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(It is unacceptable that you left out Cherish, The Actress...)

But, yeah....

Can't get into talking about it without spoiling a whole bunch.

Couldn't get to sleep last night so I visited a regular online haunt and discovered a thirty minute television short from 1972 titled La Cabina. It's about a man who gets stuck in a telephone booth which starts out lighthearted and comical but moves to surrealism and ends horrifically.

In the Top 5 thread rsmurphy wrote: Top 5 Short Effective Horror Films To Watch Alone At Night

1. Portrait of God
2. Man on a Train
3. Curve
4. Alma
5. Vicious

Dylan Clark's Portrait of God short is pretty great and his most recent one, Storytime, is sufficiently spooky.

So far my ranking of movies directed by the Adams family

1. Hellbender
2. The Deeper You Dig
3. Hell Hole

Just watched Hell Hole tonight and it was super disappointing. Have yet to watch Where the Devil Roams, but I recommend the first two. I hate to crap on horror movies, especially when made by creative teams making original films, but Hell Hole is a mess.

Digging these shots from the upcoming Salem's Lot remake finally premiering in October on MAX.

The Glick brothers fateful walk home at night through the woods
The Marsten House
Open the window, Mark
Looks right creepy!

Best of the last few months of horror movie viewing:



^ Hate revenge movies, doubly hate rape-revenge movies, but this one is really well done.



^ Trailer makes it look like it could be gratingly cutesy but in fact it's fun.



^ The most generic and predictable of the lot but the characters carry it.



^ Mumblecore Fall of the House of Usher, funnier and less A24ish than the trailer.

^ Revenge is fantastic! Blew me away. Can't wait to see Fargeat's The Substance.

Infested let me down a bit. The early scene in the bathroom was super tense, but the rest gave way to typical action movie vibes with an overreliance on CGI. Kinda want to see Sting tho.

I happened to catch the trailer to Samara Weaving's upcoming post-Rapture horror flick and it looks good. Loved Katz's Cheap Thrills!

^Adding this one as an 'honorable mention'. Decent for horror fans who find it tough to find enough movies to fill their time, but not outstanding.

I watched that Azrael trailer a few days ago. Any time I see an opening drone shot over a forest - a cliche if not a hallmark of uncreative low-to-mid-budget horror movies of the last ten years or so - I'm looking for a way out. Knowing it was made by the guy who made Cheap Thrills, a movie I absolutely hated, means there's zero chance of me seeing it. Actually, not quite zero - if you watch it and come back and say it's good, I'll check it out lol

Not lesser-known, but I'd been looking forward to it and I'm really annoyed so I'm going to post about it. Longlegs is a bunch of cliches strung together in the A24/Neon house style. In the field of middlebrow crossover horror shit that's made mainstream pop-cultural waves over the last few years, it's not as purely entertaining as Barbarian, and it's not even in the same league of dread and terror as Hereditary. In fact, it's not scary at all. Nicolas Cage - and I like Cage in general - is a joke, a catastrophic casting decision and likely the single most undermining element to the movie's aspirations. An unknown in this role would have made this film ten times more effective. There's plenty of those screenwriterly details and 'subliminal' images that keep youtube/reddit epic kino guys and other morons occupied, so naturally it's lit up the online movie world, but unfortunately trivia doesn't make for great or even good art. Overall, it's not bad and it's not good - it's just tepid. If you haven't already seen the movie: the trailer is superior to the actual film, just watch that.