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I've been rewatching all the Halloween movies recently. I've seen them all a thousand times over the years, but this time something really stood out to me about Loomis specifically.

Clearly he gets more and more unhinged as the series goes on. He's almost comically dickish in part 5. But I never thought about him being unhinged in the FIRST movie until watching this time.

Loomis says he has spent years trying to reach Michael but he hasn't spoken a single word since they met. He gives a picture of a boy sitting catatonic in a room, staring silently at a wall for years.

Then he spends the whole movie trying to convince anyone who will listen that Michael (who hasn't spoken or reacted to him the entire time he's known him) is PURE EVIL!

He's a doctor, who is convinced that his patient, a catatonic child, is PURE EVIL!

That's actually kinda crazy when you think about it.

Of course, he ends up being right, which is why nobody ever really thinks about how fucking wild that accusation was.

I'm sure many of us have nearly exhausted the great holiday horror movies so I am going off the track a bit with some true crime, murder mysteries, thrillers, dsrk comedies, etc. So far we've watched:

Homicide for the Holdays - true crime (s02e05 is particularly horrifying and fucked up)

Murder, She Wrote - s09e09 a Christmas Secret

On my list:

BBC's Poirot - s06e01 Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Christmas Carol (2022) - Korean thriller

Any recs? I love shorter content too as it gives us something to watch when it is too late to start up a 2 hour movie.

I'm looking for a horror movie I saw in the late 2000s. I only saw the beginning 'cause it really terrified me. The intro takes place in the night. There's a driving car in which there are a mom and her son. The son play with a camera and it annoys the mother. She tries the take off the camera from the hands of the kid but she hits someone by accident. And when she go to see what it was, she saw a woman with spines above the heel and when she rise, her eyes are totally white. I began to cry and stopped the movie. It was not a DVD or something else. It was broadcast on TV.

Sorry if my english is not perfect, it's not my native language ^^'

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I think Paxton surviving was because the fool is the Joker. The wild card. It can work for you or against you. His fate was left to chance. If they died, he’d have no friends to show up for, so he dies. They live, he can show up for them. He lives. That’s my best assessment.

This horror short film came out a while ago and I still think about it to this day. Has anyone else seen it and do you have a recommendation for similar films? No jump scares, the Box film was more of a mindfuck than a thriller.

I'm thinking of making myself a to-watch list of Christmas-themed horror movies for this holiday season. Any essentials that should make the list? Or maybe lesser-known ones worth checking out?

I recently saw a post on here with a bunch of Korean/Chinese/Japanese movies and saved quite a few of them to my watch list. A few people mentioned Monstrum and I had never heard of it. I was actually quite surprised just how much I really liked the movie. I love monster movies that take place way in the past, and this one really fit the bill perfectly.

All My Friends Hate Me is not at all the movie it starts as by the end. Though definitely much more a comedy than a horror, anyone who has suffered any form of social anxiety will feel this movie is way too real. Slowly realising that everyone you’re supposedly friends with is secretly against you and seem to be actively plotting against you because of a dark secret in your past despite your efforts to improve and move on is a pretty terrifying thought, one that I personally have felt many times in my life.

But what’s so genius about it is that none of it is coming from the friends. In fact, none of it is actually relevant to anything that is going on.

Throughout the film, Pete has these awkward conversations that suddenly veer into an almost cruel mockery of what he’s said, and he reads way too far into situations where really nothing is happening. As Freud on e said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. It is uncomfortable and anxiety inducing yes, but only because we see it from Pete’s perspective. It’s only when the shoe drops at the end of the film that you start to really think back on everything that’s happened and, if you watch it again immediately after, you see just how in his own head Peter really was. His friends are not against him and though they do think he is egotistical, they are his friends who just want him to chill the fuck out without, as they see it, feeling the need to brag about his accomplishments and rub it in their faces.

Though I have a family history of it, I myself do not suffer from anxiety but I do suffer from depression, and watching a number of scenes in this movie feel far too real in terms of self sabotage. I am very aware no one is conspiring against me in my life but you just can’t help but feel they are. As a result, you victimise yourself, however unintentionally. Pete does the same thing, and it’s an incredibly unique way of depicting what is actually a pretty common horror situation in reality: alienating everyone when you don’t mean to.

