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I insisted one of my students who was into horror watch, Psycho. Her 4-word Letterboxd review was: "I can fix him."

Yikes

Good times 🤘

I would bring aliens from fire in the sky to talk drones and hopefully smash

Guillermo Del Toro is releasing his adaptation of Frankenstein. 😊

Even though Badonkey Kong is the thickest, I say Baragon is the sexiest kaiju.

Thanksgiving is magnificent

ILS (aka THEM) is great. Purportedly it and THE STRANGERS are completely independent/unaware of one another, but I wonder.

There are both Horror and non-Horror home invasion films. So what do you think pushes a home invasion story/film into Horror?

Obviously I agree with THE FLY. DEAD ALIVE is a good one. Same with my old favorite STREET TRASH. An online friend worked on PSYCHO GOREMAN, but - sadly - not THE VOID. AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON is, obviously, a lock. Though I thought the Nazi creatures were a bit stiff. For some reason that sometimes happened with Rick Baker's work. It happened with his THE FUNHOUSE effects for Tobe Hooper. We obviously didn't mention some other granddaddies like THE THING, but with the mention of THE FLY, it made me think of the two other great SF/Horror remakes of that era: THE BLOB and Kaufman's INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. Some great work in those.

Now there are optical effects and make-up effects. Although there can be overlap, I'll stick wit the latter. Avoiding some of the Bottin and Baker locks: David Cronenberg's THE FLY (Chris Walas, Stephan Dupuis, and team). William Friedkin's THE EXORCIST (Dick Smith with an assist from a young Rick Baker). Brian Yuzna's SOCIETY (Screaming Mad George). Tibor Takács's THE GATE (Randall William Cook). James Cameron's THE ABYSS (Steve Johnson and team - yes, the water limb was CGI, but unbelievably the aliens themselves were practical. Johnson was great at doing things that seemed like CGI, that were thought impossible with practical effects like much of the transformation of Mr. Hyde in THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN). Clive Barker's HELLRAISER (Bob Keen and company). Tobe Hooper's LIFEFORCE (John Dykstra, Nick Maley, and team). Honorable mentions to Steve Wang (much of his best work was on the cutting room floor), the wild practical effects (though often of the more optical effects variety) in Francis Ford Coppola's BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA and Andrew Getty's THE EVIL WITHIN . . .

how about, the Troma Movies

"Throwing a dick around the dump," could be used as a metaphor for literally anything. You threatening me? Son I'll throw your dick around the dump. Need to brainstorm? Just throw some dicks around the dump. 10/10 dicks around the dump

Monster house is a new one with Mel Gibson , good tween movie

I've never seen THE GOONIES, MONSTER SQUAD, et cetera. I was watching THE WARRIORS, MOTEL HELL, et al. So I'm either the best person to ask about baby's first (Horror) movie; or worst. Going a touch older: THE GATE, Hooper's remake of INVADERS FROM MARS. And a more recent, excellent, kid's twofer would be: ATTACK THE BLOCK and DARK HARVEST.

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Always glad to see Cory get passionate! And thanks for reminding me of Legend, Kala!!! My nephew needs some recommendations from me that aren't black-and-white. 10/10 fricheks

Sorry, I had to mention Candy Corn as I hate it with the fury of one thousand Suns. I like circus peanuts though.

Almond Joy - I guess if you're some kind of sicko. Nerds - sure. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups - absolutely. Reese's Pieces - sure. Hershey's Chocolate - something about being able to break them into smaller squares. The almond variety is even better. Sadly, like many big brand chocolates, they increasingly taste waxy and chemically in the last decade or so. Laffy Taffy - it's good, but not a marquee candy. But banana? Christ man, Cory absolutely has bodies in his freezer. Damn sicko. Tootsy Pops, Tootsy Rolls, and Dum-Dums - certainly not a favorite, but fine. You don't throw them away, but you don't treasure them either. Smarties - fucking trash. Peanut Buter Kisses - I hated them as a child, but now that I'm an old person I'm a bit more sympathetic to them. Same with Bit O' Honey. Nestle Crunch - agreed. Same problem with modern Hershey's Chocolate bars. The large is bettter than the small, but the chocolate quality is not there. Whoopers - ass. Milk Duds are okay. My top three as a child: Snickers Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Heath/Skor bars My top three now: Ferrero Rocher Almond Roca Toblerone (though it is hard to find the small ones now) My bottom three: Motherfucking candy corn Smarties Black licorice (including Good & Plenty) Dishonorable mention: Butterscotch hard candy

