re: Official SPOOKY SEASON Horror Movie Discussion/Recs Thread

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I bought Gator Lake today but didn't get to watch it. If it's good I'll Zelle you the rental fee to watch it

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Cokes will NOT be receiving any money.

It was really bad. The trailer tricked me, as I suspected it would.

I thought, at the least, the director would show some talent to look forward to something, but he had none. The RT score was 80% and they talked about gore but even that sucked. It was the classic "cut away" style where the actual gory action wasn't shown. It cut away, then came back to the aftermath.

I haven't been this let down since I waited for The Heretics to come to Netflix like 10 years ago (much better movie but much higher hopes).

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Gave this a shot tonight and was deeply disappointed.

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I told you.


I watched The Bay last night. Another low-budget, shitty, animal attack one. Small boat in Thailand gets attacked (sort of) by tiger sharks and slowly sinks. It isn't terrible, and is far better than Chum, but it's still not very good. And again, the character actions make zero sense (see below).

The acting is terrible, but the SFX aren't too bad really (except for the final kill, which is hilariously stupid and is partially shown in the trailer below). This one at least isn't a complete waste of time. I think I have one more shark one to go (Great White - 2021).

Here is the trailer:




SPOILERS...











I mean, the dude literally makes it to shore to "get help," then finds a fricking kayak and instead of paddling across the inlet to the village....for help....he paddles back to the boat where three other people are waiting? In what way does that help? That made literally zero sense and borderline ruined the (already bad) movie for me. He yells softly at the village for a minute, and then makes that decision when he could have simply taken a couple of minutes and rowed over there and saved everyone.

If they could've thought of ANYTHING better than that, then this one would've been much better. But that was such a gaping plot hole that it made it overly stupid.

Should i watch rat man

Me and the wife have been watching one or two horror movies a night for the past week.
We both really liked Haunt. Had a Strangers vibe to it which is a good thing.

One we watched with zero expectations was the 2013 remake of I Spit on your Grave. We actually really liked it. It had some scenes that were a tough watch but it was a pretty tight well put together story. For 30 minutes I thought the main chick was the main chick from Twilight. She was a carbon copy of her right down to the constant I smell shite face. She does have a great arse in this.

Watched the original Final Destination last night and it still holds up. Not sure what’s on tap for tonight but would love some recs of maybe some newer movies. No killer animal movies (sorry Cokes). I’ve burned my wife out on those.

FYI I’m watching all these on my VeeSee box so not sure if they are streaming free anywhere.

Finally watched Obsession and Barbarian last week. Both were a lot of fun.

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One we watched with zero expectations was the 2013 remake of I Spit on your Grave. We actually really liked it.

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I think there's three sequels to this. Who would have guessed the rape revenge genre would be so popular in the age of me too.

If you're into this sort of thing, check out the movie Revenge from 2017. Its great. Highly stylized, not as gritty. Plenty of blood too.

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Satan's Slaves

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So this movie goes incredibly hard.

I had it on my list for a while but was worried it was hokey b/c of the name and being a Shudder original. It had been recommended on a bunch of YT videos , so I had hope. Once it started and it was clear the movie was Asian (Indonesian I believe), I knew everything was going to be OK

For anyone that can answer this...

How is the programming on Shudder these days?

Last time I had it, it seemed as though there was a lot of tv shows on it. ...X Files, Charmed, Supernatural, Twilight Zone.... and not as many motion pictures?

Watched Great White (2021) last night. I think it's the last of the shark movies that I have, and it was not overly good. But it was infinitely better than Chum at least. Good bit of hilarity with a shark that literally growls and roars though.

Here is the trailer:

Reddit sucks. r/horror largely thinks Barbarian is a masterpiece. They cannot be trusted.

However, this is news to me that there are a lot that didn't like Hokum. The only complaint I had about the movie was the creepy rabbit character didn't have more appearances.

It is definitely the most polished and probably commercial of McCarthy's movies. Caveat is raw as frick but so fricking creepy and Oddity is just so well done, though a fairly simple movie, just executed super well.