31 Days of October

[Silga]

It's that spooky time of the year again.

Do you, champs, partake?

[Roscoe]

Would that we could change our usernames to entertainingly horror-themed versions.

[Silga]

I doubt I'll change it, but I remember some of y'all being quite good and creative at that.

[rischka]

IT'S COMING!!!

[thoxans]

i’m stoked. got lots of goodies saved on the dvr. probs watch some bad k horror flicks on netflix. they also got some indian horror stuff that i’ll have a reason to check out

[Roscoe]

Is there a way to change our names?

[arkheia]

I'm starting a list of horror films I hope to check out this upcoming month and happily invite any recommendations.

so far I've got
Ganja & Hess (Bill Gunn, 1973)
Salem's Lot (Tobe Hooper, 1979)
Curse of the Undead (Edward Dein, 1959)
Anniyan (S. Shankar, 2005)
I (S. Shankar, 2015)
The Sleep Curse (Herman Yau, 2017)
Aatma (Suparn Verma, 2013)
May the Devil Take You (Timo Tjahjanto, 2018)
A Cat in the Brain (Lucio Fulci, 1990)

[pabs]

I still have leftovers from not just one, but two Octobers ago! and they are

It Follows
The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Seventh Victim
We Are Still Here

[nrh]

Anniyan (S. Shankar, 2005)

love anniyan but, the elaborate nature of the vigilante killings aside, it’s not remotely a horror film, instead being a kind of masala film where shankar interrogates the ethics of his 90s films more openly than usual. shankar’s i, where vikram’s bodybuilder turned model hero is injected with a serum and turned into avenging hunchback monster, is a little closer to horror in spots but again exists in a different genre universe.

[greennui]

Gonna try and watch as many as possible.

https://letterboxd.com/greennui/list/th ... watchlist/

[arkheia]

Anniyan (S. Shankar, 2005)

love anniyan but, the elaborate nature of the vigilante killings aside, it’s not remotely a horror film, instead being a kind of masala film where shankar interrogates the ethics of his 90s films more openly than usual. shankar’s i, where vikram’s bodybuilder turned model hero is injected with a serum and turned into avenging hunchback monster, is a little closer to horror in spots but again exists in a different genre universe.

Ahh ok, thanks for clarifying! The poster on letterboxd with the scythe was a bit misleading, lol. I'll Shankar's I to my list as well and hopefully make time for both.

[Silga]

Some of the titles on my watchlist:

Alice Sweet Alice (Alfred Sole, 1976)
Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974)
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (Michael A. Simpson, 1988)
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (William Asher, 1981)
House of the Long Shadows (Pete Walker, 1983)
Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992)
Final Exam (Jimmy Huston, 1981)
Maniac Cop (William Lustig, 1988)
The Changeling (Peter Medak, 1980)
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (Dominique Othenin-Girard, 1989)
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (Tom McLoughlin, 1986)
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (André Øvredal, 2016)
The Visit (M. Night Shyamalan, 2015)

[rischka]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMhr6JY352g

coincidentally also fits our latest year poll

[Roscoe]

THE DEVILS -- on Criterion Channel, and most impressive, much to my surprise.

[nrh]

first day of october -



home sweet home (soi cheang, 2005)

couple moves into fancy apartment complex built on land where a squatter community was forcibly evicted 15 years ago. within 2 days husband murdered, child kidnapped and shu qi has to convince skeptical cop lam suet to save her son.

it's much better than the low letterboxd ratings suggest but definitely the weakest soi cheang i've seen. the synopsis promises a whole world teeming with hidden creatures but really it's just one, a mother gone mad by the death of her own husband and son. there is some good primal push into motherhood and trauma but the film really doesn't go far enough; the suggestion that the kidnapped child will be irrevocably changed by his ordeal is brought up but not really followed through, for example. the movie does spend a lot of time traumatizing the child though, which is nice. also lacks the fevered atmosphere soi cheang brought to his horror films of the early 2000s and subsequent action movies. only for completists i think.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Started out with a Halloween watchlist, but I've decided to not make a hard and fast commitment to viewing any particular films and to just list what horror-adjacent flicks I happen to watch as I watch 'em.

