Horror movies and TV series

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Man do I want cheeseburger.

As long as it's made with love.

OH also, I finally watched that new Evil Dead trailer and DAMN. That looks promising!

Watched Fall over the weekend based on the recommendations right here in this thread and loved it. I can't remember the last time a movie made my hands actually feel clammy!

They do the sense of extreme height so well. I don’t know your knees and legs go a bit tingly and weak when you’re next to a long drop. Mine do and I was getting that feeling regularly throughout the film.

For me it's a feeling in the pit of my stomach, like a weird floaty feeling, and this movie totally caused it. Just so well done. I can't even imagine what it would have been like watching in a theater or even IMAX with the movie taking up your entire view.

I'm so glad you liked it, d4m0!

The thing for me was that everything looked so real. If they had told me the actors actually climbed all the way there to shoot the movie, I would have believed it. Plus, I am not a fan of heights, so the movie pushed all the right buttons to unnerve me.

I also got both that tingly feeling in arms and legs, and the pit-of-my-stomach feeling, both of which I also experience every time a climb a high tower in the Assassin Creed games, and every time I do a leap of faith.

Sick (Peacock) was a pretty decent slasher film. The movie takes place in the early days of covid where two girls head out to a lake house to quarantine. Little do they know they're being stalked by a killer.

I love the movie poking fun at the early days of covid where they point out some of things that might seem a bit foolish now. Like using hand sanitizer after leaving a store. Or if you're going to walk past someone you take a wide berth around them.

There's some decent writing here. It's not quite Scream levels but decent enough. And it is basically another Scream but with a much smaller cast. The characters also know how to Double Tap, at least some of the time. And that's always refreshing in horror films as you know that the killer is going to keep coming if you don't.

The movie is pretty short too. I think just under 90 minutes and that's the perfect length. It's not doing anything we haven't seen before so gets in and out before overstaying its welcome.

So recommend this one.

Also have to say Peacock really does get the commercials thing right compared to other streaming services with ads. For any movie you basically get 3 minutes of commercials at the start of the film then nothing else. For a movie that has a pretty good pace near the end commercials intruding would have hurt it.

I'm curious about Sick, seeing as it is co-written by Kevin Williamson, but I'll do well not to expect another Scream (in terms of quality, I mean).

I watched Vivarium. It appealed from the trailer but I saw mixed reviews. It came up on one of the UK streaming services so I gave it a go. I could see it being annoying if you weren’t into it but I was REALLY into it. It’s a fascinating, surreal predicament and you don’t know how it’s going to resolve. Genre wise it feels like low key, non scary horror but that it isn’t actually horror but, then again, underneath it all, it’s horror.

I recommend giving it a go if you get the chance.

I second Higgledy's recommendation.

I finally watched Scream 5 from last year. Fantastic! Lot of fun connections to the original, and a few to the sequels.

Hard to rank as I've seen the first one a million times and 2 and 3 quite a few but it's up there. 4 was only ok for me. I watched it for just the 2nd time last week and honestly had forgotten who the killer's partner was in the last decade.

Anyway Scream 6 has some solid reviews so just trying to get ready for its digital release soon.

Also a bit weird seeing Jenna Ortega in this one after seeing Wednesday first. But a fun twist on the opening scene.

Spoiler:

Victim survives on purpose!

I really enjoyed Scream 5. Looking forward to seeing Scream 6 when it’s available to stream.

Warning: There are spoilers for some movies in the awards including FRESH which is tense and unsettling because of it’s matter of fact treatment of the subject matter (including imprisonment and abuse.) I think it’s on Disney+.

Higgledy wrote:

I really enjoyed Scream 5. Looking forward to seeing Scream 6 when it’s available to stream.

Same.

Mommy's with the maggots now.

Is the new Evil Dead out in cinemas?

It opens next Friday, at least here in the USA.

Ah ok thanks. I watched the remake of the original recently. There were quite a few ‘watch through your fingers and wince’ moments.

I really enjoyed the remake. I saw it in theaters on opening night... and haven't seen it since, but I liked it and am looking forward to the sequel.

I watched two movies recently that are set up to be horror movies but that aren’t very horrifying: Cosmos and I’m not a serial killer. Both are on Prime. The second one is on Mubi I think. They both had lulls in them were I wondered if I was going to gain anything by carrying on. Both defied my expectations and delivered great stories I was glad I saw through.

Higgledy wrote:

Ah ok thanks. I watched the remake of the original recently. There were quite a few ‘watch through your fingers and wince’ moments.

Never forget.. the original and the pencil.

Watched The TommyKnockers mini series for the first time. Pretty bad, the book was way better. Might haven been okay for the time though.

what it is about

Spoiler:

A alien ship is slowly uncovered which gives the people of Haven super intelligence. Unfortunately the aliens are also ghost or monsters or some weird Stephen King S. People used their super intelligence to do things like making a matter transporter, turning their dog into a battery, making laser guns, killing people with overly complicated super villain traps. Also everyone infected by the alien ship is also slowly dying .

A hero that is immune to the ship comes along to have sex with his girlfriend, not the porn star, and get drunk. He saves the day The End.

