Glad you bumped this, madsircool. I’d love some new recommendations for good, scary films. I must have tried out half a dozen movies on Amazon Prime and unholy cow, were they bad. One that looks pretty good Is Mexico Barbaro. I was half dozing and it is subtitled so I didn’t exactly give it the attention it takes but I liked what little I saw and will check it out tonight. Another one is 1922. It’s based on a Stephen King novella and very well done, IMO. Two caveats: Thomas Jane’s lead character speaks in a old time Nebraska dialect that is sometimes hard to understand. It might also be hard to watch for those upset by seeing animals come to harm (in this case, cows).
I ended up watching some old favorites, including Stir of Echoes and my favorites for Halloween - Burnt Offerings.
Oops, forgot to mention Ravenous. More of a dark comedy and not typical Halloween fare. The premise is cannibalism in a 1840s outpost in the Sierras but Robert Carlyle’s usual superb performance really puts the *dark *in dark comedy.
I’ve been watching a lot of horror movies again, and not just because it’s October. So many that I can’t even remember a lot of them. I did see a movie called The Midnight Meat Train, that was really good. Lot of gore and a couple of shots that made me a bit squeamish.
Recently watched Baskin, a 2015 Turkish horror movie about five police officers who apparently wander into hell. Some really messed up visuals, but the story has only one twist to it, otherwise pretty straight-forward. It’s on Netflix.
Also on Netflix, no one seems to have mentioned Hush. It’s a nice creepy thriller about a deaf woman, alone in her isolated house, being tormented by a masked murderer. I’d recommend this one to anyone who likes thrillers in general.
D’oh! I kept seeing Hush in the lineup and thought it was the 1998 film with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jessica Lange.
I saw that one awhile ago and enjoyed it. It was nice to have someone who was actually thinking and not just running for once.
I forgot, I saw An American Werewolf in London recently and really enjoyed it. The effects were really cool too. Plus the characters were actually using their brains and not just being dumb.
I have heard great things about The Autopsy of Jane Doe - anyone seen it?
Two that I like:
30 Days of Night
The Descent
Saw it in the theater. I liked it. The mystery escalated nicely, and there were plenty of good creepy moments, but the cast (and thus the list of potential victims) is very small, by necessity, so if you want a Saw-type bloodbath you won’t get it. I didn’t like it enough to add it to my collection, but I’d watch it again on cable.
I also like Bram Stoker’s Dracula, despite Keanu Reeves being completely miscast. It’s worth watching just for this.