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Saint Maud, 2019 (A)

A young lady, after a failed suicide attempt, finds God and becomes a nurse to a dying old lady. Her new life, centered around religion, leads her to make some questionable choices.

Light on horror and heavy on atmosphere, this is an fantastic, original and interesting character study. About as quiet and lacking in exposition as I like them. No spoilers, but I also appreciate that it didn't go for an ambiguous ending.

Cthulhu, 2007 (A)

A wealthy university administrator in the Pacific Northwest goes back to his absolute basket case of a hometown to settle his mother's estate and finds out just how messed up the whole place is.

This is a Lovecraftian film in the more philosophical sense. There is one scene with what is unambiguously monsters, and the rest has to do with family drama and the exploration of not-Innsmouth. Nearly nothing here is overtly monstrous, focusing instead on Lovecraftian themes of genealogy, as perceived by what was seemingly an outside to the entire town. It's not that high concept, so it's hard to make it sound interesting without going into tons of details. Everything is mundane, but it's a great film.

For free in its entirety on youtube, uploaded by the director. Strongly recommend this one.

The Babadook, 2nd watch (A-)

My gosh, what an intense movie. Reminded me of Possession, in a way. Still not crazy at all about the ending however.

Night of the Eagle, 1962 (A-)

A skeptic university professor discovers that his wife is a witch. Not believing in that nonsense , he gets rid of all the protection spells and charms she had set upon their home. Shenanigans ensue.

This is a good movie. Some good eagle related scenes, great looking shots all over, tons of atmosphere, etc. It's not terribly scary, but it's very enjoyable in a sort of folktale kind of way. Lots of energy and keeps things happening throughout. barely any slow parts.

Amazing movie. Seriously overlooked. Was shocked I had never even heard of it before watching it a year or so ago.

I was surprised too! I have not heard of it in 12 years of movie watching. I was hesitant to watch it at first over movies with more reputation, but I guess not every great film is common knowledge.


Night of the Demon, 1957, 2nd watch (A)

Coincidentally a movie called night of something about a skeptic being confronted with the things he rejected so strongly. Here, demons.

A fine, very Halloween-y film. The characters have interesting journeys, the villain is very intriguing, and the effects are charming and goofy. That might make them stand out among the seriousness of the rest of the movie for some, but I liked the vibe.

The Last Broadcast, 1998 (D-)

A documentary following an investigation on a guy accused of killing folks during an investigation on the Jersey Devil in the Pine Barrens.

It's an okay film for most of the duration. Nothing amazing happens, the pacing is sluggish and the interviews are all from very detached people, along with a very dull narrator. The ending is pretty bad. That's really the big issue. There was a build up towards something, but then the ending was completely unsatisfying. Not much to say about this film.

Tourist Trap -

If you think the Museum of Monsters & Madmen from House of 1,000 Corpses is a scary roadside attraction, just wait until you see this movie's. In a classic horror film setup, a group of college pals suffer a breakdown on the highway, walk into the woods and stumble upon the barely operational Slausen's Lost Oasis. The proprietor (Chuck Connors, the Rifleman himself) is surprisingly friendly to them despite being a recent widower, in a rivalry with his brother and bitter about a new freeway hurting his business. The friends soon discover what the main draw of the place was (and not under the most favorable circumstances, naturally): mannequins. Everything that happens next amounts to one of the strangest horror movies I've ever seen that, if anything, will make you wonder if Ben Willard's advice in Apocalypse Now, "never get off the boat," should include another kind of vehicle.

As soon as I saw "A Charles Band Production" in the opening credits, I knew I was in for a treat - albeit one that tastes funny - and what followed met my expectations. If you think the mannequins in The Twilight Zone episode "The After Hours," Silent Hill 2, Maniac or even the ones in the Mannequin movies are creepy, they have nothing on the ones at Slausen's from their appearances to what they do to their victims. Their decaying home all but enhances their creepiness, which could have inspired the one in House of the Devil for how equally isolated and off the beaten path it is as well as how imposing yet darkly beautiful it is at night. The movie also has ringers in Connors, who's just as endearing as Slausen as he is odd, and of course in veteran horror composer Pino Donaggio.

