2016 #31DOH
Horror Marathon October 2016
Things That Factor Into Ratings:
↔ A Good Bad Guy / Monster
↔ Characters I Care About / Acting
↔ Story / Originality
↔ Atmosphere / Setting
↔ Sounds / Music
↔ SFX / Makeup
↔ Continuity / Editing
↔ Suspense / Predictability
↔ That Moment [Jump! WTF? Holy #]
↔ Would I Watch Again? Would I Recommend?
+ Scenes/Moments/Dialogue I liked or didn't
Things That Factor Into Ratings:
↔ A Good Bad Guy / Monster
↔ Characters I Care About / Acting
↔ Story / Originality
↔ Atmosphere / Setting
↔ Sounds / Music
↔ SFX / Makeup
↔ Continuity / Editing
↔ Suspense / Predictability
↔ That Moment [Jump! WTF? Holy #]
↔ Would I Watch Again? Would I Recommend?
+ Scenes/Moments/Dialogue I liked or didn't
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- DirectorDavid FincherStarsMorgan FreemanBrad PittKevin SpaceyTwo detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.This movie delivers, every time. It was made to have a dark atmosphere which at points, in the beginning, is a tad depressing. Figuring out the deadly sin and which one will come next is suspenseful. Kevin Spacey is crazy good as a crazy man unfortunately too much so by the ending.
☠☢ As every list would mention, the emaciated man lying on the bed under a cloud of Christmas tree car scents. When he coughs, it isn't just the officer that recoils. Full on view of him whipping his head back and forth puts you right there.
☠☢ Brad Pitt going back and forth between the decision to shoot Kevin Spacey is tense. And then bam! cos you really didn't think Morgan Freeman would let it happen.
SYFY20161001 - DirectorVictor SalvaStarsJonathan BreckRay WiseNicki AycoxSet a few days after the original, a championship basketball team's bus is attacked by The Creeper, the winged, flesh-eating terror, on the last day of his 23-day feeding frenzy.The movie starts out and ends with the family who has the field of corn with the scarecrows. I was glad they didn't make any big changes to any previous character from the first movie. I hate when that happens. The kids on the bus seemed like another take on the "teens in a cabin" storyline. But the monster is awesome - no shying away from showing his ugly mug multiple times.
☠ The monster's toes moving at the beginning especially, but also at the end. Creepy.
☠ Every time the monster swoops so quick up and away - love it.
☠ Showing the monster full-on. This works because it is a good monster (scary, ugly, repulsive). Great SFX.
SYFY20161001 - DirectorJesse HollandStarsMichael Jai WhiteAngelique RiveraCameron JeboOlivia returns home after six years, and a string of unusual deaths leads her to believe that she's being haunted by a mysterious force from her childhood.Oh, My. Not with an exclamation mark for sure. The commercials were great and then the show was a complete disappointment. The Crooked Man was just not scary, and neither was the acting.
SYFY20161001 - DirectorTripp RhameStarsChelsey CrispRiley SmithMichael StegerIt seemed perfect - a new house, a new marriage, a child soon to be born. But when Sarah and Matt invite their friends to celebrate, the situation turns deadly as they enter a burned-out prison on a ghost hunt.This movie started out promising and went dry and then in way too many directions. The burned out prison would have been more effective as a blackened building. Kane had some great SFX fire moments but never became a real horror. By the end, I felt like it was trying to make a play on Rosemary's Baby. Speaking of babies, I hate pregnant women running all over the place before giving birth to a healthy baby - give me a break.
☠ Preacher Kane leaning over the tub
NETFLIX 20161002 - DirectorIsrael LunaJosey WellsStarsJustin ArmstrongBelmarie HuynhSwisyzinnaFilm student Brandon and four friends play with a Ouija board, unwittingly opening a portal to the spirit world and a drowned girl's deadly mystery.Non-scary stuff I shouldn't like: Calvin. Maybe he reminds me of real life, I don't know - he's funny in a ridiculous way. This movie is cheesy, but it has enough of a story line and tries to stay with it. The characters have silly personalities, but likable and human. Too bad Gracie loses the creep factor at the end. This follows a ton of video camera movies, but in this one that aspect adds a little and isn't bothersome.
☠ The creepy little girl hunkered down in the hallway.
☢ Rules: Never ask a spirit how it died. Never ask the spirit how you're going to die. You never leave the board without saying goodbye. Not ever!
NETFLIX20161002 - DirectorJonathan LiebesmanStarsJordana BrewsterMatt BomerDiora BairdBefore being sent to serve in Vietnam, two brothers and their girlfriends take one last road trip, but when they get into an accident, a terrifying experience will take them to a secluded house of horrors, with a chainsaw-wielding killer.R Lee Ermy carries this movie. He is just so creepy. From the first time he speaks, gah!! I would run for the hills!! Brilliant!
