Spooky Movie Season

I'll start. I've been watching a new horror movie that I haven't seen everyday of October for the last 5 years. I started off this Halloween season with Pumpkinhead.

I'm not surprised that I liked it, since I'd heard good things and like several of the people involved, but I am surprised how much I liked it. The movie looks incredible, it has such dramatic and colorful lighting that I was not expecting from one of the (relatively) less well-known 80's horror movies. I also liked how it didn't feel like it was just joyfully killing off it's teenage cast for fun. Each death actually had weight and you saw how it affected all the other character. I do like movies that are just trying to kill off the very expendable cast in the most entertaining way, but it is nice to see this different approach. I'll be watching the sequels over the next three days. They probably won't live up to the same standard, but we'll see.

honestly i don't know if this even counts as a movie but my friends are making me watch them play mouthwashing on halloween. lowkey my first exposure to the game was them playing the dlc

Just got started with Skinamarink

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I just watched Final Destination for the first time; and I haven’t seen them yet, but I have plans to watch American Psycho, The Shining, and maybe Saw before the end of the month. (I’ll also be watching the Hobbit and the Dark Knight trilogies, so this month is looking good for me)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG4jXCQr_oo

Mouthwashing is really good. It seems like it would be a good game to watch like that; I don't think you lose a ton from not directly being in control (in spite of some of the themes). I was going to say i hope you enjoy it, but it is probably not something most people will "enjoy", even if they like it.

Skinamarink is probably the movie that I personally find scariest. I've seen in twice, and something about if makes me feel like I'm a terrified child watching (in retrospect really shitty) ghost videos on youtube. It's also just genuinely really well made and has great cinematography and sound.

I love all of the Final Destination movies. They are so ridiculous and so much fun. I can't believe it took until the 2000s for them to make a movie with the main premise being that people keep getting rube goldberg-ed to death. I definitely recommend the others; they're all pretty fun (except for the fourth one). All the others you mentioned are also some of my favorites.

I finished the Pumpkinhead series, and there's not really a lot to say about those sequels. How much you like the second one is entirely dependent on how much you like movies from that weird era after the 80s but before scream. I liked it well enough, but not super noteworthy. The other two sequels were made for TV sci-fi channel movies, and any negative thing you might assume based on that is probably correct. I also saw the new The Long Walk movie, and it was great. Very stressful, but also really emotional. You genuinely feel the bond between the characters, largely due to everyone giving a really great performance. The main two characters were especially good, I'm definitely going to be looking for whatever David Johnson is in next.

VJ & SA -- gosh skinamarink is so polarizing but i loved it. i've described it as like watching a nightmare projected onto the screen. it really does make you feel like a scared kid when you're immersed in it. i got to see it in an empty theater and that was a PEAK viewing experience

i just watched the house that jack built but i thought it was just ok o~o kinda boring and pretentious yet shallow at the same time...maybe just not for me. i didn't realize it was a lars von trier film until it was starting, eek

on the other end of the horror spectrum, i watched m3gan 2.0 and i liked it! i don't think i'd consider it a horror movie like the first one though, it was more of an action-comedy. ivanna sakhno is sooo attractive to my gay ass so i liked seeing her as the new killer robot lolol

my sister and i are gonna watch what happened to baby jane? next sunday which is a C L A S S I C so i'm excited. might fuck around and watch mommie dearest to follow it up

Skinamarink also works extremely well if you're home alone and watching it in the living room. Lights off and everything. Ending scene made me wanna crawl out of my skin lol.

I second watching Skinamarink alone in the dark. The thing with Skinamarink is that you will either be absoutley terrified or bored out of your mind, no in-between.

As the world's number one M3gan fan, I saw M3gan 2.0 day one in the theater. I definitely enjoyed it, it was really fun, but I do not understand how Blumhouse thought it was going to be a success. The horror elements contrasted with the comedy were what brought people to the first one and basically dropping horror all together was obviously going to turn a lot of people away. The first one also had the benefit of less competition due to releasing in January, and I think they really overestimated M3gan 2.0's potential as a summer movie. The being said, it had alright action, the characters were still very fun, and it had some jokes that I genuinely loved (especially the random Steven Segal bit). Normally based on how poorly it performed I would not expect another sequel, but there is a spin-off called Soulm8te that is pretty far in to production which Blumhouse might use to gauge if there is any interest at all left in the property, so maybe if that does well there's a chance for more M3gan. But I wouldn't hold my breath.

I've watched a lot of movies since my last message, so I'll try to go through them really quick. I watched Brain Damage, an exploitation b-movie from the 80s about an evil parasite that takes over a guy's body and gives him drugs so he can use him the eat people's brains. The parasite is a puppet named Aylmer who I love very much. It's a lot of fun aside from an unfortunate sexual assault "joke", but that's just how 80s exploitation often is. Next I watched Them!, a monster movie from the 50s about giant ants. It came out in the same year as Godzilla and is also about the results of nuclear warfare, so it is difficult not to compared them, which definitely doesn't do Them! any favors. Still, it was pretty enjoyable. I feel like both of those movies are ones that you basically already know whether or not you'd like them based on their descriptions.

I saw an early screening of Shelby Oaks, which if you don't know is the new movie made by youtube movie reviewer Chris Stuckmann. It was bad. I didn't know how long it was going in, and there was a point in the movie where I thought "okay, this has been pretty bad so far but now it's actually going in a direction I kind of like, they may be able to pull off an okay third act" And literally right as I thought that the credits started.

Next I watched the two Rob Zombie Halloween remakes. The first one was kind of interesting when it approached it from the angle of "Micheal was only a child when he killed his sister and was sent to a mental institution. No matter how dangerous he may have been, that can't have helped him mentally" but then it becomes a normal Halloween movie and goes downhill fast. The second one is not perfect, but it keeps more of it's compelling ideas throughout the movie unlike the first. It's also only like half handheld footage instead of almost the whole movie like the first, which is much less distracting.

I finally saw Him, and everyone else is wrong about this movie. No, it is not subtle, but it's message is still interesting and it delivers it in a way I found very effective. And it doesn't spell everything out for you, just a lot of the themes regarding religion and football culture. There's still a lot to dig into regarding obsession, race, and a lot of other things. It was also just really good at building a tense atmosphere. The ending was a little silly, but that just felt to me more like a welcome release from all of that tension. I very much recommend it, especially if you're someone who's been around a lot of football culture.

The last things I watched were Intruder and Dead and Buried, two 80s b-movies with some incredible effects. Intruder was very fun and completely filled with tons of great practical effects for each kill. Dead and Buried had a lower quantity of effects, but they were all fantastic. One of them is now probably one of my favorite effects shots of all time now. I'd mention other things, but really the effects are the main reason to watch both of these movies. I'm going to stop talking about them now because I've already used the word "effects" 5 times now.

Over the next two days I'll be watching some vampire movies, so I'll see how those are and probably write another huge message in like a week.