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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 12, 2021 12:44:04 GMT 1
Nice, yeah it had some decent songs throughout the film, hope you enjoyed it
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 12, 2021 12:59:13 GMT 1
October 11th: Open 24 Hours (2018)
IMDB Rating: 5.5
Premise: After setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire, a paranoid delusional woman gets a job at an all-night gas station.
Razzle's Review: A young girl gets a graveyard shift at a gas station in the middle of nowhere. Always a great idea when you have a psycho ex boyfriend. She tells her boss that she has done time in prison for setting fire to her serial killer boyfriend who survived the burns but is in prison. The whole experience broke her and she is still suffering from having visions of things that aren't real. That's where the film starts to get a bit confusing as you have to start guessing which scenes are real and which are just a super realistic figment of her imagination, things get gory and quickly descend into a a slasher scenario...but is it real? I will let you decide as I'm still not sure ha. Interesting fact, the entire gas station was a set specifically built for this film.
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Quotes: Mary: My boyfriend was James Lincoln Fields Bobby: Killed like 30 women? Mary: 35 Bobby: he's Still alive right? Mary: [nods]
Razzle's Spooky Rating: 6.5/10
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 14, 2021 17:50:39 GMT 1
October 12th: Dawn of the Dead: Extended 'Cannes' Cut (1978)
IMDB Rating: 7.9
Premise: Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall. Razzle's Review: The 1978 George A. Romero classic zombie horror film, I watched the remake last week and I have seen the original before but it is such a classic but this was the Extended 'Cannes' Cut on Prime video, an extra 20 minutes of film to get your teeth sunk into, I think most horror fans have seen this one, zombie outbreak, go to a shopping centre to hold out, probably the worst idea ever in reality as every looter and nutter with a gun would murder you for a roll of toilet paper and loads of people would have the same bright idea, I enjoyed it, the 1978 special effects were amazing back then, the blood looks like pink paint now I have a serious meh it looks naff to any film prior to 1990, I enjoyed the remake a lot more, that will anger people but i like slick, action packed, great special effects and the better acting but the remake was only good because it was based on such an iconic story! Trailer:Quotes: Dr. Foster: Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills! The people it kills get up and kill!Razzle's Spooky Rating: 7/10
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 18, 2021 12:26:54 GMT 1
October 13th: Hostage House (2021)
IMDB Rating: 3.8
Premise: When an ambitious realtor and her daughter are held hostage during an open house, they must work together to outsmart their captors.
Razzle's Review: I broke my only rule for this one, I never checked hte IMDB rating before watching, it was late and I thought it sounded interesting but the plot is where anything interesting ends, full of bad acting and illogical decision making, worst of the bunch so far
Trailer:
Quotes: Keith: "We just need a place to lay low for a while"
Razzle's Spooky Rating: 3.5/10
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 18, 2021 12:40:19 GMT 1
October 14: Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021)
IMDB Rating: 6.2
Premise: A circle of teenage friends accidentally encounter the ancient evil responsible for a series of brutal murders that have plagued their town for over 300 years. Welcome to Shadyside.
Razzle's Review: The town of Shadyside has has had an unusually high murder rate as long as people can remember. Every few year it seems there is another massacre by a previously normal person, the urban legend says the murders are linked to the execution of a witch in 1666. The first of an enjoyable trilogy put out on Netflix, the killers are all pretty unique and well thought out, some of hte death scenes are pretty gruesome so its an 18, we have a bit of Nine Inch Nails in the soundtrack, overall it was a very enjoyable watch
Trailer:
Quotes: Samantha: "Were together for and" Deena: "Dead people are trying to kill us" Samantha: "Maybe we are doomed"
Razzle's Spooky Rating: 7.5/10
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 18, 2021 12:57:19 GMT 1
October 15th: Fear Street: Part Two - 1978 (2021)
IMDB Rating: 6.7
Premise: Shadyside, 1978. School's out for summer and the activities at Camp Nightwing are about to begin. But when another Shadysider is possessed with the urge to kill, the fun in the sun becomes a gruesome fight for survival.
Razzle's Review: This was my favourite film in the trilogy, perfect horror movie plot, set in 1978, the whole thing had a really nice retro vibe to it, the story really starts to take off. Love the casting of Sadie Sink from Stranger Thins in this one, out of all the movies I've watched I recommend watching this trilogy the most, don't want to spoil it too much but you get your moneys worth of promiscuous teen councillors and deranged and unstoppable serial axe-wielding murderers here
Trailer:
Quotes: C.Berman: "In Shadyside, the past is never really past. This was July 12th the summer of 1978. The first day of camp. A week later, my sister was dead."
