Saw Blood Punch on Shudder recently.
Stars the lead from Deathgasm (doing an American accent this time) and it basically a really cool and fucked up Groundhog’s Day-ish plot.
I don’t want to say anymore, but I recommend it.
On deck so far for this week:
Phantasm
Phantasm II
The Blob 1988
Next week:
The Wailing
Patient Seven
Phantasm III
Phantasm IV
The trailer for Siren just came out.
For those of you unfamiliar, it’s based off of the short “Amateur Night” from the first V/H/S.
Same actress is reprising her role as “Lily”.
Official site: http://www.callofthesiren.com
SiREN is a horror-thriller about Jonah, an apprehensive groom-to-be whose bachelor party turns into a nightmare when he frees a seemingly innocent victimized girl locked up in a supernatural sex club. Her ruthless handler and proprietor of the sex club will stop at nothing to re-capture his prize. Jonah struggles to rescue the girl only to discover it is he who needs to be rescued as he comes to the realization that she is a dangerous fabled predator who has chosen him as her mate.
Earlier me and the lady watched VVitch, The Burning, Night of the Creeps and The Keep.
I seriously don’t understand how Witch got as much praise as it did because it was boring as fuck with only 2 interesting scenes.
The Burning was a pretty fun 80’s slasher romp, had some great visual effects but that’s expected when Tom Savini is on board. Honestly if a hockey mask was stuck on the killer the movie could pass as one of the better Jason films. I was also kinda surprised at how a single weapon never got boring throughout.
Night of the Creeps was fun too, a little slower than I would’ve liked it but def recommend it if you’re looking for a sci-fi horror spoof. Features space slugs turning frat boys into zombies and some genuinely funny moments. I’m sure a bunch of minor police characters were named after other horror movie characters.
The Keep was pretty slow, weird and sometimes a bit confusing. Set around WW2 some Nazi’s take up holding inside a keep in a small Romanian town, one of the soldiers attempts to steal a silver cross, which are embedded in the walls, this in turn wakes an ancient demon and then people explode and stuff. The atmosphere and some of the effects are fucking great and the soundtrack, while sometimes way to loud, was also really good. If the movie didn’t have so much atmosphere and a cool soundtrack I would’ve probably have stopped watching but I still think it’s worth a watch.
Think I might go through the original Poltergeist series and the Phantasm films next.
I’m a huge horror freak. I’m not really into newer horror. I mainly like horror films from the 60’s to the early 90’s. There’s a few newer movies that peaked my interested. I really liked The Witch. As far as old school some of my favorites are City of the Living Dead, Night of the Demons (1988), Maniac (1980), The Beyond, Cannibal Holocaust, Day of the Dead, Reanimator, Slaughterhouse, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and Suspiria
(Rise from your page seven grave.)
I’ve been meaning to bump this for at least month since I’ve been back, but I’ve forgetting to do it constantly. Having just finished watching the utterly mediocre-at-best Annabelle just now reminded to finally do it before I go for exercise…so here we are.
Didn’t want to resurrect the 2 year dead horror games thread, so I figured this “all things horror” thread would be better since it’s more recent.
Anyways, recently I’ve been playing this recently, fully released survival horror game called Darkwood. Steam store page below. Don’t like the top-down perspective fool you; this game is great at atmospheric and psychological horror. The game makes great use of sound design to keep things tense and creepy. The eerie sound of silence sometimes broken by a sudden twig being snapped underfoot, phantom footsteps walking around in your hideout, the sound of enemies lurking just outside of your vision all create a tense atmosphere as you explore and scavenge during the day to hunker down and survive the night. There are no intentional jump scares either, so the horror isn’t cheapened by anything unexpected. Visually, the game is still rather appealing despite the top-down perspective pixel art. There’s plenty of disturbing imagery and creepy monster design. The game doesn’t hold your hand outside of the beginning tutorial either, so success is done through trial and error with contextual clues. Dying is a minor setback on normal difficulty, in which you drop some of your inventory and must go to retrieve it from where you died, but in higher difficulties, death is permanent after a few or even the first. Overall, the game is great, and I’m still having a blast 19 hours in. I don’t seem close to finishing it either. Check it out! It’s cheap enough on Steam, and if you really want to try before you buy, the devs themselves even uploaded the game DRM FREE on PirateBay.
More science fiction than horror. Didn’t know Dark Tower and other related King stories are related to each other
Yah. I googled that shit after coming out of the movie without any prior knowledge of the book.
Did not expect It to be a Chthonic horror
Holy fuck, Gerald’s Game on Netflix is disturbing. I never read that one, but apparently the movie is pretty faithful to the book. I think I’m good on reading that book. Fuck.