A scary thing happened on the way to the Movie Forums - Horrorcrammers

It's a B-movie for sure, but it's got three movies' worth of atmosphere

Some interesting stuff here, which Rue Morgue and Slayer are you referring to.

Awesome, thanks!
I've seen The Void and Spring, love Masque Of The Red Death, and Dead & Buried is a favorite (though I haven't seen it in 10 years now).
I've been meaning to see Splinter for a while, this feels like a good time for it.
I thought Scarecrows was an awful movie when I saw it like a dozen but my standards are much lower now.
Haxan, to me, is pure Halloween, so it can only be viewed during October.
I've wanted to see Day of the Triffids since I was a little kid (literally 40 years ago) but I've never found it streaming.
The rest of these all seem like good candidates. I don't know what Strangler Of The Swamp is about (unless it's about a strangler in/from a swamp) but that's in on the title alone.

Terrified 2017
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw 2020

In a Glass Cage (1986)

Yes, and it's about an hour runtime, which makes it feel all the more breezy.

Rue Morgue is the Lugosi flick from 1932.


The Slayer is the J.*S.*Cardone movie from 1982.

Scarecrows it's not excellent by any means; I stretched my recommendations down to those that I might rate to allow some breathing room... but I would still say it's a different spin and worth a watch, as far as schlocky horror goes. Same applies to The Barn, which is very, very low budget and very, very schlocky.

Easy, breezy, beautiful. Strangler in the Swamp

I am also strongly strongly in favor of everyone watching Brain Damage and God Told Me To, and then our friendship ending if you don't love them both.

Strongly seconding the following recs:


Assuming this refers to 1982 The Slayer by J.S. Cardone. This film deserves a lot more recognition.




I'll add a few recommendations too (trying to list only newer or otherwise less knows films):

The Empty Man
Sputnik
Underwater
Impetigore
Bliss
The Sonata
Antrum
Satan's Slaves
Tigers Are Not Afraid
The Evil Within
Baskin
The Children
Cure
Kairo

On an only slightly related note, did anyone other than me end up seeing The Wretched and if so what did you think?

And has anyone seen Lord Of Tears or The Unkindness Of Ravens?

The Wretched (2019)

Technically solid low budget horror. Sadly the story makes little sense and isn't even that original (a bit like Salem's Lot and The Outsider mixed together so it's a safe bet that these brothers like their King; there's also some resemblance to The Hole in the Ground which I found a tad better than this). There's really nothing that stands out in either a positive or negative way, and the end result is bland mediocrity.

Here's what little I wrote about The Wretched:



On a right day that could have been 2.5/5 so it was perfectly watchable. Just not remarkable in any way.

I haven't seen the other two.

I almost feel like I should save Brain Damage for October.
And wait, what was the movie you were gonna remind me to watch this month?! (I told you I wouldn't be able to remember.)

Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker.

Also, where are you guys watching Strangler Of The Swamp?
I don't see it streaming anywhere.
In fact, I'm finding, oddly, that the last 8 low-budget horror movies I searched for, in a row, were not on Amazon Prime. If they're gonna stop carrying these things, how am I ever gonna see 'em?

Edit: Make that 10 in a row. They don't have Black Water or The Slaughter, either.

Thank you.

I am struggling my way through The Barn as we speak.
I was thinking abut maybe watching some no-budget, Z-grade horrors this month... and now I am.

On an only slightly related note, did anyone other than me end up seeing The Wretched and if so what did you think?

Uh, Thief?
What exactly did you like about this movie?