Banana Laffy Taffy? Thay's literally the worst of any taffy, laffy or otherwise. Kala's top three is prestine, and Whoppers are the actual worst. 10/10 frichek

65 was good, I love Adam Driver, he's one of my favorite actors, he saved the new Star wars trilogy imo. Plus he's a veteran. Event Horizon is a masterpiece, it scared me when it first came out, my daughter thought it was corny so I don't know how it aged but I still loved it lol Not brought up but They Live is my favorite sci Fi , that's sci Fi right? Greatest fight scene in the history of cinema , I'll die on that hill! Also I'm a big Cloverfield fan, my favorite one by far was when they were in space trying to get free energy, I thought it was cool how they explained it backwards through the films

I love CUBE.

I haven't seen 65, but it sounds interesting. I don't know if I can trust Kala in her final e-girl form, though. eXistenZ is brilliant. Myself and some buddies drove down to the Lagoon Cinema in the Twin Cities, back in the day, to watch it. Something that made it special is the fact that it was the first original screenplay Cronenberg made into a film since VIDEODROME some 16 years previous. MONSTERS was the debut film of Gareth Edwards who went on to direct ROGUE ONE, GODZILLA, and THE CREATOR. But he originally got his start in special effects. On the film, he did almost everything himself including the effects, which used programs that one could get at Best Buy. They look great for all that though. But he didn't want an effects extravaganza, so they mostly play out in the background with the human drama in the foreground. In that respect, it would pair weIl with Bong Joon-ho's THE HOST. And whilst it shouldn't impact one's enjoyment of the film, it's impressive as Hell that the film was done in three weeks for less than half-a-million and a crew of only five or six people. FROM BEYOND! Given the wild colors and the Lovecraft source, it pairs great with Richard Stanley's COLOR OUT OF SPACE. Fun note: Richard Stanley wanted Jeffrey Combs for HARDWARE, but due to tax breaks for using British cast and crew, he was unable to. EVENT HORIZON. If only all of Paul W.S. Anderson's films were so good. A lot of times in Hollywood, cool projects get unmade, but everyone knows about them and looks at the concept art, reads the screenplays, et cetera. Then you have later films that are suspiciously close to those Development Hell projects. M. Night's THE SIXTH SENSE has many similarities to MANHATTAN GHOST STORY; M. Night's SIGNS really seems like a rip-off of Spielberg's NIGHT SKIES; Spielberg's SCHINDLER'S LIST owes more than a little to Kubrick's ARYAN PAPERS, et cetera. William Malone, director of the remake of HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, FEAR.COM, and one of the best Masters of Horror episodes, had a film in development titled DEAD STAR. H.R. Giger provided the concept art and it was described as HELLRAISER in space. But . . . instead of HELLRAISER, we instead got Development Hell. Then EVENT HORIZON. And then, oddly, DEAD STAR did come out. Radically transformed by diferent hands. It was released as SUPERNOVA with Walter Hill trying to prove that he was the SF genius behind ALIEN. Yeah. That didn't go so well and he disowned the film and took his name off of it. I still like it, but it certain ain't no HELLRAISER in space.

