Quick look back before we move forward:

 

The user reviews on Shudder for both of  Mackay’s 2024 films are very normal and not insane. 

DAAAAAAAAMN! Somebody made a comic-style rendition of the new Count Orlok and it's a banger. 

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Oh man. I was harping on that old talking point of mine of the Cinefantastique magazine reviews of genre films being terrible, and check out this howler. I'll just write it out verbatim.

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HALLOWEEN (insert cast and crew)

A stony-faced butcher-knife wacko terrorizes an oblivious glut of high school stereotypes in a Chicago suburb on Hallowe'en. Prowling around in a stolen car and wearing a Leatherface style rubber mask, he is totally unnoticed by the blockhead police and boring populace. Michael Myers, you see, was locked up at age 6 for knifing his sister, and now has become the earthly manifestation of the "boogeyman", apparently invisible to all but his victims at stabbing time. 

Carpenter limply exploits All Hallows Eve as almost an afterthought, deleting character motivation or plot comprehensibility in favor of the standard stalk-and-scare. His leaden direction of the murder scenes hampers his already ridiculous story. Viewers aren't even tricked, much less treated. 

Dave Schow

(No, it's not THAT Dave Schow, the one who wrote The Crow.) 

Yes my friends, that is what CFQ, in 1979, thought about Halloween. 

On 1/5/2025 at 1:42 AM, Curt McGirt said:

DAAAAAAAAMN! Somebody made a comic-style rendition of the new Count Orlok and it's a banger. 

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Kinda looks like Pac 

This is the actual Max Schreck! Wow. 

EDIT: Oh god, I have to add this. 

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Edited January 7, 20251 yr by Curt McGirt

So, Nosferatu was really good. So happy to have a proper adaptation of Dracula without sexy vampires.

https://youtu.be/Qr_kX0D3DNA?si=nMjoU7UQQ3ZtAFqI

That is the trailer for Companion

Written and directed by Drew Hancock (“My Dead Ex,” “Suburgatory”)

Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid

Trailer gives away A LOT

Also probably NSFW due to blood

Looks pretty funny. We know Gizmo is good at the horror comedy so that should work well (I really hope this isn't a sign of him getting typecast, though). 

1 hour ago, J.T. said:

So, Nosferatu was really good. So happy to have a proper adaptation of Dracula without sexy vampires.

speak for yourself

5 hours ago, J.T. said:

So, Nosferatu was really good. So happy to have a proper adaptation of Dracula without sexy vampires.

My reply in full:

I would argue that based on the boom in human/monster romance fiction in the past decade, Nosferatu is definitely doing it for somebody out there. 

29 minutes ago, (BP) said:

I would argue that based on the boom in human/monster romance fiction in the past decade, Nosferatu is definitely doing it for somebody out there. 

That's an academic paper id like to read. 

She was so horny she 

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PULLED OFF A MURDER-SUICIDE WITH THE VAMPIRE

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So yeah, that movie is still really really really about sex. 

*sigh* Here we go again... remake time. As if the TV show wasn't enough. 

I've seen The recent remake and something like part 8 on scfi (which sucked but the actual Hellraisers where pretty cool)

Part 8 would be Hellworld which is honestly my favorite of the sequels (and if you catch me in the right mood I'd say my favorite period but I'm not a big fan of the original) even though it originally started as a non-Hellraiser movie.

They're putting The Substance back in theaters since Demi won the Golden Globe 😃

On 1/14/2025 at 12:20 PM, RazorbladeKiss87 said:

Part 8 would be Hellworld which is honestly my favorite of the sequels (and if you catch me in the right mood I'd say my favorite period but I'm not a big fan of the original) even though it originally started as a non-Hellraiser movie.

Is there a list somewhere of movies that started off as their own thing but were rewritten and repurposed as a sequel or for existing IP?  I want to say Ocean’s 12 is an example of that but yeah, I find that shit fascinating.

