spaceSuicide's Horrortastic Horrific Horror Film Thread...Of Horror!

[Deepvoid]

@Deepvoid , hidden was the shit.
it went from zero to fucking awesome in the last half hour. i ALMOST turned it off though
i'm glad i didn't. thanks for the tip.

Yeah those last 30 minutes totally saved this movie from being pointless.

[GulDukat]

The greatest scene ever from a horror movie.

[Deepvoid]

The greatest scene ever from a horror movie.

Hahaha! I haven't seen that movie in ages.

[mrselfdestruct94]

The Witch is an excellent film. I walked out unsure if I liked it at first, but it sticks with you. It's haunting visuals, strong writing, and well developed characters made it an eerie, tense, and unsettling experience.

[slave2thewage]

I don't think The Witch is getting a cinema release over here. Sad times.

EDIT: IMDB has a UK release date in mid-March, which works for a border-dwelling denizen like me.

[mrselfdestruct94]

I don't think The Witch is getting a cinema release over here. Sad times.

EDIT: IMDB has a UK release date in mid-March, which works for a border-dwelling denizen like me.

I feel your pain. I remember reading about The Witch when it premiered at Sundance this time last year, then reading it had gotten picked up for distribution the following month, and then nothing for almost all of 2015. Finally heard it was getting a February release date a few months back, but the wait was worth it.

[Swykk]

Saw The Witch. Sure, it's about the devil, but it's the hypocritical nature of family and fake Christians that I liked the most.

[kel]

i saw it tonight. i'm so baffled. i was beyond bored, kept telling my husband that it'd pick up. but it just didn't. the rs review i read ended with "it'll scare the hell out of you." it wasn't scary. at all.

[Deepvoid]

Saw Deathgasm last night. Wildly entertaining. Good mix of humor, gore and heavy metal.
Solid effort worth a 7/10.

I also watched The Haunted Palace. The story itself is subpar but the ambiance, atmosphere and music were really great! Another solid 7/10.

[Rdm]

saw the witch and I thought it was extremely underwhelming. The movie was extremely slow, which I don't care as long as it's interesting, and the best part of the movie was on the trailer. I honestly don't get the high reviews. I notice on metacritc, and rotten tomato the professional reviews were high and the user reviews weren't that high. I was really excited to see this movie too. : (

I will say the acting and the cinematography were great

5/10

[Deepvoid]

I buddy of mine went to see The Witch and thought it was one of the most boring movie he has ever seen. Said it it really didn't deserve the score it has on Rotten Tomatoes (88%).
Asked for a refund after 45min but you needed to step out before the 30 min mark.

[kel]

SEE?!

wtf is with this hype?

honestly the crucible was more intense.

[implanted_microchip]

I hate that every good or above average horror movie gets hyped as "the scariest thing ever." Things can't just be good anymore. People saying The Witch was the new Shining - really? Can you really say that a day after seeing it? Can you really assess anything that thoroughly immediately after seeing it? It's like people called it this amazing next best thing movie and now there's backlash to it when really it seems like it's just generally accepted as good. But it didn't get to just be good -- it had to be the new Rosemary's Baby.

Reminds me a ton of the Babadook situation where you had the director of The Exorcist calling it the scariest thing he'd ever seen. It was not. It was not that amazing. It was very good. It was not some reinvention of the genre. But because people touted it as that people came at it expecting that and were rightfully disappointed so then they hated it. I feel bad for people who make these movies because they end up with audiences expecting things out of them they themselves never even promised.

It stands for criticism at large in every medium but I just miss when things were allowed to just be good again. Not everything has to be life-changing and not being a masterpiece doesn't make everything a pile of shit, either. Ugh. I sound so cranky.

[koz-ivan]

Iit when really it seems like it's just generally accepted as good. But it didn't get to just be good -- it had to be the new Rosemary's Baby.

honestly I can't even say that "The Witch" was good. The actors were good, especially dealing with the very clunky dialogue, they delivered the lines well, it was a good looking film with the scenery and such.