THE EXORCIST III is a classic. I love the "psyche, you thought this was about zombies" films [REC] and [REC] 2. THE TAKING OF DEBORAH LOGAN - great performance, unnerving, throws curves. LOVELY MOLLY - Eduardo Sanchez's second best film. Disturbing as all get out. Does THE LAST EXORCISM count as an exorcism/possession film? It's a bit of a psyche out, but also better than it has any right to be. THE OLD WAYS is good and fun. HELLHOLE is am amazing slept on horror film that every horror fan owes it to themselves to see. It's like THE DA VINCI CODE or THE NAME OF THE ROSE crossing over into Dario Argento-land. THE BLACKCOAT'S DAUGHTER - Oz's spiritual (infernal?) precursor to LONGLEGS. TALK TO ME was great. Treating possession like a drug and Tiktok fad. WHEN EVIL LURKS is wild. A possession postapocalypse, almost. OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL is a sequel, thanks to Flanagan, that surpasses the original film. THE EVIL DEAD remake. That's how you remake a movie. If HEREDITARY counts . . . DOMINION: PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST - it's not great, but it's also not bad. Much better than it's reputation. And it asks some of the most thought-provoking and philosophical questions in all of exorcism/possession films. I need to see THE CLEANSING HOUR.

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The thing from SLICE was Dren (an palinloque of "Nerd") and was sexy as Hell. Then again, it changes sex. So sexy fight could take a turn. Magic! I don't have Facebook or a cellphone, so whilst everyone else is wasting time, I'm becoming a dark lord. Being a vampire means no more pizza, forever. You have to figure that all the connective tissues with the human centipede have a chance of getting infected. Or the seal could even break. So as an intern, you'd have to be lancing boils, draining puss, and trying to clean up and seal where feces is leaking out. No thank you.

The "Big Four" of American Horror directors - George Romero, John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, and Wes Craven - is something of a travesty. First, because it is not *North* American Horror directorys; thereby denying David Cronenberg his rightful place. Secondly, because they posit Wes Craven as the thinker, the philospher; however, when looking to the work of Larry Cohen, can that really so? I actually saw DEADLY FRIEND in the theaters! It's been a long time since I've seen that and the earlier DEADL BLESSING. Like Hooper, Craven had his films messed with a great deal. This was one of them. A shame as the interesting Bruce Joel Rubin (GHOST, BRAINSTORM, and JACOB'S LADDER) penned the screenplay (though it was an adaptation). I like THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS. Probably one of Craven's better films. It's his THEY LIVE. Also saw it in theaters. I loved the character Swamp Thing (and Man-Thing). So I loved both films back in the 80s. Also, PG rated with Adrienne Barbeau nudity. Woo! I followed Dick Durock into the SWAMP THING TV series on USA. Aside: he also appears as a giant creature on THE INCREDIBLE HULK TV series. RED EYE, which I also saw in theaters, is one of the better Craven films. I need to shoutout THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW and THE HILLS HAVE EYES. It's also been a while since I've seen them, but I remember them as being two of his better outings. I did not see SHOCKER in theaters. I remember Megadeth being on the soundtrack. Seemed like A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET redux. It also anticipated, in part, the rather slept on film FALLEN. Just a comment on A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET: when Zinema played it a few years ago, I was excited to return to what I thought was Craven's best. I had never seen it on the big screen and I hadn't watched it in some time. It has some nice bits. And a great concept, but I was shocked at how clumsy and bad much of it was. I know the remake didn't quite deliver, but I think it is an iconic Horror film that *really* would benefit from a remake. A good remake like Alvarez's EVIL DEAD.

LAST SHIFT was good, but there was a similiar film that year that I prefer, LET US PREY. Both films have heavy ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 vibes. THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL remake was pretty good: William Malone directing with Jeffrey Combs! I need to see THE DEEP HOUSE. Good directors (Maury and Baustillo who helmed INSIDE, LIViDE, and KANDISHA) and a neat concept. Brian Yuzna has a film, BENEATH STILL WATERS, about a town with occult menace being flooded by a damn. The Polish brothers had the divine film NORTHFORK about a town being flooded via dam. There's O BROTHER WHERE ARE THOUGH? too. THE FRIGHTENERS was good. Jeffrey Combs again! SINISTER was really good. One of the last films I saw in the Mariner Mall. Hey Kayla, book recommendation for you: THROAT SPROCKETS by Tim Lucas. I still need to see HAUSU. Though the unrelated 80s HOUSE films were decently weird as well. Some of my favorite ghostly films (a lot of haunted house overlap): Nacho Cerda's THE ABANDONED, FULL CIRCLE (aka THE HAUNTING OF JULIA), THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE, THE CHANGELING, the original THE HAUNTING, KWAIDAN, HOUSE OF VOICES (aka SAINT ANGE), STIR OF ECHOES, LAKE MUNGO, THE INNKEEPERS, THE STONE TAPE, KAIRO, JESSABELLE, THE DARK, FRAGILE, SHUTTER, THE ENTITY, et al . . .

