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Hey, anybody remember the like 70s Horrorish movie with the guy who becomes like some kind of sorcerer or witch or something and like leads a coven or something and has a mustache or some 70s business and maybe ends up wearing like a purple robe or something like that?
I feel like maybe Takoma knows what I'm talking about but maybe this will ring a bell with someone else?

Simon King of the Witches?

Thank you!

I think that's on Tubi.

Also, I can't decide whether this looks intriguing or shit:

I have a copy of The Wild Boys from the same director but haven't watched it yet.

I'm your go to man-witch person.



I have The Wild Boys on my Shudder watchlist.

Watched Rogue, the 2007 killer croc movie. Easily Sam Worthington's best peformance.


I thought the daytime cinematography was really nice but the nighttime footage had this ugly green sheen that I wasn't crazy about. Also there was some good gore but I was hoping for more.


But yeah, not bad.

It could very well be both but I'm into the aesthetic so I'll keep an eye out for it. Not familiar with this guy.

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Just watched the trailer to see what you meant, and yeah that look was seemingly everywhere during that decade. Wasn't a fan.

(of the green that is. haven't seen Rogue)

A Classic Horror Story, 2021

Elisa (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) and four other friends are traveling in an RV for a week of camping. When they swerve to avoid an animal they crash, waking up to find that they are in the middle of a strange and seemingly unending forest with a creepy house in the center. As the group explores their surroundings, they find that they are in the midst of a cult that believes in gruesome human sacrifice.

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Okay, this is one of those movies where you will be very bothered by some things for the first half of the movie. Then there's a reveal, and you have to decide if the twist is worth the setup.

I guess for me the answer is yes, but barely.

It's hard to talk about the film much without giving away the twist and how that plays off of what comes in the first half of the movie. The characters are pretty thin. The horror is gruesome, but at times I was confused about just what exactly was meant to be the point of certain moments of violence.

I will credit the film with some striking visuals. Yes, some of them are nakedly borrowed from other, better horror movies. But that doesn't change how chilling some of them are and some nice use of composition.

There is a kind of cleverness that seeks to lampshade its own faults, and that's kind of what this movie is after. I wouldn't say that I disliked it, but neither did I think it made the most of the premise, pre- or post-reveal.

My second favorite killer croc film after Black Water but alligators reign supreme in the crocodilian cinema pantheon with Crawl and Alligator.

Alligator owns. I liked Crawl too.


Have you seen Killer Crocodile? Most of the movie is whatever, but the last twenty minutes can't be beat.

the Martino joint? I think there's a few named KC.

I enjoyed it well enough with how dopey and adorable the miniatures in a fishtank the effects get towards the end.

Edit- confused it with the Great Alligator, which is about a crocodile. Haven't seen Killer Crocodile

Grrr... hated Crawl.

You mean Great Alligator River?


You liked that?


Yeeeesh.

I liked Crawl, and it had a lot to do with Kaya Scolodario’s performance.

Was never a big fan of Alligator, but it’s not nearly as terrible as people made it out to be.

She was good.
The movie was not. At times it actually defied any sense of... sense - at all. Things happening that essentially shouldn't have even been possible within the logic of the film. Or shit that was just stupid beyond my imagination of what a movie that was taking itself so seriously might do.

Ok, here's an interesting one:

Roger Ebert suggests, in his contemporaneous review, that Motel Hell is actually a sort of satire of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I am ruminating on this.
Thoughts?