If you haven’t seen this movie I cannot recommend it enough

So I'm doing a work for uni where I have to anwser the question "what's cinema". I choose to do it through the eyes of the horror. I already had done a list. But after a bit of research my list looks like this 1920: nosferatu,The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,the cat and the canary,the fall of the usher house,Häxan,Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1930: dracula, Frankenstein,King Kong,freaks,Vampyr

1940: abott and Costello vs the dracula,I walked whit a zombie.,The Body Snatcher,The Wolf Man,Dead of Night,The Picture of Dorian Gray,Cat People

1950: Godzilla,Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,Diabolique, The Thing from Another World,plan 9 from outer space

1960: psycho, night of the living dead rosemary baby,PEEPING TOM,THE BIRDS,WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?Targets,Eyes Without a Face HOUSE OF USHER (I want to watch but don't know if I should put in)

1970: Halloween carrie, the exorcist, chainsaw massacre,The brood,Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Black Christmas, Dawn of the Dead,A Bay of Blood ,The Hills Have Eyes,Eraserhead,Nosferatu The Vampyre,Suspiria

1980:the shining ,Poltergeist,The Evil Dead,Cannibal Holocaust,The Fly,The Thing,They Live,A Nightmare on Elm Street,An American Werewolf in London.

1990: Blair witch project trauma,Candyman,The Sixth Sense, (NO SCREAM CUZ I COULD DO AN ENTIRE WORK ON THAT FRANCHISE),Wes Craven's New Nightmare,Misery,Ringu

But I need to cut down the list and give a reason why I chose multiple movies for each decade or why I didn't. So please help me trim down and focus the list. If you think I'm missing any movies tell me

So I don't know about you, but when I was in college, if we had found out that someone in our friend group was hanging around or trying to date a high school girl (much less one of our sisters) that person would be ostracized immediately, probably get the shit kicked out of them. They would not be coming to any reunions. Hanging out with underage girls and statutory rape are not a matter of gossip or demonstrating what a jerk a character is. Pedophiles get stitches. Could have been a good movie but that was just insufferable.

I know about Dylan’s new nightmare, never hike alone, the Ricky Chapman film, and the it’s me Billy series, but are there any other fan films/sequels to other horror movies? Thanks!

Good Lord, where to begin. Is this a horror? So this may be more a stream of consciousness.

It was on at our local arts cinema and given its notoriety, I went with a friend.

I kinda new what I was in for. My mate, pair guy, did not.

I falsely reassured myself that because it's from the 70's, the effects wouldn't be as bad. It was that and more. Very impressive. VERY disturbing. One of the sadistic libertines is boss-eyed and I think he is actually what got me the most. I have never been so viscerally repulsed by someone in my life. It really stressed me out which was wild.

It's taken a while for it to settle in my bones and I had to do some additional research on top of what i thought i knew to help me process it. I see why some people would regard it as this incredible piece of societal commentary and I can appreciate that it makes Musolini's fascist regime look like a farce, cutting it down to ridiculous levels of extreme violence and scummy behaviour. Like, it's almost funny...but you can't laugh 'cause you're gagging and you just don't want to give your stomach the excuse.

Too much for me. So much scat! What?? I don't think it's massively thoughtful (I mean, Dante's inferno really isn't hard to reference and I don't think people didn't think terrible things were happening but given their circumstances, were probably just trying to survive the time) and I don't think it's a beautiful piece of art as some people suggest. I think it's a very blunt 'fuck you' to the regime that ultimately got the director killed. That's not a bad thing at all. I'm all for throwing the middle finger at politics. It made horrible fun of the people he believed to be at the top while showing what he thought people got disappeared into, which horrified the audience and made the regime look like pigs. Brava.

That being said, it did great at making me feel isolated from the outside world. I walked out feeling like the fringes of a WWI vet entering society for the first time.

I realise I'm looking at this as someone looking back, not experiencing it for what it was at the time, so perhaps some of it's real power was lost on me. I also don't think it requires a lot of thought to say fuck you to a society you hate and have people get behind that message. As..it...were.