Started things off with something light and nostalgic, the Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen Halloween movie, Double, Double, Toil and Trouble. It's not without interest, esp. for girls who grew up in the '90s under the sign of American media: Cloris Leachman's evil witch aunt is evil because she's opposed to heterosexual kinship bonds, but she has a good twin version of herself that's begging to come out and be a boring straight white property owner. Guess who wins, but the movie's most memorable and lively sections are the ones with the queer witches; the ending isn't conflicted but what comes before, a vibrant acknowledgement of other social arrangement possibilities, arguably is and means the ending can't quite stick. Or so I say, twenty-six years later, rereading my childhood 'cross the wisdom of years.

[Curtis, baby]

Is there a way to change our names?

https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/ucp.php?i= ... eg_details

[Roscoe]

Is there a way to change our names?

https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/ucp.php?i= ... eg_details

So no, there isn't.

[Curtis, baby]

That page doesn't work? Let me get back to you, it should allow you to

[Lencho of the Apes]

Mebbe it only works for admins? I remember in times past we had to petition a power that beed to change name and change back.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

My first true horror viewing of this October, Roy Del Ruth's The Alligator People. Lon Chaney as a sleazy, gruff gator-hater, cackling like a western all'italiana villain, and George Macready playing God with gators and humans as an experimental doctor. Recommended to fellow fans of the '50s creature feature cycle.

[pabs]

15 minutes in, and Wisconsin Death Trip is dark, desolate and macabre, though the girl who goes around compulsively smashing windows is adding a sense of whimsy and levity. Thanks, r, I'm enjoying it, and it'll surely make it onto my 1999 poll, too.

Here it is again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMhr6JY352g

[pabs]

Here's one of my favourite horror films ever, made for British tv on the smell of an oily rag (<-- Australian idiom, meaning "very cheaply"). It's effective in its use of very basic techniques and props in creating some great, genuinely spinetingling, eerie results.

Whistle and I'll Come to You:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYjtxHHjZ00

[Curtis, baby]

Is there a way to change our names?

https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/ucp.php?i= ... eg_details

So no, there isn't.

What about now?

[rischka]

Is there a way to change our names?

https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/ucp.php?i= ... eg_details

So no, there isn't.

What about now?

can confirm this does work my latest scary movie:

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1180666099999789056

i'd give this like 2/5. not nearly as fun as the velvet vampire

[Roscoe]

Is there a way to change our names?

https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/ucp.php?i= ... eg_details

So no, there isn't.

What about now?

There we go!

[Silga]

Horrors of October so far. Trying to combine it with the 1999 poll.

Resurrection (Russell Mulcahy, 1999) 7/10
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (André Øvredal, 2016) 6/10
Lake Placid (Steve Miner, 1999) 6/10
The 4th Floor (Josh Klausner, 1999) 6/10
Storm of the Century (Craig R. Baxley, 1999) 5/10
House on Haunted Hill (William Malone, 1999) 4/10


Next up:

Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)
Ravenous (Antonia Bird, 1999)
eXistenZ (David Cronenberg, 1999)

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

A fun idea, combining season themes with year polls, think I'll try to do that more. Got that House on Haunted Hill remake lined up, perhaps Ravenous as well.

[Silga]

As the horrors of 1999 go, there are some other titles as well:

The ones I've seen before:

Stir of Echoes (David Koepp) 6/10
Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton) 6/10
End of Days (Peter Hyams) 3/10
Stigmata (Rupert Wainwright) 2/10
The Haunting (Jan de Bont) 1/10 - Avoid like the plague!

Haven't seen:

Victim (Ringo Lam)
Ringu 2 (Hideo Nakata)
Memento Mori (Min Kyu-dong & Kim Tae-yong)
Ring (Kim Dong-bin)
The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez)
Virus (John Bruno)
The Nameless (Jaume Balagueró)

[thoxans]

two recent watches (both quality pics cuz both dirs like to flaunt their middle initials):

the island of lost souls (erle c. kenton) great! reminded me of the most dangerous game in its delightfully mischievous subversion of such horrific material. laughton was a god

another son of sam (dave a. adams) no budget nc horror! wooden stilted acting would be an understatement, but the pic does the killer pov thing a year before carp's halloween. and it sneaks in a seriously deadly serious ending out of nowhere; cut to black is rarely used as well. plus, dat slo mo n dem freeze frames doe! rec'd for wba and maybe silga and maybe no one else