The Official Movie Thread

[CiG]

Cronopio vs Wainds on the dad joke king of the forum.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

More halloween viewings...

Spoiler

The Relic (1997)

Plucky evolutionary biologist Dr. Margo Green joins forces with tough Chicago cop Lt. Vincent D'Agosta to unravel the mystery behind the horribly mangled corpses that keep popping up around her museum during an opening night gala. When they investigate further they find that there were mysterious deaths on the cargo ship that brought new exhibit pieces across the ocean. Sure enough, there's a monster to blame, sprung from a strange artifact of South American origin.

always dug this movie. Really cool monster design in the korthoga

Sleepwalkers (1992)

Charles Brady and his mother Mary move to a small town. They are sleepwalkers - they can change their appearance and they need the life force from young women. Charles has picked out young Tanya as his next victim. He asks her for a date and invites her home...

kind of like werewolf movie except with cats. Werecats?

Brainscan (1994)

A teenager is part of an interactive video game where he kills innocent victims. Later, the murders become real.

Dumb fun




Mindwarp (1992)

In 2037, after a nuclear disaster has just about destroyed the Earth, the planet's remaining dwellers retreat to Inworld, an enclosed biosphere where computers control all aspects of life. But a beautiful young woman rebels against the Inworld's pre-fabricated existence and demands the right to experience "real" life. So the biosphere's System Operator exiles Judy to the mutant-ridden outside world. Will Judy be able to escape the horrors of this futuristic, toxic wasteland?

Gorefest with Bruce Campbell and Angus tall man Scrimm

The Dark Side of the Moon (1990)

It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it in the hope of salvaging some supplies. One by one, the crew is possessed and killed, and it is up to Paxton Warner to find the links between the dark side of the moon, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Devil himself.

Satan in space

@CiG Any updates to your watch list?

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Wild premise on that Dark Side of the Moon film.

 

[rms]

Sounds like an Event Horizon knockoff?

 

[RadicalThrasher]

Sounds like an Event Horizon knockoff?

Yep some similarities for sure , except it came out 7 years before Event Horizon.

 

[rms]

Oh, cool. Might spend some time checking it out then

 

[CiG]

@CiG Any updates to your watch list?

Yup. Been missing a few days, but I'm still at 23 because I watched a couple movies a night last week.

17. Flatliners
There's a gloomy nocturnal appeal here, but Joel Schumacher just fumbles the ball at every turn. The movie gets at nothing deeper or more interesting than what is presented on the surface. Always felt like he was a hack, and this is another example why. Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon's performances almost salvage it.

18. The Hills Have Eyes
The first act is damn near insufferable, but the middle and final acts make up for it, especially the utterly unhinged final act. Doug rules. The way Alexandre Aja subverted the characters' stereotypes by the end is actually pretty clever. Great practical effects here too.


19. A Quiet Place
Much better than I was anticipating. Sure it has its cliches and predictabilities, but the concept was done well enough that any moment of a loud noise had me stop breathing, mouth agape, lmao! Super fucking tense, and sad, and fucked up. The movie didn't even really explain anything, you're just dropped into the 89th day since the world went to shit.

20. Cobweb
This was a stilted, boring, predictable, cliché hunk of shite with crap creature design and "creepy" CGI hair that felt like a Grudge/Ring ripoff. Cinematography is about the only positive and even then it was just conventionally good, not particularly interesting, dynamic or creative.

21. The Pope's Exorcist
Not offensively bad, and Russell Crowe was great, but I'm just so tired of these lame CGI-fest horrors. It's 2023 and we're still doing the implausibly wide open mouth effect? We haven't learned shit since I Am Legend lol.

22. The Monster
Damn this was great! The creature looks fucking terrifying, like a Xenomorph mixed with those things from Feast. But the intense drama between the mother and daughter set the tone so well. The flashbacks were heart-wrenching, as someone who was raised by an alcoholic mother, it really hit close to home. What a nice little flick.

23. Stir of Echoes
Kevin Bacon killing it here as a man haunted by hallucinations about a missing girl, shame it's a bit too predictable/cliché. Decent though.

 

[rms]

Haven't seen Flatliners in forever, guess I'll keep it that way

 

[WorldObliteration33]

Finished the rest of the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise including the remake which wasn't good but not as bad as I expected. I hadn't seen Freddy vs Jason since it came out and man is that a fun one.

Currently watching through the Friday the 13th films and am up through Jason Lives. Easily the best one so far. Never been a huge fan of the franchise but the ones with more comedic elements seem to be better.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

More horror....

Spoiler

The Carrier (1988)

The main character is stricken with a horrible disease, but it doesn't affect him. It spreads to every inamimate object that he touches, and then if another person touches the object, they are dissolved into it. No one knows that Jake is the carrier except him. This brings about the "red objects" that specify every object that he has touched, as discovered by the community with cats. They use cats to test inanimate objects for the disease. And they cover themselves in garbage bags to protect themselves.

the less said about this movie the better, but it has to be seen. @CiG ,worth tracking down. I think no country is also a fan

Rituals (1977)

Five doctors go on vacation deep in the Canadian wilderness. After all but one pair of the party's shoes disappear, the remaining shoed camper decides to hike out and go look for help. Soon after he leaves, however, his four companions realizes that something is very wrong when someone leaves a decapitated deer head just outside their camp. Even though they still don't have their shoes, they decide to follow their friend's trail out of the woods, but their path is blocked by someone who doesn't want to see them leave the forest alive.

