant classic and deserves the #1 spot. I have watched mother! three times now and I appreciate it a little more every time I see it. It definitely requires multiple viewings because it is a movie to be studied and comprehended rather than a movie where I just sit by as mindless voyeur waiting to be entertained. And yeah, horrific things happen in mother!, but it's no more of a horror movie than Black Swan was. Happy Death Day definitely should've made that list. It should've been #2 as a matter of opinion because it was also fucking great. I'd probably have put Annabelle: Creation in the third spot just because it was a major improvement over the first film in tone and story. I enjoyed Lake Bodom (I was intrigued by the actual crimes the movie is based on, but that was a 2016 movie so it would not make my 2017 list. Same for The Girl With All The Gifts, Split, and The Void; all excellent movies that are 2016 releases, not 2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 21, 2017 Author Share Posted December 21, 2017 IT! is now available On Demand PPV and digital download.. JUST IN TIME FOR..... Christmas???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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