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

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I hated it for sure. Has left an awful aftertaste, and how does it even belong in a thread on horror anyway?

It is a horror movie, so I posted about it in the horror thread.

That wasn’t a dig. It just didn’t feel like horror to me at all stylistically or otherwise.

Good enough for me.
Thanks.

Okay, so looking at the threads that are getting traction right now is making me want to walk into the sea, and I've finished the 2021 Film Challenge and the Twilight Zone HoF and my brain therefore doesn't have anything movie-related to latch onto.

So . . . . recommend me a horror film and I will watch it and talk to you about it, and possibly criticize your taste in film!

Only dealbreaker right now is no animal cruelty and since I'm a cheapskate, things I can find on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Shudder, or Criterion, (or YouTube *cough*) please! (I also have access to Kanopy and Hoopla via my library and I have Tubi and the free Vudu).

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The Deadly Spawn
Manor

Watch the Manor on Prime and tell me if it should cause the existential dread that I experienced finding out it existed having finished that script (the Lonely), which seemingly has an identical set up.

Watch Blood and Lace on Prime and join me in being aghast at the ending.

I second this if she rejects me asking her to be brave for me.

I've seen it! And the ending is . . . . something. I gave it a 6/10. I watched it thinking it was Blood and Black Lace and really did not know how to reconcile what I was seeing with all the praise I'd heard!

Aw. I liked it quite a bit.

In fact, I was going to post (and probably still am) in the Recently Seen thread that I saw Dune in the theater on the big screen and Last Night In Soho at someone's house on the TV yesterday, and I sincerely wish I could have reversed that.

If it helps, I found I gelled to it a lot more on a rewatch, once I could acclimate to its rhythms (which are slower than its successors). My first viewing was marred by a terrible transfer though, so it was inevitable I would enjoy it more once I saw it on a nice copy.

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I mean, I spent the first 25-30 minutes going "This is the . . . well-regarded gaillo everyone loves?" before realizing I was watching a different film than what I thought I was getting into.

I could see my opinion going up on a rewatch, if only because I'll have an appreciation for something that is outlandish as opposed to stylish, if that makes sense.

You have since corrected this and watched Bava's masterpiece, right? If not, that supercedes all my recommendations.

Yes! I rated it a

Excellent! Shudder has a few of his films. I'd recommend:

Kill Baby Kill
Black Sabbath
Lisa and the Devil
Black Sunday
The Whip and the Body
Bay of Blood
Evil Eye
Shock

In that order of preference.

These are the ones I haven't seen.

The Sparks documentary is great. And they are hilarious.