I’ve been searching for hours online using ChatGPT and searching the web but I can’t find anything remotely to what I remember

I want to preface this by saying I saw this on TikTok on a movie explained account

The premise of the movie or short film is about a man who is the only person able to perceive aliens/monsters pretending to be humans. There’s a scene where the male protagonist goes up to a window and notices an alien eating in a restaurant. Later there’s a scene where people in a car take a picture of him because they’re realized he can perceive them and he becomes wanted by the police. Two alien police officers then confront him and he kills one of them with a brick and the second one with a shotgun. The protagonist then goes to his girlfriend’s workplace and realize her boss is an alien and kills him with the shotgun and takes her workplace hostage. The big twist that I remember is that his girlfriend messed with his medication and she believes that’s what’s causing him to see “aliens”

Thank you in advanced I haven’t been able for fall asleep because I’ve been searching for this

I just watched Safe and I was left pretty worse for watching this movie. It was one of those movies that I didn’t think much of after finishing but after thinking about it more and more I felt like this movie genuinely was extremely fucked up. I wanted to share it and I hope someone watches this because I think it’s a very good psychological horror film.

I know it might be hard to do so soon, but I was just thinking about it and realized that I definitely prefer Terrifier 2 and 3 to Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2/3, Halloween 2/4, Child's Play 2/3, Friday the 13th 2/3, Hellraiser 3, and Nightmare on Elm Street 2.

The only 2nd and 3rd entries to a horror series that are close enough that I should rewatch them are Hellraiser 2 and NOES 3. I'm actually leaning towards Terrifier 2/3 edging them both out.

I'm stuck on Evil Dead 2/3 (AoD). I don't think I can say Terrifier 2/3 are better, but maybe my glasses are too rose-tinted. How would you guys rank these sequels?

(I'm counting Halloween 4 as the 3rd Halloween movie for the sake of this only, no discredit to H3, it's just not really a sequel to H2. If I were to put H3 in here it'd be #9)

1. Evil Dead 2

2. Army of Darkness

3. Terrifier 3

4/5. Terrifier 2/Nightmare on Elm Street 3 (I just can't do it)

6. Hellraiser 2

7. Child's Play 2

8. Friday the 13th Part 2

9. Halloween 4

10. Child's Play 3

11. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

12. Halloween 2 (1981)

13. Friday the 13th 3

14. Nightmare on Elm Street 2

15. Hellraiser 3

16. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3

I might actually drop AoD all the way to #5 below T2/3 and NOES 3. #2-6 are really, really close. 9-13 are so close that they might as well be interchangeable. I'm not a fan of 14-16. BTW, if you don't think Terrifier even belongs in this discussion, feel free to express yourself and lol. Counter views are highly encouraged.

I've been on a Blair Witch Project kick lately.

I've watched The Blair Witch Project, Curse of the Blair Witch, and read The Blair Witch Project: A Dossier.

The mythology of The Blair Witch is very compelling, and I absolutely love it. Watching the mockumentaries and reading the Dossier is an integral part of the experience.

I saw The Blair Witch Project at a young age and was convinced it was real. It’s a movie that has had a huge impact on my taste in horror. I love found-footage movies, despite most of them being crap. The Blair Witch Project is one of a handful of films that utilizes the format extremely well.

I've had a deep fear of getting lost in the woods because of this film.

The techno horror subgenre doesn't have a ton of entries in the overall horror genre, the first one I remember seeing was Virus with Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland, the most recent being M3GAN which I just didn't like at all. But I watched AfrAId tonight and...I kind of liked it. I know this was pretty much panned as awful, and I get it it, the concept overall was pretty awesome but the direction was all over the place and most of the dialogue sounded like it was written by AI. But I didn't find myself hating it as I was expecting, something about it felt like a really good B movie in the best worst way possible. Ridiculous to the point that it didn't matter, because in its ridiculousness it was actually kind of fun to watch. In honor of our future AI overlords, a solid 6.8/10 for giving me a fun watch over the holiday weekend.

