October/Halloween/Horror Recommendations

El Duda

Homelander wrote: »

Just watched the Australian film 'Relic', thought it was absolutely superb. Best watched knowing nothing about it.

Where did you watch it?

Homelander

El Duda wrote: »

Where did you watch it?

I honestly don't know. It watched it at a friends house. It was streamed but from what I do not know.

I also watched Scare Package the other day based on a recommendation here actually.

It's a mixed package, it toes the line between awful and great a little too often, but overall I ended up enjoying it for the most part.

The 'generic teen slasher' segment was amazing.

Elwood_Blues

Evil Dead 1 or 2

Also give The Haunting of Hill House a watch. I know its not a film but it's a great show. Full of tension.

The Raging Bile Duct

Elwood_Blues wrote: »

Also give The Haunting of Hill House a watch. I know its not a film but it's a great show. Full of tension.

The biggest pity of that series is that it is completely ruined by the last episode. It was such a cop out. Considering how great the rest of the show was, it's immensely disappointing.

Wailin

Anyone bother with the follow up, Haunting of Bly Manor? Watched the 1st episode and doesn't look great.

The Raging Bile Duct

Wailin wrote: »

Anyone bother with the follow up, Haunting of Bly Manor? Watched the 1st episode and doesn't look great.

Four episodes in. Much different mood to the first one. Doesn't have the tension or terror of the first one. I had my expectations tempered by negative reviews of it but I'm enjoying it for what it is.

Sugarlumps

Wailin wrote: »

Anyone bother with the follow up, Haunting of Bly Manor? Watched the 1st episode and doesn't look great.

Think someone mentioned " it's not a horror"...

Watched the first episode also, tapped out.

gizmo

All of this talk of Relic is making me want to watch this again...

Elwood_Blues

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

The biggest pity of that series is that it is completely ruined by the last episode. It was such a cop out. Considering how great the rest of the show was, it's immensely disappointing.

I dunno, I didn't mind it that all. It really depends how you interpret the last scene.. It was a nice red cake

homerun_homer

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

The biggest pity of that series is that it is completely ruined by the last episode. It was such a cop out. Considering how great the rest of the show was, it's immensely disappointing.

The main thing that lets me give the episode a pass is that

the house was actually malevolent, I was afraid throughout that it would play the lame & overdone 'the ghosts just need help' card.

But the show was brilliant and scary all the way up to there.

Dyr

homerun_homer wrote: »

The main thing that lets me give the episode a pass is that

the house was actually malevolent, I was afraid throughout that it would play the lame & overdone 'the ghosts just need help' card.

But the show was brilliant and scary all the way up to there.

It was frustrating because it had some elements of greatness but Americans have to overdo everything.

The episode with the whole family in the funeral home was brilliant though

mloc123

Any good halloween movies people would recommend to watch with a 5yr old? I was thinking maybe ghostbusters

The Raging Bile Duct

mloc123 wrote: »

Any good halloween movies people would recommend to watch with a 5yr old? I was thinking maybe ghostbusters

Hocus Pocus?

Dyr

Nightmare before Christmas, maybe. Some Harry Potter film?

Fives a bit young, like

Mr Crispy

Casper?

gizmo

The Hotel Transylvania series?

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?

buried

This is what I'm going watching over the next few nights. All brilliant if you like a atmospheric slow burn horror show.

Let's scare Jessica to death (1971)
The Sentinel (1977)
Burnt Offerings (1976)
Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Hereditary (2018)
The Lighthouse (2019)

bladespin

Sugarlumps wrote: »

Think someone mentioned " it's not a horror"...

Watched the first episode also, tapped out.

Spoiler:

It’s a love story!

mrcheez

Watching a Halloween marathon today... Part 1, 4 and 5 on Joe Bob's Halloween Hootenanny

(Might only be available with a VPN)

Homelander

Watched "The Endless" on Netflix last night. Had seen it on Netflix a few times but the blurb didn't really grab me, but saw it recommended on Reddit a lot.

So glad I watched it, incredibly good movie. Won't say too much about it, as it's worth going in not knowing anything about it, but it slightly reminded me of Midsommar.

Fysh

Homelander wrote: »

Watched "The Endless" on Netflix last night. Had seen it on Netflix a few times but the blurb didn't really grab me, but saw it recommended on Reddit a lot.

So glad I watched it, incredibly good movie. Won't say too much about it, as it's worth going in not knowing anything about it, but it slightly reminded me of Midsommar.

If you liked The Endless, you might enjoy Resolution and Spring. Resolution is chronologically before The Endless and focuses on a couple of characters that crop up in the latter film, but is worth watching in its own right. And Spring is, to me at least, a fascinating combination of genres that made for something quite distinctive, albeit more horror-adjacent than actual horror in a lot of ways.

I'm looking forward to seeing what their next film, Synchronic, is like.

Dyr

Endless is worth watching, found it a bit frustrating at first, too many characters you want to slap, but worth sticking with

flasher0030

Bambi wrote: »

Endless is worth watching, found it a bit frustrating at first, too many characters you want to slap, but worth sticking with

Watched the first hour of The Endless last night. Had to leave it as something urgent came up. But i really like it so far. If it gets even better, I'm looking forward to my TV hit for tonight.

I watched/binged both hill house/Bly house and enjoyed both immensely. I prefer psychological, okay with gore, hate torture.

The REAL horror this year would be having to watch Hubie Halloween.

Bambi

Bambi wrote: »

Endless is worth watching, found it a bit frustrating at first, too many characters you want to slap, but worth sticking with

A good premise, and worth sticking with.

Homelander

Just watched The Void, demented movie. The Thing meets Hellraiser meets....the Evil Dead? For want of a better description. Incredible how far a small budget can go when used effectively.

Really enjoyed this one.

Dyr

Homelander wrote: »

Just watched The Void, demented movie. The Thing meets Hellraiser meets....the Evil Dead? For want of a better description. Incredible how far a small budget can go when used effectively.

Really enjoyed this one.

I was disappointed with it and low budget, small cast, single set and Lovecraftian are things I usually love.

In the mouth of madness is a far better Lovecraftian vehicle, Banshee chapter is pretty good too

flasher0030

Deleted User wrote: »

A good premise, and worth sticking with.

Watched it last night. Very interesting film.
Very good discussion on some forums on the net about the

time loops.
And theories as to whether or not they are in their own time-loop all along.

flasher0030

flasher0030 wrote: »

Watched it last night. Very interesting film.
Very good discussion on some forums on the net about the

time loops.
And theories as to whether or not they are in their own time-loop all along.

I've not seen any online discussion, and it's a while since I saw it, but

I would have thought that if they were in their own time loop they would have been doomed to repeat by being in the control of the creature but appear to have escaped by the film end

mrcheez

Determined to try and find Halloween 3 somewhere tonight.. only one I haven't seen yet.

Shudder don't have it so I'll try my luck with Kodi... don't have Netflix or Prime