☠ Leatherface evens up the legs
☢ Damn, I just killed the entire police department!
SYFY20161002 - DirectorKaryn KusamaStarsLogan Marshall-GreenEmayatzy CorinealdiMichiel HuismanWhen a man accepts an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife, the unsettling past reopens old wounds and creates new tensions.A strange get together movie including a man and woman who's child died. The interactions between the guests and the hosts are entertaining for a while but the flashbacks don't add much. Will wandering around half the party is weird and doesn't make much sense. But he does figure out something is going on. The ending doesn't justify the buildup.
☠ When the first person is shot WTH? happened.
NETFLIX20161003 - DirectorDavid Guy LevyStarsBrittany SnowJune SquibbJeffrey CombsDesperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman unknowingly agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather," hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.A group of people is brought together by a rich man to play a sadistic game to make money. Each has a different reason for needing the money, but one - Iris is playing for her sick brother to get a donor so he can live. The game starts out trivial making one member who was an alcoholic drink and Iris, a vegetarian to eat meat. But it quickly gets serious, as in life or death.
☠ When a dare is the firecracker, what happens.
☠ The ending when Iris gets home and sees her brother.
NETFLIX20161007 - DirectorJohn HoughStarsRoddy McDowallGayle HunnicuttPamela FranklinA physicist, his wife and two mediums are hired to investigate the Belasco House, where 27 guests had inexplicably died in 1927, along with most of a team of paranormal investigators that was sent in the early 1950s.Based on the story by Richard Mathieson. Hokey in parts, but the atmosphere and the story of Balasco builds the creep factor. Well done "let's go stay at a haunted house" movie. 70's close-up gore shots are classic and besides I like Roddy MacDowall as an actor.
☠ Lionel's end
☠ Finding Balasco and the story of his legs
NETFLIX20161007 - DirectorDeclan O'BrienStarsSean SkeneBlane CypurdaDan SkeneA group of college students gets lost in a storm during their snowmobiling trip and takes shelter in an abandoned sanitarium which, unbeknown to them, is home to deformed cannibals.Kids on a ski trip seek shelter in an asylum inhabited by the cannibals. The scary scenes were ho-hum, not much jump in these kids.
☠ Stupid guy grabbing the gf's feet when she is being strangled by barbed-wire. Duh, of course her head is gonna fall off ding dong.
☠ Watch out for the barbed wire....
SYFY20161007 - DirectorAlfonso Gomez-RejonStarsAddison TimlinVeronica CartwrightAnthony Anderson65 years after a masked serial killer terrorized the small town of Texarkana, the so-called "moonlight murders" begin again. Is it a copycat or something even more sinister? A lonely high-school girl may be the key to catching him.True story about a serial killer in Texarkana and a copycat killer 65 years later.
☠ The trombone scene - dang!
SYFY20161007 - DirectorMicho RutareStarsCourtney LakinJoseph PoliquinAshley BratcherStudents and Faculty on a college campus are targeted by a killer using social media.Everyone is on Twitter and tweeting, including the killer. Started out super slow and did build up some. Great concept, but it could have been a lot better.
☠ The health nut and the stalker sending her pizzas - hilarious and scary and then her death while out running
SYFY20161007 - DirectorAdam WingardStarsSharni VinsonJoe SwanbergAJ BowenWhen the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of the victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.My whole description is an elaborate scenario to meet the parents that isn't anything Erin expected and isn't anything anyone expected of Erin.
☠ Everything! There were at least 10 WTF moments.
#watchthismovie
SYFY20161007 - DirectorSteven R. MonroeStarsKaitlyn LeebCassi ThomsonGraham WardleSuicide forest is just a name - isn't it? Miko intends to find out, even if it means uncovering the sad truth about her mothers suicide.Kids filming a documentary about the "Suicide Forest". The mother of one of them committed suicide there. Very quickly after entering the forest things get weird. I loved the atmosphere of the forest, but I didn't get the feeling that it was in a foreign country even though they used so much language. It was weird when they used Japanese and then not.
☠ The running "hanged man" until he was revealed as a prank.
SYFY20161008 - DirectorJennifer KentStarsEssie DavisNoah WisemanDaniel HenshallA single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.A single mother trying to get through each day with her strange little boy. Then a weird book literally pops up and things go from bad to worse.
The kid who plays Samuel is an awesome actor. And creepy. I love this movie and I love saying "Babadook" (I know, weird). And the screaming fights between him and the mom at the beginning are hilarious. The ending was strange and kinda sucked.
☠ That book - creep me out! I also want one of my very own!!