HHH always appreciates these videos

My "Good for Hers" that y'all didn't mention are MAY and THE WITCH.

Glad the team is back together.

Alan Moore has the two Horror comic masterpieces in FROM HELL and PROVIDENCE. Cullen Bunn's REGRESSION series is a beautiful Lovecraftian insect cult story paritally about past life regression/reincarnation. Wonderful and creepy. CLEAN ROOM by Gail Simone brings together a faux-Scientology, Lovecraft, and Wilhelm Reich. WYTCHES by Scott Snyder is a clever idea and actually frightening. Quicker hits: BLACK MONDAY MURDERS, BLACK SKIES ABOVE, THE NICE HOUSE ON THE LAKE, FELL, 30 DAYS OFF NIGHT, GIDEON FALLS, THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH, INJECTION, FATALE, GREEN WAKE, RAT GOD, INFIDEL, BRITANNIA, REDLANDS, CHRONOSIS, STRANGEHAVEN, THE BEAUTY . . .

Props for the Necro name drop. Oh and the ILL Fortune shoutout! SALUTE!

This!!! I was screaming "BONES!" but it came. This was great

Now Necro and the like might be, just in what they describe, objectionably darker - but delivery and artistry count for a lot; as such, there is *nothing* darker than Immortal Technique's "Dance with the Devil." I liked Kala's shoutout to Kool Moe Dee. And though mainstream(ish) and, perhaps, obvious - but Eminem's "'97 Bonnie & Clyde." And Tori Amos's cover (I realize that we have not exited rap) is even more chilling.

THE BOY was HIDER IN THE HOUSE, BAD ROLAND, and others! There was even looser connections with things like BLACK CHRISTMAS, WHEN A STRANGER CALLS, et al.

My brain rocketed back and forth between fully agreeing with you and pure, unbridled RAGE. 10/10 fricheks

1) The characters, not the actors, yes? With the exception of the one question. 2) If the actor is gay, but the character is canonically not - not gay for our purposes? Or do we assume everyone is poly? 3) What if the character has been played by multiple actors? Do we assume we are in a potential Mormon situation? Or do we just go with the original, iconic actors (sorry Sheri Moon-Zombie)? 4) A point to remember is that unless you are in a sexless marriage, to marry suggests regular sex with the individual. F: Mulder, M: Scully, K: Flukeman. F: Evira, M: Lily, K: Morticia. F: King Kong, M: Mothra, K Godzilla. Kala, you don't want to fuck Godzilla. He's cold-blooded, so he'd be a lazy fuck. No fur, no soft skin, so no snuggles. The breath-weapon makes his mouth a no-go for kissing and oral. F: Bane, M: Dr. Evil, K: The Pale Man. F: The Mummy, M: The Hunchback of Notre Dam, K: The Invisible Man. My thinking is that The Hunchback just wants love, so they'd be a good spouse. The Mummy might know some freaky ancient Egyptian sex moves that have been lost to the time. And being visual, it would hard to get into fucking something invisible. And who wants an invisible spouse? Well, someimes you want them to disappear . . . F: Langella (the sexiest Drac), M: Kinski (I love him), K : Oldman (sorry). F: ET, M: ALF, K: Muchie.