Razzle's Spooky Rating: 8.5/10
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 18, 2021 15:42:45 GMT 1
October 16th: Fear Street: Part Three - 1666 (2021)
IMDB Rating: 6.6
Premise: The origins of Sarah Fier's curse are finally revealed as history comes full circle on a night that changes the lives of Shadysiders forever.
Razzle's Review: The third film in the trilogy and a prequel in the form of an origins story, interesting using the same cast as the second film set way back in 1666 and focusses on the original settlement before its division into Sunnyvale and Shadyside, It's a worthy conclusion, and gives us lots of answers but for me it just doesn't have hte same magic as the second film or the slasher horror vibes of the first. These are all based on the books by author R. L. Stine best known for the Goosebumps books. A fun and interesting watch.
Trailer:
Quotes: Solomon Goode: "One does not summon the Devil by chance. Even the weakest heart, the most corruptible soul, they must make the choice. They must extend their hand."
Razzle's Spooky Rating: 7/10
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 20, 2021 16:54:48 GMT 1
October 17th: The Odds (2018)
IMDB Rating: 4.9
Premise: A young woman joins an underground game of pain endurance, hoping to win the prize; US$1 million. She soon discovers the game's rigged, and the real opponent is the man, a sadistic psychopath, who's created the game. As things progress, she's forced to endure ever-increasing torturous pain, as her opponent engages ever-more horrific methods to manipulate and defeat her.
Razzle's Review: "The Odds" is an extremely low-budget film, This is basically a two-person drama with one person hurting themselves, not a lot else I can say without talking about specific plot lines, this was another free one I watched on (I think Prime Video)
Trailer:
Quotes: Game Master: "Player 2 has left the game"
Razzle's Spooky Rating: 5/10
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 20, 2021 19:19:33 GMT 1
October 18th: The Superdeep (2020)
IMDB Rating: 4.9
Premise: A small research team went down below the surface to find out what secret the world's deepest borehole was hiding. What they have found turned out to be the greatest threat in history. And the future of humanity is in their hands.
Razzle's Review: This was a Russian film, aka "Kolskaya sverhglubokaya", dubbed into English pretty well actually. The setting is a great place for a horror film with the real life stories that emerged from the borehole. Overall I enjoyed this one, think "The Thing" light mixed with "Splinter", I watched this one on Shudder and enjoyed it
Trailer:
Quotes: Narrator: "We've studied our space more than the earth"
Razzle's Spooky Rating: 6/10
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 21, 2021 12:17:19 GMT 1
October 19th: The Furies (2019)
IMDB Rating: 5.4
Premise: A woman is kidnapped and finds herself an unwilling participant in a deadly game where women are hunted by masked men.
Razzle's Review: This one was decent, it won 4 horror awards at film festivals in 2019 when it came out. It has a pretty standard film arc of pathetic, wishy washy unlikely hero getting kidnapped and thrown into a life or death scenario ad kicking ass. The masked hunters are all quite interesting, the kills are full of gore and judging by the accents its an Australian film, its a decent horror actually
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Quotes: [When the women figure out the hunters die if the girl they are linked with dies] Sheena: "But we're easier to kill then, than one of them? Right?"
Razzle's Spooky Rating: 6.5/10
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 22, 2021 16:43:21 GMT 1
October 20th: Terrifier (2016)
IMDB Rating: 5.7
Premise: On Halloween night, Tara Heyes finds herself as the obsession of a sadistic murderer known as Art the Clown.
Razzle's Review: Expanded from director Damien Leone's 2011 short of the same name, Terrifier stars David Howard Thornton as silent psycho killer Art the Clown, who turns Halloween into a nightmare for several unfortunate victims. Low budget and some dodgy camera work, I think it even relied on donations to get made but it has become a bit of a cult classic and a sequel is coming out earlier next year, this one was a 100% gorefest and enjoyable for that alone, there is also a very creepy clown (or more specifically a demon in the form of a clown), I enjoyed it
Trailer:
Quotes: Steven: You gotta see the shape of this f***in' guy that just walked in [spoken under his breath over the phone after Art the Clown sits down at a booth in his pizzeria]
Razzle's Spooky Rating: 6.5/10
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 23, 2021 21:25:07 GMT 1
October 21st: Blood Red Sky (2021)
IMDB Rating: 6.1
Premise: A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight.
