jacob_b

Love Ashley Bell. I really do hope she gets a role to launch her career. She is a pretty strong actress.

That may have been your worst mistake of the night. What an ending to that game.

SterlingBen

Ah, almost forgot today's beverage:


Some peaks and valleys with todays viewings with the premiere of The Walking Dead and Puppet Master IX.

But my favorite part was remembering this old Fangoria article in the Killer Tongue subset thread:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/dvd-reviews...ay-11-a-2.html

asianxcore

Has anyone else seen 'Would You Rather' (2012)?

It felt like a less scumbag version of Daisuke Yamanouchi's 1999 film, 'Red Room'. I thought it was effective in what it was trying to achieve and Jeffrey Combs was great in it.

I'm only 8 films away from my goal. I hope to finish this week, as my coursework gets crazy again the weeks after.

ntnon

...6 Shes and a He is awfully odd. Overall, nothing really happens. Except mildly sensual non-scenes and then a lot of fake blood popping up out of nowhere..! What a weird film. Twenty minutes of bathing, dancing, dancing-bathing... and then suddenly a horrendously graphic disembowlment and beheading! Weird...

ntnon

I'm sure that when I checked this morning, this was streaming free with Amazon Prime. Searched for it this evening, and it no longer is.

EdTheRipper

I watched it a couple of months back. I liked it quite a bit.

Undeadcow

Dolls (1987) is avaliable streaming on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v0TMGFRpgQ

PCBreakdown

Thanks for this. I'm another that planned on watching it yesterday on Amazon and had to skip it. It's going back in the queue now.

Bluelitespecial

Finally finished the Leprechaun movies up thru part 4, holy crap they are bad, yet entertaining at the same time. The only good thing about them is Warwick Davis, he is definately having fun with the role. I"ll have to get the other two films when I have the chance. I have the Human Centipede in my watch pile, I have put it off watching it for years, but will finally get to it this week.

mrcellophane

Over the weekend, I went out with friends and didn't end up watching any horror films, just Bridesmaids (a favorite of a friend that we used to pick up her spirits). Last night, I watched more of The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" episodes which never fail to bring a smile to my step.

I'm way behind where I planned to be. While I've never hit 100 films, I usually fall into the 55-70 range in October. Unless things change, I won't even hit that! Thankfully, tonight is movie night with friends, and I know that we are in for some horror films.

SethDLH

It's also free On Demand on the Impact channel and in HD

Undeadcow

I'd have liked to see Dolls (1987) in high definition, the YouTube version I found was modified to fullscreen... hopefully we'll see a blu-ray release of Dolls in the near future. It's definitely worth re-visiting.

walletboyniac

Would You Rather was a blind buy for me. I enjoyed it, it was definitely entertaining.

I'm definitely a fan of the Leprechaun movies. I liked the first one the best, the one that so prominently features Jennifer Aniston's fine be-hind. The campiness factor goes off the chart in this series. Leprechaun In Space left a mark. The only one I didn't like was the last one, Back 2 Tha Hood. I reviewed all of them for the Drive-In challenge.

DaveyJoe

C'mon, the Leprechaun smoking a bong then raiding the fridge is one of the highlights of the franchise!

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

Yesterday I started off with finishing The Crazies (original), followed by the remake. Really thought the original still holds up after all these years. As for the remake, it wasn't great but not completely awful. My biggest gripe with it is the fact that while it's a remake, it went alone assuming that you've already seen the original and threw out any mysteries from the first one and threw out the solutions right at the beginning. Since you already know what's going on and they didn't feel the need to change the original story, you know how it's going to end, so you lose a lot of the fun. It would have been nice if they took a different take of it so it would leave the viewer with some sort of mystery but that would require a writer with some sort of talent. It just left me the feeling of why even bother making it if you aren't really going to try.

After that, I hit Crystal Lake Memories. Got through both discs and about halfway through the bonus disc so far. While it was a good watch, the series just didn't have as many interesting things going on in the production as I though NOES did. It helped rekindle my dislike of Ronnie Yu. It was also nice to see some of the cast and crew very politely express some dislike of what he did. That leading girl in FvJ sure was annoying as well, to say the least.