The plot totally lost me though, I feel like they could have taken the movie into full on Lynchian weirdness, or tried their best to tell it as a coherent story, but instead chose some middle ground that was never weird enough nor coherent enough to make any sense.

and then by the end when i just want to get out of there, they spring that ending? i have difficulty remembering and ending that was just that poorly executed.

[Deepvoid]

So I guess the next "much talked about" movie is The Conjuring 2? My expectations are high on this one. The first one as solid as it gets for modern day horror.
Hopefully, this one will be as good.

[Blackbookpress1984]

Some of my favorites:
Event Horizon (Saw this on VHS when I was a kid. Such a great movie. )
Seven (One of my all tie favorites)
Session 9 (Creepy as fuck, but you have to have patience)
Antichrist (Just plain creepy on a whole other level)
Funny Games (Crazy, weird, and way out of left field)
Lords of Salem (The fact that it involves records is pretty awesome, and its by Zombie, so you cant really loose)
The Purge

Hate:
Blair with project (Sorry, but its under produced garbage)
Paranormal Activity

[kel]

Some of my favorites:
The Purge

Hate:
Blair with project (Sorry, but its under produced garbage)
Paranormal Activity

lolwut? the purge had a great premise, but ultimately was weak and poorly made. frankly, it fucking sucked. yet you hate the blair witch project and the first paranormal activity? maybe you just don't like pov flicks. or maybe it's a generational thing, as you mentioned watching event horizon (on, omg, vhs) as a kid.

[Blackbookpress1984]

lolwut? the purge had a great premise, but ultimately was weak and poorly made. frankly, it fucking sucked. yet you hate the blair witch project and the first paranormal activity? maybe you just don't like pov flicks. or maybe it's a generational thing, as you mentioned watching event horizon (on, omg, vhs) as a kid.

You're about 3 years older than me, not exactly a different generation.

[Deepvoid]

I saw Cherry Falls for the first time. Good slasher movie. I'm sure I'm late to the party on this one.

My current horror watchlist is running empty. I need new releases.

[marodi]

Looks passable but it stars Radha Mitchell and I have a girl crush on her so I'm going to see it.

[Deepvoid]

I was able to find a few titles I hadn't seen before.

Intruders: This one is a few years old. Not sure why it slipped through the cracks of my watchlist. Anyways, I liked it. Clive Owen was alright. Story was decent. Some suspenseful moments. 6/10
Into The Grizzly Maze: I don't know if it's me but what's with all the bear movies? I saw 3 different "bear horror" movies over the past few months. This one had a bunch of C-list actors who did the best they could with the script. 4/10

Next on the watchlist: Animal, Black Mountain Side

[Space Suicide]

I was able to find a few titles I hadn't seen before.

Intruders: This one is a few years old. Not sure why it slipped through the cracks of my watchlist. Anyways, I liked it. Clive Owen was alright. Story was decent. Some suspenseful moments. 6/10
Into The Grizzly Maze: I don't know if it's me but what's with all the bear movies? I saw 3 different "bear horror" movies over the past few months. This one had a bunch of C-list actors who did the best they could with the script. 4/10

Next on the watchlist: Animal, Black Mountain Side

LOL, Intruders is the perfect example of a good bad b-movie. The villain was so utterly atrocious and lacked any real sense of terror. Spoiler: He looked like a typical 1980's mustache dad. Sure, he was upset the store was closing but why would he immediately snap to homicide and serial killing as a means to keep the grocery store open? I mean, he couldn't have been a psychopath as he never (to my knowledge) exhibited mental instability prior to the reveal and I assume the backstory/history before the film. Either way, the line "I'm just crazy about this store." is the epitome of bad pun cheese and it's so stupidly awesome for the film haha. The gore and killings were brutal. The entire kill scene with the one guy (forget his name) with the meat slicer cutting straight through his face, nose and cheeks was absolutely disgusting haha.

