The Natural Posted October 25, 2025 Posted October 25, 2025 Last night I went to see Halloween (1978) in a cinema. Watching Halloween here reaffirms my belief it's a classic and one of the best horror films ever made. To me, it's second only to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). Michael Myers is a horror icon. The thing I looked most forward to was the Halloween opening credits to John Carpenter's main theme. Iconic. I had a chuckle when I got home to find BBC Two was showing the film at 23:00 so I watched it a second time. No wonder I'm fucking tired.
The Natural Posted October 25, 2025 Posted October 25, 2025 (edited) As it's the scary season, here's my top twelve horror films ever made: 12. Jaws (1975). 11. Psycho (1960). 10. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). 9. Let the Right One In (2008). 8. Shaun of the Dead (2004). 7. The Silence of the Lambs (1991). 6. Dawn of the Dead (1978). 5. Scream (1996). 4. Night of the Living Dead (1968). 3. The Exorcist (1973). 2. Halloween (1978). 1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). Edited October 25, 2025 by The Natural 1
Mike Campbell Posted October 25, 2025 Posted October 25, 2025 I sat down with The Strangers Chapter 2 last night. I'd been meaning to for a bit, since I've seen all the others but I kept hearing how bad it was and started putting it off. Maybe they all just set the bar too low, because I thought it was perfectly fine. Granted, it's not supposed to be high quality cinema, but it worked perfectly fine for me. And I appreciated that they didn't go the full Halloween 2 with the hospital setting.
Eivion Posted October 26, 2025 Posted October 26, 2025 Been watching a bunch of random things like V/H/S, Ready or Not, Weapons, Color Out of Space, etc. Enjoyed most of it so far. The highlight was finally getting From Dusk Till Dawn out of my pile of shame. Not sure why i waited so long for that one as I have been able to catch it on one of our apps for at least two years now. Just trying to figure out what I will catch next. Considering the Exorcist, but I weirdly keep wanting to wait until I have access to Repossessed to watch afterward. 1
GojiColin Posted October 27, 2025 Posted October 27, 2025 I saw Shelby Oaks yesterday. For a directorial debut I thought it was pretty good, though it is a slow-burner so I can see that turning people off. It was nice to see a horror protagonist make more Normal Human decisions then your average protagonist and part of the slow start is really establishing her as caring, but consumed with trying to find her sister. I felt that made some choices she makes once things really kick off make more sense because we know her obsession has taken over her judgement. My biggest complaint might not even be the films fault, but the screening I was at it was too damn dark to see details. Like there was a scene where the protagonist was watching old footage and rewinding it to really drive home the importance of what was in the scene; but the image was so dark you couldn't make out what it was. All in all I'd give it like 3 to 3.5 stars; I wasn't blown away, but I walked out enjoying it and hoping the director gets to do another film.
Dolfan in NYC Posted October 27, 2025 Author Posted October 27, 2025 So, cheap plug time... My buddy Josh Pangborn (Who you can now see as the chubby redhead in HBO's The Chair Company) has put up his latest horror anthology movie on Amazon Prime! THE BROOKLYN BUTCHER
Dolfan in NYC Posted October 27, 2025 Author Posted October 27, 2025 Additionally! Here's the trailer for his newest film... Quote A man desperate for a place to belong travels to a remote manor to submit himself for ownership by a mysterious BDSM master obsessed with dolls. THE CONTRACT Hoping to have this ready for distribution early next year.
odessasteps Posted October 28, 2025 Posted October 28, 2025 The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew team up to track down the boys father in Europe/. guest stars: Lorne Greene, Paul Williams, Bernie Taupin and Leon Askin from Hogans Heroes. at least 2 songs from Paul and 1 from Shawn. Why? There’s a Halloween themed rock n roll festival in a Transylvanian castle.
The Natural Posted October 30, 2025 Posted October 30, 2025 On 10/26/2025 at 8:32 PM, Eivion said: Been watching a bunch of random things like V/H/S, Ready or Not, Weapons, Color Out of Space, etc. Enjoyed most of it so far. The highlight was finally getting From Dusk Till Dawn out of my pile of shame. Not sure why i waited so long for that one as I have been able to catch it on one of our apps for at least two years now. Just trying to figure out what I will catch next. Considering the Exorcist, but I weirdly keep wanting to wait until I have access to Repossessed to watch afterward. Glad you've finally seen From Dusk Till Dawn. One of my favourites that, never saw the turn coming going from one genre to the next. 1
Curt McGirt Posted October 31, 2025 Posted October 31, 2025 That really was a bonkers moment, just brutal. ...and until the soundtrack came on, I thought maybe in that atrocious remake sequel, they had actually done that
Curt McGirt Posted October 31, 2025 Posted October 31, 2025 Okay, I'm gonna do it... I'm gonna rate the Friday the 13th pictures. Yep. And it is gonna be super biased and nobody is gonna agree with it. Spoiler Friday the 13th: Classic, of course. Shot too dim but the kills are pretty cracker-jack. Great ending. Great Carrie ripoff denouement. Savini was rockin'. 10/10 in actual talent. Friday the 13th Part 2: Probably the best-acted and most intelligent of the series. Mountain Man Jason with the bag on his head is killer. 10/10 for the above. Friday the 13th Part 3D: My faaaaaave! Yes it is the best one. This is because it's so goofy: the individual characters, the gimmicks for the 3D (a board with a rat on it? A kid holding a baseball bat out behind him? A frickin' YO-YO. But it does have the super-duper spear gun scene). The random-ass racially-mixed biker group that are clearly the only three in Crystal Lake so they had to gang together. The really stupid ripoff of the first movie's shocker, only Mutant Jason showing up in the window doing that creepy frenzied scrape against the glass frame, then EXPLODING THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR. 100/10! Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter: I think it's solid as a prototypical Friday that's done about as best as they could get it to be, Crispin Glover dances like a spazz, and the end is cool. But... it's kinda too standard, and boring. Great finish though. 8/10. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning: You might not be surprised to find out that this one is my OTHER favorite. That's because the sleaze factor is higher than any of the movies ever. The punk crazy killing the fat kid, which is hilarious and super gruesome. The balding mustache schlub with the coke and his girlfriend spraying her crotch down in the bathroom for later! The greasers? Why greasers? The other best dance scene in any Friday movie with the New Wave chick doing the Robot. The best looking girl of the early movies (most of them were preeetty unpretty) getting nekkid and him and her boyfriend getting two of the most brutal deaths of the entire series. And the end is rad: chainsaws and farm impliments and a backhoe! This one also gets a 100/10. Oh god and I almost forgot about Crazy Ethel and Junior. "Get away from me sheriff! I got a bomb on me. I'll blow us all up!" Now that is some greasy-grease-grease. I think the director had only done porn before too! Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives: Cool beginning then the slick Bond bit. The paintball survivalists were a good kill. The face into the RV side was innovative, and we get the sleeping bag spot in this one, right? Finale is actually suspenseful. But... *sigh* The humor, while well done, isn't necessary at all, and the conflict with Tommy and the cop is irritating. And there is like, no blood. 6/10. Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood: I dig on this one a little more with the Carrie final girl, Kane Hodder finally showing up with that gnarly Zombie Jason getup, him using some kind of weed-whacker at one point. But I wonder why if you're telekinetic you don't just use your powers to turn Jason upside down in the air and drive him headfirst into concrete until he's chunked. 6/10. Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan: Horrible. Horrible. Only good parts are the ghetto-blaster kid with mask raise and the infamous boxing spot. 0/10. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday: I liked this one as a kid, but later views way less. The soundtrack is just the pits especially, irritating throughout. The start of this one though, holy shit. And the kill in the tent where the girl got split up the middle was great. I'll split it down the middle and give the pre-credits + autopsy scene (the eating the heart is sooooo groooooss) an 8/10 and the rest of it a 5/10. Jason X: Oh god, Jason Goes to Space? Cyborg Jason? I am a total outlier on finding this humorous and watchable, but it's incredibly stupid. The frozen head bust is nice. 3/10. Freddy vs. Jason: I am also gonna be an outlier on this one because I think it's a blast and watched it three times (by my memory) in the theater. Yeah, it's about as dumb as the last one, but it's so fun. The cornfield kegger getting massacred, the Destiny's Child chick talking shit to Freddy, the air tanks being used as missiles, great stuff. 8/10. Friday the 13th: The Remake: I'm actually watching this for the first time right now and I'm gonna give it a straight 9/10 almost. I've seen the ending before this but now I saw the beginning. Holy shit. Jason is Super Jason now, he's a fuckin' beast running up on people and using the machete like an artiste. The kids actually look attractive? Really? That's a change. (Except for final girl in FvJ who is hot-hot. Yeah I'm gonna be Cibernetico about these movies and don't feel guilty.) So, 8-9/10, more than likely. That was fun! 1
Curt McGirt Posted October 31, 2025 Posted October 31, 2025 Aw man I did not expect it at all but Friday the 13th 2009 (wow that's a long time ago) is... 10/10. Balls-out movie. Very good set construction and setpieces (kills). Fantastic Jason. Good looking kids, both male and female. I avoided it in toto for what, 21 years? My mistake! Only complaint is, it's shot just about as dim as the first movie. Would've been great in the theater or if I was in total darkness but not today.
Curt McGirt Posted October 31, 2025 Posted October 31, 2025 (edited) It might be fair to say/admit that I actually liked the Texas Chainsaw remake EDIT: I also thought the beginning of... The Beginning was cool because 1. David Schow wrote it (though he was smart enough not to do the screenplay after getting burned on TCM 3), and 2. it was really gross. I don't remember the rest of the movie though. But that first one -- pretty vicious. (Just read a synopsis of The Beginning and yeah it was even more gross than the first one. This was knee deep in the 'torture porn' era after all.) Friday Part 3 is on now and forgot to mention the gross grocery store owner who was eating his own food and drinking the OJ then putting it back on the shelf Then he goes and sits down on the crapper to drink Jack Daniels. Oh man how did I forget the DISCO THEME~? Edited October 31, 2025 by Curt McGirt
Curt McGirt Posted November 1, 2025 Posted November 1, 2025 Weapons was just on TV and boy, that was something. You really have no idea where it's going. Don't even try. Just let it wash over you because you will absolutely not understand it until the last "chapter", so to speak. And don't bother any research behind watching a trailer because that'll spoil everything. I love Josh Brolin. 3
Curt McGirt Posted November 1, 2025 Posted November 1, 2025 (edited) Everyone who doesn't have their head explode with vermin from an ancient Irish curse will just simply have seizures! Re: Weapons, I went on Wiki and they had the entire story in freakin' chronological order with the biggest spoiler right on top so DO NOT check it first. Edited November 1, 2025 by Curt McGirt
The Natural Posted November 1, 2025 Posted November 1, 2025 Out of the big three slasher icons, Jason is dead last to me. I've never got into Jason. Freddy and Michael fighting it out for first and second. My Mount Rushmore of slasher icons would probably omit Jason. I'd have: Michael, Freddy, Leatherface and Ghostface.
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