As for the remake, I didn't mind it too much but I thought some of the kills were a bit goofy and there was some bad cgi which bothered me more since the series had always been pretty good with practical effects.

One thing that seemed to be a reoccurring theme was "let's try and do something a bit different", almost always followed by poor box office results. Could have possibly saved some of the films if someone chimed in with, "Hey, remember the last few times someone tried to stray from how the series worked? Might not be a great idea to do it again."

Today's Scream Factory sales are Deadly Blessing and Swamp Thing. Already have Deadly Blessing but I've been waiting for Swamp Thing to come down in price. I absolutely loved that movie as a kid.

GoldenWheels

This is the one in South America yes? One of my favs. Less gross out gore than the others and more T&A.

SethDLH

The CLM book is far superior to the doc. film in regards to going in depth with behind the scenes stuff and cool stories. The film just sort of brushes over the top of each film with various people and that's it.

Russell S

Since some of you have been discussing the It's Alive films, I've been contemplating watching the remake for a while (what can I say, I got it cheap). Is it as bad as I'm afraid of?

Also, whoever recommended Absentia (I think it was last year originally), THANK YOU. I finally got around to viewing it yesterday and it was every bit as good as I'd hoped. The DVD cover is the WORST, though.

Giles

I was wrong, I had to rewatch it.. it doesn't help when one of the ancillary characters looks A LOT like the main character (the father), is killed off, and then the father is then also attacked in a completely different setting ...

so nevermind... I'm just going cuckoo.

malazar

I have a question about how to count something on my list. I am watching the Ban the Sadist Videos documentaries that came with my House on Straw Hill blu-ray. On the disc itself, it is presented as two separate parts, each of which has a separate entry on IMDB which show that they were released a year apart. Should I count this as one entry or two separate entries?

Undeadcow

So far here are my favorite viewings this month: The New Daughter, Dolls, Thunder Cops, Eyes of Fire, Spider Baby, V/H/S/2, Happy Birthday to Me, Mama.

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

I'd count them as two since they're two different docs, Part 1 and Part 2. That's just how I'd do it.

BobO'Link

I made some good progress over the weekend and have now watched 53 of the 74 Universal Horror films made before 1960 - 21 left to go! It's been *lots* of fun so far but I'm ready to get to my unwatched pile - it keeps growing somehow...

So far the "Inner Sanctum" films have been the weakest, but I already knew that so it was no surprise. They are not "bad" but just rather basic "B" programmers.

I started yesterday with The Climax (1944). The *2nd* Musical/Horror film in 2 days! Overall it feels like a slightly reworked Phantom of the Opera but at least has Boris Karlof as the villain and is, IMHO, a slightly better film. Without doing some research I'd swear the Soprano on both overdubs was the same woman.

I also watched House of Frankenstein (1944), which was better than I'd recalled and The Mummy's Curse (1944) which felt like DEJA 'VU after watching The Mummy's Ghost (1944) on Saturday. There's really not too much difference in the 2 films. The day ended with House of Dracula (1945), a quick little programmer with Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, *and* Dracula. It, too, was better than I'd recalled but it could be it just seemed that way after a day of mostly "average" films.

I'm shooting for 3 films tonight: Pillow of Death (1945), House of Horrors (1946) (a first-time viewing), and She-Wolf of London (1946) to wrap up the "Inner Sanctum" and "Wolf Man" series. It should be fairly easy as each is barely over an hour.

BobO'Link

Well... it's *not* overdubs but Susanna Foster who sang those arias herself in both films so of course it sounds like the same voice! It turns out that The Climax was originally to be a sequel to Phantom but was cancelled due to story troubles and problems concerning the availability of Claude Rains. It resurfaced, but not as a continuation of the previous film, and featured completely new characters. It was also filmed on the same sets as Phantom... (1943) which used the sets from Phantom... (1925). Sound stage 28 on the Universal Studios lot still contains portions of the opera house set. It is the oldest surviving structure built specifically for a movie in the world.

malazar

Thank you, that is the way I was leaning. At least now my numbers will be consistent with my Letterboxd list I am making for what I have been watching during the challenge.