If you've somehow missed the aforementioned horror properties that leverage the unlikely potential of mannequins to scare and you still believe that's ridiculous even after reading this, I'll add that this movie sold me on their potential to get under your skin pretty quickly, not to mention in spite of its obviously low budget. Besides, any of the moments featuring them that could be considered ridiculous are features and not bugs. Again, Connors is a delight, but with the exception of Jocelyn Jones' Molly, our heroes are not exactly the next Laurence Oliviers and they're much harder to like. Also, I'll just say there are reasons why Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre doesn't speak. For the odd, funny and wonderful ways the movie makes you anxious about the next time you have to buy new clothes, it's still worth checking out, even and especially if you're the kind of person who can't resist pulling over to see your country's largest ball of twine.

Anyone else excited for Evil Dead Rise? To me it looks like a true horror movie. I feel like a lot of horror lately have their own little categories, arthouse horror like Hereditary and The Witch, PG-13 ghost movies like The Conjuring, meta stuff with the new Scream sequels, fun throwbacks like X and Pearl, minimalist and low budget stuff, all the mediocre crap dumped and forgotten on streaming services, and torture porn isn’t really around anymore. But Evil Dead Rise just looks like a HORROR movie. This looks BRUTAL. Maybe I’m just bias because I like the franchise so much but even the classic Evil Deads are horror comedies. I guess I’ll check in again when I finally watch it and see how I feel.

Lily C.A.T. (1987)

Low-budget 1980's anime that blatantly rips off both Alien and The Thing. I went into this hoping for a goofy, campy anime and wound up actually impressed with the competency of some of the sci-fi/horror elements in this movie. Just imagine if a Thing got into the Nostromo but also there's a stowaway hidden among the crew and also a cyborg cat is involved. It's kind of a fun watch, I give it a recommend if you like 80's anime.

It looked pretty cliched/"tryhard" kind of gore-based Horror to me based on the trailer, especially the ironic, creepy, slowed down version of "Que Sera" they used (seriously, that's such a tired cliche by this point, why didn't they just play this instead?: )



...but, I'll wait and see about the reviews, as always.

It’s still early with only 43 reviews but it’s at 95% on Rotty T’s.

Anglerfish, 2022 (D)


A couple and one lady are doing things during what seems to be the end of the world. Everything is black around them, and they speak weird.


A weird, presumably student film, that feels padded even at a mere 56 minutes or so. There's a couple talking scenes cut with scenes that would 100% trigger epilepsy. A nearly unwatchable dream scene is one of these, and the other is one of the two dancing scenes the movie has, both with synth music even though the movie takes place in 1906. I would not recommend this one.

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Yes, I agree with you. The scariest "children's film" I have ever seen

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in some ways really scary if you look at it at night. For the evening, a fairly good horror film about a family with an unexpected twist.

Just got back from Evil Dead Rise. Aw yeah that was real good. Great camera work and audio made it worth seeing in theaters for sure. Just a gross, gory, scary good time.

Good to hear. Might take my uncle to see this.

The Beyond, 3rd watch (A+)


I think I finally understand most of it! I should have picked up on some of that stuff on previous watches though.

Anyway, loved that movie, again. I thought for a while that City of the Living Dead was my favorite of the trilogy, but no, it's this one. Everything flows perfectly into everything else as in a dream. Even the stupid zombie shooting at the end doesn't bother me at this point.

City of the Dead, 1960 (B-)


A student of Christopher Lee goes to a comically sinister village, constant fog machine and all, of 15 people to investigate witches.


Interesting characters and performances in this somewhat low energy film, topped off with an absolute banger of an ending.