Steven Spielberg's DUEL based on the story, and scripted, by Richard Matheson. It remains amongst my favorite Spielberg films. The tension The previous was considered well enough done that like Hooper's mini-series SALEM'S LOT, it was recut for theatrical release in Europe. TRILOGY OF TERROR a TV-movie anthology written by Richard Matheson. One of the best and scariest horror anthologies to this day. BODY BAGS *was* made for TV. A good Hooper and the closest Carpenter came to doing something like a slasher again. SCREAM OF THE WOLF. Richard Matheson (this dude again!) adapting the great David Case novella. So in regard to THE NIGHT STALKER and THE NIGHT STRANGLER. It's yo boy Richard Matheson again. The first made from an, as of then, unpublished novel. Popular and good enough that Matheson wrote the sequel which then the original author turned into a book. Both films good enough that they spawned a TV series; the whole of which went on to inspire things like THE X-FILES. BAD RONALD. Hmm. A made-for-TV precursor to THE BOY (the one with the dude in the walls) that is based on a novel by one of the founding fathers of Sword and Sorcery/Fantasy fiction. Not as bad as its reputation has it. CAST A DEADLY SPELL and WITCHHUNT are fun Lovecraftian film noirs. KILLDOZER! Cheap fun. Adapted from a good Theodore Stugeon story. Before there was "Trucks," aka MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE, there was KILLDOZER! THE NORLISS TAPES. Occult detective! THE STRANGER WITHIN. Another Richard Matheson penned TV movie and based on his novelette from the 50s. Very ROSEMARY'S BABY and VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED. His original story predated both though. THE STONE TAPE. The US had Richard Matheson; the UK had Nigel Kneale. Techno-fantasy ghost story. Thought provoking and scary. THE WOMAN IN BLACK. Adapted by Nigel Kneale. Superior to the film adaptation. THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT. Most of Kneale's brilliant Quatermass work was in TV miniseries, but this is still great. DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK. Agree with Cory. Don't know how they fucked up the film remake. Too much CGI? So BLACK CHRISTMAS was the first film that I'm aware of that made use of that "the caller is in the house" urban legend. And although WHEN A STRANGER CALLS was supposed to be an expansion from a short film apparently, it does seem to borrow from the Clark film. But inbetween the two was the frightening made-for-TV ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE ALONE? FORTRESS. A brutal Australian siege tale. THE PLUMBER. Early Peter Weir that almost feels like PACIFIC HEIGHTS. I've heard really good things about THE HAUNTED, but I haven't caught it as of yet. And last, but not least: THE TELEPHONE BOX. Frightening as fuck. Spanish. Look for it as LA CABINA. You should be able to find it online. Aside: GARGOYLES was the first feature to have Stan Winston makeup (and he had to do it on a TV movie budget too). Obviously there are mainstays like THE BAD SEED, GHOST WATCH, et al. Adjacent nightmare fuel like THREADS and THE DAY AFTER. And there are other TV works by some of the big directors of Horror: SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME, THE APARTMENT COMPLEX, STRANGER IN OUR HOUSE, INVITATION TO HELL, I'M DANGEROUS TONIGHT, et cetera. Oh, all of those British ghost stories for Christmas movies that are mostly adapted from M.R. James stories.

The greatest TV movie of all time is Dark Night of the Scarecrow.

WHEN A STRANGER CALLS terrified me as a child because my sister and I would watch horror movies alone (downstairs in the dark) with only the upstairs hallway light, above the stairs, on. The layout of our house was almost identical to that in WHEN A STRANGER CALLS. So yeah, we'd be downstairs trying not to piss ourselves. In more recent years, watching [REC] and FULL CIRCLE alone in the dark around 2 am definitely put me on edge. The latter, in the right circumstances, is so frightening in the finale that I actually covered my eyes.