I need a horror movie, across any subgenre, that put you through the ringer, but gave you the most satisfying and rewarding ending as a movie lover. Basically, what made you feel like it was a happy ending. Thanks!

I watched Skinamarink with my girlfriend a while ago as some of my first horror movies since I never really had an interest, and I was both horrified and mesmerized by the amazing movie that is Skinamarink. It goes along with the vhs theme amazingly in my opinion.

Hopefully this will help you who are out there tonight looking for a decent flick... most are what I'd think are maybe lesser known.... Some might be more well-known so if you see one on here that is ignore and move onto the next

We are Still Here Incident in a Ghostland Ghost Stories (both the one with Martin Freeman and the Hindi one) Seventh Moon The Vigil The Innocents Jug Face Late Phases XX (anthology) Gonijam Haunted Asylum Wer Atrium Terrified The House that Jack Built Hellbender

I just watched Coherence, and that was such a strange movie. I want to experience more movies like that that will just mind fuck you to oblivion. Especially if you are completely stoned off your face.

Movies like Possessor or Triangle.

A fairly slow-paced film, and the horror towards the end didn't do much for me, but I absolutely ADORED the first hour or so. A total bottle of a movie, taking place in just one trailer in a park, in an overpowering storm. The thunder and rain hammering on the roof, the two characters and their uneasy conversation, it completely absorbed me. Makes me want more horror stuff with the rainy feeling.

Welp, I thought I could make it to age 50 without developing a drinking problem, but you fuckers had to go and recommend Threads. Now I'm feeling so bleak and gloomy that I'm not sure.

I do have a question: are there other horror movies like this, without a single fantastical/supernatural/paranormal element? Where it's just regular people and what would happen to them? I guess The Purge comes close, but it would still require massive changes in our governmental and social structure. Threads could literally happen tomorrow. Any other "real world" horror recommendations out there?

This is a French movie that I picked up on a whim back in 2008. It completely blew me away and exceeded all expectations for what was on the table with crazy content.

Has a pretty killer sound design if you are a nerd like that and has everything you could ever want if you think you have seen everything that the horror genre has to offer.

All in all it is a must have stocking stuffer for anyone you don’t want to have to talk to next year.

Personally "Eden Lake" really left me traumatised. Also "Buried". I don't wanna give away too much details but I honestly felt sick after watching them, not because it was gory or anything but when you think about it, it just leaves you unsettled.

Mia Goth was great in 'X', but man she was breathtaking in Pearl. Her acting is excellent throughout but the monologue at the dinner table where she's unloading everything onto Mitsy is just unbelievable. It had me in tears.

!The way the direction of the film shifts again from the heartbreaking monologue to Pearl following Mitsy outside....... and grabbing the axe. One of the best oh shit moments I've seen in a horror for a long time.!<

I can't wait to see what happens in MaXXXine. I can't believe I put off watching these for so long.

What’s not on this list that I need to watch?

At the beginning of the year, I usually do a horror movie panel at two different cons reviewing the horror movies of the previous year and I’m curious which 2024 movies I should watch that I haven’t already.

Here’s the list of what I have seen:

Oddity

Late Night with the Devil

You’ll Never Find Me

Night Shift

Lisa Frankenstein

Baghead

Longlegs

Here for Blood

Heretic

The First Omen

Smile 2

Amelia’s Children

Cuckoo

Terrifier 3

Don’t Move

MadS

Speak No Evil

The Exorcism

In a Violent Nature

Sting

The Substance

Time Cut

Strange Darling

Double Blind

Humane

Imaginary

Night Swim

V/H/S: Beyond

Exhuma

Mr. Crocket

Tarot

Abigail

The Seeding

The Strangers: Chapter 1

Immaculate

Shaitaan

Somewhere Quiet

Stopmotion

The Watchers

A Quiet Place: Day One

Summoners

Departing Seniors

Lovely, Dark, and Deep

Infested

Arcadian

I Can See the TV Glow

Founders Day

Trap

Blackout

Midnight Peepshow

The Mouse Trap

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey II

Hell Hole

Camp Pleasant Lake