J.T. Posted July 20, 2022 Author Share Posted July 20, 2022 It is like the inbred retard love child of A Cure for Wellness, a dozen Cronenberg body horror movies, and some horror joint about crazy white people holding day laborers against their will whose title escapes me right now. I will probably watch it with my kid and laugh at its lack of restraint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 A Quiet Place: Day One has been delayed 6 months and will now come out on March 8, 2024 It was scheduled for Sept 22, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted July 21, 2022 Author Share Posted July 21, 2022 (edited) A photo from the set of the 50 Cent produced horror joint, Skill House: a horror fable harpooning the realm of social media influencers. As you can see, Josh Stolberg (writer of Jigsaw and Spiral) is writing and directing Skill House, so gore hounds need to be ready. Skill House stars 50 Cent (who IIRC is also a producer), Hannah Stocking, Neal McDonough and Leah Pipes. No release date has been announced yet. Edited July 21, 2022 by J.T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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J.T. Posted July 21, 2022 Author Share Posted July 21, 2022 (edited) Challenge accepted, Adam Ellis. Off the top of my head, my list of horror directors with three or more great horror films in their catalogue: Wes Craven (Scream, Nightmare on Elm Street, The People Under the Stairs) George Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, The Crazies) David Cronenberg (The Fly, Rabid, Shivers, The Brood, Scanners, The Dead Zone, Videodrome) John Carpenter (Halloween, They Live, The Thing, Prince of Darkness) Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Hush, Ouija: Origin of Horror, Absentia, Doctor Sleep, Gerald's Game) Mario Bava (Black Sunday, Black Sabbath, Planet of the Vampires) Ti West (House of the Devil, X, The Innkeepers, The Sacrament) Dario Argento has always been hit or miss. I was forced to admit to myself that Takashi Miike's horror is mostly splatter masquerading as horror. Lucio Fulci movies are great to me, but there are a lot of movies in his respective catalogue (and Mario Bava's for that matter) that were obviously made to either earn a paycheck or fulfil a contract. Hideo Nakata has problems making good horror movies that aren't based on anything written by Koji Suzuki, the author of Ring. Takashi Shiimizu has problems making good horror movies that have nothing to do with Ju-On: The Grudge. Kōji Shiraishi infuriates me when he makes great movies like NOROI: The Curse or Teketeke and then turns around and makes dumb pink movies to keep the cash flowing. Edited July 22, 2022 by J.T. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 Why do you hate Alfred Hitchcock or are you trying to claim he isn't a horror director? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted July 21, 2022 Author Share Posted July 21, 2022 (edited) 8 minutes ago, RIPPA said: Why do you hate Alfred Hitchcock or are you trying to claim he isn't a horror director? The latter. I don't think that even Alfred Hitchcock would call anything he's done "horror" except maybe for The Birds. He probably thought of Psycho as a suspense thriller with crime elements just as he did with his other classics like Rope and Vertigo. Edited July 21, 2022 by J.T. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted July 21, 2022 Author Share Posted July 21, 2022 (edited) I thought I was dumb for forgetting Tobe Hooper, but Poltergeist really was secretly directed by Stephen Spielberg, wasn't it? I'd still say that Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Toolbox Murders, and Eaten Alive would qualify him for the list. Probably Lifeforce too if we are counting films that were panned and became cult classics later on once people figured out how awesome they were, which we are since that is pretty much the story of John Carpenter's career. Edited July 21, 2022 by J.T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 THEY/THEM Starring Kevin Bacon, Carrie Preston, and Anna Chlumsky Written & Directed by John Logan (Oscar nominated for writing Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo) -- Premieres August 5 on Peacock. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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J.T. Posted July 21, 2022 Author Share Posted July 21, 2022 (edited) Holy shit, dudes. Director by Ben Parker Starring: Tom Felton, Charlotte Vega, Harriet Walter, Bill Milner. A unit of Russian soldiers tasked with the secret mission of transporting Hitler's remains out of Germany are set upon by Nazi werewolves. Naturally, the first thing I thought of when I heard "Nazi werewolves" was: Edited July 21, 2022 by J.T. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 (edited) Including these: Fulci (Yes. The zombie tetralogy and the painfully cruel The New York Ripper AND Don't Torture A Duckling and A Lizard in a Woman's Skin.) Argento (Yes, Argento. His entire run up to The Stendhal Syndrome.) Amando de Assorio (Blind Dead films and The Loreley's Grasp) Paul Naschy (take your pick) COFFIN JOE/Zé do Caixão Not all of them are great great, but they work for me. And not letting Hooper in is criminal. Texas Chainsaw 2 is the second best movie he ever made. ...I also haven't seen any of the Mike Flanagan films so I will quietly leave haha EDIT: Okay, not so quietly. Jean Rollin has The Grapes of Death and all of his vampire movies. Might be a bridge too far for some though. Does Tod Browning count? We got Dracula and Freaks, but I haven't seen his later horror stuff. Edited July 21, 2022 by Curt McGirt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 (edited) Coffin Joe/Jose Mojica Marins: Holy shit, this is the most NSFW thing I think I've ever posted, so watch out. Your mind might be torn. And morally, you need to take in mind that his character (and personal life, probably, since he had like 14 kids) was extremely sexist and nihilistically Nietzschean. We are all adults though. If there's a problem with people being whipped in Hell let me know and I'll take it down. Edited July 21, 2022 by Curt McGirt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 NOPE was great. It was like some kind of Jaws/Tremors/Signs hybrid with the best live action Akira Motorcycle slide you're gonna see. At one point I started to tear up because for the first time in a long time I really felt wonder while watching a movie in a movie theater. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 Adding to the horror list, Jacques Tourneur did Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, and The Leopard Man back-to-back-to-back 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 Watched The Deadly Spawn with a friend not too long ago. 1983 cheapie about a meteor strike that unleashes giant worms with rows of teeth on a small town. The transfer on Shudder is pretty terrible, looks like a digitized VHS copy, but it really snuck up on us with how enjoyable it was. The first scene was mostly done in silhouette, so we figured that there would never been a good glimpse at the monsters, but there turns out to be some pretty fantastic puppets and fun gore. Best scene is the worms interrupting a vegetarian pot luck brunch being held by a group of elderly women. Definitely a fun watch if you're in the mood for a Critters style monster movie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 Oh man The Deadly Spawn is awesome fun. Watching that as a kid was especially great because what else do you want at that age? The only thing I think I can compare it to is my memories of The Being or Prophecy (thank you Stephen King) or some other gory monster rarity from the VHS heyday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 Can't believe I missed some of those trailers. Burial sounds wild. They/Them slaps you in the face with the verbal emphasis in the title at the end. It also looks really triggering so put your big pants on for that. Kevin Bacon is one of the low key best actors we have. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted July 25, 2022 Author Share Posted July 25, 2022 On 7/23/2022 at 11:36 AM, jaedmc said: NOPE was great. It was like some kind of Jaws/Tremors/Signs hybrid with the best live action Akira Motorcycle slide you're gonna see. At one point I started to tear up because for the first time in a long time I really felt wonder while watching a movie in a movie theater. My daughter went to the funeral of the aunt of one of her friends to support her homegirl during a rough time, so we did not go see Nope on opening weekend. I am saluting her mature decision and will wait to take her this coming weekend. I am avoiding spoilers and reviews like the plague so that I can remain as in the dark as possible about the plot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 Hey look, another reason to hate Logan Paul: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 Hate it when a theme is stretched. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Sheldon Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 Not really surprised he was confused by the plot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 Pearl This is the prequel movie to X Ti West wrote and directed this and filmed it "in secret" immediately after X was done filming Technically spoils X if you care about that sort of thing 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted July 26, 2022 Author Share Posted July 26, 2022 Hopefully will be just as over the top and crazy as X was. if it is, it will definitely NOT be a movie for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 Another "whole film in the trailer" deal but it looks utterly wild. Leviathan is on TV right now. I thought it was an Alien ripoff before but it is clearly a Thing '82 ripoff in actuality. And what a murderer's row of character actors! Quote Peter Weller as Steven Beck Richard Crenna as Dr. Glen "Doc" Thompson Amanda Pays as Elizabeth "Willie" Williams Daniel Stern as Buzz "Sixpack" Parrish Ernie Hudson as Justin Jones Michael Carmine as Tony "DeJesus" Rodero Lisa Eilbacher as Bridget "Bow" Bowman Héctor Elizondo as G. P. Cobb Meg Foster as Ms. Martin Eugene Lipinski as Russian Captain Tom Woodruff Jr. as Lead Creature For some reason I thought Miguel Ferrer was in this too but I was thinking of lesser film Deep Star Six that was released at practically the same time and practically has the same setup. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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