Razzle's Review: Loved this one, I do like films and tv series set on a plane such as Red Eye, Non-Stop, Into the Night and The Langoliers. This one is basically a vampire travelling at night to somewhere that has a cure and it goes pretty wrong when the flight is hijacked by terrorists, it was a really good watch
Trailer:
Quotes: Creepy elder vampire: "You have the evil within and you cannot control it"
Razzle's Spooky Rating: 7.5/10
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 23, 2021 21:49:57 GMT 1
October 22nd: Midsommar (2019)
IMDB Rating: 7.1
Premise: A couple travels to Scandinavia to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Razzle's Review: This one intrigued, confused and annoyed me, I found myself fluctuating from saying wtf am I watching and wtf are you doing to ohh that's good. Pretty surreal film, beautifully shot, there are a few head scratching moments though where all logic seems to go out the window like when the locals become increasingly weird in their behaviour and clearly its a bad idea to remain in the village, incredibly slow burner too and the ending again defied all explanation (I can only conclude drug use swayed most of the bad decisions) but the final scenes had me once again saying wtf am i watching! A mixed bag I guess, it came highly recommended to me but I cant get over he decision making like *spoiler alert* choosing your bf to burn alive because he was essentially ritualistically raped, what? pick the stranger, you had a choice, it makes no sense
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Quotes: Arne: [laughs] "No. No, no. Uh Ruben was - a product of inbreeding. All of our oracles are deliberate products of inbreeding"
Razzle's Spooky Rating: 6.5/10
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 25, 2021 20:49:27 GMT 1
October 23rd: Seance (2021)
IMDB Rating: 5.3
Premise: Camille, a young woman who arrives at the Fairfield Academy following one of the student's untimely and violent death.
Razzle's Review: A prank at the all-girls boarding school Fairfield Academy leads to the death of a student, she was the victim of apparent suicide after the girls conjured a ghost. Nothing new in terms of content, its all been done before but I do enjoy these kind of modern murder mystery/slasher/supernatural films, there's a few twists along the way too, another one thats worth a watch
Trailer:
Quotes: Camille Meadows: "If anything scares you, hit it in the skull"
Razzle's Spooky Rating: 6/10
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 27, 2021 13:41:03 GMT 1
October 24th: Friday the 13th (1980)
IMDB Rating: 6.4
Premise: A group of camp counsellors trying to reopen a summer camp called Crystal Lake, which has a grim past, are stalked by a mysterious killer.
Razzle's Review: Ok, I know this was a bit of a cash in at the time, they took the Halloween formula and added a bit of gore but I enjoyed this one more for that reason, I would say it is more a derivative of Halloween not a direct rip off, it was familiar but has its own take on the slasher genre. The twist ending is good, they nearly never included it I head but it was added late on and that helped spawn a whole franchise, not exactly a masterpiece, but a solid slasher film
Trailer:
Quotes: Mrs. Voorhees: "Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counsellors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason."
Razzle's Spooky Rating: 8/10
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 27, 2021 13:55:12 GMT 1
October 25th: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
IMDB Rating: 7.5
Premise: The monstrous spirit of a slain child murderer seeks revenge by invading the dreams of teenagers whose parents were responsible for his untimely death.
Razzle's Review: I'm sure we have all seen at least one film based on Freddy Krueger, but for those who haven't this was Wes Craven's 1980s horror classic about a villain in the shape of Freddy Krueger, who's been burnt alive, in the original script, Freddy was a child molester but according to IMDb, he was changed to a child killer because producers wanted to avoid comparisons to a story in California about a series of child molestations at the time of filming but i'm pretty sure the most recent remake they went back to the original script. Anyway he is dead and comes back in your dreams to kill you, if you die in your dreams you die for real, bit of a classic, it features a young Johnny Depp too
Trailer:
Quotes: Fred Krueger: "I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy."
Razzle's Spooky Rating: 9/10
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Post by greendemon on Oct 27, 2021 14:08:03 GMT 1
October 21st: Blood Red Sky (2021)
IMDB Rating: 6.1
Premise: A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight. Razzle's Review: Loved this one, I do like films and tv series set on a plane such as Red Eye, Non-Stop, Into the Night and The Langoliers. This one is basically a vampire travelling at night to somewhere that has a cure and it goes pretty wrong when the flight is hijacked by terrorists, it was a really good watch Trailer:Quotes:Creepy elder vampire: "You have the evil within and you cannot control it"Razzle's Spooky Rating: 7.5/10 Love the sound of this, will have to track it down!
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 27, 2021 15:16:55 GMT 1
Blood Red Sky was a really good watch and it's on Netflix
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Post by greendemon on Oct 27, 2021 16:30:17 GMT 1
Sadly we don't have Netflix, going to resubscribe when The Witcher season 2 comes out...
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Post by Jordan on Oct 27, 2021 18:32:31 GMT 1
Sadly we don't have Netflix, going to resubscribe when The Witcher season 2 comes out... There's an animated prequel series on there too that was better than I was expecting it to be - worth checking out if you don't mind anime. (Sorry for off topic chatter Daz)
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