[Deepvoid]

LOL, Intruders is the perfect example of a good bad b-movie. The villain was so utterly atrocious and lacked any real sense of terror. Spoiler: He looked like a typical 1980's mustache dad. Sure, he was upset the store was closing but why would he immediately snap to homicide and serial killing as a means to keep the grocery store open? I mean, he couldn't have been a psychopath as he never (to my knowledge) exhibited mental instability prior to the reveal and I assume the backstory/history before the film. Either way, the line "I'm just crazy about this store." is the epitome of bad pun cheese and it's so stupidly awesome for the film haha. The gore and killings were brutal. The entire kill scene with the one guy (forget his name) with the meat slicer cutting straight through his face, nose and cheeks was absolutely disgusting haha.

Haha! I was reading the spoiler you wrote and I was like, "what the hell did I watch. That doesn't sound like the movie I saw". Only the realize that you are talking about the 2015 Intruders, while I was referring to the 2011 movie of the same name.

But now I want to see the movie you were talking about so thank you!

[Space Suicide]

Haha! I was reading the spoiler you wrote and I was like, "what the hell did I watch. That doesn't sound like the movie I saw". Only the realize that you are talking about the 2015 Intruders, while I was referring to the 2011 movie of the same name.

But now I want to see the movie you were talking about so thank you!

Actually I'm talking about the 1989 slasher flick. It's called Intruder, not Intruders. I'm at fault. My mistake.

[Deepvoid]

Actually I'm talking about the 1989 slasher flick. It's called Intruder, not Intruders. I'm at fault. My mistake.

No worries! Now I have two Intruder(s) I need to watch.

[cashpiles (closed)]

If I could just hijack this thread for a moment. I'm making a short film (10-15 minutes in length) and I'm wondering if any of you slasher/horror film fans know of any films from these genres that feature murders with hammers.

[Deepvoid]

I sacrificed myself and reviewed a bunch of unknowns titles. This goes out to you @elevenism since I know you're always looking for new horror movies to watch.


Black Mountain Side: A bunch of scientists discover a buried structure in some remote Canadian mountains and a bunch of shit starts happening not long after. Considering it has less than 400 votes on IMBD, I thought it was a nice surprise. It's not great by all means but it was good. Definitely not classic horror but more of a thriller/horror? Anyways, worth a 6/10 for me.

Kristy: Some college chick decides to spend Thanksgiving alone on campus and shit starts happening. This one is in the line of Vacancy, The Den etc.. Chick is hot. Suspense is there. Another solid 6/10.

Circle: 50 people forming a giant circle are trapped somewhere when shit hits the fan (quite rapidly I must say). This one ends up with a 5/10. While it starts off with a bang and I was like "alright this is going to be good", it gets redundant quite fast. I don't want to give too much away but let's just say when I thought I had hit the 1-hour mark, I was only in fact 35 minutes in. This would have been an AMAZING short movie if they had involved less people although I'm not sure if it would have worked with less people. Anyways, 5/10.

Blood Diner: I think this one doesn't need an introduction. Really liked the over the top horror/comedy but I get bored pretty fast with those movies. 6/10.

Finally, The Conjuring 2 has a full trailer!

[Deepvoid]

Hey @elevenism !
Check out Southbound if you haven't yet.
5 interlocked stories. Great anthology movie. I think you're gonna like it.
Stories aren't equally strong but I'd say 4 out of the 5 are quite solid.

[elevenism]

Hey @elevenism!
Check out Southbound if you haven't yet.
5 interlocked stories. Great anthology movie. I think you're gonna like it.
Stories aren't equally strong but I'd say 4 out of the 5 are quite solid.

fuck yeah! thank you brother

[decadent]

Just watched The Invitation and it is great! Bret Easton Ellis didnt kid around when he said that its the best movie in 2016. I highly recommend it.

Southbound is on my list, but before that I will watch Holidays - another anthology movie from 7 directors including Kevin Smith.

There is a copy of The Witch, but it is still hardcopied, so I will wait on this one. The trailer looked terrific!