re: Official SPOOKY SEASON Horror Movie Discussion/Recs Thread

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Wolf Man is pretty recent and good also.

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I just watched this on hulu. I didn't watch until now cuz the ratings and reviews were so bad. I thought it was really good. My daughter has inherited my horror gene and we both enjoyed it.

I may give The Cycle a try this weekend. Although I just watched the trailer and it fricking said "one of the most original twists in modern horror." So now I am gonna watch it waiting for the fricking twist the whole time. Why can't trailers just tell you about the movie without spoiling shite. I can't stand that shite.

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Onsession

but I don't quite get why everyone was losing their minds over Obsession.

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I agree, and got downvoted to shite in the Obsession thread. It was fine enough, it just wasn't near what I was expecting based on what I thought and what I heard/read on this board.


I watched Buddy (2026) last night. Holy shite, what a weird, wild ride. It's pretty stupid and even overly silly at times, but weirdly I kinda liked it. Short synopsis is what if people/kids trapped in a Barney-type show and Barney was a sadistic, psychopathic murderer.

It's from the creator of Too Many Cooks, which was awesome, and that kind of silly/weird vibe is definitely in Buddy as well. So if you were a TMC fan, check this one out. And now I am off to watch TMC because it's been several years since I've seen it.

Here's the trailer:

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Kind of my issue with Hereditary.

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I HATED Hereditary. Ditto for The Witch.

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It's from the creator of Too Many Cooks,

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Had a VO friend who trained with the same coach as me that was in that.

But the family conflict leads to the mistakes and reveal, and how evil all the people pulling the strings are and how tragic the ending is, etc.

This would be like saying you hate Kill List because the first 1/3 is a family drama

I've never found Hereditary boring. Best example of slow burn to me is Audition.

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I've never found Hereditary boring

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And I didn’t necessarily mean that Hereditary was boring. Obsession was the one I thought was boring. Hereditary was more just tedious and a slog to get through, but I wouldn’t go so far to say boring for it, and I did think the ending for it was excellently done.

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Best example of slow burn to me is Audition.

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Never seen it, i'll have to check it out.

I finally watched St Maud, recommend.

I have a lot of catching up to do with horror movies but I finally pulled the trigger on one that gets a lot of pop culture attention - Stephen King’s It.

I did not understand how clowns suddenly entered the horror costume universe and it blew my mind that this movie was 26 years old. Surely watching it would serve as the missing puzzle piece.

This movie was dogshit. It was just full of horror movie tropes (maybe it helped establish some), it wasn’t scary in the least, and the acting was high school theater bad.

I know I’m late to this one, but I can imagine horror movie fans that wasted their money on this one were quite excited that a remake was made simply to try again and do justice to the book. I never read the book but why would I need to in order to reach the sound conclusion that the book was obviously much better.

I don’t even want to watch the remake if the premise is the same. The clown doesn’t exist? It’s just a common fear kids have? The real villain is a giant alien spider? I don’t buy it because my childhood experience was that clowns were just hobos that couldn’t get real jobs so they found they could earn money at circuses behaving like silly retards, and that giant spiders cannot control our thoughts regardless of where they come from.

Somebody make the cultural significance of this movie make sense. I understand it was presented as a Stand By Me and Goonies homage, but that doesn’t convince me of why it wasn’t a total flop that earned a reputation as one of the worst horror movies ever made.