Didnt even know Gingersnaps has sequels! Gonna have to watch em now. And May is fuckin awesome

TEETH is pretty good. GINGER SNAPS BACK is good. The sequels are very worthwhile, especially this one. I was just rocking a SESSION 9 t-shirt last night. Incredible film with some real juju. I *love* MAY. Angela Bettis is so good. CURSED - nah. Corey's right, that was a film that was heavily interferred with. If I had to go with a good 00s werewolf film, DOG SOLDIERS or the GINGER SNAPS. But a good overlooked werewolf film from the 00s? Hmm, slightly untraditional/adjacent, but I'd go with BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF and ROMASANTA. TRIANGLE is amazing. In my opinion Christopher Smith's best film. Some of my 00 overlooked gems: FRAILTY KAIRO LOVE OBJECT CALVAIRE MAREBITO SAINT ANGRE THE DARK NOROI ISOLATION THE ABANDONED THE BROKEN LEFT BANK LAKE MUNGO PONTYPOOL SAUNA SPLINTER FEAR ME NOT PURITAN

A remake, that simply doesn't suck, has to take at least one of three paths: 1) Update it to make it relevant to contemporary audiences, 2) Simply execute it better, 3) Do something interesting with it - that is, explore another facet of it. Skipping some of the big, obvious ones - THE THING, THE FLY, THE BLOB, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, et al - I'm fond of the following remakes: CAT PEOPLE THE CRAZIES THE EVIL DEAD THE HILLS HAVE EYES THE INVISIBLE MAN NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD THE RING SUSPIRIA TOOLBOX MURDERS Honorable mention I: SISTERS. I realize it isn't better than De Palma's, but it's the only feature-length Douglas Buck film we've been priviledged with to date. His budget was halved, and his leads changed, something like two weeks before production. It's good, not great - but still worth a watch. And if we only could have seen what he intended. It was to be far more of a Cronenbergian take on the material. Honorable mention II: DAWN OF THE DEAD. I don't think the entire film is successful. And it doesn't really add much to, or improve upon, Romero's original; however, that opening sequence is the greatest depiction of mass zombie chaos ever put to screen. As an isolated sequence, its brilliance stands with the alien ship scenes of FIRE IN THE SKY and the seaside "yoink" of THE FORGOTTEN. Addendum: I'm treating remakes and new adaptations of literary material as effectively the same thing. Addendum II: I am looking forward to the Eggers remake of NOSFERATU.

With vampires, we'd oft include things that are vampiric rather than traditional vampires. Same with zombies including things like PONYPOOL, THE CRAZIES, and 28 DAYS LATER. So if we go along with those precedents, my three favorite non-JAWS shark films are THE CAR, ALLIGATOR, and ORCA. Honorable mentions to: THE MEG 2, DEEP BLUE SEA, GRIZZLY, and SANTA JAWS.

BLINK TWICE was originally PUSSY ISLAND. NIGHTBITCH is an adaption of a Rachel Yoder novel - not Horror, maybe Horror-adjacent as it does involve transformation into a dog. Forthcoming films I'm either totally geeked for or have some interest in: LONGLEGS CUCKOO NOSFERATU ALIEN: ROMULUS THEY LISTEN ROSARIO DOLLHOUSE THE FRONT ROOM ANIMALE THE COMPLEX FORMS THE DAMNED THE DEVIL'S BATH HANDLING THE UNDEAD A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS THE SHROUDS THE SUBSTANCE WEAPONS THE LOOMING DUST BUNNY OUT COME THE WOLVES EYES OF THE ABYSS HERETIC THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT FAMILY ODDITY AZRAEL THE SOUL EATER PRESENCE

Gremlins 2 is hilarious!

When a fellow horror fan asks you how a movie was and you say, "so here's the deal..." 100% relatable.

Great picks -HHH I wanna see Kalas number one I never heard of it

POPCORN was written by Alan Ormsby who also, on the Horror-tip, wrote the Paul Schrader remake of CAT PEOPLE, the early Bob Clark Horror films CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS and DEATHDREAM (aka THE NIGHT ANDY CAME HOME). He also wrote non-Horror material, worked in special effects, and even wrote and co-direccted the early Ed Gein-inspired piece DERANGED. Suffice to say, there is a weird flavor to projects he was involved with, so the obsession with POPCORN isn't surprising. It's on both RUclips, Shudder, and AMC+.