A porn star is in this and she does a pretty good job acting. I'm not sure I buy how into the guy she was though. Hey maybe he is hot to the ladies. Or maybe guys that treat their wives like crap turns her on. The acting was good all around the story and writing was a mess. A police chief has a office filled with dolls and no desk or anything to work on. What is this Resident Evil? A kid gets taken to the hospital by his grandfather event though the parents are right there. Your kid goes into a coma and you don't go to the hospital? The show is plagued with dumb things like this.

I give the show 3 falling out teeth out of 10. There was kind of a sequel to the book. The attack and creatures were different but they came from the same place.

I never watched TommyKnockers. I heard it wasn’t good as many King adaptations weren’t at the time. I never read the book because my obsession with everything King wrote was over by then.

MaxShrek wrote:
Higgledy wrote:

Ah ok thanks. I watched the remake of the original recently. There were quite a few ‘watch through your fingers and wince’ moments.

Never forget.. the original and the pencil.

I went to see the original in an arthouse cinema long after it first run. I felt quite ill half way through and I’ve never been sure if it was the burger I ate for lunch or the violence in the movie. I suspect it was mostly, if not entirely, the latter.

Knew that awkward coffee grinder comment was spam but there was no link. Now they edited it. So much trouble for so little return.

To be fair, Tommyknockers was written in the late 80's during his approach to rock bottom in his drug and alcohol addiction. He has gone on record saying he doesn't even remember writing Cujo in 1982.

Higgledy wrote:

I never watched TommyKnockers. I heard it wasn’t good as many King adaptations weren’t at the time. I never read the book because my obsession with everything King wrote was over by then.

My obsession with reading everything he writes is still going on, 32 years after I discovered him. As it happens, I'm 70 pages away from finishing Fairy Tale.

Mario_Alba wrote:
Higgledy wrote:

I never watched TommyKnockers. I heard it wasn’t good as many King adaptations weren’t at the time. I never read the book because my obsession with everything King wrote was over by then.

My obsession with reading everything he writes is still going on, 32 years after I discovered him. As it happens, I'm 70 pages away from finishing Fairy Tale. :)

How is it? I bought Fairy Tale but haven't got around to it yet.

Higgledy wrote:

I never watched TommyKnockers. I heard it wasn’t good as many King adaptations weren’t at the time. I never read the book because my obsession with everything King wrote was over by then.

MaxShrek wrote:
Higgledy wrote:

Ah ok thanks. I watched the remake of the original recently. There were quite a few ‘watch through your fingers and wince’ moments.

Never forget.. the original and the pencil.

I went to see the original in an arthouse cinema long after it first run. I felt quite ill half way through and I’ve never been sure if it was the burger I ate for lunch or the violence in the movie. I suspect it was mostly, if not entirely, the latter.

The correct answer was yes, it could be the burger, and yes, you didn't need the burger. That movie's messed up.

Garth wrote:
Mario_Alba wrote:
Higgledy wrote:

I never watched TommyKnockers. I heard it wasn’t good as many King adaptations weren’t at the time. I never read the book because my obsession with everything King wrote was over by then.

My obsession with reading everything he writes is still going on, 32 years after I discovered him. As it happens, I'm 70 pages away from finishing Fairy Tale. :)

How is it? I bought Fairy Tale but haven't got around to it yet.

I'm really liking it, but it's not one of my favorite books by King. It's sort of a cross between The Eyes of the Dragon and The Wind Through the Keyhole: a dark fantasy with some Dark Tower flavor. The central relationship in the book is fantastic, though, and for that alone the book is worth reading, in my opinion.

Mario_Alba wrote:
Garth wrote:
Mario_Alba wrote:
Higgledy wrote:

I never watched TommyKnockers. I heard it wasn’t good as many King adaptations weren’t at the time. I never read the book because my obsession with everything King wrote was over by then.

My obsession with reading everything he writes is still going on, 32 years after I discovered him. As it happens, I'm 70 pages away from finishing Fairy Tale. :)

How is it? I bought Fairy Tale but haven't got around to it yet.

I'm really liking it, but it's not one of my favorite books by King. It's sort of a cross between The Eyes of the Dragon and The Wind Through the Keyhole: a dark fantasy with some Dark Tower flavor. The central relationship in the book is fantastic, though, and for that alone the book is worth reading, in my opinion.

Okay cool. Fantasy is one of my least favorite King-modes. But I haven't read the Dark Tower books, so I am positive I am missing out on his best example of that.

Watched the latest Scream (6) movie. I really liked the last one and while this one wasn't quite as good I still enjoyed it. There's some fun setups with the Ghostface kills. And in this film Ghostface has no qualms about trying to kill his intended victims in public. He just goes after them. That's very unlike typical slasher flicks where public crowds are a safe zone. So kudos doing away with that safety net.

The stabbings in this one are pretty damn brutal and there's a pretty graphic gutting. But one thing about this film is they've made the majority of main characters indestructible like the slashers typically are. They get stabbed, sliced, and gutted and should be dead but they keep going. In several cases after receiving serious wounds they're fine or at least still standing a scene or two later.

It's a bit of a minor complaint as it did make things more exciting. But there were times where the unbelievably took me out it a bit.

I'll also say I didn't care for the reveal at the end. But up until that point I did enjoy the film quite a bit.