Horror in the woods, pretty good



Creature (1985) aka Titan Find

It’s been sleeping peacefully for 2000 centuries… until now! A team of American scientists land on Saturn’s moon Titan to find their competing German counterparts mysteriously slaughtered. Now, one by one the remaining scientists are hunted by an alien Creature that can control its undead victims.

Alien ripoff, but a pretty good Alien ripoff.




Blue Monkey (1987) aka Insect

Detective Jim Bishop and Dr. Rachel Carson must find a way to stop a giant monstrous insect that's eating people in her quarantined hospital before it procreates and spreads a deadly infection it's carrying.

Throwback to old creature features, awesome practical special f/x




Killer Party (1986)

It's April Fool's Day and the sisters of Sigma Alpha Pi have found the perfect place to throw a party: the abandoned fraternity house where a guillotined pledge lost his head in a hazing gone slightly awry.

Plays out like an 80' s teen prank comedy......until the end. Goes full on evil dead! Worth it for that alone

 

[CiG]

Yeah I'm pretty sure Wainds put The Carrier in his 1988 honourable mentions. Blue Monkey looks fuckin' great.

 

[no country for old wainds]

CATS OR DEATH?!

 

[RadicalThrasher]

CATS OR DEATH?!

LET IT BE DEATH!

 

[no country for old wainds]

no animals were harmed in the making of this movie

(except cats. thousands of cats)

 

[RadicalThrasher]

This will bring me up to date on the horror viewings....

Spoiler

Mutant (1984)

Two brothers discover that the residents of a small Southern town are being infected by a form of toxic waste, turning them into blood-ravenous zombies.

Badass zombie flick with Wings Hauser and Bo Hopkins



Nightwish (1989)

A professor and four graduate students journey to a crumbling mansion to investigate paranormal activity and must battle ghosts, aliens and satanic entities.

pretty crazy




Neon Manics (1986)

A group of teenagers in San Francisco discover a nest of homicidal monsters living in a tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, but when they try to tell authorities, no one believes them.

awesome, nonsensical monster movie

@CiG .....anymore updates to your list?

 

[CiG]

Mutant rules. Still need to see Neon Maniacs.

@RadicalThrasher oops didn't see your tag somehow. Yeah just 2 more nights to go, but here's the rest of my list:


24. Fallen
I appreciate the gritty neo-noir detective vibe, but the ease with which the demon can possess people makes it all feel a bit frivolous to me. Denzel, as usual, rules.


25. Land of the Dead
Been YEARS since I last watched it, I knew I liked it, but I didn't really remember liking it THIS much. Damn what an awesomely entertaining flick. Tons of gore (mostly practical), tons of action, tons of interesting characters, a very gritty tone, also a new (at the time) creative twist on zombies with the Big Daddy character leading a zombie revolution.

Also over the years I've come to appreciate Simon Baker as an actor, whereas back in the day I thought he was a miscast pretty boy (fuck Home and Away). Really surprised by how much shit this gets.


26. The Babadook
Much like The Nightingale, this was nice looking, but ultimately pretty mediocre in the writing and relentlessly on-the-nose with the messaging. Jennifer Kent has yet to impress me, although she did a good job at making you hate the kid and sympathise with the mother in the first act, to the complete reverse in the second act.


27. The Exorcist: Believer
One immediate problem I had is that it had very little build up. What makes the original Exorcist so effective is that it sets a level of normality that is eventually violated by the possession, but The Exorcist: Believer felt like it immediately started with jumpscares and camera tricks and generic spooky horseshit that made me roll my eyes. A generic modern horror in every sense of the word.

Nice to look at, but other than the lead, all the performances were absolutely forgettable. It had a few interesting ideas, like the Haitian Vodou angle, a faith that is typically depicted as antagonistic in cinema. But they didn't do shit with it, and it just felt like an empty pro-black virtue-signal. The writing was just so flat and boring. I think it's time for David Gordon Green to go back to comedies and indie flicks.


28. Aliens vs Predator - Requiem
Hadn't seen this since like 2008. Honestly not that bad, if only they hadn't shot it with such dogshit lighting because they were afraid the Xenomorphs and Predators would look like guys in suits. Spineless decision. It's so dark you can't see half the cool shit happening. That said, I just upped the brightness on my TV a bit and it was more or less okay. The film has absolutely no remorse for civilians lmfao. This would've been a modern action/horror classic if they'd lit it properly.


29. Resident Evil
Still feel about the same as I always did. Besides completely fucking the lore up and that shitty Licker CGI, it rules. Has all the markers of a cool action/horror, and I especially like the tone. Early 00's nostalgia galore with Michelle Rodriguez chewing up every second of every scene she's in.

 

[CiG]

Yesterday and tonight's horror choices:


30. Outpost III: Rise of the Spetsnaz
Last film in a really cool action/horror trilogy. If you like manly action, gore, zombies, Nazis vs Soviets, and that gritty tone that's common with 2000's/10's British horror, you should like this one. I'd say it's about on par with the first Outpost movie myself, which is the best one. Also it's a prequel to the first 2 movies and is set in 1945.


31. Splinter
This is a very comfy low budget 2000's horror with quite great practical effects and a concept that is absolutely fucked up. The body horror effects in particular are disturbing and awesome. Also great sound effects (bones snapping etc). It also has a very unhinged arm amputation scene. Only big drawback is the shaky cam during most of the action. I wish they'd found a better way to get around not wanting the audience to see the creatures properly, but all in all a killer little film.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Flower Moon owned

 

[rms]

I think I've disliked it more over the last two weeks. Especially as I learn more about the book the story is based on

 

[CiG]

@RadicalThrasher did you end up doing 31 movies?