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Posted: **Tue Dec 20, 2022 12:37 pm**

rsmurphy wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 1:41 pm The Innocents
*movies about scary kids or kids with powers aren't usually my go-to, but this Norwegian chiller has phenomenal acting from its very young stars, as well as a horrific take on what can be loosely based on superhero contexts...and I don't care much for superhero contexts. Not for cat-lovers

So true. I had to turn it off as soon as that stairwell scene happened. Didn't finish it. I can't say that about many films. I basically can't watch anything with cruelty to animals. Unless they are human. And then go ahead and bash some skulls in. Not sure how I'm desensitized that way.

Posted: **Tue Dec 20, 2022 11:44 pm**

tommy!

I finally watched Terrifier 2 and boy did it stink! I was forcing myself awake to make it to the finish. Like, at least three times. So long. There is no reason in the world it should have been that long. Hated everyone, especially that kid. I want to see that kid and the Babadook kid in a street fight. Loser immediately becomes the other kid.

Posted: **Wed Dec 21, 2022 9:05 pm**

Versus from 2000. Right up there with Ichi the Killer in my opinion.

I was going to say Carnival of Souls but i guess that is pretty well known.

Posted: **Wed Dec 21, 2022 10:39 pm**

rsmurphy wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 1:41 pm I know you have all been chomping at the bit to cast a gaze from your beady li'l eyes upon my 2022 horror listicle

Speak No Evil
*uncomfortable Danish film about the limits one will take in order to be polite. Genuinely fucked-up ending.

The Sadness
*Deliciously violent, disgusting, and taboo-destroying flick out of Taiwan about a pandemic turning people into homicidal maniacs. Get some.

Satan's Slaves 2: Communion
*didn't enjoy it as much as the first Satan's Slaves, but this Indonesian take on genealogical occultish bloodlines has authentically freakish and terrifying sequences. There's one where someone is hiding in a trash chute and a couple of demons are talking in a gleefully sadistic high-pitched girlish tone about how they are about to get sent to hell to be tormented forever just because. Infernal.

The Innocents
*movies about scary kids or kids with powers aren't usually my go-to, but this Norwegian chiller has phenomenal acting from its very young stars, as well as a horrific take on what can be loosely based on superhero contexts...and I don't care much for superhero contexts. Not for cat-lovers

Mad God
*surreal stop-motion horror from Phil Tippett. No plot, just scene after scene of nightmarish scenarios.

Moloch
*another entry about bloodlines, family curses, and destinies. Depressing!

A Wounded Fawn
*late-entry starring the criminally adorable Josh Ruben as a serial killer who receives his comeuppance via the three furies in Greek mythology. Weird, psychedelic, and freakish feminist horror with a truly wtf-ending for the ages.

Watcher
*Paranoid and suspenseful flick starring Maika Monroe being stalked in a new, foreign city.

Resurrection
*what can't Rebecca Hall do? I love her, especially in this supremely strange film about psychologically abusive relationships, power dynamics, and baby-eating.

EDIT: Forgot about Deadstream. Horror-comedy that's unabashedly cheesy during it's first half but has more than a few creepout moments. Second half had me howling with laughter as well as nervous laughter from being scared in a fun way. A cancelled influencer tries to win back his audience by live-streaming one night in a haunted house.

If you're looking for light-entertainment that mocks the social-media-online blogosphere, then put this in your pen and vape it.

You're doing the lord's work, bless up

Posted: **Thu Dec 22, 2022 12:06 am**

Mickey242 wrote: Wed Dec 21, 2022 9:05 pm I was going to say Carnival of Souls but i guess that is pretty well known.

Yes!

I am not the original author of this thread, but without speaking for them I'm all for having this thread be the catch-all for horror. Am I really going to start a separate thread for Underwater co-starring TJ Miller? Yeah. I just watched that shit and it was awful. Where else am I gonna kvetch? Kristen Stewart was boring. What was Vincent Cassel even doing there? Did I mention that TJ Miller is wisecrackin' thru half of it?

Crap

Posted: **Sat Dec 24, 2022 5:04 pm**

TylerDeadPine wrote: Sat Nov 05, 2022 11:10 am
kmc wrote: Fri Oct 28, 2022 5:37 am Episode 4 of Cabinet of Curiosities "The Outside" directed by Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night and The Bad Batch) is really terrific, gross, and hilarious horror...though unlikely lesser known. Recommended

Great episode. Great acting

This was fun and while it was generally easy to follow, it did some unexpected things. Her expressions at the end were hilarious. The horror of banality. I see this one as an homage to The Society, The Stuff, and The Stepford Wives.

Posted: **Sun Dec 25, 2022 11:24 pm**

Baby Blood, which was actually really funny, and XTRO, which was fucking nuts, kinda like a more surreal and playful take on late 70's italian horror. Fulci meets Cronenberg on acid.

Posted: **Mon Dec 26, 2022 7:32 pm**

rsmurphy wrote: Thu Dec 22, 2022 12:06 am
Mickey242 wrote: Wed Dec 21, 2022 9:05 pm I was going to say Carnival of Souls but i guess that is pretty well known.
Yes!

I am not the original author of this thread, but without speaking for them I'm all for having this thread be the catch-all for horror. Am I really going to start a separate thread for Underwater co-starring TJ Miller? Yeah. I just watched that shit and it was awful. Where else am I gonna kvetch? Kristen Stewart was boring. What was Vincent Cassel even doing there? Did I mention that TJ Miller is wisecrackin' thru half of it?

Crap

TJ Miller can't act to save his life. Very punch able face though.
I take it Vincent Cassel had to make a mortgage payment.
Pretty bad film.

Posted: **Tue Dec 27, 2022 11:01 am**

This one came out of nowhere taking me by surprise, scaring the hell out of me, making it my favorite horror film of the year. Can't stop thinking about it. Set at the height of the pandemic when we were all quarantined and bathing groceries in disinfectant makes it feel ancient, and its metaphors are real and beyond deadly. Go in blind, but do go in. Basically a friend who is having terrifying, continuous nightmares reaches out to another friend for help. Speaking from the perspective of someone who regularly has issues with getting stuck between wakefulness and sleep it hit me hard. Existential dread, supernatural horror, and the reality of isolation all work in tandem creating a depressive psychological nightmare. Fear is deeply personal and The Harbinger has your number.

Posted: **Mon Jan 02, 2023 2:20 pm**

kmc wrote:Anyone see Spring? There is a good movie in there somewhere, but the dude in it pretty much ruined it.

vibracobra wrote:Spring was kinda meh.

The guy's face is one of the things I can't remember.

Caught Benson & Moorhead's new flick Something in the Dirt a few nights back. Thought it was just OK. I'm still on board with their trip and the dominant theme - which I've yet to fully grasp - running through all of their films, but SitD felt a little off. More comedic which is fine, I guess, but ultimately unrewarding in the grand scale of the universe they are building. They have great chemistry, though, and I love watching them play off of each other.

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