Posted on 10/26/2022 1:03:32 PM PDT by dynachrome
Here are some of the oddities I have run across lately, including a Cuban zombie film!
Funny, it didn’t scare me that much as a kid, but I noticed a lot more as an adult. Certain things just ruined me even though I knew what was going to happen.
Every October, I re-watch my collector’s edition DVD of the original Dawn of the Dead.
I rented the video from Blockbuster. I never thought I would come across it again but TUBI has it streaming. I will have to see if I can catch some of his other works.
Paula
“The Haunting”
I loved it since I was a kid.
Is “The Shining” considered horror? I like that one, but generally not a fan of horror movies. (The book was better.)
Food and Drink Related:
Poultrygeist
Food of the Gods
Food of the Gods 2
The Stuff
Street Trash
Motel Hell
Yeah, the movie actually annoyed me when I was young, because it strayed so far from the material. But it’s a good horror movie in its own right.
Sounds like Slithers.
The Burbs.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068615/
Frogs. Filmed not 20 miles from where I am in PC Beach. Ray Milland, Sam Elliot, Joan Van Ark.
https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails/eden-gardens-state-park
Argento’s “Suspiria”
(the original)
They released a new Halloween movie short last night. It’s called “The Festerman Grunteth”.
GARGOYLES (1972?)
If you want to scare the hell out of your kids, try to find and download this old made for TV movie (via DISH TV)! I was a pretty brave little kid, but this freaked me out - and probably why I loved JEEPERS CREEPERS so much as an adult.
Do you ever make pilgrimages to the Monroeville Mall?
Farthest east I’ve ever been was Chicago in the late 80’s. Perhaps someday...
Not sure when it comes out, but the buzz for TERRIFIER 2 is making the rounds. Plus, who doesn’t like murderous psycho clowns?
The Addiction (1995) (Christopher Walken) B&W. It is a horror vampire movie for those who dislike New York liberal arts graduate students and their pretentious philosophy professors.
Cemetery Man (1994) In a little village in northern Italy, when the dead are buried, they resurrect, so have to be killed again by the hapless cemetery employee. Horror comedy.
House (Hausu Jp.) (1977) Teen girls eaten by a surreal haunted house. Nobody wanted to support the film, so the producer-director made it himself without a storyboard. The critics hated it, but audiences loved it. Cult movie.
A couple of humorous gross-outs:
Not really a Rob Zombie fan, but I watched House of 1,000 Corpses and was delighted by the original Texas Chainsaw vibe.
I like original takes on classic monsters, as well. An eighties vampire flick all but forgotten, is Innocent Blood, starring the beautiful French actress Anne Parrillaud as the vampire who is loathe to take innocent lives, so feeds on the criminal underclass as a matter of principle. Until she accidentally turns Robert Loggia instead of killing him outright, and gruesome hijinks ensue. Great gangsters, and featuring Don Rickles as the undead mob boss’s concierge, he is great.
I did like the (mini?) series, Penny Dreadful, too. Not for traditionalists, for sure, but well done. Eva Green was awesome as Vanessa Ives, the whole cast does a great job. Fresh takes on all the Universal Studio creatures and monsters from literature. There is a rather graphic homosexual scene, but it’s just as horrifying as the supernatural elements, at least to this straight dude. Well done, but ends rather abruptly in Season 3.
And because I’m an unashamed Marvelite, check out the first two Blade movies. Skip the third, unless you just wanna watch Parker Posey act her @ss off. The third movie’s main failure is that most of Dracula’s henchman, including Posey, are more convincing and scarier than he is.
The original The Blob, with Steve McQueen. Heck yeah!
The Brendan Fraser Mummy movie is good, part action, part horror, a lot of humor, good special effects. Fun for the kids.
Not strictly horror, but for high-tension and scary sci fi, the original The Thing From Another Planet is excellent, and of course, Alien.
And, the Exorcist, the GOAT of horror. I was too young when it came out, probably 21 or even older by the time I first saw it. My older brother, though, took his girlfriend (asst. police chief’s daughter) to see it on it’s first run. She was in tears when they returned, scared as hell. We called one of the seminary guys to come talk to her (might have been a younger priest, actually. Been a long time). I don’t think she was Catholic, either, but he settled her down.
Happy Halloween!
Food related, The Japanese are very strange:
Dead Sushi
Keiko, the daughter of a legendary sushi chef, runs away from home when his Karate-style regimen becomes too severe. Finding work at a rural hot springs inn, she is ridiculed by the eccentric staff and guests.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2396429/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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