☠ Samuel flying up the stairs backward
☠ Seeing the shadow of the Babadook
NETFLIX20161009 - DirectorDaniel StammStarsMark WebberDevon GrayeTom BowerA cryptic phone call sets off a dangerous game of risks for Elliot, a down-on-his-luck salesman. The game promises increasing rewards for completing 13 tasks, each more sinister than the last.Elliott is a guy who gets fired and then drawn into a game for money. A high stakes game that is 13 challenges- we aren't talking poker here. It's bizarre some of the stuff he does pretty quickly just for money. Elliott's dad is #onetwistedsister and his brother is a bit smarter than he has acted, right?! Loved this movie.
+The motorcycle group and the wire
+Picture of JFK and Jackie O, part of the game
AMAZONPRIME20161010 - DirectorMike FlanaganStarsKaren GillanBrenton ThwaitesKatee SackhoffA recently released inmate from a mental asylum learns from his sister that the murders he was convicted of committing were actually orchestrated by a supernatural entity, the Lasser Glass mirror.An evil mirror with a long history.
+Kaylie telling the history of the mirror
SYFY20161012 - DirectorJoey JohnsonStarsSean NelsonTony DoupeDavid S. HoganFive friends on a camping trip must survive the night while confronting each others' sinister pasts after one of them is found stabbed to death.A group of friends go out into the woods to supposedly grieve/get over another friend's death. Immediately one of them get killed and it becomes a waiting game of who is left standing to see who the killer is.
+Leslie talking at the end to Nathan in this singsong voice.
AMAZONPRIME20161012 - DirectorRobert RiceStarsDave BarclayJohn BoylanJohn CarewIn the wilderness of Colorado teams compete in a Geocache treasure hunt that suddenly becomes a deadly game of survival.Geocaching adventure for $25,000...totally not worth it!
+Off with the head....roll, roll, roll. Decent - some of it was a bit hokey in filming. Music was annoying. Ending too quick - could have been drawn out.
+"Pull my finger." KAPOW!
+"Let's call this a tequila run"
AMAZONPRIME20161013 - DirectorBritt NapierStarsKaylee DeFerElisabeth RöhmChristian CampbellMichelle takes a job recommended by her counselor that lands her trapped in a mansion with three psychotic siblings hell bent on purging Michelle of her sins.Darkroom Inc: Twisted, demented siblings. With a twisted-er mother. Some tense scenes when the one brother makes the victims choose between punishments. The flashbacks weren't that great.
+Michelle watching the home movies that explained some things.
AMAZONPRIME20161013 - DirectorScott StewartStarsKeri RussellJake BrennanJosh HamiltonAs the Barrett family's peaceful suburban life is rocked by an escalating series of disturbing events, they come to learn that a terrifying and deadly force is after them, one which may have arrived from beyond the stars.A family starts having strange happenings in their home with the youngest boy the most affected. Sweet the way the boys communicate by walkie-talkie every night. The aliens were done well the taking of Jesse wasn't.
+The birds hitting the windows and the yard after.
+Jesse riding home on his bike after he gets kissed - too cute/LOL
NETFLIX20161014 - DirectorIsrael LunaStarsJustin ArmstrongGerald CrumSally GreenlandA group of unsuspecting theatre goers are trapped, after a ravenous spirit is resurrected and released from a Ouija board.Follow-up movie in a theater with kids winning a weekend in the theater. Calvin's new girlfriend isn't as fun or funny - is he losing his touch? I guess I actually liked all the characters in the first movie, even though it was all cheesy. This one - not so much.... And the story is even worse. OE3 put the original cast back together!
+Zena: "Hello?! I just dropped my keys down the stairs, can someone get them for me? " - funny.
+You killed off Calvin?! That ain't right. Best to not consider OE3.
NETFLIX20161014 - DirectorJohn MooreStarsLiev SchreiberJulia StilesSeamus Davey-FitzpatrickAn American official realizes that his young son may literally be the Devil incarnate.The evil child returneth in a remake. No one will ever replace the evil look of the first actor.
+The nurse scene where she hangs herself at Damien's party.
SYFY20161015 - DirectorMatt Bettinelli-OlpinDavid BrucknerTyler GillettStarsCalvin Lee ReederLane HughesAdam WingardWhen a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.Crooks find different (weird) home movies when breaking in.
+The one with the guys taking the drunk girls to their hotel room - that girl's eyes and the way she moves - creepy!
+The girl digging in her arm where she thinks she has a spider bite.
NETFLIX20161015 - DirectorOle BornedalStarsNatasha CalisJeffrey Dean MorganKyra SedgwickA young girl buys an antique box at a yard sale, unaware that inside the collectible lives a malicious ancient spirit. The girl's father teams with his ex-wife to find a way to end the curse upon their child.Little girl buys a box at a yard sale and all hell breaks lose.
+Daddy killing the moth lol
+The ending exorcism
+The very end - awesome.
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