What HORROR Movies Are You Watching For Halloween Week?

[kirk55555]

I just finished watching Trick R' Treat, a cool anthology horror movie from a few years ago. I watched it for the first time last year, and I think it will end up being a yearly tradition to watch it on Halloween.

 

[Mr Light]

I watched 28 Weeks Later, pretty decent. Now I'm starting Doomsday.

Oh and I watched Human Centipede 3, and it was indeed terrible, but this one was a bizarre comedy while the 2nd one was just horrifically dark and disturbing. Such weird movies.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Not exactly horror but I saw Blade II today. I had to laugh when I realized his little sidekick was a young Norman Reedus. And I forgot Red Dwarf's Cat had a role as well.

You could definitely see the origins of the look and ideas for Guillermo Del Toro's The Strain in this movie. I don't think it worked out too badly but it made me wonder if he was trying as hard to serve the character of Blade as his own vampire movie ideas.

 

[Mike Farley]

This month I've watched:

The Omen
Dark was the Night
The Lazarus Effect
Rosemary's Baby
Hellions
Edge of Sanity
Insidious 3
Long Time Dead
The People Under the Stairs
Event Horizon
Session 9
Jacob's Ladder
Don't Blink
Christine
Frailty
Crimson Peak
The Stranger
The Crazies (2010)
The Diabolical
The Haunting (original)
Curse of the Blair Witch
The Blair Witch Project
Don't Look Now
The American Scream
The Final Girls
An American Werewolf in London
The Killing of Jacob Marr
Dracula (1931)
Dracula (1931-Spanish version)
Trick r Treat
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Bone Tomahawk
It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
The Mummy (1959)
Re-Kill

I'll cap it all off with John Carpenter's Halloween... and probably one more squeezed in between.

This year I've focused mostly on new and/or first time views with a smattering of old favorites mixed in. Most years it's much more heavily weighted to the classics.

 

[Trekkin]

Technically Halloween ended yesterday here, but I decided to give myself the loophole that there was still a few hours left in the US. So I got up this morning and put on ' The Dunwich Horror'.

My thoughts on it?

"Heh, heh, heh. Hah, hah hah, hah hah! HA HA HA HA HA!!"

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Decided to go old school with my Halloween viewing tonight. I watched 'Nosferatu' and 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ I've got Caligari, but I don't have Nosferatu.

Yesterday, I watched Dementia 13, part of Fearless Vampire Killers, and Ash vs. The Evil Dead. And Z Nation, of course.

I'm pretty much imune to gore - I just find it a bit pathetic. I dont like slasher movies but thought Scream subjverted the genre nicely. Stuff like Hellraiser bores the pants off me and I found The Exorcist a bit dull. Much to Mrs Relayers disgust, I hate old Hammer films. I'm not a good target audience for horror.

I don't care for slasher movies, unless you count Psycho. I was ambivalent about Hammer Films when I was a kid, but I started getting into them about five years ago.

Carpenter recently did an interview (I can't recall what site I read it on) where he said the plan was to make the Halloween series an anthology, with different characters and unrelated stories in each film, released under the Halloween banner (after Halloween II, of course). Maybe the commercial was inserted as a reinforcement of this anthology design.

That was indeed the plan at the time, but Halloween III didn't do so well. I kind of liked it, mainly for Stacey Nelkin.

Technically Halloween ended yesterday here, but I decided to give myself the loophole that there was still a few hours left in the US. So I got up this morning and put on ' The Dunwich Horror'.

Which one?

 

[Relayer1]

I won't be watching any.

I was mistaken. Mrs Relayer put Cabin in the Woods on last night.

It was rubbish...

 

[Mr Light]

Doomsday was better than I remembered it being. There's not an original bone in its body, but it looks expensive and gorgeous. Shame on them for stealing such a good movie title though

 

[Trekkin]

Technically Halloween ended yesterday here, but I decided to give myself the loophole that there was still a few hours left in the US. So I got up this morning and put on ' The Dunwich Horror'.

Which one?

The Corman one with Sandra Dee. I have seen the other one, and Corman's is the better version. It's just unlike the most of his Poe movies that I was watching yesterday, 'Dunwich...' has aged pretty badly.

It is fun if you're in the mood. But it's probably a bad idea to show it to any hard-core Lovecraft fans.

 

[Greg Cox]

Technically Halloween ended yesterday here, but I decided to give myself the loophole that there was still a few hours left in the US. So I got up this morning and put on ' The Dunwich Horror'.

Which one?

The Corman one with Sandra Dee. I have seen the other one, and Corman's is the better version. It's just unlike the most of his Poe movies that I was watching yesterday, 'Dunwich...' has aged pretty badly.

It is fun if you're in the mood. But it's probably a bad idea to show it to any hard-core Lovecraft fans.

Have you seen Corman's "The Haunted Palace"? Although billed as yet another Poe film, it's actually based on "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by Lovecraft . . ..

 

[Trekkin]

I have it, but I didn't get to it.

 

[Mr Light]

I started watching Spawn for the first time in forever. I can't believe how hammy and cartoonish it is. It's so bizarre because my memories of the comic are very morose and grimdark.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Technically Halloween ended yesterday here, but I decided to give myself the loophole that there was still a few hours left in the US. So I got up this morning and put on ' The Dunwich Horror'.

Which one?

The Corman one with Sandra Dee. I have seen the other one, and Corman's is the better version. It's just unlike the most of his Poe movies that I was watching yesterday, 'Dunwich...' has aged pretty badly.

It is fun if you're in the mood. But it's probably a bad idea to show it to any hard-core Lovecraft fans.

I've seen it, and I find it entertaining (especially the idea of Sandra Dee, of all people, almost getting naked), but it is pretty bad. It's not that it hasn't aged well, either, because it was pretty bad at the time. That sort of amateur-film-school-directing-masquerading-as-artsy was fashionable for a while in the 70s. It dragged down Night Gallery, too, among other things.

Have you seen Dagon? There's a decent Lovecraftian movie.

 

[Trekkin]

My biggest 'WTF?' moment was "Is that Dean Stockwell? And is he playing WILBUR?!' But yeah, it's a good-bad movie.

I've seen Dagon, and it's pretty good (the skinning scene is just disturbing) even if I never could work out why they picked that title. I've got Re-animator, Whisperer in Darkness, Castle Freak and From Beyond as well, so maybe next year I'll marathon Lovecraft instead of Poe.

 

[Mr Light]

Holy crap. Spawn looked horrible. The 1997 CGI is so laughable horrible. It looks like a X-Box Original video game. What a bizarre movie. I remember liking it when it originally came out, but I was 16 and there hadn't been a good comic book movie yet

 

[RJDiogenes]

My biggest 'WTF?' moment was "Is that Dean Stockwell? And is he playing WILBUR?!' But yeah, it's a good-bad movie.

I've seen Dagon, and it's pretty good (the skinning scene is just disturbing) even if I never could work out why they picked that title. I've got Re-animator, Whisperer in Darkness, Castle Freak and From Beyond as well, so maybe next year I'll marathon Lovecraft instead of Poe.

Whisperer In Darkness by the Lovecraft Historical Society? That was great. They also did a silent film version of Call Of Cthulhu that I love. And they have a bunch of OTR-style "audio adventures" of some of his other works.

 

[Trekkin]

I hadn't heard of the audio ones before. I'll have to check them out.

 

[RJDiogenes]

They're really good, especially if you're a fan of OTR, like me.

 

[Mr Light]

I watched Blade Trinity for the first time in ten years. Still terrible. It's particularly bad watching it immediately after the excellent Blade 2.