Me too, and I think the first two movies are pretty good for what they are... better than Friday the 13th, for damn sure... but Season of the Witch? What the fuck even *was* that? Ditto for every sequel thereafter, even the ones that weren’t about something completely different like SOTW.

I still like the Rob Zombie reboot. The first one. You gonna fit that bad boy in? Good stuff.

forgot to mention last week watched john waters’ SERIAL MOM



still funny after all these years

not great, but fun enough for a weeknd matinée

I remember this one

that lady, whatser name, kathleen something, is great in it

Kathleen Turner. :D

Breaking up the Halloween marathon with a venture over to The Exorcist.

where are you watching that? amazon only has rental. free anywhere?

Local owned copy.

ahhh. yes.

I was also introduced to https://www.shudder.com tonight via a reddit thread. Looks promising.

The more I mull over the topic, the more I just do not like Rob Zombie's takes on the Halloween series. I won't go into detail here just in case someone doesn't want spoilers, but...yeah.

i had a subscription to the shudder channel on amazon a couple years ago. was pretty good! 5 bucks a month on top of prime video. but now no longer there i think, not sure...

Second one was garbage.
First one was boss. Totally boss. Underrated. Visceral.

At least that’s how I remember it. Have only seen it once in the theater. Felt cool, though.

Second one felt dumb.

Zombie's Loomis going on a profiting spree via books had me most upset last night. Pleasance's portrayal had the character legitimately caring about Myers and caring about stopping. Not making a profit as an author.

Blade Runner 2049 again.

Still amazing. Still 3+ hours of solid awesome.

recent rewatches here

You the Living
the Rutles

last weekend rewatched

AFFLICTION (Paul Schrader, 1997)



great story by russel banks, great performances by the cast. the music is a little bothersome and these days some of it sounds like it aged the wrong way. but the story! wow. damn.

THEY LIVE (John Carpenter, 1988)



great and hilarious. the kind of excellent metaphor for reaganomics and social satire of ruling sociopaths that the insane take literally. but don’t let the insane ruin it for you and enjoy this great little movie with a terrible cast except maybe for keith david who besides having a great voice can act.

oh and cheeto’s favorite street fight. yeah ha ha ha ha ha ha. good stuff.

yes!
They Live!!!!






never seen affliction tho. Looks interesting.

Despite hating on the Zombie Halloween movies, I'm sitting here purposely enjoying the 2005 Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.



YOLO

And got back from the 2018 Halloween a little bit ago.


I definitely recommend it.

wife and I watched Beetlejuice the other day. Still good. Had forgotten how LITTLE of the film actually contains Michael Keaton in it.

Cannonball Run II


no comment ;-)

The Shining.

invasion of the body snatchers, 1978 version



way more stylish and cooler than the 50s version, and a great cast, unfortunately it doesn’t know when to end and it’s maybe 20-30 minutes too long. did not need the repetition of the same scenario over & over..

worth the watch though, i waited for this movie all my life—saw a disturbing image of it when i was a kid and never could find out what it was. but at last! yeah. mystery solved. the weird creature is here...

btw, alien was made the following year but it’s like another era altogether.

this body snatchers in san francisco feels almost right out of the 60s, the truckers in space from alien definitely ushered the 80s before the decade even started

followed by

VIDEODROME



!!!

what the fuck can i say that has not been said already? for me it only gets better with the rewatches. like videodrome itself, it has a philosophy—that’s why it’s dangerous.

long live the new flesh!

Nice. This one fucks me up a bit.

an ole classic for me: The Crow

the exorcist (1973)



fucked uuuuuuup

i hadn’t seen it in a very long time and it still freaks me out

i used to live a couple of blocks away from those steps and have gone up and down a bunch of times

brrrrrrrrr!


now im ready for the john boorman sequel ha ha ha

i need to laugh or i’ll have nightmares

A Halloween of ill-conceived sequels and remakes could be fun. Exorcist II should definitely round off the night as it's likely you'll fall asleep half-way through anyway, but you could build up to it with, say, the US version of The Wicker Man and kick off with Jaws 3-D.

hahaha

i will never soil the great memory of the wicker man with the updated atrocity (i think)

just ended up watching a little bit of party down (old tv show about hollywood caterers, pretty funny)

i dont know why i have faith in the john boorman exorcist though. like i’m hoping it’s secretely gonna be a cult gem or something.

or maybe im just honestly curious. zardoz! excalibur!

Exorcist II is a cult gem, definitely, in that it's just so out there. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

I'm semi-surprised you've not seen the Wicker Man remake. It's actually not as bad as some people claim, especially if you forget the original. There are worse films, that get a lot less flack.

i generally hate american remakes of european movies. they’re hugely unnecessary and always cheapened.

oh except for the atom egoyan remake of that movie what is the name... french original has fanny ardant and maybe is it emmanuelle béart?, egoyan’s remake has that freckled lady and amanda seyfried... superior remake. more vulgar sure, but the right way—makes it actually watchable.

but atom egoyan is canadian lololol. french money, shot in toronto i think—not hollywood.

eta

chloe >> nathalie

Seen it before, but thought this would be a nice Halloweeny thing to occupy my time on an off weekend.

Turned out to be not so much “Halloweeny,” but definitely still brilliant and glorious. It’s been 10 years since this one came out, I realized when looking at the notes. It’s so much better than the U.S. refab, and definitely still one of my favorite horror (using the term loosely even though it’s a vampire flick) films of this century.

yes!

the original is great. the american one is not BAD, but it’s inferior, yeah

had a bit of an involuntary/unplanned neve campbell weekend

yesterday watched for lols

THE CRAFT (199...5? no, 96!)



today it was SCREAM (also 1996), which i had missed altogether when it came out



more clever than horrifying or anything—not bad though. nice for doing the laundry at the same time.

oh it was a miramax film. i guess the more horrifying notion is seeing rose mcgowan in a weinstein production now. yikes.

—

ps- yesterday i tried watching tobe hooper’s LIFE FORCE, about vampires in space, but it was so boring it cancelled out the glory of a buck naked mathilda may, and i turned it off. amazing in that regard.

Jesus I remember seeing those movies in the theaters.
The original Scream was decent for what it was. Kind of iconic.

Just Basket Case and Nekromantik for me so far

God, Nekromantik really wasn't as much fun as I remember it being when I was 17 lmfao

Kinda sucked ass tbh

Basket Case still rules hard. Hennenlotter usually does

Went to see the new Halloween film last night. Awful. Just awful.

I'm a wuss when it comes to horror films but there was literally nothing scary, or even tense, about the film. What the fuck was Jaime Lee Curtis thinking going for this?

ive never seen halloween, friday 13th, nightmare on elm street...

what other 80s classic horror flicks out there....

Ackshually Halloween came out in 78. For what it's worth the first Halloween film is great.