Edited January 15, 20251 yr by Technico Support

https://www.strandedrecords.com/collections/newsletter/products/tobe-hooper-and-wayne-bell-the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-ost-lp?mc_cid=af7d6285ae&mc_eid=db9738ab7e

Here's that awesome Texas Chainsaw OST

4 hours ago, Technico Support said:

Is there a list somewhere of movies that started off as their own thing but were rewritten and repurposed as a sequel or for existing IP?  I want to say Ocean’s 12 is an example of that but yeah, I find that shit fascinating.

I think Cracked had a list once. It's honestly a topic someone could easily write a fun book about. Better than another "Movies that never got made" book.

 

EDIT: https://collider.com/movies-not-originally-conceived-as-sequels/

Here's one. Didn't know that about Saw II

Edited January 16, 20251 yr by RazorbladeKiss87

Scream (Shout) Factory has their own channel on the Dish streamers and, thankfully, it's 100% uncensored! So I just got to see a hell of a double-bill in Evilspeak and Cannibal Apocalypse.

Evilspeak I've never gotten around to seeing all these years even though it's uber-Satanic and features good ol' Clint Howard in the lead. The story is, Clint is a put-upon, bullied student at a Christian military school whos parents died in a car wreck. Said school was built by, or in tribute to (or something) a Satanic priest who was chased out of Spain by the Inquisition (why they didn't just torture and murder him and his followers instead of banishing them in the pre-credits is beyond me). His grave and his cool sword and his books of devilry are all buried in the basement behind a brick wall, and guess who discovers them? All the kids and teachers in this movie are assholes and after treating Clint like shit the whole movie he gets some pretty brutal revenge, including an invasion of flesh-eating pigs! Cheap but sweet gore effects abound. This was really fun and has a bunch of early digital stuff like you would find in '80s "computer" movies -- apparently there's a ghost in the machine that helps Clint along in his spell-casting. Richard Moll is the evil Father Esteban, so seeing a Satanic Bailiff Bull Shannon is cool too. 

Now, Cannibal Apocalypse (AKA Cannibals in the Streets, Apocalypse Domani, Invasion of the Flesh Hunters; boy those are some SICK titles) is one of my favorite Italian splatter flicks. It's a cannibal picture but in the vein of The Crazies or I Drink Your Blood or something, not a jungle flick with live animal murder. It's also kind of an action picture as well. John Saxon is an Army sergeant who saves two of his men captured by the Viet Cong. When they get back to the states both guys are thrown in the nut ward because they were chowing down on a VC victim in the holding pit while the sarge has a normal life. They let out one of them, the great Giovanni Lombardo Radice/John Morghen* playing a guy named Charles Bukowski (?!). He's supposedly cured but still has the CANNIBAL VIRUS that he's gonna spread by chewing on a bunch of people. There's a battle in a flea market where he ends up pissing on a can of tear gas to put it out (Saxon: "You just gotta piss on it, Charlie." Radice: "Yeah... PISS ON IT." 😆) then they all go on the run to break out the other dude (who is crazy angry and yells and mugs constantly) and go on an eatin' spree! John Saxon runs through the whole film looking on in distaste with the whole proceedings, and really hated it in real life as much as Antonio Margheriti did directing it. But you my friend, you will enjoy seeing Johnny Radice gnaw through a gas station attendant's leg with an electric hand saw, yes you will, and the redneck police chief cursing at everyone you will enjoy too, yes you will. The less said about the weird Lolita moment with the neighbor girl early in the film the better, but otherwise, this is a blast.

* From The Gates of Hell/City of the Living Dead, House by the Edge of the Park, Cannibal Ferox, Stagefright, etc.

Edited January 18, 20251 yr by Curt McGirt

Another Margheriti (or Anthony Dawson, if you want) special is on now: Killer Fish from '79. With Margot Hemingway, Karen Black and LEE MAJORS~! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql64xOgB8zA&ab_channel=Mr80sMovies

Man not only does Cannibal Apocalypse has all those titles, they all have killer posters!

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NOW! That's What I Call Poster Art